Moscow police detained a blogger from the Republic of Moldova Mykola Lebedev, known by the nickname “Nekoglai”, after he recorded a parody of a video of a Russian soldier throwing grenades that fell nearby, Meduza reports.

According to the information published in the Russian mass media, police officers came to one of the apartments on Krasnogvardiysky Boulevard, where a young man and several other people live, and asked for documents.

The 22-year-old blogger did not have a passport, he was detained to establish his identity. TV channel “Zvezda” claims that Nekoglai was taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Presnensky district of Moscow.

As reported by Telegram channel 112, Necoglai is a citizen of the Republic of Moldova and was detained for violating immigration laws. Several sources cited by TASS, one of Russia’s state-run news agencies, said he would be deported if found to have violated Russian laws on foreigners.

His arrest came two days after he posted a TikTok parody of a popular video of a Russian soldier lying in a ditch before throwing two grenades fired from a Ukrainian drone.

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According to the newspaper “Moscow Komsomolets”, the soldier survived. Nekoglai repeated the actions of the Russian military with a remix of the famous song “Rasputin” in the background.

The Russian organization “Nekoglai” accused it of discrediting the Russian military

After the publication of the parody, the head of the Russian organization “League of Safe Internet”, Kateryna Mizulina, accused the guy of discrediting the Russian army and said that she would file a complaint against him with the Prosecutor General’s Office of Moscow and the Ministry of Prosecutor’s Office. Internal affairs.

Nekoglai’s manager noted that the blogger did not want to offend or humiliate the military with his parody.

Nekoglai became famous for his Twitch broadcasts, and his TikTok channel has 9.5 million followers.

Russian authorities also used the law on defamation of the armed forces against actress Kristina Asmus, once the “sexiest woman in Russia,” who was summoned to an administrative court in August to answer the allegations.

“Asmus is accused of posting a text post on Instagram aimed at negative attitude towards the conduct of the special operation,” the court explained. The incriminating post is dated February 24, the first day of the Russian invasion.

“Fear and pain. Please stop all this. No war!!!!!” she wrote at the time next to the image on a completely black background.

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