Anushervon Aripov

Affiliated media: Current Time TV , Journalist

Incident date: May 13, 2022

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Radio Ozodi

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, in response to a request by the correspondent of the Current Time TV channel in Dushanbe to answer questions from foreign journalists, advised him to talk to peacocks that were strolling in the park of the presidential residence Kohi Somon. «Permit a question from foreign media representatives», – the correspondent of Current Time approached the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia after the press conference, which was attended only by local and Russian journalists. «You could have come, you could have participated», – the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova, who came out with Lavrov and other diplomats, told the reporter. «They didn't let us in. They said it was on your instructions». «I don't know», – Zakharova shrugged. Sergey Lavrov intervened in the conversation. «Talk to the peacocks», – he advised to the Current Time TV journalist.