Mark Feygin

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Feygin Live, Blogger, Former lawyer

Incident date: October 16, 2023

Attack type:

• Prosecution for dissemination of false information and fakes (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Verstka

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has put Mark Feygin on the wanted list — according to TASS, he is suspected of spreading «military fakes» (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In April 2022, Feygin was declared a «foreign agent» and several times brought to administrative responsibility in this regard. Feygin is a former Russian lawyer, he defended the group Pussy Riot in the case of the «punk prayer» in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, as well as Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko. In 2018, he was stripped of his lawyer status. In 2019, he began to develop a YouTube channel. At the moment, more than 2 million people are subscribed to it.