The Assassination Plot Against Sobchak and Simonyan Makes No Sense

I finally have an excuse to rag on these two women.

Here is what the state media had to say about the latest Neo-Nazi terror plot against Russia’s brightest and most patriotic voices:

MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has foiled a plot by Ukrainian intelligence to murder Chief Editor of RT International News TV Channel Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak through the Neo-Nazi Paragraph-88 group, the FSB press office told TASS on Saturday.

"The Federal Security Service jointly with the Investigative Committee and the Interior Ministry of Russia has foiled the assassination of Editor-in-Chief of RT TV Channel and Russia Today international news agency Margarita Simonyan plotted by Ukrainian special services. According to available data, the murder of Ksenia Sobchak was also plotted," the press office said in a statement.

On July 14, the FSB detained members of the Neo-Nazi Paragraph-88 group in Moscow and the Ryazan Region who were keeping track of their targets at their places of work and residence, the press office said.

"During investigative measures, they confirmed their plotting of the assassination attempt on an assignment from the Ukrainian Security Service for a reward of 1.5 million rubles for each murder," the statement reads.

During the investigative measures, FSB operatives seized a Kalashnikov assault rifle, 90 rounds for it, knives, knuckle-dusters, rubber clubs, handcuffs, chevrons with Nazi insignia, Nazi literature, and also communications means and computers with information confirming their criminal intent, the FSB press office said.

"The Investigative Committee plans to institute criminal cases against the detained suspects on extremist and terrorist counts," the FSB said.

Well that’s a relief! Case open and shut. We can all sleep easy knowing that our protectors work tirelessly to foil Neo-Nazi schemes to target Russia’s heroes.

Although … and I hate to sound like I’m doubting the official story here … the TASS account leaves out some rather important details in their account. The most important one, to my mind, is that almost everyone involved in this plot was a teenager. And the second consideration is that the ring-leader was already known to the FSB and had almost been entrapped before, in 2019.

The Western media did not leave these details out:

A 22-year-old alleged neo-Nazi Yegor Savalyev was detained in Ryazan, along with five accomplices believed to be involved.

Savalyev was previously reported to be a “victim” of a 2019 FSB ‘provocation’.

Sobchak, 41, knows Putin from her childhood because her late father Anatoly - liberal mayor of St Petersburg - was political mentor to the ex-KGB spy.

A prominent TV personality Sobchak, who stood against Putin at the 2018 Russian presidential election after privately talking to him, finished fourth.

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Savalyev appeared to give a rehearsed confession, saying: “I am Mikail Balashov, born 27 March 2005

“I live in Moscow.

“I created a Neonazi gang Paragraph 88 and got [my] underage friends involved in it...I was contacted by Ukraine's special services...

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“We were offered [to commit] the contract assassination of Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak.

“I....conducted reconnaissance of Margarita Simonyan's home in order to get money.

“After that I contacted a curator who was supposed to leave a Kalashnikov automated gun for me and money.

“When I arrived at the place where the weapon was supposed to be, I was caught by the employees of the [Russian] intelligence service.”

The FSB claimed it had stopped the killing of Sobchak and Simonyan, yet this was doubted by independent observers.

"This is more likely an FSB provocation," said one.

“Members of the Paragraph-88 neo-Nazi group, acting on instructions from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), planned to kill them.”

The FSB claimed its officers “seized a Kalashnikov assault rifle, cartridges, edged weapons, Nazi symbols, literature, as well as communications equipment and computers with information about the preparation of the assassination attempt.”

These entrapment schemes are quite popular in the West as well and we’ve all probably heard about them by now. Some low-IQ or mentally-ill nobodies are encouraged to commit terrorism by spook agencies who provide them with the tools and the coaxing to carry out the plot. They are then stopped in the nick of time, or, if the goal is to foster terror and fear into society, they are allowed to carry out their shooting and only stopped later, after the damage is done.

Let me be blunt: only gullible grannies would believe a story this contrived and dumb.

