Paul Goble
Staunton, May 17 – Things have been so bad in Russia for so long that it is a challenge to imagine they will get worse, Vladimir Pastukhov says; but in fact, the worst that the Putin regime can offer the population and the world is still ahead, assuming the Putin regime does not lose power “due to circumstances beyond its control.”
According to the London-based Russian analyst, that is strongly suggested by a recent BBC study that identified as funders for the extreme right Russian Community, two people, analyst Sergey Mikheyev and billionaire Igor Khudokormov, who have close ties to people close to Putin (t.me/v_pastukhov/1906 reposted at charter97.org/ru/news/2026/5/17/684373/).
“The link between the Presidential Administration and the Russian Communities, a connection already obvious but not proven, represents a fundamental fact that throws light on a powerful trend: the managed slide toward some homegrown variety of Nazism,” Pastukhov says.
As the London-based analyst notes, the Russian Community is “not merely a matter of pure political technology … but represent a genuine movement drawn from the darkest and most vile strata of Russian society, the very elements which since time immemorial have fueled Russian Black Hundred-style extremism.”
The problem with such groups is they are “even harder to ‘put back in the bottle’ than the Z-Patriots have been,” Pastukhov says, noting that “to purge Röhm’s stormtroopers, Hitler had to rely on the SS. These guys aren't interested in ‘Ukro-Nazis’ or the ‘liberating mission’ of the Russian people: they are all about ‘blood purity’" and ‘enemies within.’"
That in turn means that the Putin regime’s “next move should it continue to make any moves at all will be in the direction of civil war, cultural revolution, and pogroms. Not because anyone actually wants that outcome but because the internal logic of the regime’s own political evolution inevitably leads it there,” the Russian analyst concludes.
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