An Explosion in St. Petersburg Killed One of Russia’s Leading Pro-War Bloggers. Here’s Everything We Know
Russian police investigators inspect a damaged ‘Street bar’ cafe in a blast in Saint Petersburg on April 2, 2023 that left leading Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky dead. Credit – Olga Maltseva—AFP via Getty Images
An explosion at a cafe in central St. Petersburg on Sunday killed one of Russia’s leading pro-Kremlin bloggers, according to Russia’s interior ministry.
Maxim Fomin—known by his pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky—was a prominent military blogger whose vocal support of Russia’s war efforts had earned him as many as 560,000 followers on Telegram.
Tatarsky was conducting a meet and greet at the cafe on the bank

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