Vlad Tupikin

Affiliated media: Newspaper "Volya", Editor

Incident date: March 27, 2021

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The editor of the Volya newspaper Vlad Tupikin was attacked. In the evening, a man ran up to Tupikin, who was on his way to the Moscow presentation of the Moloko Plus almanac, and hit him in the face shouting: «Don’t you talk about neo-Nazis here». The attacker fled. According to the witnesses to the incident, he was not alone but as part of a group of several people. The attack was clearly motivated by political hatred of Tupikin's anti-fascist beliefs.