Dmitry Chernyshev (mi3ch)

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: March 16, 2022

Attack type:

• Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Blogger Dmitry Chernyshev, who publishes materials under the nickname mi3ch, said that he left Russia and is now in Tel Aviv. He wrote about this on his page in LiveJournal. According to him, he made the decision to emigrate after being interrogated by law enforcers and threats to his family. He said that he was detained on the evening of March 4 on the street in Moscow. The men in uniform who detained him did not introduce themselves and took him to the police station for questioning. According to the blogger, they told him that they would take him to the Donetsk People’s Republic and threatened his children. During the interrogation, Chernyshev gave the law enforcers an undertaking that he would stop «all activity on the Internet».