Viktor Kokarev

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: April 6, 2023

Attack type:

• Search with a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: North.Realities

Location: Russia, Komi Republic, Syktyvkar

Additional information:

The police declared Syktyvkar-based journalist Viktor Kokarev wanted «under the article of the Criminal Code». In early April, law enforcers came with a search to him, the employee of the regional office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Ilya Boloban, and the party supporter Svyatoslav Krasikov in a case of robbery with violence (Paragraph D of Part 2 of Article 161 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The resident of Syktyvkar and pro-government blogger Tatyana Kuznetsova filed a complaint against the activists. It was preceded by a conflict between her and State Duma deputy Oleg Mikhailov, whom she came to see. Kuznetsova claims that Boloban, Kokarev, and Krasikov beat her and took away her phone worth RUB 59,000. The law enforcers did not find the phone during the search. Boloban was sent to the pre-trial detention centre, Kokarev and Krasikov were previously held as witnesses in the case.