11/8 Khodakovsky〜wrote in aNovember6socialmedia post thatRussia had taken away control over the economy from Pushilin: “Denis is in the most unfortunate situation(..):his leadership hasbeen castrated but everybody tasks him todo everything/ Vneshtorgservis is believed tobe based in South Ossetia
11/10 Alec Luhn 微妙な記事だな… ドネツク共産党 Igor Khakimzyanov/ Another fighter said he and others had been trained in Russia by the GRU/ Last month, Mr Pushilin appointed a former Vneshtorgservis executive as deputy prime minister. The company is registered in South Ossetia,
9/30 On September 27, the SBU published an audio recording of a conversation between an assistant to Denis Pushilin, the new DPR leader, and two unknown persons, where they discussed the “replacement” of Zakharchenko as head of the DPR.
a former separatist commander who turned into an open critic during the last two years, stopped publishing social media posts in May. Taken together, all this points to a killing that might have been ordered by Moscow – but not in order to escalate or de-escalate the conflict, but rather(
Zakharchenko’s funeral became an interesting show of public support for the Donetsk separatists./ Denis Pushilin never openly criticized him, not even after he was ousted as leader of the ruling “Donetsk Republic” movement in October (see Newsletter 24). And Alexander Khodakovsky,(