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Robert Kuzovkov, also known as Semyon Skrepetsky, posted a video on his YouTube channel over the weekend in which he threw a Russian flag into a garbage bin.
Robert Kuzovkov—an artist who used the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky—poses for a photo with one of his paintings, days before he was fatally shot in Poland, outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, on June 12, 2026. Vasily Krestyaninov/SOTA via AP
An artist who specialized in caricatures of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders was shot dead near his home in eastern Poland, prosecutors said on June 16.
Polish prosecutors in the city of Biala Podlaska, 20 miles from the Belarusian border, identified him, in accordance with the country’s privacy laws, as 44-year-old Robert K.
