The repressions multiply in Russia, with special attention to the loyalty of the elites.
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There are “classic” repressions, litany routine that “the special military operation” carried out against Ukraine only accelerated. Monday, April 11, opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza, surviving two poisoning, is stopped at home. The reason for the interpellation is unknown, but at the sight of the police, the man “divert his trajectory and accelerated the step”, note the minutes. Sentence for this “disobedience”: two weeks in prison.
The next day, Tuesday, four editors of the DOXA student newspaper, assigned to residence for a year, are sentenced to two years of “correction work”. They had made a video explaining to the students he is illegal to send them back from their universities simply for having been arrested in a manifestation.
Wednesday, a musician of St. Petersburg, Alexandra Skotchilenko, is sent in pre-trial detention for eight weeks: the young woman recognizes having replaced the labels of a supermarket by tiny messages, mentioning marouclotol or proclaiming “love is stronger than the war “. It incurs up to ten years in prison. The same day: searches in two local journalists accused of the same facts; arrest of an official in the south; denunciation then interpellation, in Yalta, in Crimea, a woman wearing a yellow and blue manicure, colors of the Ukrainian flag; Police intervention in Moscow during a piano recital where a Ukrainian composer is played.
Denounce “The Special Operation”
Behind these clear attacks against the enemies of ancient and new power, the “fifth column” designated by Vladimir Putin, there is also a more discreet and no less strategic struggle conducted by the security services. On Wednesday, April 13, searches were held the watch at the Moscow headquarters of the Aeroflot National Airline. The information was first unveiled by the Baza information site, and then confirmed by the Izvestia newspaper.
If the object of these searches has not been unveiled – Wednesday, the Aeroflot press service remained mute – it is known that they have focused on the departments responsible for strategy, marketing and Quality Control. The latter were headed by Andrei Panov, since 2018, Deputy Director of the Airline since 2018.
m. Panov is one of the very rare high executives to have left his position and country to denounce “the special operation” in Ukraine. The morning preceding the search, he published in the Financial Times A forum in the form of call to its colleagues patrons of private or public groups.
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