Alexander Nevzorov

Affiliated media: Echo of Moscow, Publicist

Incident date: October 20, 2021

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Interfax

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor issued a warning to Echo of Moscow and demanded that a video by publicist Alexander Nevzorov be removed from its website as inciting social discord against Christian priests. The radio station complied with this demand. The material in question is Alexander Nevzorov’s video «Putin at the disco, Pevtsov in the Duma, paedophiles in the church». The materials have also been submitted to the Prosecutor General’s Office to consider bringing the guilty parties to administrative responsibility under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or hostility).