Badma Byurchiyev

Affiliated media: Caucasian Knot, Journalist

Incident date: October 13, 2022

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Caucasus.Realities

Location: Russia, Republic of Kalmykia, Republic of Kalmykia

Additional information:

Badma Byurchiyev, the journalist of the media Caucasian Knot and Kalmykian activist, left the country and applied for political asylum in Norway. The reason was the attack on him in Russia and the probable mobilization for the war in Ukraine. «On September 8, I was beaten, this was the decisive factor. Before that, one of our fellow protesters, the blogger Maksim Tsedenov had his car burned and was warned that he could be «lost». I didn’t wait for the consequences, now everything is easy to organize — it’s enough to bring me a summons and put me before the choice: either go to jail or go to kill», — Badma Byurchiyev told Caucasus.Realities.