Sergey Kamenskikh

Affiliated media: YouTube channel "Ne bud' inertnym!" ("Don't be inert!") , Video blogger

Incident date: June 28, 2020

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Kemerovo Oblast, Kemerovo

Additional information:

Sergey Kamenskikh, along with his co-author of the YouTube channel Maxim Lavrentyev, was arrested on charges of hooliganism committed by a group of people (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The bloggers were reported to the police when they were filming a video about illegal parking. According to another version, the YouTubers are being persecuted for filming a video about the Federal Security Service. On June 5, near the local Federal Security Service department building, they were attacked, and their camera was snatched. At the end of the month, it was returned without any footage.