Sergey Boldyrev

Affiliated media: Newspaper Svidetel (svidetel24.info), Freelance correspondent

Incident date: November 2, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast, Berdsk

Additional information:

In the Novosibirsk region, a freelance correspondent Sergey Boldyrev accused Kirill Tsvetkov, an employee of the press-centre of the city administration of an attack due to comment in social network Vkontakte. A man broke into the editorial office of the newspaper and punched Boldyrev in the face several times with the words «I’ll show you nails, I’ll show you Kiryusha».