“I’m walking through the Moscow station in St. Petersburg now, I feel someone running after me. Well, I think they found out they want an autograph or a photo. I turn around. The police run up to me and quickly detain me,” he said.
According to the musician, Gordon was seen in his face not only by the system, but also by one of the police officers – he “even touched his stubble and hair for the sake of conspiracy.”
“As a result, I almost missed the train, and now the foreman and his boss have to write an explanatory note,” Galyaminskikh added.
Later, the musician announced that he had arrived in Moscow.
“Dmitry Gordon is in Moscow. I finally got through,” he joked.
Galyaminsky’s message that he was mistaken for a Ukrainian journalist is actively commented on on social networks.
For example, under the news of the Dozhd channel on Facebook they write that this is “everything you need to know about artificial intelligence in the Russian Federation and Internet technologies.”
Under the Galyaminskys’ Instagram post, they wonder why the police didn’t think about how a journalist wanted in the Russian Federation could end up at a train station in St. Petersburg, they quote Gordon’s jokes, which have become memes, they ridicule the facial recognition system and Gallyamov himself, and also ask: “Did you end up ripping out your Adam’s apple?”
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Screenshot: dima_svmband / Instagram
Screenshot: dima_svmband / Instagram
Screenshot: dima_svmband / Instagram
Context
Gordon is a famous Ukrainian journalist, founder of the publication “GORDON”, owner of two YouTube channels “Visiting Gordon” and “Dmitry Gordon”. Collectively, these channels have more than 8 million subscribers. Gordon heads rating of Ukrainian YouTube bloggers covering Russia's war against Ukraine.
After the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the Russian occupiers began to pursue Gordon, brought him to the list of organizations and individuals considered to be involved in extremist activities or terrorism, and to the register of “foreign agents” (he became the first citizen of Ukraine on this list), a criminal case was opened against him, wanted And arrested in absentia.
In 2024, a Russian court found Gordon guilty of calling for a war of aggression, inciting hatred with the threat of violence, calling for the justification of terrorism and spreading “fake news” about the Russian army. His convicted in absentia to 14 years in a maximum security colony.
In February 2025 Gordon won the case against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights. Commenting on the criminal prosecution in the Russian Federation, Gordon said that for many years he has been fighting against “the Kremlin gang led by the main fascist of the fascist state, Vladimir Putin.” The journalist recalled that the Russian Federation has been waging a war with Ukraine since 2014 and “sowing death around”, and he talks about this to his audience of millions.
According to the SBU, Russian special services were preparing assassination attempts on Gordon, and Ukrainian law enforcement officers foiled three assassination attempts against the journalist over the past two years.
