Speaking of grave -- he's next on Putin's list. Russian election candidate calls Ukraine war a ‘big mistake’ by Putin Boris Nadezhdin told the wives of Russia's mobilized soldiers the war was “a big mistake by Putin, of course, and the consequences will be very grave.” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...alls-ukraine-war-big-mistake-putin-rcna133609
https://todaytimeslive.com/world/476033.html Moscow shares video – Putin critic dead: run over on the street
Now for the purging of Bankers as the economy goes to shiat in Russia since they can't prop it up any longer. Speculation rife after Putin’s top banker pulls out of event amid mystery ‘surgery’ claims…as officials drop like flies https://www.the-sun.com/news/10107727/putins-top-banker-mystery-surgery/ CONCERN has mounted over Russia’s central bank governor after she suddenly cancelled an appearance at an exhibition without explanation. It comes amid circulating rumours that Elvira Nabiullina, 60, has undergone an unspecified surgery at the Kremlin. Elvira Nabiullina has disappeared from the public eye after rumours she had surgery Russia's central bank has declined to comment on the rumours, Reuters reported. The Kremlin has also refused to comment on the surgery rumours, appearing annoyed at the question. “I do not consider this question appropriate at our conference call,” Putin’s spokesman told journalists today. "This is absolutely personal information about health and we have neither the scope nor the desire to comment on it." Despite this, the Kremlin wished Nabiullina “health and strength”, it was reported. The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, which has links to law enforcement, cited an unnamed source claiming that the banker had undergone surgery in the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. The channel's source said that the surgery was scheduled - but Nabiullina had been due to speak today at the 'Finance Day' forum at the Rossiya exhibition in Moscow. This suggests the surgery, if true, was sudden. The channel’s source indicated she "will not be able to perform duties for 14 days”. VChK-OGPU acknowledged that they had “no other confirmation” regarding Nabiullina. Yale educated Nabiullina is credited with being the decisive figure in saving the Russian economy from collapse when faced with Western sanctions during the war with Ukraine - and even prior to this. For government officials, banks and investors in Russia, any details about Nabiullina's health are of the utmost importance, given the power she personally wields over the rouble's rates. The banker has been credited with saving Putin from himself over the invasion of Ukraine. Although, Nabiullina had been previously rumoured to be seeking to quit when Putin went to war in Ukraine, and later when he announced mobilisation. He reportedly refused to accept the resignation of a woman who has come to be recognised as one of the world’s best central bankers. In March 2022, one unconfirmed report said that she bluntly accused the dictator of plunging the Russian economy into a “sewer”, adding: “I am an expert in a completely different field.” Her decision to hike interest rates to 20 per cent shortly after the war began and the imposition of capital controls were seen as crucial factors in defending the flagging rouble. This prevented severe capital outflows that could have derailed Russia's economy. Putin has since claimed - contrary to foreign analysts - that his economy was booming during the war. Nabiullina is hardly the first top Russian official to have mysteriously disappeared from the public eye. Last month, Putin ally Vladimir Egorov was found dead after a suspected fall from a third-floor window. It was claimed that the 46-year-old member of the ruling party United Russia suffered heart problems - although it remains unclear as to how this would have led to him falling out of a window. In February, top Russian defence official and key figure in the funding of Putin's war, Marina Yankina, 58, fell 160ft to her death in St Petersburg. She was head of the financial support department of the Ministry of Defence for the Western Military District, which is closely involved in the dictator’s invasion. Lukoil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, also fell from a window of Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital in September last year. Speculation swirled that his death could have been a murder, but reports indicated he had been in hospital for a longstanding heart problem and died on the spot after falling six floors from a window.
So is Elvira Nabiullina still missing? Unhealthy dose of tea? Standing too close to a window? The Russian government and its central bank are publicly disagreeing on how to handle the economy https://news.yahoo.com/russian-government-central-bank-publicly-054352152.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Now might be an excellent time to invest in Polonium futures. Boris Nadezhdin: Putin's would-be opponent vows to end Ukraine war https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68095968
i read about this guy yesterday already. seems too good to be true, somehow. after 20+ years with madvlad - how long would it take to turn around this rotten thing called "russia" ...? (or could it ever become - something similar to - a true democracy at all?)
Putin does not want anyone in Russia outlining the truth about his huge casualties in the Ukraine war. Russia Jails Pensioner for Post About Army Casualties https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024...nternet-after-drone-strikes-kommersant-a83883 A 72-year-old pensioner was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for allegedly sharing a post online about Russia's military casualties in Ukraine, rights groups said Monday. Yevgeniya Maiboroda, from Russia's southern Rostov region, was prosecuted under a law that prohibits the deliberate spreading of "false information" about the Russian army. Maiboroda pleaded guilty but denied she was motivated by "political hatred" as prosecutors alleged, the OVD-Info rights group reported. She shared two posts on her VK social media page, one an "emotional video" about the conflict and the other on the number of soldiers killed, legal group Setevye Svobody said. The group said she felt compelled to share the posts after her brother became trapped under the rubble of a building "collapsed by shells" in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. A spokesperson for Shakhty City Court in Rostov confirmed Maiboroda's conviction to AFP, and said she was charged over illegal content on her VK account, without elaborating. Moscow made criticism of its army illegal shortly after launching its Ukraine offensive in February 2022. Thousands of opponents of the conflict have been censored, jailed or exiled. A 61-year-old ailing pensioner who criticized the conflict was sentenced this month to over eight years in prison for enemy treason, a charge he denied.