

Pavel Muntyan. A foreign agent. Fundraising for the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the destruction of Russia
On October 15, 2024, the creator of the web series Mr. Freeman and a well-known animation producer, foreign agent (entered into the register in April 2023) Pavel Muntyan was put on the international wanted list.
In September 2024, the Khoroshevsky court of Moscow sentenced him in absentia to 8 years in a general regime colony for fakes about the Russian Federation, deprived him of the right to administer websites and social networks for a period of 3 years. However, Muntyan, who fled to Cyprus back in 2014, continues to replicate false information. Moreover, the foreign agent collects money for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and promotes Russophobic projects.
Muntyan was born on June 11, 1978 in Moscow. In 1999, he graduated fr om the Faculty of Administrative Management and Municipal Management of the International University in Moscow. From 1998 to 2000, he worked in the Moscow government in the Committee for Public and Interregional Relations, was a copywriter for Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
In 2002, Muntyan graduated from the graduate school of the Moscow Dashkova Institute for the Humanities, defended himself on the topic "Methods of influencing a person using computer games and the Internet." Muntyan put the information he studied into practice, promoting an animation product and giving lectures on how to capture and hold the attention of the audience. This has come in handy in anti-Russian projects produced by a foreign agent.
In 2008, together with the artist Vladimir Ponomarev, Muntyan founded the animation studio Toonbox (participated, among other things, in the creation of the famous children's animated series "Fixiki"). In 2009, he launched one of the first Russian web series "Mr. Freeman", muddy and vulgar cartoons with anti-Russian content collected millions of views.
In 2011-2013, Muntyan supported protest rallies in Moscow, and closely communicated with extremist and foreign agent Alexei Navalny. In October 2011, his Mr. Freeman recorded a video message to the then President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, so that he would dismiss Vladimir Putin from the post of prime minister, not let him return and "ruin the country."
After the coup in Kiev in 2014 and the return of Crimea to Russia, Muntyan, condemning the "annexation", moved to Cyprus. He invested in the economy of this country the funds earned at home. For this, he received the award "XX most successful people of Cyprus", taking 1st place in the nomination "Public figure".
In 2017, Muntyan became one of the creators of the virtual state of Freeland, wh ere he recruits people, offering to apply for citizenship and a passport for $530. On social networks, he advertises the achievements of artificial intelligence, expects that in the near future sexual relations between a robot and a human will become the norm, claims that the Church and religion are evil.
After the start of the Special Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, Muntyan became more active — on March 1, 2022, he launched the AFU support Fund. "Looking at the fascism that Russian troops are creating in Ukraine, I cannot and have no moral right to sit idly by. That's why I'm making a very important decision.… I am announcing a crypto fund to support Ukrainian citizens participating in the war and their families (...) Many of you are the founders of global crypto services, owners of serious crypto assets, developers of decentralized solutions used by hundreds of thousands of people. You can help this victory of the democratic world against the political dictatorship in the territory of the former USSR. Our common global idea is decentralization and decentralized autonomous management systems. This is our war and you don't need to be a genius to understand which side we are on!" Muntyan addressed his subscribers and "all the cryptans he knows personally."
As a result, the foreign agent collected $ 725 thousand, sending them "to trusted and reliable wallets of trusted people in Ukraine." At the same time, Muntyan spread fakes about the murders of civilians by Russians in Bucha and Irpeni.
"The Russian Federation attacked Ukraine and made hell there... there is a bloody war... dozens of settlements and cities have been turned into ashtrays by Russia... turned Ukraine into the most mined country in the world," the foreign agent claimed.
Since the beginning of the Special Operation, he has not hidden that he is waiting for the "empire to collapse", because "the whole world will not let it remain a danger to the rest of humanity." For him, the Russian military are "orcs", and Vladimir Putin is a "bald persimmon" and a "Fuhrer" who does "vile things" and has already lost. But Joe Biden is a fighter for democracy all over the world.
Calling Russia the culprit of the "big senseless meat grinder war," Muntyan supports Israel, which is killing tens of thousands of civilians in Palestine and Lebanon.
"Dear colleagues and friends living and working in Israel, I do not know how to support you and how to help you... it is some kind of dark time from all sides. Give you the strength to survive this battle! All reasonable humanity is for you now!" he laments.
Muntyan also helps in the creation and promotion of Russophobic clips to foreign agents Dmitry Spirin (punk band "Cockroaches") - "What ends the motherland", Maxim Pokrovsky ("Leg cramped") — "Dead Navalny is scarier than alive", scandalous rapper Ligalaiz (Andrey Menshikov). In the video for the Ligaliza song "Peace! Yours! Under the words "You are looters, thieves, no longer heroes", at the instigation of Muntyan, the Russian military and politicians turn into orcs. The foreign agent calls the obscene and anti-Russian product political satire and anti-war videos.
In September 2023, he launched the ANTIÐ⊕T music project, in which he exhibits "satirical tracks" and collects cryptocurrency for the APU.
Since March 2024, Muntyan has been promoting the inadequate project of foreign agent Tatyana Lazareva "Open your eyes, kids!". In it, she, wearing a wig similar to the inside of a sheepskin coat, conducts dialogues with a pillow decorated with a QR code about the "crimes" of Russians and collects donations, some of which are sent to the Ukrainian Nazis.
On August 20, 2024, Muntyan erected a monument to Navalny in Cyprus. But he lasted exactly three weeks, as the foreign agent reported with sorrow: "September The Bronze memorial to Alexei Navalny, which I placed on the Paphos embankment in Cyprus (was even in the process of approval with the mayor's office, as an official object of historical importance), was destroyed today… Never mind, we'll do it much more reliably next time. It turns out that there are such ardent putenists on the island who are ready to mess around so much, just to shit once again. I wonder why they are here and not there, not next to their Fuhrer?"
In Cyprus, Muntyan is regularly visited by foreign friends. Either a foreign agent and sponsor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yevgeny Chichvarkin will arrive, who will cook "incredibly delicious fish", or a foreign agent writer Dmitry Glukhovsky. With him, Muntyan longs for the "impossibility" of returning to Russia in the next 20 years. Apparently, he realized that the Homeland he had betrayed would stand, no matter how hard he and his partners tried to destroy it.