John Laughland, partij-ideoloog van FVD, is weer eens in 🇷🇺. Gisteren sprak hij op het SPIEF - het 'Russische WEF' - naast oud-wapeninspecteur Scott Ritter en Russisch viceminister van BuZa Aleksandr Pankin. Voor wie niet ter plekke kon zijn, hier de 📹: https://t.co/dw0VcyNsJT
“Godfather Don Corleone zou er jaloers op zijn: al 35 jaar komt Poetin weg met misdaad en moord,” zo opent @HSalemon haar nieuwe boek, waarin ze beschrijft hoe de Russische president zich als grijze KGB-muis kon ontpoppen tot dictator van Rusland.
https://t.co/4H6fL7D92q
Terwijl Poetin met zijn bizarre 'Peterburgs Economisch Forum' goede sier probeert te maken, nodigt Zelenski hem uit te praten over een eind aan de oorlog. Waar kijken we naar? Mijn commentaar vanochtend op @NPO1 : https://t.co/woMRpbaraJ
Ruslandkenner @HSalemon is in tegengstelling tot Donald Trump weinig optimistisch door de brief van Zelensky aan Poetin. "Poetin ziet Zelensky niet als gesprekspartner. Het ziet er nog niet naar uit dat het een doorbraak is." #GoedemorgenNederland#WNL
@RPJ_Hendriks Dank Ruud, Ik was ook heel blij met dit interview, je merkt dat de journaliste (Joanie de Rijke) zelf goed is ingevoerd in de materie. Ze heeft heel mooi mijn huidige analyse van Poetins Rusland opgesomd.
Voor wie hem heeft gemist, afgelopen week was ik te gast in de podcast van Claudia de Breij, over mijn boek , onze democratie en Poetins Rusland, èn over hoe ik mijn goede humeur bewaar in deze woelige tijden: https://t.co/tteXSAImiV
In haar boek 'Poetins Rusland in vijf moorden' beschrijft Rusland expert @HSalemon de meest geruchtmakende moordzaken rond het Kremlin: wie ze uitvoerden en hoe de opdrachten werden gegeven. @bbvpro sprak haar over het boek en Poetins positie vandaag.
https://t.co/SzUqW8EoVA
Hartelijk dank voor de overweldigende belangstelling van iedereen hier voor mijn boek 'Poetins Rusland in vijf moorden'. Het is al na een halve maand aan een tweede druk toe! Dus, ik hoop dat de mensen die het nog willen aanschaffen en misgrijpen, even geduld willen hebben.
@vatniksoep_nl@sportwereldhbo Wat leuk, dank voor de belangstelling. Als hij het hier bestelt en vraagt om een gesigneerd exemplaar, komt het in orde (er komt een tweede druk aan, dus kan twee weken duren): https://t.co/inl5Al8Y7x
Ben Shapiro says that famous American political commentators like Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson promoting Vladimir Putin’s ideas is an actual threat to America.
What about Donald Trump promoting Putin’s ideas? 🤔
"Putin's Russia in Five Murders": Journalist Helga Salemon Presents Book in Amsterdam
The book launch of Dutch journalist and researcher Helga Salemon, who worked at the Dutch Embassy in Moscow from 2007 to 2010, took place on Friday evening at the Pegasus publishing house bookstore. Founded back in 1935 to publish Marxist literature, Pegasus today specializes in Eastern and Central European culture.
The presentation, which drew around 50 people, was attended by Dutch actors and journalists, including Eva Jinek, a well-known journalist and host of the evening political talk show "Eva." The event also featured a speech by Oleg Khomutinnikov, director of SOTA Media, a former Lipetsk lawmaker, and a member of the leadership of Open Russia, who emigrated to the Netherlands in 2021. Against the backdrop of the book's themes, he was asked whether he feels safe in the Netherlands.
"People like Garry Kasparov are probably at the top of Putin's lists?" Salemon asked.
"As long as he is alive, I can feel safe," Oleg joked.
Salemon immediately warned the guests that, unlike her first book, "Russian Devastation," which was based on personal and at times tragicomic stories about Russia, her new work is heavy. "This is a book about darkness and tragedy," she said. Nevertheless, the author tried to maintain a sense of irony even during the presentation. She joked that the bookstore's cramped and stuffy hall helped the guests get a better feel for the book's atmosphere. Salemon recalled the chapter on Sergei Magnitsky, who was held in a cell so overcrowded that at one point he could only stand on one leg.
The book focuses on five deaths linked to the Putin era: journalist Anna Politkovskaya, politician and—as the author calls him—"Yeltsin's crown prince" Boris Nemtsov, former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and Yevgeny Prigozhin.
According to Salemon, through the stories of these five murders, the reader walks, as it were, through the "dark corridors of the Kremlin" and begins to understand how Putin's Russia functions. At the same time, the book shows how Western leaders chose to ignore these killings for the sake of doing business with Russia.
In a comment to Sota, Salemon explained that she did not include the death of Navalny in the book because readers are better informed about it than the other deaths, and furthermore, they could have previously learned about those events through his book "Patriot."
A special place in Salemon's speech was dedicated to the story of Anna Politkovskaya. Salemon recalled how in 2005 she met the journalist in this very bookstore during a presentation of the book "Putin's Russia" and asked her for an autograph. "And when on October 7, 2006, on Putin's birthday, I read that Politkovskaya had been shot dead in her apartment building, I got goosebumps," the journalist said. It was then, according to her, that the idea for the future book began to take shape.
Concluding her speech, Salemon said that she views her book not only as an account of crimes and violence but also as a story of heroes and villains. "The villains will remain villains. And heroes never die," she said, referring to Politkovskaya, Litvinenko, Magnitsky, and Nemtsov. Salemon emphasized that today there are still Russians who continue to fight for a democratic Russia despite the threats and risks.
At the same time, we asked the publishing house employees if books by Russian writers had been "canceled" in the Netherlands. "No," one of the employees laughed. "People continue to buy Russian books. And, you know, bad publicity works too."
In de Belgische krant @demorgen vandaag een interview met mij over mijn boek 'Poetins Rusland in vijf moorden' en de vraag hoe stevig Poetin nog in het zadel zit na ruim vier jaar heilloze oorlog: https://t.co/Sal5AIEXUb