A Death That Demands Scrutiny, Not Sainthood
We condemn the killing of Robert Kuzovkov, known online as Semyon Skrepetsky, without reservation. No one deserves to be shot dead in a parking lot, regardless of who they were.
But in the hours after his death, much of the Western media settled into a familiar and incurious frame: a Kremlin critic silenced, a political execution, a martyr for free speech. That story may turn out to be true. It may not. What's clear is that almost none of the outlets repeating it have asked who this man actually was.
That is the story worth investigating. Not a hero. A case.
Semyon Skrepecky Semyon Skrepeckij, real name Robert Mubaryakovich Kuzovkov, is a Russian blogger living in Poland. He arrived with his wife and five children before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, yet somehow managed to obtain political asylum. But there is one glaring question: how did a man with a violent criminal record in Russia qualify as a refugee in Poland?
Criminal Past in Russia
Court records show that in 2005, Kuzovkov was convicted of violent robbery (Article 161, Part 2 of the Russian Criminal Code) and sentenced to prison. After serving his sentence, he had no political activity, no documented opposition ties, and no record of persecution by the Russian state. By any reasonable standard, this background should have excluded him from asylum in the EU. Yet, somehow, he crossed into Poland and was granted protection. Maybe the famous FSB got involed? He does say that only FSB has his case file...
Since relocating to Poland:
He has not worked a single day legally.
He has not learned the Polish language.
He lives off donations and unregistered sales of amateur paintings, funneled into his wife’s bank account to avoid taxes.
He regularly boasts that he “owes nothing to anyone,” treating the host system with open disdain.
Kuzovkov has gone further, openly promoting drug use:
He glorifies magic mushrooms and has been linked to LSD distribution.
He once sent a parcel from Poland to Italy with LSD and mushrooms for fellow blogger Sergey Kirsanov.
He accidentally exposed himself on Telegram by posting about a zakladka (dead drop) drug purchase, which he quickly deleted. But Internet remembers everything.
During live streams, he often appears drunk or high, even while responsible for five children, two of whom are still underage.
X - https://x.com/SSkrepetsk39163
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/skrepetski_live_/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SimonSkrepecki and https://youtube.com/channel/UCHbNxnZIGbsrb-1vpExUqPw?si=4VTE9Asju1JH_P6B
Telegram-bot - https://t.me/Skrepetskiybot
This image serves as a textbook example of the profound disconnect between a staged public gesture and genuine personal convictions. On one hand, the photograph captures a picture-perfect moment of European solidarity: smiles, an embrace with a prominent anti-war activist, and the Ukrainian flag flying high over Venice. This is the curated image designed specifically for Western audiences, human rights organizations, and immigration authorities.
On the other hand is the true face hidden behind that very flag. Just weeks prior, the exact same individual holding the flagpole was publishing vitriolic, dehumanizing rants, dismissing the country he now uses as a political shield in deeply derogatory terms. This isn’t a sudden change of heart; it is a calculated performance. It exposes a bitter reality where human tragedy and national symbols are treated merely as currency for social validation and personal safety, while the underlying contempt remains entirely unchanged.
The post says:
"This is all what I'm getting at—don't be surprised when soon everyone tells Ukraine to go f*** themselves. I held on for a very long time, but Ukraine is an insolent, ungrateful, and completely entitled pig. And soon she will be given to Russia to be torn to pieces."
English Translation of the Post:
Колбасисты паскудного дня [Sausage-makers of a nasty day]
4 Jun, 01:12
Fuck! That little fool is still running around Ukraine with his helmet and shitting his pants. What kind of games was he distributing "potuzhnist" [resilience] at over there, the Paralympics?
All of this is paired with his constant hate speech against Ukrainians.
His rhetoric is xenophobic and extremist, violating Polish and European hate-speech laws (Articles 256 and 257 of the Penal Code).
He positions himself as a “truth-teller” while spewing nonstop anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
Some concentrated rage and hate
Ukrainians infuriate me!
