Viktoria Chernysheva

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: February 27, 2022

Attack type:

Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Ulyanovsk

Location: Russia, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Ulyanovsk

Additional information:

Journalists Viktoria Chernysheva, Igor Ulitin, and Maxim Kuznetsov were detained in Ulyanovsk.

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