Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list/Evidence/Vlad fedorov

Operation Sarindar saga
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Alleged "coded death threats" by Biophys
I would like to pay the attention of the Arbitration committee to the following obstacles. Biophys claimed that by this diff he has got a threat from user Ellol.

1. Biophys has claimed here that:

''Then he {Ellol - my note} reacts by posting the following message using Russian criminal slang and claiming that he only wants to understand my "level of modern colloquial Russian language". After a couple of meaningless phrases, he wrote the following continuous text:

"Everything can be done for money. "I do not like Putin". Coming to an agreement at the court of thieves is better than to be killed by Stiletto. [Your] creativity is shit. Author is fu...er. One must be punished for making too much noise. Fate of Yukos has been decided [by Putin] based on the laws of criminal world, not state laws. [You] pissed someone off by promoting nonsense"''

2. The problem is that Biophys has incorrectly translated what was written there and ommited substantial parts of the message. And namely he ommitted the following (I am translating from the slang): "How many megabytes does you video card has?", "I am in extasy over your chick and car".

3. Translations done by Biophys are incorrect. For example "Бабки рулят" he traslated as "Everything can be done for money", while "Money rule" would be more correct. Further he translated "Пацанские распальцовки на стрелках -- всё-таки цивилизованнее, чем заточка в бок" as "Coming to an agreement at the court of thieves is better than to be killed by Stiletto", which is even more weird. He also added missing [You]'s in the text to aggreviate and to heat the situation, to create impression that these phrases are in the second person, e.g. are addressed to him personally.

4. His claim that this is Russian criminal slang is nonsense. While that slang originally was a criminal slang, nowdays it is widely used by everyone, even by Putin - "замочить в сортире" (to bump off in WC).

5. The question by Ellol cannot be really interpreted by Russian as an offense. And Ellol has repeated crystal clear in his last sentence of the message, that he intends to check the proficiency of Biophys in modern Russian slang.

6. Statament of Biophys about "continuous" text, of course, as you could see yourself is not true, since he ommitted some text.

Biophys behaviour in Institute of National Remembrance
In the article Institute of National Remembrance there was a heated debate over lustration laws of Poland, where all professors at the university should undego lustration. Because I have been studying law at Warsaw University and knew that law, I had found this text and inserted to the following text based on the law http://www.ipn.gov.pl/download.php?s=1&id=7967

"Current lustration by IPN is obligatory for 53 categories including all teachers, journalists, diplomats, ministers, members of parliament, public notaries, local government officials, judges, prosecutors, tax advisers, attorneys, all academics (pracownicy nauki i szkolnictwa wyzszego)".

Hence article 4 of this Lustration law currenty retains that all academics are subject for obligatory lustration.

Polish users Piotrus, Lysy, Balcer, Darwinek immediately appeared and began to harrass me at talk page claiming that my Polish is very bad, hinting that I had inserted this incorrecly. They have repeatedly deleted this sourced text and I was forced to mark the article as disputed.

And there suddenly, Biophys who is not proficient in Polish language appeared and deleted this flag, claiming ''No reason to dispute factual accuracy was provided at talk page. Everything is well sourced.''.

I wonder, the only person who has cited Polish sources in talk page and translated them was only me. How Biophys suddenly learned Polish and has became an expert in Polish law?

Moreover, suddenly IP 83.27.114.106 arrived from Wroclaw, who was actively reverting me. Could anyone check against the abovementioned parties this IP address? This IP also vandalized Japan WP article link http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Institute_of_National_Remembrance&diff=125864975&oldid=125864890.

Accusations of KGB agents, web brigades present in Wikipedia
I think that this crap accusation in crime alone is enough. Maybe Piotrus haven't showed him his morsel of wiki-wisdom If editors are disagreeing with you, consider that the most logical explanation is that you are wrong and/or in violation of the site policies (and if you don't even want to consider this, you have a problem), not because there are evil cabalists bent on getting you...? Vlad fedorov (talk) 07:55, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Stalking by Biophys
This and this hasn't been evaluated by the Arbcom. I have been editing Freedom House article where Biophys never was engaged. But he arrived to other editors of this article pages evidently stalking and harrasing me.

