Arkady Babchenko

Affiliated media: STARSHINAZAPASA (Live Journal) , Blogger

Incident date: July 9, 2020

Attack type:

• Arrest of bank account/ property
• Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Federal Financial Monitoring Service

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Federal Financial Monitoring Service included Babchenko in a terrorists and extremist list. Bank accounts and payment tools of those on the list get blocked in Russia. Babchenko’s “Yandex-card” was blocked. The journalist emigrated from Russia in 2017.