Andrey Pyzh

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Urbanturizm, Video blogger

Incident date: October 29, 2021

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Novaya Gazeta

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Moscow City Court sentenced Andrey Pyzh (pseudonym — MSh), the 37-year-old author of the YouTube blog Urbanturizm, to five years of imprisonment in a general regime colony for illegally obtaining information constituting state secrets (Paragraph E of Part 2 of Article 283.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the investigation, Pyzh illegally obtained information constituting state secrets about the features of several regime facilities in the Moscow region between December 2018 and August 2020.