Alexander Morozov: "Non-institutional tumor"

“Yes, to be honest, it seems completely realistic to me that Putin has developed over the past five years a separate non-institutional “personal service” for various “assignments,” the publicist and political scientist writes on his Facebook page.

“It operates bypassing the FSB, intelligence, FSO and other systemic structures. It began, perhaps, really with a “catering organization”, and then a hacker service and a “media factory” grew to it with all these RIAFANS and pumping news through networks , and its own private military company.

And all this together is a kind of Tonton Macoute.

Looking at “late Putinism”, at all its stylistics, at the endless lies in the eyes, there is nothing surprising in the appearance of such a personal shadow oprichnina. This happened in different forms in all such regimes - in Latin America, in the Philippines, and in Africa. This non-institutional tumor grows on its own, inevitably.”