Igors Šiškins

Igors Šiškins (born 9 June 1959 in Rēzekne) is a Latvian ultranationalist activist and politician. During the 1990s, Šiškins was a member of the Latvian ultranationalist organization Pērkonkrusts, where he was one of the members convicted for their involvement in bombing the Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders in June 1997.

Biography Šiškins was born in Rēzekne to a Russian father and a Latvian mother, but considers himself Latvian because his parents separated when he was young. In the Latvian SSR, Šiškins worked as a driver, locksmith, and stonecutter. having to remain in prison until April 24, 2001. The activity of Pērkonkrusts was banned in 2006.

In the 2006 Latvian parliamentary elections, Šiškins ran on the ticket but the party received only 0.1% of the vote and he was not elected. In 2007, he founded the Gustavs Celmiņš Centre (GCC) as a continuation to the banned Pērkonkrusts. Gustavs Celmiņš Centre was similarly banned for extremist activity in December 2014 by the Latvian court following an application from the Latvian Security Police.

On July 1, 2010, Šiškins was one of the two people detained at a halted march commemorating the capture of Riga by Wehrmacht from the Red Army on July 1, 1941. In October 2012, Šiškins was arrested and charged for the attempted purchase of explosives. In 2015, on the Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires, Šiškins organized a separate procession attended by around 20 people.

Šiškins has remained active, maintaining a website under the Pērkonkrusts name.