Alexander Gozenko

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: February 28, 2017

Attack type:

• Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Saratov Oblast, Saratov

Additional information:

The judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Saratov Alexey Belov sentenced the 20-year-old Ukrainian blogger Alexander Gozenko to 160 hours of mandatory work, declaring him guilty of "degrading human dignity on grounds of the Russian ethnicity, referring to a group of people as vata/vatnik." Until the sentence comes into force, the blogger remains under house arrest.