SERB movement. Who are they? SERB – rapid response squad of pro-Kremlin extremists

On August 15, the “March of Mothers” event took place in Moscow - a procession from Pushkin Square to the building of the Supreme Court of Russia in support of children convicted in the “New Greatness” case. More than a thousand people took part in the event, which naturally prompted well-known city provocateurs from the pro-Putin SERB movement to take active action...

SERB (formerly known as "Southeast Radical Block" SERB (South East Radical Block)) is a pro-Kremlin extremist organization initially operating in Ukraine on the territory of Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Krivoy Rog, which contributed to inciting war and the annexation of Crimea. Since the end of the summer of 2014, activists of the SERB movement and their leader Igor Beketov (pseudonym Gosha Tarasevich) fled Ukraine, fearing criminal prosecution by the SBU. At the moment, the militants are wanted on the territory of Ukraine. Since the winter of 2014-2015, the movement has become active in Russia, organizing systematic attacks and provocations against the Russian opposition and representatives of civil society. The movement enjoys the support of the official authorities and law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation; according to former SERB member Oleg Chursin, the movement was supervised by an employee of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major Alexey Okopny, who was also seen at the movement’s rallies by Solidarity activists. Chursin himself was an active police major at the time of his activity in SERB.

Provocateurs from the SERB movement came to the “March of Mothers” with the obvious intention of starting a fight and provoking the participants of the peaceful march into a conflict using brute physical force.

Igor Beketov - leader of the SERB movement at the “March of Mothers”

Education: He graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Theater School in 1998, has a diploma from VGIK, and in 2011 he trained in the workshop of Y. Nazarov and Y. Kara.

Phone number: organizations SERB +7 925- 327- 13- 13

Number Yandex Wallet: 410012593930551

Sberbank card number: 6390-0238-9079-4005 29

SERB movement— official pages:

Participants of the movement:

Alen Isaev— “chief administrator” of the SERB VKontakte page. Born on April 18, 1994 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Alen Isaev

Education: KazNU named after. al-Farabi (formerly Kirov Kazakh State University). Faculty of International Relations. Bachelor student.

Yuri Eslikovsky

At the same time, he supports the pro-Kremlin separatists of the DPR and LPR, and also participates in the actions of the pro-government NOD movement.

Stanislav Davydov

Education: School No. 119 St. Petersburg , Moscow State University

Profession: Together with an RIA Novosti employee Ivan Mamontov created and runs a propaganda project Antinavalny | Against Navalny | Navalny on the social network VKontakte with a total number of more than 6,800 subscribers. The same project, but called Navalny Pravda, they lead to Facebook , Twitter , Yandex.zen, on Youtube channel and on Telegram.

Beketov and Pyotr Rybakov

Education: Moldavian State University.

Profession: Unknown.

An extremist and provocateur, a regular participant in direct action actions of the SERB movement. On May 5, 2018, on Pushkin Square, he took part in attacks on ordinary citizens and members of the opposition.

Igor Brumel— born on July 9, 1952 in Rostov-on-Don. Currently lives in Moscow. Since 1974 he lived in Zamoskvorechye: 1974-1978. - Ozerkovskaya embankment, 48/50, since 1978 - Pyatnitskaya st., 17

Igor Brumel at the congress of the A Just Russia party

Education: 1974 - graduated from the State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Culture, Faculty of Mass Sports, specialty “coach-teacher in athletics.”

Profession and political career:

1988-1991 - Member of the People's Labor Union (NTS).

In 1992, he took part in hostilities in Transnistria as part of the Guard of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

Participant in the defense of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR in September-October 1993, commander of the engineer-sapper company of the regiment named after. Supreme Council of the RSFSR, on October 3, 1993, he was appointed representative of I.O. President A. Rutsky in the Moskvoretsky district of Moscow.

1992-1997 - member of the Liberal-Patriotic Party "Revival" (St. Andrew's Flag Party), chairman of the Moscow organization of the Liberal-Patriotic Party "Revival", deputy chairman of the party.

1992-1996 — executive editor of the newspaper “Russian Revival”, Moscow.

Since 2000 - individual entrepreneur (printing and publishing activities).

