Krasnodar Governor Awarded Volunteer With Swastika Tattoo. Photo of the award ceremony was later removed from the administration website

Veniamin Kondratyev took a photo with volunteers and participants of "humanitarian missions" who go to war in Ukraine. In one of the photos, a man with tattoos in the form of a swastika stylized as "Slavic runes" stands next to him.

Later, the photo disappeared from the administration's website.

The man with the swastika tattoo turned out to be Alexander Kuliev, the head of the Anapa Boxing Federation. In December 2022, it was reported that he, as part of a "volunteer detachment of the Russian Union of Martial Arts", went "for training" in order to later go to fight in Ukraine.
In 2024, he was awarded the Order of Courage, Ekho found out.

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