Alexey Pivovarov

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Redaktsiya (Editorial Office) , Journalist

Incident date: June 3, 2022

Attack type:

• Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: BBC

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has updated the list of «foreign agents» to include seven people. Entrepreneur Yevgeny Chichvarkin, journalists Oleg Kashin and Alexey Pivovarov (author of the YouTube project Redaktsiya), historian and long-time program host of Radio Svoboda (recognized as a «foreign agent» earlier) Mikhail Sokolov, artist Yulia Tsvetkova, political analyst Nikolay Petrov, and human rights defender, nurse and Crimean journalist Irina Danilovich, who became the first media «foreign agent» to receive this status in a pre-trial detention centre, were included in the list of «foreign agents». The list of «foreign agents» physical entities has been updated with Evgeny Chichvarkin, co-founder and former co-owner of the Euroset chain of mobile phone stores, who has lived in London since 2008.