How journalists are beaten for their work in Russia

Dmitriy Nesterenko
Dmitriy Nesterenko
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2 min readMar 20, 2019
This is Alex Dorogov, one of the three beaten journalists.

I have some friends from a YouTube channel called «Dvizhenie» what in English means «moving forward».

And they also work in local Russian social and political media called «Rosderzhava» what means in English something like «a Russian state».

They do many useful things such as public control of official’s violations, police’s violations and others because Russian authority often violates its rules and laws.

So, that’s how we live here.

You can watch what they do on their channel and you are not to be able to understand the Russian language, because all videos are about breaking the law of Russian officials and their stupidity.

Today my comrades were at some strange place in Moscow, trying to find out about a story with a girl who works for one of the quite famous company called «Serkons», the certification company.

The story of the girl is also quite typical in Russia — some corporations, I mean, their leadership, consider their employees like slaves and from time to time trying to force people to quit.

My colleagues were trying to interview the leadership of the company but suddenly were attacked and robbed by company’s employees.

Don’t you believe?

I can show you, how humanness and cowardly about 30 people were attacking 3 journalists and the girl.

The last one got many punches in the face, she was plucked off the hair and she was hit by a car.

The girl. Many men.

This is an awful medieval period in Russia, especially in 2019.

I can’t imagine how it happened.

Do you think the police worked well?

No, it’s not.

Until deep evening suspects weren’t arrested despite many witnesses, videos and other evidence.

We have long videos from the police station and laziness and unprofessionalism of the police, so I’m not surprised, because I’m used to getting unprofessionalism from the police, like other citizens.

That’s how we live here.

Let’s see what happens.

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