Die Welt: Putin began to think in terms of wartime

12 2021 June 31

Shortly before the G7 summit in Cornwall (England) and the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with his US counterpart Joe Biden in Geneva (Switzerland), several organizations of Alexei Navalny, the main critic of the Kremlin, were declared extremist in Moscow. The Russian authorities are now openly waging a war against dissidents and the court's decision confirmed the tough course, writes the German newspaper Die Welt.

President Putin sent a clear message to the West. Several years ago, the master of the Kremlin would not have dared to take such a step before important international negotiations. But now he doesn't care - this is his main message to Western countries. Moscow thinks that relations with the West have become so bad that it is unlikely that anything other than war can worsen them.

Political analyst Tatyana Stanovaya believes that Putin began to think in terms of wartime. The threat from the opposition is perceived as an emergency that justifies any means. In recent months, the Russian state has unleashed a real war against everyone who is not loyal or criticizes the government in any way.

State Duma deputies even staged a competition, putting forward one repressive bill after another. Independent media are declared "foreign agents" to deprive them of their livelihood. Russian oppositionists are arrested, forced to leave the country, or made outcasts.

Bellingcat suggests that the Russian state carried out assassination attempts with the Novichok substance against active dissidents in the media, such as Dmitry Bykov. He never hid his views, in 2012-2013 he was a member of the Coordination Council of the opposition, then criticized "the annexation of Crimea, amendments to the Constitution and the arrest of Navalny." Bykov twice rejected Putin's invitation to take part in the meetings of the President of the Russian Federation with famous cultural figures.

The campaign of the Russian special services against dissidents is already taking place mechanically. For Russian society, this means bleak prospects. Liberalization and the transfer of power from Putin to another president is a theory that is giving way to reality. What is happening in Russia foreshadows even greater repression, according to the media from Germany.

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Petr Vladimirovich

+8

12 June 2021 13: 56

Standard set, nothing new.
Antidote

+7

12 June 2021 15: 17

The British nonsense with the Novice always amused me ... Why kill someone with a rare radioactive element, when you can initiate an accident, a bandit attack, disappearance, suicide, but at least a contract murder, finally, with a shot from Glock-17 in the head ?! This is much easier, and even if the initiator of this action were the government of the Russian Federation, it would be easier to disown such an action than from murder with a rare radioactive substance, you never know what the bandits (opposition) did not share ...
silver169

+12

12 June 2021 15: 41

If some media outlets in Russia are subsidized from abroad, how can they be considered independent? Of course, such media outlets are foreign agents and their illegal activities must be suppressed.
steelmaker

-4

12 June 2021 15: 53

President Putin sent a clear message to the West

If Putin was respected, then Erdogan would not dare to violate the agreements, Israel did not protect terrorists in Syria and would not shit on us. EU, China, Japan, and much more. Nobody pays attention to Putin's signals anymore, because he is not respected. If there were such oppositions as Navalny and Bykov in other countries, they would be immediately "closed" for a long time. It is our laws that work for ordinary people, and we still have the elect who are above the law. And I would like to not only hear signals from the authorities, but also see real deeds. For example, recognize the LDNR and annex it to Russia, end the war in Syria, nullify relations with Ukraine and force them to reckon with the Russian people, stop humiliating Russian citizens - return the flag and anthem, and much more. The West is happy with everything in Putin, so they don't see any signals!
1. PokerFace
  
  +5
  
  12 June 2021 17: 15
  
  Now you, uncle, would have recognized and ruled everything long ago, without thinking for a minute ... what to think, you need to shake!
  I can imagine how all your drinking buddies respect you!
2. Marciz
  
  +3
  
  13 June 2021 09: 41
  
  Well, yes, they scold to cover up the eyes of all people, but in fact, Putin is gradually reducing the number of Russians, everywhere he retreats to strengthen people in the consciousness that this is the way to go ((go somewhere to die, live eating macaroons, etc.)
3. isofat
  
  +1
  
  13 June 2021 13: 07
  
  steelmaker, are you also from this company?
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        steelmaker
        
        -1
        
        13 June 2021 22: 09
        
        And your video, too, has nothing to do with the article. If only I could do something nasty?
        
        isofat
        
        +2
        
        13 June 2021 22: 18
        
        Quote: steel maker
        If only I could do something nasty?
        
        steelmaker, no, I don't like that you have the end of Putin on your lips all the time! Leave our president alone. Do you have your own leader? If not, take care to have it.
        
