- Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: BARAKuda , YouTube channel

Incident date: June 11, 2020

Attack type:

  • Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Primorsky Krai, Ussuriysk

Additional information:

The city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has begun tру check of the humorous video. The channel published a video about the fictional deputy Vitaly Nalivkin. According to the scenario, he is helping to apprehend police lieutenant colonel Alexei Andreichenko, who keeps in his house "hundreds of kilograms of money" received for "illegal trafficking in wild bio-resources". The police found in the video an offence under the article on contempt of power.

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