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Jul 5 • 12 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
1/ The missing General Surovikin is still missing, and has now missed his wife's birthday. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is reportedly personally overseeing the investigation into Surovikin, who is being impersonated online by scammers and possible Ukrainian operatives. ⬇️
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that General Sergei Surovikin, the head of the Russian Air Force, has still not re-emerged from wherever he is being held. He did not turn up for his wife Anna's birthday on 4 July. The signs reportedly don't look good for the general.
3/ According to a VChK-OGPU source, "Anna and other family members stopped communicating even with the general's very close friends and colleagues, which ... indicates that things are not going well for Surovikin so far.
4/ "He is in isolation while verification is taking place of his subordinates' reports that Surovikin was involved in the Prigozhin mutiny. The reports are being followed up and Shoigu personally oversees the verification."
5/ Given that Shoigu was the target of Prigozhin's mutiny, which reportedly aimed to capture and remove him and Chief of the General Staff General Valery Gerasimov (see thread below), he's probably not feeling too forgiving of Surovikin.
6/ Meanwhile, Russia's URA News reports that a large Telegram channel claiming to be "Surovikin on Telegram" is a fake and has nothing to do with the general. The channel is highly active, posting multiple times daily, and has nearly 299,000 subscribers.
7/ Deputy Air Force Chief Andrey Udin says, "I do not think that any channels can be associated with Sergei Vladimirovich. He has nothing to do with this channel." There are four other channels claiming to be associated with Surovikin, some of which post discrediting information.
8/ URA suggests that the largest channel is a scam, noting that its owners earn 35,000 rubles ($385) for each of the one or two advertisements that appear on the channel each day. The Russian government suggests that at least one smaller channel may be Ukrainian propaganda.
9/ Alexander Malkevich, deputy chairman of the commission of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation for the development of the information community, the media and mass communications, suggests that Ukraine's Centres for Information and Psychological Operations are involved.
10/ "For me, it is quite obvious that this is another operation of the Ukrainian TsIPsO," Malkevich says. He considers the purpose of such channels as being to spread unverified and fake information to discredit Surovikin in his role as "the face of the special operation".
11/ "[TsIPsO] sees Surovikin's growing popularity in Russian society ... In some Telegram channels there is all sorts of advertising for other TsIPSO projects from the "scary footage 18+, don't follow the link" series, but, accordingly, people do.
12/ "[This] includes special bots stealing personal data... And this campaign will continue." /end

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Jul 5
1/ Plans to transfer the Russian Interior Ministry's GROM special forces unit to an expanded Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) are causing discontent. A commentary sheds an interesting light on the Rosgvardiya's organisational problems. ⬇️
2/ A guest post on the Russian "Two Majors" Telegram channel describes the experiences of a former member of SOBR, the police special forces, which were transferred to the Rosgvardiya on its creation in 2016. He says it didn't go well.
3/ "When the Rosgvardiya came, we were immediately promised a mountain of gold, namely military mortgages, social packages, apartments and various benefits.
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Jul 4
1/ Sales of Wagner merchandise appear to have collapsed in Russia. In March 2023, many online retailers were selling all kinds of Wagner merchandise, including keyrings, sweatshirts, patches, flags, mugs, souvenir sledgehammers and carved backgammon sets. They're all gone now. ⬇️
2/ Four months ago I reported that there was a boom in Wagner Group-related merchandise on , Russia's equivalent of eBay. At the time, Wagner's head Yevgeny Prigozhin was reportedly the second most popular man in Russia.
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3/ Prigozhin's mutiny appears to have made Wagner-related merchandise about as popular as souvenirs from Chernobyl. A handful of Wagner-related patches are still on sale on Avito, but not much else. All Wagner vacancy ads appear to have been nuked from Avito.
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Jul 4
1/ Colleges in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia are issuing diplomas only if the students accept a mobilisation order at the same time. If they refuse, they face being imprisoned for up to two years. ⬇️
2/ The Ingush news website Fortanga reports that students are being forced to go in person to receive their diplomas. They are immediately being handed a summons for mobilisation, in front of witnesses, and have to decide whether to accept it. Their decision is recorded.
3/ If they refuse the summons, they face a 200,000 ruble fine, forced labour, arrest or imprisonment for up to two years.

As a source tells Fortanga: "To get a diploma, you have to sign a summons to the army. Otherwise, you don't get a diploma in any way.
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Jul 3
1/ The Russian mafia has become a silent partner in Russia's war effort, in another indication of how close the state and the criminal underworld have become. An analysis shows how high-profile gangsters have fought and in some cases died in Ukraine. ⬇️
2/ The independent Russian media outlet Polygon Media reports that senior figures among Russia's vory – its criminal elite – have lent their support to Russia's war in Ukraine. This is a major change in attitude for the vory, who are traditionally anti-authority.
3/ Influential members – 'authorities' – of at least 10 criminal gangs have died in the war, as this map shows. They include men who have been convicted of robbery, extortion and murder, and in some cases were serving decades-long prison sentences.
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Jul 3
1/ Russia's air force chief, Sergey Surovikin, is still missing from the public eye more than a week after the Wagner Group's failed mutiny. He's reportedly being "isolated" with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu's approval after being denounced by those close to him. ⬇️
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that "reports on [Surovikin] were written (allegedly voluntarily) by two people from very close quarters, including a personal assistant.
3/ "In them, the military personnel claim that Surovikin had a close relationship with Prigozhin before and during the campaign against Moscow and supported the leader of the Wagner PMC in this effort. They also gave details of the relationship between Surovikin and Prigozhin.
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Jul 2
1/ Yevgeny Prigozhin's business empire is rapidly being dismantled. It's lost its contract to provide (rotten, infected, adulterated) food to the Russian army, and his media empire is shutting down. Thousands of his staff have been made redundant, many with no severance pay. ⬇️
2/ Until Prigozhin's mutiny last month, his Concord Group was the Russian military's biggest food supplier. The Russian government paid it 845 billion rubles ($9.6 billion) under a contract with the Russian MOD's procurement arm, Voentorg. That has now been cancelled.
3/ Concord also has the dubious title of being the MOD's most-sued contractor, with 560 lawsuits being filed in 2022 alone for supplying the Russian army with food contaminated with bacteria, insects and worms, and scams such as substituted ingredients.
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