{"id":13986,"date":"2018-09-14T06:27:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T06:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=13986"},"modified":"2018-11-14T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:29:00","slug":"busted-ruslan-boshirovs-and-alexander-petrovs-cover-story-turns-out-to-be-fake-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/busted-ruslan-boshirovs-and-alexander-petrovs-cover-story-turns-out-to-be-fake-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Busted: Ruslan Boshirov\u2019s and Alexander Petrov\u2019s cover story turns out to be fake (interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>InformNapalm caught the GRU agents lying about one of their cover story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When watching the suspects in Sergey and Julia Skripal nerve gas attack give an exclusive interview to the RT editor Margarita Simonyan, InformNapalm volunteers decided to apply open-source intelligence (OSINT) methods to some of the details offered by GRU agents \u201cAlexander Petrov\u201d and \u201cRuslan Boshirov\u201d. It turns out that they lied in front of the camera, and did it rather crudely.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"978\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_V5oz8t1CDI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The agents claimed they were <strong>entrepreneurs<\/strong>, not GRU officers. \u201cIf we tell you about our business, the people we work with will suffer,\u201d said Boshirov. \u201cTo cut a long story short, we are in the fitness industry: vitamins, nutrients, proteins and weight gainers,\u201d said Petrov.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, their last names and passports are fake. But as their faces were caught on CCTV, the Kremlin had to pretend that the names were real so as to hide their true identities as well as not to expose other agents and the line of command in this operation.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is, unlike \u201cPetrov\u201d or \u201cBAshirov\u201d, \u201cBOshirov\u201d is not a very common last name in Russia. So, it was the choice of this particular last name that compromised the agents\u2019 cover story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russia has an open register of businesses and entrepreneurs, which is accessible online and normally works reliably. However, it does not contain any data about &#8220;sole entrepreneur Ruslan Boshirov&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/boshyrov.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13988\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/boshyrov.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1277\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/boshyrov.png 1277w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/boshyrov-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/boshyrov-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/boshyrov-1024x579.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1277px) 100vw, 1277px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Googling in Russian &#8220;Ruslan Boshirov bodybuilding supplements&#8221; returns zero hits, too.\u00a0Nor there is a legal entity with a Ruslan Boshirov among its founders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is, the GRU agents\u2019 cover story does not hold water even at the first light prod. They made a visible effort not to blab out anything sitting all stiff and tense during the interview. However, Margarita Simonyan did a fine job asking the GRU agents a question that helped expose a small lie covering the big one.<\/p>\n<p>President Putin\u2019s bravado speculating that these guys would come for an interview and the fact that they were finally interviewed by a state-run Russian media outlet should be the matter of a separate analysis. Russian president got carried away playing poker while the civilized world is trying to make him play fairly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8997\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The analysis was prepared by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100010235495201\">Mikhail Kuznetsov<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/burkonews\">Roman Burko<\/a>\u00a0especially for InformNapalm. 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It turns out that they lied in front of the camera, and did it rather crudely.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/_V5oz8t1CDI\r\n\r\nThe agents claimed they were <strong>entrepreneurs<\/strong>, not GRU officers. \u201cIf we tell you about our business, the people we work with will suffer,\u201d said Boshirov. \u201cTo cut a long story short, we are in the fitness industry: vitamins, nutrients, proteins and weight gainers,\u201d said Petrov.\r\n\r\nApparently, their last names and passports are fake. But as their faces were caught on CCTV, the Kremlin had to pretend that the names were real so as to hide their true identities as well as not to expose other agents and the line of command in this operation.\r\n\r\nThe trouble is, unlike \u201cPetrov\u201d or \u201cBAshirov\u201d, \u201cBOshirov\u201d is not a very common last name in Russia. So, it was the choice of this particular last name that compromised the agents\u2019 cover story.\r\n\r\n<strong>Russia has an open register of businesses and entrepreneurs, which is accessible online and normally works reliably. However, it does not contain any data about \"sole entrepreneur Ruslan Boshirov\".<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/boshyrov.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13988\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/boshyrov.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1277\" height=\"722\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Googling in Russian \"Ruslan Boshirov bodybuilding supplements\" returns zero hits, too.\u00a0Nor there is a legal entity with a Ruslan Boshirov among its founders.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThat is, the GRU agents\u2019 cover story does not hold water even at the first light prod. They made a visible effort not to blab out anything sitting all stiff and tense during the interview. However, Margarita Simonyan did a fine job asking the GRU agents a question that helped expose a small lie covering the big one.\r\n\r\nPresident Putin\u2019s bravado speculating that these guys would come for an interview and the fact that they were finally interviewed by a state-run Russian media outlet should be the matter of a separate analysis. Russian president got carried away playing poker while the civilized world is trying to make him play fairly.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-8997\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The analysis was prepared by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100010235495201\">Mikhail Kuznetsov<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/burkonews\">Roman Burko<\/a>\u00a0especially for InformNapalm. 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