Champions of terror

Participant of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series in 2022. Participant of the Friendship Games in 2022 in Kazan (russia). Participant of the BRICS Sports Games in 2024 in Kazan (russia).
He is a member of the russian national team.
He publicly criticized the decision to ban russian athletes from international competitions, called foreign athletes who support the removal of russians from international competitions as hypocrites, and accused the International Olympic Committee of bias, and the Ukrainian national team of the political undertones of its performance at the World Aquatics Championship in Budapest (Hungary) in 2022.
Spreads "patriotic" propaganda posts on the VK social network, and also uses soviet military symbols in his performance.

Chechen sports functionary and entrepreneur closely linked to the clan of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic and a close associate of putin.
Since 2020, he has been head of the Moscow branch of the professional sports club "Akhmat", owned by Kadyrov and used to train fighters for the war against Ukraine. The president of the Akhmat club is Abuzeid Vismuradov, Kadyrov's childhood friend and personal security guard, as well as the head of SOBR Akhmat (a Rosgvardia unit involved in the war against Ukraine).
Alash Dadashov is probably the son of Aslambek Dadashov - a former aide to deputy and Kadyrov's right-hand man Adam Delimkhanov.
Since 2023, he has become a co-owner of two companies in temporarily occupied Mariupol, specifically the Ilyich Mariupol Iron and Steel Works, which is one of Ukraine's largest industrial iron and steel producers.
In early March 2022, during the first days of the russian army's invasion of Ukraine, Dadashov published on his web page a photo with Rosgvardiya fighters from the Chechen town of Argun with the caption "We are in the KRA (Kadyrov Ramzan Akhmatovich) team".

Participant in russia's war against Ukraine, commander of the Soyuz squad created in December 2022 by Sergei Kirienko and Yuri Trutnev on the basis of the russian Union of Martial Arts (RSBI) from professional athletes. As of December 2023, 145 people have joined the squad.
The fighters were trained and harmonized at the russian Special Forces University in Chechnya. Its founder, Daniil Martynov, an aide to Ramzan Kadyrov, is co-chairman of the RSBI. Kirienko, together with co-founder Yuri Trutnev, is personally responsible for providing and personally visiting Donbass to transfer equipment - drone detection equipment, equipment and outfit, sniper rifles - to the Soyuz detachment.
During the war, the RSBI made purchases from the Moscow arms showroom Arsenal for 139 million rubles, and from the rifle manufacturer Lobaev Arms for 35 million rubles. The RSBI bought optical equipment from the companies Innovative Weapon Technologies (for 19 million rubles) and Navigator (25 million rubles). The russian University of Special Forces in Chechnya received 38 million rubles from the RSBI for training volunteers.
The charitable foundation "Our Fatherland" under Gabbasov's leadership systematically organizes and conducts fundraisers for the needs of servicemen of the russian armed forces, is engaged in socialization and employment of the so-called "veterans of the SMO" and patriotic education of young people, establishes schools for piloting and assembling UAVs.
He was included in the list of putin's proxies for the presidential election in 2024.
Visited the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

He supported the so-called "referendum of the DPR and LPR on joining russia".
He organizes fundraisers for the needs of the flamethrower company of the so-called "LPR People's Militia" and personally delivers aid to the front to russian paramilitary groups.
He said that russian teams will be able to return to the international arena only after winning the so-called "war of attrition" when "new rules of the game in politics and sports will be written, and Europe will be forced to recognize them."
His son, Nikolai Kovalenko, is a forward for the NHL club "Colorado Avalanche".

In 2023, he was drafted into the russian army, served at the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg and played for the russian Navy team.
Until 2024 he had a contract with the Central Sports Club of the russian Army (CSKA), subordinate to the russian Ministry of Defense.
CSKA on a permanent basis provides active assistance to the military and veterans of the so-called "SMO" by purchasing and delivering special equipment, FPV-drones, generators and humanitarian cargoes to the front, carries out military-patriotic education of children and youth, organizes and conducts sports-patriotic events and promotes international cooperation, in particular, within the framework of the World Military Games project.
On September 01, 2023, the CSKA club with Fedotov's participation held an action to support the occupants unit "88th Volunteer Brigade Espanola" of the russian armed forces, formed mainly from russian fans.
He was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, First Class, for his victory at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
In April 2024, he signed a two-year contract with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL), earning $6.5 million over the course of the contract. Afterward, he suggested in a public statement that his paths with CSKA might cross again.

