Marina Daniluk-Yarmolaeva - attack 07.06.2026

On June 7, 2026, Marina Daniluk-Yarmolaeva, a journalist at the Espreso TV channel, reported on her Facebook page that the YouTube channel “Inter.Podrobytsi” was using her first and last name to identify a Russian-speaking blogger based in the United States.

According to screenshots published by the journalist, a June video titled “A Russian Woman Addresses Those Launching Missiles: ‘May Ukrainians Find You’ | Podrobytsi” featured a blonde woman recording a selfie video while sitting in a car. The video description identified the woman as follows:

“Marina Daniluk-Yarmolaeva, known as Marina Against Propaganda, has become one of the most prominent Russian-speaking voices against Kremlin propaganda. After moving to the United States, she began systematically exposing the lies of Russian television, uncovering manipulations by Russian propagandists, and explaining the mechanisms of Z-ideology. Her videos quickly gained popularity on Instagram and other social media platforms, and her audience continues to grow rapidly. In her content, the blogger analyzes the Kremlin’s information war, Russian society’s reaction to the war against Ukraine, and the methods through which propaganda influences millions of people.”

“What’s more, it took me five minutes to find out that this new INTER star is actually named Marina Pylyshnykova. I have a gut feeling this is some variation of Ovsyannikova,” Marina Daniluk-Yarmolaeva wrote in her post. As a reminder, Marina Ovsyannikova is a Russian journalist who appeared live on Russia’s Channel One in March 2022 holding an anti-war poster.

In a comment to Detector Media, Danyliuk-Yermolaieva noted that such captions identifying the Russian blogger with her name had appeared systematically on the channel. After she published her post, the video description was corrected: her surname was removed and replaced with the blogger’s actual surname.

This case demonstrates signs of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) in the form of online impersonation (identity appropriation) and online defamation, which together may contribute to a reputational attack against the journalist. Marina Danyliuk-Yermolaieva’s name was used without her consent to identify another woman, creating a risk that audiences could mistakenly associate her with someone else’s statements, activities, or content. Such misuse of a journalist’s identity in the digital space can undermine trust in her professional work and damage her public reputation.