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Maxim Sergeyevich Martsinkevich (Russian: Макси́м Сергее́вич Марцинке́вич, born 8 May 1984^[1]) is a Russian neo-Nazi activist, media personality and businessman. He was formerly the leader of the far-right extremist group Format18, which was the 'armed wing' of the Russian neo-Nazi organization NSO.^[2] Martsinkevich established a nationwide organisation called Occupy Pedophilia that lures and tortures pedophiles. Inspired by the popular American show To Catch A Predator, hosted by Chris Hanson, members of the group go on social media and pretend to be children until contacted by adults looking for sex. These adults are then lured to an apartment where Martsinkevich and other members of the group confront them. The confrontations appear to be non-violent but humiliating in nature; recorded footage of the entire event is uploaded online for all to see.^[3]

Martsinkevich lived with his parents in a relatively rich suburb in Moscow. At the time of his arrest, Martsinkevich was studying architecture at Russian State Social University. His parents do not hold the same political views as their son.

He prefers to be called by his street name "Tesak", meaning hatchet/machete. When questioned about it, he said it was because he had a passion for knives.

Format18 was best known for uploading extremely violent propaganda films to their website. The Russian police closed both websites (Format18 and the NSO-Website) after the arrest of Martsinkevich. Martsinkevich and members of Format18 group appeared on the TV show "Ross Kemp on Gangs: Russian neo-Nazis", as well as on Current TV's "From Russia with Hate".

In July 2007, "Tesak" was arrested and then sentenced to 3 years in prison under article 282, part 2, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Incitement to Ethnic Strife with the Threat of the Use of Violence,” punishable by 3–5 years imprisonment).^[4] He was released in 2010 after serving his sentence.

On January 2, 2011, a video was released on YouTube with the name "Тесак на свободе!", or "Tesak has been released!". The video shows Martsinkevich giving an interview in Russian language, and the uploader calls himself "TesakST". This channel became the 6th most subscribed channel on YouTube in Russia that week.

Martsinkevich established a nationwide organization that lured and tortured young underaged LGBT people.^[5] Throughout 2013, Martsinkevich was behind the violent abduction and abuse of numerous Russian pedophiles. Martsinkevich along with his fellow members set up false contact advertisements pretending to be children on social media to lure the child molestors. ^[6] Another member of Martsinkevich's group claimed that at least one of the pedophiles died as a result of the abuse.^[7]

In November 2013, Martsinkevich had reportedly left Russia in fear of prosecution over a video in which he violently beats an Iraqi gay man.^[8] On December, the 13-th, a Moscow court of law approved his arrest in absentia. In January 2014, he's arrested in Cuba, the possibility of his extradition to the Russian Federation is anticipated ^{[9] [10][11]}

Martsinkevich has over 130,000 subscribers on his account in a Russian social network service VKontakte.^[12] He did not abandon his political views.^[13]

Martsinkevich is an atheist.^[13]

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