In Kyrgyzstan, the Russian political strategist Viktor Vasiliev was arrested on suspicion of mercenaries, Interfax said with reference to the press service of the Pervomaisky district court of Bishkek. The court sent him under arrest until June 17, 2025. The editor -in -chief of the Reginum news agency Marina Akhmedova wrote that Vasiliev is the author of the publication and an expert in Africa and Central Asia. According to her, he goes through the same case that the Russian House employee in the city of Osh Natalya Sekerina, arrested in the case of recruiting mercenaries to participate in armed conflicts of other countries. The arrest of Sekerina became known on April 23. Then it was reported that the press service of the city hall of the city of Osh Sergey Lapushkin and two more people whose names were not called in the case. Viktor Vasiliev is the author of the telegram channel “Smile and Mash.” The Dossier Center in 2023 wrote that earlier Vasiliev wore the surname Lukovenko. In 2011, he was sentenced to eight years in a maximum security colony on charges of murdering a 58-year-old native of Sri Lanka on the day of the “Russian march”. Five years later, Lukovienko was released on parole. The Russian BBC Service reported that Lukovienko was one of the political strategists of the founder of the PMC Vagner Evgeny Prigozhin. After the death of Prigozhin, Lukovenko was engaged in building Russian influence in Burkina-Faso. The publication also called him a radical nationalist “The Dossier Center wrote that Lukovenko, shortly before the full -Mashstaby Russian invasion of Ukraine, traveled to Kyiv on instructions. In the material of the Center, Lukhenko is named neo -Nazi. Detention in Kyrgyzstan occurred a few days after mass detention of citizens of countries occurred in Moscow in Moscow in the banner complex. One of the published videos shows that people are forced to crawl into the room, where other detainees are lying on the floor. One of the eyewitnesses said that people in the bath were beaten. The Russian ambassador in Bishkek, Sergei Vakunov, was summoned to the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry due to the mass detentions of citizens of the country. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the Silovik raid was a “planned audit of public premises.” (Tagstotranslate) News
In Kyrgyzstan in the case of mercenaries, they arrested a Russian political strategist, who was associated with Prigozhin and GRU
