Has an order been given for the physical removal of Andrei Piontkovsky?

I have known Andrei Andreevich Piontkovsky since last fall, when we met first in Tula, then in Moscow as candidates for elections to the Constitutional Court. At my request, Andrei Andreevich even helped me - he acted as a partner during the debate on the ONLINETY channel ("Networker"). An amazing person, a true democrat of the first wave. Democrat without any quotation marks, interlocutor of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. The brightest publicist, thinker, strategist, “think tank” of the Opposition Coordination Council, leader of the group of “republicans” in the Constitutional Court, which opposes the so-called. “loyalists” who are ready, as they usually write, to “leave the protest” and “reform” the political system together with the godfather of Ksenia Sobchak. Or just the Godfather.

It was Andrei Andreevich who wrote the strategic calls for a “peaceful anti-criminal revolution” and “peaceful dismantling of the existing corrupt government.” It was he who proposed developing a “Road Map” for this dismantling. That is, the tactics of transition from dictatorship to a parliamentary republic, which included the idea of ​​​​providing compensation to the top criminals (oligarchy) in the form of a “thieves' ship” (cf. Stalin’s “philosophical ship”). As an option.

And today a very alarming message appears from the famous citizen journalist, host of the Internet program “Politvestnik” Sasha Sotnik.

Here it is. I apologize for quoting verbatim, but it's important.

“As I just learned from a person who had a private conversation with a certain FSO lieutenant colonel on Saturday, February 9, the special services are preparing an operation to eliminate Andrei Piontkovsky.

Transcript of my correspondence.

Sotnik: Please quote what exactly you heard. I just spoke with Piontkovsky...

N: Literally... There is a person who wrote about the Thief's Steamship... It was ordered... Period.

Centurion: When, where and under what circumstances did you hear this? What rank is this FSO officer? This is not curiosity, this is important.

N: In a confidential home environment. Lieutenant Colonel, Saturday 9 February.

Sotnik: Was it in Moscow?

N: Yes.

I don’t even ask the “specialists” for comments, because I know that they know how to lie. I’ll just say that the time before last, when Melekhin and I came to Andrei Andreevich’s house to record a program with him, there was a minibus right in front of the entrance to his house (with FSB license plates, for some reason located near Moscow), with an antenna for wiretapping. When we finished recording the interview, Dima remembered this car and told A.A. that he is probably being herded. Piontkovsky went out onto the balcony and saw this car. A few minutes later we left the entrance, the car was no longer there (7 minutes passed)."

http://asotnik.livejournal.com/839167.html

I still have no reason not to believe the Sotnik. What is this? Surely this is a "drain". For what? My version is to intimidate Piontkovsky (as they already tried to do with Yashin). But Andrei Andreevich is not the kind of person who can be intimidated by such a “leak.” It is very difficult to take and imprison a politician, a friend of Sakharov, whom the world knows. The noise will be terrible. It's best for him to "disappear." This is not Grandfather Hasan. A sniper won't help here. But “a strange janitor hitting you on the head with the handle of a shovel,” or “a random passer-by hitting you with a tire iron hidden in a bag” is very simple.

Therefore, I think that the reaction of both the Coordination Council and the Opposition Expert Council (of which A.A. is a member) should be immediate.

How can I help?

— Maximum publicity of this organized “leak.”

— The possibility of the opposition providing A.A. Piontkovsky is given modest personal security in case of his possible encounters with strange “janitors and other plumbers.”

Valery Otstanovnykh, member of the ESO.