Assassination! Yet Another Problematic Politician Eliminated in Moscow!

Who killed Ilya Kiva and why?

I want to warn you that today’s entry is a tougher one. You may need to actually click some of the links and even click the “read more” link at the end of email instead of just reading 3/4ths and assuming you got the gist of it all. Yes, I ask a lot from my readers, but only because I have faith in them that other writers don’t have in their own readers, probably for good reason. I believe that you can and you will pick up a paid sub and follow me as we stalk deeper into the Slavlands than anyone else has ever done.

Go ahead and do that right now, please.

Good, thanks, we’re trying a gentler, more positive approach here for the remainder of December to see if it doesn’t bear better results. Some of you have asked me to soften my tone and rely less on coercion and psychological abuse tactics. Very well, let’s run the experiment and see what happens.

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Now, as we have remarked several times already on this blog, Kiev is able to strike with total impunity anywhere in Russia at anytime. This means that targets are assassinated in Moscow, factories and warehouses blown up in the Urals, and all of this is done under the watchful eye of the FSB, which is doing its best, I’m sure.

Before we go any further in our speculations, allow me to provide you with the full info-dump. Here:

Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ilya Kiva was killed in a cottage village near Moscow.

[Why is it always the most Slavic-looking people that end up getting assassinated?]

Who and when reported the death of Kiva

On the evening of December 6, REN TV, citing sources, reported the discovery of the body of Ilya Kiva in the Moscow region. According to media reports, emergency services were on the scene.

Later, the Mash Telegram channel wrote that the bloody body of the former Ukrainian deputy was found in the snow. According to him, the corpse lay in the park area of ​​the hotel in the village of Suponevo near Moscow.

As reported by the Baza Telegram channel, Kiva's body was found by a hotel employee at approximately 15:00. According to the channel, he was lying face down in the snow and there was a large pool of blood around him.

What is Kiva known for?

Ilya Kiva was a deputy of the 9th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and a former adviser to the country's Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov. During the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, he was convicted of extorting a bribe, later participated in the Euromaidan, joined the Right Sector (an organization recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation, its activities are prohibited) and in 2015 participated in the conflict in Donbass. He then moved to the Socialist Party, and after an unsuccessful participation in the presidential elections in 2019, he joined Viktor Medvedchuk’s Opposition Platform - For Life (OPZZH) party.

The faction expelled him from its ranks in 2022. The party initiated the procedure on February 27. Then co-chairman of the OPZZH Yuriy Boyko accused Kiva of “inciting hatred” and creating provocations, as well as of interfering with the organization of peace negotiations with Russia.

Ilya Kiva himself explained the party’s decision with his “principled position” and criticism of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

After the start of the SVO, Kiva moved to Moscow. This spring he announced that he intended to seek political asylum in Russia. In November 2023, a court in Lviv sentenced him in absentiato 14 years in prison; Kivu was found guilty on a number of charges, including high treason.

Who did Kiva interfere with?

Ilya Kiva was called a personal enemy of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. He criticized the head of state while still a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. The politician believed that the current authorities of Ukraine were violating the constitution and freedom of speech in the country.

In February 2022, Kiva announced in his Telegram channel that the SBU intends to arrest him allegedly because of high treason, which they are trying to accuse the politician of because of congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on his birthday. Then he called Zelensky a coward.

On the day the special operation began, Ilya Kiva said that the President of Ukraine was to blame for the aggravation of the situation in Donbass and called on him to resign. According to the politician, Zelensky did not want a truce because he earns about $100 million a month from special operations. He also said that Zelensky’s children “are in England,” his parents are in Spain, and the President of Ukraine himself “encourages people to their inevitable death by recording his staged videos from Europe.”

Kiva left his last post on his Telegram channel on the morning of December 6th. In it, he wrote that Vladimir Zelensky does not believe in the guarantees of security either personal or his family, which were provided to him by the US authorities. According to Kiva, the Ukrainian leader fears that if Donald Trump wins the presidential election in the United States, he “will be extradited to Moscow or simply liquidated.”

