The Ministry of Internal Affairs put on the wanted list of ex-football player and blogger Evgeny Savin

The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the wanted list of the former football player Evgeny Savin, who leads the Krasava sports blog on YouTube. Information about this "Mediazona" was found in the department of the department.

What exactly is Savina are looking for, the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not specify. In September, RIA Novosti and the project “Caution, News”, citing their sources, reported that they initiated a criminal case against the “discredit” of the army against the athlete (part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) due to an interview that he gave journalist Ksenia Sobchak in April 2023. Adding to the search base confirms that a criminal case was really instituted against Savin.

In the fall, RIA Novosti wrote that, according to investigators, in the video the athlete "negatively spoke about the Russian army, condemned its actions." What kind of words became the reason for the claims of the security forces is unknown. Savin himself commented on reports of persecution with the words: “I hope this season my players will be as persistent as the RF IC. There are no other problems in the country 🤡 ”.

To initiate a criminal case of “discrediting”, it is necessary that a person is previously fined according to a similar administrative protocol (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Savina was assigned such a fine in February because of the video on YouTube. “A rare case when I am proud of myself,” the football player wrote then.

Evgeny Savin played in the position of the striker for different football clubs, in particular, Khimki, Amkar, Wings of the Soviets, Tom and Ural. After completing a professional career in 2015, the athlete conducted programs on Match TV and the First Channel, and since 2018 he published videos on the Krasava YouTube channel. Now he has more than a million subscribers. In 2020, Savin created the Krasava football club, which in 2022 moved with him from Odintsovo near Moscow to Cyprus.

“The first thing I did when I realized the scale of what is happening (wars in Ukraine - MZ), I wrote to my wife. He said: “Get ready. As soon as I return, we are leaving Russia,” the sports blogger explained the emigration from the country in an interview with Sobchak. - <...> I realized that we could not live in Russia. The main reason is that I do not want my children to grow in a country that unleashes truly cannibal wars with a neighboring country. An emotional and intuitive decision was made on February 24 [2022]. ” In May 2022, Savin also posted an interview with Ukrainian football players on his channel.