Nikolay Gorelov - Justice for Journalists

Nikolay Gorelov

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: January 10, 2020

Attack type:

  • Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Kaliningrad Oblast, Kaliningrad

Additional information:

In Kaliningrad, a criminal case was initiated against blogger Nikolay Gorelov under an article on the rehabilitation of Nazism because of his VKontakte post about the violence of the Red Army against the German civilian population. Gorelov learned that the Investigative Committee was checking his publication when he was summoned for interrogation.

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