Oleg Petrovich-Belkin

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Avtozak LIVE, Host

Incident date: July 19, 2023

Attack type:

• Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Avtozak LIVE

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

In Moscow, the prosecutor’s office drew up reports against Oleg Petrovich-Belkin, host of the program Historical Parallels on the YouTube channel Avtozak LIVE, under articles on incitement to hatred or hostility (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation) and «discrediting» the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation). It is not yet known what was the reason for the reports. Petrovich-Belkin did not come to the rulings on the initiation of cases, he is not in Russia. After the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine, the historian left for Georgia.