Maria Dracheva

Affiliated media: Uralskaya Nedelya, Journalist

Incident date: March 28, 2022

Attack type:

• Identity theft / phishing / doxxing

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Uralskaya Nedelya

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

In the morning of March 28, Maria Dracheva, the correspondent of Uralskaya Nedelya, received an unidentified phone call on her personal mobile number. The man told her name and surname, and then asked when the journalist would quit, how much she had sold out for, and why the editorial board was «for the nationalists in Ukraine». To Maria’s question — «Who are you?», the man replied: «You will soon find out who I am...». After this phrase, the man cut the conversation short. In the morning of the same day, Lyudmila Kalashnikova, deputy editor of Uralskaya Nedelya, received a call from the same number, but she did not answer as she was travelling on a bus. The editorial board of Uralskaya Nedelya considers the content of the call from the unknown man to be a real threat to the life of journalists and links the threats to informing readers about the course of war in Ukraine.