FROM TIME TO TIME, ONE NEEDS TO EXPOSE OUR — WELL NOT OURS [WE DON'T HAVE ANY], BUT THAT OF OUR GOVERNMENT[s] — HYPOCRISY... FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU NEED TO BE FED, LIKE THE DOG OF THE FABLE, YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED TO BE TIED UP TO POLICIES THAT ARE — LET'S BE FRANK — REVOLTING AND DEGRADING...

IN THE FABLE, THE LONE WOLF STARVES... IN THE WILD, THE WOLF IS INDEPENDENTLY SMART...

SO WHAT ARE THE POLICIES AUSTRALIA HAS TO BE TIED UP WITH?: AUKUS, AMERICA'S PRESIDENT LOONITUDE, ENGLAND'S KISSING OF ZELENSKY's BUTT... EUROPE's FASCSIM, ETC.

AMONGST ALL THIS, ARE TWO MAIN CONTRADICTIONS:

FIRST, CHINA IS OUR BEST CUSTOMER BUT WE HAVE TO HATE IT, TO PLEASE OUR US MASTERS...

SECOND, WE HATE RUSSIA BECAUSE OF UKRAINE/MI6/CIA./DEEP-STATE DIS-INFORMATION, BUT WE ALSO WOULD LIKE TO HATE TRUMP BECAUSE HE CUDDLES TO PUTIN [IT'S A DISHONEST TRICK BUT PUTIN PLAYS THE GAME] AND WE CAN'T HATE TRUMP ALOUD WITHOUT LOSING CASH [HIT WITH TARIFFS] AND BEING TREATED OF TREACHERY BY THE DECEITFUL MEDIA AT LARGE.

IN EUROPE, IT'S THE SAME...

EVEN THE CONTROVERSIAL CHARLIE HEBDO IS MAIN-STREAM WHEN IT COMES TO CHINA AND RUSSIA. MACRONLEON LOVES IT. IT GIVES HIM CRED...

CHARLIE HEBDO HATES "POUTINE" BEYOND HATE... SO IT POSTS ABOUT ILYA REMESLO, THIS WEEK [30/10/2026]...:

 

Portrait. Ilya Remeslo, Putin’s lackey who fancies himself an Alexei Navalny

For ten years, lawyer and blogger Ilya Remeslo lent his talents to the Kremlin, helping it track down opponents of the regime. But on March 17, 2026, this staunch loyalist suddenly realized that Vladimir Putin might not be the best guarantor of Russia’s future. After calling for the Russian president’s departure, the man who once served as an instrument of state repression has been standing trial in St. Petersburg since October 27. Accused of spreading "false information about the army," he faces a potential ten-year prison sentence.

In Vladimir Putin’s Russia—where the autocratic instincts of the tsars blend with repressive methods inherited from the Stalinist era—challenging those in power comes at a high price, even for someone who long helped to silence such dissent. Ilya Remeslo knows this all too well: for about a decade, this burly Russian lawyer and blogger placed his skills at the Kremlin’s disposal, filing numerous complaints and supporting prosecutions against dissident voices. Among his most prominent targets was Alexei Navalny, Putin’s primary opponent, who died in custody in February 2024.

The man, now in his forties, was the quintessential regime enabler—zealous enough to denounce the authorities' enemies, and sufficiently well-entrenched to believe his own devotion would keep him safe. A rookie mistake. In the grand "Putin family," loyalty is a one-way street: after years of helping the regime crush others... ETC...

 

ONE CAN FOLLOW THE TRAIL ON THE MEDUZA WEBSITE:

A longtime pro-Putin blogger published a tirade against the Russian president. Now he’s in a psychiatric hospital.

March 21, 2026, 12:06 am

Ilya Remeslo, a longtime pro-Kremlin blogger known for filing complaints against critics of the Russian authorities, made waves in the country this week when he published a Telegram post titled “Five reasons why I stopped supporting Vladimir Putin.” Days later, he was reported to have been hospitalized at a St. Petersburg psychiatric facility. Here’s what we know about Remeslo’s about-face.

According to the Telegram channel Baza, Remeslo was placed in the 16th ward at Skvortsov-Stepanov Psychiatric Hospital No. 3, which specializes in first-onset psychosis in male patients. Pro-war blogger Aleksandr Kartavykh, who first reported the hospitalization, claimed this is not Remeslo’s first time in a psychiatric facility: he was allegedly hospitalized in a different clinic about a year ago. Two sources also told Meduza the same.

