Seven Russian journalists from a new ‘counterculture almanac about violence’ say they're being targeted by hackers

Seven journalists from the beleaguered Moloko Plus project say someone recently tried to hack their email and Facebook accounts. According to the group’s founder, Pavel Nikulin, the intrusions came from Internet users with IP addresses in Brazil and the United States.

On July 14, a day before Moloko Plus was unveiled at a presentation in Krasnodar, Nikulin was forced to appear at a local police station and hand over copies of his almanac, so they could be examined for possible extremism. Police also interrupted the unveiling presentation, apparently responding to a call that Moloko Plus “propagates how to commit extremism and use illegal drugs.” Nikulin says the “tip” came from Mikhail Banazarov, a local conservative activist. Before the presentation that day, two men sprayed Nikulin and one of his team members in the face with an unknown gas.

• The Moloko Plus project is a “counterculture almanac about violence,” dedicating each magazine issue to a specific theme (drug abuse, neo-Nazism, radicalism, racism, religious hatred, separatism, and so on).