The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put on the wanted list a journalist from Syktyvkar, Viktor Kokarev, who left Russia after searches of Communist Party supporters.
The police put Syktyvkar journalist Viktor Kokarev on the wanted list. This, as noted , follows from the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Novaya Gazeta The card states that Kokarev is “wanted under an article of the Criminal Code,” but does not say which one. The man is a witness in a criminal robbery case brought against his colleague, an employee of the regional office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Ilya Boloban, the newspaper notes.