Volnov false accusation. Claiming only FSB has his case/file
Admitting to LSD consumption
100 % pure rage against Ukranians
"Ukrainians are trying to make me repent before them and feel sorry for them. I have nothing to do with Okhmatdyt, and I won't feel sorry for you. You f***ing f***ots are trading on your grief, contempt for you, go f**k yourselves. Right now in connection with the US and Europe tragedy they'll send you more money and you'll steal it and wait for the next tragedy. So the Ukrainian — get off my channel. Contempt for you. Whoever I see I'll ban."
— this was his reaction to followers asking why he wasn't writing about the Russian missile strike on Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv.
"HOLODOMOR COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!!!
Putin give me 10 dollars and I'll starve my mother and burn my neighbors!!!
© Ukrainian Mykola"
— mockery of the Holodomor, Ukraine's genocide by starvation.
Semyon Skrepetsky
Cock-a-doodle-doo!!! I’m a khokhol (derogatory term for a Ukrainian), I’m a sucker, I got hit by a Russian!!! Give money, faggots!!! The further things go, the more I despise the fucking khokhols. And just literally two years ago I sympathized with them, called them chickenshit cowards, and donated to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, taking the last money away from my own family. Now I understand that in Europe you can safely piss on any faggot who walks around here with a Ukrainian flag. Why? Because he’s a fucking draft-dodger.
Semyon Skrepetsky
Instructions for my followers.
You’re walking around Europe and you see a Ukrainian flag. If the person with the flag is male, immediately go up to him and piss on that faggot. He’s a draft-dodger. If the person with the flag is female, first ask what kind of man she’s screwing, then piss on her. In any case, before you piss on a khokhol, ask why that faggot isn’t at the front defending Khokhlostan (a derogatory name for Ukraine).
Semyon Skrepetsky
Pure hatred and contempt for the khokhol-faggots. They are the most unprincipled, shameful degenerates, who are ready to sell their own children for organs. Filth.
Semyon Skrepetsky
But honestly, I’d piss on someone carrying a Russian flag first and foremost. Purely out of love for beauty. And only then would I piss on a khokhol, because he’s a draft-dodger. I used to despise only Russians; now khokhols have been added to those I despise.
Notes on terms:
Хохол (khokhol) is a derogatory ethnic slur for Ukrainians.
Ухилянт (ukhilyant) means a person evading military service or mobilization; "draft dodger" is the closest English equivalent.
Хохлостан (Khokhlostan) is a mocking, derogatory nickname for Ukraine.
Пидорас / пидор is a very offensive Russian slur roughly equivalent to "faggot."
The Ukrainians are crowing indignantly, they don't like that I am discussing Ukraine.
But what else am I supposed to discuss? Ukraine right now is the most important spot in the world, the whole world is discussing it and is fucking shocked by the unprincipled faggots who are robbing themselves while they are being killed.
Therefore, I will continue to discuss Ukraine until you are completely fucked.
The "Civil Rights Martyr" Who Mocked LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers and "Stupid Europeans"
"And yet, nowadays, any Russian Vanka [ordinary Russian guy] who doesn't have an asylum case can just ask for international protection by saying he’s a homosexual. Stupid Europeans and Americans, they don't measure your ass with a caliper, everything is based on trust. 😁"
The "Ally of Colonized Peoples" Telling Belarusians to Shut Up
rombl19: "Ugh, nonsense, another 'good Russian' [a sarcastic term for Russians who claim to be liberal but retain imperial mindsets]."
semyon_skrepetsky (Author): "@rombl19 No Mykola, I am not a good Russian, I am a very bad Russian."
rombl19: "@semyon_skrepetsky [You are a] vatnik, I am Belarusian, what does Mykola have to do with it?"
semyon_skrepetsky (Author): "@rombl19 Go f** yourself, Belarusian. You should just shut your beak altogether and keep your mouth shut."*
Weaponizing Homophobia to Target Muslims
In this image Kuzovkov (Skrepetsky) uses crude internet trolling to target multiple marginalized communities simultaneously. He sarcastically declares Chechnya—a deeply conservative, predominantly Muslim region—to be the "capital of world fashion" by explicitly linking it to a "hat made of gay wool." This is a calculated attempt to weaponize LGBTQ+ themes to mock and degrade Muslim cultural sensitivities. To drive his point home, he invents the derogatory compound slur "zoogomoktivisty" (зоогомоктивисты—maliciously combining terms for bestiality, homosexuality, and activism), showcasing his reliance on dehumanizing shock-value content.
