Putin's repressive machinery turns inward to target pro-war figures (theguardian.com)

The article is okay, but it kind of buries the lede: The real reason they (Montyan, Alyokhin, Markov) all were targeted was because they all went after Solovyov, the Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck of Putinism.

Run this article through Google Translate:

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/10/31/zlo-pobezhlaet-zlo-ili...

and see what you think.

That's the problem with selling a vision like a three-day war. When you fail to realize it three years later, the people who bought the vision start to doubt the salesman.

Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is my fucking ammo???