Anastasia Kashkina, a correspondent for Sota, who came to Kemerovo on a business trip, said she was being followed. This is written in the telegram channel "Soty".

According to the publication, surveillance is carried out, presumably, by the FSB. Also in the Kemerovo press, affiliated with local authorities, an article about Kashkina appeared. "Sota" calls the material custom. In the publication under the heading “Moscow oppositionists visited Kuzbass”, the journalist is called “the brightest representative of the Russia of the Future, a member of the LGBT and Open Russia movements.”

“We assure the employees of local law enforcement agencies that the psychological pressure exerted will be reflected in the materials being prepared and will only contribute to their speedy release,” the editors of Sota emphasized.

Anastasia Kashkina is a journalist, correspondent for Sota. The girl is actively involved in covering the facts of political pressure and has herself become the object of persecution by the authorities more than once. So, in October 2020, she was fined 10,000 rubles for participating in pickets in support of the defendants in the New Greatness case.
In Kemerovo, Kashkina planned to collect information about the case of journalist Natalia Zubkova , who is being persecuted under an article on slander, as well as about pressure on the bloggers of the channel "Do not be inert" Maxim Lavrentiev and Sergey Kamensky .

A Sota correspondent who came on a business trip to Kemerovo reported surveillance