Since 2008 - member of the A Just Russia party.

March 4, 2012 - elected as a deputy of the Zamoskvorechye Municipal Assembly in 5-mandate electoral district No. 1 (took 1st place out of 22) (since March 2013 - deputy of the Council of Deputies).

September 10, 2017 - in the elections to the Council of Deputies of Zamoskvorechye took 12th place out of 33 in Five-Mandate District No. 1

Currently an active participant in the SERB movement, a provocateur. He became notorious for his aggressive and inappropriate statements and participation in numerous attacks on representatives of civil society.

Igor Brumel - deputy of the Council of Deputies of Zamoskvorechye in 2012-2018 On their official page of the organization on VKontakte, SERBs boasted about the participation of 7 of their activists in the provocation against the “March of Mothers” - https://vk.com/wall-114297047_17242

The comment of a certain Igor Gvardeytsev is particularly noteworthy - this is an armed man who allegedly took part in hostilities on the side of pro-Kremlin separatists in the East of Ukraine, possibly related to punitive forces from the E.N.O.T PMC. CORP.

Igor’s page on VKontakte: https://vk.com/id154386215

Representatives of various organizations of pro-Kremlin militants and provocateurs are in close contact and coordination with each other, which poses a clear threat to the life and health of citizens of Russia and other countries.

Separately, as part of this investigation, it is important to mention the famous provocateur and extremist of the SERB movement Alexander Viktorovich Petrunko.

Alexander Petrunko

Alexandra Petrunko— born April 23, 1969. Presumably he grew up in an orphanage in the city of Rostov-on-Don. Lived at: Kharkov, Pobedy Avenue, 66, apt. 166

In January 2009, he was arrested on suspicion of committing a crime on Ludwig Svoboda Avenue in Kharkov.

Alexander Petrunko and the head of the Russian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly since 2017, Pyotr Tolstoy

On May 5, on Pushkin Square in Moscow, he took an active part in attacks on participants in the all-Russian action “He is not our Tsar” together with representatives of other paramilitary pro-Kremlin formations.

Telephone:+79857949984

Mail: [email protected]

NOD and SERB are directly linked to pro-Russian movements in Eastern Ukraine. According to Novaya Gazeta, in 2017 SERB tried to obtain funding from the Union of Donbass Volunteers of Alexander Borodai and therefore sharply increased its activity. Activists remained on the balance sheet of the Anti-Maidan movement, associated with a State Duma deputy from United Russia. Dmitry Sablin, who in turn has headed the Patriotic Platform of the party since April 5, 2017. General coordination is carried out at the level of curators from the FSB and the Presidential Administration.

REN TV film crews were always at the scene of attacks most quickly, having advance information about impending acts of terror.

REN TV is part of the National Media Group, which is controlled by Yuri Kovalchuk's Rossiya Bank. The media group owns 82% of REN TV, as well as 25% of Channel One and 72.4% of Channel Five. In April 2017, it became known that NMG would unite REN TV and Channel Five, as well as the Izvestia newspaper, into a single information center.

SERB provocateurs and militants do not sit idly by; literally every working week is occupied with direct action against representatives of Russian civil society and the opposition; on August 21, they attacked the office of Open Russia. The team of attackers included an inseparable trio: Beketov, Rybakov, Brumel. Law enforcement agencies, who love to detain oppositionists for single pickets and initiate criminal cases for posts and likes on social networks, are inactive - not surprisingly, those supervised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB are ordered not to be touched at a high level.

The inseparable trinity of SERBs

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The little-known Russian liberation movement SERB, which claimed responsibility for the destruction of the memorial at the site of the death of politician Boris Nemtsov, turns out to have begun in Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine, where a few activists opposed the new government after the Maidan and demanded greater autonomy for the region. After suddenly moving to Moscow last summer, SERB took on Russian oppositionists, began denouncing and criticizing the West, and conducting “operations to suppress insults to Russia and the Russian President.” Medialeaks followed the transformation of SERB from the Dnepropetrovsk movement to ardent defenders of the “Russian world” and President Vladimir Putin.

