Semyon Kochkin

Affiliated media: Telegram channel Angry Chuvashia, Author

Incident date: February 14, 2023

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Semyon Kochkin's Telegram channel

Location: Russia, Chuvashia Republic, Cheboksary

Additional information:

Former coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Cheboksary and author of the project Angry Chuvashia reported that Vasilyev A.I., an employee of the Centre for Combating Extremism, took his 20-year-old sister away from a party at the Cheboksary Art School. During the hour-long interrogation, Kochin’s sister was asked about her trip to Georgia in 2021. Kochkin emphasised that his sister is not a political activist, she «did not go to rallies and did not write posts about the war».