{"id":5228,"date":"2015-09-02T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T10:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:22:46","slug":"russian-cossacks-as-the-russia-s-ministry-of-defense-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-cossacks-as-the-russia-s-ministry-of-defense-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Cossacks as the Russia&#8217;s Ministry of Defense Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue disclosing\u00a0and identification of the Russian militants&#8217; sidekickers and international terrorists who fight in Ukraine in the ranks of the illegal armed formations of &#8216;DPR\/LPR&#8217;. We identified citizens from\u00a0both CIS and non-CIS states among this &#8216;international rabble&#8217;.\u00a0<strong>But the vast majority of the &#8216;volunteers&#8217; are the citizens of the Russian Federation, consisting of various kinds of military-patriotic and Cossack organizations, which are cleverly manipulated by the Russian special services in the interests of the aggressive policy of the Kremlin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A vivid confirmation of this is the information placed on the page &#8220;<a class=\"wl_owner_head_name\" href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/club44020980\" target=\"_blank\">Kuban Cossack sports school &#8216;Basko'&#8221;<\/a>. It is about the military\u00a0training which took place at <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/club44020980?w=wall-44020980_303\">a training site near the village of Molkino (Russia)<\/a> in the end of August and involved around 600 Cossacks who\u00a0had the combat practical classes. The training agenda included lessons on tactics, shooting with AK and SVD rifles,\u00a0passing\u00a0obstacle courses, familiarization\u00a0with the modern samples of small arms, armored vehicles and tanks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12260 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor-3.jpg\" alt=\"sbor 3\" width=\"798\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12261\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor--230x130.jpg\" alt=\"sbor\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12262\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor-1-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"sbor 1\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The village of Molkino (Krasnodar krai, Russia) is placed near\u00a0a military training ground which is used for training military units of the Southern Military District. Also the 10th separate special forces brigade is located in Molkino, and this is the brigade where the &#8216;volunteers&#8217; were trained before being sent to Donbas\u00a0a year ago (please refer to &#8216;Russia as the sponsor of the international terrorism: militants training camps in the Russian territory&#8217;, <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/1707-rossyjskye-naemnyky-na-sluzhbe-u-rossyjskoj-armyy\">in Russian<\/a>). Also <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/selfies-of-the-10th-special-purpose-brigade-of-the-russian-gru-geolocated-in-luhansk\/\">a\u00a0group of the 10th brigade&#8217;s servicemen was disclosed in Luhansk in July, 2015<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The current article is about the Stavropol Cossack commnity (&#8216;Mineralovodskoye town Cossacks community&#8217; of the Tver Cossacks, to be precise). The members of this community are the &#8216;veterans&#8217; and participants of the Crimea annexation in 2014, they also are regularly seen in the &#8216;Vostok&#8217; battalion\u00a0in Donbas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12263 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-5.jpg\" alt=\"vladimir - bidzina foto 5\" width=\"698\" height=\"536\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;hero&#8217; of our investigation is <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id204425962\">Shamanauri Bidzina Vazhaevich<\/a>, born on December 24, 1990, an ethnic Georgian who lives in Mineralnye Vody (Russia). He is the one who gave Cossacks away in Crimea and Donbas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-VK-profile-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-VK-profile-5.jpg\" alt=\"B. Shamanauri VK profile 5\" width=\"679\" height=\"805\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bidzina-foto-boevik-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12266 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bidzina-foto-boevik-1.jpg\" alt=\"bidzina foto boevik 1\" width=\"697\" height=\"737\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His parents are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>father &#8211; Shamanauri Vazha, born in 1961, lives in Tbilisi, Georgia.<\/li>\n<li>mother &#8211; Karina Panibrat (Oganezova), born in 1968, lives in Kaliningrad, Russia.\u00a0Despite Bidzina Shamanauri&#8217;s\u00a0parents are divorced and he hasn&#8217;t been to Georgia for a while, he still stays in touch with his father and relatives.<\/li>\n<li>Sisters &#8211; Shamanauri Maya, born in 1986, and Shamanauri Nina, born in 1985, who live in Mineralnye Vody, Russia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Note: More information can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/psb4ukr.org\/criminal\/shamanauri-bidzina-vazhaevich\/\">the &#8216;Mirotvorets&#8217; center&#8217;s database<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The most interesting fact about Midzina and other Cossacks from Mineral Vody is\u00a0the medal &#8216;For returning the Crimea&#8217; (a legal reward of the Russia&#8217;s Ministry of Defense) on an order of Russian Federation MD No. 109 from February 24, 2015, signed by Stavropol krai&#8217;s\u00a0chief enlistment officer.