Kremlin Mouthpieces

Weaponization of information is part of russian military doctrine
Total number:
55
Individuals
Updated: 26.12.2024
Today, the kremlin is waging war not only with missiles, tanks and guns. The information war does not have a clearly defined front line. By investing significant resources in it, the russian authorities are trying to destabilize Ukraine and the world, influence political processes and shape public opinion in different regions of the planet in their own invasive interests.
russian propaganda supports violence, justifies aggression and war crimes, uses dehumanization and hatred of Ukraine as fuel for war, argues Ukraine’s ability to continue the fight. It has faces that the whole world needs to know – to know in order to block, impose sanctions, deny entry, close bank accounts, and cease all cooperation.
The aggressor`s propaganda troops have no place in the civilized world!
Total: 55
SLADKOV Alexander Valerievich
SLADKOV Alexander Valerievich
russian reporter and special correspondent for the Izvestia program of the All-russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, member of the public council under the Ministry of Defense of the russian federation
Openly supports russia's war against Ukraine, spreading kremlin propaganda narratives, glorifying the russian military, manipulating socially important information and distorting facts regarding events on the battlefield, supporting russia's annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea, putin's policies and the kremlin regime.
Has the military rank of senior lieutenant of the russian Armed Forces.
Since 2014, he has covered the russian-Ukrainian war in eastern Ukraine, currently covers the so-called "SMO", and also provides information support for fundraising for the needs of the russian Armed Forces.
He is an ambassador for the "People's Front. Everything for Victory" project and is raising funds for the needs of the russian military. In particular, he raised funds for the purchase of unmanned aerial vehicles, the purchase and repair of special equipment, including armored vehicles, ATVs and motocross motorcycles for UAV operators from the combined arms unit of the Southern Military District of the russian Armed Forces.
He is a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the russian federation and a member of the Media Communications Commission of the Board of Trustees of the All-russian Public-State Organization "Voluntary Society for the Promotion of the Army, Aviation and Navy of russia", which systematically organizes and holds military and sports events at the TOT of Ukraine, publicly calls for military service under a contract on its official website.
In 2022, he became a member of the working group on the interaction of authorities and organizations on issues of mobilization training and mobilization, social and legal protection of participants in a special military operation and their family members.
In June 2023, he took part in putin's meeting with military correspondents who carry out their activities in the so-called "SMO" zone.
He is the author of the documentary films "We are Donbas!" dedicated to foreign volunteers fighting against Ukraine in Donbas and "Crimea. My Spring" about the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea by the russian federation.
Systematically visits the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in connection with journalistic activities.
KOTS Alexander Igorevich
KOTS Alexander Igorevich
russian journalist, correspondent of "Komsomolskaya pravda"
Openly supports russia's war against Ukraine, spreading kremlin propaganda narratives, glorifying the russian military, manipulating socially important information and distorting facts regarding events on the battlefield, supporting russia's annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea, putin's policies and the kremlin regime.
He joined the initiative group to nominate putin as a candidate in the 2024 presidential elections.
He is a member of the Central Headquarters of the All-russian Public Movement "People's Front "For russia" (under sanctions from the EU, Canada, Switzerland and Ukraine), which was created at putin's initiative to monitor the implementation of his decrees/instructions and conduct campaign activities in the election processes. He is also a member of the putin Team movement, which supports putin in the presidential elections.
In addition, Kots is one of the key figures in the project "People's Front. All for Victory", within the framework of which he systematically raises funds for the needs of the russian military and supplies collimator sights, thermal imagers, tactical generators, communication equipment, drones, night cameras for FPV, etc. to the front.
In November 2022, by putin's decree, he was included in the Council under the President of the russian federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, in particular, in the temporary working group on the so-called "SMO". According to putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Kots "represents those who protect the rights of participants in the special operation in Ukraine".
In June 2023, Kots took part in putin's meeting with military correspondents who carry out their activities in the so-called "SMO" zone.
In 2014, he received the russian Ministry of Defense medal "For the Defense of Crimea" for loyal media coverage of the russian annexation of Ukrainian Crimea.
He is constantly in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
SEVERGINA/KISELEVA Elena Yuryevna
SEVERGINA/KISELEVA Elena Yuryevna
russian TV presenter, singer, actress, public figure, member of the Board of Directors of CJSC "russian Media Group"
He systematically supports russia's armed aggression against Ukraine and glorifies the war crimes of the occupiers, supports putin's policy and the kremlin regime.
