Vladislav Postnikov - Justice for Journalists

Vladislav Postnikov

Affiliated media: Vecherniye Vedomosti, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: September 8, 2022

Attack type:

  • Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

Journalists’ apartments were searched in Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow, Voronezh, and the Moscow Region. At least some of them were conducted in a criminal case on «fakes» about the army against former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev. In Yekaterinburg, law enforcement officers came to the home of Vladislav Postnikov, editor-in-chief of Vecherniye Vedomosti. In Tyumen, they came to the home of Yulia Glazova, former editor of Tyumen-Pro and ex-freelance journalist of Siberia.Realities. In Rostov-on-Don — to the RusNews journalist Bella Nasibyan, in Odintsovo — to the director of the Odintsovo-INFO website Andrey Ostroukhov, and four more employees of the portal. In Baklanovo, Oryol region — to the journalist Sergey Novos. In Reutov — to Victor Zaryanov, administrator of the Telegram channel Orlets. In Moscow — to the photographer Ruslan Sukhushin. In Voronezh — to the activist Vladislav Khodakovsky. Postnikov was not at home at the time of the search.

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