<\/strong>\u00a0It was also mentioned on the official Cossack&#8217;s community website on May 15, 2015 (&#8216;Commendation to Mineralnye Vody Cossack Community members\u00a0for returning the Crimea&#8217;,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kazak-kmv.ru\/%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC-%D0%BC%D0%B3%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%B7%D0%B0-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0\/\">in Russian<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kazak-kmv-vozvrashenie-Krima-Bidzina-medal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12267\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kazak-kmv-vozvrashenie-Krima-Bidzina-medal.jpg\" alt=\"kazak-kmv vozvrashenie Krima Bidzina medal\" width=\"900\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kazak-kmv-vozvrashenie-Krima-Bidzina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12268\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kazak-kmv-vozvrashenie-Krima-Bidzina-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"kazak-kmv vozvrashenie Krima Bidzina\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-gramlove-medal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12269\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-gramlove-medal-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"B. Shamanauri gramlove medal\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last photos made by\u00a0Badzina Shamanauri and his brothers-in-arms\u00a0contain pictures from Donbas including the\u00a0Donetsk-Pivnichny rail road hub area and Spartak village council (Yasynuvata raion, Donetsk Oblast) plundered by the mentioned militants (see &#8220;Russian mercenaries are shocked by the Donbas militants&#8217; looting&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/divannaya-sotnya.com.ua\/ATO\/za-eto-rasstrelivat-malo-naemniki-iz-rf-potryaseny-maroderstvom-donbasskih-boevikov-video.html\">in Russian<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-VK-profile-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12264 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-VK-profile-4.jpg\" alt=\"B. Shamanauri VK profile 4\" width=\"688\" height=\"715\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12270\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-3-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"vladimir - bidzina foto 3\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12271\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-4-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"vladimir - bidzina foto 4\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.S. B. Shamanauri is not the first ethnic Georgian who fights against Ukraine in the ranks of &#8216;Novorossiya&#8217; armed formations. We have already disclosed and identified other such militants &#8211; &#8216;Gogi&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/6305-gogy-gruzynskyj-zyat-dnr\">Teimuraz Gogiashvili<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/inter-national-terrorism-singularity-gia-problem\/\">Gia &#8216;Problem&#8217; Djogerdishvili<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/12135-osobennosty-ynter-natsyonalnogo-terroryzma-bydzyna-shamanaury-yz-ryazhennyh\">Original article<\/a> by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\" target=\"_blank\">Irakli Komakhidze<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0<a title=\"krmvictory\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krmvictory\" target=\"_blank\">krmvictory<\/a><\/em>, translated by Oleksandr Klymenko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue disclosing\u00a0and identification of the Russian militants&#8217; sidekickers and international terrorists who fight in Ukraine in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[528,5],"tags":[357],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-terrorussians","tag-russian-aggression"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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We identified citizens from\u00a0both CIS and non-CIS states among this 'international rabble'.\u00a0<strong>But the vast majority of the 'volunteers' are the citizens of the Russian Federation, consisting of various kinds of military-patriotic and Cossack organizations, which are cleverly manipulated by the Russian special services in the interests of the aggressive policy of the Kremlin.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nA vivid confirmation of this is the information placed on the page \"<a class=\"wl_owner_head_name\" href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/club44020980\" target=\"_blank\">Kuban Cossack sports school 'Basko'\"<\/a>. It is about the military\u00a0training which took place at <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/club44020980?w=wall-44020980_303\">a training site near the village of Molkino (Russia)<\/a> in the end of August and involved around 600 Cossacks who\u00a0had the combat practical classes. The training agenda included lessons on tactics, shooting with AK and SVD rifles,\u00a0passing\u00a0obstacle courses, familiarization\u00a0with the modern samples of small arms, armored vehicles and tanks.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12260 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor-3.jpg\" alt=\"sbor 3\" width=\"798\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor-.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12261\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor--230x130.jpg\" alt=\"sbor\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor-1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12262\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sbor-1-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"sbor 1\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<em>Note: The village of Molkino (Krasnodar krai, Russia) is placed near\u00a0a military training ground which is used for training military units of the Southern Military District. Also the 10th separate special forces brigade is located in Molkino, and this is the brigade where the 'volunteers' were trained before being sent to Donbas\u00a0a year ago (please refer to 'Russia as the sponsor of the international terrorism: militants training camps in the Russian territory', <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/1707-rossyjskye-naemnyky-na-sluzhbe-u-rossyjskoj-armyy\">in Russian<\/a>). Also <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/selfies-of-the-10th-special-purpose-brigade-of-the-russian-gru-geolocated-in-luhansk\/\">a\u00a0group of the 10th brigade's servicemen was disclosed in Luhansk in July, 2015<\/a>.