Russian right-wing radical. Central to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Convicted of participation in the downing of the passenger plane route MH17 in eastern Ukraine.
Born: 17 December 1970
17 March 2024 Russia will hold its presidential election. It has not yet been confirmed that incumbent President Vladimir Putin is running for a new 5-year term. Everything indicates that Putin is taking a new term and therefore launching his candidacy soon. Putin will win in a country without real democracy. The opposing candidates…
Igor Girkin also known as Strelkov was recently arrested in Russia. He is wanted for the shooting down of passenger plane MH17 over Ukraine in July 2014. He has been sentenced in the Netherlands to life imprisonment for his role in the shooting that killed 298 people. Read my blog about this. The reason…
Two Russians and a Ukrainian from Donbas have been sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting down a passenger plane in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The passenger plane route MH17 was on its way from the Netherlands to Malaysia. 298 people lost their lives. Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and a Ukrainian, Leonid Kharchenko were convicted…