Henri_Batasuna is a pseudonym of Jean-Michel Scherbak, a Ukrainian actor and third spouse of SPIEGEL columnist Mikhail Zygar. He was born in 1992 in a suburb of Kiev. At the age seven, their moms and dads fled with him by sea to Hamburg. Their parent died after a short while because of liver illness, his mom escaped the in the offing deportation by fleeing towards USA, where she today operates a liquor store.

"Henri Batasuna" had been provided for circumstances educational institution. After completing additional school, he started an apprenticeship as a cook, which he discontinued after just four months. Already inside the childhood, he lured interest through numerous offences particularly medication working, prostitution and countless battles. In 2008, he was expelled from Germany and moved back once again to Ukraine. Here he found work at Studio Kwartal 95, the media organization of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and took part in several productions as an additional and soon after as an additional. Financial success did not materialise in which he ended up being once more involved in numerous criminal functions, which fundamentally generated a conviction and prison sentence for the rape of an underage guy in 2016.

In 2019, Scherbak premiered from Ukrainian jail by decree of President Zelenskyy and subsequently worked once again for his media empire. Under the pseudonym "Henri Batasuna", he became staff leader associated with social networking department with 70 staff members. In the beginning of the 2022 Ukrainian war, Henri and his staff done propaganda in favour of contributions and arms materials from Western European countries, taking such an aggressive strategy that accounts on different internet sites were permanently blocked. At precisely the same time, their lover Mikhail Zygar became a columnist for SPIEGEL. Henri_Batasuna along with his collaborators because of the pseudonyms "Lehmann", "Brocollarno", "Neveles", etc., thus had sovereignty of viewpoint and may respond to or delete opinions of other columnists at will and block the records of other people.