The unconfirmed rumors about the former adviser to the tsar. The hawks remain around Putin: from the Chechen Kadyrov to expresident Medvedev to the “cook Prigozhin
One of the most ardent supporters of the hardline, “allout” fight with the military special operation is Dmitry Medvedev, the collaborator Vladimir Putin trusts most. He, who was also President to keep the Chief’s seat warm when he failed to fill it for the third straight year, leads the Falcon Patrol, though there is competition among them to be the extremist of all people. So convinced to interpret the will of the Lord of the Kremlin. And within the corporation, competition is rampant, if it’s true that the ideologue of “managed democracy,” formerly highly respected Putin adviser Vladislav Surkov, was placed under house arrest for stealing money they used after 2014 to gain Russian control to consolidate the Donbass. The message comes from opponent Ilya Ponomariov, who says he got it from a reliable source. But no further confirmations are found for the time being. Surkov would become a victim of his enemies at the Defense Ministry. The same fate was reserved for two senior intelligence agents who had been handling the Ukraine case and were arrested in recent weeks.
The “hawks”
Choppy water between the hawks and be sure to smell the wind, perhaps to change position if the chief chooses a different path. Everyone must be ready for this, from Ramzan Kadyrov, the ruler of Chechnya, to the speaker of the Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin. The Medvedev case is exemplary. In 2008 he was elected president and stayed in the Kremlin for four years. At the time he seemed to be the leading representative of the reformists and democrats. He gave his first interview to Novaya Gazeta: “Stability and a prosperous life can by no means replace political rights and freedoms,” he said. The following year he delivered a very sharp speech against the Stalinist repressions. Radio Eco in Moscow (now closed, like Novaya) compared it to the one Khrushchev held in 1956, which exposed the crimes of the Georgian dictator. Medvedev considered the sanctions against Iran “ineffective” but “with a certain meaning”. Instead, today it thunders against the West, against Ukraine, which has no right to exist, and against sanctions, “an act of international aggression, a form of hybrid war.”
Kadyrov, who only changed positions once in his life, seems to be more consistent. As an antiRussian guerrilla fighter, he was badly defeated. He’s now Putin’s man in the Caucasus and has always been a hard line, yes, a very hard line. Against the opponents, homosexuals, westerners, Ukrainians. But among believers there are also those who do not face the problem of choosing a line, of being for or against. Like Evgeny Prigozhin, known as “Putin’s chef”, even though in reality the pleasures he gave Vladimir Vladimirovich stood above all others. His was the famous “troll factory” for hacking American websites at the time of Trump’s election. It is the Wagner (though he denies) sending Russian veterans to fight around the world. Now they are “helping out” in Ukraine. Without asking too many questions about what is right or wrong.
April 12, 2022 (Change April 12, 2022 | 09:12)
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