Grow a beard!
“Earlier in the week, [Metropolitan Pavel] cursed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, threatening him with damnation.”
Well that’s just rude.
For those who can’t follow bird app posts:
ETA
Apparently not the case
Based on this thread, it appears that earlier reports that tweets about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are deprioritized was incorrect.
BBC News - Ukraine war: Where are Russia’s opposition leaders now?
Russia’s military faction does not take criticism gracefully, including from those who support the invasion of Ukraine . See also Dugin’s daughter.
There are claims that the cafe used to be part of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s business empire. In any case, Tatarsky was tight with Wagner.
A lot of people aren’t really familiar with Tatarskiy. Unfortunately, I know quite a bit about him since I’ve been following his channel for a while now. But a quick rundown of what he was doing during the war:
- Participated in the Donbas war since 2014.
- A criminal, was in prison for bank robbery.
- A self-proclaimed “writer” (I haven’t read anything).
- Since Feb 2022, been on and off in the Donbas, often traveling back to Russia.
- Definitely felt very comfortable in the war.
- Had a sizeable TG following, was posting “Evening Vladlen” summaries to his channel every night, in addition to opinions and suggestions.
- Close associate with a number of Rascists, including RSOTM admin (Wagner group). He was indeed very close with Wagner.
- In recent months, began hosting an irregular show on Solovyev’s channel together with the creator of Rybar.
- Essentially, he was a minor superstar in the z-world, everyone knows him. While his death may not trigger a physical response, it will have a massive effect on the Russians. It already does.
“We’ll defeat everybody, kill everybody, rob everybody we need to. It will all be the way we like it,” he said in a video filmed inside the Kremlin after Russia claimed to annex four Ukrainian territories last year.
BBC News - Vladlen Tatarsky: Woman detained over killing of pro-Kremlin blogger
