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Say what?

[Faust]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

Say what?
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Their news is saying he could have destroyed the column easily but people would be caught in the crossfire, civilians, but that as a true leader he was able to prevent further bloodshed and this protected the nation. I don’t necessarily agree but if their tv is saying this and most people believe the tv, then they will stand behind this guy.

[scoRch]

The court gave life imprisonment to the former head of the Mykolaiv District Prosecutor's Office, Gennadiy Herman, in the case of state treason.

In early March 2022, Gennady German decided on his own initiative to help the Russians and passed them data on the military. That same month, the Russian Federation launched a missile attack on a military barracks in Nikolaev (at least 50 people were killed). Herman is considered a fire spotter and was detained in the first months of the invasion.

Source: https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-soci...derzzradu.html

[Faust]

Originally Posted by scoRch ↗

The court gave life imprisonment to the former head of the Mykolaiv District Prosecutor's Office, Gennadiy Herman, in the case of state treason.

In early March 2022, Gennady German decided on his own initiative to help the Russians and passed them data on the military. That same month, the Russian Federation launched a missile attack on a military barracks in Nikolaev (at least 50 people were killed). Herman is considered a fire spotter and was detained in the first months of the invasion.

Source: https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-soci...derzzradu.html

He looks like Navalny his angry cousin

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Hope to find this with English subs.

""All roads are mined. S*ky, the SBU will destroy you!" - hackers hacked the Russian Railways online conference

The Russians were going to discuss the transportation of goods in the occupied territories. But, as it turned out, every word was followed by Ukrainian hackers. All the information and participants of the conference were recorded, and at the end they gave a "hello". The SBU is now processing the received data."

[Faust]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

Hope to find this with English subs.

""All roads are mined. S*ky, the SBU will destroy you!" - hackers hacked the Russian Railways online conference

The Russians were going to discuss the transportation of goods in the occupied territories. But, as it turned out, every word was followed by Ukrainian hackers. All the information and participants of the conference were recorded, and at the end they gave a "hello". The SBU is now processing the received data."

Looks like some people in certain regions will not be getting any food

[xennex]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

Their news is saying he could have destroyed the column easily but people would be caught in the crossfire, civilians, but that as a true leader he was able to prevent further bloodshed and this protected the nation. I don’t necessarily agree but if their tv is saying this and most people believe the tv, then they will stand behind this guy.

Cult of Personality
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"After Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny, his "troll factory" was paralyzed for almost a week. Russian security forces seized all the equipment from all the organization's offices in St. Petersburg. The Bell writes (https://thebell.global.ssl.fastly.ne...vogo-vladeltsa) that the "factory" is now looking for a new owner.

The "Troll Factory" or "Internet Research Agency" interfered in the US elections, engages in online propaganda and spreads the Kremlin's influence in every possible way. In April of this year, The Washington Post reported, citing leaked US classified documents, that the "factory" is run by a center under the Russian Presidential Administration."


Article posted below. Keep in mind it has been translated to English. Also, I know nothing about the source.

Yevgeny Prigozhin's troll factory and media empire are looking for a new owner
13 HOURS AGO

The work of Yevgeny Prigozhin's world-famous troll factory has been paralyzed for almost a week now. The security forces seized equipment from all the offices of the owner of the Wagner PMC in St. Petersburg during the Saturday riot. Now employees of Prigozhin's troll factory and numerous media outlets interviewed by The Bell are waiting for an imminent change of ownership. They consider Yury Kovalchuk's structures to be the most likely contender for these assets.

Who did the trolls obey?
A significant part of the media and Prigozhin's troll factory are based in St. Petersburg. It so happened historically: in 2013, it was there, on Savushkina Street, that a large office of the organization appeared, whose employees began to massively leave pro-government comments on social networks, on media websites and on YouTube. Over time, Prigozhin's media assets grew, but he denied any connection with them until the creation of the Patriot holding in 2019, whose board of trustees he chaired. The holding included the key media of the "troll factory" RIA "Federal News Agency" (FAN), as well as small editorial sites like "Economy Today", "Politics Today", "Nevsky News", "People's News" and others. After the start of the rebellion, the RIA FAN website was blocked in Russia.

On Saturday morning, when PMC Wagner captured Rostov, most of the workers at Prigozhin's troll and media factory in St. Petersburg did not show up for work, a source from his holding told The Bell. Only those who “didn’t read the news” came to the Lakhta-2 business center, where part of Prigzhin’s media moved in 2017, the source continues.

Soon, a search began in the building, employees were gathered in the dining room, at this time the security forces twisted the cases of equipment, confiscated the servers, and eventually took them away. “There was no defeat, they broke down one door, but it’s not that they turned everything around,” the source says. “If you return the servers, in principle, you can immediately resume work.” But so far, the work of both trolls and newsrooms has been completely paralyzed, he argues: “If you see updates on sites and in social networks, then this is the initiative of individual teams, there is no more centralized control.”

At the time of the start of Prigozhin's rebellion, Ilya Gorbunov was managing his media assets, according to several former and current employees of RIA FAN, with whom The Bell spoke. His name in the context of the work of Prigozhin's media is not mentioned so often. But Gorbunov appeared, for example, in the leaked payrolls and reports of Prigozhin's media structures, published in March of this year by the Dossier Center. There, Gorbunov is called the “curator of special tasks” and the actual head of the Patriot since 2019, and since 2020, the head of both the troll factory and the network of anonymous Telegram channels.

Before joining Prigozhin's holding, Gorbunov worked in the editorial office of Komsomolskaya Pravda in St. Petersburg, and before that - in the RIA Novosti agency, follows from his Twitter. During his work at Komsomolskaya Pravda in 2015 (then the St. Petersburg edition of this publication still positioned itself as a fairly free media), he even posted photos with “No to war” posters and the Ukrainian flag.

“There is no understanding where he is now, perhaps he left the country, it has not been possible to contact him in recent days,” says one of the interlocutors. Gorbunov last visited his page on VKontakte four days ago. The phone number known to The Bell is inactive, and messages are not being sent to the messenger linked to it.

Earlier this week, Gorbunov was in talks with potential new owners of the Patriot, according to two people who worked with him. “But it’s hard to imagine what and with whom he can negotiate,” says one of them. “Still, he oversaw Beglov’s Mochilovo, and then the Ministry of Defense” (Prigozhin’s media sharply criticized the governor of St. yourself in Ukraine).

Most of the employees have stopped working and are only interested in one question - whether they will receive payments for June, interlocutors in the holding say. An employee of the editorial office of one of the media in the North-West told The Bell that several people from Prigozhin's structures had already approached him with questions about open vacancies.

Who will get Prigozhin's media assets
“All the media of this holding had only one reader, and his name was Yevgeny Prigozhin. The whole network worked only to ensure that this reader was satisfied with the news that caught his eye, satisfied with their intonation and message, says one of The Bell's interlocutors. - Even a separate social network "ЯRus" was created so that in terms of social networks he would receive content that was pleasant for himself. And now that reader is gone. But the resources remained, they nevertheless formed a real audience, and there are employees with a certain work experience. There is no question of the destruction of the holding, the issue of a new management is being decided.”

Officially, Prigozhin's media work was supervised by Abbas Juma. In May, he headed the board of trustees of the Patriot holding, FAN himself reported . Prior to this, the council was headed by Prigozhin himself. According to one of The Bell's interlocutors, even then "it was clear that Prigozhin was beginning to abstract himself and transfer cases." In an interview with Meduza, Juma said that he had "nothing to say" about the future of the media yet, but added that the holding was "obeying the law and the president."

Juma is a longtime FAN author, dozens of his texts are posted on the site . The Bell spoke about him in an investigation into the administrators of the pro-war telegram channel Rybar, with which Juma also collaborated. Back in 2021, before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Prigozhin’s structures paid for Juma and other military commissars, including Rybar, to promote the necessary theses in public, The Bell’s interlocutors told. In one of the documents from the same website leakDzhum's "dossier" is listed as an employee of the "international direction", and one of the two creators of "Rybar" disclosed by The Bell is Mikhail Zvinchuk, a former employee of the press service of the Ministry of Defense. All interlocutors interviewed by The Bell believe that Juma has enlisted the support of military correspondents from Telegram channels, in particular, Zvinchuk, and will try to maintain his position in the holding.

Three of The Bell's interlocutors from Prigozhin's structures claim that agreements on new curators of his media empire have not yet been reached. On Tuesday, Prigozhin's media staff in St. Petersburg expected clarity and some announcements by evening, but they did not follow.

Three sources of The Bell, cooperating with Prigozhin's companies, consider the National Media Group (NMG) Yuri Kovalchuk as the most likely new owner of the Patriot holding. “This is a general version,” but none of the interlocutors interviewed by The Bell is aware of the fact of negotiations. According to this version, the NMG will receive control over the assets either directly or through intermediaries. Both schemes have already been repeatedly tested by the NMG, including in the media market of St. Petersburg. For example, TV channel 78 was transferred directly to the structure in the NMG, and through intermediaries - the newspaper Delovoy Peterburg, which the NMG recognized as its asset only three years after the sale of the publication.

On Thursday, anonymous Telegram channels started discussing another candidate. “Viktor Shkulev’s Hearst Shkulev Publishing media holding can take away the remains of Prigozhin’s registered media for 1 ruble, provided that the editorial teams remain for 3 months and pay back wage arrears,” wrote an unknown anonymous channel “VVP: in the power of St. Petersburg” , and 10 minutes later, this message was reposted by another anonymous person - the BRIEF channel with almost 500 thousand subscribers. BRIEF was founded together with the telegram channel Nezygar, a pioneer of anonymous political content with stuffing and links to unknown "insiders". We talked more about Brief and Nezygarin an investigation into how Sergei Chemezov's Rostec is trying to take control of the Russian-language Telegram.

Shkulev in St. Petersburg owns the main city media Fontanka. He himself did not respond to calls and messages from The Bell on Wednesday.

Upd. After the publication of the material, Shkulev responded to The Bell's request sent the day before to comment on the information that appeared in an anonymous telegram about the purchase of Yevgeny Prigozhin by the media. “No, these rumors have nothing to do with us,” he wrote in one of the messengers.
All interlocutors interviewed by The Bell are sure that whoever turns out to be the formal owner of Prigozhin's assets will now be supervised directly from the presidential administration.

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"Another portion of Russian convict cannon fodder refusing to obey the orders of their command. The Russian people are "united like never before"."

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Ever loyal "Putin's Troops"