He is a member of the commission advising the IOC session and president on strengthening the role of sport and Olympism in society.
Publicly emphasizes the formality of the neutral status of russian athletes at international tournaments, in which athletes of the russian Tennis Federation under his control continue to actively participate.
He lobbied for the admission of russian juniors to participate in the international tennis tournament at Wimbledon (Great Britain) in 2023 and the participation of russian tennis players in the Olympic Games in Paris (France) in 2024.
In 2022, by putin's decree, he was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree for ensuring successful training of athletes who achieved high sports achievements at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and the XVI Paralympic Summer Games in Tokyo (Japan) in 2020.
In 2023, he received a personal birthday greeting from putin.

Russian businessman and sports functionary close to putin, close friend of the head of putin's security service.
As part of his activities, he establishes cooperation with government agencies of foreign countries. Publicly criticizes the decision to bar russian athletes from international competitions.
In 2023, he was a member of the official russian delegation during the russian president's visit to China.
Since 2016, he has been leading the russian Boxing Federation with the support of the russian Federal Security Service.
In his position as president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), he moved the association's activities to russia, suspended Ukraine from the IBA and made russia's sanctioned Gazprom the sole sponsor of the IBA.
After the IOC revoked the IBA's accreditation in 2019, Kremlev organized international tournaments not recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
In 2020, by putin's decree, he was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, for his great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports.
In 2020-2023, with the assistance of state structures, he gained significant control over the russian bookmaker market.

He is the manager and owner of Silkway Rally, an international rally-raid project that uses the GRU leadership as an infrastructure for its residents and to establish political contacts.
Internal documents of Silkway Rally present the company as a "universal platform for people's diplomacy" based on the idea of "soft power of russia" aimed at its rapprochement with China, Iran, Qatar, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. in the region by acting as a mediator between Qatar, Iran, and Turkey; influencing Saudi Arabia; influencing Turkey on all issues of interest to russia, including Azerbaijan, Armenia, Crimea, and Syria; and providing Taliban proposals (a roadmap to international legitimacy) in exchange for recognizing Crimea as russian territory.
In addition, the rallies are supposed to promote the Siberian Power 2 project of cooperation between Gazprom and China's CNPC to supply russian gas to the PRC.
The Silkway Rally Association is the organizer of the transnational joint project between russia and the PRC, which is held annually on the basis of the russian Government Order No. 599-r dated April 08, 2011. Within the framework of the project, the interaction of executive authorities of all levels of the participating countries is practiced, national management is developed, which allows using the acquired experience and well-functioning communication system to organize large-scale political, economic and humanitarian projects at the interstate level.
In 2021, Yanborisov reported to russian Defense Minister Shoigu on military objectives: the possibility of creating new military and political alliances; increasing russia's military presence in Central Asia and the East in order to "prevent destabilization of the region"; arms control in Central Asia and the East; and the possibility of introducing the products of the russian military-industrial complex to new markets, with which negotiations were held to support the Silkway platform. In particular, the PRC, Turkey and the UAE were discussed.
Bulat Yanborisov carried out the assignment as an agent in the service of the Kremlin, was in constant contact with the officers of the 29155, received an award personally from GRU General Vladimir Alekseev.
Yanborisov was also involved in GRU special operations to apply pulse signals in the radio frequency range on the physical and psychological state of a number of foreign diplomats and intelligence officers - the so-called "Havana syndrome." GRU officers have used the Silkway Rally as a cover for tipping agents, transporting cargo and legalizing work abroad since 2016, and continued to use the rally as a way to enter the PRC since 2017.
Resides in Paris. Owns real estate in Cyprus, a house in Sozopol, Bulgaria, and an apartment in Paris, France.
Given Yanborisov's constant contacts with the GRU, his real estate abroad - an apartment in Paris and a mansion in Sozopol - can be used by the GRU as safe houses. And it is the Silkway Rally that is the occasion for its residents to travel to Central Asia and China.
In 2024, the rally was held along the international route Tomsk (russia) - Ulan Bator (Mongolia).

