The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put gallery owner Marat Gelman (known in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) on the wanted list. The corresponding card appeared at: basis December 20
The card reads: “Basis for search: wanted pursuant to Criminal Code”. It doesn’t say what article it is.
The Interior Ministry also states that Gelman holds Israeli citizenship.
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In August 2020, Gelman’s Moscow apartment was searched in the case of Yulia Ilyinskaya, a Russian woman who found a vacancy in the Central Election at various polling stations in Israel during voting for amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Commission system: “Stop Double” uses internal passport data, and Russians abroad vote for passports. Ilinskaya was finally able to collect one ballot from afar, and the other two at the ballot box at the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv and the consulate general in Haifa.
The court ruling on the search stated that Ilyinskaya lived “with the father of her child, Gelman Marat Aleksandrovich”, in the indicated apartment. After the searches, Gelman published a post on social networks in which he denied this fact.
In his comment, “the whole world probably knows that I live in Montenegro with a legal wife and three children, but a particular court found that “I actually live with Yulia Ilyinskaya in Ostozhenka”. knowledgeable In an interview with RBC, he said security forces “found nothing and left”. Later, in an interview with Kommersant FM, he confirmed that he and Ilyinskaya have a common child, but that “nothing has connected them for a long time,” and she had never been in this apartment.
On August 27, the Cheryomushkinsky Court in Moscow arrested Ilinskaya in absentia. Anatoly Viktorov, Russian Ambassador to Israel pointedHe was placed on the “Interpol included” wanted list.
Russian woman again in the Duma elections in September 2021 managed to cheat The system takes two ballots for voting – physical and electronic.
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In 2001, Gelman worked in a team of political advisers to the Ukrainian politician and businessman Viktor Medvedchuk, and in 2004 he joined Viktor Yanukovych’s headquarters before the presidential election.
From 2002 to 2004 Gelman was Deputy Director General of Channel One OJSC Konstantin Ernst.
He founded the PERMM Museum in 2009 and has curated many of his exhibition projects. The gallerist was heavily criticized for both spending public money and using a religious theme. Bishop of Stavropol Kirill argued“Gelman’s work is not about real culture and is intended to incite interreligious and interethnic hatred.” In June 2013, Gelman was fired without any explanation. The gallery owner announced the dismissal with “censorship”.
He went to Montenegro in 2014. She opened the Dukley European Art Community art residence in Kotor in 2015.
On December 30 last year, Gelman was included in the foreign media register, along with publisher Viktor Shenderovich (known as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) and Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (known as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation). agents. Roskomnadzor in February made Administrative protocol against a gallery owner for not tagging a “foreign agent” in their Twitter posts. For one offense (Part 1 of Article 19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation), a fine of 10 thousand rubles is imposed.