Andrey Rudoy - Justice for Journalists

Andrey Rudoy

Affiliated media: Youtube channel Vestnik buri, Video blogger

Incident date: October 7, 2022

Attack type:

  • Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel Ostorozhno, novosti

Location: Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Dzerzhinsk

Additional information:

Video blogger Andrey Rudoy said he received a summons to the Dzerzhinsk Department of Internal Affairs on September 19. Rudoy left for Kazakhstan after law enforcement officers tried to search his apartment without a warrant as part of an inquiry into the article on «discrediting» the army (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) because of an anti-war publication in an opposition group.

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