The SERB (South East Radical Block) movement intensified in the spring of 2014 in Dnepropetrovsk after the Maidan and the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych. At that time, the movement could hardly be called strictly pro-Russian: its activists opposed the new government and also demanded greater autonomy in the southeastern regions of Ukraine.

Positioning themselves as citizens of Ukraine, activists called for a boycott of the presidential elections in Ukraine, and at the same time as the current ideologists of Novorossiya, they began to talk about the need to create a “Southeastern Ukrainian republic.” Every day the call to go out to fight the Right Sector grew stronger, and volunteers were called in more and more powerfully. But posts in the VKontakte group suddenly stopped on April 8, 2014.

Active "Cop in Law - 7"

The leader of SERB is referred to everywhere as Gosha Tarasevich, but his real name is Igor Beketov. He posts reports on various promotions (already in Russia) on the page "In contact with". Judging by photographs from the old group, he was one of the leaders of the movement from the very beginning.

It is known about Beketov that in 1998 he graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Theater School, and also studied at VGIK (workshop of Y. Kara - Y. Nazarov). He starred in episodes of “Prosecutor's Check”, “Cop in Law - 7” and other TV series.

The move of SERB activists from Ukraine to Russia apparently occurred at the end of the summer of 2014 under the pretext of the danger of being there and being persecuted by the SBU.

One of Gosha Tarasevich’s first speeches in Moscow was his participation on August 17 in a NOD rally in support of Donbass and Igor Strelkov. There he said that he arrived from Dnepropetrovsk a week ago, and many activists remained in Ukraine, where they are under arrest or threatened with persecution. He called on those gathered not to abandon them and to support them, so that the participants in the movement knew that their activities were shared in Russia.

For Putin and the “Russian world”

Since the fall, SERB has become not only clearly pro-Russian, but also picked up anti-Western rhetoric. In the winter of 2014-2015, activists of the former Dnepropetrovsk movement became frequent guests of anti-war and “anti-Putin” rallies in Moscow, in particular Solidarity pickets, which they tried to disrupt. And in February, journalists reported that SERB members poured feces on participants in another Solidarity rally. Shortly before this they wrote a statement to the Prosecutor General's Office against the picketers from Solidarity, demanding that a criminal case be opened for insulting a government official. Since then, opposition media began to call SERB activists nothing less than “pro-Putin.”

In winter, the movement abandoned its previous ideas about secession of the south-east of Ukraine, but switched to the fight against the Russian opposition and accusations of the West. In their publications, they began to call the oppositionists nothing more than “liberists” or “libers,” periodically “exposing” the main oppositionists in collaboration with the West and anti-Russian activities.

They called the “Spring” march on March 1 in Maryino preparation for the Maidan in Russia. They also stated that SERB “has always stood and stands guard over the Russian world.” And for the march on March 1, they allegedly prepared “an operation to suppress insults to Russia and the Russian President.”

After the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, SERB activists continued their rhetoric, saying that Nemtsov worked for the West, supported “Ukrainian fascists,” etc. The latest action was an impromptu memorial at the site of Nemtsov's murder, where his supporters brought flowers, photographs and other memorabilia. There, activists posted a photo from which many recognized them from the anti-war protests.

A month ago the movement also had YouTube channel, a video that also touches on Russian politics and the opposition.

Gosha Tarasevich, in response to a request from Medialeaks to talk about the movement, said that SERB prefers actions to words.

“Our movement does not like unnecessary hype around itself, since our movement is not a self-PR movement, we prefer not to talk, but to act, but within the framework of the law of the Russian Federation,” he said in a Vkontakte chat.

It was not possible to obtain further comments from Tarasevich at the time of publication of the material by Medialeaks.

“SERB activists are not involved in the dousing of Navalny. Someone set us up. Our activist Alexei Kulakov received a call from a certain person and offered to shoot a good video about Navalny. Our movement receives a lot of similar information from sympathizers, sometimes even from oppositionists. Therefore, the call did not surprise us. I received the same call. Kulakov was there at 17.00, I was half an hour late, I was on set. At 17.00 nothing happened, Kulakov was already getting ready to leave. It all happened at 17.30. He didn’t even have time to react,” movement leader Igor Beketov (also known on and off social networks as Gosha Tarasevich) told Snob. According to him, another alleged attacker, Alexander Petrunko, went on vacation to Crimea a few days before the incident. Beketov believes that Navalny PR thus: the politician has not yet published a medical certificate about the injuries and has not tried to catch up with the attackers. SERB promise to publish a video message in the near future. “Snob” was unable to obtain an immediate comment from Alexei Navalny.

