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GAZMANOV Oleg Mykhailovych
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ГАЗМАНОВ Олег Михайлович
ГАЗМАНОВ Олег Михайлович
GAZMANOV Oleg Mykhailovych

Date and place of birth
22.07.1951
Gusev, Kaliningrad region, RSFSR, USSR

Position
soviet and russian singer, composer, producer

Tax Number
770300130903

Reasons
He is an ardent supporter of putin's policies and russia's war against Ukraine. Through his own pages on social media, he promotes putin's policy and the so-called "military operation" in Ukraine.
Conducts active propaganda and touring work to form a convenient and favorable worldview of his audience for the kremlin elite regarding the perception and whitewashing of russian military (armed) aggression.
He conducts tours in support of "russia's victory in the Eastern Ukraine," raises funds for the purchase of weapons for the russian armed forces, including UAVs and sights for small arms. As part of the charity event, he handed over autographed guitars to the russian military.
In May 2023, he visited the 291st Guards Artillery Brigade of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District, thanked the russian military and gave them tickets to his concert as a sign of respect, and in return received a model of the brigade's main weapon and a thank you from the command.
In 2013, as a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense, he initiated and implemented his own project to create a "youth" version of the russian national anthem to promote state symbols among young people.
In 2023, with the financial support of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives and the Presidential Grants Fund, Gazmanov became the ideologist and artistic director of the Rodniki national competition of "patriotic" songs and is working on creating an online database of "patriotic" songs.
Under Gazmanov's leadership, the Rodniki project holds concerts for the russian military, organizes humanitarian aid collections to meet their needs, and cooperates with the All-russian Public Movement "People's Front for russia" (under sanctions from the EU, Canada, Switzerland and Ukraine) and the All-russian Public and State Movement of Children and Youth "Movement of the First".
Gazmanov also took part in propaganda rallies and concerts in honor of the anniversaries of the annexation of Crimea at Luzhniki Stadium in 2021-2022.
In the fall of 2022, among other pro-government russian pop stars who support russian aggression against Ukraine, he took part in the recording of the song and propaganda video "Let's Rise".
He regularly visits the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to perform commercial concerts and propaganda activities in support of the war.
He owns real estate in Latvia and Italy.

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