The assassination attempt on Kiva is a terrorist attack for which Vladimir Zelensky bears responsibility, State Duma deputy Yevgeny Fedorov believes. He does not exclude that the leader of Ukraine personally gives orders for liquidation to the special services. “As far as I understand, this is a terrorist attack carried out by the SBU or other Kyiv special services. They have two bosses: Zelensky and the CIA. Accordingly, they are responsible for this attempt,” the parliamentarian told NEWS.ru.

Fedorov believes that the murder of Kiva, like the recent elimination of Vladlen Tatarsky in St. Petersburg, is intended to intimidate politicians in Russia. “This is an act of intimidation of various politicians - Russian, former Ukrainian, a demonstration of influence directly on Russian territory. That is, this is a punitive operation,” he added.

What new details are known about the death of Kiva?

The Moscow region department of the Investigative Committee published a video from the scene of the murder of Ilya Kiva. The footage shows specialists examining the area with a metal detector.

As the department explained, investigators and criminologists are working at the crime scene. Aninspection of the territory is being carried out, based on the results of which the necessary examinations will be assigned.

Ilya Kiva was shot froma weapon with a silencer, a law enforcement source told TASS. The agency's interlocutor did not provide any other details.

Telegram channel Mash wrote that the killer had been watching the former Verkhovna Rada deputy for at least three weeks. According to the channel, the killer managed to study the habits of a Ukrainian politician, who recently reported about possible surveillance of him.

The authors of the channel pointed out that Kiva, who lived with his partner in a country hotel in the Moscow region, preferred to take long walks in the park every evening. Mash notes that the politician went out for a walk along his route on December 6, but did not return. According to the channel, when a local resident found Kiva’s stiff body, the corpse lay in the cold for at least an hour.

Neighbors of the former Rada deputy in a cottage community in Moscow region saw him walking around the village in the morning, an eyewitness named Andrey told RIA Novosti. He confirmed that Kiva was staying at a hotel there.

“My friend saw this in the morning, back at 10 am, there is a good area here, we were walking, <...> greeted that person <...>. He lives in this village and walks around the village every morning. This person you are asking about seems to have lived in a hotel in the village,” said the eyewitness.

The agency's correspondent said that he found a passage in the fence around the hotel. From there, a well-trodden path leads to the territory adjacent to the hotel.

We’ve covered this tory in various guises several times already.

So let’s just do some bullet-points this time:

• How is the SBU always able to get away with this?

• The targets who are eliminated are the kind of Z-patriots that Moscow wouldn’t mind not having to deal with when it comes time to wrap things up.

• Kiva was embarrassing Kiev with his samizat broadsides directed at the government.

• Moscow doesn’t take kindly to people making fun of their esteemed Western partners or questioning of the sacredness of the Ukrainian government.

Now let me guess — you think I’m exaggerating? Taking my artistic license too far? The Kremlin shutting down anti-Ukrainians? Surely I jest!

Well, only a couple of weeks ago, the Kremlin’s top propagandist, Vladimir Shapiro went on yet another rant denouncing Russians in Ukraine who deny the Ukrainian identity or Ukrainian statehood. As an aside, I actually wanted to write about it initially, but I try to keep it as fresh as possible on this blog. That is, I don’t write for the sake of writing or even with the intention of using repetition to convince people. I see this blog as a Chronicle and a reference sheet that Westerners can use to learn about Slavlands personalities and lore. As a result, I don’t cover news that doesn’t check off any new boxes either idea or lore or personality-wise. It’s not that I’m too lazy or not thorough enough, it’s that I genuinely want to cover as much ground as possible, not just harp on the same topics over and over again. Shapiro constantly reaffirms the sacredness of Ukrainianness in the same breath as he denies that Russians even exist as a people. This is a product of who he and what he believes, which I cover in depth here:

So, Shapiro’s positions may seem strange to a Western Russia-watcher who only consumes ZAnon propaganda, but, in actual fact, all of this statements are in full agreement with stated Kremlin positions.

