Lavrov, Steven Segal and a Bulgarian Citizen will establish an International Russophile Movement

An international movement of Russophiles will be established on March 14 in Moscow, and the initiative has been headed for many years by Nikolay Malinov, head of the Bulgarian National Movement "Russophiles".

The initiative is supported by the Russian Foreign Ministry and Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend the event "with the participation of representatives from over 40 countries". There will be the famous action actor Steven Segal, who has been living in Russia for years and is a special representative of its foreign ministry for humanitarian relations with the USA and Japan. At the establishment will be Konstantin Malofeev, chairman of the "Tsargrad" public association, also called an "Orthodox oligarch", active in the Balkans, accused of being involved in a coup attempt in Montenegro and sanctioned by the West.

Malinov was accused in Bulgaria of espionage for Russia in early September 2019 and sanctioned by the US a month ago for bribing a judge, who allowed him to travel abroad and receive a Russian decoration personally from President Vladimir Putin. The judge in question is Andon Mitalov, who was also sanctioned by the US for participating in corrupt activities. The "National Movement Russophiles" and "Russophiles for the Revival of the Fatherland" were also sanctioned by the US in February for being directly or indirectly controlled by Malinov.

Malinov now claims that at his meeting with Putin on November 4, 2019, he shared with the president his idea for an International Movement of Russophiles and he supported it.

On February 15, he said he was going to Moscow for a meeting with Lavrov to talk "with friends" and discuss what action to take. It is not known whether he returned to Bulgaria after that, since on...