Igor Girkin: Putin is leading Russia toward "collapse"
Pariah, fugitive, and now oracle - Igor Girkin, a prominent commander of pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk and a former FSB officer, has turned his Moscow prison cell into a platform for making political predictions. Apocalyptic predictions have been made by this ultranationalist, who was given a life sentence by a Dutch court for shooting down Flight MH17 in 2014 and then detained in Russia for his scathing criticism of the Kremlin. He has claimed that Vladimir Putin is doomed, and that Russia is on the verge of "collapse."
Three weeks after a Moscow court extended Girkin's preventive custody, he came out of hiding and delivered his tirade via his attorney, an odd choice for this firebrand. A man who previously held the fictitious position of "Minister of Defense" for separatists in Donetsk,
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