In mid-October, the editor and owner of Moscow’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Konstantin Remchukov, gave an interview with the BBC on the internal dangers now building in Russia.
Remchukov, whose paper remains the only major media outlet that still manages to criticize the Russian regime, said that his chief concern was not his arrest for something his paper wrote, nor even Russia’s ultimate victory or defeat in Ukraine. Instead, he explained, his biggest worry is the growing number of heavily armed formations that are essentially parallel military establishments within Russia itself — a situation created wholly by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his attempt to find bodies to throw into the Ukrainian meat grinder.