She is actively engaged in propaganda and agitation activities, organizes numerous PR campaigns, events and concerts in support of the russian military and their families. In June 2022, she performed at a concert in honor of russia's Day in the temporarily occupied Kherson. On June 14, 2023, during a press conference of the russian media holding russian Media Group at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, she performed together with Nikolai Baskov, Grigory Lepsveridze, Yulia Baranovskaya, and the head of the russian Media Group and her husband, Vladimir Kiselev, announced the decision to pay the russian military a monetary reward of 700 thousand/1 million rubles for the destruction of Leopard 1/Leopard2 battle tanks that were transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by Western partners. The russian military received certificates for this award in November 2023 at the Golden Gramophone national music award ceremony. RMG, of which Severgina is a member of the board of directors, includes five radio stations: russkoe Radio, Monte Carlo, Hit FM, DFM, MAXIMUM radio, and the ru.TV music channel. The holding's stations represent different genres of music and target different audiences, which allows RMG to confidently hold leading positions in the market. Due to its wide audience, RMG regularly holds mass propaganda events, concerts, and actions in support of the so-called "separatist forces" and the annexation of Ukrainian territories. The radio station "russian Radio" launched the project "Agitation Brigades of russian Radio". As part of this project, russkoe Radio organizes concerts for the russian military in hospitals, military units, mobilization centers and frontline territories, including the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, and supplies humanitarian aid, special equipment and machinery to the russian armed forces.
He systematically visits the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to support the occupation authorities and the kremlin regime. In addition, Severgina and her son, who she shares with Kiselyov, delivered diesel generators to the Akhmat assault unit and "thanked the fighters for their selfless work and congratulated them on the New Year."
In March 2023, she received an award from the russian Ministry of Defense in the field of culture and art. In April 2023, she received a personal birthday greeting from putin.
BILYK Roman Vitalievich
BILYK Roman Vitalievich
fusician, composer and film actor, founder and lead singer of the musical group "Zveri"
He is a public opinion leader who publicly justifies and recognizes russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, the temporary occupation of Ukrainian territories, and promotes representatives of russian military formations and regular illegal gangs and mercenary groups created, controlled, managed and financed by russia.
In 2022, Bilyk condemned russia's invasion of Ukraine, and in 2023, due to the cancellation of his performance at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum due to the anti-war position of the "Beasts" band, he deleted all anti-war posts from social networks.
At the end of August 2023, Bilyk held a concert for the military of the "Cascade" operational-tactical group in the temporarily occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine.
The video of the performance was published by kremlin propagandist, "military correspondent" Semyon Pyegov on his Telegram account WarGonzo. In the video, Bilyk, wearing a helmet and military uniform, is on a tour in the rear of the territory of the self-proclaimed "DPR". At the same time, Bilyk also visited the temporarily occupied Mariupol, calling it a "liberated" city.
Ekaterina Stenyakina, a member of the russian State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs, reacted to Bilyk's speech in Donbas, expressed her gratitude to him and called for taking an example from him. "He criticized the special operation. But today he is singing his songs at the front. I really expect other "stars" to do the same," she said.
Owns a villa on the island of Tenerife (Spain).
BARANOVSKAYA Yulia Gennadievna
BARANOVSKAYA Yulia Gennadievna
russian radio and television presenter, co-host of the talk show "Male / Female" on Channel One
Supports russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, putin's policies and the kremlin regime.
She systematically spreads kremlin propaganda and glorifies russian forces and associated armed groups. She is the author of the social project "Women of Donbas," which is supported by the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives and senior russian officials. This project spreads narratives that are convenient and beneficial for the kremlin elite that it is not russia but "Ukraine that has been shelling Donbas for eight years."
On September 30, 2022, as a co-host, she took part in the rally-concert "People's Choice. Together Forever", dedicated to the so-called ‘accession’ of the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine to russia.
On February 24, 2023, as a co-host, she took part in the rally-concert "Glory to the Defenders of the Fatherland!", and on March 19, 2024, in a festive rally-concert entitled "russia, Crimea, Sevastopol: 10 Years in the Same Harbor" dedicated to the anniversary of russia's annexation of Ukrainian Crimea.
On June 14, 2023, during a press conference of the russian media holding russian Media Group at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, together with Nikolai Baskov, Grigory Lepsveridze, Elena Severgina, and the head of the russian Media Group, Vladimir Kiselev, announced the decision to pay the russian military a monetary reward of 700 thousand/1 million rubles for the destruction of Leopard 1/Leopard2 battle tanks that were transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by Western partners. The russian military received certificates for this award in November 2023 at the Golden Gramophone National Music Award ceremony.
