Igor Strelkov

Quick Facts

Full Name	Igor Strelkov
Occupation	Military Personnel
Date Of Birth	Dec 17, 1970(1970-12-17)
Age	54
Birthplace	Moscow
Country	Soviet Union
Birth City	Moscow
Horoscope	Aquarius

Igor Strelkov Biography

Igor Strelkov is one of the most popular and richest Military Personnel who was born on December 17, 1970 in Moscow, Moscow, Soviet Union. According to a report issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “reportedly, on 26 May, by order of Strelkov, Dmytro Slavov (‘commander of a company of the people’s militia’) and Mykola Lukyanov (‘commander of a platoon of the militia of Donetsk People’s Republic’) were ‘executed’ in Sloviansk, after they were ‘sentenced’ for ‘looting, armed robbery, kidnapping and abandoning the battle field’. The order, which was circulated widely and posted in the streets in Slovyansk, referred to a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of 22 June 1941 as the basis for the execution.” The report also mentions Strelkov’s efforts to recruit local women into his armed formations: “A particular call for women to join the armed groups was made on 17 May through a video released with Girkin ‘Strelkov’, urging women of the Donetsk region to enlist in combat units.” Sloviansk’s separatist “people’s mayor” and former boss of Strelkov, Ponomarev, was himself detained on an order of Strelkov on 10 June for “engaging in activities incompatible with the goals and tasks of the civil administration”.

Alexander Cherkasov, head of Russia’s leading human rights group Memorial, is convinced that the “Igor Strelkov” involved in Ukraine is the same person as a Russian military officer called “Strelkov”, who was identified as being directly responsible for at least six instances (on four separate occasions) of the forced disappearance and presumed murder of residents of Chechnya’s mountain Vedensky District village of Khatuni and nearby settlements of Makhkety and Tevzeni in 2001–2002, when “Strelkov” was attached to the 45th Detached Reconnaissance Regiment special forces unit of the Russian Airborne Troops based near Khatuni. None of these crimes were solved by official investigations. The website of Chechnya’s official human rights ombudsman lists several residents of Khatuni who went missing in 2001 (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”; another entry lists the missing person Beslan Taramov as abducted in 2001 in the village of Elistandzhi by the 45th DRR servicemen led by “Igor Strelko (nicknamed Strikal)”. Cherkasov too lists Durtayev and Tashayev (but not Taramov) among the alleged victims of “Strelkov”. Cherkasov and other observers suspected it was in fact the same “Strelkov” until May 2014, when Strelkov himself confirmed he has been present at Khatuni in 2001, where he fought against the “local population”. According to Cherkasov, as a result of Strelkov’s actions in Chechnya, two sisters of one of those “disappeared”, Uvais Nagayev, in effect turned to terrorism and died three years later: one of these sisters, Aminat Nagayeva, blew herself up in the 2004 Russian aircraft bombings over the Tula Oblast aboard a Tu-134 “Volga-Aeroexpress” airliner, killing 43; the other sister, Rosa Nagayeva, participated in the Beslan hostage crisis that same year.

During the weekend of 26–27 April, the political leader of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Strelkov’s long-time friend, Alexander Borodai, also a Russian national from Moscow, ceded control of all separatist fighters in the entire Donetsk region to him. On 26 April, “Strelkov” made his first public appearance when he gave a video interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda where he confirmed that his militia in Sloviansk came from Crimea. He said nothing about his own background, denied receiving weapons or ammunition from Russia, and announced that his militia would not release the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) observers that it had taken hostage unless pro-Russia activists were first freed by the Ukrainian government. On 28 April, the EU sanctioned “Igor Strelkov” as a GRU staff member believed to be a coordinator of armed actions and a security assistant to Crimea’s Sergey Aksyonov. On 29 April, Strelkov appointed a new police chief for Kramatorsk. On 12 May, “I. Strelkov” declared himself “the Supreme Commander of the DPR” and all of its “military units, security, police, customs, border guards, prosecutors, and other paramilitary structures.”

In his interview with Oleksandr Chalenko on 2 December 2014, according to the journalist, Strelkov did confirmed that he is an FSB colonel, but this claim was then subjected to censorship and omitted from publishing. He also acknowledged that anarchy exists among the so-called Novorossiya militants. He stated that Igor Bezler’s militants in particular acted independently, the so- called “Russian Orthodox Army” had split in half, and others forces represented a patched cover of various unrelated groups. Strelkov criticised the ongoing attacks on the Donetsk International Airport as pointless and harmful.

The Russian media has identified Strelkov as an officer of the Russian military reserves who has expressed hardline views on eliminating perceived enemies of the Russian state and has fought on the federal side in Russian counter-separatist campaigns in Chechnya and on the pro-Moscow separatist side in the conflict in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria. According to various sources, Strelkov took part in the Bosnian War as a volunteer on the Serb side, and in Chechnya under contract. In 1999, he published his memoirs of the fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2014, he was accused by Bosnian media (Klix) and a retired Bosnian Army officer of having been involved in the Višegrad massacres in which thousands of civilians were killed in 1992.

Igor Strelkov Net Worth

Igor Strelkov is one of the richest Military Personnel from Soviet Union. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Igor Strelkov 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Igor Ivanovich Strelkov (Russian: И́горь Ива́нович Стрелко́в , IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ strʲɪlˈkof] , Russian: И́горь Все́володович Ги́ркин , IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ˈfsʲɛvələdəvʲɪtɕ ˈɡʲirkʲɪn] , born Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin; 17 December 1970) is a Russian army artillery veteran who played a key role in the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, and later the War in Donbass as an organizer of the Donetsk People’s Republic’s militant groups. Strelkov, a self-described Russian nationalist, was charged by Ukrainian authorities with terrorism. He is currently sanctioned by the European Union for his leading role in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities have called him a retired colonel of the GRU (Russia’s external military intelligence organisation).