        PS Sometimes I even give you pluses.
        
        steelmaker
        
        0
        
        13 June 2021 22: 29
        
        He's as yours as mine. Only you think that people should live in the country who support only Putin and agree with his views and policies. And I believe that this is my country, my land, and the president is my hired worker-employee. And therefore, not agreeing with the work of this employee is not a reason to shut me up! And if I am wrong about something - refute and prove with facts, and do not be rude!
        
        isofat
        
        +1
        
        13 June 2021 23: 01
        
        Quote: steel maker
        And therefore, not agreeing with the work of this employee is not a reason to shut me up!
        
        steelmaker, you need to, for a start, try and not talk nonsense. They don't shut your mouth, do they? Yes, do them what you want! Only then do not be offended.
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Pilot

+11

12 June 2021 15: 54

Should, in their opinion, sit and watch how the Navalny and Bykovs are selling their homeland for the Benjamins?
Valentine

+10

12 June 2021 16: 40

If we want to keep our Russian Federation intact, then we just need a new "37th year" to neutralize all this liberal rag-tag, and if the entire "collective West" is choking on another hysteria about the violation of the "rights and freedoms" of the homegrown fifth column , so we are doing everything right, but just don’t lisp with these liberal tundra and we still have uranium mines. And with the West and the United States it is time for us to speak with the help of "Kuzka's mother", after all, it was not for nothing that Putin and Shoigu returned from the power of our army, even to the detriment of our people, and it was not easy to re-equip and strengthen it, otherwise we would have been divided between our "partners" for 20 years, which is what our venal opposition - kudrins, Chubais, intended to do, bulk and other bulls, continuing the work of the combine operator Gorbachev and the drunkard Yeltsin. The enemy is at the gates, Mr. "Guarantor", and you must fulfill your sacred duty to protect our Fatherland, and not lisp and curry favor with the former "partners" who have now become our fierce enemies.
1. A.Lex
  
  +8
  
  12 June 2021 22: 39
  
  Val, I gave you a minus ... And I gave it to you for one reason ... You just can't imagine what it was like in 1937 (as a whole) ... What is NOW "explained" is bullshit.
  The problem is that this whole tale about "Year 37" is based on the fact that allegedly "millions and hundreds of thousands" were shot by Stalin in THAT YEAR because of "his bloodthirstiness, incompetence and unprofessionalism" ........
  In real life, the repressions were BASICLY carried out against the RULING ELITE, which "lost its shores" and thought that EVERYTHING was POSSIBLE to it. No one disputes that excesses and (especially) abuse were absent (all of this WAS). But MAINLY, the state apparatus was CLEANED from the so-called "fiery rEvolutionErs" who, apart from idle chatter, could not do ANYTHING and were not specialists in anything (YES, AND DID NOT WANT TO LEARN ANYTHING, justifying their actions with "revolutionary consciousness and revolutionary necessity" ) ....
  This "Leninist elite" (not to be confused with the first government of Soviet Russia, where there REALLY were high-class specialists (otherwise Soviet Russia would not have lasted even six months)) in their BUSINESS was guided only by PERSONAL loyalty, RANDOM hitting the government and nothing else !!! (after all, as you know, the "revolutionary storm" raises (in the form of foam-scum) any rag-tag on the surface-power) ... Even the specialists of the tsarist Russian Empire, who said that some things CANNOT be done in any case, were destroyed, so that their illiteracy and incompetence do not surface and, in order not to be punished for HARMFUL, those who are Sorting out in certain things of the state leadership are destroyed.
  That was what the "repression of 37" was ... Well, the fact that many people suffered innocently ... it could not have been avoided with the NEW construction of a NEW type of state ...
  In Russia, everything new ALWAYS passes through a lot of blood ... And this is not only the realities of the Soviet period ... it WAS ALWAYS in the history of Russia ... unfortunately in any period .......... .................................. Although "have no idea" here is not entirely, perhaps I used to the point. ...............
  1. Valentine
    
