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Russian citizen Dmitry Popov, who was arrested in Belarus in 2020, asked President Vladimir Putin to deprive him of his citizenship. According to “Rain”, he expressed such a request in a letter to his sister due to the lack of help from Moscow.
& quot; I have been waiting for more than a year that Russia does not abandon its own, ” Popov wrote. – As Putin has repeatedly said”.
According to the arrested man, the Russian consul visited him only once during the year and said: “Dima, well, you understand everything!”Popov added that he does not want to have a passport of a country that is ready to sacrifice its citizens in the interests of another country”.
In Belarus, Popov was the moderator of the public posts of the politician Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was going to run for president. Even before the start of mass protests in Minsk and other cities, Popov was detained as part of the case “about an attempt of foreign interference in the elections”.
In Russia, Popov was the administrator of the project on the deanonymization of the security forces “Scanner”, as well as the public ” Men’s State”. This community was known in the Russian Federation because of harassment and threats against representatives of the LGBT community, which were distributed by a number of participants. During the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russian women began to complain about threats, to whom some members of the public wrote insults and messages about the impending massacre because of their intimate relationship with foreign fans. Also members of the ” Male State&”they threatened the girls who starred in one of the videos of Rammstein leader Till Lindemann.
The founder of the ” Male State&Vladislav Pozdnyakov was sentenced to two years of probation by the Nizhny Novgorod court at the end of 2018 for inciting hatred towards women. In March 2019, the sentence was canceled due to the partial decriminalization of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In 2020, Pozdnyakov staged his murder in Turkey.