August 30, 2024.
The Putin’s List has been replenished with new names. Among them are pro-Kremlin propagandists, z-activists, pseudo-politicians who support the Russian army, representatives of Russian special services, and persons responsible for the abduction and detention of Ukrainian children in Russia. People who fell under U.S. sanctions on August 23 were also included in the Putin’s List.
Among the propagandists included in the PL, one can mention such a bright “star” of z-propaganda as Marina Kim – a presenter of the 1st Channel, the author of the series Ukrainian Front 360 justifying the Russian invasion, the report Nazi Punishers (based on interviews with captured members of Azov) and other propaganda materials.
Of the major officials responsible for the policy of abduction and assimilation of Ukrainian children, the PL included Aleksandr Bugaev, the first deputy minister of education of the Russian Federation.
The odious Sergei Dubov, an FSS officer who has been involved in organizing repressions against independent cultural figures for more than 10 years (collecting dirt on theater critic and curator Marina Davydova; participating in a campaign to harass director Evgenia Berkovich and actress Varvara Shmykova, who spoke out against the war; participating in the persecution of the Seventh Studio), also found his place on Putin’s List. Other persecutors of free culture in Russia, such as Ivan Lykoshen, a PR specialist, a representative of the management of Zaryadye Park, leading channel Real Cultras Z, engaged in harassment of independent cultural figures, and his boss Ivan Demidov, “curator of theater and contemporary art” from the Presidential Administration, now are also in the Putin’s List.
The team of the Putin’s List didn’t ignore the pseudo-politicians who support the war and participants of the “SMO”, for example, Pavel Yakovlev, the leader of the Moscow branch of the party RODINA, who called on veterans of the “SMO” to take seats in the Moscow City Duma, “which are now occupied by traitors and foreign agents.”
Putin’s List also included those who usually “fly below the station’s radar.” For example, z-activists from among soccer fans, such as Ilya Khanin, a soccer fan and brother of Nikolai Khanin, head of the administration of Ramenskoye City District of Moscow Region, who is involved in supplying the Espanyola fighters, and Andrei Guliutin, a z-propagandist, journalist and editor-in-chief of Ridus, an openly pro-Kremlin activist in the near-football circle (FC Spartak Moscow).
In the near future, the full lists of those on Putin’s List will be posted on our website, after that we’ll begin to write their detailed dossiers.