Thread by @kamilkazani

Everyone of some prominence and relevance in Russia has a dossier with charges & evidence against them. Absolutely everyone. They can keep these files forever or take them off the shelf, when deemed necessary

Ergo, it's absolutely irrelevant when the supposed crimes happened...

https://twitter.com/catvek/status/1567208571842236416

Only a date when they decided to indict you with the crime matters. Indictment = they take your dossier off the shelf and charge you with "crimes" they have collected for years

Safronov works in Kommersant = no one cares

He joins Roskosmos = They take his dossier off the shelf

I'm honestly amazed by so many Russian commenters promoting absolutely delusionary interpretations of Russian politics

Serdyukov is fired, his team purged:

"OMG, it's a CORRUPTION SCANDAL!"

Safronov works is Kommersant for years. No one cares. In May 2022 he joins a state defence corporation and is arrested only immediately, for crimes he supposedly committed in late 2010s

"OMG, a journalist is persecuted for his work!"

I suspect that too many Russians like to normalise Russia picturing it as a fundamentally "normal" (=rich, developed, well-governed) state where a corruption scandal may destroy a politician's career, etc. So it needs only some cosmetic repairments, like changing the Tsar

I understand them. If you picture Russia as it is, the audience may feel that cosmetic repairments like a "regime change" from a Bad Tsar to a Good Tsar won't really improve anything in the long term. The end