Paul
Goble
Staunton, October 22 – There are at
least two kinds of criminal cases, those in which the action is relatively
simple and those responsible are easily tracked and those in which the action
is extraordinarily and intentionally complicated so that those responsible can
evade responsibility for what they are doing.
The Putin regime and its leading cadres
are specialists in the the second kind of criminal action, something that has
allowed them to cast enough doubt on their complicity that some in both Russia
and the West are still inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt because
it serves their own interest to avoid doing the tough work needed to keep track
of what Putin’s men do.
Today, Novaya gazeta has published a 4,000-word article by Denis Korotkov
on the activities of Yevgeny Prigorzhin, a Putin intimate known as “the chef”
whose enemies and opponents have repeatedly suffered misfortunes or even death
in ostensibly obscure circumstances (novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/10/22/78289-povar-lyubit-poostree).
The
article deserves attention and translation so that all those who still fail or
refuse to recognize that the Putin regime is not only criminal in and of itself
but is now spawning criminal groups of various kinds among those who are what
might be called its “co-conspirators,” groups that may allow it to survive for
some time but that will ultimately destroy it.
Opposition
politician Dmitry Gudkov cuts to the chase of this article and says that it
demonstrates that in Russia today, “an underground special service is operating,
in the interests of which a narrow group has seized power by killing people” and
whose actions make what happened in Salisbury look like child’s play (t.me/DmitryGudkov/804).
A
close reading of Korotkov’s article fully confirms Gudkov’s damning
conclusions.
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