Again: the pretext for the friendly neighborhood policing action in brotherly, socialist Ukraine is to help Ukraine deal with its Nazi problem. Putin has chided Zelensky several times for not helping Moscow with the SMO. He said that Moscow was de-Nazifying to help him and his people and that he was being “a bad j*w” for looking the other way about the existence of Neo-Nazi gangs in Ukraine.

This is a jaw-dropping position for any person let along a head of state to take, and too difficult for many Westerners to wrap their heads around, but Putin has argued that he is doing the SMO to save Ukraine from the Nazis who tragically control large parts of the government and territory and that the leadership in Kiev refuses to acknowledge. Yes, really. He has also insisted that regime-change was never his intention or even on the table as an option. Furthermore, he has made a big point of emphasizing that he recognized Zelensky’s government and Ukraine’s sovereignty and believes himself to be a guarantor of Kiev’s independence from Moscow, which is a core principle of his government.

Now, this sounds like a fantastically convoluted lie to justify pursuing Russian state interests, but the Kremlin never pursues Russian state interests if they can help it and there is actually more than a little truth to Putin’s tall tale.

Again, we know about the existence of the secret peace deal and we have people like President Lukashenko confirming that Moscow had attempted to surrender Donbass and to release Crimea to Ukraine in April of last year. These generous terms were initially accepted and then rejected by Boris Johnson’s intervention because of how weak Russia’s military and political will was revealed to be, leading to the West pursuing maximalist aims instead of allowing the cease-fire. We’ve covered all of this ad nauseum, but I do understand how it is difficult to accept because of how different the truth sounds from the lies being told by both sides about what really went down.

So, when Shapiro rants at Nazis in Russia and Ukraine (pro-Russians) who deny Ukraine its sovereignty and identity, he is repeating state policy, not just sharing his own vile anti-Russian semitist sentiments.

Putting aside all the arrests of previous Z-patriots or the assassinations that have occurred under the FSB’s total surveillance state, a more recent and banal example of the Kremlin shutting down anyone who questions the sacredness of Ukraine is the recent rolling shutdowns of Z-gatherings in Russia. Even the Z-symbol is now de facto banned in Russia.

The mystery of the vanishing Z

Recently, Limonov’s people were shut down by the feds at a benefit concert raising money for troops:

And then one of their activists who had been previously arrested for tearing down a Ukrainian flag, Kirill Travkin, was re-arrested for it isn’t quite clear what exactly (possibly anti-Ukrainian hate speech). He and his people had previously raised money, awareness and even signed up volunteers for the SMO.

So, it is dangerous to be too patriotic in Russia, clearly.

And there are also no civil liberties afforded to the average citizen of the Slavlands or the former Imperial territories who doesn’t have a mob boss in the form of an oligarch, an ethnic warlord or a spook providing them a krisha or protection.

The media in particular is extremely anti-Russian. Take this latest outrage story circulating on Telegram of a Russian flag being banned on TV:

An actor who returned from the Northern Military District zone was not allowed on TV due to his refusal to take off his baseball cap with the flag of the Russian Federation.

As actor Mikhail Mamaev said, at the end of November he came from the special operation zone to record the program “Hello, Andrey!”, where he planned to congratulate the audience on the upcoming Christmas Eve. Mamaev explained that he was wearing a uniform and a baseball cap with a Russian flag. However, crew members and the director asked the actor to remove his headdress. At the same time, Andrei Malakhov himself showed photos in which the actor was eventually present in the studio wearing a baseball cap.

“I arrived from the front last night <...> and was in uniform. They asked me to take it off. <...> At the same time, they asked me why it was so important for me to wear a baseball cap with a flag. I also asked why it was so important for them that I take off my baseball cap. The answer is that they all don’t have baseball caps, it’s the operator’s requirements,” Mamaev wrote in his Telegram channel.

