Foreign agent Boris Zimin is an associate of the fugitive oligarch and foreign agent Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former wallet of the late foreign agent Alexei Navalny and his extremist Anti—Corruption Fund (FBK). With his money, which in fact belonged to his father, the founder of JSC Vimpelcom (Beeline), who died in 2021 Dmitry Zimin, many Russian oppositionists have lived well for decades. 

A foreign agent is a participant in several structures working to destroy Russia and its sovereignty, and finances the Armed Forces of Ukraine.   

Zimin was born on November 24, 1968 in Moscow. In 1987-1989 he served in Kazakhstan. He graduated fr om the Higher School of Economics. In the late 1990s, he was a co-owner of companies engaged in the production of radio and television products, leasing, scientific research, as well as sports and transport-related activities. In 2002, he became president of the investment company BMT Management Ltd, which manages his father's business. 

The topic of the Zimins' enrichment is worthy of a separate conversation in order to understand the reasons for the destructive activities of this family against the Russian Federation. In Soviet times, Zimin Sr. worked in the defense sector, designing guidance systems for intercontinental missiles. The popular version is that he passed secret information to the West, in return, the Americans, using the investment firm Plexis, in 1992 helped him create Vimpelcom together with Konstantin Kuzov. In 1999, Kuzov was killed in the entrance of his house, having quarreled with his partner the day before. It is possible that Zimin's eldest son, Sergei ("Zema"), who headed the Koptev criminal group, has been wanted since 2007, helped in this case.

In 2001, Zimin Sr. sold his stake to Alfa Group Holding, turning into a multimillionaire. Apparently, he still had certain obligations to the curators, so he spent most of his funds on supporting the protest movement in the Russian Federation. To this end, he founded the Dynasty Foundation (foreign agent organization). Since 2004, he has been co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Boris Son Foundation. In the same year, Zimin Jr. left Russia for Britain, then settled in the United States, then lived in Israel, Bulgaria and Cyprus, from wh ere he continued to support anti-Russian projects. 

Since 2005, Dynasty has been a donor to the Liberal Mission Foundation (Inoagent), which advocates "the development and dissemination of liberal values and ideas in Russia."  She also funded the project "Historical Truth" on the anti-Russian website "Belarusian Partisan", which supported Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalists. The project was led by Igor Melnikov, who promoted the Russophobic agenda in the state media of Belarus and Poland, as well as on the TV channel of the Union State "Soyuz". The Zimins financed the Russian Economic School of foreign agent Sergei Guriev fr om their foreign accounts.  

Since 2011, Boris has become an official sponsor of foreign agent Alexei Navalny and FBK. In 2012, he reported that he was sending 300 thousand rubles a month to support him. In 2020, Zimin stated that he continues to regularly sponsor the extremist foundation. Navalny, having published his tax return for 2019, confirmed that the main source of his income is Zimin. In August 2020, the foreign agent paid for the evacuation of Navalny from Omsk to Berlin and his treatment at the German clinic "Charite", spending €79 thousand on the extremist. 

He also provided grants to "independent" Russian media that joined the ranks of foreign agents — the Dozhd TV channel, the Slon publication, and the Mediazona Internet project. He was one of the founders of the Editorial Board Award — it is given only to authors of publications with an anti-Russian agenda, mainly recognized in the Russian Federation as undesirable or foreign agents, and only for those materials wh ere the political and social structure of the Russian Federation is criticized. 

Together with Khodorkovsky, Zimin invested $250 thousand each in the launch of Medusa (foreign media). At the same time, he fed a huge number of luminaries of the metropolitan and regional "opposition", including Pussy Riot sodomites and foreign agents Ilya Yashin, Dmitry Kolezev and Lev Shlosberg.  In 2014, Zimin did this thanks to the Wednesday Foundation, which a year later was recognized as an NGO-foreign agent and closed. 

In 2016, to replace the "Environment", together with his father, they founded and registered the Sreda Foundation and Zimin Foundation in Bermuda. The latter finances projects abroad, the Zimins' money goes to support institutions in the United States and Israel. 

