Yana Khodarevskaya

Affiliated media: MBK Media (spbmbk.media), Correspondent

Incident date: July 23, 2020

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: MBK Media

Location: Russia, Smolensk Oblast

Additional information:

Security officers conducted a search in Khodarevskaya’s grandparents’ house, where she is registered. The journalist lives in St Petersburg. Her mother was taken into questioning to the Investigative Committee. According to Khodarevskaya, the search was connected to her April article about coronavirus pandemic at the Vyasemsk care home. The article has subsequently taken down.