Monday, September 23, 2024

Putin Is Hunting Down Ordinary People All over the World

Lilia Yapparova: It's not just opposition figures who are caught in the Kremlin's dragnet.

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More from the cited OpEd...

... In November 2022, my editors asked me to be careful about what I ate and stop ordering takeout. Initially, I didn't think much of it. But I soon realized the importance of their advice when, just one month later, my colleague Elena Kostyuchenko discovered she had been poisoned in Germany, in a probable assassination attempt by the Russian state.

Such stories have become routine. Last year, an investigative journalist, Alesya Marokhovskaya, was harassed in the Czech Republic; in February, the bullet-riddled body of a Russian defector, Maxim Kuzminov, was found in Spain. In both cases, the Kremlin was assumed to be involved. Russian opposition figures know well that even in exile they remain targets of Russia's intelligence services.

But it's not just them who are in danger. There are also the hundreds of thousands of Russians who left home because they did not want to have anything to do with Vladimir Putin's war ...



Pres Putin seems to be fmr Pres Trump's idol, or overlord. My current opinion is the latter.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-24 12:31 AM

And, I do have to ask, the cited article is an OpEd.

Why wasn't that indicated as such in the summary?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-24 12:34 AM

I wonder if Trump will end up on that list.

Mr. Putin knows U.S. politics better than we do. If Trump loses this election, all of Mr. Putin's dreams will go up in smoke ~ along with his legacy of being the Greatest Leader Russia Has Ever Known.

This is serious business. And it will all be Trump's fault.

#3 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-09-24 02:35 AM

Fat Nixon is too much of a coward to ever cross Vlad to become a target.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-24 06:59 AM

That's cuz 'Daddy Putin Pee Tapes', has the
lock on the Donald. He has sooooo much
blackmail material on the Donald that 'Donny
Depends' won't dare get out of line.

#5 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-09-24 07:44 AM

EARTHMUSE

If Trump loses this election, he's already out of line. How Mr. Putin would react to losing his opportunity to restore Russia to the old U.S.S.R. and thus cement his legacy in Russia's history, is open for opinions.

My opinion is that Mr. Putin will be disgraced at home and will seek retribution against Trump.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to recall that losing is not an option for the top dog in Russian leadership.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-09-24 08:22 AM

Annoying paywall but important story.

#7 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-24 03:24 PM

Putin is like some Boogey Monster out of a medieval German fairy tale. Children, be good... or else the Putin will get you.

#8 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-09-25 02:23 PM

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