Ilya Baltabayev - Justice for Journalists

Ilya Baltabayev

Affiliated media: Razoblacheno, Journalist

Incident date: November 24, 2022

Attack type:

  • Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Ilya Baltabayev, the journalist of the online media Razoblacheno, who was accompanying Olga Tsukanova, head of the Council of Mothers and Wives, on a train, was attacked in Moscow. According to Baltabayev, while he and Tsukanova were standing in the train's compartment, he noticed a woman filming them. When he called out to her, she ran away. Baltabayev chased after her, but at the exit of the carriage, an unknown man tripped him. Then he ran away together with the filming woman.

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