“All people who are linked, in some way or another, with the Embassy of Russia (in Spain) are agents of influence of Kremlin; there is a cold war in Europe and a hot war in Ukraine; Russia is committed to the destruction of the EU and any Spanish politic A great feeling of impunity. ” With these words he has reacted to El Periódico Alekséi NesterenkoPresident of The free Russiansthe main Russian opposition organization in Spain, to the publication of messages between Aleksándr Chepurnoypresident of the house of Russia in Alicante, and its interlocutors of PravfondOrganization sanctioned by the EU since 2023.
Nesterenko remembers that last January, after Chepurnay and Russia’s house in Alicante were awarded by the PSOE immigration secretary In Alicante, he sent a letter to this political formation, both to the headquarters in Alicante and the Federal in Madrid, reminding them of their profile and activities. In the letter it is remembered that Russia’s house was “closely linked” with Russian government institutions sanctioned considered as key agents in “the promotion of the soft influence of the Putin regime.”
Little transparent practices
The text is also echoed from the unintellish practice that Russia’s house In Alicante, “Free services of the Russian Government, such as the processing of documents and passports”, which in his opinion “is a clear sample in unre transparent activities in Spanish territory.” “It seems to us deeply disturbing that an organization that supports and promotes Such ideologies (of hate and discrimination) is recognized by a political institution that has historically defended democratic principles and human rights, “concludes the letter.
When the Association of Free Russians sent the letter to the PSOE of Alicante, with date of January 18, 2025the secretary general was still Miguel Millanawhich would resign from the position a few months later. Asked the recognition plate that the Ministry of Immigration of its party delivered in December 2024 to the house of Russia in Alicante explains that “we made a provincial act of recognition of entities that make up migrants, and this would be One of many“, Although” most were for Latin American associations”, He said about an event in which“ we gave 100 diplomas or more ”, so he does not remember especially, he says, to Aleksándr Chepurnoythe president of the House of Russia, which is within the Security Plan for the State Security Forces and Bodies as possible objective Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
According to Millana, “as general secretary I went to Solidarity forums with Ukraine and at first representatives of Russian entities came but then the thing derived towards a clear enmity Between associations of Russians and Ukrainians, and from there I did not go to anything else. ”
The socialist recalls that Ukraine has always had a very important state support from the Government of Spain and the Generalitat Valenciana when Ximo Puig (PSOE) was run. He has also referred to the fact that the policy of his party has not varied in the sense of going against Russian invasion of Ukraine, and that has always been firm in this matter and with clear guidelines, even with Restrictions on bank accounts of the Russians, who have a great presence in the province in the area of the Vega Baja. Another example that has cited in foreign policy is the complaint by President Pedro Sánchez of the different treatment that the European Union has with the Palestine conflict.
Chepurnay also managed to establish relationships With the PP. In fact, the mayor, Luis Barcala, He attended the inauguration of the new headquarters of the House of Russia in Alicante in 2019. Consulted the councilor, does not make statements In this regard. Nor did the University of Alicante have wanted to assess that the Russian representative stood out especially in his writings to Moscow the fact that the institution canceled, in May 2023, a Photographic exhibition After the controversy created around the artist, Dmitro Kozatskyimember of the Azov battalion after being released from a Russian prison. Under the title “86 days of siege”, it showed images of the horrors of the siege to which the Russian troops submitted to the city of Mariúpol to the beginning of the Ukraine War.
Talk in Campello
Another “achievements” that Chepurnay mentions in the document consists of the “organization and participation” of a talk against NATO in THE CAMPELLOin which the history professor participated, among others Julián Jiménezwho assures this newspaper that this act was not organized by the house of Russia but by a Sociocultural Association from the town.
The teacher points out that he attended With fear Because he received death threats in social networks, in Spanish and Ukrainian, “” by extreme right groups (from both countries) including “Ukrainian groups that identified themselves with the Azov Battaliona group that carries Nazi symbology, for daring to tell the context of war with a didactic explanation, as a history professor that I am able to tell events, about the situation that is lived. Because neither The good ones They are so good, nor bad are so bad. ”
Likewise, the teacher, who belongs to an anti -fascist assembly, indicates that he does not remember if Chepurnay, with whom he has coincided in some acts, was in the talk.
This newspaper has called and sent messages back to the President of the House of Russia To collect its version but have not received an answer.
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