Nikolai Buchatskii is a human rights activist and opposition politician in Transnistria. Along with former presidential candidate Alexander Radchenko he is the co-founder of Man and His Rights (Chelovek i Ego Prava), the only human rights newspaper in the region.
According to a report by Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Buchatskii is under pressure due to a campaign of physical and psychological intimidation which the authorities of Transnistria have organized against the newspaperhttps://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/8/6/14399.pdf,https://www.osce.org/moldova/109889.