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CHARACTER INFORMATION: 

CHARACTER NAME: edgar laur

CHARACTER FACECLAIM: vladimir averyanov

CHARACTER AGE/DOB: march 20th 2001

CHARACTER PRONOUNS/GENDER IDENTITY/SEXUALITY ETC: he/him, his gender is barely repressed rage and grief tbf, bi and poly in the abandonment issues kind of way

OC OR CANON: listen I’ll just call him oc here, we have crossed the canon line long ago

CHARACTER PROFESSION IF RELEVANT: vampire hunter. helps order with legal matters on the side.

SCHOOL ATTENDED & HOUSE IF RELEVANT: hogwarts, hufflepuff (for his last year only, went to koldovsdvoretz for two years prior to that, home-schooled before) 

ALIGNMENT (the order/death eaters/etc) + GENERAL OPINIONS ON THE WAR/THEIR SIDE: member of the order, makes a good show of caring about all the sides of the struggle equally (and it’s not that he *doesn’t* care), but those working with him more frequently know that him taking on all the missions for eradicating particularly dangerous vampire’s on voldemort’s side has a rather manic edge to it.

CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY:

- born to a family of wizards in rural estonia, edgar had a rather happy and careless childhood, learning magic from his mother alongside his many siblings, enjoying the simple life of a small, closely knit wix community. that is, until his sister caught the attention of the wrong man. a vampire, and one not in full control of his more bloodthirsty nature. he turned edgar’s sister while he was away to visit some distant relatives, and she in turn could not contain herself and, although moved by what she thought were her best intentions, shared the curse with her family. by the time edgar returned, it was already too late to stop what followed. the other locals were reasonably frightened by a sudden spike in the number of unchecked vampires, local authorities got involved, and because his family had been turned in a way considered ‘unsanctioned’, they were all exterminated. that’s what it said on the report later. exterminated. as if they were some animals. and the man who started it all walked free.

- edgar vowed to find and kill him after that. he was barely fourteen at the time, but stubborn and obsessed with vengeance. but he knew he needed the right skills and opportunities first. he was put in foster care and out of sheer luck accepted into koldovsdvoretz, where he was even more fortunate to meet the right people to teach him what he wanted to know. turned vampires weren’t particularly respected in magical russia, not after the chaos they commonly sowed just a few decades earlier.

- the summer after he turned sixteen he got to travel to prague on a dueling competition and that summer turned out to be a turning point because he met vitezislav. he was a vampire and edgar didn’t attempt to attack him only because he was also a member of the jury. though, during the next week they talked surprisingly often, because it turned out that as a born vampire, vitezislav shared much of the same distaste for what he called the ‘animalistic’ murder committed by his brethren. it was he who gave edgar the nudge at england and the storm brewing there, as well as the opportunities it could present.

- it wasn’t terribly hard to get into an exchange program to hogwarts for his last year, although rather than diligent studying, edgar had a single goal in mind: find out everything he could about the vampires gathering under what people whispered to be 'death eaters’. and, well, he got that and more.

- things moved quickly after that. he graduated, joined the order, although at first his presence was scarce, only when important missions hunting dark creatures were in order, because edgar spent plenty of time traveling, refining his skills. he met vitezislav again, which was both extremely confusing for his moral compass but also highly educational, made friends with a fellow hunter arina, whose reasons for doing what she did stayed a mystery to him, and well. hunted vampires. not any vampires, mind, he had spent too long studying them to still think that all of them were bloodthirsty monsters, but those that had the tales of blood spilled stretching after them? they all got on his list.

- which brings us to the here and now, him returning to the order, after hearing some particularly interesting stories of another of voldemort’s vampire pawns in need of being put down. and, seeing how they have come from odin himself, one of the formerly most respected vampire hunters in the region, edgar sees no reason to doubt their validity.