User Biophys also openly acknowledged his personal stalking of me (user Vlad fedorov) here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Colchicum#Thank_you:

I cite Biophys confession published on the talk page of Colchicum:

Please note that it perfectly appropriate to follow logs of other users. We can do it. WP:STALK policy says: "The term "wiki-stalking" has been coined to describe following a contributor around the wiki, editing the  same articles as the target, with the intent of causing annoyance or  distress to another contributor. This does not include checking up on an  editor to fix errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, nor does it mean  reading a user's contribution log; those logs are public for good reason.  The important part is the disruption - disruption is considered harmful." Obviously, it was Vlad who disrupted our work in Wikipedia. Biophys 21:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

It could be easily seen that users Biophys and Colchicum conspired against me not because of stalking, but because my edits and contributions present other point of view, which they do not tolerate and make everything possible in order to harass and intimidate me.

Biophys also confessed in his message to me, that his articles indeed have mistakes, but he demanded that I should not correct his mistakes which is outrageus.

As could be seen from the following history pages, my edits are reverted or deleted by user Biophys in less than 24 hours after my edits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Active_measures&action=history

(cur) (last) 16:56, 17 January 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (everything was supported by refereces; this is personal attack by two partisan users) .... (cur) (last) 08:37, 17 January 2007 Vlad fedorov (Talk | contribs) (→Promotion of terrorism worldwide - You haver to prove the 'worldwide' character) (cur) (last) 08:15, 17 January 2007 Vlad fedorov (Talk | contribs) (→Promotion of terrorism worldwide - This statement is a blog entry and violates Wikipedia policy. The statement is also unsourced and not supported by where the citations were taken from.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Satter&action=history

(cur) (last) 15:07, 9 February 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (this is description of his books (read them!) - supported by references) (cur) (last) 07:59, 9 February 2007 Vlad fedorov (Talk | contribs) (This is unsupported defamatory statement against ethnic Russians)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glasnost_Defence_Foundation&action=history

(cur) (last) 17:33, 18 January 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 08:15, 18 January 2007 Khatru2 (Talk | contribs) m (→Funding - disambig) (cur) (last) 12:45, 17 January 2007 213.184.225.28 (Talk) (→See also) (cur) (last) 12:45, 17 January 2007 213.184.225.28 (Talk) (cur) (last) 08:12, 17 January 2007 Alex Bakharev (Talk | contribs) (→Funding - see talk) (cur) (last) 07:52, 17 January 2007 Vlad fedorov (Talk | contribs) (→Funding)

It is therefore evident, that it's not me, but Biophys traces my contributions, for it is always Biophys who reverts my edits in no more than 24 hours often without any explanations.

I have edited Freedom House article and have a nice disscussion there. But Biophys is stalking me clearly by inserting the following texts:, , ,.

BLP violations by Biophys
I would like to discuss here just the typical case. In the article dedicated to Russian security agency GRU, it was written that terrorist Shamil Basaev and Said-Magomed Kakiev, Said-Magomed Kakiev are 'Chechen GRU agents'. I have deleted these phrases, because there are no any evidence and sources that support these statements. Moreover, there are just allegations that Shamil Basaev was trained by some Intelleigence service long before the Chechen Conflict arised. Biophys however wrote a list of Chechen GRU agents, thereby presenting these pure allegations as established facts.

