Vasily Pashkin

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: June 3, 2018

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Saratov Oblast, Saratov

Additional information:

In Saratov, the video blogger Vasily Pashkin was attacked in the Pobeda Plaza shopping centre. According to Pashkin, he wanted to talk about the internal rules of the shopping centre with the head of security. At that moment, they were approached by several men, some underage. Under the cries of "AUE" (a loose criminal network, mainly of teenagers), they tried to get into shot. One of them demanded to stop being filmed and threatened physical violence using explicit language. When Pashkin entered the building again, he was pushed out of the doors of the shopping centre with the words "This is our territory", and pepper spray was sprayed in his direction.