Andrey Rudoy

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Herald of the Storm, Video blogger

Incident date: November 18, 2022

Attack type:

• Search with a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Dzerzhinsk

Additional information:

In Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, law enforcement officers searched the apartment of the leftist video blogger, author of the YouTube channel Herald of the Storm Andrey Rudoy, who left Russia. The search was connected to the case of «discrediting» the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), involving activist Ilya Myaskovsky. At the same time, the apartments of Gleb and Dmitry Kalinichev were searched — their laptops and hard drives were confiscated. Gleb Kalinichev was interrogated as a witness and released.