OOC INFORMATION: 

NAME/ALIAS: T

AGE: 22

PRONOUNS: they/them

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If Moscow’s existing toolkit for mobilizing society fails under the pressures of the draft, the Putin administration could pursue “ideological escalation” to sustain the war effort, turning to a broad “repertoire of products” from “near-Kremlin ideological factories.” In addition to police repression, the regime currently uses several “key instruments for imposing state ideology”: (1) political talk shows by figures like Vladimir Solovyov and Olga Skabeyeva, (2) “mass political productions on war themes” (concerts, plays, and pop-culture events), and (3) educational programs for youths.
For years, the Kremlin has used these tools to promote a fundamentally vague “ideological narrative,” successfully engaging different audiences and fostering at least the appearance of social consensus. Now that the government needs the public’s active support in the form of military mobilization, however, the old ways could prove inadequate.
The Kremlin’s marketplace for patriotic ideas: Multiple groups comprise the “ideological ecosystem that’s formed around the presidential administration,” says Laruelle, and these groups advocate their own projects, advancing “the forefront of state production of military ideology.” Those involved in the “philosophy of the front” are largely state academic and cultural institutions, state media figures, and popular authors. Laruelle compares this corner of the ecosystem to the “initiatives and projects of the Soviet era,” when state institutions were ordered to fulfill ideological and political tasks. (Many supporters of the “philosophy of the front” complain that the state doesn’t explicitly order them to operate more extensively.)
The “other group of ideologists” eying a key role in Russia’s wartime mobilization is the Izborsk Club, which has supplied much of the conservative messaging that followed Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012. Since February 2022, the club’s three leaders — Alexander Prokhanov, Alexander Dugin, and Valery Averyanov — have each shaped elements of Russia’s “doctrinal platform for justifying the war,” contributing ideas that frame the conflict in Ukraine as “existential and metaphysical” for Russians. The Izborsk Club’s manifesto — its “Ideology of Russian Victory” — is a fascist embrace of violence and war as the means to “restore a new humanity and rebirth a nation,” but it does not have mass appeal in Russian, which is why the Kremlin will not recognize it, says Laruelle.
Forget the eggheads — the real mobilizing force could be on Telegram: The loudest voices advocating total war with an actual mass audience belong to Telegram’s pro-invasion channels. These bloggers offer tales of individual heroism, courage, and patriotic self-sacrifice for Russia’s survival without the academic hyperboles that the ideologists peddle.
As the war drags on, Laruelle says the Putin regime will find it progressively harder to “balance and contain” the reactionary lobbies seeking more aggressive ideological indoctrination campaigns from the state. Even if Moscow is able to complete the military mobilization without resorting to ideological radicalization, it might become needed when justifying draftees’ casualties. To further complicate the Kremlin’s work, attempts to recreate a Soviet multi-level propaganda system (marrying official state philosophers, scholars, agitators, and so on) would preserve the same “ideological vagueness and improvised mechanisms” that already frustrate Russia’s more radical groups.
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Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/world/europe/unit-29155-russia-gru.html

For those who have been following Putin for the last 5 or so years, starting with the invasion of Crimea, Brexit, U.S. and French Election interference in 2016 and assassinations in Europe including Skripal posionings, Putin has a plan. PLEASE READ 📖 AND SHARE this informative article. 👇👇🤔

Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say

By Michael Schwirtz | Published Oct. 8, 2019 Updated 12:00 p.m. ET | New York Times | Posted October 8, 2019 |

First came a destabilization campaign in Moldova, followed by the poisoning of an arms dealer in Bulgaria and then a thwarted coup in Montenegro. Last year, there was an attempt to assassinate a former Russian spy in Britain using a nerve agent. Though the operations bore the fingerprints of Russia’s intelligence services, the authorities initially saw them as isolated, unconnected attacks.

Western security officials have now concluded that these operations, and potentially many others, are part of a coordinated and ongoing campaign to destabilize Europe, executed by an elite unit inside the Russian intelligence system skilled in subversion, sabotage and assassination.

The group, known as Unit 29155, has operated for at least a decade, yet Western officials only recently discovered it. Intelligence officials in four Western countries say it is unclear how often the unit is mobilized and warn that it is impossible to know when and where its operatives will strike.

The purpose of Unit 29155, which has not been previously reported, underscores the degree to which the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, is actively fighting the West with his brand of so-called hybrid warfare — a blend of propaganda, hacking attacks and disinformation — as well as open military confrontation.