    +4
    
    13 June 2021 11: 22
    
    Quote: A.Lex
    Val, I put a minus for you ... And I put it for you for one reason ... You just can't imagine what it was like in 1937
    
    Well, why, Alex, I can't imagine all the rehearsals of the 37th year, I myself echo of that time, my grandfather worked in the NKVD, was a responsible worker, but on the denunciation of a colleague, he was arrested and shot as an "enemy of the people", and my mother, as the daughter of the same "enemy of the people" was exiled to ALZHIR, where I was born, so these consequences affected me too, only I don't know why, but I have no anger and hatred for those difficult times, although now it has become Then my mother was sent to work as a doctor in the camp Norilsk, where I lived and worked for more than 40 years, and learned a lot about the life of political and criminals, found the times of the uprising in Norillag, so, Alex, the topic of repression touched me not to a small extent, and my grandfather was posthumously rehabilitated only in 1957. In those days, almost on the eve of the war, repressions were simply necessary to "certain strata" of our then society, where the true enemies of our young state were no longer measured in thousands, but hundreds of times more, otherwise we would not speak Russian now.
    1. A.Lex
      
      +2
      
      14 June 2021 12: 51
      
      Valentine, "+" to you!
      1. Valentine
        
        +4
        
        14 June 2021 18: 03
        
        Thank you, Alex, for your (+), but I am somehow indifferent to both likes and dislikes, I just never cease to be amazed at those who write all kinds of nonsense for those times, and for this too, "checking" their watches with Solzhenitsyn, or with Suvorov-Rezun, and now along Navalny with Bykov, thereby pouring out endless tubs of dirt and bile on our past and present, whatever it may be, and after all, Kolyma is empty in our country, and Kalargon in Norilsk is also falling apart , and the "swamp" still "rebel" without any harm to itself, but such kindness of our authorities will not lead to good.
        
        A.Lex
        
        0
        
        15 June 2021 14: 02
        
        These are not like-dislikes, this is a coincidence or no opinions ... just. Although sometimes nasty things, writing is directly torn apart ... But we are Soviet people ?!
  2. steelmaker
    
    -1
    
    13 June 2021 21: 01
    
    A.Lex (Secret Information) - the thoughts are correct. It pleasantly surprised me.
    1. A.Lex
      
      +2
      
      14 June 2021 12: 51
      
      Unlike you, I perfectly understand the whole background of "repression" and JUSTIFY them. I don’t understand the other - you cannot be "liberal" about the situation in our country TODAY. Although I understand the GDP as well as possible ONE SIDE (constant "tightening the nuts" can simply "break the thread"), and on the other hand, dragging out the existence of the "liberal page" of our state will lead to an even more monstrous "37th", therefore that looseness and permissiveness in our society has reached critical components, beyond which there can be only DECAY and DEFRAGMENTATION of the state.
      1. Valentine
        
        +1
        
        14 June 2021 18: 19
        
        My bold + to you, Alex, Everything is correct and in tune with the thoughts of the majority of Russians of the older generation, and not the one brought up on Ksyushin "Dom-2" and Tik-Tok, which is very insulting, our leadership missed out on the education of youth, which went on its own course, and "abroad" is not asleep here, and the benefits of "victims of the exam" in the near future are not visible.
        
        A.Lex
        
        +1
        
        15 June 2021 14: 11
        
        Valentin, the fact is that I, exactly, belong to this generation "40 +" ... So, the only thing that can be added here ... my son (25 years old) belongs to the generation "Z" or "X" at a stretch and then - only because of the years ... And so - completely ours. The rest of mine are not yet mature enough to talk about serious things (although I beat them with brains about the Soviet man and his attitude to life) ..............
        ......
        
