Alexander Koshik

Affiliated media: Freelancer

Incident date: August 2, 2017

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Krasnodar Krai, Krasnodar

Additional information:

A man who sent a threatening text message to Krasnodar freelance journalist Alexander Koshik introduced himself as Andrei Solodovnikov, an agent for the Rostov Centre for Countering Extremism. Koshik was receiving messages from different numbers. In one message, the journalist was asked to stop writing "about Rostov".