The actor added that the creators of such shows avoid the topic of the SMO. According to him, producers are not embarrassed by guests wearing “clothes with rhinestones,” but they have a different attitude towards those who “have the Russian flag under their visor.” Since the end of 2022, Mamaev has been in the Northern Military District zone as a war correspondent.

The tricolor is associated with support for Putin in Russia (his shirt says Putin’s People’s Front) and this is why many both neo-Liberals and right-of-Kremlin patriots refuse to wear it or allow it to be displayed. See my previous article on the topic. Furthermore, many Caucasus peoples like Mamaev in the photo above wear the tricolor to signal their allegiance to the Kremlin in public as a show of loyalty to Putin personally. As a result, Putinism is associated with Chechen gangbangers sporting tricolors in Russian political and cultural life. Most Russian patriots prefer either USSR or Imperial or NS or Christian or Pagan symbology instead.

Patriotic views also make you very suspicious in the eyes of the Kremlin and the FSB, who only trusts those that it has on the payroll or who it can blackmail with kompromat. Just look at the people that the Kremlin does business with — all of them shady criminals or spooks, without exception. Everyone else better stay out of political or public life or the FSB goon squads will swoop down on them. To be someone anywhere in the Slavlands you either have to be a spook or a crook or end up in jail or worse.

And when I was incarcerated and interrogated by the FSB, they seemed genuinely surprised to learn that I had an organic appreciation for Russia as a Westerner and assumed that I must be lying and actually really hated Russia as much as they themselves did. Many people have shared their FSB interrogation stories with me ever since I bravely came out with my own account and the Westerners all agree with me that their FSB interrogators seemed genuinely baffled that anyone could like Russia or want to live there. This is because they themselves are by and large mental neo-Liberals and an anti-Russian occupation force created in the 90s by the satrap RF colonial government of Yeltsin and Finklestein.

But let’s continue with out bullet-points about the assassination:

• If the FSB isn’t coordinating these killings with the SBU, then they are just incompetent, which raises questions about why the Kremlin spends so much money on one of the world’s largest spook states if it can’t even prevent politicians from being assassinated to say nothing of regular Russian patriots.

• What is the true goal then of the sprawling ever-expanding spook state if it isn’t keeping anyone safe?

• There is probably a very clear understanding on who Ukraine is allowed to kill and who they aren't.

• Probably Soloviev and Simonyan are off the table. Anyone with the right ethnic background too, appears to be off-limits. The only Donbass leaders not to be assassinated by Kiev or Moscow were the non-Slavs

Here, read this:

Furthermore, Medvedchuk, the reason for this SMO in the first place, appears to be off the table, and we will have more to say about him in tomorrow’s article. So are the Kadyrovs’ probably, because they do a lot of dirty work for the Kremlin oligarchs and are disproportionately represented in the spook state “fighting” the drug trade or terrorism in Russia.

• Some Z-people are happy that Kivi was killed off because he used to be a Praviy Sektor member and stands accused of killing Donbass civilians before switching sides.

Here:

Who doesn’t know about the execution of people in Krasnoarmeysk in May 2014, watch the video on the Internet. There, a gang of f*gg*ts led by Kiva disrupted the referendum and opened fire on unarmed people.

[Kivi’s own account of putting down Donbass rebels follows]

“Remembering 05/11/14, when at 4 in the morning we, as a group, together with Yarosh, 60 people arrived near the Dnepropetrovsk administration, received weapons, got into Privatov’s cash-in-transit armored cars and went to carry out a task in the Donetsk region city of Krasnoarmeysk, to block the city executive committee and the city police department, on which by that time had already raised the flag of the "DPR" and by any means necessary to disrupt the holding of a separatist referendum aimed at the collapse of the Ukrainian state. Then we completed our task and Krasnoarmeysk remained a Ukrainian city, although not always patriotically minded citizens lived and live in it. 60 people, adventurers, patriots or simply crazy people, more than half of whom are no longer alive, were able to change the course of the history of an entire city. Therefore, today we cannot despair, give up, lose hope; on our land there will always be those 60 people, that hundred crazy people who will be ready change the history of your country for the better, albeit at the cost of your lives!