In 2023, she became a member of the Supervisory Board of the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation, a state fund to support participants in the so-called "SMO".
She visited the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to support the occupation authorities and the kremlin regime.
KISELEV Vladimir Vladimirovich
KISELEV Vladimir Vladimirovich
soviet and russian businessman, music producer, artistic director of the rock band "Zemlyane", owner of the "russian Media Group" media holding company
Supports russia's armed aggression against Ukraine and the kremlin regime.
He actively criticizes the "stars" of russian show business for refusing to support putin and the so-called "SMO".
In June 2023, during a press conference of the russian media holding russian Media Group (RMG) at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Kiselyov came up with a joint initiative with the russian Ministry of Defense to pay the russian military a cash reward of 700 thousand/1 million rubles for the destruction of Leopard 1/Leopard2 battle tanks, which were transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Western partners. This initiative was supported by Grigory Lepsveridze, Nikolai Baskov, Elena Severgina, Yulia Baranovskaya and Yuri Antonov. The russian military received certificates for this award in November 2023 at the Golden Gramophone National Music Award ceremony.
He has repeatedly visited the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine with speeches in support of the occupation authorities and the kremlin regime. The RMG controlled by Kiselyov includes five radio stations: "russian Radio", "Monte Carlo", "Hit FM", "DFM", "MAXIMUM" radio, and the music TV channel "ru.TV". The holding's stations represent different genres of music and target different audiences, which allows RMG to confidently hold leading positions in the market. Thanks to its wide audience, RMG regularly holds mass propaganda events, concerts and rallies in support of the so-called "separatist forces" and the annexation of Ukrainian territories. In 2022, russkoe Radio launched the russkoe Radio Agitation Brigades project. As part of this project, russkoe Radio organizes concerts for the russian military in hospitals, military units, mobilization centers, and frontline areas, including the occupied territories of Ukraine, and supplies the russian armed forces with humanitarian aid, special equipment, and machinery. Kiselyov's wife, Elena Severgina, who is a member of the RMG board of directors, also visited the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine with "humanitarian aid." In addition, Severgina and their son, who is a son of Kiselyov, delivered diesel generators to the Akhmat assault unit and "thanked the fighters for their selfless work and congratulated them on the New Year."
MIKHALKOV Nikita Sergeevich
MIKHALKOV Nikita Sergeevich
russian film director, screenwriter, film producer, film actor, TV presenter, entrepreneur, blogger, chairman of the Board of the Union of Cinematographers of russia, president of the Moscow International Film Festival, artistic Director of Nikita Mikhalkov's Workshop 12
He systematically supports russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, russia's annexation of Ukrainian Crimea, putin's policies and the kremlin regime. On February 24, 2022, he called for russia's recognition of the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" and supported russia's invasion of Ukraine, and has repeatedly criticized russian cultural figures who left russia because of the war against Ukraine. Publicly calls for the occupation of the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv by russia. He has been officially supporting putin in the elections since 2012 and is his permanent confidant. He is a member of the putin Team movement, which supports putin in the presidential election. In 2018, he was a confidant of Moscow mayoral candidate Sergei Sobyanin. Until January 2024, he was the author of his own YouTube channel, Bisogon, with an audience of 1.47 million subscribers. In his videos, he actively spreads propaganda narratives and disinformation about Ukraine. In January 2023, in response to the sanctions imposed on him, he published an open letter to members of the Council of the European Union, where he repeated the main myths and narratives of russian anti-Ukrainian propaganda and praised putin. He has repeatedly visited the temporarily occupied Crimea to participate in propaganda events in support of the war, as well as for commercial purposes. On March 4, 2022, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine arrested Mikhalkov in absentia and put him on the international wanted list "for encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine." He owns real estate in Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic.
KHOLMOGOROV Egor Stanislavovich
KHOLMOGOROV Egor Stanislavovich
publicist, documentary filmmaker, blogger, columnist for the russian TV channel "russia Today", host of the author's programs "Egor Stanislavovich" on the TV channel "russia Today" and "Kholmogorskaya Rezba" on Radio Sputnik
Systematically supports and justifies the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine, the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea by russia, putin's policy and the kremlin regime, spreading typical narratives of kremlin propaganda.
He is the author of the term "russian Spring" and one of the authors of the "russian Donbas" doctrine, according to which the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" are proclaimed "national states of the russian people". He is also an active supporter of the so-called "Novorossiya", advocated open intervention of the russian federation in Ukraine.