The initial reports of the blogger’s hospitalization triggered speculation on Telegram about punitive psychiatry, particularly given that the Skvortsov-Stepanov hospital was used to commit Soviet-era dissidents. But bloggers and journalists later noted that members of Remeslo’s family work in psychotherapy and psychiatry. Some commentators, including pro-war bloggers, concluded that Remeslo may have checked himself in to avoid criminal prosecution following his posts critical of Putin.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/03/20/days-ago-a-longtime-pro-putin-blogger-published-a-tirade-against-the-russian-president-now-he-s-in-a-psychiatric-hospital?

 

QUESTION: WHY WOULD CHARLIE HEBDO POST ABOUT REMESLO NOW — SIX MONTHS AFTER THE "EVENT"? 

ANSWER: PUTIN AND RUSSIA ARE WINNING ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND ON DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS. THIS WOULD BE DISTURBING FOR A EUROPE READYING ITSELF TO HAVE A FULL-ON WAR AGAINST RUSSIA BEFORE 2030. PUTIN'S DOUMA WON FAIR RECENT ELECTIONS, BY A LARGE MARGIN AGAIN. 

QUESTION: WAS REMESLO GENUINE ABOUT HELPING THE PUTIN "REGIME"? OR WAS HE PREPARING FOR A SWITCH WHEN HE COULD PISS ON PUTIN? 

ANSWER: THIS IS THE LIFE OF DOUBLE-AGENTS....

QUESTION:IS THE SITE MEDUZA HONEST?

ANSWER:

BY KIT KLARENBERG
Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions.

After fervently denying that they relied on financial support from the US government, the supposedly “independent” Russian language paper Meduza has been thrown into existential crisis following the Trump administration’s pause on foreign development assistance...

Alexey Kovalev, a self-described “Russian journalist currently living in exile for fear of persecution back home,” had spent much of his career at Meduza, the leading opposition media outlet in Russia. Since leaving the paper under mysterious circumstances in the summer of 2023 and relocating to London, Kovalev has split time writing commentaries for Foreign Policy and attacking reporters at The Grayzone, whom he has falsely painted as Russian assets, while calling for their imprisonment.

“The Grayzone is Russia’s US-based disinformation laundromat,” Kovalev ranted in a July 2024 blog post. “This conspiracy blog’s founders, Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal, help the Kremlin disseminate its false narratives in exchange for favors from a senior Russian government official Dmitry Polyansky, the country’s deputy ambassador to the UN. They act as unregistered foreign agents and should be investigated by the Department of Justice for possible FARA violations.”

Nearly every word Kovalev wrote was false; The Grayzone has no financial or political relationship with the Russian government, and none of its reporters have received favors from Polyansky or any other Russian official. 

Now that the self-exiled troll’s former employers at Meduza have been plunged into a financial crisis by the Trump administration’s pause on foreign development assistance, Kovalev’s smears of The Grayzone have been exposed as an exceedingly embarrassing exercise in projection.  

As The New York Times reported this February 26, grants from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly accounted for 15% of the outlet’s budget. So while The Grayzone accepts no foreign state support, it turns out that Meduza can not survive for a day without a constant cash infusion from its government sponsors in Washington. 

Meduza’s covert US funding was revealed in a New York Times article lamenting the Trump administration’s dramatic cuts in funding for various US-financed destabilization and regime change programs across the world. According to the Times, the cuts to USAID could potentially damage Meduza’s operations more than “cyberattacks, legal threats and even poisonings of its reporters.”

The outlet went on to note that while a handful of other Western countries like Germany and Norway “contribute to independent media,” their share is “tiny in comparison with American funding.” Simultaneously, “many traditional media supporters” – including the CIA-connected Ford Foundation, and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, a “giant grant maker” – have “abandoned much of [their] media funding.” A Columbia University lecturer complained the Trump administration’s aid pause was “really a blood bath.”

While a 2021 investigation by The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal revealed several grants and pledges of assistance from NATO states to Meduza, the outlet’s leadership fervently denied any suggestion of foreign sponsorship. The new revelations by the Times reveal Russia’s top opposition outlet as anything but the “independent” paper they marketed to the public.

Leaked UK files suggest Meduza’s role as NATO state-backed project

Rumors about Meduza’s Western funding have swirled since its creation in October 2014, after its founder, Galina Timchenko, was fired from one of Russia’s most popular news portals for publishing an interview with the leader of Western-backed Ukrainian fascist paramilitary group, Right Sector. That same month, Meduza cofounder Ivan Kolpakov flatly refused to reveal the outlet’s funding sources in discussions with Western media:

“I can’t tell you whether those financing the Meduza Project are Russian or foreign. There’s a huge discussion about our investors among Russian journalists, with some saying we have to tell people who they are. Yes, in a fairer world we probably should, but not in Russia in 2014. We have to protect our product and we have to protect our investors.”

