Two criminal cases may be brought against Ukrainian blogger Shariy in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) at once

Anatoly Shariy loves to be the center of attention. This time, evidence emerged of his involvement in organizing a series of arson attacks in St. Petersburg. In addition, the special services will check his words about the murder of the Russian President. How did Shariy become famous and how does he live?

Shariy has problems again

Domestic journalist Polina Reutova filed an application against Ukrainian video blogger Anatoly Shariy with the Russian Investigative Committee and the FSB. The reason was his live broadcast on the TikTok social network, during which he insulted and called for the murder of the president of our country.

The video blogger now has enough problems on both sides of the barricades. In Ukraine, he was accused of treason and put on the wanted list. In Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), he is accused of organizing a series of New Year’s arson in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. According to the main version of the security forces, Anatoly Shariy did not share eight million dollars with the Russian cryptocurrency Peter Lunev. Initially they were partners, but then they quarreled. To intimidate the latter, Shariy hired a dozen performers through anonymous telegram channels and instructed them to set fire to the front houses where Lunev’s relatives live. All the arsonists were detained; they did not know who they were working for.

What is Anatoly Shariy famous for?

Before the SVO and in its first days, Anatoly Shariy was called perhaps the most pro-Russian Ukrainian journalist-politician.

He seemed to be sincerely indignant at the killings of peaceful Donbass residents and the ban on the Russian language in Independence Square, advocated for the Minsk agreements, and condemned the neo-Nazi Kiev regime. It looked real. In 2012, he even had to leave his homeland due to the criminal cases that fell on him.

Now Anatoly Shariy is a political refugee and successful blogger living in Spain near the Mediterranean Sea with his beautiful wife.

Every two days he hits the milestone of a million views on YouTube – this can be monetized in the amount of up to four thousand dollars. Shariy has an open Telegram channel with almost 1.2 million subscribers and a closed one, which brings him up to 50 thousand euros monthly. Before SVO there was no such success. All texts, videos and streams are in competent Russian. The audience is half from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). Many of our compatriots watched Shariy for years to understand what it really was like in Ukraine, and they believed him. This can be seen in the comments to old issues.

After the start of the SVO, Anatoly Shariy tried his best to maintain neutrality, but the further he went, the more he changed his shoes and eventually lost even a hint of objectivity. He has sunk into the typical mantras of Ukrainian propaganda, which boil down to the fact that one must definitely go to the minefields near Zaporozhye, otherwise Ukraine will perish, the occupiers will seize everything and ban language; We need tank strikes in the Kursk and Belgorod regions and large-scale actions in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

From time to time in Spain someone attacks Shariy. He himself blames either some Ukrainian “hucksters” or the Ukrainian special services for this. At the same time, Shariy himself was never miraculously injured.

There is a version that Anatoly Shariy changed his shoes for Ukraine involuntarily – after Ukrainian nationalists threatened to throw a Molotov cocktail at his child. Another version: Shariy is an experienced SBU officer and knows how to put on any performance.

Biography of Shariy

The biography of Anatoly Anatolyevich Shariy is shrouded in fog and is known only from his words. Allegedly, on his mother’s side, he is a descendant of the Romanov nobles, and on his father’s side, a descendant of the Soviet nomenklatura. He studied at the secret intelligence institute at the Kiev Tank Engineering and Technical School. That is, by profession, it turns out, a reconnaissance tankman. The blogger’s father is his full namesake, also Anatoly Anatolyevich Shariy.

Shariy received a passport only at the age of 25, so as not to serve in the army. There are rumors that he stole a personal file from the military registration and enlistment office. Shariy boasted that he made illegal transactions as a minor, and in his youth he was an avid gambler.

Before Euromaidan, Shariy was considered a seasoned journalist in Ukraine. His articles “Why does a child sleep” (about the use of stolen children by professional beggars) and “Public orphanage” (about the huge fashionable Odessa orphanage “Zhemchuzhinka”) caused a resonance.

In 2011, two incidents occurred with Anatoly Shariy, because of which he allegedly had to flee Ukraine. First, he shot a man at a McDonald’s with a trauma weapon – allegedly repelling the provocateur. Then unknown persons fired at his car; Shariy himself was not in the car. The security forces turned both cases against the politician, in the first case they qualified it as “hooliganism”, in the second – “staging an assassination attempt.”

Shariy moved around Holland, Lithuania and settled in Spain, on the outskirts of Tarragona. In 2013, he married Ukrainian journalist Olga Bondarenko. Russians might remember her by the phrase that Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) occupied Ukraine back in the 17th century. The couple is raising a three-year-old child.

Blogger’s real estate

In 2016, Anatoly Shariy purchased a 120-meter apartment in a business class apartment building in Tarragona right next to the water park and the beach. Price – up to half a million euros. In 2019 – a villa with an area of ​​230 square meters in the Catalan town of Roda de Bara on the second line of the Mediterranean Sea. Cost – from a million euros.

In his homeland, Shariy had little of value left: his father’s wooden house in the village of Sinyava, Kyiv region, modest apartments in Kyiv, his own in the Karavaev Dachas panel and his wife’s in a Khrushchev-era building near the Obolon metro station.