More than 22 foreign volunteers - ATO participants, in 2014 filed an application for passports of Ukrainian citizens. Almost everyone was denied. The exception was Sergey Korotkikh (Malyuta), whose biography became public after a photo of the presentation of the main document by President P. Poroshenko circled the media. What is this man famous for?
Strokes to the portrait
It is directly related to three states: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. A native of the Samara region (Togliatti), the young man moved with his parents to Belarus, of which he is a citizen. His mother still lives there. For Belarusians, he is one of the founders of RNU (1999-2001), where he was involved in by special forces Valery Ignatovich, who is a distant relative. Once together they practiced judo and karate, but today a former Almaz officer is serving a term for abducting ORT journalist D. Zavadsky.
The leader of the RNU, 22-year-old Gleb Samoilov, was killed in August 2000, after which many began to be disappointed in the movement of right-wing radicals, including Sergey Korotkikh. “Malyuta” is his nickname, by which he is still known in Belarus and Russia. If a neo-Nazi was never convicted in his country, then in Russia, where he moved to the two thousandth, he is a suspect in the case of the explosion on Manezhnaya Square in December 2007. For at that time he was one of the leaders of the ultra-right association - NSO.
And only for Ukrainians, a man appears to be a hero of the battles near Ilovaisk and Mariupol, who covered his name with glory in the fight against separatists. Here he is known under the call sign "Boatswain."
Short biography: Belarusian period
Different sources indicate the different birth dates of Malyuta. He himself calls 1974, which coincides with the time of his military service: 1992–1994. As a specialist in technical means, Sergey Korotkikh served in battalion reconnaissance, having received the necessary combat skills. At the end of the service he was accepted to the KGB school, from where he was expelled two years later for his connection with the radicals: in 1996, he participated in the Chernobyl Way. The opposition rally turned into a clash with the police, provoked by Ukrainian soldiers UNA-USO.
Eight people were arrested, but Malyuta was not connected with them. In 1999, he was detained for participating in the beating of these very oppositionists, for he already belonged to a subculture of neo-Nazis. Among the battered are famous personalities and candidates for deputies: Andrei Sannikov, Oleg Bebenin, Dmitry Bondarenko.
Ideological views
Neo-Nazism for Malyuta is, first of all, national justice. The RNE program stipulated the trinity of all Slavic peoples, to which the state should be nationally oriented. He considers himself an anti-communist, considering the current president to be hostile to RNU. The ideal is civil society, capable of influencing the government. Respects people who are ready to change something and do things.
Without sharing the ideology of ISIS, Sergei Korotkikh in an interview calls them handsome for doing something in the name of their beliefs. He condemns couch theorists, and perhaps this is all about his personality. Without being attached to a place, people, things, he easily breaks away, going to the place where crucial historical events take place. In it, a certain cynicism and the soul of romance coexist, wanting to give their lives for beliefs.
Completion of the stay at RNU
For obvious reasons, very little is known about Malyuta’s personal life. Many are wondering if Sergei Korotkikh is married? He has children for sure. In an interview, he said that the second son bears the name Gleb in honor of the deceased RNE leader, whose authority was undeniable for him. He stood at the origins of creating an organization in need of money. Therefore, the members of the RNU covered the markets, performed security functions for church structures, and drove cars.
The heyday of the neo-Nazi movement came in 1999. Ignatovich, offering extremist forms of work, withdrew from the organization due to a conflict with Samoilov. In the photo in the center you can see Malyuta when he was a member of RNU. It all ended for him with the death of Samoilov - the last romance of the movement. Sakovich who came to his place was more like the leader of a gang leading an appropriate lifestyle. Korotkikh began to get disappointed and convinced that the murder of G. Samoilov was a showdown inside the RNU, behind which A. Barkashov’s shadow stood. A year later, he himself (Malyuta) was attacked: they beat his head, but he managed to use weapons, after which he found himself in Russia.
The explosion at the Manege
In 2004, the initiative group, which included Sergey Korotkikh, created an association of NSOs. During these years, Malyuta became close to Tesak (Maxim Martsinkevich). Together with him, in 2013 they will be detained by the Minsk police for a fight with anti-fascists near the eye clinic, where they kept watch over the hated Tesak. During the fight, Malyuta stabbed one of the young people, but the matter did not go further than the pre-trial detention center. Anti-fascists did not write a statement to the police, and soon the Euromaidan happened in Ukraine, and many radicals, among whom was Korotkikh, went to the neighboring republic.
In 2012 in Russia, meanwhile, the investigation concluded that it was Malyuta who organized the explosion on Manezhnaya Square in December 2007, although members of the NSO Belousov and Sklyar were detained earlier in this case. Two years later, Ivan Belousov, the only suspect to be released, will not be able to interrogate Korotkikh. Members of the organization will testify against him. However, in September 2007, a split occurred in the NSO. Rumyantsev, whose charges called the name of Malyuta, expelled the member of the political council, which makes the prosecution unlikely.
In Ukraine
The appearance in Ukraine led Malyuta to the camp of the Right Sector. But here he saw neither organization, nor system, nor a clear understanding of the picture of the world. In the spring of 2014, volunteer battalions began to be created to participate in the ATO. Sergey Korotkikh got into one of them. "Azov" was headed by Andrey Biletsky.
Being a national socialist, at the time of the revolutionary events, he was in a pre-trial detention center in Kharkov for extremism. Recognized as a political prisoner, Biletsky was elected as a deputy from the Patriot of Ukraine party and led the created volunteer battalion. It was based on National Socialists, activists of Euromaidan, as well as Ultras of Ukrainian football clubs.
Azov battalion: some facts
Today we can talk not about the battalion, but about the Azov brigade. The headcount increased from 70 people (May 2014) to 1, 400 (2016). At its disposal 40 units of armored vehicles. Initially, funding was initiated by I. Kolomoisky and the governor of the Donetsk region S. Taratuta. The neo-Nazi orientation of the battalion and its symbolism forced them to suspend sponsorship. The sign on the coat of arms of "Azov" resembles the Wolfsangel rune, although Biletsky decodes the monogram as an overlap of two Ukrainian letters symbolizing two words: an idea and a nation.
Sergey Korotkikh was one of the first to join the battalion when the Azov was not even content. Until July 2014, it existed only on private donations. Army discipline and order allowed not to steal help, but to invest it in fighters. Thanks to this, Biletsky has the best training facilities, accounting for fighters and weapons. Throughout the year, Azov, which has not left the front line, is one of the few volunteer battalions that can boast of victories over the LPR and DPR armies. The commander calls his fighter motivation his trump card.
Hostilities
Volunteers condemn the new wave of mobilization in the regular army, believing that a person should fight professionally and consciously. The battalion "Azov" took Mariupol, Marinka and liberated Shirokino. According to Biletsky, the soldiers bit their teeth and in the real hell kept Shirokinskie heights for 6 months. Now the army is standing there, and the volunteers moved to Mariupol. According to him, the inhabitants of this city do not want to be part of the LPR and DPR.
Under the conditions of the Minsk agreements, he considers demilitarization to be a wrong step, because if you leave Shirokino, the defense ability of Mariupol will be weakened. He sees the resolution of the conflict in the region only by armed means, although the first step should be to deprive the republics of economic support.
