Nikita Mikhalkov's BesogonTV channel was removed from YouTube

The channel of the author’s show of film director Nikita Mikhalkov “BesogonTV” has disappeared from YouTube video hosting. attention to this . drew Sota

RusNews and Gazeta.ru write that when you try to open a channel in Russia, a message appears that the account is blocked “for numerous violations regarding discriminatory statements.” When you try to open a channel in Latvia, a message appears that the page is unavailable.

One of Meduza’s articles , where a recording from Mikhalkov’s YouTube channel appeared in 2022, says that “the video is unavailable because the YouTube account associated with it was deleted.”

Update. Nikita Mikhalkov said that the Besogon team switched to Russian resources a long time ago. “I will continue to tell the truth, my truth, which I may not know, but which I am definitely looking for...” said the director, commenting on the blocking of the YouTube channel.

• Nikita Mikhalkov created the Besogon YouTube channel in March 2011. According to open data, about 1.6 million users were subscribed to the BesogonTV channel at the time of deletion.
• In his show, Mikhalkov spread various conspiracy theories, including that Microsoft founder Bill Gates allegedly plans to chip the world's population, and that protesters in Belarus in 2020 were drawn using computer graphics.
• Episodes of Mikhalkov’s program were shown to the Russian military so that soldiers could learn to distinguish truth from fakes; in St. Petersburg, the show “Besogon” was shown at school during a fourth-grade lesson. In addition, Mikhalkov’s show was shown on the Rossiya 24 TV channel in 2014-2020. Many of Nikita Mikhalkov’s statements in the show have become memes.