Posted on 05/23/2024 4:07:59 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, has been arrested, local media reported, marking the latest detention of a Russian high-ranking military official in recent weeks.
The development was reported by Russian newspapers Kommersant and Izvestia, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter. Kommersant reported that he was detained on Wednesday "in connection with the case of alleged fraud."
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Ah, Russia. Where the President receives a billion dollar mansion as a “gift” and one third of the defense procurement budget goes in the Defense Minister’s pocket, but lower officials are arrested for fraud.
Is Putin still shaking from the disease weakening his entire body?
You’ll let us know, won’t you?
This is a straight news report based directly on Russian domestic media.
Whats your point?
Good point Jon, maybe he was stealing eggs from wildberry.
As always you points are full of facts and useful tidbits 😂
Welcome to the discussion, blintz. Your Low IQ offers us a baseline to the world of HS graduates 🎓🤡
That’s also China. Wen Jiabao is a well-known former premier of China. His mother, a novice at business even in her elderly years, somehow amassed a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Later, when Wen wrote a tribute for his recently deceased mother, the Chinese Communist Party censored it.
Echos of Stalin. Just another in a long line of Russian dictators. Russia isn’t anywhere near the threat that China poses to US interests. The big question is why Washington is so focused on Russia and seems to be protecting China’s interests. I’m sure it has nothing to do with money.
It’s like focusing on Tattaglia instead of Barzini.
I knew it was Barzini all along.
Cleaning house and making way for a new and more controllable set of gifters. And bigger kickbacks to Putin.
Out of generals AGAIN? This must be the of Putin AGAIN. What’s your feeling on when the Ukes declare victory?
You miss all those pics of Putin shaking hands with Xi plus China sending arms to Russia?
Putin never had concerns with military corruption. Something else is the reason behind this purge.
“blintz has entered the chat”
Things will get cheesy from here on out...
Clan infighting?
IQ, lol you don’t want to know what my IQ is, but I am quite aware of how arrogant you are and superior you consider yourself
Very nice characteristics
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