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Before diving into the "updated" information, it is essential to establish the known facts. Aleksei Valerevich Kovalskii was born in 1884 in the Russian Empire, into a family with modest connections to the academic intelligentsia. He studied at the prestigious , where he fell under the influence of prominent cytologists and embryologists of the era, including works inspired by Ilya Mechnikov.

: He is suspected of membership in a foreign criminal organization and participating in cyberattacks that caused hundreds of millions of euros in damages worldwide. In Germany alone, the group's activities caused at least €6.8 million in documented losses.