Alexander Plyushchev
Affiliated media: YouTube channel "The Breakfast Show" , Journalist, Presenter, Media manager
Incident date: June 3, 2025
Attack type:
- Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Mediazona
Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow
Additional information:
The Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow has fined journalist Alexander Plyushchev 15,000 rubles for alleged involvement in the activities of an “undesirable” organisation - the Carnegie Moscow Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - under Article 20.33 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offences. Plyushchev, a former host on Echo of Moscow and creator of the YouTube channel "The Breakfast Show", has been listed as a “foreign agent” since October 2022. He has previously faced multiple fines for failing to submit the required “foreign agent” reports to the Ministry of Justice and for publishing content without the mandated labelling.