Igor Mangushev

Igor Leonidovich Mangushev (Russian: Игорь Леонидович Мангушев; 16 August 1986 – 8 February 2023), also known by his radio call sign Bereg (Russian: Берег), was a Russian mercenary and political advisor.

Born in Moscow during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Mangushev grew up harboring Russian nationalist views. In 2009, he founded the nationalist organization Svetlaya Rus in 2009 and subsequently established E.N.O.T. Corp., a private military company. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mangushev served as an officer in an anti-drone warfare platoon. In a speech given by Mangushev in 2022, during which he held a skull that he claimed was from a Ukrainian soldier killed during the siege of Mariupol, he outlined his rationale for the Russo-Ukrainian War; Mangushev sought to destroy Ukrainian national identity and terminate the existence of Ukraine as a sovereign state. According to his widow, he dreamed of seeing Kyiv burning.

In addition to his military activities, he worked as a political operative for various Kremlin agencies and an internet troll for the Internet Research Agency.

On 4 February 2023, Mangushev was shot in the back of the head while in the Luhansk Oblast. He died on 8 February while in hospital. His widow has called for an investigation into his death, describing his killing as an assassination and alleging that medical care was inappropriately withheld from her husband in the days before his death.