Dejan Pantic2d ago

1/ This Ilya Remeslo business is a big nothingburger. It doesn't show cracks in the Kremlin rule or anything. There's always been hardline nationalist critics of the siloviki. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you retired General-Colonel Leonid Ivashov. ⬇️

https://www.saratoga-foundation.org/p/we-are-in-trouble-general-ivashov

"We are in Trouble": General Ivashov Sounds the Alarm on Russia's Decline Under Putin

By Paul Goble

The Saratoga Foundation
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2/ Less than a month before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the chairman of the All-Russian Officers’ Assembly, Mr. Ivashov, published an appeal on his organization’s website on Jan. 31 to “the President and Citizens of the Russian Federation” asking for Putin's resignation. No, he did NOT suffer an immediate attack of the lethal windows. ⬇️
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3/ Ivashov and his cohorts, with ties close to both GRU and the whole Dugin-Karaganov quasi-intellectual flying circus, are rather formidable people who cannot dislodge Putin's rule, but the Kremlin can't touch them either.