Dmitry Demushkin

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Dmitry Demushkin
Demushkin in 2019
Personal details
Born	Dmitry Nikolayevich Demushkin (1979-05-07) 7 May 1979 (age 42) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Political party	Slavic Union (1999–2010) Russians (2011–2015)

Dmitry Nikolayevich Demushkin^[a] (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Дёмушкин; born 7 May 1979) is a Russian nationalist activist, politician and public figure.^[1][2][3] He founded the neo-Nazi organization "Slavic Union" in 1999, which was designated as extremist and banned in 2010.^[4] In 2011, he co-founded the nationalist organization "Russians", which was designated as extremist and banned in 2015.^[5][6] He was also an organizer of the Russian march.^[7] In 2019, Demushkin was appointed interim head of the administration of the rural settlement Barvikhinskoye, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast.^[8]

Early life[]

Demushkin was born in the city of Moscow on 7 May 1979.^[9]

Political career[]

Demushkin founded the far-right organization "Slavic Union" in 1999. In 2010, the organization was banned by authorities on grounds of extremism.^[10]

In 2011, Demushkin co-founded the nationalist organization "Russians", however it was banned in 2015.^[5]

In 2013, Demushkin announced his intention to run for president in the 2018 Russian presidential election.^[11][12]

Criminal cases[]

In 2014, Demushkin was convicted of organizing an extremist association.^[13] Demushkin was sentenced to a fine of 200,000 rubles, but was released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for the crime.^[14]

In 2016, Demushkin was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for inciting hatred under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of Russia, an extremism statute. The basis of the criminal case were pictures published on his page in the social network VK.^[15] Demushkin, currently recognized as a political prisoner, spent 8 months in the intensive monitoring sector, because in the materials from the investigator he was marked as prone to escape.^[16] He was released in 2019 after serving his prison sentence at a prison in Pokrov, Vladimir Oblast.^[17][18]

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