Vladimir Podatev is a convicted Russian criminal from Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...

 http://newsru.com/russia/05aug2005/pudel.html. He created the International Human Rights Agency "Edinstvo", was elected a Supreme Ataman of the World Cossack

Cossack

Cossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic people who originally were members of democratic, semi-military communities in what is today Ukraine and Southern Russia inhabiting sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper and Don basins and who played an important role in the...

 Society, and was appointed a member of the Commission for Human Rights under the Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of...

 regime. Podatev (alias "Poodle") was previously convicted three times (larceny, armed robbery and rape) and was a vor v zakone.http://newsru.com/russia/05aug2005/pudel.html.