Sergey Podsytnik

Affiliated media: Protocol Samara, Editor

Incident date: March 15, 2024

Attack type:

• Wiretapping / surveillance without a court decree

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Protocol

Location: Germany, Germany

Additional information:

The editor-in-chief of Protocol Matvey Kurdyukov and the editor of Protocol Samara Sergey Podsytnik noticed surveillance after them in Germany. This may be related to the investigation into the production of Iranian Shahed drones in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan. German police have opened a criminal case. In February 2024, the EU and the US imposed sanctions against Alabuga, its subsidiaries and some residents of the special economic zone. In August 2023, Podsytnik was arrested in absentia in the case of military «fakes», and his parents’s apartment was searched.