Edited sentence: " During the 2017–2018 Russian protests, he stated that the authorities are obliged to respond to the investigation of this film, but also justified the detention of participants of the demonstrations because according to him, law enforcement should not "wait for the first Molotov cocktails".In the summer of 2020 Ukrainian journalist Sergey Ivanov published screenshots of a blog post by Shariy from January 2010, in which the blogger showed understanding for the usage of gas chambers during the Romani genocide and the Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany.Navalny accused Shariy of being a pro-Kremlin blogger, while Shariy responded to these accusations by saying that he would not like Vladimir Putin in recent years anymore.Shariy claimed that Navalny's documentary film He Is Not Dimon to You was not made by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, but by "guys who don't speak Russian well, but who are professionals.Shariy criticized opposition activist Alexei Navalny and called specific representatives of the Russian opposition "crap"