The media reported that the Investigative Committee demanded that the Ministry of Internal Affairs interrogate 43 thousand viewers of the stream of the retired
According to Roskomsvoboda, the investigatorasked to "conduct search activities" in respect of 43,386 spectators. The head of the Krasnogorsk MIA Administration was supposed to "ensure the attendance" of YouTube users to the city department of the Investigative Committee. The head of the Criminal Investigation Department told the investigator that the police were unable to identify "specific persons" who watched the video.
The publication "Roskomsvoboda" recalled that MikhailShendakov regularly participates in streams on the Soviet Television YouTube channel, where he speaks on various topics. For one of the speeches of a retired colonel, he is tried under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement to hatred of a social group) and part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism on the Internet).