Anastasia Olshanskaya

Affiliated media: MBK Media, Journalist

Incident date: August 10, 2019

Attack type:

• Abduction, taking captive / hostage, illegal deprivation of liberty

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

On Rozhdestvensky Boulevard in Moscow, security forces came to the centre for collecting the signatures of Alexei Navalny supporters. They broke down the door and ordered people to face the wall. Lyubov Sobol livestreamed the incident on Twitter. No one was allowed to enter the centre for a long time, and a search was conducted. TV Rain journalists Alexey Korostelev, Maxim Kardopoltsev and Ernest Arutyunov, MBK Media correspondent Anastasia Olshanskaya, and Current Time TV journalists Timur Olevsky and Sergey Korsakov were blocked inside the centre with no connection to the outside.