The “Russian liberation movement SERB” (South East Radical Block) began its activities in March 2014 in Kharkov with an attempt to storm the regional administration. Participants in the movement tore down leaflets about recruitment into the National Guard, wrote “anti-Bandera” slogans on the walls of houses and supported the referendum in Crimea.

The leader of the movement, Dnepropetrovsk resident Igor Beketov, is an actor who has starred in Russian TV series. “I regularly filmed here, here I watched the Kyiv Maidan on TV. I was sure that the Maidan would be crushed. And when the worst happened, I contacted my friends and immediately went to Dnepropetrovsk,” he said in an interview. When information about the arrest of anti-Maidan activists came out, Beketov left for Moscow.

In the summer of 2014 Beketov supported DPR leader Igor Strelkov at a NOD rally.

Since the fall of 2014, SERB members came to anti-war rallies and pickets, took away anti-Putin posters and Ukrainian flags from protesters and tore them up. In February 2015 SERB doused feces of participants in the Solidarity movement.

In the spring of 2015, Alexander Petrunko joined the movement: “I saw that in Russia there are enough forces supporting the Maidan. That in Moscow there are real Banderlogs, fascists who hate the Russian world, and their main task is to destroy the state that they do not consider their home!

In March 2015, SERB memorial at the site of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. “The slogan used by Nemtsov’s supporters is: “Heroes don’t die!” - constantly sounded after the execution of the “Heavenly Hundred” in Kyiv. It’s obvious that they [the liberals] are preparing a Maidan on the corpse of this national traitor,” Beketov said.

In the case of the events of March 26, when a mass action against corruption took place in Moscow, a new witness appeared, a person associated with the ultra-patriotic organization SERB. Alexander Petrunko testified against Yuri Kuliy.

The man is accused of using violence against a police officer during the protest. He himself explains that he did not attack a policeman, but tried to help an elderly man on whom a policeman fell on the steps of the Pushkin monument at the height of the arrests of oppositionists. Nevertheless, he admitted guilt and agreed to a special procedure for considering the case in court.

Alexander Petrunko from SERBa was also at the rally. “He said that he saw Kuliy take a police officer by the hand, try to drag him into a crowd of aggressive citizens and shout something else, like “come on, grab him,” Alexey Liptser, the defendant’s lawyer, told Mediazona. At the same time, Alexander Petrunko himself did not identify the accused, but only described him to the investigators.

The name of Alexander Petrunko is heard in connection with the attack on Alexei Navalny on April 27. A man very similar to him doused the politician with brilliant green near the office of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. As a result, Navalny received a burn to the cornea of ​​his eye, partially lost his vision, and was forced to travel abroad, where he was operated on.

Alexander Petrunko was identified by chance: a video of the attack was shown by the Russian TV channel REN, but the TV channel blurred out the face of the attacker. Navalny’s supporters discovered the original video on the TV channel’s server, from which it is possible to establish the attacker’s resemblance to Petrunko.

Another SERB activist, Alexey Kulakov, was filming what was happening at that time, and he is clearly visible in the REN TV video. Later, he outlined several versions of why he was at the scene of the events: at first he said that he was “asked to film,” later he talked about a “business meeting.”

Reaction to export

The SERB movement originally began in Ukraine during the Maidan. After Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia, SERB activists made themselves known in Dnepropetrovsk. Then they opposed the new Kyiv government and demanded greater autonomy for some regions of Ukraine.

The southeastern radical bloc, according to its members, was supposed to fight “lawlessness in the southeast of Ukraine in a legal manner.”

In the SERB group on VKontakte in the spring of 2014, they discussed the need to create a South-Eastern Ukrainian Republic, called for a boycott of the early presidential elections and called for volunteers to fight the Right Sector.

