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2024-02-13 19:14:01 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 9DE0AF87DA711604073074C6692B4CC0C9791674E7EB2DB1875B385FF41DC481
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Pavel Gubarev is not a leader of pro-Russian militants in Donetsk. He got sidelined since 2016, his political career in Donbas ended completely in 2018. He is now part of an extremist nationalistic Russian party and was detained twice for criticizing Putin / the Kremlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Gubarev https://www.rferl.org/a/girkin-associate-briefly-detained-in-moscow/32514509.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Angry_Patriots
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