Sergey Auslender - Justice for Journalists

Sergey Auslender

Affiliated media: YouTube channel ‘Sergey Auslender,’ Telegram channel ‘War with the Horde’, Journalist

Incident date: February 14, 2025

Attack type:

Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Russian Ministry of Justice

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Russian Ministry of Justice has added Israeli Russian-speaking military journalist Sergei Auslender to its list of foreign agents. The reason for this was his publications, which, according to the ministry, contained inaccurate information about the actions of the Russian authorities and portrayed the Russian Armed Forces in a negative light.

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