That same spring, SERB members took part in the storming of the Kharkov regional administration along with members of the Borotba organization and other opponents of the Maidan. Then about 70 people, including SERB activists, were detained. In total, the movement had about 300 active participants - this is their own estimate, and the same number of sympathizers in Dnepropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog, Kharkov and Zaporozhye.

The abbreviation SERB stands for South-Eastern Russian Block. Previously, the word “radical” was hidden behind the letter R. Participants in the movement claim that they changed their name after moving to Russia.

Second life of “Anti-Maidan”

SERB leader Beketov-Tarasevich is an actor from Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnepr - NI). He starred in episodic roles in the Russian TV series “Interns”, “Cop in Law”, and in the film “The Main One” about the life of Sergei Korolev. Beketov combines leadership of the SERB movement with his film career - according to the website kino-teatr.ru, two more series with his participation will be released this year.

Immediately after the move, SERB participants began going to anti-war and anti-Putin rallies - on September 21, 2014, activists, together with supporters of Eduard Limonov, tore Ukrainian flags from the hands of participants in the Peace March.

Over time, there were more Russians in the movement than Ukrainians, and SERB switched to internal Russian problems and, in their own statement, want to be “useful to Russia, Novorossiya, and Ukrainian brothers who do not want to be under the Ukrofashists.”

SERB members repeatedly destroyed the memorial at the site of Boris Nemtsov’s death on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. In September 2016, one of the SERB activists, Alexander Petrunko, poured urine on photographs of the American Jock Sturgess at an exhibition at the Lumiere Brothers Center in Moscow. The exhibition was blocked that day by another pro-Kremlin organization, Officers of Russia. Its participants subdued Petrunko and handed him over to the police. The activist was sentenced to seven days of arrest.

SERB activists regularly pour green paint on oppositionists they dislike. In the fall of 2015, they attacked pensioner Vladimir Ionov, who was standing at a single picket. In April 2016 - for the winners of the school competition of the Memorial movement. Then they hit the writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya with green paint. SERB leader Beketov-Tarasevich explained that the movement will continue to “put national traitors in their place.”

SERB denies the attack with brilliant green on Alexei Navalny. According to Tarasevich, they have no complaints against the politician - because he does not talk about returning Crimea to Ukraine.

SERB movement activist Alexander Petrunko is also known for repeatedly organizing provocations against participants in single pickets at the Zhukov monument near the Kremlin. As a result, the oppositionists were detained by the police.

Activists of the SERB movement are not the first and far from the only ones in Russia who participate in violent actions against the opposition and any dissent.

It all started with football fans. They so passionately and furiously crushed each other and the riot police in the stands that it could not go unnoticed by political forces for long. The LDPR was the first to adopt fans. Vladimir Zhirinovsky several times financed trips of Dynamo fans to various regions and rescued fans from the police.

Here is a fragment of an interview for the Sports.ru website with Alexander Shprygin, aka “Kamancha”, in those years - the head of the Dynamo Moscow fan club:

“In the 90s, we participated in party events, and the party helped us through fan support. For example, the famous special train to Volgograd. Zhirinovsky called the then Minister of Railways Aksenenko, they gave us a train... What did we do in response? Vladimir Volfovich could invite us to some event so that we could also be present there.”

At one such event, Dynamo fans threw stones and eggs at the American Embassy in Moscow the day after the bombing of Belgrade.

By an amazing coincidence, the then fan leader Alexander Shprygin now works as an assistant to a State Duma deputy from the LDPR party. And until recently, he also led the All-Russian Association of Fans. An organization that few people knew about before 2010. The sudden rise of VOB and Shprygin began with riots on Manezhnaya Square.

The clashes that football fans staged on Manezhnaya Square after the murder of Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov made an indelible impression on the Russian authorities. Vladimir Putin, then Prime Minister, personally came to the fan’s grave, and then met with fan leaders in front of cameras.

“I want to make an urgent appeal to you - not to allow someone to put you under control and begin to manipulate you,” Putin asked then.

After this, the VOB came under the wing of the Russian Football Union, i.e., the state. Yesterday's Manezhnaya pogromists were provided with free charters for major international tournaments. In 2012, Russian fans took part in riots in Poland, and in 2016 in France.

