The NTV presenter asked the Investigative Committee to check the speeches of blogger Danila Poperechny for extremism

Andrey Norkin, host of the Meeting Place program on the NTV channel, wrote a statement to the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia against blogger Danila Poperechny. this The journalist announced on his Facebook page.

He asked the investigators to check Poperechny's public statements for violations of Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity). Norkin attached a stand-up speech from 2017 to the post, in which the blogger talks about Orthodoxy.

Under the video, Poperechny noted that his program "is not aimed at offending anyone's feelings, and also does not promote absolutely anything." “My life experience and my journalistic experience of more than twenty-eight years makes me doubt that the activities of Count. Cross D. A. is “just a joke,” Norkin said.

Earlier in January 2018, the blogger filmed a parody of the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. After publication in the comments, Poperechny began to receive threats, as well as demands to apologize to the head of the republic.

In July 2017, Danila Poperechny was one of those who made a request to exclude blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who received a suspended sentence for insulting the feelings of believers, from the list of terrorists and extremists. In their appeal, the bloggers demanded changes to Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Cross noted that it was written “so vaguely that either an ultra-right Nazi killer or a video blogger who just joked about the Koran can become a terrorist.”