“I think we had forgotten how organically ruthless the Russians could be,” said Peter Zwack, a retired military intelligence officer and former defense attaché at the United States Embassy in Moscow, who said he was not aware of the unit’s existence.

In a text message, Dmitri S. Peskov, Mr. Putin’s spokesman, directed questions about the unit to the Russian Defense Ministry. The ministry did not respond to requests for comment.

Hidden behind concrete walls at the headquarters of the 161st Special Purpose Specialist Training Center in eastern Moscow, the unit sits within the command hierarchy of the Russian military intelligence agency, widely known as the G.R.U.

Though much about G.R.U. operations remains a mystery, Western intelligence agencies have begun to get a clearer picture of its underlying architecture. In the months before the 2016 presidential election, American officials say two G.R.U. cyber units, known as 26165 and 74455, hacked into the servers of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign, and then published embarrassing internal communications.

[Our correspondent Matt Apuzzo reported on Russia’s blueprint for foreign disruption on “The Weekly,” The Times’s TV show. Watch on FX and Hulu.]

Last year, Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 elections, indicted more than a dozen officers from those units, though all still remain at large. The hacking teams mostly operate from Moscow, thousands of miles from their targets.

By contrast, officers from Unit 29155 travel to and from European countries. Some are decorated veterans of Russia’s bloodiest wars, including in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Ukraine. Its operations are so secret, according to assessments by Western intelligence services, that the unit’s existence is most likely unknown even to other G.R.U. operatives.

The unit appears to be a tight-knit community. A photograph taken in 2017 shows the unit’s commander, Maj. Gen. Andrei V. Averyanov, at his daughter’s wedding in a gray suit and bow tie. He is posing with Col. Anatoly V. Chepiga, one of two officers indicted in Britain over the poisoning of a former spy, Sergei V. Skripal.

“This is a unit of the G.R.U. that has been active over the years across Europe,” said one European security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe classified intelligence matters. “It’s been a surprise that the Russians, the G.R.U., this unit, have felt free to go ahead and carry out this extreme malign activity in friendly countries. That’s been a shock.”

To varying degrees, each of the four operations linked to the unit attracted public attention, even as it took time for the authorities to confirm that they were connected. Western intelligence agencies first identified the unit after the failed 2016 coup in Montenegro, which involved a plot by two unit officers to kill the country’s prime minister and seize the Parliament building.

But officials began to grasp the unit’s specific agenda of disruption only after the March 2018 poisoning of Mr. Skripal, a former G.R.U. officer who had betrayed Russia by spying for the British. Mr. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, fell grievously ill after exposure to a highly toxic nerve agent, but survived.

(Three other people were sickened, including a police officer and a man who found a small bottle that British officials believe was used to carry the nerve agent and gave it to his girlfriend. The girlfriend, Dawn Sturgess, died after spraying the nerve agent on her skin, mistaking the bottle for perfume.)

The poisoning led to a geopolitical standoff, with more than 20 nations, including the United States, expelling 150 Russian diplomats in a show of solidarity with Britain.

Ultimately, the British authorities exposed two suspects, who had traveled under aliases but were later identified by the investigative site Bellingcat as Colonel Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. Six months after the poisoning, British prosecutors charged both men with transporting the nerve agent to Mr. Skripal’s home in Salisbury, England, and smearing it on his front door.

But the operation was more complex than officials revealed at the time.

Exactly a year before the poisoning, three Unit 29155 operatives traveled to Britain, possibly for a practice run, two European officials said. One was Mr. Mishkin. A second man used the alias Sergei Pavlov. Intelligence officials believe the third operative, who used the alias Sergei Fedotov, oversaw the mission.

Soon, officials established that two of these officers — the men using the names Fedotov and Pavlov — had been part of a team that attempted to poison the Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev in 2015. (The other operatives, also known only by their aliases, according to European intelligence officials, were Ivan Lebedev, Nikolai Kononikhin, Alexey Nikitin and Danil Stepanov.)

The team would twice try to kill Mr. Gebrev, once in Sofia, the capital, and again a month later at his home on the Black Sea.

Speaking to reporters in February at the Munich Security Conference, Alex Younger, the chief of MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, spoke out against the growing Russian threat and hinted at coordination, without mentioning a specific unit.

