Vadim Kharchenko

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Personal Opinion, Video blogger

Incident date: July 23, 2022

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Caucasian Knot

Location: Russia, Krasnodar Krai, Gelendzhik

Additional information:

The court fined a video blogger from Gelendzhik Vadim Kharchenko RUB 30,000 under the article on «discrediting» the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation). Kharchenko was punished for a video on YouTube. In court, he said that he didn’t post this video and there is no negative assessment of the armed forces in it.