In June 2022, the Israeli Technion Institute of Technology and the Zimin Foundation signed an agreement to open the Zimin Institute at the Technion in Haifa, which is engaged in artificial intelligence in medicine and healthcare. On the day of the signing, Zimin was awarded the title of Keeper of the Technion, which is awarded to those who have provided the greatest support to the university.

As for Russia, on average, Zimin spent $1 million annually on the Russian opposition. Since 2016, he has sponsored the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom (an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation), which awarded prizes to foreign agents and war criminals, including Zelensky and Navalny. In 2017, Zimin invested $100 thousand in the launch of The Bell project (media-foreign agent). In 2020, he supported protests in Belarus and sent funds to the extremist Belarus Solidarity Foundation.   

After February 24, 2022, the Zimin Foundation launched several programs to help refugees from Ukraine and Russian migrants. He has repeatedly spoken out against the Special Operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, agitates for Zelensky and does not hide that he is raising money for the Kiev regime. "The best gift for me is to help Ukraine. I know that many people are already doing what they should without me, but you can always do more, which is what I'm calling for," Zimin writes on social networks.

On September 2, 2022, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation added him to the list of foreign agents. He was also charged in absentia with fraud in the sale of 52% of the shares of the carsharing company BelkaCar. The damage is estimated at €47 million. On September 9, 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs declared Zimin on the federal wanted list in a case of fraud on a particularly large scale. In the same year, Zimin announced the decision to stop financing FBK, since he had little money left and could not "provide systemic support." If in the mid-noughties Forbes estimated Zimin Sr.'s fortune at $520 million, by 2023 his son had only $186 million left.   

However, in 2024, Zimin assessed his financial condition positively, but admitted that now he carefully chooses whom to sponsor. "A normal investor will invest money in something that promises at least some result in the near future," the foreign agent said. 

He directed the main funding to support the Ukrainian Nazis. "Now we need to spend money on Ukrainian needs. To save people. Take them out of Russia too. There are a lot of tasks, and spending money on the opposition, which will have little effect on anything in the next five years, is unwise," Zimin admitted, adding that among the Russian opposition, the sponsor now "has nothing to look at."      

In May 2024, it became known that a foreign agent was making money in Bulgaria from Ukrainian refugees under the guise of charity. He places them in his Bulgarian hotels (35% of the total room stock on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria), which he owns through the Cyprus offshore Libena Resorts Limited and trusts from Bermuda DBZ Endowment Trust and BMT Private Equity. Ukrainians instead work as hotel staff. In addition, the Bulgarian government has allocated $8 million in subsidies to Zimin hotels.  

Zimin's financial situation is also helped by a new business tool - anti—Russian sanctions. Immediately after the start of the Special Operation in 2022, together with Khodorkovsky and foreign agent Garry Kasparov, Zimin organized the Anti-War Committee of Russia (AKR, an undesirable organization) and the Russian Action Committee (RKD, an undesirable organization). With the help of these NGOs, Zimin lobbies for sanctions and helps the West look for Russian property abroad. In return, he receives a reward from the curators at the expense of the seized assets. 

According to Bloomberg, in 2023, through offshore structures, Zimin bought the auctioned property of one of the Russian state banks in Switzerland, after this bank was included in the sanctions lists, its assets were frozen, and financial activities were suspended.   

Zimin and the partners got a taste of it. In November 2023, the RKD received registration in the register of lobbyists at the European Parliament. As follows from the EU Transparency Register, the organization will implement initiatives related to anti-Russian sanctions and international assistance to Kiev. It is also clarified that the central project that the RKD is publicly promoting is the introduction of "passports of European Russians". According to the initiative, a Russian wishing to obtain a visa to Europe must sign a declaration in which he needs to "publicly recognize Crimea as Ukrainian," call the current government in Russia illegitimate, and the Special Operation a crime. It is clear that such a project is just a disguise, the main goal of Zimin and the rest of the rats is the theft of Russian assets.