Video blogger Yuri Khovansky was detained in St. Petersburg, TASS reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.
It is specified that he was detained in the framework of a criminal case under the article on public calls for terrorist activities, but the status of Khovansky has not yet been disclosed.
Let’s add that Yuri Khovansky leads a video blog on YouTube, the number of his subscribers is 4.4 million.
Earlier it was reported that the Tyumen blogger Alexey Kungurov was accused for the second time of calling for terrorism and inciting hatred, four years ago he was sentenced to prison for one of his posts in the “LiveJournal”, where he criticized the military operation of Russian forces in Syria.