“You can see there is a concerted program of activity — and, yes, it does often involve the same people,” Mr. Younger said, pointing specifically to the Skripal poisoning and the Montenegro coup attempt. He added: “We assess there is a standing threat from the G.R.U. and the other Russian intelligence services and that very little is off limits.”

The Kremlin sees Russia as being at war with a Western liberal order that it views as an existential threat.

At a ceremony in November for the G.R.U.’s centenary, Mr. Putin stood beneath a glowing backdrop of the agency’s logo — a red carnation and an exploding grenade — and described it as “legendary.” A former intelligence officer himself, Mr. Putin drew a direct line between the Red Army spies who helped defeat the Nazis in World War II and officers of the G.R.U., whose “unique capabilities” are now deployed against a different kind of enemy.

“Unfortunately, the potential for conflict is on the rise in the world,” Mr. Putin said during the ceremony. “Provocations and outright lies are being used and attempts are being made to disrupt strategic parity.”

In 2006, Mr. Putin signed a law legalizing targeted killings abroad, the same year a team of Russian assassins used a radioactive isotope to murder Aleksander V. Litvinenko, another former Russian spy, in London.

Unit 29155 is not the only group authorized to carry out such operations, officials said. The British authorities have attributed Mr. Litvinenko’s killing to the Federal Security Service, the intelligence agency once headed by Mr. Putin that often competes with the G.R.U.

Although little is known about Unit 29155 itself, there are clues in public Russian records that suggest links to the Kremlin’s broader hybrid strategy.

A 2012 directive from the Russian Defense Ministry assigned bonuses to three units for “special achievements in military service.” One was Unit 29155. Another was Unit 74455, which was involved in the 2016 election interference. The third was Unit 99450, whose officers are believed to have been involved in the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.

A retired G.R.U. officer with knowledge of Unit 29155 said that it specialized in preparing for “diversionary” missions, “in groups or individually — bombings, murders, anything.”

“They were serious guys who served there,” the retired officer said. “They were officers who worked undercover and as international agents.”

Photographs of the unit’s dilapidated former headquarters, which has since been abandoned, show myriad gun racks with labels for an assortment of weapons, including Belgian FN-30 sniper rifles, German G3A3s, Austrian Steyr AUGs and American M16s. There was also a form outlining a training regimen, including exercises for hand-to-hand combat. The retired G.R.U. officer confirmed the authenticity of the photographs, which were published by a Russian blogger.

The current commander, General Averyanov, graduated in 1988 from the Tashkent Military Academy in what was then the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. It is likely that he would have fought in both the first and second Chechen wars, and he was awarded a Hero of Russia medal, the country’s highest honor, in January 2015. The two officers charged with the Skripal poisoning also received the same award.

Though an elite force, the unit appears to operate on a shoestring budget. According to Russian records, General Averyanov lives in a run-down Soviet-era building a few blocks from the unit’s headquarters and drives a 1996 VAZ 21053, a rattletrap Russia-made sedan. Operatives often share cheap accommodation to economize while on the road. British investigators say the suspects in the Skripal poisoning stayed in a low-cost hotel in Bow, a downtrodden neighborhood in East London.

But European security officials are also perplexed by the apparent sloppiness in the unit’s operations. Mr. Skripal survived the assassination attempt, as did Mr. Gebrev, the Bulgarian arms dealer. The attempted coup in Montenegro drew an enormous amount of attention, but ultimately failed. A year later, Montenegro joined NATO. It is possible, security officials say, that they have yet to discover other, more successful operations.

It is difficult to know if the messiness has bothered the Kremlin. Perhaps, intelligence experts say, it is part of the point.

“That kind of intelligence operation has become part of the psychological warfare,” said Eerik-Niiles Kross, a former intelligence chief in Estonia. “It’s not that they have become that much more aggressive. They want to be felt. It’s part of the game.”

