Fake Kremlin propaganda: Leonid Volkov persuaded Navalny to return, knowing that it would end in a prison

The Brief Telegram channel published a “quote” from Leonid Volkov’s book, where he allegedly admitted that he persuaded Alexei Navalny to return to Russia after treatment in Germany, knowing what this return would turn out to.

The Brief message is a repost from the less famous Telegram channel Rokot, where the comment ends with such an assessment of the Volkov figure:

"What a petty creature."

Volkov answered this on Twitter:

Comments Volkov Publishing Brief as follows:

“An impressive story. The Brief telegram channel (half a million subscribers, by the way, is still the legendary “journalist” Katya Vinokurova) publishes a sensation: Leonid Volkov in his book Putinland admitted that he persuaded Navalny to return to Russia. Curses screenshots, all the way.

A strikingly clumsy fake.

1) Firstly, the fake phrase simply does not fall in meaning (the calculation for the fact that few people read in German?),

2) Secondly, well, the book is freely sold, including electronic form, you can see and compare in two clicks,

3) Thirdly (and in the most funny), the fakeodes managed to write Alexey (everywhere in the book German transcription-Alexei) was adopted, which immediately gives them out with his head. In our century, artificial intelligence and diphses, it is not to be able to take a picture of the line on a sheet of the book!

But, of course, this does not stop anyone-I am already in the chat of classmates (!) Of my native Sverdlovsk “German” 37th school, they say, “How could you write this”. ”

The fake phrase is really inserted into the text of Volkov’s book so that it looks completely inappropriate in the paragraph regarding a completely different topic. Judge for yourself (the fake fragment is highlighted by a fat italics):

“I was a witness to the collapse of the Russian legal state, being next to Alexei Navalny, the founder of the strongest opposition movement of Russia. For the past ten years, we have fought for creating a counterweight to this system. We worked on political structures that would accelerate the development of a democratic society after Putin's death. When I persuaded Alexei to return to Russia, I deep down I knew that he would forever sit in prison. I hope Alexey knew this too.

Much of what we planned was not possible, because Putin is still in power. But our work was not meaningless. I would like to talk about how deeply the Russian society has changed over the past ten years, and that we, in spite of everything, can look at the post -Putin era with optimism. It seems to me that I can show that Russia after Putin does not expect new chaos, as after the collapse of the USSR, that there will be no new dictatorship. ”

The creators of the fake, consisting of only two sentences, could not even write the name of Navalny equally in them: first it is called Alexei, then Alexey.

After Twit, Volkova, Ekaterina Vinokurova, recognized the publication of the BREEF channel fake and even apologized to Volkov, but in a rather peculiar way:

The Brief channel (previously called “Brief Nezigar”) is anonymous, from his authors only Vinokurov, who came there when the channel was already existing. In March 2023, Svetlana Reuters from Medusa and Irina Pankratova from The Bell in an article on the activities of PRAR Rostec in Telegram classified to the Rostec network and this channel. In July 2023, “important stories” wrote that the Channel Administrator was the FSB Colonel Mikhail Polyakov, who, however, was detained for attempts to blackmail politicians and businessmen. As of February 5, 2024, Brief 500 696 subscribers; However, it is not known whether this is the real amount or it is obtained using wrappers.

Nobody and the non -confirmed version, according to which Volkov persuaded Navalny to return, is distributed on the Internet almost from the first days after his return and arrest, but fake recognition thought only now.

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