32 Facts About Anatoly Shariy

Anatoly Anatoliiovych Shariy was born on 20 August 1978 and is a Ukrainian blogger and journalist, described as pro-Russian by Ukrainian and foreign media, former president Petro Poroshenko, and the Security Service of Ukraine, among others.

Anatoly Shariy was a strong critic of Euromaidan and subsequent governments formed after it.

Anatoly Shariy considered the war in Donbas before 2022 to be an internal conflict and a civil war.

In February 2021, Anatoly Shariy was accused of treason and incitement to ethnic or racial hatred by the Security Service of Ukraine.

Anatoliy Anatoly Shariy was born in Kyiv and lived there until 2012.

In 2011, Anatoly Shariy shot at a man from a traumatic pistol at a McDonald's restaurant after the man, according to Anatoly Shariy, insulted his wife.

Anatoly Shariy later claimed that the case was later trumped-up due to his investigation of illegal drug trade, which he alleged was covered up by high rank members of Ukrainian law enforcement.

On 21 September 2011, after another publication exposing corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the case on the assassination attempt on Anatoly Shariy was closed, and a criminal case was initiated against the journalist himself for "staging an assassination attempt".

Anatoly Shariy received a permanent residency permit in Lithuania for five years.

From 2014 onwards, while living in European Union, Anatoly Shariy focused on producing video blogs for his YouTube channel, which, among other things carried out debunking misinformation and propaganda in Ukrainian media.

Anatoly Shariy frequently criticized Ukrainian publications related to the events in Ukraine after Euromaidan, as well as the Ukrainian government, usually in a derisive and insulting way.

On 20 March 2019, Anatoly Shariy won the case in the court of the Netherlands against Manchenko.

In February 2017 Anatoly Shariy sued the Internet publication "Detector Media" and its journalist Bohdan Lohvynenko to defend his "honor, dignity and business reputation".

Anatoly Shariy appealed this decision, and on 7 September 2017 the Kyiv court of appeal dismissed his complaint again.

Also in 2017, Russian lawyer Mark Feygin said that Anatoly Shariy was under investigation in a pedophilia case.

Anatoly Shariy sued him for defamation and won the lawsuit in a Russian court, with Feygin being ordered to refute this allegation, and to pay 66,000 rubles to Anatoly Shariy to cover his legal fees.

Anatoly Shariy sued Poroshenko to defend his "honor, dignity and business reputation".

In February 2021, the Security Service of Ukraine accused Anatoly Shariy of committing crimes under Part 1.

In 2014, Anatoly Shariy had posted a private video with insulting statements about Western Ukrainians.

In May 2021, it was reported that Lithuania revoked its political asylum for Anatoly Shariy, and some media published reports that Anatoly Shariy was a persona non grata.

Anatoly Shariy himself refuted this and claimed this was false information based on the words of Mark Feygin.

On 4 October 2022, a judge of the National High Court, Santiago Pedraz, concluded that Anatoly Shariy was no longer living in Spain.

In March 2024, Anatoly Shariy alleged that he was the target of an assassination attempt by the SBU, although the Spanish Civil Guard told TASS that they did not have information on the incident.

Anatoly Shariy referred to the War in Donbas up until 2022, as an "internal conflict" and "civil war", denying the presence of Russian troops in the Donbas and saying that only Russian equipment was present.

Anatoly Shariy considers the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk areas to be the territories of Ukraine.

Anatoly Shariy supports the Kremlin assertion that Ukraine is a "western colony" dominated with anti-Russian "neo-Nazis", which has been used by Russia to justify its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Anatoly Shariy described homosexuals as sick and advocated criminal liability for homosexual propaganda.

Anatoly Shariy now says that he has long distanced himself from homophobic views, has been living in the European Union for 11 years, and has changed significantly.

In 2015 Anatoly Shariy announced a reward of 1,000 Euro to anybody who demonstrates a piece of pro-Russian or anti-Ukrainian propaganda in his posts.

The outlet underlined how Anatoly Shariy often propagated pro-Russian fake news and extremely hateful rhetoric against people living in Western Ukraine.

In November 2017, in a Novoye Vremya magazine rating of the personalities by number of readers in the Ukrainian segments of Facebook and Twitter, Anatoly Shariy got the 12th place with the aggregate audience of 511,000 people.

Anatoly Shariy noticed that political topics usually attracts a small fraction of YouTube viewers.