Sorry. I realize this is a guilty pleasure, but I can’t help sharing it.
Since yesterday, I’ve been enjoying watching the Kremlin riffraff try to cover for Sergei Brilyov, who confirmed that he holds British citizenship and owns property in London.
For years, they practiced branding everyone who dislikes Putin as a foreign agent.
Went abroad? Must be going to meet your handlers.
Wrote a tweet in English? Reporting to your masters!
Met with a foreign journalist? He’s talking to a spy!
Quoted a foreign newspaper? He’s taking part in a propaganda operation!
Filed a case with the European Court? Well, that’s beyond the pale. Treason.
Remember the “Kiriyenko special operation” at the airport, after which we started calling him “Sardilenych”? I was coming back from court in Strasbourg when some clowns started hanging strings of sausages around my shoulders. The idea was: he sold out Russia, traded it for an Alsatian sausage.
And now it turns out that one of the top executives at VGTRK (Russia’s state broadcasting company), a longtime host of Putin’s televised “Direct Line” call-in shows, is a British citizen. And he confirmed it publicly, evidently solely because he feared things might become uncomfortable for him in Britain if he denied it.
And they had expected him to deny it!
So yes—what a sight, what a pleasure it is right now to read the Twitter feeds of the Kremlin’s lackeys.
Let me share a gem. Two people I absolutely adore: Vladimir “Balloon” Solovyov and a certain creep named Shota Gorgadze (it is thanks to him that the meme “United Russia is the party of crooks and thieves” appeared) are discussing Adagamov’s dual citizenship. And they’re gleefully snickering: the opposition just loves dual citizenship:
Screenshot in case the crooks delete the tweets.
And now, if you can believe it, a pompous address “to liberals and sympathizers”:
Screenshot, in case they delete it.
Come on, you have to admit, it’s magnificent.