Andrey Zakharov

Affiliated media: BBC , Journalist

Incident date: December 27, 2021

Attack type:

• Forced emigration as a result of non-physical pressure

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: The Insider

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

BBC journalist Andrey Zakharov, declared a «foreign agent», has left Russia because of «unprecedented» surveillance. «It is still unclear what the surveillance was connected with: the fact that I was declared a „foreign agent“, or perhaps with the material about hackers from the Evil Corp group, which I was preparing with my British colleagues», — he said. The journalist is now in London.