Rosfinmonitoring added Roman Popkov, a publicist and former leader of the Moscow branch of the National Bolshevik Party, to the register of extremists and terrorists. The telegram channel that monitors changes in the registry drew attention to this.
As Popkov noted, his name was entered on the list with incorrect data. The column of the place of birth indicates the village of Grabarovka, Pogarsky district, Bryansk region. “I was born and raised in the city of Bryansk, where I am registered. I have never even been in the Pogarsky district in my life, ”the publicist wrote.
Popkov was a member of the NBP in the 2000s. In 2008, he was sentenced to two years and three months in prison because of a fight with activists of the pro-Kremlin movement «Lost» who attacked the National Bolsheviks. Later, he worked for Open Russia, MBKh Media, and Vot so. Since 2022, Popkov began to participate in the broadcasts and events of the former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev living in Ukraine.
The day after the death of pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in an explosion in a St. Petersburg cafe, SHOT and Beware the News suggested that Popkov might be involved in the murder. According to the Telegram channels with links to anonymous sources, the publicist “processed” Daria Trepova, who eventually handed Tatarsky a figurine with explosives.
Popkov himself explained that he knew the girl only on social networks and called the assumptions about his involvement in the blogger's death a lie. “I have been living in Kyiv for a long time, I am a journalist — I write on the Vot Tak website, I specialize in covering the war and the partisan movement. In addition, with a team of fellow volunteers, I run the Rospartizan telegram channels. and "The day after tomorrow",» Popkov added then.
Supporters of “Navalny’s ideology” and Ukrainian saboteurs. Whom the FSB calls involved in the murder of Z-blogger Vladlen Tatarsky