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Showman Semyon Slepakov is asked to be recognized as a foreign agent
1/25/2023, 12:12:11 PM
As it became known to RT, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia received an appeal demanding that the showman Semyon Slepakov be recognized as a foreign agent and brought to administrative responsibility for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. The author of the initiative, Vitaly Borodin, head of the Federal Security and Anti-Corruption Project, suggests that Slepakov could receive foreign funding from abroad.
Borodin’s appeal addressed to Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov notes that Semyon Slepakov’s account on the Instagram* social network contains videos with songs and poems of his own composition, in which the SVO is criticized in a sarcastic manner.
The appeal also contains a call to recognize Semyon Slepakov as a foreign agent on the basis of possible financial ties between the Jewish Charity Fund “Happiness”, established in the showman’s hometown of Pyatigorsk by his father, with the American fund The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (”Joint”).
According to Borodin, Sergey Slepakov, a professor at the Institute of Service, Tourism and Design, established Happiness together with the Joint Foundation, whose headquarters, the author of the request emphasizes, is located in New York.
The Joint, as follows from the information on its international website, takes an active part in the life of Jewish communities around the world.
At this stage, one of the main activities of the organization has become activity in Ukraine, where the foundation calls for “standing shoulder to shoulder” with Ukrainian Jews.
An analysis of publications on the site for 2022 shows that the Joint takes an anti-Russian position in the military conflict.
On the Russian-language portal of the EBF foundation, “Happiness” is mentioned in the “Jewish Assistance Centers” section.
Focusing on these facts, Borodin asks the Prosecutor General’s Office to check and establish whether Semyon Slepakov is a recipient of foreign funding.
As previously reported by the media, Slepakov Jr. left Russia at the end of October 2022 and moved to permanent residence in Israel.
Slepakov has more than 1.4 million subscribers on Instagram, and 1.43 million users have subscribed to the artist’s Youtube channel.