Alexey Shamardin

Affiliated media: Rosderzhava, Journalist

Incident date: December 24, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Voronezh Oblast, Voronezh

Additional information:

In Voronezh, a policeman attacked the correspondent of the Rosderzhava Alexey Shamardin and blogger Alexander Zavodchukov in the building of the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the correspondent, they were attacked by colonel Anatoly Redko. At the entrance to the building, Redko approached the reporter and started to say that Shamardin «does something wrong: he keeps his hand in his pocket and is not standing right». According to the journalist, when he asked the security officer to introduce himself, he hit the camera, knocked the equipment out of his hands, and then snatched the phone out of Zavodchukov's hands.