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name / alias: T pronouns: they/them age: 19 timezone: eet triggers: none hex code: we been knew discord id: we been knew BASIC CHARACTER INFO character name: edgar character age / birthdate: 29 / 20th 1991 character faceclaim: vladimir averyanov hogwarts house / former school: secondary school in estonia, later koldovstoretz side (order, death eaters, neutral): death eaters/neutral occupation: dark wizard/spy ships / anti-ships: no current ships, open to basically anything EXTENDED CHARACTER INFO personality: cynical, selective, caring, reserved, will use any means to achieve a goal, doesn’t believe in morals past: born in estonia, he transferred to koldovstoretz after his third year, completing his education there. edgar was content to return to his homeland, start working for the estonian ministry as a curse breaker, marry, have a child. until an attack from a group of dark wizards destroyed it all. he lost everything he had. and he dived into dark magic seeking revenge. after years spent in wilderness, learning magic from shamans in siberia and witches in northern swamps, it was almost too easy to find and strike down his enemies. but it didn’t bring him peace. only emptiness. at this point edgar’s actions had attracted the attention of russian magical secret services. edgar didn’t want to die. so he started working for them. not that he really liked the job, but it gave him some sense of purpose. edgar didn’t exactly enjoy the dark intrigues, deaths and misery, but he was a very good player in the midst of them, and after some time he his doubts took a step back. this was his life now. finally, he received his first big assignment. infiltrate the infamous british death eaters under the mask of a foreign dark wizard to find out whether they are more than a local threat. with help from the russian intelligence, combined with his own background it was almost too easy to do. present: edgar has been vibing as a death eater, sending messages back and forth with the russian head office and doing some dark and nasty shit. just the usual. headcanons: - his patronus is a chameleon, his wand is hawthorn, veela hair, 12 ½ inches, supple, his boggart is his wife and daughter, screaming and begging for help. symbolizes his fear of not being able to protect things he values. - has learnt many kinds of wandless magic as part of his training with different shamans. he mostly uses his wand in public though. is skilled in nonverbal magic. - uses artifacts and mental magic techniques of russian intelligence to shield his mind. - has a black magical rat anton. - the one hobby he has outside of work and dark magic business is bird watching. he really likes ducks. - doesn’t use latin based magic often, most of his spells and technique are either slavic or uralic. any extras: have an angsty playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/171tn5bTac5z6Cr596fTXb?si=vQ8Ke1k7T3i5j41eneeNDg

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Anonymous asked:

Hello, Cib! I was wondering if you’ve got any Russian male faceclaims for a dark, mysterious, grunge-ish guy, around 19-23. Preferably someone who has had both short and long hair. Thank you!

Hello anon! Hmmm I don't know many Russian fcs, but I will definitely try! However, I'm not sure about the hair :(

  • Nicholas Galitzine (17-26) (Russian descent)
  • Pyotr Skvortsov (18-27)
  • Vladimir Averyanov (17-25)
  • Alex Storm (17-25) [apparently, he's russian]
  • Yuri Pleskun (18-28) [Russian and/or Ukrainian descent]
  • Anton Lisin (19-27)

(cib)

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[ad_1] Gen. Andrey Averyanov is being tapped to run the Wagner Mercenary group's Africa operations following the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin.Averyanov currently serves as the head of covert offensive operations in Russia’s military intelligence service, and he has been accused of ordering assassinations of Russian dissidents. He now has the task of maintaining Wagner's operations in Africa after the death of their architect, The Wall Street Journal reported.Averyanov met with African leaders during a Russia-Africa summit in July. The summit was also Prigozhin's first public appearance following his brief mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime.When Prigozhin's private jet crashed last week, Wagner lost several members of its top brass in addition to their leader. Prigozhin's second in command, Dmitry Utkin, and Wagner's non-military logistics chief, Valery Chekalov, were also aboard.WAGNER TROOPS MOURN PRIGOZHIN FOLLOWING PLANE CRASH Gen. Andrey Averyanov is being tapped to run the Wagner Mercenary group's Africa operations following the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin. Putin forced Wagner mercenaries to withdraw operations in Ukraine following their mutiny earlier this year. However, the group remains heavily active in Africa.PENTAGON SAYS WAGNER CHIEF YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN LIKELY KILLED IN PLANE CRASH, NO EVIDENCE OF MISSILE ATTACKIt is unknown what caused Prigozhin's plane to crash, but experts believe Putin ordered an assassination.Rescuers said they found 10 bodies in the wreckage, and Russian officials stated Sunday that a DNA analysis confirmed that Prigozhin was among them. When Yevgeny Prigozhin's private jet crashed last week, Wagner lost several members of its top brass in addition to their leader. Prigozhin's second in command, Dmitry Utkin, and Wagner's non-military logistics chief, Valery Chekalov, were also aboard the flight. (Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel via AP)WHO IS YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN?In comments following the crash, Putin described Prigozhin as "a man of difficult fate" who "made serious mistakes in life, and he achieved the results he needed — both for himself and, when I asked him about it, for the common cause, as in these last months. He was a talented man, a talented businessman." It is unknown what caused Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane to crash, but experts believe Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the assassination. (REUTERS)CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"It would be harmful to make changes immediately," one Wagner employee in Africa told WSJ. "The first concern now is not to lose control of the situation while waiting for the appointment of one (or more) heirs." Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders. [ad_2]

