Iskander Yasaveyev

Affiliated media: Idel.Realities, Columnist

Incident date: October 7, 2022

Attack type:

Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: BBC

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation added writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, Buryat journalist Yevgenia Baltatarova, sociologist and columnist of Idel.Realities Iskander Yasaveyev, and journalist and activist Irina Storozhevaya to the register of «media foreign agents».

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