Andrey Vypolzov

Affiliated media: REGNUM News Agency, Journalist

Incident date: July 31, 2018

Attack type:

• Dismissal / involuntary dismissal / forced quitting of the profession / expulsion from the educational institution

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Kaliningrad Oblast, Kaliningrad

Additional information:

The well-known Kaliningrad journalist Andrey Vypolzov, who had been working as the co-director of the REGNUM news agency since 2002, was suddenly dismissed from his post. The reason for this removal was Facebook post in which he recounted seeing a statue of President Vladimir Putin located in the garage of a meat processing plant in Kurgan Oblast, where the journalist was on holiday.