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originally posted by: JonStone
This is strange, if it's actually current:
Removal trucks left the Kremlin in a race against time.
originally posted by: Rocker2013
originally posted by: JonStone
This is strange, if it's actually current:
Removal trucks left the Kremlin in a race against time.
#Kremlin became a construction site. Pic via @MaxRTucker pic.twitter.com/ci0iuATX3u— Silver Surfer (@RobPulseNews) March 13, 2015
originally posted by: JonStone
Yeah i saw that after the post, but the news making reports before they happen is strange.
originally posted by: Wookiep
Just thought I would drop in and mention that, whether true or not, CNN reported on the "mysterious announcement" coming soon from Russia. They do site Vlasti.net as their source. If it's a bogus report, then maybe CNN didn't check their source well enough, who knows.
Link
originally posted by: Rocker2013
originally posted by: JonStone
This is strange, if it's actually current:
Removal trucks left the Kremlin in a race against time.
#Kremlin became a construction site @MaxRTucker
pbs.twimg.com...:large
There's something going on behind the scenes in the Kremlin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn't been seen in public since March 5. (Video featuring Putin on March 13 was not live.)
Analysts are speculating that his absence suggests there may be a power struggle behind it all. And it appears as thoughBoris Nemtsov's murder could have been the catalyst in all of this.
On March 12, Reuters reported that the murder of opposition figure Boris Nemtsov has "exposed rarely seen tensions between different camps inside President Vladimir Putin's system of rule."
"Some of Nemtsov's associates say his shooting is being used by one faction to send Putin a message that they are unhappy and need to be reckoned with," Reuters reported.
Additionally, former economic policy adviser to Putin and current senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Andrey Illarionov,wrote on his blog that Putin's continued absence suggests a palace coup.
Business Insider reached out to Alexander Rahr, a German political analyst who was Putin's biographer and advised the former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher on his efforts to help secure Khodorkovsky's release, on his thoughts on what's going on behind the scenes.
He said that factions within the power structure have become visible, there likely to be some power change-ups, and that "fights over the number two position" — aka Medvedev — have "exploded!"
The public might never know what's actually going on behind in the Moscow power structure behind Putin's absence. In any case, the cracks in the empire are starting to show.
The following has been slightly edited for clarity and translated from the original Russian by Business Insider.
Business Insider: What exactly is going on right now with Putin?
Alexander Rahr: Putin is not dead. All this incorrect information is the Ukrainian press. Next week, he'll reappear. He just took a vacation for a week. No one has said anything about this because it's hard to explain to the public.
BI: And what's going on with Medvedev — does anyone have bad relations with him? I've noticed many of the tentative reforms he made were overturned after Putin returned to the presidency.
Rahr: During his presidency, Medvedev split up the powerful elite, the siloviki [BI note: "Siloviki" is a Russian term for politicians from security or military services, such as the FSB or Soviet KGB] lost their influence. Now they are catching up. Medvedev decides almost nothing, but Putin will not fire him, because, for Putin, there is no more loyal person than Medvedev.
There won't be huge change-ups [in the Kremlin], but there will be some. I think that they'll kick out the prosecutor general [Yury Chaika]. The head of the MVD [Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev] will lose his post. They might bring back [Russian economist, former minister of economics and trade, and current president of Sberbank German] Gref instead of the [first deputy prime minister of Medvedev's cabinet] Shuvalov.
BI: You mentioned in a Facebook comment that "fights over the No. 2 position have exploded!" — that's about Medvedev, correct?
Rahr: Yes. The thing is that the battle between different factions has now become noticeable. Someone wants to quickly get rid of Medvedev. After all, if something happens to Putin, then Medvedev automatically becomes the acting president ...
BI: And what would you say is the mood in the Kremlin after Nemtsov's murder?
Rahr: Nemtsov was murdered in the same way as [journalist] Politkovskaya. The Chechens and people in the Siloviki structures. I think that Nemtsov angered too many people — the nationalists in Donbass and the Islamists in Chechnya. Just like Politkovskaya.
originally posted by: Rocker2013
originally posted by: JonStone
This is strange, if it's actually current:
Removal trucks left the Kremlin in a race against time.
#Kremlin became a construction site @MaxRTucker
pbs.twimg.com...:large
GUM Skating-rink is open every day from November 30th to March 9th.
450 people at most can skate on the ice rink during a skate session.
originally posted by: Forensick
And so another day begins, will this day be The Return of the Vlad.
I don't understand why there would be a power struggle for no.2. According to earlier article, Putin has overridden his no.2 on decisions, does Putin not control no.2 and if so trying to change him without Putin is a direct challenge of Putin. Why when I am typing this do I want to shout,
"Who does no.2 work for"
Surely the CIA has a plan to influence the power vacuum post Putin, was this Nemtsov fellow the CIA plan before he was murdered?
I hope the Russians are sick of poverty and ask to join NATO and Europe
He's said nothing about any announcement.
originally posted by: corblimeyguvnor
Unconfirmed Russian Internet rumors that Vladimir Putin is dead
DEBKAfile March 12, 2015, 11:03 AM (IDT)
DEBKAfile reports that Russian websitesThursday morning began running unconfirmed reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin had suddenly died. This has not been confirmed by any official in Moscow. But a short announcement of Putin’s death was seen briefly on Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s website early Thursday, only to be removed after 20 minutes. According to officials in Moscow, Putin was expected in Kazakhstan Thursday for meetings with its leaders, but failed to turn up.
www.debka.com...
I have bolded the text in the above for emphasis, don't know if its true or not