Russia’s State-Affiliated TV, Police Target Activist

Expand Roman Udot at his court hearing in Moscow, May 22, 2019. © 2019 Novaya Gazeta This week’s arrest of activist Roman Udot in Moscow should put in the spotlight the Russian authorities’ unwillingness to rein in stalking, invasion of privacy, harassment, and other abusive tactics by the state-affiliated television station, NTV. The arrest stems from an incident in March 2018 when NTV reporters descended on Udot, a board member of Golos, Russia’s largest independent election monitoring group, at a Moscow airport. NTV, owned by Russian state gas company Gazprom, is notorious for harassing…

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