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Report: Russia’s internet regulator investigates state TV channel over host’s on-air insults directed at blogger Viktoria Bonya

Russia’s state media regulator, Roskomnadzor, has opened an investigation into the Russia-1 television channel over an April 16 episode of the talk show Vecher s Vladimirom Solovyovym (“Evening with Vladimir Solovyov”), in which the host directed a string of insults at blogger Viktoria Bonya, the outlet Mozhem obyasnit (“We Can Explain”) reported.