Melnikov Andrey Aleksandrovich

In Anapa in March 2023, security forces conducted a search in the apartment of blogger Andrey Melnikov. At this time, Melnikov himself had already left Russia, and only his wife and children were in the apartment. The security forces did not provide any documents to his wife, but said that her husband was being prosecuted under a criminal article on repeated "discrediting of the army. The police also threatened the woman to take away her three underage children and charge her with harboring her husband. In May 2023, Melnikov was attempted to be detained in Yerevan. It also turned out that he had been put on the wanted list. Earlier, in May 2022, Melnikov was charged in a case of an administrative offence under the article on discrediting the army because of a YouTube video entitled "Is the use of nuclear weapons possible?" Well, why not.