By mid-July, a scandal was brewing in the aggressor-controlled media surrounding the online community “Empire of Geese,” once founded by cover band musicians Alexei Kuzmin and Viktor Postnyi from the Moscow region.
Ekaterina Mizulina, a “child advocate” close to Kremlin structures, claimed that the group had become a “platform for pedophiles from all over Russia,” who allegedly sought out children to extort intimate content under the guise of a quasi-musical group.
Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the aggressor’s Investigative Committee, announced that criminal cases opened in the Moscow and Sverdlovsk regions had been “taken under control” of the matter.
It was alleged that the content was also “sold to Estonia and Latvia,” and that the victims allegedly included children aged 11 to 15 from various regions of Russia, also as from Crimea.
Furthermore, the pedophile content was allegedly collected by minors themselves, who “invited teenagers to separate groups with smaller numbers of people and demanded they send intimate photos under threat of having their accounts blocked, infected, or their personal data leaked.”
Despite the seriousness of the charges, no arrests have been reported in the few days since the outbreak of this public scandal, and Crimean aggressor’s punishers have remained completely silent on the matter.
It should be noted that this scandal, regardless of the veracity of the aggressor’s statements and the guilt of the publicly identified musicians, is unfolding against a characteristic backdrop.
In 2026, after a long period of communication and against the backdrop of the “Crimean connection” scandal in the Jeffrey Epstein case, several international organizations were finally forced to launch an investigation into a child pornography and pedophilia ring established in occupied Crimea with the active participation of key Crimean collaborators, as well as ethnic criminal groups controlled by Russian intelligence services.
That network’s goal, among other things, was to thoroughly discredit any third-country “friends of Crimea” visiting the peninsula with Russian funding. Naturally, no response to these facts from Crimea’s aggressor forces has been observed over the past decade.
Therefore, the “Empire of Geese” case as a whole, and the relevant “Baltic connection” immediately claimed by the Russians in it, without any publicly disclosed facts, could be a classic “information cover-up operation” in the extremely uncomfortable situation for the occupiers described above.
