Aidar Akhmadiev

Affiliated media: YouTube channel "Zhivoy Gvozd" , Host

Incident date: December 3, 2025

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Novaya Gazeta

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The hosts of the YouTube channel "Zhivoy Gvozd" have been charged with participating in the activities of an “undesirable” organisation (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The administrative cases against journalists Aidar Akhmadiev, Evgenia Rodionova, and Anton Orekh (Andrey Kravchenko) have been submitted to the Izmailovsky District Court of Moscow for consideration. According to the former editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexey Venediktov, a total of eight hosts of "Zhivoy Gvozd" have had cases filed against them under this article.