And the disbelief cuts across the entire political spectrum mind you. It isn’t just “Rashists” scoffing at this story. Here’s what Comrade Artem, a Communist analyst on Telegram had to say:

This whole story with the attempt on Simonyan smells very bad. First - cheap youngsters behind it. Secondly, Simonyan was the first of the well-known media people to start pushing the topic of being "for peace" with the Ukrainians. Agree that it is not profitable for the ukrops to kill VIPs promoting the topic of a truce.

It is likely that the party of treachery, which includes Simonyan, put on another performance in front of us and in front of one very smart grandfather. Grandpa [Putin], of course, will be tricked again, but we sure won’t.

Putting aside his political positions, this guy is right to believe that something more could be at play here. I was thinking the exact same thing and only then went to Telegram to see if I wasn’t the only one having doubts. We don’t know the full details yet, but Simonyan and Sobchak are somehow involved in some money-laundering scandal that’s being discussed right now. I’m not saying that they are implicated in it, but I am saying that they are involved in the developing story. I don’t understand all the details and ins-and-outs yet though, so I will refrain from commenting on it for the moment.

Let me explain to you why there might be more to this story than meets the eye in another way. Indulge me as I explain to you who these two women are. Of course, everyone and their mothers in Russia knows who Sobchak and Simonyan are. Russian patriots they are not, to put it mildly.

Let’s start with Simonyan, who is not even Russian, but Armenian. The difference, by the way, is about as vast as somehow confusing a Sicilian for a Sweden in the European context. Those who claim that there is no difference in character, temperament, allegiance and identity between Armenians and Russians are probably smoking salvia. Doing copious amounts of salvia (and other drugs) is probably why so many peasants are confused and can’t understand, conceptually even, the difference between an Armenian and a Russian and call people like myself, who don’t smoke salvia and are therefore still somewhat sane, “Fascists” for still being able to discern.

Both ladies hate the Russian people and have been very public in voicing their disdain for everything Russian before.

Simonyan, in particular, likes to chide Russians for their Fascist tendencies and warn about the looming specter of Russian nationalism building up within Russian society. She has also stated multiple times that she sees herself as Armenian, first and foremost, and Russian a distant second, even though she wasn’t born in Yerevan and doesn’t even speak the language. Also, Simonyan believes that Russia ought to copy American-style civic nationalism and mix it with strict Soviet anti-Fascism. As anyone who is groaning under the oppression of an occupation government in the West knows, the reigning globalist-approved ideology is a form of civic nationalism in which everyone can be an American or French or whatever, so long as they support and promote virulent messianic Liberal values and viciously denounce White people. United Russia, which is the party of the oligarchs and the Western satraps in Russia, wholeheartedly approves of such policies and only laments that Russia is still lagging behind the West in implementing such militant tolerance values.

I’d liken her to Megyn Kelly. Or to some Farid Zakharia equivalent. Or to any CNN anchor, really.

Anyways.

My favorite Margarita quote has to be this one:

You must understand that after the first honest elections, the Fascists will win and they will hang us.

It’s my favorite quote for many reasons, and there’s a lot to unpack there. First, she smears Russian patriots as “Fascists” which is exactly what the West and Kiev like to do. There is no Fascist party in Russia, of course. But there were Socialist-Nationalists like the reformed Communist Party of Russia. There were also Capitalist-Nationalist like Zhirinovsky’s LDPR. Finally, there were Nationalist-Socialist parties like Rodina and now Just Russia. All of them would object to being characterized as Fascists by Simonyan, but because they tap into the power of Russian populism and dare to critique oligarchs and the migrant hordes that they flood the country with, they are considered to be very problematic by the state-approved media.

Moving right along in our analysis, Simonyan casually admits that the elections are rigged for United Russia and acts like everyone knows it, which, fair enough. Actually, I think that the Presidential elections aren’t all that rigged anymore (they used to be blatantly rigged in favor of Yeltsin and then Putin) because Putin has come to enjoy some measure of genuine, organic popularity. But the Duma election results definitely are decided beforehand and then clumsily implemented to maintain the United Russia supermajority, even though United Russia has literally no organic support anywhere, and has been caught blatantly rigging the elections against the Communists and Nationalists several times already. Funny enough, it’s the ultra-liberals like Yabloko that complained the most, even though they had single-digit support from the big cities, from the areas with the synagogues.

