Vadim Boreiko

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Hyperborei, Journalist

Incident date: September 16, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel Boreiko.kz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

The author and creator of the YouTube channel Hyperborei journalist Vadim Boreiko said that in two days he received two «greetings» through «parliamentarians». The first time, Boreiko was invited to a meeting by a «large official from Akorda» for a «private conversation». After he refused, a polite man who introduced himself as a «silovik» came to the journalist’s old friend and asked him to give him a request to refrain from criticizing the president for two months, promising him «a five-figure money sum» as compensation. The journalist preferred to refuse the five-figure sum in foreign currency. «A lone journalist like me has the only means of self-defense — publicity. That’s why I publish this post», — Boreiko wrote on social networks. «I assume that the president himself is not aware of these actions, let alone that he himself gave such an order. Surely, those in Akorda in charge of conducting elections without excesses are taking precautions...».