The former participant in the legendary television game of the time of the Soviet Union "What? Where? When?" Rovshan Askerov, who has been declared a foreign agent in Russia, may face trial. The authorities believe that he violated the legislation related to foreign agents, TASS reported.
Askerov is threatened with two years in prison. Previously, he had already been fined three times for violating the rules on the activities of foreign agents. The former expert lives outside Russia.
The Ministry of Justice included Askerov in the list of foreign agents in December 2022
In addition, Askerov has been placed on a federal wanted list in Russia. In April 2022, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against him for the rehabilitation of Nazism. The occasion was the publication by the former expert on social networks of “deliberately false information that insults and taints the memory” of the Russian commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov.