Besviken Igor Girkin vill bli president: ”Fuskare”
Fängslade ultranationalisten och tidigare ryske toppmilitären Igor Girkin tänker utmana Vladimir Putin i presidentvalet nästa år. Det meddelar han på Telegram, enligt flera medier.
Den tidigare FSB-officeren skriver att han är väl medveten om att hans förutsättningar att vinna valet är mer eller mindre obefintliga.
”Under rådande situation i Ryssland är en presidentvalskampanj detsamma som att spela kort vid ett bord med fuskare”, skriver han.
Girkin motiverar sitt beslut med att en kampanj skulle kunna innebära att planerna på ett ”fuskval” ändå omintetgörs.
Igor Girkin har varit en högljudd förespråkare av invasionen av Ukraina men kritiserat den ryska militärledningens och president Vladimir Putins hantering av kriget.
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Igor Girkin
Wikipedia (en)
Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin (Russian: И́горь Все́володович Ги́ркин, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ˈfsʲevələdəvʲɪdʑ ˈɡʲirkʲɪn]; born 17 December 1970), also known by the alias Igor Ivanovich Strelkov (Russian: И́горь Ива́нович Стрелко́в, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ strʲɪlˈkof]), is a Russian army veteran and former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer who played a key role in the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, and later the war in Donbas as an organizer of militant groups in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).While leading a group of separatist militants into Ukraine in the 2014 Siege of Sloviansk, Girkin gained influence and attention, being appointed to the position of Minister of Defense in the Donetsk People's Republic, a puppet state of Russia.Girkin was dismissed from his position in August 2014, after 298 people died when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down. Dutch prosecutors charged Girkin and three others with murder, and issued an international arrest warrant against him. Girkin has admitted "moral responsibility" but denies pushing the button. On 17 November 2022, Girkin was found guilty for the murder of 298 people, convicted of all charges in absentia, and issued a life sentence.Girkin, a self-described Russian nationalist, was charged by Ukrainian authorities with terrorism. He has been sanctioned by the European Union, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, and Ukraine for his leading role in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.After his service in the war, Girkin returned to Russia as a political activist in 2014, reportedly believing that the "liberal clans" (liberal part of Russian elites) must be destroyed in favor of "law enforcement" ones.During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Girkin regained attention as a milblogger, taking a strong pro-war stance but fiercely criticizing the Russian military for what he saw as incompetence and "insufficiency". In October 2022, Girkin briefly joined a volunteer unit fighting against Ukrainian forces. In April 2023, Girkin, alongside some fellow Russian nationalists joined the Club of Angry Patriots, a hardline war-promoting group. On 21 July 2023, Girkin was arrested by Russian authorities on charges of extremism.
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