Andrei Timeskov

Affiliated media: Novye Izvestia, Journalist

Incident date: October 3, 2017

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of residence / work premises

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

Additional information:

In St. Petersburg, a woman in one of the publications in "New News", exposing the activities of ‘dog-hunters’ (dog poisoners), hit the head of its author with a bottle. She later learned that the journalist was not seriously injured. Then she decided to finish it off at all costs. To do this, she bought an axe and began to come to the house of Andrei Timeskov almost every day, demanding that he go outside. Then the citizen began to throw stones and bottles at his windows. After that she made obscene and defamatory inscriptions on the house and on the asphalt at the entrance to the house, accusing the reporter of committing particularly serious crimes of a sexual nature.