Medvedev wants to destroy Russian opposition like "mad dogs" after propagandist Tatarsky's murder

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Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, called the Russian opposition "terrorists" and suggested that it should be destroyed after the murder of the so-called "war correspondent" Vladlen Tatarsky (real name: Maxim Fomin).

Source: Medvedev on Telegram

Details: Medvedev accused the Russian opposition of Tatarsky's murder. Without naming specific individuals, he said that "these scoundrels" not only openly wish for Russia's defeat and death but also "execute compatriots", presuming that it was the opposition that killed the "unarmed journalist".

Medvedev does not hesitate to speak out against the opposition, calling them "freaks" and "terrorists". "All these stinking ACF [Anti-Corruption Foundation of Alexei Navalny – ed.] and MBK media [the online media outlet, founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky – ed.], Navalnys, Volkovs, Ponomaryovs and other Khodorkovskys have become just ordinary terrorists and murderers," he says.

Accordingly, Medvedev wants the authorities to kill the opposition "like mad dogs" as soon as they have the opportunity. He adds that there should be no sympathy for the opposition.

Previously: Earlier, a number of Russian news outlets reported that Trepova was recruited through Telegram; she was promised a position of editor in Kyiv.

Background:

  • On 2 April, an explosion occurred in a cafe in the centre of St Petersburg that had previously belonged to Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner Group Private Military Company, killing "war correspondent" (military blogger) Vladlen Tatarsky and injuring 30 other people.

  • Russian secret forces have supposedly detained Darya Trepova, a resident of St Petersburg, on suspicion of murdering propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky.

  • Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War have assumed that forces inside Russia may have been involved in his murder, and it could have been a "warning" meant for Prigozhin.

  • Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Committee has accused Ukrainian security services and supporters of Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation of murdering collaborator and propagandist Maxim Fomin, who called himself the war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky.

  • On 4 April, the Russian Investigative Committee accused Darya Trepova of committing a terrorist act.

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