English Translation of the Telegram Post:
Checkmate to those who doubted the truth of my words when I talked about the Chechen hat made of gay wool! Chechnya is the capital of world fashion!
At a fashion show in New York, clothing made from gay wool was presented.
This is not a mistake and not a joke: zoogomoktivisty [zoo-homo-activists] really made a clothing collection from the wool of rams who did not want to mate with ewes and kept only with other males the entire time.
The German farmer who deals with this gay wool takes the rams from other farms, because only slaughter for meat awaits them there.
Doxxing as a Weapon
Beyond rhetoric, Kuzovkov has also engaged in direct harassment with real-world consequences. At one point, a Ukrainian member of his chat fell out of favor with him — reportedly after disagreeing with or opposing him — and Kuzovkov responded by publishing that person's personal data online. How he obtained this information is unclear, but the act itself crossed a line from inflammatory speech into targeted harassment, exposing a private individual to potential harm simply for disagreeing with him.
Openly disrespecting christian and idiological values of Poland
Chanting "We are the power here!" wearing quetionable outfit next to a Christian sight.
In Poland, there is a ban on communist symbols. Here we have traces of both symbols and lyrics.
In this post forwarded from his official channel, Kuzovkov (Skrepetsky) completely exposes his internal contradictions and deep-seated prejudices. While trying to separate himself from pro-Putin Russians, he unleashes casual hate speech, severe homophobic slurs, and regional stereotypes. Most shockingly for someone being promoted as a "pro-Ukrainian hero," he explicitly insults Ukrainians fleeing the war, stating he refuses to ever introduce himself as a Ukrainian because he doesn't want to be looked at as a cowardly "draft dodger" (ukhilyant).
English Translation of the Telegram Post:
The other day, a strange incident happened to me. In Warsaw, a guy approached me and started talking in a really strange language. Not Polish, not Russian, and not Ukrainian, but some kind of mix. I said I didn't understand. He asked where I was from. I replied that I was from Russia. He said he was from Slovakia and asked for some spare change for food. He was an older guy, neat, dark-skinned but didn't look like a Gypsy. I gave him 20 zlotys and walked on. And behind my back, he started shouting—"Glory to Russia!" And this isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened to me.
And here is the problem—the majority of Russians living in Europe are adequate people. Except for the Germans. In Germany, there is a mega shit-ton of Russian-German faggots [пидорасов], lovers of Khuylo [Putin], and in the Baltic states, there are many Russian degenerates [выродков] whom the Estonians, Lithuanians, and Latvians didn't deport back in the day out of pity. But in Poland, Czechia, France, the Netherlands, Spain, etc., there are a lot of adequate Russians who escaped from the GULAG. In their absolute majority, these Russians are the best representatives of Russia. Smart, educated, hardworking, brave, and strong in spirit. People who weren't afraid to drop everything and leave into the unknown, into a new life.
The core of the problem is that Europeans look at us and think all Russians are like that [the pro-Putin ones]. And how to deal with this, fucking knows. I can't introduce myself as a Ukrainian. I don't want people to look at me with recognition, as if I'm a draft dodger [ухилянта]. I could introduce myself as a Belarusian, but I don't like potatoes.
No Homeland, No Culture, No Flag
Following his disdain for neighboring nationalities, Kuzovkov (Skrepetsky) takes his identity erasure a step further in. Here, he explicitly rejects his own indigenous Bashkir roots, reducing an entire ethnic group to a crude stereotype. When challenged on his heritage, he completely detaches himself from any national identity, claiming that a total lack of cultural or national belonging is what makes him a "free man."
English Translation of the Comments:
"And what kind of national heroes do the Bashkirs even have? Bashkirs are just a bunch of Russified drunks. Tfu [spits] on you, mankurts."
"I have no homeland, culture, or flag, I am a free man."
He is a man of a thousand faces, none of them honest. When he wants to look superior, he identifies as a "Russian elite" escaped from the GULAG. But the moment he’s confronted with the reality of being "rusnya," he hides behind his Bashkortostan roots to play the victim. He uses his ethnicity not as a point of pride, but as a tactical shield to deflect accountability for the very chauvinism he spreads.