Please answer the following question: Vladimir Alexandrovich Kucherenko (Russian: ) (born December 21 1966) better known by the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov ( ) is a Russian patriotic writer publicist and political activist.His writings focus on praising the Soviet Union and its political and economic system from a Russian nationalist perspective criticizing the Russian government and discussing the perceived NATO (particularly American) threat to Russia and the likelihood that this antagonism will result in a nuclear war between Russia and NATO.Kucherenko was born in Ashgabat on December 21 1966 but spent much of his childhood in Odessa Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Artist