Following the aftermath of the massacre in Marseille, the BBC television channel made a documentary about who the instigators of the fight might actually have been.

“This was the army special forces of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s football hooligans, sent to conquer Europe,” the film said.

Vasily Stepanov, aka Vasya the Killer, jokes ironically. Leader of one of the “firms” of Moscow “Spartak”. In the 2000s, while Shprygin’s Dynamo members worked for the LDPR, he led the security of the Kremlin Nashi movement. He took part in the pogroms of the NBP bunker, when activists of Limonov’s party were beaten with baseball bats. Now Stepanov has new hobbies; he is an Orthodox activist. Participated in all clashes with opponents of the construction of chapels and churches in Moscow. For example, in Torfyanka Park.

Vasya the killer’s best friends are activists of the “Forty Sorokov” movement, which is called the “military detachment of the Russian Orthodox Church.” In 2015, at the height of the conflict in Torfyanka, State Duma deputy Valery Rashkin turned to the FSB with a request to investigate the activities of the movement and liquidate it. The appeal remained unanswered.

In 2006, the Movement of Young Political Ecologists “Local” declared itself. According to the official version, it was created by the administration of the governor of the Moscow region. “Political ecologists” picketed “Other Russia” conferences, organized roundups of migrants and besieged the US Embassy.

They were predicted to have money and fame from “Nashi”. But today almost nothing is heard about this movement. Their latest promotions, according to the official website, are a student quest in Klin and checking the quality of fuel at gas stations near Moscow.

The creators of the BORN organization also dreamed of becoming a combat unit of the Kremlin. Moreover, they themselves wanted to become power. Neo-Nazis managed to commit nine high-profile murders, including the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. The leaders of the organization received life sentences.

Paramilitary in essence and structure, the security forces associated with the Kremlin have not even tried to masquerade as “political ecologists” in recent years.

“Officers of Russia” are building a completely military cordon in front of the Sturges exhibition. Cossacks attack Alexei Navalny and members of the Pussy Riot group, and stand as a human shield at the entrance to the Sakharov Center. SERB in this sense is a symbiosis of everything that was created in Russia in the 2000s for the forceful fight against dissent. The cruelty of football fans, the passion of Orthodox activists, the financial stability of “Nashi” and “Local”, the organization of the Cossacks. And, most importantly, almost complete impunity.

Igor Beketov, aka Gosha Tarasevich, is a unique person. On the one hand, he is an actor of Russian cinema, and on the other, the leader of the SERB political movement. It would seem that two completely different opposites are united in one person. In this article we will look at the detailed biography and ideology of the actor.

short biography

Igor Beketov grew up in Dnepropetrovsk. Born 1977. The boy had a craving for creativity and the stage from early childhood, therefore, as a young man, Igor entered the theater school. For Beketov, the theater is a native place, like a home, where he practically spent all his free time. After the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a Russian politician, Igor Vladimirovich Beketov put his acting career on hold and founded the SERB movement in Ukraine. After some time, Beketov, along with other leaders and activists of the movement, fled to Russia.

Interesting fact: the actor’s parents worked in the military, so the whole family, along with little Igor, often moved. This is how he came to Ukraine, where he spent many years.

Love for the stage

Anyone who is familiar with Russian cinema has seen Igor Beketov on the screens. For example, in the famous TV series “Operation Puppeteer” (2013), where the actor played the role of a doctor.

As mentioned above, Beketov graduated from theater school, and 15 years later received a diploma from VGIK, where he studied in the workshop of Y. Nazarov and Y. Kara. The actor's total experience is almost 30 years. Throughout his life, Igor managed to work both at the Dnepropetrovsk Theater and in (Moscow), as well as with the Mosfilm studio.