<\/em>\r\n\r\nThe current article is about the Stavropol Cossack commnity ('Mineralovodskoye town Cossacks community' of the Tver Cossacks, to be precise). The members of this community are the 'veterans' and participants of the Crimea annexation in 2014, they also are regularly seen in the 'Vostok' battalion\u00a0in Donbas.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-5.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12263 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-5.jpg\" alt=\"vladimir - bidzina foto 5\" width=\"698\" height=\"536\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThe 'hero' of our investigation is <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/id204425962\">Shamanauri Bidzina Vazhaevich<\/a>, born on December 24, 1990, an ethnic Georgian who lives in Mineralnye Vody (Russia). He is the one who gave Cossacks away in Crimea and Donbas.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-VK-profile-5.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-VK-profile-5.jpg\" alt=\"B. Shamanauri VK profile 5\" width=\"679\" height=\"805\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bidzina-foto-boevik-1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12266 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bidzina-foto-boevik-1.jpg\" alt=\"bidzina foto boevik 1\" width=\"697\" height=\"737\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nHis parents are:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>father - Shamanauri Vazha, born in 1961, lives in Tbilisi, Georgia.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>mother - Karina Panibrat (Oganezova), born in 1968, lives in Kaliningrad, Russia.\u00a0Despite Bidzina Shamanauri's\u00a0parents are divorced and he hasn't been to Georgia for a while, he still stays in touch with his father and relatives.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Sisters - Shamanauri Maya, born in 1986, and Shamanauri Nina, born in 1985, who live in Mineralnye Vody, Russia.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<em>Note: More information can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/psb4ukr.org\/criminal\/shamanauri-bidzina-vazhaevich\/\">the 'Mirotvorets' center's database<\/a>.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong>The most interesting fact about Midzina and other Cossacks from Mineral Vody is\u00a0the medal 'For returning the Crimea' (a legal reward of the Russia's Ministry of Defense) on an order of Russian Federation MD No. 109 from February 24, 2015, signed by Stavropol krai's\u00a0chief enlistment officer.<\/strong>\u00a0It was also mentioned on the official Cossack's community website on May 15, 2015 ('Commendation to Mineralnye Vody Cossack Community members\u00a0for returning the Crimea',\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kazak-kmv.ru\/%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC-%D0%BC%D0%B3%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%B7%D0%B0-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0\/\">in Russian<\/a>).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kazak-kmv-vozvrashenie-Krima-Bidzina-medal.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12267\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kazak-kmv-vozvrashenie-Krima-Bidzina-medal.jpg\" alt=\"kazak-kmv vozvrashenie Krima Bidzina medal\" width=\"900\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kazak-kmv-vozvrashenie-Krima-Bidzina.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12268\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kazak-kmv-vozvrashenie-Krima-Bidzina-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"kazak-kmv vozvrashenie Krima Bidzina\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-gramlove-medal.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12269\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-gramlove-medal-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"B. Shamanauri gramlove medal\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThe last photos made by\u00a0Badzina Shamanauri and his brothers-in-arms\u00a0contain pictures from Donbas including the\u00a0Donetsk-Pivnichny rail road hub area and Spartak village council (Yasynuvata raion, Donetsk Oblast) plundered by the mentioned militants (see \"Russian mercenaries are shocked by the Donbas militants' looting\", <a href=\"http:\/\/divannaya-sotnya.com.ua\/ATO\/za-eto-rasstrelivat-malo-naemniki-iz-rf-potryaseny-maroderstvom-donbasskih-boevikov-video.html\">in Russian<\/a>).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-VK-profile-4.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-12264 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/B.-Shamanauri-VK-profile-4.jpg\" alt=\"B. Shamanauri VK profile 4\" width=\"688\" height=\"715\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12270\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-3-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"vladimir - bidzina foto 3\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-4.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12271\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vladimir-bidzina-foto-4-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"vladimir - bidzina foto 4\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nP.S. B. Shamanauri is not the first ethnic Georgian who fights against Ukraine in the ranks of 'Novorossiya' armed formations. We have already disclosed and identified other such militants - 'Gogi' <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/6305-gogy-gruzynskyj-zyat-dnr\">Teimuraz Gogiashvili<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/inter-national-terrorism-singularity-gia-problem\/\">Gia 'Problem' Djogerdishvili<\/a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/12135-osobennosty-ynter-natsyonalnogo-terroryzma-bydzyna-shamanaury-yz-ryazhennyh\">Original article<\/a> by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irakli.komaxidze\" target=\"_blank\">Irakli Komakhidze<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0<a title=\"krmvictory\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krmvictory\" target=\"_blank\">krmvictory<\/a><\/em>, translated by Oleksandr Klymenko","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5235,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions\/5235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}