The other parties just take the hush money and lose more or less gracefully.

Finally, Simonyan admits that she and the people who hired her and who are around her, are deeply hated by Russian patriots, for some reason. No explanation why though. ZAnon will never tell you any of this, of course, and will portray her as a Russian patriot and RT as pro-Russian. But nothing could be further from the truth.

You can see for yourself: her own words betray her.

Now, Margarita clearly showed her hand and practically admitted to the world that she was part of the peace faction multiple times already. We can deduce this quite easily ourselves. Firstly, keep in in mind that she is a very Liberal figure within Russia and her RT network, which is staffed by the worst of the worst in Russia, promotes Third Worldism and SJWism in the West. Secondly, like the Communist blogger earlier in the article pointed out, she’s probing and hinting at supporting peace talks already. Thirdly, she fired one of her editors, Anton Krasovsky for literally demanding a genocide of Ukrainian children in Ukraine, which is an interesting mini-story in and of itself.

Now, I have spoken about Krasovsky before.

And what Krasovsky did merited a firing, of course.

Not only is what he said grotesque, but it is also counter-productive. It was played by Ukrainian TV on repeat gleefully and this outburst cost Russia many hearts and minds in Ukraine. Me, I don’t think Krasovsky had anything against Ukrainians, seeing as he is from Western Ukraine himself and seeing as he used to be unabashedly pro-Ukraine in the past, preferring to critique Russia instead. I think he just hates children in general because he is a virulent homosexual and expressed the typical, but usually silent chomo demonic hatred for the innocent.

What is interesting is that he didn’t get fired for calling vax-refusers in Russia enemies of the people and filming hit-pieces on ordinary Russian heroes who said “no” to Ginsburg’s clot shot.

Neither did Margarita, by the way, who publicly chimped out at normal people who didn’t want slurry injected into their veins multiple times.

RT's editor-in-chief screeches at unvaxxed vermin: "STAY AWAY FROM ME"; former employee accepts her generous offer!

I’m trying to build a character case against Simonyan and all the people associated with her here. But I digressed from the specific topic at hand. I believe that I was listing off reasons for why Margarita is a virulent anti-Russian and an enemy of the Russian people.

Fourthly, as I have written about before, she went dark during the mutiny and did not rush to condemn it.

This is because she and others in Moscow understood that Prigozhin was with the peace faction, (Prigozhin said so in his last video address before the march) and she was waiting to see if he would succeed or not. She, being pro-Western in her entire worldview, is pro-surrender, obviously.

Now, when Margarita turned 25, she was given billions of roubles and a media network to run. Fairly typical story that I’m sure everyone here can relate to. How did this occur though? Well, first of all, Margarita got in deep with the powerful Armenian mafia, which runs some of Russia’s prestigious film and TV and media studios, a holdover institution capture from the USSR days. Basically, she was able to sleep her way into advantageous positions by getting on her knees for powerful men who had money and connections in the media sphere.

Her first partner was Andrey Blagodyrenko, who was a well-connected media man. This gave the ambitious Margarita, a film student, the initial leg-up she needed into the media world. But she cheated on him and eventually left him behind.

Then came Tigran Keosayan, who was a wealthy, married Armenian man with deep-pocketed friends in the Russian government and within the oligarchy who came from a legacy USSR era Armenian media clan. Margarita swooped in on Tigran and seduced him somehow.

She ain’t telling

Tigran dumped his old family and, knees still shaking, moved in with Margarita instead.

But that was already 2014. Margarita was marked for greatness much earlier than that when she was sent as a student study on an American grant to New Hampshire under a Future Leaders Exchange program grant. As everyone knows, FLEX is a blatant spook recruitment project run by the US State Department. Also, the US State Dept is totally run by ethnic Trotskyites, which anyone who isn’t a shill will admit, of course. After finishing her journalism studies in Russia, she was literally hand-picked by Russia’s Deep State to run RT.

