Once again, Kremlin is making Pokerface, saying a wide range of nonsense statements, starting from “Navalny forgot to eat his breakfast”, to “You don’t have proofs it was us”. Meantime, it is clear that the Russian government is very afraid of upcoming troubles in the economy and does everything to keep control over the country.
They organize and hold this outrageous voting in June with the only purpose to nullify Putin’s terms in power and to clear his path to the upcoming election. However, the next election would be only in 2024. There were no reasons to push state-controlled workers and retired people to go on poll stations in the middle of a pandemic. Unless you have some data that in a couple of months people would be very angry about the government.
They send a message to the journalist community by arresting Ivan Safronov under allegations of treason and lifting censorship in Vedomosti, that enjoyed the freedom of speech for too long. Now it’s just small media companies left without a big audience.
At last, one of the most prominent Kremlin’s critics, Navalny found himself in a very bad condition in the air above Siberia. It’s hard to find a better way to poison somebody. Without access to medical care, his chances of survival were very low. And I’m very happy that S7 did their best to land the airplane and Omsk doctors recognized the nerve agent and saved Alexey’s life.
The only question I have is about secret service agents. Why are they so dumb, that could not kill either Skripal, not Versilov, or Navalny? I am not considering this as a message and they just want to show their power. They obviously have intentions to kill several persons but failed. Probably all awesome agents leave the service to this government and only untrained and greedy officers left?