Team Navalny now apparently endorses a criminal trial against “former journalist” @EchoMskRu editor-in-chief @aavst for his participation in Moscow’s electronic voting system (though Navalny and his spox say Putin is ultimately responsible). Image
Journalists, hold onto your press cards for dear life before Team Navalny snatches them away!
Incidentally, Stanovaya remarked just the other day that Venediktov’s part in the electronic voting and the hate it provokes in liberals/oppositionists could erode him so much socially that he’s no longer indispensable to the powers that be.
To this, I would add Navalny’s controversial reaction to the treason charges against Ivan Safronov, who also no longer “qualified” as a journalist for Navalny after he took a job at Roscosmos. These guys can get nasty sometimes.

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23 Sep
It seems that United Russia performed so poorly in the Kirov region that “Russian agent” Maria Butina, who was the number 2 candidate on the party list there, won’t get to join the Duma, as expected. (The party could still bring her in, but more on that later.) Image
I decided to do a little thread here about how proportional representation mandates are awarded in Russia’s system because I tried looking this up and the explanations I found were in Russian and are a tad convoluted.
First, just to refresh your memory, recall that the State Duma’s 450 seats are awarded by a mixed system: 225 in “single-mandate,” first-past-the-post races (United Russia always dominates these), and 225 in party-list voting (United Russia dominates here a bit less).
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21 Sep
In his latest statement released on social media, Navalny claims victory in the weekend’s elections (©️), blaming the official results (where United Russia won) on fraud. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was written before the voting. He was never going to say anything different.
As others have pointed out, Navalny is now saying that United Russia’s supporters are a minority (30% of votes, 15% of all voters). This has mostly to do with party-list voting, but Smart Vote was all about single-mandate races...
In other words, Navalny is taking a victory lap for Smart Vote, but United Russia’s supermajority actually draws more now than before on dominating the races where Smart Vote supposedly weakens United Russia. t.me/navalny/3097
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7 Sep
Team Navalny releases a new report about Maria Butina mainly but also United Russia’s single-manadate candidates in Kirov. Nothing really new here, but Pevchikh argues that Butina’s candidacy is compensation for her media campaign against Navalny. navalny.com/p/6538/
I had forgotten how truly reprehensible Butina’s “interview” with Navalny is. Visiting a political prisoner behind bars and berating him for being too negative about his life as an inmate. Just disgusting.
@pevchikh also shares some amusing certificates awarded to Butina during her imprisonment in America. I’m not sure her ascent to Russia’s rubberstamp parliament is what the U.S. social workers had in mind with “women empowering women”...
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5 Aug
In July, Russia’s most outspoken homophobic lawmaker Vitaly Milonov (do some googling & people think I got him banned from Twitter lol) threatened to “speak to the manager” after noticing some spicy academic research cited on MGIMO’s website. The university promptly deleted it.
The articles were written by Ruslan Shulga, a former senior lecturer in MGIMO’s Civil Society Department. Here’s the text that really aroused 😉 Milonov’s anger: “Possible Strategies for the LGBT Movement in Russia Amid the Authorities’ Repressive Policies.” How dare they!
Two more: “The Return of Censorship: Total Control Over the Media and Channels of Information in Modern Russia (Constitutional and Legal Aspects)” and “Russian State Censorship in the New Putin’s Russia: Historical Roots and Modernity.”
Read 8 tweets
4 Aug
Remember Kristina Potupchik? The former Nashi spox and Kremlin’s LiveJournal gray cardinal is now reportedly pulling the strings on big Telegram channels. @bazabazon found this notorious patriot’s swanky Spanish villa. baza.io/posts/12fe6fc7…
Baza speculates that Potupchik and her (now ex-) husband managed to land “golden visas” in Spain by buying property that cost more than €500k, allowing them to skirt COVID closures & stick around Europe for much longer. The two owned some elite property in Moscow, too.
According to Baza, Potupchik’s ex, Anton Berdov, has owned a whole slew of failed or failing businesses. She’s had better luck, but Baza says their combined income still wouldn’t cover the $2.7 million in real estate they had together.
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3 Aug
Liza Peskova, the 23-year-old daughter of Putin’s spokesman, is getting married on the island of Sardinia. They’ve rented out all the rooms at several resorts and invited hundreds of guests, paying all their €3000/night costs. Must be nice. openmedia.io/news/n4/liza-p… Image
Her fiancée is an interesting chap: ten years her senior, Ruslan Golbazov comes from a Chechen family that moved to France in 2008 after receiving asylum in Poland for fleeing “death threats, racketeering, and kidnappings” back home.
A decade later, Golbazov returned to Russia (I guess he’d made good with the Kadyrov regime by then), moving to Moscow, where he now owns a mess of small, unprofitable firms, including a restaurant business with Peskova. #MixingBusinessWithPleasure
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