Filmography

Throughout his life, Beketov played more than 15 roles in different films. The total number includes TV series, full-length films, and simple episodic roles that are barely noticeable to the average viewer. For example, in the series “Interns,” which was broadcast on the TNT channel, Beketov played the role of a nervous and violent patient. It would seem a very short and unremarkable role, but after that the actor took part in almost 7 different projects, as he declared himself. Let's look at Gosha Tarasevich (I. Beketov):

1. Series "Without a Take". The actor was only involved in the pilot episode. Beketov got the main role, where he played the nephew of the featured hero.
2. The series "Balzac's age, or all men are the same... 5 years later." Repeatedly appeared in episodes as the main character's fiancé.
3. Detective reality show "Prosecutor's Check", aired on the NTV channel. This is a staged series based on real events, where crimes and administrative violations are investigated. Tarasevich took part in three episodes in 2012 and 2013, playing the role of both a local police officer and a neighbor of the victim.
4. The serial detective story “Operation Puppeteer”, where the actor played the role of a doctor. Perhaps this is one of Beketov’s most memorable roles, as the genre of the series attracts more and more viewers throughout Russia. The main idea of ​​the series is that the main investigator has a mystical gift that helps him solve crimes.

How “Gosha Tarasevich” appeared

The actor and leader of the SERB movement received dual citizenship in 2015. Beketov received the name “Igor” from his parents at birth. Gosha Tarasevich appeared immediately after the organization of the political movement.

SERB movement: ideology

In his interviews, Gosha Tarasevich repeatedly said that the action itself was based on the fight against Ukrainian fascists. Immediately after the political conflict on the territory of Ukraine, Beketov’s entire movement was subject to persecution. As a result, the activists along with the leaders left the country.

Throughout the existence of the movement, Tarasevich has repeatedly mentioned that his main idea is to promote the Russian world to the masses. He strives to reduce insults to the Russian President. Moreover, the action exists only on its own initiative, without the support of the Russian government. SERB is not a nationalist movement. A Kazakh, a Russian, a Ukrainian, or a Jew can become an activist in the movement. There are no restrictions or boundaries, because the main thing is the common goal and idea.

Why did Beketov change his activities?

Living in Dnepropetrovsk, Gosha Tarasevich found himself literally in the center of events. He was outraged that many political figures and activists began to be taken into custody. This forced the actor to fight the opposition. Fighting for the freedom of political prisoners, Tarasevich and other leaders, without expecting it themselves, began to fight against the Ukrainian fascists.

SERB is an acronym that hides the name “South-Eastern Russian Bloc”. Although the movement was initially called radical. Despite the fact that leaders and activists had to flee Ukraine, their movement continues to develop and is still fighting the opposition in Kharkov, Donetsk and Dnepropetrovsk. Beketov openly defends the rights of Crimea and supports the President of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the leaders of the movement do not rebel against oppositionists like Navalny.

Financial support and other oppositionists

All of Gosha Tarasevich’s activities are based on his own contributions. At the same time, SERB does not accept grants, which often lead to the breakdown of political movements. Also, the leaders do not “hold their breath” and do not fight either Anti-Maidan or the NOD. All activities may or may not be carried out within the framework of the law, but all of its activities are designed so as not to lead to the emergence of new political prisoners.

Tarasevich sincerely loves Ukraine, because he spent most of his life in Dnepropetrovsk. In one of his interviews, Igor said that as soon as the government changes in Ukraine, he will certainly return there. He saw in all conflict events a completely different outcome that would help avoid unnecessary war and interethnic strife.

Since the advent of SERB, the actor has been receiving threats on multiple occasions. Although liberal oppositionists do not use force, they often try to intimidate Tarasevich with reprisals. Beketov was repeatedly attacked by opposition members during protests in 2015.

Beketov refuses to recognize himself as a 100% politician. His main activity is acting, and the movement he created is just a way to help people stop the senseless war.

Public opinion is against Tarasevich

Immediately after the events in Ukraine, many began to respond to Tarasevich as a third-rate actor who wanted to break into the masses. And the best way to express oneself was an interethnic military conflict. Many bloggers spoke of the SERB movement as an attempt to attract audience attention to their activities and glorify their name. or not, you and I are unlikely to know.

The fact remains a fact. The events in Ukraine took place, the echo still makes many people tremble, actions against the Ukrainian fascists were carried out, and Beketov still remains an actor who played, albeit not the main roles in famous films, but has repeatedly appeared on television screens.