Maria Chistyakova (Mari Govori)
Affiliated media: YouTube channel Mari Govori, Video blogger
Incident date: April 28, 2022
Attack type:
- Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Mass Media Defence Centre
Location: Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod
Additional information:
Chistyakova said that her parents’ apartment was searched on April 27. «I don’t live with them for 10 years, I am registered in another region», — Maria writes. After she published a photo of herself in her underwear with the image of the Virgin Mary on her underwear at Easter 2021, the Orthodox movement Sorok Sorokov filed a denunciation against her with the Investigative Committee, demanding to punish her under the article on insulting the feelings of believers.