Posted on 08/23/2022 4:44:31 AM PDT by Cronos
Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (the Russian parliament), said that the so-called National Republican Army (NRA) has claimed responsibility for the murder of Darya Dugina, the daughter of "Putin’s ideologue" Aleksandr Dugin.
Source: Ponomarev on air on Utro Fevralya (February Morning), his opposition TV channel, and in a commentary for Ukrainska Pravda
Details: Ponomarev said that Darya Dugina had called for the murder of Ukrainians and was one of the voices inciting violence and calling for murders in the occupied territories [of Ukraine]. Among other things, she had offered a justification for the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Olenivka prison camp.
Quote from Ponomarev: "This act [the murder of Dugina - ed.], like many other partisan acts carried out on Russian territory over the last few months, was carried out by the National Republican Army.
We have established contact with NRA fighters via our Rospartisan [Telegram] channel, which covers the rising tide of resistance in Russia. Today the NRA fighters authorised me to read their manifesto."
Quote from the NRA "manifesto": "We are Russian activists, military personnel and politicians, currently also partisans and fighters of the National Republican Army, and we are outlawing the warmongers, thieves and oppressors of the peoples of Russia!
We declare President Putin to be a usurper of power and a war criminal who has violated the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between Slavic peoples, and sent Russian soldiers to a certain and senseless death.
[…] We will overthrow and destroy Putin! […] We declare all Russian government officials and regional administration officials to be accomplices to the usurper. We will kill every one of them who fails to resign.
We declare all business owners who profit from corruption and personal connections to government officials to be traitors of the Motherland and accomplices to the usurper. We will destroy the property of everyone who fails to repent and publicly express their opposition to this government and its war, and we will kill every one of them.
We declare everyone who works for the security forces to be accomplices to the usurper. We will kill everyone who fails to lay down their arms and step down from their positions.
We declare military cargo, and the cargo of everyone who is profiting from the war or helping to finance it, to be legitimate targets that will be destroyed by us.
[…] We call on the soldiers of the Russian army to stop firing on our brothers from other countries: Georgia, Syria, Ukraine and other countries." [Ponomaryov named Ukraine even though the manifesto published online does not mention it - ed.]
More details: The National Republican Army is urging all Russian citizens to join its ranks and "raise the white, blue and white flag of the new Russia instead of the tricolour disgraced by Putin's government."
"We will protect everyone who responds to our call," the organisation promises.
It also stated that everyone who undertakes the course of actions it has laid out, "all the way up to regime change", will be exempt from the liability specified by the "usurper’s" laws.
In addition, the NRA promises to free everyone who has been illegally sentenced by Putin’s government immediately "after victory".
Ponomarev said that he supports the actions of his "comrades" from the NRA. He stressed that the organisation is not at war with peaceful civilians and will not target civilian facilities.
"I urge everyone who is prepared to fight ‘Putinism’ not in words, but with action, to join our ranks," he announced.
In a conversation with Ukrainska Pravda, Ponomarev confirmed that the NRA had released the statement. He noted that he has been "in touch" with members of the organisation since April 2022.
"We are actively helping [the NRA] in various ways," he added
"We declare President Putin to be a usurper of power and a war criminal who has violated the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between Slavic peoples, and sent Russian soldiers to a certain and senseless death."
The Russian nationalist army are nationalists and pan Slavists, pan-Slavism has been a thing for some 170 years now and one of the tenents is that subjugation of non-Slavs is acceptable, but all Slavs should work together.
Putin’s war against fellow eastern Orthodox Eastern Slavs is against everything Russia stands for
Might be worth mentioning this is sourced from
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA.
You do realize that this is a fictional organization made up to distract from whom the real killers are and what Ukrainian organizations they worked for.
Don’t you? Or are you THAT gullible.
The Russians that answer to Putin really want to nail this on somebody, and the Ukrainians are the nearest scapegoat.
It is equally as likely that the perps were Chechens. But Putin, in his hard-won acumen, has chosen not to stir up the Chechens with further accusations. The Chechens are meaner than fire ants.
I doubt the National Rifle association had anything to do with this.
Led by Trump, I assume. Nice try, but the Republicans had NOTHING to do with it.
Bullchit and I am sick of people flooding this place with propaganda.
How do YOU know it’s a fictional organization?
The identity of FR is now a haven for gullible warmongering wackos.
We'll never know the truth.
Just after the WW2 Tehran >Conference, Stalin said to a journalist, (roughly translated):"It's high time the Slavic race was in charge of Europe."
Putin is channeling Stalin, led by this ultra-nationalist Dugin character.
Fair point. Thanks for the info.
CC
That is also bullchit.
“ How do YOU know it’s a fictional organization?”
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Well it farted into “existence” on August 21st. Feel free to be as gullible as you need to be to believe in it.
Crossfire Hurricane, anybody?
“How do YOU know it’s a fictional organization?”
>>> Because we were not born yesterday. <<<
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/sarcasm
See 15.
My first thought was that it is so “Putinesque”, and although Dugin is always described as Putin’s “Mentor”, he has done some rather strange housecleaning lately. He definitely has become rather paranoid (out of necessity), or as the author said, “if they really are out to get you, then it really isn’t paranoia, is it?” Stalin certainly went through a similar phase when he decided that he couldn’t trust anyone, and even had their likeness removed from all photos, right after he murdered his closest confidants.
The person who gains the most is Xi. It is becoming increasingly obvious that independent Taiwan is a dead man walking. When Xi makes his move wouldn’t it be grand if the only power that could challenge his moves was bogged down in a rapidly escalating quagmire half a world away? A brilliant move on Xi’s part, if responsible. He would have personalized the conflict among all involved and introduced another new low, assassination. Regardless of who’s responsible, this is another major rung up the escalatory process.
I would also add fear mongering covid19 addicts as well.
Cheers
Perhaps Xi is trying to destabilize Russia so China can get a more favorable government.
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