He is known for his aggressive anti-Ukrainian rhetoric. In particular, in his public statements he called for the destruction of Ukraine as a state, stated that "if the choice arises between the victory of Ukraine and a global nuclear war, then a nuclear war is better" and that "Crimea must be finally "cleansed" of symbols of Ukrainian statehood". He is also a staunch supporter of military actions and spoke out against peace negotiations with the demand to capture Kyiv.
He is the host of the author's program "Kholmogory Carving" on Radio Sputnik, in which he regularly covers the chronicles of political events and russia's war against Ukraine in favor of the russian government, glorifies the russian military, manipulates socially important information and distorts facts related to events on the battlefield.
He is an expert of the Izbor Club - a community of experts studying the foreign and domestic policy of russia, one of the key tasks of which is "to promote the formation of a powerful political and ideological coalition of patriot-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".
In 2020, he actively supported amendments to the russian constitution, which allowed putin to be re-elected for two more terms - in 2024 and in 2030.
He repeatedly visited the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to participate in propaganda events.
DZHIGURDA Nikita Borisovich
DZHIGURDA Nikita Borisovich
russian theater and film actor, film director and screenwriter, singer
Systematically supports and justifies the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine, the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea by russia, putin's policy and the kremlin regime.
In 2024, he sent a request for service in the russian military unit "Bars Cascade".
In 2022, he supported the russian invasion of Ukraine and received russian citizenship. In his public statements, he calls the Ukrainian Crimea and Donbas russian.
In December 2023, he took part in the recording of the propaganda song "putin, Lukashenko, Kadyrov".
In 2014, he took part in a pro-russian rally in Donetsk and declared his support for the self-proclaimed so-called "DPR", in 2017 he received its citizenship and when he was presented with a passport, he said that he was proud to become its citizen.
Systematically visits the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to participate in propaganda events in support of the war and delivers aid to the russian military. In particular, in 2023, he purchased at his own expense and delivered a UAZ SGR car to the russian military in the so-called "DPR", in April 2023 he visited the temporarily occupied Volnovakha, where he performed poems about the russian Empire before the participants of the so-called "SMO", receiving a grenade from them as a gift, in March 2024 he visited russian military personnel in the temporarily occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine with a concert, and also handed them drones and humanitarian aid.
Owns a house in Greece.
GURTSKAYA Diana Gudayevna
GURTSKAYA Diana Gudayevna
russian singer, poet and songwriter
Systematically supports the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine, the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea by russia, putin's policy and the kremlin regime.
In March 2014, she supported the annexation of Crimea and signed a letter to putin in support of the annexation.
Regularly performs at pro-kremlin concerts, propaganda pro-war events in support of the russian war in Ukraine.
In 2016, she took part in the rally-concert "We are together" in honor of the anniversary of the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea by russia. In 2017, she performed at the concert "Spring", dedicated to the "reunification of Crimea with the russian federation", in 2019 she took part in the concert dedicated to Victory Day in the city of Sevastopol.
In 2023, she performed a concert for the russian military at the Main Military Clinical Hospital of the National Guard of the russian federation, and also took part in the concert "Day of Knowledge with Stars in the kremlin", organized for families from the so-called "LPR" and "DPR", the TOT of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine, as well as families of servicemen participating in the so-called "SMO".
Systematically supports the russian military and their families, holds concerts for them, collects and transfers humanitarian aid to the russian Armed Forces.
In 2023, Gurtskaya joined the Parliamentary Coordination Group on the so-called "SMO", created by putin with the aim of constantly monitoring the provision of mobilized citizens of the russian federation, their receipt of payments and support measures by them and their family members. The group's tasks also include participation in information and explanatory work on mobilization training and mobilization, analysis of the state of work on patriotic education of youth, and preparation of proposals on the production of products necessary to meet the needs of all types of troops and military formations.
Officially supported putin's candidacy in the presidential elections, and since 2018 has been on the list of his confidants, a member of the All-russian public movement "People's Front "For russia"" (under sanctions from the EU, Canada, Switzerland and Ukraine), which was created at putin's initiative to monitor the implementation of his decrees/instructions and conduct campaign activities in the election processes. She is also a member of the putin Team movement, which supports putin in the presidential elections.
She joined the initiative group to nominate putin as a candidate in the 2024 presidential elections.
In 2018, she was a confidant of the candidate for mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin.
She has repeatedly visited the temporarily occupied Crimea to participate in propaganda events in support of the war and for commercial purposes.
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