Ramzan Kadyrov declared a blood feud against Dagestan Senator Suleiman Kerimov and State Duma deputies Bekkhan Barakhoev and Rizvan Kurbanov, according to the translation of the speech of the head of Chechnya, and accused them of attempting to assassinate him. The dispute 1/9
over Wildberries continues. Kadyrov is participating in the conflict over Wildberries on the side of Vladislav Bakalchuk. A shootout that took place in Moscow near the office of the marketplace at the end of September resulted in the death of two people from Ingushetia. 2/9
The republic believed that they were killed by Kadyrov's men, and at least six people from Chechnya were arrested in the case of the shootout. Billionaire Suleiman Kerimov is believed to be acting on behalf of Tatyana Kim (until September, she bore the surname Bakalchuk). 3/9
However, several experts on the North Caucasus immediately commented that this was done in violation of adat - the customs of Muslim peoples. In their opinion, Kadyrov did not have a good enough reason for this, and even if he had, it should have been done with the 4/9
involvement of elders and not with the help of a Telegram channel. However, today in Odintsovo near Moscow, an attempt was made on the life of the former deputy chairman of the Ingush government, Sherip Alikhadzhiev. An unknown person shot him four times and fled. 5/9
Alikhadzhiev was hospitalized. He is in intensive care. He used to work with Kadyrov. There are more and more signs that the conflict between Chechnya and Ingushetia is starting to heat up. While Russia is waging war in Ukraine, its own clan struggle is brewing inside Russia. 6/9
The shootout in Wildberries is a business claim in the style of Russia in the 90s. A conflict in the Russian army between Kadyrovites and soldiers of the Russian army. In Russia, relations between Muscovites and small nations are already tense. Especially with Muslims. All 7/9
the ingredients for a new war in the Caucasus are already there. So far, these are a couple of shootouts in Moscow, but behind them lies a struggle for power. Putin is losing it. Kadyrov has begun to test his strength. It is difficult to say how strong this is and how quickly 8/9
it will flare up. But in Russia, where the monopoly on the use of force, the constitution and internal law enforcement agencies are busy at war and only the right of the strongest works, there will come a time when all the spiders in this jar will begin to fight for the flies 9/9
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According to BND estimates, last year Russia’s military spending may have amounted to almost half of the state budget and around 10% of the country’s GDP. According to the German intelligence service, Russia is spending significantly more on the war and its armed forces
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than it has declared in recent years. Since the start of the war against Ukraine in February 2022, Russia’s defense budget has increased sharply every year. In addition, Russia’s interpretation of “defense spending” differs significantly from the NATO definition, German
intelligence officials note. A comprehensive analysis of budget data conducted by BND shows that Russia’s defense budget in recent years was 66% higher than officially reported. Unaccounted expenditures include, for example, construction projects of the Ministry of Defense,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky explained why he sharply criticized Europe at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He made these remarks during a meeting with journalists in Kyiv, according to a correspondent from European Pravda. Zelensky said he had grounds for critical
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statements toward Europe after a lack of funding led to a shortage of air defense missiles, allowing Russia to strike Kyiv’s energy infrastructure. Zelensky did not deny that his speech may have sounded overly harsh from European capitals and explained this by saying that
Ukraine and the rest of Europe live in different information spaces. He also acknowledged that the differences are not only informational but also emotional in how events are perceived. The president explained that his Davos speech was preceded by heavy strikes on energy
Putin is losing the game he himself started. His bet was placed on a return to the world of the 19th and early 20th centuries - a world of empires and spheres of influence, where Europe, America, Africa, and Asia are divided among several “superpowers.” In Putin’s vision of
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the world, there were supposed to be three such powers: the United States, Russia, and China. However, the real transformation of the global order is unfolding in a completely different way. The key failure is Ukraine. At the end of the fourth year of war, Russia has still
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been unable to subjugate it. The army is visibly degrading, human and technological resources are being exhausted, the economy is held together by military spending and gray schemes, and the state increasingly resembles an overextended empire losing its ability to govern
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Within NATO, the possibility of conducting a special joint mission in Greenland is being considered in order to accommodate the interests of US President Donald Trump. This week, the US president once again stated that he wants Greenland. Military intervention is not being 1/8
ruled out. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen previously said that this would mean the end of the Alliance if the United States were to begin military action against her country. On Thursday morning, the 32 ambassadors of the Alliance gathered for their weekly meeting. 2/8
It took place in a "calm atmosphere." Denmark raised the Greenland issue in a "positive and forward-looking manner," NOS insiders reported. The US ambassador to NATO, Whitaker, also reportedly spoke in a conciliatory tone. As became clear during the meeting, almost all 3/8
Russia has once again staged a media stunt with the story about a drone attack on Putin’s residence. In the Novgorod region no one heard air raid sirens, yet according to Lavrov, 91 drones were launched from Ukraine and all of
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them were shot down. There is not a single video and not a single piece of evidence. Why is this needed? This entire performance was staged specifically for Trump. Putin personally called the American president and told him about it. Russia has long convinced Trump that it
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is Zelensky together with the “warmongering shadow government of Europe” who allegedly do not want the war to end. This show was played out so that Ukraine would be blamed for the failure of peace talks. Unfortunately, with Trump, this works. Meanwhile, Lavrov declares that
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Daily strikes by Ukrainian drones and missiles on Russian oil depots, warehouses and refineries have created an image in the information space of a “leaky” Russian air defense system. This image sharply contrasts with what Russian propaganda had been instilling in its audience🧵
for decades, namely the idea of an “impenetrable shield” capable, according to Defense Minister Andrey Belousov, of intercepting up to 97 percent of targets. The reality of a full scale war has proven far more complex. Ukraine has not managed to destroy Russian air defense as a
single integrated system, but it has succeeded in exposing its real limits. As analysis by the Royal United Services Institute shows, the strength of Russian air defense depends not only on missiles and radars, but also on industry, logistics and the ability to replenish losses