МАШКОВ Володимир Львович
МАШКОВ Владимир Львович
MASHKOV Vladimir Lvovich

He systematically supports the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine and glorifies the war crimes of the occupiers, supports putin's policies and the kremlin regime.
He was co-chairman of putin's election headquarters during the 2024 election campaign and has been his permanent confidant in the presidential election since 2018, and is a member of the putin Team movement, which supports putin in the presidential election. He was a member of the initiative group to nominate putin as a candidate for the 2024 presidential election.
In 2020, he supported the adoption of amendments to the constitution of the russian federation, which allowed putin to be re-elected for two more terms in 2024 and 2030.
In July 2023, he was included in the list of proxies for the current mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, in the September 2023 elections.
In his numerous interviews and speeches on central russian channels, he called for the "accession" of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine to russia. He systematically visits the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to participate in propaganda events in support of the war. On September 23, 2022, he took part in the rally "We do not abandon our own" organized by the all-russian public movement "People's Front for russia" dedicated to the referendum in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. He spoke during a campaign rally-concert in honor of the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea entitled "For a world without Nazism! For russia! For the President", which took place on March 18, 2022 at the Luzhniki Stadium. He installed the military symbol "Z" on the facade of the Oleg Tabakov Theater in Moscow, which is used by russian propaganda to support the russian invasion of Ukraine. On September 30, 2024, he took part in the concert rally "russia, Donbass, Novorossiya: Together Forever!". During his speeches at mass propaganda events, he calls for the continuation of missile and bomb attacks on the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine. In 2024, the Union of Theater Workers of the russian federation, under the leadership of Mashkov, opened its regional branch in the TOT of Ukraine.
He was repeatedly awarded personally by putin, which indicates his closeness to the kremlin regime.
In May 2023, the Security Service of Ukraine notified Mashkov of suspicion of encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, justification, recognition as lawful, denial of russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, glorification of its participants and violation of the procedure for entering and leaving the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. In November 2024, Mashkov was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison and his apartment in Odesa was confiscated. Mashkov's daughter lives in the United States.