Video blogger Yuri Khovansky was excluded from the list of extremists and terrorists. Earlier, the court dismissed his case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for prosecution.
Khovansky was accused of justifying terrorism because of the song he sang about the terrorist attack on Dubrovka. The investigation claimed that the song was performed in 2018, although the defense insisted that the stream with the performance of the song by Khovansky was in 2012.
Khovansky was in a pre-trial detention center from June 10 to December 29, 2021 for 7 months. The witnesses in the case were three people who allegedly accidentally heard the song in public places in 2018. Two of them used to work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the testimony of all three coincided verbatim in places.