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¡Bienvenido Extraño! Somos el staff de Auckland y te invitamos a que leas a continuación. Te presentamos 2 personajes construidos por nosotros. Por el momento, las únicas tramas que tienen son de familia y con su fraternidad, porque queremos que quién tome la búsqueda se sienta lo más cómodo posible con el personaje y en consecuencia dejaremos libre la obtención de más tramas. Nuestro principal interés es poblar la fraternidad Elphys, sin embargo dependiendo de como se desarrollen los personajes puede que obtengan más protagonismo en el futuro. Aclaraciones♢ Pueden personalizar sus fichas pero siempre y cuando respeten los datos aportados por la búsqueda. ♢ El staff se reserva el derecho de otorgar o no la búsqueda a los interesados. ♢ Cualquier duda que surja pueden enviar MP a esta cuenta. ♢ Cualquiera de los pbs es negociable siempre que guarden similitud entre sí.

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Anonymous asked:

hi. i'm looking for inspiration. hope you'll help me. i need a male fc about 20-24 yo for a russian boy who radio podcasting. he's very cheerful and has a good sense of humor. brown or dark brown hair would be fine. thanks for your help. have a good day ~

Hello there <3 I’m don’t know many russian fcs :( But I’ll try!

  • Nicholas Galitzine (Russian ancestry)
  • Filipp Avdeyev
  • Pyotr Skvortsov
  • Danila Kozlovsky  (Older)
  • Ivan Shakhnazarov
  • Sergey Gorodnichiy (Blonde)
  • Vladimir Averyanov
  • Sasha Volosatov (Blonde)

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Anonymous asked:

¡Buenas! Estoy buscando pbs que sirvan para dar vida a Alec Lightwood. Los actores que aparecen en la pelicula y serie no me terminan de convencer. El rango de edad estaría entre los 20 y 30.

Bueno, creo que lo principal es mantener el pelo negro y los ojos azules, así que yo diría:

  • Robbie Satchwell.
  • Aidan Walsh.
  • Elias Bender Rønnenfelt.
  • Vladimir Averyanov.
  • Luke Powell.
  • Michael Gioia.
  • Maks Behr.
  • Arthur Gosse.
  • Nathan Saignes.

Actores por si buscas personas con más recursos, gifs o whatever:

  • Landon Liboiron.
  • Fionn Whitehead.
  • Richard Harmon.

Y dejamos esto también:

Esperamos que nos digas si te ha servido alguna sugerencia, de lo contrario puedes volver para que busquemos más opciones. Los likes de todo aquel al que le guste, rebloguee o le de uso, serán agradecidos.

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Navalny poisoning: GRU trace and Shoigu's ambitions

The trail of the Russian GRU military intelligence is becoming more and more evident.

While earlier the GRU involvement in Navalny poisoning was only one of the assumptions, a version, now we can confidently speak about the complicity of this particular intelligence agency in the attempt on the pocket opposition leader.

Head of the German intelligence Bruno Kahl recently said that Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with the agent from the Novichok group, which has a stronger effect than all other known subtypes.

According to German intelligence, the perpetrators hoped Navalny would die during on a plane, unable to get timely medical assistance.  However, the pilot's move to do an emergency landing in Omsk, as well as the quick shot of  atropine by Russian doctors, ultimately saved Navalny's life.

