ISW: Russia was allowed to criticize Putin, but not everyone

certain persons in Russia will be able to criticize the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the highest echelons of the authorities of the Russian Federation, consider the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

American analysts ascertain that the head of the private military company Wagner Evgeny Prigozhin and others, as the former leader of the Donbass separatists Igor Strelkov-Girkin, are becoming more bold in their verbal attacks on the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Kremlin and the President of the Russian Federation. P>

“Prigozhin directly attacked the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin and hinted that some officials who work there are traitors who want Russia to lose the war in Ukraine. This is one of Prigozhin’s most daring attacks on the Kremlin today. .. Prigozhin and others … Russian nationalists, such as Igor Girkin, … open a new sector in the Russian information space, where certain figures can criticize Putin and the highest echelons of the Russian government without any visible retaliation, ”analysts say.

According to analysts, Putin decided not to censor the statement of these persons for a long time.