Posted on 01/08/2024 4:49:59 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Zoya Konovalova, the head of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's state TV channels, has been found dead after a suspected poisoning incident, officials said.
Konovalova, 48, editor-in-chief of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Kuban, was found alongside the body of her ex-husband, 52, at a home in the Krasnodar region on January 5.
It is the latest in a series of mysterious deaths involving prominent Russian figures since Putin's forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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Among the Ukrainian secret police...she was probably the top 100-target list. Maybe a gift of wine from the holidays that they opened up?
eggs?
It’s hard for me to understand why a propagandist would be on the list to be killed. This is just my opinion with no hard data. I feel the majority of customers for the propaganda channel will not change much over time. While propaganda is useful, mostly it just reaffirms the customer’s already held beliefs without increasing the number of customers to the point where it’s a danger to the Ukrainian war effort.
If I had the “reach” to kill off such a target I think I’d concentrate on hurting the actual war effort. In every military related factory, I worked in only a small percentage of the workers actually made the factory productive. There were lots of people who just assembled widgets and they were interchangeable. But a small percentage of workers made things actually happen. An engineer here, a technician there...it wouldn’t take long to figure out who those people were and then send them the poisoned apple. In a 300-person workforce you could probably kill off just five or ten people and it would hit production hard. Russia is allegedly producing hundreds of drones. I’d hit the buyers and people who maintain the machinery. Or I’d find the guy with access and use him as the entry point for a cyber-attack. As little as a thousand dollars might do the trick. Or, some people are so resentful, they might do for free. At a General Dynamics plant a top-level manager opened his personal email and sent himself a spoofed message with a virus in it to his company account. Opening the message inside the system he managed to shut down the entire multi-company, worldwide network. So, sometimes finding the highly placed idiot is all you need to do. They’re amazingly common in big companies.
That’s where I’d be investing my intel network. Not in eliminating talking heads.
What is about Russians and poison? Rasputinesque I guess. Was it tea and cakes? Why do others, in the West, prefer a .25 above the ear, made to look like suicide?
Probably was smart enough to stay away from hotels, Putin’s preferred method of execution (pushed out a 10th story window).
eggs?
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Apologize for short post in advance
Its the chemically produced Chinese eggs she was trying out - no one told her that the eggs are a product of Chinese sewage treatment plants.
thanks for your effort, but please get back to us with 500+ words, at minimum.
They had the salmon mousse...
Putin is definitely giving the Clintons a challenge for the longest Death List.
He died of ‘Suddenly’?.................
LOL!
Being poisoned and falling out of windows are two of the leading causes of natural death in Russia.
Maybe she started to question the narrative she was pushing.
Thank you for the CIA News. Tell your buddies you delivered.
Krasnodar Krai is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and administratively a part of the Southern Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Krasnodar. The third most populous federal subject, the krai had a population of 5,838,273 as of the 2021 Census.
Krasnodar Krai is 128 miles south of Rostov-on-Don and about 110 miles east of the Kerch bridge.
Why was she so close to the battlefield? (Yes, I consider Crimea to be part of the battlefield.) And with her ex-husband?
Re: Krasnodar Krai. I suspect your average Russian would recognize the names of the 10 largest American states.
I would be clueless on the 10 largest Russian states.
Moscow 13,097,539 13,010,112 +0.67% 2,561 5114.23
Moscow Oblast 8,594,454 8,524,665 +0.82% 44,329 193.88
Krasnodar Krai 5,818,377 5,838,273 −0.34% 75,485 77.08
Saint Petersburg 5,598,486 5,601,911 −0.06% 1,403 3990.37
Sverdlovsk Oblast 4,239,311 4,268,998 −0.70% 194,307 21.82
Rostov Oblast 4,163,708 4,200,729 −0.88% 100,967 41.24
Bashkortostan 4,080,684 4,091,423 −0.26% 142,947 28.55
Tatarstan 4,001,941 4,004,809 −0.07% 67,847 58.98
Chelyabinsk Oblast 3,406,371 3,431,224 −0.72% 88,529 38.48
Dagestan 3,209,799 3,182,054 +0.87% 50,270 63.85
Moscow is its own state and the Moscow Oblast is a state that surrounds Moscow, but does not include it.
Polonium poisoning?
“Maybe she started to question the narrative she was pushing.”
I gave this some thought to this. I worked for a while in media. What comes across to us as breathless breaking news starts life in a conference room with, “what’do’ya got?” (Cause they’re editors and they edit just like they talk.)
P1- “Board meeting of the city manager. They want to force people to ride the bus as the line is bleeding money.”
P2- “There was a shooting at the gas station on second and Vine.”
Ed- *excitedly* “White extremist?”
P2- *looking at notes* “Photos of black male. I even recognize him from photos of the last two robberies.”
Ed- *Disappointed* “Oh. Come on, people, we need something.”
P3- “Hey, Trump smeared ketchup on a $20 steak.”
Ed-”Great. We’ll run with that on page 1. Fifty-point banner headline, ‘Trump embarrassed America at state dinner!’”
It’s kind of hard to question a narrative if you see the narrative being built on day-to-day basis.
I don’t know. was mostly a private joke with JP. He hates long comment posts so I try to find as many words as I can, but sometimes there are not enough.
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