There are two key figures who gave her the nod of approval and thereby green-lit her entire career.

The first is Mikhail Lesin, who dominated the Russian media after the USSR until his assassination in Washington DC in 2015. Let’s check his Biography section on Wikipedia quickly before we proceed:

It is exactly as we might have suspected.

Lesin is the undisputed brains behind RT and it was his vision that shaped the project. What does it say about RT and about Lesin that he fled to the United States and had hundreds of millions of dollars stashed in the West waiting for him when he moved over? And that he then thought that Margarita was a right fit for the project?

Right?

Get what I’m hinting at here?

Fine, I’ll spell it out just in case.

Lesin was mobbed up with Langley, obviously. While still operating in Russia, Lesin was pressed out by another one of Putin’s close oligarchs, Kovalchuk, who we have covered before and had to flee to his masters in DC.

Kovalchuk is from the same tribe as Lesin, of course, and is Putin’s personal banker. He inherited Lesin’s media empire and continues to expand it even now. Lesin was supposed to partner up with Kovalchuk to run Gazprom’s media holdings, but something went wrong and they had a falling out. By the way, Gazprom, a quasi-state gas monopoly, sponsored the Permanent Liberal Opposition in Russia and projects like Moscow Times, Echo Moscow and possibly the equivalent of Russia’s ADL (SOVA) through a subsidiary.

Doesn’t this whole background story just reek of patriotism and honesty? We love our oligarchs, folks. Great people. Can’t get enough of them. Journalists too. Round of applause, everybody. Thanks. Thank you.

And then we have Alexey Gromov.

Gromov is a very interesting figure and key to understanding the internal media situation in Russia. I’ve been meaning to write about him in-depth for some time now. He is the Kremlin’s media director, and thereby he is the guy who is responsible for making sure that Russian media is staffed by virulent anti-Russians, and to make sure that no Russian populism or positive self-identity is allowed to rear its ugly, “Fascist” head. I have written about Gromov in passing before. He came up as the main villain behind the deplorable anti-Russian situation in my interview with Tsiganov, who is a media-hawk. Read the interview that I did more than a year ago to get a grasp of how bad the Russian media is. Here:

And I mentioned the Russian patriots community’s attitude towards Gromov in this article here:

I spoke with Tsiganov about Gromov off the record, but it didn’t make it into the article.

Gromov, however, is widely reviled all across the entire political spectrum. People from all camps have been begging Putin to retire him for years now. But, as you and I now know, Putin doesn’t fire anyone, ever, period, no matter what.

So now we actually have two key figures who can either be credited/blamed for the creation of the Simonyan Syndicate: the aforementioned Lesin and now Gromov. I also came across an interesting bonus article naming Gromov as being the main guy pushing for Margarita Simonyan being put in charge of RT that I thought was worth sharing:

At Gromov’s insistence, the first (and current) editor-in-chief of Russia Today, the worldwide pro-Kremlin channel now known as RT, was Margarita Simonyan.

Gromov and Simonyan remain good friends, and Simonyan’s family has done well during their relationship.

Several years ago, a large company in Russia’s Bashkir region was in need of public relations support. A call was made from the presidential administration to recommend Alisa Simonyan, Margarita’s younger sister, for the job, The Project was told by a source familiar with the issue.  

Alisa Simonyan was hired to provide PR for large state projects the coverage of which Gromov oversaw, including the Olympic Games in Sochi, the World Cup, and the construction of Russia’s new bridge to occupied Crimea, despite the fact that she was not known to have any experience in the industry.

Margarita Simonyan confirmed to The Project that her sister worked on these events.

Her privileged position was especially clear in the case of the Crimean bridge, which opened in May 2018.

Alisa Simonyan was hired to provide PR for the project by Stroygazmontazh, the construction company working on the bridge, which is owned by oligarch Arkady Rotenberg, a friend of Putin.

The PR staff hired by Alisa Simonyan work through an association called the Crimean Bridge Information Center, according to one of its employees. The center was established by subsidiaries of RT, which Margarita Simonyan heads, but it is supervised by Alisa.

