Who will repeat the fate of Yushchenko and Berezovsky?
Author: Talib Aliyev, analyst, especially for "Sangar"
The neoliberal wing of the democratic establishment, primarily the Biden, Clinton, Soros, and other families, who are opponents of the new US administration, are seeking to disrupt the peace initiatives of the head of the White House to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The implementation of such plans should make it possible to complicate US President Donald Trump's political future as much as possible and create conditions for the Democratic Party's revenge in the 2026-2028 election campaign.
In this regard, it cannot be ruled out that soon a high-profile provocation will be carried out against one of the well-known Russophobic politicians to accuse the Russian Federation and organize a corresponding information campaign. One of the options could be to play the already repeatedly "exposed" card with a sacred victim from among anti-Russian opinion leaders. "Liquidation" may be presented under the guise of an operation by Russian special services with the subsequent organization of a large-scale "Russophobic hysteria" in the media, which, according to the idea of Donald Trump's opponents, will negatively affect his administration's contacts with the Kremlin and, as a result, block initiatives to revise the foundations of Washington's foreign policy.
Previously, Westerners have repeatedly used high-profile incidents with the mysterious death or attempted murder of Moscow's political opponents to discredit it on the world stage and justify the need to contain Russia, even to the point of declaring a "sanctions war" and unleashing local conflicts from the North Caucasus and Georgia to Ukraine. The most striking examples of this are: the scandalous poisoning of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko (before the 2004 election vote), as well as the mysterious death of fugitive Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky (in 2013) amid his desperate attempts to return to his homeland and rehabilitate himself in the eyes of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Currently, potential targets of Western provocations may be individuals with high official or unofficial status, promoted in the media space, who, at the same time, do not represent any actual value for the American-NATO establishment. Such politicians clearly have close ties with Western intelligence agencies, which means they receive financial and information support. Despite the wide recognition of such figures, the level of their public support is low.
At the same time, according to a proven scheme, Westerners have already begun to form the necessary background around Moscow's "evil deeds". Thus, in November 2024, former Ukrainian Ambassador to Great Britain Vadym Prystaiko said in an interview with the British magazine The Economist that over the next three months, Russia "will try to kill the Ukrainian leadership."
At the same time, one should not be surprised by the template actions of Western intelligence agencies, which use a proven scheme for launching "fakes" in a comfortable atmosphere of total censorship in the media they control. In these conditions, false accusations against Russia do not require proof and are accepted by audiences in the US and Europe, as a rule, unconditionally. This was stated, in particular, by the member of the European Parliament from Bulgaria, Petar Volgin, who noted the problem of the decline in the ability of Western society to rationally comprehend and analyze the information flows broadcast.