Russia

Ivan Micheev

The ex-leader of WotanJugend, who, as a result of a personal conflict with Levkin, quit as a member of the administrators of the publicity group and became disillusioned with Nazism. In 2007, together with Denis Tyukin, he founded the DPNI-Vyatka and headed the near-football firm Dynamo Kirov. He was considered the informal leader of the local boneheads. In 2006, he got a 4.5-year suspended sentence for attacking a punk concert. In 2010, he was given a two-year suspended sentence for “justifying terrorism and inciting hatred against a social group during a speech at Russian Pervomaye. In the fall of the same year, he received another suspended sentence for inciting hatred as a member of a recognized extremist organization, DPNI-Vyatka. In late 2014, he fled to Ukraine, as a criminal case was opened against the founders of WotanJugend under the article “organization of an extremist community.