ResearchBuzz: FirehoseMeduza: ‘Eating their own’: What the latest scandal among Russia’s pro-war pundits says about the Z-blogosphere’s future. “Apti Alaudinov, commander of Chechnya’s ‘Akhmat’ special forces unit, has once again landed in the middle of a political-media scandal — this time not with fringe Z-bloggers but with Kremlin-friendly propagandists themselves.”