Anton Ptushkin

Affiliated media: Travel blogger

Incident date: April 20, 2022

Attack type:

• Ban on entering the country, denial or revocation of a visa / accreditation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Ukrainian travel blogger Anton Ptushkin has been banned from entering Russia until 2072. Ptushkin is a former TV program host about travelling "Heads and Tails". He runs a travel blog on YouTube. On his social media, he has spoken out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. «This war is not a war of liberation, but an invasive and criminal one», – he said in a message for a Russian audience. Ptushkin said that he was originally from Luhansk and had lived in Kyiv in recent years, and had not faced discrimination as a Russian language speaker there.