User:Andriy.dolishniy/Sergey Arkadievich Korotkikh

Sergey Arkadievich Korotkikh (Russian: Сергей Аркадьевич Коротких, also known as "Malyuta", "Botsman", "Zakhar Lavrentiev" etc; born 1974, Tolyatti, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian scout, militant and a far-right public figure.

In 1992-1994, he was the commander of an unknown Belarusian military unit. From the 1990s to the 2010s, he was a member of various neo-Nazi organizations in Belarus and Russia. After moving to Ukraine in 2014, he became a protégé of Arsen Avakov: in 2014-2015, he was the commander of the reconnaissance regiment of the Ukrainian military unit "Azov" subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine under the leadership of Arsen Avakov.

Since 2015, he has been working in various law enforcement agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (head of the department for the protection of objects of strategic importance at the Department of the State Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, etc.) and is involved in politics as a member of the National Corps party, which is close to Avakov and is headed by the head of the Azov batallion, Andriy Biletskiy.

Activism in Belarus
He was born in Tolyatti (Russia), but later moved with his parents to Belarus. From 1992 to 1994, he served in the Belarusian army in the reconnaissance battalion. After the service in the army, he entered the KGB school, where he studied for two years. According to him, he was expelled from the KGB school in 1996 for participating in the opposition march "Chernobyl Way" and clashes with the police during it. At the same time, members of the Belarusian People's Front expressed doubts in media comments whether Korotkykh really participated in the march.

In 1999 (according to other sources - 1994), he joined the Belarusian Regional Organization of Russian National Unity (RNU), where he became the head of the security service. He was brought into the organization by Valery Ignatovich, his friend and distant relative, convicted in 2002 for the murder of five people and the kidnapping of journalist Dmytry Zavadsky. According to Korotkikh, RNU was then a subculture that tried to become a political organization, and earned money for its activities by "crashing" markets, racing cars, and guarding events and objects of church-related structures. In 1999, he took part in a fight between activists of the RNu and BPF, among whom was Andrey Sannikov. Korotkikh called the fight "an ordinary subcultural showdown", but the victims claimed that the attack was organized by the Belarusian special services.

Activism in Russia
He moved to Russia, where he was a co-founder and one of the leaders of the National Socialist Society, one of the richest neo-Nazi organizations in Russia.

An Israeli director Vladi Antonevich [Vladi_Antonevich] in an interview with "Radio Liberty" claims that in 2007 Korotkikh carried out the murder of Shamil Adamonov, a resident of Dagestan, and an unidentified Tajik man; Maksim Martsinkevich and the head of the National Socialist Society Dmitry Rumyantsev were also present at the crime scene. The footage of the murder was later circulated on the Internet under the title "Execution of a Dagestani and a Tajik" (Russian:«Казнь дага и таджика») and contained threats to illegal migrants of a non-Slavic descent. Antonevich also claims that Korotkikh carried out this murder at the behest of the Russian special services, which aimed to force Rumyantsev to cooperate by blackmailing him into participating in a serious crime.

In 2010, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation banned the activities of the NSS, Russian security forces began to detain members of the organization, many of them ended up in prison, but the security forces did not touch the founders, in particular Sergey Korotkikh. In February 2013, Korotkikh and Martsinkevich were detained for a fight with Belarusian anti-fascists, during which Korotkykh stabbed the enemy. After ten days they were released, the case was closed as it was a self-defense.

Activism in Ukraine
In the spring of 2014, he moved to Ukraine and fought in the "Azov" battalion. In 2015-2017, he was leading the department of protection of objects of strategic importance at the Department of the State Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Since 2017, he has been involved in politics as a member of the "National Corps" party, which is close to Avakov, led by the head of the "Azov" batallion, Andriy Biletsky.

Citizenship
In December 2014, he received Ukrainian citizenship; at that time, he was the only foreign volunteer of the Ukrainian army who received a passport of a citizen of Ukraine.

Personal life
Korotkikh is a close friend of Oleksandr Avakov, the son of Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov.

Fortune
According to the declaration of a civil servant for 2015, Sergey Korotkikh bought two apartments in Kyiv, a private plane L-39 "Albatross", and had a total of about a million dollars.

Work for the Russian/Belarusian special services
According to British journalists from the Bellingcat publication and Ukrainian journalists from various publications, Korotkikh is probably an agent of the Russian/Belarusian special services. According to Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Chekalkin, Korotkikh began his career in the Russian special services in the 1990s by working in the Belarusian KGB, and later, after moving to Russia in the 2000s, in the Russian FSB.

Korotkikh himself resolutely rejects numerous accusations of espionage for the benefit of the Russian special services.

Participation in neo-Nazi organizations in Belarus and Russia
From the 1990s to the 2010s, he was a member of various Russian nationalist-neo-Nazi organizations in Belarus and Russia.

Patronage of Korotkikh by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov
According to the investigations of a Ukrainian public activist Valery Markus, Korotkikh is a protégé of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, who provides Korotkikh with an immunity from investigation of Korotkikh's crimes by law enforcement agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Accusations of the murder of a Ukrainian soldier from the "Azov" batallion, Yaroslav Babych
According to the wife of the murdered man, Larysa Babych, and the former deputy combatant and ideologue of "Azov", who today is forced to hide from the revenge of former comrades abroad, Oleg Odnorozhenko, in 2015, Korotkikh was a co-perpetrator of the murder of Ukrainian soldier from the "Azov" regiment, Yaroslav Babych.

Accusations of the murder of the Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet
In 2020, journalists Darius Bogutskyi and Eduard Chekin published an investigation in which they claimed, without providing any evidence, that it was Korotkikh who killed Pavel Sheremet due to events 16 years ago in Belarus.

Accusation from the structures of the American businessman George Soros of lobbying for the "land law" and of "persecuting" Korotkikh
According to the official website of the "National Corps" party, during 2019-2020, Korotkikh repeatedly gave interviews to various pro-Russian publications such as strana.ua and was a regular guest on the broadcasts of the pro-Russian TV channels NewsOne/ZIK/112. In one such interview, in January 2020, given to the pro-Russian publication strana.ua, Korotkykh stated that "Soros' structures began to work against [him] when [he] announced the "external management" of the country."A month earlier, in December 2019, Korotkikh, on the air of the Ukrainian Format TV program of the pro-Russian TV channel NewsOne, claimed that "lobbying for the land law is carried out by a small group of people - representatives of the international speculator Soros, against whom the US supported a petition to declare him a terrorist and to confiscate property, and in his homeland, Hungary, he is not allowed to enter".