“Arthur, I will beat you hard ... when I catch you, I will beat you hard, I give you my word, for such words,” journalist Alexander Rogatkin quoted him as saying in Telegram.
Smolyaninov noted in a recent interview that “he doesn’t give a damn about Russia, even if one region remains from it, and everything else turns into radioactive ashes.”
He also claimed that if he had been involved in the conflict in Ukraine, he would have fought on the side of Kyiv.
Fidarov said earlier that Smolyaninov was deceiving his multi-million audience.
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