        Valentine
        
        +1
        
        15 June 2021 15: 20
        
        And I often remember Khrushchev's proverb-
        
        He who listens to jazz will sell his homeland.
        
        although these jazz and "clothes" with foreign labels were on a big drum at that time, but some of my friends just went crazy from the rags that familiar sailors from abroad brought us, and somehow they brought me a small disc with The Beatles, so my neighbor found out about this, and for a month he courted me so that I would give him this "Western miracle", well, I gave it to him, and then laughed for a long time at his face, which expressed sheer bliss and utter joy, and already at night he put his samopaly-speakers out the window, and the whole street turned on this disc, and he had a complete junkie from this "Mouzon", although he is not in English boom-boom ... of our "young reformer functionaries" first, some dislike for our country, and then outright hatred of the entire Soviet system, and over the last 30 years of the absence of some kind of upbringing of our youth from the state and gave rise to all this navalnism and bykovism in their still not strong brains , and what of this who will come out further, no one knows, and whether tomorrow's negotiations with Biden will be a "moment of truth" for Russia, and where our "guarantor" will turn the sails of our country, otherwise we expected a "reset-overload" from Obama, and from Trump before the elections that he is ours, and to Biden there are only one questions for tomorrow's bride, and not a single positive answer, so far.
Alsur

0

12 June 2021 17: 09

Quote: steel maker
President Putin sent a clear message to the West

If Putin was respected, then Erdogan would not dare to violate the agreements, Israel did not protect terrorists in Syria and would not shit on us. EU, China, Japan, and much more. Nobody pays attention to Putin's signals anymore, because he is not respected. If there were such oppositions as Navalny and Bykov in other countries, they would be immediately "closed" for a long time. It is our laws that work for ordinary people, and we still have the elect who are above the law. And I would like to not only hear signals from the authorities, but also see real deeds. For example, recognize the LDNR and annex it to Russia, end the war in Syria, nullify relations with Ukraine and force them to reckon with the Russian people, stop humiliating Russian citizens - return the flag and anthem, and much more. The West is happy with everything in Putin, so they don't see any signals!

Why are you not the President of Russia, do you know how to solve all the problems or not?
PokerFace

+5

12 June 2021 17: 09

You can't find enough of a novice on Bykov, given its inefficiency. Maybe dichlorvos or pfizer?
rotkiv04

-1

13 June 2021 12: 06

all this liberalism should pray for Putin, because in his essence he is no different from them
radvas

+3

13 June 2021 12: 44

It is high time to put the liberals to the nail. Live in the country and blame it! Rare scoundrels! So the GDP and the Duma are one hundred percent right.
shinobi

0

14 June 2021 04: 51

How do they miss Bene and the 90s. Opposition, criticism? Complete ignorance of Russian reality. All these figures have their main goal in any way to reach the state feeder, and are very offended that they are being kicked away from it.
olpin51

+1

14 June 2021 10: 33

Independent media are billed as "foreign agents" This is just nonsense. There is no independent media. I know, because I know.
Mr. Kad

0

14 June 2021 14: 57

"Independent media" - who are they independent from? Generally from everyone ?? And it means that advertising of yoghurts brings them money ?!
They surround us with Russophobic regimes and are still surprised that they are unobtrusively showing them a "club".
Metapontum

0

15 June 2021 02: 17

Obscene chatter!
Typical behavior of a provocateur (genetically similar inherent in European overlords), to set up a conflict and blame his counterpart for it.
In the European Union, in Germany, in Hamburg, the High Court sentenced two residents of Bavaria to prison terms for supplying Russia with metal-working machines in violation of existing sanctions ...
In Amsterdam, a court sentenced an Afghan citizen to 26 years in prison for attacking US tourists. The attacker was outraged by the local cartoon competition for the Prophet Mohammed!
Beauty is simple! democracy!