In less than 30 minutes my edits were reversed by Biophys,

(cur) (last) 05:18, 19 February 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (rv vandalism by Vlad Fedorov - this is supported by refrences 4,5,6, and the content of Wikipedia articles that are provided as links) (cur) (last) 04:48, 19 February 2007 Vlad fedorov (Talk | contribs) (→Chechen GRU agents - False unsupported statements removed)

who has cited the following source: Land of the warlords, by Nick Paton Walsh, Guardian Unlimited as evidencing that Said-Magomed Kakiev and Said-Magomed Kakiev are Chechen GRU agents. However, in the article the following is written about these individuals:

"Alkhanov rang for the help of Said Magomed Kakiev", the powerful head of the "West" battalion of 900 Chechen fighters under the control of Russian military intelligence, the GRU.

Zair said Alkhanov has gained the support of not only Kakiev but Sulim Yamadayev, the head of the "East" battalion, 800 hardened special forces Chechens also under the control of the GRU. It could be clearly seen that newspaper article doesn't say these individuals are GRU agents. It says just their battalions were under control of GRU which is a different thing at all. It follows therefore, that Biophys has repeatedly and intentionally reintroduced false disinformation by these edits into the article, and. And as such violated repeatedly Wikipedia policy.

Disruptive editing by Biophys
Deletion of pertinent information from the article dedicated to Yevgenia Albats. And specifically deletion of the information that her father has been GRU spy during the WW II. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yevgenia_Albats&diff=108373818&oldid=108344491 Please note that Biophys has never actually presented his arguments on deletion of this information on the talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Yevgenia_Albats. According to the Wikipedia policy deletion of sources material is vandalism. It was evident that the information about Albats father compromises her neutrality as a researcher appointed on Parlament commission for the investigation of KGB activitites and compromises reliability of Albats claims. That's why Biophys initiated campaign for the deletion of such material.

Biophys also claimed on the talk page that the following sources: Boorishness as a World View by Yelena Kalashnikova (in Russian) Full Albats by Oleg Kashin, business newspaper Vzgliad, October 26, 2006 (in Russian)

violate BLP policy, because they are: 1) not neutral 2) controversial 3) Allegations of crude and extremely uncivil behavior 4) Unsubstantiated accusations of fraud

However Biophys failed to show how these materials violate Wikipedia policies. There are no facts, evidence, whereabouts and so on. Again Biophys undertook the same false accusations campaign against sources and information he personaly dislikes and the same false flag campaign he was waging on the Boris Stomakhin. Just empty and unsubstantiated accusations.

I have reverted deletions by Biophys of well-sourced materials published by another author on the article Mitrokhin archive. This deletion could be seen here cur http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mitrokhin_Archive&diff=107010834&oldid=106018891 I have reinserted these well-sourced statements, since they are reliable and definitely should be mentioned in the article. I have deleted Biophys's unsourced defamatory statements on Russians as ethnicity which incite ethnic hatred in the article David Satter. Please note that Biophys reinserts unsourced statements inciting ethnic hatred by following edits cur http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Satter&diff=prev&oldid=107021411.

Deletion of good sources
I would like to notice that Biophys deletes well-sourced materials not for the first time. For example Biophys has deleted good source in the article State sponsored terrorism http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=State-sponsored_terrorism&diff=102543018&oldid=102542124 Revision as of 23:23, 22 January 2007 (edit) (undo) Biophys (Talk | contribs) /* United States - reference to blog removed, non-working reference corrected) deleted the working link to . I ask you to read his comments with attention, first Biophys claims that it is a blog, and second he claims the link is broken. But how he could say it is a blog if the link is actually broken? By the way, the source is not a blog and the link always works.

