KUCHERENKO Vladimir Aleksandrovich / Kalashnikov Vladimir Aleksandrovich

One of the key ideologists of kremlin propaganda, russian propagandist and ukrainophobe, known for his anti-Ukrainian stance and rhetoric, active support for russia's war against Ukraine and the annexation of Ukrainian territories, denies the existence of Ukrainians and Belarusians as separate peoples, calling them part of the "russian nation" – "Little russians" and "Belarusians" respectively.
He is the author of numerous books and publications, including "The Doctrine of the russian World" and "Independent Ukraine: The Collapse of the Project", which are consistent with russia's imperial ambitions and anti-Ukrainian kremlin narratives, promoting the ideas that "the state of ‘Ukraine’ did not exist until the 20th century" and "the integrity of Ukraine was not and cannot be an end in itself for russians and the russian world". At the beginning of russia's large-scale war against Ukraine, he called for aggression and participated in spreading false information about "crimes of Ukrainians against russians".
He uses his literary activity as a tool for propaganda of war and interethnic hostility. In his works, he systematically promotes the idea of the inevitability of war, claiming that it will be necessary to fight "russophobic Ukraine", and calls for the elimination of Ukrainian independence.
He is a permanent member of the Izborsky Club, a community of experts studying russia's foreign and domestic policy, one of whose key tasks is to "promote the formation of a powerful political and ideological coalition of patriotic statesmen, an imperial front that opposes the manipulations carried out in russian politics by foreign centers of influence and the "fifth column" from within the country".
He is also a leading expert at the Institute for Dynamic Conservatism, which promotes imperial ideas and legitimizes the actions of the russian regime.
As a member of the federal council of the Party of Action, he supported putin in the 2024 presidential election.
As a producer and host of the propaganda YouTube channel "Roy TV", he uses this platform to spread the ideas of the "russian world", justify the russian invasion, and systematically disseminate destructive narratives about Ukraine.
In 2023, he co-founded the "Club of Angry Patriots", an organization led by Igor "Strelkov" Girkin, who advocates for the escalation of the war against Ukraine and criticizes the kremlin for military failures.
He regularly visited the temporarily occupied Crimea to hold propaganda forums of the "Izborsky Club" and events of the "Party of Action".