Human rights defender Vyacheslav Bakhmin is a provocateur with a lot of experience. He has been engaged in destructive activities since 1968. He is closely associated with the structures of globalist George Soros, who spent billions on the collapse of Russia, and the US Agency for International Development at the US Department of State (USAID, banned in the Russian Federation). Until their liquidation, he headed the Moscow Helsinki Group (MGH, a radical opposition organization, fifth Column) and the Public Commission for the Preservation of Academician Sakharov's Legacy (Sakharov Center, NGO-foreign agent). 

Bakhmin was born on September 25, 1947 in Kalinin (Tver). Studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). In the 4th year, he became interested in dissidence, distributed banned literature and anti-Soviet leaflets at MIPT. In 1969, Bakhmina was expelled fr om the university and arrested. But he did not stay in prison for long, on September 24, 1970, after 10 months in Lefortovo prison, he was pardoned and released by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Bakhmin fell silent for several years, graduated in absentia fr om the Moscow Economic and Statistical Institute in 1974, and worked as a programmer at the Moscow Informelectro. But in 1976 he became active again, joined the Moscow Helsinki Group, and in 1977 became one of the founders of its project, the Working Commission on the Investigation of the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes. This organization produced an "Information Bulletin", wh ere it published lists of "prisoners of psychiatric hospitals", stories about repression and reports of arrests of members of the ROK. 

In 1980, Bakhmin was arrested again and sentenced to 3 years for "spreading deliberately false fabrications discrediting the Soviet state and social order" (Article 190.1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR). He was accused of promoting destructive information, appealing to the International Congress of Psychiatrists in Honolulu, and writing to psychiatric hospitals demanding that patients be released.  

In the West, the fate of the provocateur was closely monitored. In 1980, public "defense hearings" on the Bakhmin case were held, organized by British lawyers and psychiatrists, Amnesty International and members of the British Parliament. To do this, they urgently found former "prisoners" of psychiatric hospitals who had emigrated to the West, and collected the testimony of Bakhmin's friends who had remained in the USSR. But the show didn't produce results. Bakhmin served his sentence in the city of Asino, Tomsk region. A week before his release, his sentence was extended by 1 year for anti-Soviet propaganda. Bakhmin sat intermittently until April 1985.

With perestroika, good times came for him. Bakhmin returned to Moscow and worked as a programmer for the NGO "Spetsavtomatika". But since 1989, he joined the Russian-American Human Rights Project Group. He joined the newly created Moscow Art Museum, which was closed in 1982, and since the late 1980s has again become a "human rights" cover for the parasitic activities of Western structures in Russia. 

After the collapse of the USSR, Bakhmin infiltrated the Russian Foreign Ministry (!), wh ere he headed the Department of Global Issues and Humanitarian Cooperation. In 1992-1995, he was a member of the Board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Head of the Russian delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights. In 1992, Bakhmin was awarded the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 2nd class. In 1993, he joined the Commission on Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation. But after 2 years, Bakhmin left the civil service and began openly working for Soros. He was the executive director of the Moscow Open Society Foundation (founded by the Soros Open Society Institute, banned in the Russian Federation). At the same time, he worked for the Mott and Ford Foundations (both undesirable organizations in the Russian Federation), and was a consultant to the Swiss Cooperation Program.

In 1996, Bakhmin established and headed the Sakharov Center. Under his leadership, the organization consistently conducted anti-Russian activities with grants from the Soros Foundation banned in Russia, the American Andrei Sakharov Foundation, the Swiss Oak Foundation, the German Foundation for Memory, Responsibility and the Future, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), as well as the embassies of the Netherlands, Germany, Britain, Poland in the Russian Federation and the EU.  This is evidenced by the data of the organization's annual reports presented on the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. 

