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Mansur Mirovalev

Igor Strelkov: Moscow targets a pro-war Russian who criticised Putin

Russian nationalist Kremlin critic and former military commander Igor Girkin, also known as Igor Strelkov, is charged with inciting extremist activity [File: Yulia Morozova/Reuters]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Igor Strelkov, a former Russian intelligence officer whose speeches were filled with historic references, rose to fame as one of the poster boys of the “Russian Spring”.

The term mirrored the “Arab Spring” uprisings of the early 2010s and was coined by Russia to describe Crimea’s annexation and Moscow-backed revolts in southeastern Ukraine in 2014.

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