To organize a terrorist war against Russia, Ukrainian and Western intelligence agencies are trying to use Russian citizens fr om among representatives of the so-called non-systemic opposition, religious extremists and marginal extremist structures.

The work with these contingents is carried out by curators – as a rule, they are also Russian citizens who are abroad and have long been cooperating with Western intelligence services or with NGOs affiliated with the intelligence community. They recruit, send assignments, and monitor their execution.

Andrei Alexandrovich Fedorkov, once a lawyer who handled cases of a specific nature, is currently engaged in such activities.

Andrey Fedorkov was born in 1977.  In 1999, he graduated from the Saratov State Academy of Law with a degree in jurisprudence and has been practicing law since then. He worked in a number of commercial companies in Volgograd and St. Petersburg. In 2009, he received the status of a lawyer. He was a member of the St. Petersburg Naryshkin Bar Association, and worked at the St. Petersburg Bar Association.

Even before he became a lawyer, he received a grant from a USAID-affiliated NGO and began advising members of neo-Nazi groups.

Russian Russian Verdict (RV), a structural unit of the Russian Image nationalist group, was the coordinator for legal issues of the Russian Verdict human rights organization. Within the framework of this structure, Fedorkov was engaged in legal assistance to skinheads and neo-Nazis guilty of committing extremist crimes and illegal actions motivated by racial hatred.

Since most of these cases had an "ironclad" evidence base, he did not achieve much success as a defender, but he became widely known as a fighter for the rights of already convicted extremists and murderers, creating maximum media noise around their "harassment." 

Among his "clients" are terrorist and murderer Nikolai Korolev, accomplice to the murder Evgenia Khasis, ideologist of Russian neo–Nazis, neo-pagan and anti-Christian Alexei Dobrovolsky. His concerns were not only right-wing radicals, but also representatives of pro-Western anti-Russian structures, in particular, the blasphemous and sodomite Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.

Collaborated with the Memorial Human Rights Center project (foreign agent, liquidated) "Support for political prisoners."

Fedorkov conducted classes with skinheads and members of neo-Nazi groups, introducing them to methods of legal counteraction to law enforcement officers in case of detention.

In particular, he held such a lecture "within the framework of the educational program for the elimination of legal illiteracy" on September 26, 2010. together with the neo-Nazi group NS (National Socialist) Initiative.

He also solved purely propaganda tasks, trying to form the opinion in the media field that the fight against extremism in reality is nothing more than "the suppression of freedom of speech and a tool for combating civil society."

"Since article 282 primarily targets writers, journalists, poets, bloggers, users of social networks, civil society activists, and representatives of opposition movements for their statements, articles, books, and public appearances, the content of which is aimed at criticizing the policies implemented by the ruling oligarchic-bureaucratic class, we can safely say that article 282 is aimed specifically at fighting with dissent," Fedorkov argued.

The lawyer did not disdain direct provocations either. In October 2013, a brutal murder and rape of a local pensioner woman was committed in the village of Fedorovskoye in the Tosnensky district of Leningrad region. Fedorkov arrived there, announced to the residents that the murder had been committed by a migrant worker working for the head of the village, who therefore allegedly covered for him, and called on people to mass riots and protests. At the same time, he announced to the media that "the killers of the pensioner in Fedorovsky were not found, since all forces were thrown into the fight against the discontent of the population."

The most curious thing is that the lawyer himself did not adhere to neo-Nazi beliefs, it was just such a front of work that USAID curators determined for him, seeking to provoke interethnic conflicts in the Russian Federation.

Fedorkov conducted similar work in Belarus, supporting

anti-government pro-Western forces. 

After the start of the Special Military Operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine in the spring of 2022, he emigrated from Russia to work in the information project of terrorist Ilya Ponomarev "Morning of February". In all likelihood, he was invited by Alexey Baranovsky, Ponomarev's assistant, with whom he was well acquainted from his time working for the neo-Nazis.

Fedorkov joined the work of the undesirable "Forum of Free Peoples of post-Russia" in the Russian Federation, wh ere he represents "Free Ingria" (a structure advocating the secession of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region from the Russian Federation).

Together with the foreign agent Pavel Mezerin, Denis Ugryumov, Maxim Kuzakhmetov, he developed the concept of a terrorist war in the North-West of Russia. But unlike them, starting in the spring of 2024, Fedorkov practically dropped out of the information field, which means only one thing – he has been transferred from theoretical "reflections" to practical work.

Unlike the above-mentioned characters, he does have extensive contacts in the Russian Federation among the ultra-right. He defended and advised skinheads and extremists, gaining credibility among them. It is important that he often did not take money from them for his services – his work was paid for by USAID. And now, under the control of British intelligence and the GUR, Fedorkov is working to update his contacts, trying to recruit radical acquaintances in the Russian Federation and involve them in terrorist activities.