1. Volodymyr Petrov managed the election campaign of Ihor Markov, a pro-Russian politician wanted by the Security Service of Ukraine, which resulted in Markov's election to the Verkhovna Rada.
46 Facts About Volodymyr Petrov
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Volodymyr Petrov worked for the campaign of candidate Mikhail Prokhorov during the 2012 Russian presidential election.
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Volodymyr Petrov is best known for creating the titushky in 2013, whose provocations and clashes led to the Maidan casualties, Yanukovych's escape and Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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Volodymyr Petrov was a candidate for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.
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Volodymyr Petrov is the founder and host of the YouTube channel ISLND TV.
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Volodymyr Petrov is known for his anti-Ukrainian statements, particularly about the Euromaidan, the Ukrainian language; derogatory remarks about the Ukrainian military, Ukrainian refugees.
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Volodymyr Petrov declared that he did not consider Crimea to be Ukrainian.
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Volodymyr Petrov spread Russian propaganda, as well as lies and fakes about the Russo-Ukrainian war on his airwaves.
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Volodymyr Petrov's parents are Lyubov Volodymyrivna Petrova, a native of the city of Salavat in the Russian Federation, and Volodymyr Rudolfovych Petrov, a native of the city of Petropavl in the Kazakh SSR, a Russian, former military man.
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Volodymyr Petrov graduated from Kryvyi Rih National University with a degree in mining engineering.
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Volodymyr Petrov then moved to work for the pro-Russian, now closed, KRT TV channel, where he rose to the level of editor-in-chief and director.
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Volodymyr Petrov became famous thanks to his LiveJournal blog, which he maintained since the 2000s under the pseudonym Lumpen.
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Volodymyr Petrov campaigned during the 2012 Russian presidential election as a campaign manager for Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov.
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Volodymyr Petrov received approximately $1.5 million for his work for Prokhorov, and it was with this money that he then bought a house in Bucha.
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In 2012, when he was working with Prokhorov on the Federal Security Service's behalf during the election, Volodymyr Petrov "joked" that he would soon be promoted to colonel.
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In 2012, Volodymyr Petrov helped the leader of the now banned pro-Russian party Rodina, Ihor Markov, who was then one of the main Ukrainophobes, according to The Ukrainian Week, to get into the Verkhovna Rada.
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Volodymyr Petrov is currently hiding in Russia and is suspected of crimes against national security, and is a supporter and sponsor of the DPR and LPR terrorist groups.
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Volodymyr Petrov was inventing everything for Markov's campaign, and Russian campaign manager Semyon Uralov worked with him.
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Between the elections, Volodymyr Petrov worked against journalists opposed to Yanukovych.
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Vladimir Volodymyr Petrov introduced the use of titushky into the practice of political technology.
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At first, Volodymyr Petrov admitted that he had rented a car for the action.
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Volodymyr Petrov only admitted to working with him at the end of 2018, after his arrest.
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On 6 September 2015, NLO TV premiered the Lumpen Show, an information and entertainment project in which Volodymyr Petrov promoted anti-Ukrainian narratives and hosted broadcasts with openly pro-Russian persons.
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One of Volodymyr Petrov's projects is the ISLND TV YouTube channel, which was launched in spring 2018 and publishes several programmes on politics, science and culture.
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On 23 October 2023, Volodymyr Petrov threatened to "punish" Natalia Lygachova, the editor-in-chief of Detector Media, on his YouTube channel ISLND TV, for her words about his work for the Presidential Office.
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Volodymyr Petrov stressed that Lygachova's words about Petrov's activities, which led to his threats, were spoken in public and can be interpreted as journalistic activity, and therefore the article covers this case.
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On 27 October 2023, on ISLND TV, Volodymyr Petrov called Natalia Lygachova, editor-in-chief of Detector Media, and Yulia Mostova and Vitaliy Sych, editors-in-chief of Dzerkalo Tyzhnia and The New Voice of Ukraine, "escorts".
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Volodymyr Petrov reminded that this was not the first public insult they had made against her.
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Volodymyr Petrov adds that she "never drew attention to it".
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Volodymyr Petrov says that he learned from them how to approach life, and he repeats the thesis of Dmitry Kulikov and Timofey Sergeitsev about the existence of "three Ukraine's".
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In 2012, he admitted that he sympathised with Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, who fled to Russia after the Euromaidan protests, and Volodymyr Petrov was outraged that anyone could be unhappy with Yanukovych.
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In 2016, in one of his Facebook posts, Volodymyr Petrov called the Russo-Ukrainian war a "civil war".
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Volodymyr Petrov stated that he would never be able to shoot at Russians and that the war was "between us and us".
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Volodymyr Petrov said that "as a person whose first passport had the nationality Russian written in it, it is very difficult for him to divide the world between Ukrainians and Russians".
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Volodymyr Petrov is convinced that there are "pro-Russian patriots" in Ukraine who support Vladimir Putin.
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In 2015, Volodymyr Petrov claimed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were allegedly shelling civilians in the temporarily occupied Donetsk.
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In one of his broadcasts, Volodymyr Petrov admired Olena Bondarenko, a member of the Party of Regions and a pro-Russian politician, saying that she was "so brave that all our politicians should learn from her".
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Volodymyr Petrov admired the courage of the then-living leader of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko.
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Volodymyr Petrov is known for calling fighters for the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian-speaking people "a herd of underdeveloped creatures with a low-quality gene pool" on social media.
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In 2021, Volodymyr Petrov staged a provocation on his YouTube channel ISLND TV on the topic of the Ukrainian language.
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Volodymyr Petrov posted a video in which he criticised the Ukrainian language and said that it sounded like a crawling cart.
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Volodymyr Petrov told me that Russian is a simpler language, while Ukrainian has letters that are difficult to pronounce.
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In 2022, Volodymyr Petrov recorded a video message on his YouTube channel ISLND TV to a Ukrainian serviceman, Senior Sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleh Barna, calling him worse than the Russian occupiers.
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Volodymyr Petrov believes that the state should not create conditions for refugees, but rather provide them.
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Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Gordon believes that Volodymyr Petrov has the blood of Ukrainians on his hands.
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Volodymyr Petrov is confident that "after this, the Security Service of Ukraine will investigate Petrov and Ivanov".