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Gromov’s youngest son, Danila, also works in the center. Responsible for social media marketing, among other things, he created the viral “Bridge Cat” campaign, built around images of a real cat said to have been involved in the bridge’s construction.

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Margarita Simonyan insists that her business has nothing to do with Gromov. “He doesn’t even know who our customers are. Our business began and has developed without any participation from Gromov. I can confirm this on the [lie] detector,” she told The Project.

Gromov’s profile is similar to a lot of top Russian officials in that he spent a lot of time in the spook world and stationed outside of Russia right before and after the collapse of the USSR. Also, upon his return to Russia, he suddenly found an illustrious career waiting for him in the highest echelons of the newly formed pro-Western government. Curious, no? Do we see a pattern emerging? Kind of like what happened with Putin, his soon-to-be boss?

Gromov actually predates Putin and therefore, like Shoigu or Primakov (Finkelstein) probably outranks Putin in order of seniority. I don’t think Putin could fire Gromov even if he wanted to. It is the same situation, no doubt, as with Shoigu.

Also, believe it or not, literally every single person I have ever interviewed has talked to me either off the record or on the record about just how bad the media situation is in Russia. RT, in particular, is singled out as being particularly horrible. Even Aussie Cossack and his audience agreed. Now you may understand why it is the way that it is a little bit better.

Another data point: Simonyan was chosen to cover the Beslan hostage situation. She was given talking points and lied about the situation as it was unfolding, and never apologized for it. So, for example, she pretended that there were only 300 some hostages when there were closer to 1200. She said that the terrorists had no demands when they did: Russian withdrawal.

Yet another data point: Simonyan led the catastrophic interview of the two alleged Russian spooks that were caught in Salisbury. I don’t know the details of the Skripal affair at all, but Russians were shocked by the interview that she conducted. It made the Russian spooks look guilty as all hell. It wasn’t even done live. She could have edited it to fix up the bad parts. She chose not to. Curious, no?

Actually, if we look at her career, it is nothing but a long string of failures that she only seems to get rewarded and promoted for. I guess the main point I’m making is simple: she is definitely working for somebody and that somebody does not have Russians’ best interests at heart, clearly.

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And then we have Ksenia Sobchak. She used to do porn and reality TV. But, actually, and I mean this without the slightest irony, she is so much more. For one thing, she is the goddaughter of Vladimir Putin. Putin used to work for her dad, Anatoly Sobchak, in St. Petersburg. Sobchack was a big shot in the Yeltsin 90s and he did a very thorough job of looting the country. I’ve written about her before as well:

She is also involved in the media, although her influence has been heavily curtailed because of the SMO. Needless to say, she isn’t a Russian patriot by any stretch of the imagination. She fled the country and then returned? apparently. Also, she is well-known for spilling the secrets of Russia’s oligarchs. Take, for example, the scandal that she fanned about Deripaska’s boat hookers several years ago. She made it into a woman’s rights and free speech issue:

Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak stood up for Anastasia Vashukevich (Nastya Rybka), who became famous throughout the country thanks to her Instagram posts (whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) regarding billionaire Oleg Deripaska.

So basically Deripaska had hookers on his yacht and this undermined his political marriage to Rybka. Rybka came from a family of well-connected Moscow journalists in the USSR who then went on to serve under Yeltsin (many such cases). Deripaska bought her a media business and she used it to promote the Permanent Liberal Opposition and call for protests against the government.

The history of the conflict between Deripaska and Nastya Rybka insults Sobchak as a woman, the TV personality said. She noted that it is impossible to treat the fairer sex in this way: “I would like universal condemnation to be caused not only by the rather obvious fact of corruption, but also by the outrageous behavior of those in power in relation to a powerless girl. Whatever the heroine of the disgusting story with “Papa” and “Ruslan” imagines about herself, she is a victim in this story, ”Sobchak said.

Deripaska, you will recall, was scolded by Putin for shutting down a factory and garnishing the wages of his workers in that famous clip where Putin demands his pen back.

