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Igor Girkin
Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, also known by the alias Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, is a Russian army veteran and former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer who played a key role in the Russian annexation of Crimea, and then in the Donbas War as an organizer of militant groups in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). In 2024 he was convicted on charges of inciting extremism. Earlier he received a life s…
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politics · Russian intelligence officer and militant leader (born 1970) · military personnel · politician · saboteur · intelligence agent · military officer · military historian · historian · colonel · soldier · also Igor Girkin, Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, Sergey Viktorovich Runov, Sergey Runov, Igor Strelkov
Born 17 December 1970 · Q16474356
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2026· 4 entries
“the Russian National Movement fully rejects President Vladimir Putin”
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“I do not recognise the authority of the Dutch court on this matter. I am a military man and I am not going to accept that a civilian court in a foreign country has the authority to convict a person who took part in someone else”
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“A lot of empty talk, the minimum of action and the utter lack of responsibility for failures — that is Putin”
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2024· 2 entries
Rferl.org: Igor Girkin, Imprisoned Russian Nationalist, Plans To Join Troops Invading Ukraine
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Was convicted on charges of inciting extremism
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2023· 8 entries
WP Wiadomości: Igor Girkin skazany. Wpadł w Moskwie
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Digital Journal: Igor Girkin: rebel Donbas leader turned Kremlin critic
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Newsweek: Igor Girkin’s Arrest Points to Kremlin Power Struggles
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Wall Street Journal: Russia Arrests Militant Right-Wing Critic Igor Girkin in Widening Crackdown
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New York Post: Pro-war Putin critic Igor Girkin charged with inciting extremism
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Yahoo: Russian security services arrest Russian pro-war nationalist and Putin critic Igor Girkin
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Yahoo: Igor Girkin, former Russian commander in occupied eastern Ukraine, arrested
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The New York Times: Russia Detains Igor Girkin, a Critic of Putin’s War Effort in Ukraine: What to Know
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2020· 3 entries
Claimed: ““The militia did not bring down the Boeing, I know better than anyone. And there was nothing with which we could bring it down, at least before I left the territory of the DNR (Donetsk People’s Republic).”” — rated Misleading by VOA.
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That the Ukrainian Army was aware of the movement of Girkin's columns out of Sloviansk but did not attack the columms:
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That Girkin's successful escape had longtime consequences for the war, unfavorable for Ukraine:
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2017· 1 entry
Claimed: ““The militia did not shoot down the Boeing [MH17]. I only had Igla and Strela anti-aircraft missiles.”” — rated False by VOA.
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2015· 1 entry
“Russia is currently at state of war”
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2014· 5 entries
Career landmark: Minister of Defence of the Donetsk People's Republic (2014–2014).
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As a political activist, reportedly calling for the liberal part of the Russian elite to be destroyed, which would shift the power balance in favor of militarists and securocrats
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Anonymous International disclosed what it said were Girkin's personal emails, revealing that he had served in the FSB for 18 years from 1996 to March 2013, including in Chechnya from 1999 to 2005, The Moscow Times report
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“the existence of Luhansk and Donetsk People”
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With Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov to surrender Sloviansk to Ukraine in exchange for money and safe passage to Donetsk
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2001· 3 entries
In the village of Elistandzhi by the 45th DRR servicemen led by "Igor Strelko (nicknamed Strikal)"
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Where he fought against the "local population"
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(Beslan Durtayev and Supyan Tashayev) as having been kidnapped from their homes and taken to the 45th DRR base by the officers known as "Colonel Proskuryn and Strelkov Igor"
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1999· 1 entry
Published his memoirs of the fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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1970· 1 entry
Born 1970-12-17.
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