Andrey Rudoy

Affiliated media: Youtube channel Vestnik buri, Video blogger

Incident date: October 7, 2022

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Newsnn.ru

Location: Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Dzerzhinsk

Additional information:

In Dzerzhinsk, video blogger Andrey Rudoy was visited by law enforcement officers — six people in plain clothes, including an investigator. They broke into the apartment and turned off the electricity. When the defense lawyer came, it was revealed that the visit of the law enforcement officers was connected with the anti-war publication in the «long-standing white-ribbon war protest group», for which the criminal case of «discrediting» the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) is being investigated. The visitors did not have a search warrant — only a document on a home inspection, which Rudoy refused. Law enforcers also came to his wife’s workplace. Soon after the search, Rudoy left for Kazakhstan. Also, Rudoy said that he received a summons from the Dzerzhinsky Department of Internal Affairs.