Journalist explains her emigration to Georgia by threats due to investigation in Dagestan

Anastasia Kashkina, a journalist from the "Sota" online edition, had to emigrate to Georgia due to threats and surveillance after her investigative publication about a robbery and attempted murder this February of an entrepreneur and his friend in Dagestan.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on February 23, 2021, near a residential building in Oktiabrskaya Street in Kizlyar, a shootout occurred. Two people shot at two residents of the Kizlyar District, aged 36 and 42, and then fled in two cars. The victims were hospitalized with multiple traumas and gunshot wounds.

Anastasia Kashkina from the "Sota" online edition, who had earlier emigrated from Russia to Georgia, said that after the July publication of her inquiry into the above incident, she began receiving threats, and she also noticed that she was shadowed, the "Kavkaz.Realii"* reported on December 9.

In her inquiry, Anastasia named the attackers and customers, as well as their patrons in law enforcement bodies.

She had undertaken this inquiry, because, in her opinion, law enforcers were actually evading the investigation into the attack.

After the publication of Kashkina's material, threats began arriving to her Instagram account, Anastasia wrote in an article posted on the "Sota" website on December 9. Then, she noticed a car parked near her house, in which there was one of the figurants of the inquiry. Fearing for her safety, Anastasia Kashkina left Russia and reached Georgia via Armenia.

*The organization (edition) has been put by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on December 10, 2021 at 06:27 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.