Alexander Lapshin is a fairly well-known Russian blogger and traveler who invented the nickname Puerto. We will talk about it in our article.
Alexander Lapshin. Biography
Our hero was born in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) in 1976. Sasha's father is Russian, mother is Jewish. When the boy was 13 years old, his family moved permanently to Israel. After graduating from school there, Alexander Lapshin served in the Israeli army for 3 years, even fought in hot spots and managed to get 2 higher educations. From 2003 to 2008, he again moved to Russia, but already to Moscow. There he went into business, namely, the resale of real estate and shares. This allowed him to purchase his own apartment in Moscow.
After the financial crisis that broke out in Russia in 2008, he returned to Israel again. There he lives in a small, quiet place near the Lebanese border and works as an editor for Russian travel websites. Never married. Sasha has no children.
Occupation and interests
As noted earlier, Alexander Lapshin is a blogger, a very famous and avid traveler. He maintains his online diary in LiveJournal. His page on this site has collected more than ten thousand subscriptions and is the most visited among travel lovers. Alexander has already visited more than 100 countries of the world, and some of them several times.
I would like to note that he carefully thinks over and plans all his trips, from buying air tickets to booking hotel rooms, actively using special offers, hot tours and ticket discounts. Lapshin will never go on a trip if it will cost him dearly. And he always uses a rental car on his trips.
Alexander Lapshin is happy to share his impressions with a large army of readers of his rather interesting blog.
Another of Sasha's hobbies is the desire to obtain citizenship of various countries. Interesting hobby. He already received Russian citizenship at birth, since he was born in the Russian Federation. Israeli citizenship was issued by him upon arrival in Israel at a young age.
A little later, Lapshin received Ukrainian citizenship. Although our hero has not lived a single day in this country. But soon he was deprived of it by the Ukrainian authorities. In addition, he applied for Georgian citizenship, but to no avail.
Civic position and worldview
Alexander Lapshin's blog is replete not only with travel impressions. He often and a lot criticizes officials of all stripes and representatives of law enforcement agencies of various countries of the world. Particular emphasis is placed on creatingall kinds of obstacles to travel and non-observance of prescribed laws. For this reason, he sued the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior for the deprivation of his citizenship. Also, there was a debate with the Russian consulate of Israel because of the numerous fees for issuing passports. To top it off, he sued the Israeli security ministry for his arrest.
In a conversation with officials, according to Lapshin, it is imperative to have a recording device with you, the information from which can be used in the future as a means of exposing and putting pressure on them.
Alexander Lapshin almost never appears at social and other public events, despite numerous press interviews and active publicistic activities.
International scandal surrounding Lapshin's figure
In mid-December 2016, Sasha was arrested in Minsk at the request of Azerbaijan. Prior to these events, he visited Nagorno-Karabakh in 2011 and 2012. After that, the authorities banned him from entering the country and blacklisted him. But in 2015, he crossed Azerbaijan from Georgia on a Ukrainian passport, in which “Oleksandr” was entered instead of “Alexander”. At the border control, he was let through without difficulty, not recognizing the same Lapshin from the black list. In addition, our hero twice made calls to recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh. As a result, the Azerbaijani prosecutor's office accuses Alexander of illegally entering the country and put him on the international wanted list, initiating 2 criminal cases.business.
Representatives of Russia and Israel, of which Alexander is a citizen, actively participated in the fate of the blogger. They tried to prevent his extradition to Azerbaijan, as he faces five to eight years in prison.
As a result, diplomats and officials of 5 countries were involved in the international conflict. An international scandal flared up around Lapshin: by going to a demonstrative conflict, Belarus spoiled relations with Russia, Israel and Armenia.