P.S. Thanks to Kolomoisky and Korban, without them we would not have completed the task, just as the task itself would not have existed" (c) the J*wish [financiers] of Kivi.

I hope that our special services got the maximum benefit from this rooster’s stay in the Russian Federation and ultimately killed him with a shot in the head. I would like such initiatives to be in our hands and not in enemy hands.

So, some Z-people are openly applauding the FSB for killing him off, essentially. That’s a complicated position to take, to put it mildly — to say that the FSB is responsible, but that it is a good thing that they first bought out this Kivi guy (who was a war criminal and anti-Russian), lured him to Russia and then killed him for his earlier crimes and blamed it on the SBU.

I don’t think the FSB kills anyone for being anti-Russian though, only anti-Ukrainian.

• Perhaps Kivi was marked out for death because he was a traitor.

Kivi posing with the famous anti-Russian Bandera-Islamist psycho-terrorist Korchinksy in ‘15.

In general, the Kremlin needs to make sure that the people who are the most heavily invested in a Russian victory in Ukraine are out of the way for the upcoming surrender talks. That is probably related to why these people end up either in prison or dead. Even as a former Right Sector psycho, Kivi had a large incentive to support Russian victory once he switched sides. This is true for all who supported the Russian cause, especially those afraid of getting left behind to be tortured by the SBU, like Russia left behind its allies in Kherson who it promised to never abandon. Kivi would have no future in Russia, because newcomers are not allowed into politics (just look at what happened to Prigozhin) and only had a future in a newly reunified Ukraine, where he was already a politician.

• The people with the shortest life expectency as a result of this conflict are the pro-Russians of Ukraine and the FSU.

Take the recent story of a war hero that the Russian Migration Services (run by the FSB) decided to deport:

A fighter awarded the medals “For Courage” and “For the Capture of Bakhmut” cannot obtain his Russian citizenship.

Alexander was born into a Russian family in Uzbekistan and, when the Northern Military District began, he volunteered for the front as part of the Wagner PMC and participated in the battles for Soledar and Artyomovsk.

Without a Russian passport, he is not given a combat veteran’s certificate, and it is difficult to find a job. The fighter has so far registered with relatives and is trying to solve the problem. Otherwise, he could be deported to Uzbekistan, where he faces ten years in prison for participating in the SMO. Now Alexander lives with relatives in the Sverdlovsk region, but his temporary registration expires in January.

The vicious practice of forgiving everything that the former republics of the USSR do [to Russians] has more than once [been brought up to the relevant authorities but in vain.]

I myself was told that I would be deported to Ukraine by the KGB in Belarus, where I would of course be arrested, and I know of many similar stories of Ukrainian refugees being harassed by the FSB for no other reason that I can think of other than to foster enmity between Russians and Ukrainians by the spook state.

Meanwhile, Russian government turns a blind eye to the anti-Russian policies of the FSU countries and even props up anti-Russian governments, like the regime of Tokayev in Kazakhstan, who is taking measures just as extreme as Kiev did to ban Russian and turn Russians into second-class citizens, which they already are there.

Occasionally though, the anti-Russian government is so egregious that it leads to peasant backlash, forcing the relevant agencies to scramble to cover their asses. Thanks to Telegram-generated outrage at the plight of Alexander the Bakhmut war hero, his case was selected to be re-examined by the FSB.

ZAnon would have you believe that I and the hundreds of far larger samizdat bloggers bringing attention to the plight of patriots are traitors that deserve the FSB firing squad for being Nazi-Satanists collaborators. But, as has been proven many times during this farce of a war, facing and addressing these problems head-on has forced the Kremlin to correct some of its more egregious behaviors. The people who raise the alarm and demand some measure of justice are sticking their necks out on the line at great personal risk so that fatheads like Martyanov and Mercouris and all the other assets can call for their beheading while collecting spook money.

But, despite all this, some of us keep on pushing for reforms and for the truth to get out despite the obstacles that we face from sold-out “fellow” bloggers, sick-in-the-head fanatics and our own swine-like casual readers.