Under Kiriyenko's leadership, the russian Union of Martial Arts and Combat Sports unites 71 all-russian sports federations and organizations representing various styles and trends of martial arts and combat sports that are most actively developing in the russian Federation. RSBI is a member of the russian Olympic Committee and the international sports organization TAFISA.
The activities of the RSBI are realized, among other things, in holding national and international sports events in the territory of the russian federation, as well as in creating platforms for the exchange of experience between russian sports federations and the international community.
Every year, the RSBI holds hundreds of events, the main purpose of which is to popularize and promote martial arts as the most massive sports movement in russia, which allows solving, among other things, the issues of pre-conscription training of young people.
In December 2022, the Soyuz military detachment was created on the basis of the RSBI, consisting of "international masters of sports, honored masters of sports, first-class masters of sports" who went to war in Ukraine. As of December 2023, 145 people had joined the unit.
The fighters were trained and coached at the russian Special Forces University in Chechnya. Its founder, Danil Martynov, an aide to Ramzan Kadyrov, is the co-chairman of the RSBI. Kiriyenko, along with co-founder Yuriy Trutnev, are personally responsible for the supply and personally visit Donbas to deliver equipment to the Soyuz unit, including drone detection equipment, vehicles and equipment, and sniper rifles.
According to media reports, during the war, the RSBI made RUB 139 million worth of purchases from the Moscow Arsenal arms showroom and RUB 35 million from the rifle manufacturer Lobaev Arms. The RSBI bought optical equipment from Innovative Weapons Technologies (for RUB 19 million) and Navigator (RUB 25 million). The russian University of Special Forces in Chechnya received RUB 38 million from the russian Strategic Missile Systems for training volunteers.

She is a lieutenant colonel in the reserve of the russian armed forces.
She has publicly stated her vision of allowing russian athletes to participate in international competitions through military and terrorist means.
Välbe is a strong supporter of putin and is on the list of his confidants and the initiative group to nominate putin as a candidate for the 2024 presidential election, and is a member of the putin Team movement.
Vyalbe is a co-chair of the Regional Branch of the All-russian Public Movement "People's Front for russia" in the Republic of Khakassia.
In 2021, she participated and won the elections to the State Duma of the VIII convocation on the party list of the United russia party.
She supports and justifies russia's war against Ukraine by spreading kremlin propaganda narratives; her brother is a voluntary participant in the russian military invasion.
In 2021, she visited the temporarily occupied Crimea to present a biographical film at the XXIX International Children's Film Festival "Alye Sails of Artek".
In 2022, by decree, putin was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Motherland" of the 2nd degree for his great contribution to the development of physical culture and the popularization of domestic sports.

Supports and justifies russia's war against Ukraine by spreading Kremlin propaganda narratives. She supports рutin's policies and was included in the list of his proxies in the 2024 elections.
Publicly criticizes the decision to ban russian athletes from international competitions.
He has the rank of colonel. He is the first deputy head of the Central Sports Club of the russian Army (CSKA), which is subordinated to the russian Ministry of Defense.
The CSKA provides active assistance to the military and veterans of the so-called "SMO" by purchasing and delivering special equipment, FPV drones, generators and humanitarian supplies to the frontline, conducts military-patriotic education of children and youth, organizes and conducts sports and patriotic events and promotes international cooperation, in particular within the framework of the World War Games project.
It is one of the founders of the All-russian Children's and Youth Military and Patriotic Public Movement "Yunarmiya", which is one of the main mechanisms of militarization and military training of children and youth in russia and in the TOT of Ukraine.

Supports and justifies russia's war against Ukraine by spreading the Kremlin's propaganda narrative.
She supports putin's policies and was included in the list of his proxies in the 2012 and 2024 elections.
Publicly criticizes the decision to ban russian athletes from international competitions.
In March 2023, by the decision of the International Gymnastics Federation, she was suspended from international competitions for two years for criticizing the judging at the Tokyo Olympics, and in this regard, she declared intentions of participation of russian athletes in international tournaments under the club system.
She is a full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
Until May 2022, she was the wife of the sanctioned russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov.