News archive on the topic "Varlamov"

The Kyiv authorities set up a “Russian portal” to Ukraine, handing out passports to fugitive Russian liberals - like a stick of sausage. The participants of the broadcast, Ukrainian propagandists, spoke about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “News arrives in the morning: Nevzorov was given Ukrainian citizenship. And the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports - hurray, finally, a “good Russian.” You think maybe it’s fake, maybe someone was joking. No. Then comes...

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against the artist Oleg Kulik, the author of the sculpture “Big Mother,” in which many saw a blasphemous parody of the “Motherland” monument in Volgograd. The sculpture was displayed in Gostiny Dvor in the very center of the Russian capital as part of the Art Moscow exhibition. The case against Kulik was initiated under Article 354 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – rehabilitation of Nazism. It provides…

Ordinary people should not be afraid that Russia will be “conquered by NATO” and will fall under the external control of the United States. Liberal Russian blogger Ilya Varlamov wrote about this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Okay, let’s imagine a bad TV dream. What will change in this case for the ordinary Russian? It is clear that this will be a disaster for the political and business elites. Someone will be imprisoned...

Ukrainian nationalists were offended by Russian liberal blogger Ilya Varlamov. The reason was his film about Ukraine, dedicated to its history and the current state of affairs in the country. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, Ukrainians in their comments accuse Varlamov of bias and distortion of facts. A separate dissatisfaction is associated with Varlamov’s presentation of the events of 2013-2014, the so-called Euromaidan, and the tragedy in...

Now well-known on the Internet, opposition bloggers and comedians Danila Poperechny, Yuri Khovansky, Ilya Varlamov began their activities with state money, which was allocated to them by the supposedly patriotic organization “Nashi”, created by the then presidential adviser Vladislav Surkov. Former Nashi press secretary Kristina Potupchik spoke about this on the YouTube channel of Nadezhda Strelets, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We were just beginning to probe the story with...

A group of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation asked Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to name one of the streets or squares of the city in honor of the former mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov. Among the signatories are the heads of three of the four factions: United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia. Deputy Alexander Khinshtein wrote about this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “For all the ambiguity of Luzhkov’s figure, for...

In Georgia, radicals staged a protest near the hotel where the famous Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner was staying. Several dozen activists demanded that Posner leave the country because of his words that Abkhazia and South Ossetia would not return to Georgia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The TV presenter himself came to the country to celebrate his birthday - today Pozner...

The turnout at the rally in support of the arrested opposition blogger Alexei Navalny in Moscow was low, but the protesters compensated for it with unprecedented aggression against law enforcement officers. Today, 4-5 thousand protesters gathered on Pushkin Square (according to police estimates), observers from the liberal camp counted 10-13 thousand, the American news agency Reuters counted 40 thousand, and hundreds of thousands of excited participants in the action. The most objective...

Russian liberal travel blogger Ilya Varlamov and member of the controversial Pussy Riot art group Pyotr Verzilov, as well as three other people from their group who arrived from the Russian Federation, were detained for the second time in South Sudan on Thursday. The authorities informed the Russians of deportation. Varlamov and Verzilov were locked in a hotel under the pretext of the need to be in quarantine before departure. This morning…

St. Petersburg businessman Evgeny Prigozhin commented on the release of blogger Ilya Varlamov and Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov from arrest in South Sudan. “When Russian citizens are released, it’s always good,” the businessman said. However, Prigozhin emphasized that, unlike Ilya Varlamov, Verzilov deserved a longer imprisonment due to the publications of the Mediazona publication under his control about the sociologist Maxim Shugaley,...

After the Tinkoff group unexpectedly announced on Friday that it had terminated negotiations with Yandex on the sale of its shares, different versions of what happened began to emerge. Blogger Ilya Varlamov suggests that Oleg Tinkov specifically started negotiations in order to speculate on Yandex shares. “It seems to me that someone took a great ride on this story and made good money on this sudden news. Interesting,…

The gangs of northern clans that staged a coup in Bishkek set an example of the “toothless” Belarusian opposition. Liberal Ilya Varlamov stated this in his video blog, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent. “On the Internet I see memes, jokes, pictures that while Belarusians take off their shoes to stand on benches, Kyrgyz people hit the enemy in the face with their shoes. And the fact that Belarusians have been going out for two months now...

Ilya Varlamov decided to go into politics. He does not exclude such an opportunity - and almost certainly will not miss it. And it will be quite in trend. In a dangerous trend. At one time, Stalin said that personnel decide everything. A well-known and correct phrase. Still relevant today. But it has a special interpretation in politics. Who are we watching...

Yesterday’s interview of Alexander Lukashenko with the dubious Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon looked like advertising material made for money - the guest from Kyiv smiled at the Old Man and asked only convenient questions. Liberal blogger Ilya Varlamov wrote about this on his blog. “I watched Lukashenko’s rather disgusting pre-election interview with Gordon. For two and a half hours, Gordon asks extremely convenient questions to...