Sergey Zaikin

Affiliated media: URA.RU, Head of the IT department

Incident date: May 14, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

In Yekaterinburg, the head of the IT department of the URA.RU news agency, Sergey Zaikin, was attacked. His arm was broken. The incident took place on May 14 at about 1 AM near the beer store on Lunacharsky Street in Yekaterinburg, where a noisy company had gathered. Sergey, who lives nearby, rebuked them from the balcony and called the police. And not long after, when he left the house, he was attacked. «As soon as I opened the entrance door, I was kicked», — said Sergey. «I fell, and they began to kick me. I covered my face, so one of the kicks hit the arm».