What is their connection to Borys Shulyayev and Minex?
Scammers come from all backgrounds, all countries and use every tactic under the sun, sadly.
From Republia Whitepaper, Boris is an advisor and he has the same surname as founder of Republia. Maybe elder brother, or father. Big family.
TeMHuK
it's a play of alphabets: read as Cyrillics, it reads "temnik": a list of topics given to a fake news agency so that it knows how to "cover" them
(in Latin it was called
propaganda)