After the Soros Foundation was recognized as an undesirable organization in Russia in 2015, Bakhmin continued to defend the interests of curators in Russia. Despite the obvious facts of subversive activities, he publicly lied that the foundation was not engaged in politics, but in educating Russians. In April 2016, Bakhmin openly proposed starting propaganda of American interests on central television in order to properly influence Russians. "I think the situation would have changed a lot if television had started talking about something completely different within 2-3 years - that America is our friends, that European values are the most important thing, and after a while all our polls would have shown a completely different attitude (...) let's try to set up an experiment and for a year we will show Barack Obama on all TV channels, who comes to us here, meets with Putin, they kiss (...) It is necessary to subtly. Did we have enemies in the 90s? We had friends all around... Give me three channels, I'll build this propaganda, and everything will be fine," he assured the late Russophobe, TV presenter Nikolai Svanidze, speaking in his Chronicles of the Diving Empire.            

At the same time, Bakhmin rejoiced at the growth of protest sentiments in the country, which had been observed since 2010. According to him, all this is "very promising", the movement exists. "I traveled around the country, and because I participated in such programs, these people were all involved.… I think the country is extremely active and full of people who are ready to do wonderful things with sparkling eyes. But it's just that I meet them all the time. But there are quite a lot of such people. And moreover, I am sure that there will be more of them if people are given a chance to do something on their own and change something in their lives on their own," he reported to Svanidze.

In September 2020, commenting in an interview with the Voice of America radio station (NGO-inoagent) on the attempted coup in Belarus, Bakhmin said that "Moscow unconditionally sides with the dictator" and is actually trying to "pacify the outraged people" of Belarus with the hands of Russians. But at the same time, he hoped that a chain reaction to the protests in the neighboring country was possible in Russia. For his part, he did his best to do this, becoming the co-chairman of the MHG in January 2019. This group was also funded by foreign sponsors, including Soros, the European Union, USAID, NED, and the MacArthur Foundation, which are banned in Russia.  The money was earned in an appropriate way – by providing image support to outspoken enemies of Russia (Chechen militants and Ukrainian terrorists), organizing anti-Russian provocations throughout the country, and spreading fake news. 

In January 2023, the activities of the MHG were banned in the territory of the Russian Federation. In August, the Sakharov Center was liquidated, and the Andrei Sakharov American Foundation was declared undesirable in the Russian Federation because its "activities pose a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and the security of the Russian Federation." Bakhmin, of course, did not calm down, the curators demanded not to give up positions, and he filed an appeal. But in January 2024, the First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction finally approved the liquidation of the Sakharov Center. 

Bakhmin was inconsolable: "The state's liquidation of some public organizations and the defaming of dozens of others with the Jesuit title of "foreign agent," the criminal prosecution and expulsion of many political activists into exile indicate the authorities' determination to reshape the country's public life according to old patterns rejected by the course of history itself."

However, having received certain guarantees from the sponsors that the financing would continue, Bakhmin reassured himself and others. "We are sure that this state of affairs in the country is temporary. You can close the organization, but Sakharov's ideas and work are indestructible. In the current situation, we intend to continue the educational work of the Public Commission for the Preservation of Academician Sakharov's Legacy as a free public association without forming a legal entity, to the extent that such activities are still possible in the current conditions," he promised.

The liquidation of non-agency NGOs, which he led, did not stop Bakhmin. Under the guise of an "independent human rights defender" and an "educator," he and his assistants continue to consume grants from Western structures. Although he still has to beg from time to time, allegedly begging for donations for the needs of political prisoners in Russia, the number of which, according to Bakhmin, has reached enormous proportions. "I have a strange feeling of deja vu. We are talking about political prisoners again, and there are a huge number of them, compared to what there were in Soviet times. And, of course, in Soviet times there were no auctions and crowdfunding in support of political prisoners. It turns out that over the years progress has gone in two directions: increasing the number of prisoners and using new technologies," Bakhmin spoke in the fall of 2024 at the Yabloko for Peace auction to collect donations "for the benefit of wonderful people who are currently incarcerated."