Arseny Pushkin

Affiliated media: MSK1.ru, Journalist

Incident date: March 16, 2023

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The journalists of MSK1.ru Yekaterina Fadeyeva and Arseny Pushkin were detained in front of the House of Music on Kosmodamianskaya Embankment in Moscow. Earlier, the House of Music was surrounded by police and Federal Protective Service officers. Journalists travelled there to find out what this was about. Fadeyeva and Pushkin were taken to the Zamoskvorechye police station, and their passports were taken away. The police said they detained the journalists to «check their documents and establish their identity». Later, they were released without a report.