A leak of sensitive British Foreign Office files obtained by The Grayzone in early 2021 contained clear indications that the outlet was funded by Western governments. The documents named Meduza as one of the “specific outlets” whose “viability… as long term partners” was being assessed as part of a broader clandestine effort by London to “weaken the Russian state’s influence.” Several veteran-run contractors charged with achieving this goal named the publication as an ideal conduit for anti-Kremlin propaganda.

Chief among these shady groups was a psyop specialist firm called the Zinc Network. In confidential submissions to the British government, Zinc noted that it was “delivering audience segmentation and targeting support” to both Meduza and MediaZona, another supposedly independent outlet launched by US-funded anti-Putin provocateurs Pussy Riot. Zinc stated, “the outlets lack the expertise and tools to understand their audience profiles or consumption habits, and to therefore promote content effectively to new audiences.”

A separate submission stated Zinc Network was “supporting Russian language media outlets across Eastern Europe by developing audience growth strategies,” under the auspices of a “pioneering media development programme for USAID,” strongly indicating its cloak-and-dagger collaboration with Meduza was financed by Washington. Elsewhere, the contractor committed to providing intensely intimate assistance to all its Russian assets, including “counselling and mental health support.” This was inspired by the politically motivated June 2019 arrest of Meduza reporter Ivan Golunov, for which law enforcement officials involved were fired.

The same document also contained a pledge to “increase search ranking and visibility” of media platforms like Meduza, by teaching them search engine optimization techniques, as well as “paid search activity for priority phrases” training in order to direct people searching for the phrase “news in Russian” away from RT. Fittingly, in a dig at the Russian state broadcaster, Meduza adopted the slogan “The Real Russia, Today,” sarcastically tweaking RT’s former name.

At the time, this journalist submitted questions to Kolpakov, as well as then-Meduza investigations editor Alexey Kovalev, about the documents suggesting NATO state support for their outlet. In one email correspondence, Kovalev alleged Meduza was financed purely by online advertising revenue from “high profile clients,” supposedly even including the Kremlin itself. 

 

Albany expressed particular interest in Meduza’s online games, which “encourage participation through social media and mobile platforms” and “embrace political themes (e.g. “Putin Bingo,” “help Putin get to his meeting with the Pope on time” and “help the Orthodox priest get to his church without succumbing to earthly pleasures”).

The contractor hoped to assist the outlet in creating more online games, “the aim [being] to create content which is good enough to have a pull effect amongst Russian-speaking youth” in Moscow’s near abroad. Ultimately, the aim was to create “satirical games” which would demonstrate the superiority of Western European culture over Russia’s, or as (they put it) that “the offer of a fairer, respectful, and caring society is better than that of an arrogant, nationalistic regime.”

It is uncertain if this British-financed sponsorship materialized. However, these disclosures led to Meduza being labelled a “foreign agent” by Russian authorities. The outlet complained that on top of being compelled to report all the website’s income and expenses to Moscow’s Justice Ministry, the classification also had the potential to damage Meduza’s advertising revenue. The label was slammed as a gross attack on independent media by Western press rights groups, and the European Union. 

These days, Meduza apparently needs all the overseas financial help it can get. As the NY Times noted, Meduza was just one “of hundreds of newsrooms in dozens of countries” collectively raking in $180 million annually in funding from USAID, the State Department, and the National Endowment for Democracy to “support journalism and media development.” 

“Kill all the bad people”: diaries of a madman

With its financial pipeline to Washington severed by the Trump administration, mass layoffs at Meduza seem inevitable. Meanwhile, after spending months falsely accusing Grayzone reporters of serving as Russian assets, the former Meduza reporter Kovalev has gradually descended into a state of apparent madness.

In a widely ridiculed Telegram post on February 13, 2025, Kovalev declared that one of his goals for 2025 was to “kill all the bad people… and oppress our enemies,” declaring, “I will need the help of the community.”

The “bad people,” he explained, were not just the Russian nationalists who follow Putin, but those among his liberal opponents who had grown weary of the Ukraine proxy war, and begun calling for a settlement to end the killing. “These are worse than the [Russian nationalists]… But it is good that it is becoming crystal clear. All the whores felt they could no longer hide, and are exposing themselves. But we will not forget and will not forgive. Stay tuned.”

Weeks later, as the lights flickered off at Meduza, Kovalev locked his Twitter/X account and continued his increasingly ravings within the confines of his digital “community.” Foreign Policy has not yet responded to a request for comment on its contributor’s call to “kill all the bad people.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/03/18/independent-russia-outlet-us-funding-slashed/

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