Ruslan Totrov

Affiliated media: Website OsNova, Editor, Blogger

Incident date: January 21, 2021

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Caucasian Knot

Location: Russia, North Ossetia–Alania Republic, Vladikavkaz

Additional information:

Ruslan Totrov, a journalist and a blogger, said he was beaten up by two men who expressed their anger about his critical publications about the President of South Ossetia. The local authorities treat the incident as a provocation. One of the men who participated in the beating of Ruslan Totrov is a "close associate" of South-Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov.