Elena Chernenko

Affiliated media: Kommersant , Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department

Incident date: July 7, 2020

Attack type:

• Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences
• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Kommersant

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Journalists from Kommersant Elena Chernenko, Kira Duryagina, Marianna Belenkaya, Alexander Chernykh and Kirill Krivosheev were detained by the police. They held solitary protests near the FSB headquarters in support of a former colleague Ivan Safronov, an advisor to Roscosmos (Russian space agency) who’s been detained on charges of treason. Аn administrative protocol was drawn on her for violation of the rules of conduct on high alert.