The involvement of the Russian special services in Navalny poisoning was never doubted as such.  The only question remained, who exactly was who was behind the attempt.  And for me personally, the GRU was the first agency that came to mind. Now the conclusion by the German intelligence makes the version the only viable one.

Over the past few years, we have witnessed a whole series of poisonings, with varying degrees of success, of Russia-loathed individuals living in Europe.  There was an attempt on Bulgarian businessman Emilian Gebrev in 2015, as well as a hit on Sergey Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018.  In both cases, it was novichok, the brainchild of Russian military labs, that was used as a poison.  And in both cases it was GRU agents who used it.

In fact, the GRU enjoys a complete monopoly on the use of novichok so and no other agency is able to get access to it without their knowledge.  That's unless someone seeks to frame some rivals as part of interagency squabbles...

Of course, in this case I mean the FSB, which for a long time patronized Alexei Navalny and could use the sacred victim in the face of a prominent oppo figure Navalny for its double game.  However, this option, which I also considered earlier, turns out to be inviable, since Navalny was poisoned by a new, stronger type of novichok, which could only be developed in the Russian military labs and whose use could only be authorized within the GRU.

Moreover, the use of this kind of poison is so limited that over the past period  only operatives with a single GRU unit, No.29155, led by Major General Andrei Averyanov.l, who had actual access to it.

But if this is so and the version with the GRU's participation in the attempt is confirmed, the question arises - why did they have to try to kill an opposition figure who for many years had played the role of a brake on protest moods?

The issue is perhaps one of the most important ones. After all, if the FSB, which patronized Navalny, was involved in his poisoning, their only benefit could have been  in creating a sacred victim image, ou to bring new puppet heroes to the forefront of the “fight against dictatorial power”.  But, as we already know, the FSB was not involved in the case. The only way they did get involved was to provide access to Navalny for trustworthy medics.

In turn, the unambiguous trace of the GRU that's been exposed dots the i's in this complicated case.

Earlier, I wrote that Navalny's employers (FSB) tried to integrate him into the protests in the Khabarovsk Territory in order to tone them down a notch.  In principle, that's a classical task for Navalny throughout his long-term career, his main mission - to skilfully level protest moods

But the Khabarovsk protest is a project led by the GRU and the elites grouped around it, which in fact have taken control of an entire region and are cultivating a specific “Russian riot” attitudes there.  The effort to penetrate these protests with Navalny's presence, which promised to kill the entire project, could not be afforded by the GRU masterminds, and therefore Major General Averyanov's operatives were involved.

However, the operation to eliminate Alexei Navalny was aimed not only at what we see on the surface.

When such decisions are made, all the consequences are calculated in detail.  And the one who made the decision to eliminate the opposition figure understood perfectly well that his death would entail yet another international scandal, a blow to Russia's authority and the image of it's leadership, primarily in the person of Vladimir Putin. It would also entail another wave of sanctions and, of course, another demonization of the FSB.

And the decision has been made because the customer was perfectly okay with all these negative consequences. I'm talking about Sergei Shoigu and the political and financial elites rallying around him.  Neither Putin, nor Bortnikov, nor Naryshkin, nor anyone else from the high offices to whom Navalny's activity was beneficial could make such an absurd decision.  But the Minister of Defense, who saw himself in the near future as Putin's successor, but found himself in dispair after the count of Putin's presidential terms was reset in the amendments to the Constitution, starts a dirty and harsh game, a game of survival. It's either he or they.

But, once again in a meticulous and well-coordinated GRU plan, something went wrong, namely, the victim survived, again.  Moreover, not only did the victim survive, he was also evacuated to Germany with the subsequent clarification of the source of poisoning, the origin of the poison, and all that international publicity, exposing a distinct, deep trail of the GRU.  And not even so much of the GRU as of the ambitions that Sergei Shoigu conceals in relation to presidency and, in general, his dominance across vast Russian regions.

And therefore, who knows, perhaps the poisoning of Alexei Navalny will actually launch a much more serious flywheel of developments within Russia than another series of international “toxic” scandal in the endless series courtesy military unit 29155...