It is the elite few, my beloved Stalkers who keep me going through thick and thin, and even through the recent news doldrums where I disappeared for a week. Suffice it to say that I haven’t given up and I appreciate those of you who haven’t given up on me. I will return your investment and your faith in me 10-fold in the coming weeks, just you wait.

Now, the media in Russian is not allowed to cover the treatment of Russians in these FSU countries because Moscow does not want Russians to know about how it does nothing to defend the interests of the Russian people in the near abroad. This is because, fundamentally, the government in Moscow is neither Russian nor patriotic, and that should really raise some questions in people’s heads about what Ukraine was really all about when Astana is just as anti-Russian as Kiev and yet Moscow puts up statues to their anti-Russian leaders in the capital as a reward for their behavior.

I guess occasionally Putin the pipsqueak will mutter something about poor treatment of Russians in Latvia, but no one takes his threats seriously because he has revealed himself to be a powerless puppet as a result of this Not-War and all the red lines revealed to be nothing but hot air.

It’s hard not to visualize Putin as some kind of little dog, yipping and yapping and quivering with fear after issuing impotent threats to Finland or Latvia giving these countries the fodder they need to stoke Russophobia and promote pro-Washington policies while doing so in complete safety, knowing that Putin would never dream of doing anything to offend his esteemed Western handlers. Like he did recently again. Here:

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Latvia would face repercussions "inside their own country" due to Riga's policies regarding the Russian minority. He made the statement at the meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights on Dec. 4.

Putin's statement comes amid surging tension between NATO and Russia and discussions about a potential future conflict between the two military powers. The Kremlin has previously used the false pretense of "abuse of the Russian-speaking minority" to launch its aggression against Ukraine.

"I don't think that happiness will come to those who pursue such policies. Well, I don't know how many there are now, but in Latvia, I think, there were 40% of the Russian-speaking population, probably, now there are quite a lot too," Putin said.

Some 23.7% of Latvia's population of 1.8 million belong to the Russian minority, according to the Latvian government's data from 2023.

"If they pursue such a policy towards people who wanted to live in that country, worked there, created some good for that country, and they treat them in such a pig-like manner, then they themselves will face the same pig-like behavior within their country," Putin said.

The Russian government should develop "systemic measures" as a response and "adjust relations" with countries carrying out such policies, Russian media wrote, citing Putin.

The Latvian parliament passed an amendment in 2022 tightening residency rules for Russian citizens in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russians living in Latvia are now required to apply for permanent residence and pass a basic-level Latvian language test.

Latvian authorities sent letters to over 3,000 Russian citizens, telling them that they would have to leave Latvia as they failed to register for the residency and the language test.

The Baltic country, which has lived under Soviet dominion for a large part of the 20th century, has also recently intensified its policy of de-Sovietization and de-Russification of the public sphere.

A law passed in September aims to phase out Russian and other minority languages as a language of instruction in schools by 2025.

Russia has labeled such policies in Latvia and other Baltic countries as "Russophobia."

God forbid Putin should try to de-militarize and de-nazify the Baltics.

By the end of the campaign, all the Russians there would be dead and there would be more Nazis and NATO weapons than before, just like in Ukraine. The Russians there would be sent by their saviors in Moscow to die in trenches as cannon fodder and their local leaders would tragically die in a series of unrelated accidents. We’ve seen it all before. The worst thing that could ever happen to a marooned Russian minority is if the Kremlin suddenly remembers that they exist and are in need of being democided.

All in all, Kivi was a politician and we’d be better off if most politicians suffered the same fate as him. He was also a killer of Russians, and yet, someone who needed a Z-victory and worked hard to discredit Kiev’s klepto-government. There is no black and white morality tale here, only power politics and the age old question of “who benefits” begging to be answered. In his case, too many people with power and no qualms about using it wanted him dead and that’s never a good position to find oneself in.

It is the same position that allRussian patriots find themselves in now, as a matter of fact.