Dmitry Fomintsev

Affiliated media: TochkaNews.ru, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: August 24, 2022

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Telegram channel Media Ombudsman

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

Dmitry Fomintsev, the editor-in-chief of the Yekaterinburg-based media TochkaNews.ru, reported that he had received threats after he published a post about the death of Darya Dugina, the daughter of the philosopher Alexander Dugin. Fomintsev wrote that Dugina’s death was «good for our propagandists». He later apologized and deleted the post.