Vice News claimed that “during the 1990s, Girkin wrote for the right-wing Russian newspaper Zavtra, which is run by the anti-Semitic Russian nationalist Alexander Prokhanov” and where Borodai was an editor. Writing for Zavtra (“Tomorrow”), Strelkov and Borodai, who too was reported to have fought for Russia-backed Transnistria and Republika Srpska separatists in Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina, together covered the Russian war against separatists in Chechnya and Dagestan. He would also often write as a “Colonel in the Reserves” on Middle East subjects, such as the conflicts in Libya, Egypt and Syria, and for the Abkhazian Network News Agency (ANNA), a Russian-language pro-Russian publication which supports Abkhazian separatism in Georgia.

On the night of 4–5 July, during a large-scale offensive by the Ukrainian military following the end of a 10-day ceasefire on 30 June, Strelkov and his militants fled from Sloviansk, which was then captured by Ukrainian forces, thus ending the separatist occupation of the city which had started on 6 April. Shortly before this, a video was posted on YouTube in which Strelkov desperately pleaded for military aid from Russia for “Novorossiya” (“New Russia”, an historical name for South-East Ukraine with particular popularity amongst separatists) and said Sloviansk “will fall earlier than the rest.” Other rebel leaders denied Strelkov’s assessment that the people’s militia were on the verge of collapse. One of them, the self-proclaimed “people’s governor” of Donetsk Pavel Gubarev, compared Strelkov to the 19th century Russian general Mikhail Kutuzov, claiming that both “Strelkov” and Kutuzov would “depart only before a decisive, victorious battle.” However, his retreat was strongly criticized by the Russian nationalist Sergey Kurginyan and a rumor inside Russian ultranationalist circles alleged Russia’s powerful “grey cardinal” figure Vladislav Surkov conspired with east Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov to organize a campaign against “Strelkov” as well as against the Eurasianism ideologue Alexander Dugin. Kurginyan accused Strelkov of surrendering Sloviansk and not keeping his oath to die in Sloviansk. Kurginyan believes that surrendering Sloviansk is a war crime, and Strelkov should be responsible for that. Donetsk People’s Republic security minister Alexander Khodakovsky, the SBU Alfa defector and commander of the rebel Vostok Battalion, also protested and threatened a mutiny.

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Multiple sources cited a post on the VKontakte social networking service that was made by an account under Strelkov’s name which acknowledged shooting down an aircraft at approximately the same time that the civilian airliner Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) was reported to have crashed in eastern Ukraine in the same area near the Russian border on 17 July 2014. The post specifically referenced how warnings were issued for planes not to fly in their airspace and the downing of a Ukrainian military Antonov An-26 transport plane which the Ukraine Crisis Media Center suggested was a case of misidentification with the MH17. This post was deleted later in the day and the account behind it claimed that Strelkov has no official account on this social service. Most of the 298 victims in the plane’s crash came from the Netherlands; on 19 July the country’s biggest newspaper De Telegraaf included Strelkov’s photo in the front page collage of pro-Russian rebel leaders under the one-word headline “Murderers” (“Moordenaars”). Russian opposition lawyer and politician Mark Feygin posted a purported order by Strelkov where he instructs all his men and commanders who “have in their possession personal effects from this plane” to deliver the found items to his HQ so “the valuables (watches, earrings, pendants, and other jewelry and items from valuable metals)” would be transferred to “the Defense Fund of the DPR.” Strelkov was reported to be the author of an alternative version of the incident, wherein “no living people were aboard the plane as it flew on autopilot from Amsterdam, where it had been pre-loaded with ‘rotting corpses’.” This conspiracy theory was then distributed and discussed in Russian state-controlled media outlets.

Facts & Trivia

Igor Ranked on the list of most popular Military Personnel. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Soviet Union. Igor Strelkov celebrates birthday on December 17 of every year.

On 15 April, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) opened a criminal proceeding against “Igor Strelkov”. He was described as a Russian recruiter and leader of armed “saboteurs” and a chief organizer of the “terror” in Ukraine’s Sloviansk Raion (including an ambush that killed one and wounded three SBU officers), who had coordinated Russian military takeovers of Ukrainian units in Crimea during the 2014 Crimea crisis in March, after having crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border in Simferopol on 26 February. In Crimea, he was reported to be instrumental in negotiating the defection of the Ukrainian Navy commander Denis Berezovsky. The next day (16 April), he allegedly sought to recruit Ukrainian soldiers captured at the entrance to Kramatorsk.

Who is Igor from Ukraine?

Igor Vovkovinskiy (Ukrainian: Ігор Вовковинський, romanized: Ihor Vovkovynskyj; September 18, 1982 – August 20, 2021), also known as Igor Ladan, was a Ukrainian-American law student, actor and tallest living person in the United States, at 7 feet 81⁄3 inches (234.5 cm), briefly taking the record from George Bell.

Where is Novorossiya?

Novorossiya (Russian: Новороссия, tr. Novorossija, IPA: [nəvɐˈrosːʲɪjə] ( listen); Ukrainian: Новоросія, romanized: Novorosija; Romanian: Noua Rusie, Polish: Noworosja), literally New Russia, is a historical term of the Russian Empire denoting a region north of the Black Sea that was conquered from the Crimean Khanate.

What nationality is Igor?

Origin
Word/name| Old Norse
Meaning| Protected by Yngvi
Region of origin| Kievan Rus’

Who is the world's tallest woman?

Rumeysa Gelgi , the World’s Tallest Woman named by Guinness World Records.

Does Novorossiya exist?

International recognition. No sovereign state of the United Nations has recognized Novorossiya as a sovereign state or political entity.