Re: <nettime> FSB 'dissident' voice

[Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com>]

David,

thanks for pointing this out. Quite strange, because this is the same 
person from bellingcat who shared the text in the first place, including 
some background how he checked the authenticity. Now he does not even 
mention this when discounting the document and how the media fell for it.

Felix

On 13.03.22 20:10, David Garcia wrote:
> I might be confused but I wonder if this statement at about 37 min into 
> this youtube seminar given by Christo Grozev calls the veracity of this 
> FSB dissident into question ?
>
> https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/insights-bellingcat-russias-ukraine-ambitions 
> <https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/insights-bellingcat-russias-ukraine-ambitions>
>
> I remember reading a less rough translation of this text by Igor Sushko 
> which he posted as a twitter thread which I saw as a re-tweet from 
> Felix. I remember thinking
>
> that it was too good to be true. But as I was informed the source was 
> Bellingcat this gave me hope that it might be accurate. It looks like I 
> was right to be sceptical.
>
> *--------------------------------------*
>
> Greetings nettimers after an absence of oh, two decades.
>
> I've been following a bit the last couple weeks of posts on Ukraine and 
> related subjects and there's much to meditate on. And thanks to Ted 
> Byfield for pointing me in the general direction of this discussion.
>
> I wanted to call your attention to a rather remarkable document that 
> Christo Grozev (of Bellingcat) dropped last Saturday, seemingly written 
> by an FSB 'dissident' (to the extent that such a term can be used in 
> that context):
>
> https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500196510054637569 
> <https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500196510054637569>
>
> Here's the rough-and-ready English translation:
>
> https://pastebin.com/2agMRGmd <https://pastebin.com/2agMRGmd>
>
> ...and there's a German translation in the twitter thread. Weirdly, the 
> 'voice' of the author immediately reminded me of the Scientist character 
> in Tarkovsky's /Stalker/. You know the one, he smuggled a portable nuke 
> into The Zone.
>
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