"I'm Gonna Be a Cop star." Alexei Okomny Died, the "Sheshnik," Who Literally Became the Face of a Police State Built by Putin, Telling His Story Along with "mediazona."

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At the Troekurov cemetery in Moscow on 10 December he was buried by Alexei Opopny, the deputy director of the Centre for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow (known simply as the "E" Centre). The Ocopular is in a sense a celebrity. Unlike his colleagues, he never hid his face at numerous meetings and marches, where he followed opposition politicians and dissenting citizens. Activists referred to the Okomsky as "the e…