Nikolay Platoshkin

He is also a popular video blogger, his YouTube channel has over 570 thousand subscribers, since January 2021 his videos have been watched over 118 million times.

On June 4, 2020, the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Platoshkin on charges of inducing mass riots, as well as publicly disseminating knowingly false information about circumstances that pose a threat to the life and safety of citizens. In the morning, a search was carried out in Platoshkin’s apartment, as a result of which, according to his wife, they took away computers, a camera and family savings. After the search, the politician was detained and taken to the IC of Russia [48]. In the evening, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent the politician under house arrest until August 2, after which a new search was conducted at the place of Platoshkin’s official residence.

On June 15, 2020, Amnesty International recognized the Russian politician Nikolay Platoshkin as a prisoner of conscience.

Since October 19, 2019, after declaring his intention to be a candidate for the Russian presidential election in 2024, he no longer received an invitation to speak on the main Russian television channels, since, in his opinion, he was included in the “black list” on a command from the Presidential Administration.

In January 2019, on his Facebook page, Platoshkin posted a video where he announced his intention to create the socio-political association “For a New Socialism” and outlined the main points of the program of this movement (the goal of the movement is to restore socialism in Russia through elections).

After not admitting to the elections to the Moscow City Duma, he put forward instead of himself and supported Savostyanov, who subsequently won the election. On June 19, 2019, he himself was nominated by the Communist Party at the by-election to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VII convocation in the 70th constituency (northern part of the Khabarovsk Krai), and took second place.

Currently, Platoshkin is the head of the department of international relations and diplomacy at Moscow University for the Humanities. On May 25, 2018, a two-year lecture course “Germany in the war and post-war time” was completed as part of the evening courses of Dmitry Pozharsky University.

In the election of the heads of the constituent entities of the Federation on September 9, 2018, he called for voting against "United Russia" party. In the fall of 2018, at the election of the head of the republic of Khakassia, Platoshkin supported the Communist Party candidate V. Konovalov.

On 23 September 2018, Sergey Furgal who was elected from the Komsomolsk constituency, was elected Governor of Khabarovsk Krai and so a By-election was announced

In 2009, according to the results of the creative competition for the best materials published in the Military History Journal (No. 12, 2008), Platoshkin was awarded the second prize for the article “The Berlin Blockade of 1948-1949. Myths and reality”, placed in the rubric “From the history of military-political relations”.

In 2006, he left the diplomatic service due to the behavior of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding his wife. He switched to teaching later that year.

From May 2004 to 2006, he served as vice consul at the Russian Consulate in Houston. He was present at the opening of the Russian Cultural Center in Austin, Texas. By decision of the US government, he was expelled from the country.

In 2003 he defended his thesis on the topic "Memel (Klaipėda) issue in international relations", and in 2009 - a doctoral thesis on "Causes and Progress of the Berlin Crisis of 1953-1961".

In 1998, he headed the department of Armenia at the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Since 1988 - a candidate for membership in the Communist Party. In 1989, he refused entry, citing this act as a disagreement with the policy of the General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

From 1987 to 2006, he worked in Russian diplomatic missions in Germany and the USA.

In 1982, he entered the MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR at the Faculty of International Relations (Western Department), which he graduated with honors in 1987. In 2003, he graduated from a special course for senior staff at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Platoshkin (Russian: Николай Николаевич Платóшкин; born 19 October 1965) is a Russian and former Soviet diplomat, political scientist, and historian.

Nikolay Platoshkin was born on October 19, 1965 in the village of Mescherino, Stupinsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russian by nationality. His parents worked in Sovkhoz (state farm).