Every edit is explained and supported with specific arguments. FSB cannot be described as a secret police, since this term according to the respective Wikipedia article refers to the totalitarian states. I have corrected Biophys POV to NPOV, since CIA is not described as a secret police. As to the Human Rights article, I have employed the same approach which Biophys has taken in regard to the Izvestia article in Boris Stomakhin case. Biophys uses unconfirmed allegations of Anna Politkovskaya which is said was publishing her materials without verifications and presents them as facts and not as unconfirmed allegations. Moreover, in the cited sources on Russian there are no allegations of Politkovskaya that people were detained because of their religion, while Biophys inserted these claims into the passage dedicated to the freedom of religion, which is evidently is not appropriate. Vlad fedorov (talk) 08:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Counter-reply to Biophys re Stomakhin and inciting
First of all, claims by Biophys that passage written by Stomakhin "Kill, Kill, Kill" is poorly sourced are false. This passage was indeed written by Stomakhin, which is confirmed by (1) his personal article, containing this and published on the website of his Radical organization named Radical Contact Organization (RKO) (http://rko.marsho.net/articl/mashadov.htm ) and, (2) citation of the same passage in respectable newspaper Izvestia http://www.izvestia.ru/sokolov/article3098675/.

I just wonder why Biophys is so stubborn in denying respectable journalists, Stomakhin himself and a newspaper?

This citation is necessary in the article to acknowledge people with the activities of this so-called "dissdent", because thanks to Biophys the whole article is filled only by the statements from human rights activist organization and etc. (I am not against of these present in the artucke too though) defending Stomakhin and painting him as innocent dissendent, while he is not, which is creating WP:UNDUE and diverting the reader from the barefeet facts. Stomakhin indeed issued public calls to exterminate all Russians, which is obviously not a feature of dissident.

Biophys has written in the preamble unsourced original research that Stomakhin was punished by state, because Stomakhin criticized government's action in Chechnya, which do not correspond to the facts. While I agree that this is explanation by human rights organizations and should be cited as such in the article, I think such opinions should not have place in the preamble.

Goodness, people in the UK are jailed because they issue death threats via e-mails (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Teen-Jailed-Facebook-Britain-Threat,news-4493.html), and this is not the first precedent. Here we have an individual who has supported Chechenian terrorists like Basaev, naming them "heros", and called to kill all Russians.

Secondly, no one pays attention to the fact, that in Russian wikipedia the article about Stomakhin is absolutely opposite to the English WP article written by Biophys. We have two absolutely different opinions on who is Stomakhin. I am not saying that all WP article should be the same or shouldn't have different POV's. But agree, it can't be that in the US article Osama Bin Laden is named terrorist and a dissident in Russian article, it can't be that Donald Trupm is a fatcat here, and the "US evildoer" in Russian WP. There are many Russian WP users present in English WP, who are more, in general, objective and knowledgeable about life in Russia and Russian politics than Biophys, and who would disagree with him.

Thirdly, Biophys in "coded death threats" incident has clearly shown his inproficiency and absence of knowledge at least in modern Russian. He even couldn't correctly understand what is written to him on Russian. See above for the evidence.

I urge the Arbcom to investigate this matter thorougly and involve independent Russian translators and recheck all the texts and link texts. From the very beginning my arbcom was very quick and surface, because no one has vaded into the evaluation of Russian sources, and, hence, no one established numerous violations of Wikipedia policies which were done by Biophys (deleting sourced texts, creating undue weight, inserting blog links as reliable sources, revert wars and etc.). Yes, I have violated WP policies too, since I lost my patience and Biophys is craftful guy (I need to acknowledge) in that, after all (we see this from his e-mail list and Russavia witchhunt). However, this doesn't diminsh the fact that my mistakes were done because of a reason. And that reason was - actions of Biophys.

As for inciting of ethnic hatred, I have cited the diff and you could evaluate yourself if it is. I think this citation from David Satter, which says that psychology of every Russian is influenced by criminalization, e.g. criminal psychology, is unscientific, bandwagon and simply incorrect. Every lawyer, specilizing in criminal law knows that the US have the highest crime level in the world, if not the highest Russian crime level is a way less. However, none has ever claimed that the US citizens have criminal psychology in WP. We may just rephrase this citation which is insulting, but we can't leave it as is, IMHO. Vlad fedorov (talk) 19:05, 26 September 2009 (UTC)