David,
thanks for pointing this out. Quite strange, because this is the same
person from bellingcat who shared the text in the first place, including
some background how he checked the authenticity. Now he does not even
mention this when discounting the document and how the media fell for it.
Felix
On 13.03.22 20:10, David Garcia wrote:
I might be confused but I wonder if this statement at about 37 min into
this youtube seminar given by Christo Grozev calls the veracity of this
FSB dissident into question ?
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/insights-bellingcat-russias-ukraine-ambitions
<https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/insights-bellingcat-russias-ukraine-ambitions>
I remember reading a less rough translation of this text by Igor Sushko
which he posted as a twitter thread which I saw as a re-tweet from
Felix. I remember thinking
that it was too good to be true. But as I was informed the source was
Bellingcat this gave me hope that it might be accurate. It looks like I
was right to be sceptical.
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Greetings nettimers after an absence of oh, two decades.
I've been following a bit the last couple weeks of posts on Ukraine and
related subjects and there's much to meditate on. And thanks to Ted
Byfield for pointing me in the general direction of this discussion.
I wanted to call your attention to a rather remarkable document that
Christo Grozev (of Bellingcat) dropped last Saturday, seemingly written
by an FSB 'dissident' (to the extent that such a term can be used in
that context):
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500196510054637569
<https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500196510054637569>
Here's the rough-and-ready English translation:
https://pastebin.com/2agMRGmd <https://pastebin.com/2agMRGmd>
...and there's a German translation in the twitter thread. Weirdly, the
'voice' of the author immediately reminded me of the Scientist character
in Tarkovsky's /Stalker/. You know the one, he smuggled a portable nuke
into The Zone.
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