Dmitry Puchkov

Dmitry Yuryevich Puchkov (born August 2, 1961), also known as Goblin, is a Russian media personality best known for his English-to-Russian film and video game translations as well as his Oper.ru web blog and, from 2008 until 2022, his eponymous YouTube channel. Puchkov considers himself a Neo-Sovietist and, on several occasions, has publicly spoken against several government decisions describing them as plain wrong, but also demonstrated both public and personal support for the politics of Vladimir Putin coinciding with pro-Kremlin narratives. For that, he has been called a "Kremlin pundit" and a "warhawk" by the free media ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, both terms he vehemently denies.