Large, in charge, and aggressively patriotic, this man is confronting Russia's Western threats one beer can at a time

On August 21, the same St. Petersburg Cossack society that once commissioned a bust of Vladimir Putin, depicting him as a Roman emperor, raided a local supermarket, in search of banned Western imports for sale. The colorful musician Stas Baretsky, a tall, bald, heavyset man in a large red sport coat, stole the show, when he presented himself as the Cossacks' "Minister of Culture" and started tearing into cans of beer with his bare teeth. Apparently Baretsky deemed illegally imported anything bearing a label written in Latin script.

After inspecting some sunflower oil, Baretsky chomped through some beer, and demanded that the store replace the cans with something brewed at home in Russia.

After Baretsky's stunt in the supermarket, the Cossack society expelled him from its ranks "for misconduct." He doesn't seem to be too upset about it, however, and has already promised to continue his grocery store crusade without the Cossacks.

And Baretsky is a man of his word, it turns out. Soon thereafter, he visited a tech store and smashed an iPhone and a Samsung tablet.

He bit open a can of beer there, too, for good measure.

At an outdoor market, he found some imported underwear, too. It wasn't easy, but he ripped them in two.

Also, he bit open another can of beer.

Meduza has studied some of Baretsky's past viral videos, too. Here he is arguing with activists from "StopKham," who'd confronted him because he parked his car illegally.

And here he is biting open a can of beer at them.

And another one.

In this clip, Baretsky explains how the Earth is merely a hard outer shell and inside is nothing but oil.

In this clip, Baretsky explains what would happen, if the Earth became overpopulated and too burdened by humanity.

When pro-Kremlin film director Nikita Mikhalkov proposed creating a chain of "patriotic" fast food restaurants, Baretsky supported the idea, biting through a can of cola outside a Western fast food establishment.

Baretsky also supported a ban on the canned alcoholic beverage "Jaguar," for reasons that should already be obvious.

In January, the actor Alexey Panin was arrested for ten days. When he was set free from jail, his friend Stas Baretsky was there waiting to greet him. What happened next, you can already guess.