"Fifth Column" in action: how the game of the Russian Federation is embedded in the life of public people - investigation (photo)

It was published there on Monday, February 5. The fact that the gaming spies are introduced under the face of illegals have been known for a long time. Only in the recent investigations, a spy, who, under the guise of a secular lion, met NATO officers, a pseudorath, who almost had infused work in the International Criminal Court, and a pseudo -journalist who set up a researcher at the Norwegian University.

However, as it turned out, saboteurs from the game use a convincing legend of human rights activists and oppositionists, journalistic and cinematic communities, etc. Sometimes they have been inside these groups for years under counterfeit names and organize operations, with a reliable "roof". In the Moscow Open Human Rights School, he is remembered as one of the most active volunteers - Ivan Zhikharev was an activist who devoted himself to human rights activities.

He did not miss a single forum of free Russia, participated in the work of the group on sanctions, initiated in the field of eco -protection and blood donation. In fact, it was a completely different Ivan - Zhigarev, a man with the same date of birth, similar appearance and with a difference in only one letter in the name.

This Zhigarev, according to investigators, is a member of a particularly secret unit of saboteurs who have been preparing a Russian game for many years, hereditary military, recruited by an elite operational group, namely a group unit 29155. For several years, Zhigareva routes have routes such "Poisonants" of the Family of Skripal, Bulgarian Weapon Manufacturer Omelyan Hebreva and more.

In 2017, according to investigators, in Zhikharev, who was considered a professional geologist, a specialist in drilling wells for water, a new life begins. It is being implemented in Moscow Open Human Rights School at the Sakharov Center. The employees of this organization, talking to journalists, could not believe that "Zhikharev" did not "actively volunteer", but a participant of the group of murderers from the game.

According to human rights defenders, he had access to the registration data of the school participants, participated in many management meetings, in the campaigns of support of human rights activists in prison, coordinated work on Asimzhan Askarov from Kyrgyzstan, and was engaged in transferring the money he collected for him.

The Moscow school recalls that Zhikharev traveled to Chisinau at the Campcamp Civil Forum, where more than 200 human rights defenders and journalists from 15 countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia gathered. They also gave him a recommendation to participate in the organized Harry Kasparov forum of Free Russia. Since 2017, Zhikharev began to go to these forums regularly, where he did not show himself particularly, but was familiar with many human rights defenders.

The activists of the school told The Insider that he last communicated with them in 2021. It is likely that later Zhikhareva was decommissioned. The reason is when his cover became known to the French authorities in 2022 as one of the several names of the GRU officers who visited their secret base in France. Another member of the group of murderers from Section 29155, who had a parallel career-hassle, was Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Rodionov, who was known as Maxim Smirnov among film documentarists.

He appeared in the 3rd Guards Brigade of Special Forces of Game in Togliatt, and in 2014 received a passport from the same game series, which was famous for the poisons of Skripal. And again the agent's paths are closely intertwined with the routes of saboteurs from the game: under the name "Smirnov" he visited Barcelona (March 2014 and July 2016), Italy (October 2016), Kyrgyzstan (May 2016), Cheki (July 2016 year), Kazakhstan (April 2017) and France (November 2017).

However, after the Insider and Bellingcat opened this series of passports in 2018, in 2019 he was issued a new biometric passport. However, the new French visa "Smirnova" was canceled. At that time, Maxim Smirnov had been considered "director-documentary", a member of the Guild of non-playing cinema for several years.

In the leadership of the guild, as investigators noted, they were very surprised that such a "eminent participant" was launched among its members and could not explain what he did in the organization. The documentary's workbook states that in 2015-2016 he worked with the company "Just Media", but it was registered only in September 2016, and began functioning in 2018.

He later became a co-founder of the Tomisis video production studio, which filmed, in particular, the Kinzh-interview about the danger of "homosexuality, demonism, sadism and pedophilia". The main character of this interview on how to properly maintain morality in society was the Russian neo-Nazist Mykola Zaitsev-Birdyukin.

The Group-Shna Studio "Documentary" also filmed a flavor dedicated to a motorcycle bank from Russia to Mongolia, to which, as The Insider wrote earlier, the game is directly related to its own logistics in the region. This case is a unique in the history of operations of unit 29155. Konstantin Medvedev led his secret life under a real name and after graduating from the Military Academy of GRU in Moscow became a "foreign correspondent" in the magazine "Mossky Insurance".

According to The Insider, this magazine is a game cover-for example, Vladimir Moiseev ("Popov"), one of the organizers of the unsuccessful coup in Montenegro, was employed. Then Medvedev seemed to work in the closed newspaper Tribuna, where he even published some materials, such as the ambassador of Indonesia to Moscow and Badminton. However, the last editor -in -chief of "Tribune" Mykola Vasilyev said The Insider was not remembered.

What specifically did Medvedev really do, it is difficult to say, but his number is in calls and the head of the military unit 29155 Andriy Aversova, and an important member of the group who worked under the cover of the diplomat Yegor Gordienko, and many others. He traveled Medvedev often: already a member of 29155, he visited Helsinki in May 2016, Bishkek-in May and August 2016, Paris-in June 2016, Vienna-in May 2017 and Prague-in August 2016 -th, March 2017 and February 2018.

Whatever the work tasks of Medvedev, they paid well. Judging by the tax statement, only in 2021 he received dividends from Savings Bank and VTB at least 45 million rubles (at that rate - more than half a million euros). This is despite the fact that the average salary of an officer in Russia is about 50 thousand rubles.