But he fell right back into grace soon after the clip and the media campaign directed at him calling him a crook. This happens often in Russia and the media obediently changes its tune whenever an oligarch or a spook snaps their fingers.

By the time he was partying it up on a boat with hookers, he was already back on the inside track. Deripaska made his wife a Liberal media figure with his money, and now he was getting attacked by his own golem and her ally Sobchak, who brought Navalny’s people into the operation and smeared Putin by association with Deripaska.

Amusingly, Roskomnadzor, the media censor, suppressed the story in Russia. This is amusing because when patriots ask them to censor smut, anti-Russian propaganda and the like, they claim that their hands are tied, Russia has freedom of speech, the whole rigamarole. Sobchak decided to make Rybka’s relatable life story a rallying cry for her feminist presidential campaign. And Sobchak, despite attacking the Russian government and supporting subversive, revolutionary activity, never got punished.

In addition, Sobchak demanded that Roskomnadzor's ban on media and social media publications be lifted in connection with the billionaire's lawsuit against Vashukevich. In connection with the trial, the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, where Nastya Rybka appeared, was blocked. According to Sobchak, no "privacy" should prevent citizens from receiving information.

“We should pay tribute to the FBK investigation into the adventures of a man who looks like Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko on a yacht with a man who looks like oligarch Oleg Deripaska. It is no coincidence that the Russian authorities reacted so quickly by banning the video: its content is devastating for the reputation of both its characters and the entire corrupt state machine, ”Sobchak wrote on Instagram (the activity is banned in the Russian Federation).

The presidential candidate in her message decided to draw attention to the attempts of the participants in the scandal to shift the focus: “There is a suspicion of corruption, simple and unequivocal. Corruption is a crime. No “privacy” of corrupt officials should prevent citizens from obtaining the most detailed information about civil servants. Therefore, I demand the removal of the Roskomnadzor ban on the publication of media and social networks, ”Sobchak explained.

Sobchak was involved in several similar scandals to this one over the years. That’s her job, basically. My personal favorite Sobchak moment was when she exposed the head media director/producer for the “Spas” Orthodox network, Boris Korchevnikov, as a homosexual.

Boris promotes a very Liberal and feminine version of Orthodoxy on Spas

Sobchak is basically a professional gossip and a muck-raker who has insider info and she revels in depicting the Russian government as stupid and corrupt (which it is). The problem is that she then blames the Russian people for their government, for continuing to support it. Smearing Russians is her true agenda and that is why she is allowed to continue to operate with impunity. So long as she uses her platform to degrade Russians and call them blind Fascists and willing slaves to their Tsar, she is allowed to continue portraying herself as a principled Liberal.

And Liberals are largely untouchable in Russia, because of their Russian Deep State and Western backers.

I give you these details to continue building a character profile of these two women and all the people around them. Notice their ethnicities. Notice their behavior. Notice their proximity to the big guy. Draw some conclusions about who runs Russia and how, please. The Russian media and ZAnon won’t tell you who and what the ruling elite really are. So, the task falls on my overburdened (and underpaid) shoulders, unfortunately.

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If I had to make a guess about what the purpose of this teenage Nazi false-flag plot was, I’d have to conclude that it served several purposes:

First: it was a shot across the bow across the two ladies, reminding them to stay with the program and stay loyal. “It’s a dangerous world out there without our protection,” the message could be understood to mean.

Second: it reinforces the Kremlin narrative that they are the only things standing between the nationalists assuming power and hanging people like Simonyan, Sobchak and all the other names I mentioned in this article.

It’s either that or the FSB found and foiled the plot of the most competent and motivated zoomer teenagers anywhere in the world. All the youth that I know want to just play Minecraft, eat hot chip and cry.

Finally, I hope that you guys are starting to get acquainted with the shortlist of “who is who” in Russia. It’s all a bit overwhelming at first, I guess. But if you keep the general framework of “rats gnawing at each other while the ship of state capsizes” in mind as a kind of conceptual mental picture, it all becomes much clearer.