Igor Strelkov Biography

He gained fame in the spring of the year during protests in the southeast of Ukraine as an active participant in armed organizations of the militia of southeast of Ukraine, who headed the People’s militia of the Donbass. Since May 12 - commander of the "Armed Forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic", from May 16 - Minister of Defense of the DPR. Education was born on December 17 in Moscow in a family of hereditary military.

Since childhood, I was interested in history. He has been fond of military reconstruction and the history of the white movement since the year. In the year he graduated from the Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute, but the profession of a historian preferred a military career. Marital status. It is known that Girkin was married twice. He has two children. According to rumors, at present Strelkov is married for the third time.

In December, information was information that Strelkov had married his assistant to Miroslav Reginskaya. According to rumors, Reginskaya is a citizen of Ukraine. The portal "Russian Freedom" reported the marriage of Reginskaya and Strelkov. According to rumors, the marriage was concluded on the birthday of Igor Strelkov. The wife of Igor Strelkov Miroslav Reginskaya is the head of the apparatus of the head of the Novorossiya movement - that is, directly his husband.

After the completion of military service, he remained to serve under the contract: first - as part of a motorized rifle brigade, and then as a military intelligence officer. He took part in the hostilities in Transnistria in June-July of the year, the volunteer of the 2nd platoon of the Black Sea Cossack army, the Kosachnitsa-Bender, in Bosnia from November to March, inclusive of the 2nd Russian Volunteer detachment, the 2nd Derinskaya and 2nd Maevitskaya brigades of the army of the Republic of Serbian, Vishegrad-Zabrad, in Chechnya, I am a guard separate The motorized rifle brigade, March - October of the year, and in parts of special purpose from for a year, performed special tasks in other regions of Russia.

In the end of the x, he published an autobiographical “Bosnian diary”. According to the Russian human rights activist Alexander Cherkasov, the chairman of the Council of the Human Rights Protection Center "Memorial", Igor Strelkov in the year served in a separate guards regiment of special forces in the vicinity of the village of Khattuni Vedensky district of Chechnya. In this edition, he was regularly published until October, wrote about the situation in Chechnya and other hot spots in Russia, and criticized the national policy of the authorities.

In the newspaper "Tomorrow" I met Alexander Boroday. In August, special correspondents of the newspaper Tomorrow Alexander Borodai and Igor Strelkov prepared a report from the Kadar zone of Dagestan about how the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs carried out the cleansing of several villages where the Wahhabis lived. He worked as an independent Internet agency “Anna-News”, which was registered in Abkhazia in July.

According to some information, after resignation, he worked as the head of the Safety Service of the Marshall-Capital investment fund, Russian entrepreneur K. for a long time, a friend of this investment fund was also worked by Igor Strelkov, Alexander Borodai, chosen by the Prime Minister of the Donetsk Republic of the DPR. At the end of January of the year, according to Strelkov, he ensured the safety of the Athos shrines delivered to Kyiv from Greece - Gifts of the Volkhvs and at the same time visited the Euromaidan.

According to the British “BBC”, the last place of Strelkov’s service is the Office for the Combating of the International Terrorism of the 2nd Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Service and Combating the Terrorism of the FSB of Russia. According to the Ukrainian media, which began to appear after April 15, Igor Strelkov was the current officer of the GRU special forces of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.

According to Strelkov himself, he never served in the GRU. Participation in the Crimean crisis in his own words came to Ukraine on his own initiative, guided by personal beliefs. He gathered around him local opponents of the new Ukrainian authorities and organized a detachment of people's militia. According to information voiced by one of the leaders of the counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine Vitaliy Nayda, Igor Strelkov during the Crimean crisis was an assistant on the power issues of the Prime Minister of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov.

Berezovsky was led by the same man who later headed the Slavyansk self -defense, - the ally of Aksyonov Igor Ivanovich, who was recommended for him as the current GRU employee. Participation in the war in the southeast of Ukraine, according to the statements of one of the leaders of the SBU, on April 8, shooters through the Kerch crossing left Crimea to Rostov-on-Don, and on April 12, he was resetting the state border of Ukraine “to implement the force scenario of hidden aggression in the southeastern regions of Ukraine.

As a result, one officer died, three more were injured. Igor Strelkov himself was called the head of the People’s militia of Donbass.The commander of the Army of the Donetsk People’s Republic the day after the referendum held on May 11 on the self -determination of the Donetsk People’s Republic, on the basis of the Declaration of Independence of April 7, was proclaimed state sovereignty of the DPR.

On the same day, Igor Strelkov said that he took the post of commander of the Armed Forces of the DPR, and announced the introduction of the regime of a counter -terrorist operation who. The resignation and removal of Novorossia on August 14, Strelkov, resigned from the post of Minister of Defense of the Donetsk People’s Republic "in connection with the transition to another job." His place was taken by Vladimir Kononov.

The former head of Strelkov in the FSB approved in an anonymous interview published in December that the Deputy Prime Minister of the DPR Vladimir Antiofeev stood behind the removal of Strelkov from Novorossia, who, according to him, "performed an indication from above to eliminate Strelkov from the command post and returning to Russia." The criminal prosecution of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on April 15 of the CBU instituted criminal proceedings on the facts of “organizing a citizen of the Russian Federation with rifle murder and committing actions to the detriment of sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, conducting diversion-subversive activities, as well as organizing riots in the eastern regions of our state.” The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine incriminates Strelkov that he “during March - April of the year to commit attacks in Ukraine created a terrorist group, led its activities, organized mass riots in the Kharkov, Lugansk, Donetsk regions, the autonomous Republic of Crimea, accompanied by violence against citizens, as well as pogroms, arson, destruction of property, seizure of buildings and the seizure of buildings and buildings and the seizure of buildings and buildings and the seizure of buildings and the seizures structures ”, as well as“ committed a terrorist act that led to the deaths of people and other grave consequences ”.

The hobby of military reconstruction Igor Strelkov is known among the military-historical reconstructors of Moscow. It is a moderator of one of the Internet forums dedicated to the reconstruction of the war with Napoleon of the Year and the Civil War, it is headed by the Consolidated machine-gun team, formed on the basis of the Moscow Dragoon Regiment military-historical club.

He took part in such reconstructions as the “war of the year” August, the February Memory of the Civil War, the Civil War in the South of Russia, the Valor and Death of the Russian Guard. Participated in reconstructions in Ukraine. He was in the Martor Club "Markovtsy". In May, he was enrolled in the Drozdovsky association in the rank of non-commissioned officer.