Alexander Jurjewitsch Borodai

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Alexander Borodai (2014)

Alexander Jurjewitsch Borodai ( Russian Александр Юрьевич Бородай ; born July 25, 1972 in Moscow ) is a Russian politician.

Life

Borodai graduated from Lomonosov University in Moscow and has a degree in philosophy. In 1994 he worked for the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti as a military correspondent during the First Chechnya War and was involved in reports for the television station NTW . From 1996 he works for the nationalist newspaper Sawtra . From 1998 he worked as a “political advisor”, specializing in elections. From 2001 he has been heading the consulting company “Soziomaster”, specializing in crisis management. In 2011 he founded the nationalist television channel Den-TV. Together with Igor Girkin alias Igor Strelkow, he was a close associate and PR advisor to the controversial Russian entrepreneur Konstantin Malofejew . He also worked as a political advisor for Sergei Aksjonow , who has served as president of the peninsula since the annexation of Crimea . After the referendum in eastern Ukraine in 2014 , Borodai was appointed Prime Minister of the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic . On August 7, 2014, he resigned from this post and declared that he would hand it over to Alexander Sakharchenko .

From intercepted conversations in July 2014, which the criminal investigators evaluated the downing of flight MH17 and published in November 2019, it emerged that the chain of command of the anti-government forces extended to Russia. In a recording on July 3, 2014, Borodai said: "Well, you have far-reaching plans, but not mine. I follow orders and protect the interests of only one state, the Russian Federation. In the end, that's all." The NZZ wrote in general:

“The myth of the volunteer uprising in eastern Ukraine and Moscow's lack of influence has long been exposed. It is no secret that the top functionaries of the self-proclaimed “People's Republics” Donetsk and Luhansk regularly pick up their directives in Moscow. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mirren Gidda: Who Are the Rebels Controlling Flight MH17's Crash Site? . In: Time , July 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ The Orthodox Knight in the Service of the Kremlin in Die Welt, July 24, 2014, accessed February 20, 2015
  3. ^ "Donetsk People's Republic": separatist chief resigns ; Retrieved from Spiegel-online on August 7, 2014
  4. ↑ MH17 Witness Appeal November 2019 , on the website politie.nl/ of the Dutch police; "These witnesses stated that the key figures of the armed group were directed from within the Russian Federation."
  5. ↑ The investigators from MH17 present new evidence for Moscow's hand in eastern Ukraine , NZZ, November 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Borodai, Alexander Jurjewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бородай, Александр Юрьевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow