"Security services will not be able to stop the disintegration of Russia" -Gudkov

-Gudkov            Published on Sep 16, 2015

"Security services will not be able to stop the disintegration of Russia", said politician Gennady Gudkov.  He predicted the inevitable collapse of the country,  if the political system in Russia is not urgently changed and the undeclared war with Ukraine is not stopped.  Meanwhile, Gudkov says that the regime has no more than two or three years to get decayed through and through.         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga3c2ByWqxU

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9-17-18     Dmitry Peskov,  press secretary of the Russian president, commented on the media reports that London suspected Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov of poisoning the ex-spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The press aide urged Russians to focus exclusively on the words of the head of state, Vladimir Putin, RBC reported.  The reports are “too impersonal” to be taken into account, Peskov stressed.    https://en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/peskov-urges-russians-to-only-trust-putin-about-petrov-and-boshirov/

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9-21-18    the Russian public reaction this time suggests officials have gone too far.  "Those who want to believe still do, but others say it's a disaster," argues

Alexander Baunov of the Carnegie Moscow Centre, who describes the TV appearance as ridiculous.  "If the level of our special services is so low, people wonder what we can expect from anyone else," he adds.

  But the cover-up seems to have backfired as badly as the actual operation.  Instead of quaking with fright, many Russians are laughing at their spies instead.  "It's not just teasing, it's mockery.  I have friends who couldn't believe our lot could be so rotten," Gennady Gudkov admits.  "Now they call me, and they believe," says former KGB officer Gennady Gudkov.  His own sources suggest that the attack on Sergei Skripal, a traitor-turned GRU officer, was a botched attempt to impress President Putin with an agency that sought more influence and power.  But he can not understand why the suspects were ever on TV.  "What did Putin think?; I think it shows a deterioration among the rulers, they have lost the ability to do something normal, the system is falling apart."   

  With jokes and memes flooding social media, some commentators suggest a line has been crossed.  "What seemed morally unacceptable before has become the new norm, it's routine,"

Andrei Kolesnikov wrote on Gazeta.ru, calling the Salisbury suspects' appearance a "clown show" and their story "obvious, evasive lies".  But he sees another new norm in response.  "Society is laughing at the authorities," the journalist wrote.  "State propaganda is becoming genuinely comic and that discredits and weakens those in power."  That reaction is not limited to the Skripal case.   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45591103
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In June 2012, Gudkov's son Dmitry Gudkov, also a Duma deputy, led a filibuster against a bill allowing large fines for anti-government protesters.^[  Gennady Gudkov also spoke against the bill, stating that by removing outlets for protest the legislation was putting Russia on "a sure path to a civil war".    The Economist described the filibuster as "the most striking act of parliamentary defiance in the Putin era”.

On 15 September 2012, Gudkov was stripped of his seat in the Duma by a vote of 291 to 150. Gudkov called the vote a farce, saying "This is a reprisal. It is not a court."^[   A Just Russia party leader Sergei Mironov described Gudkov's expulsion as "unlawful revenge”.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Gudkov