Andrei Trofimov

Affiliated media: Alternative Newspaper, Journalist

Incident date: March 1, 2017

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Sergiev Posad

Additional information:

In Sergiev Posad, police detained Andrei Trofimov, editor-in-chief of the “Alternative Newspaper”. The reason for his detention was failing to come in for questioning when summoned. The journalist denies this. He was a witness in a case on a group Cossacks who demanded the "liberation of Russia from satanic evil" and gave the Nazi salute during a procession.