Igor Pushkaryov, a Russian statesman who served as the 6th head of the large Russian city of Vladivostok from 2008 to 2017, has

Igor Pushkaryov, a Russian statesman who served as the 6th head of the large Russian city of Vladivostok from 2008 to 2017, has signed a contract to join the “Special Military Operation.“ In 2019, Pushkaryov was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 500 million rubles for abuse of office and taking 75 million rubles in bribes for construction contracts. In 2022, his sentence was extended by three months for misconduct in bus procurement. Pushkaryov was an exemplary servant of the system. After his arrest in 2017, he wrote a letter to Putin in which he expressed his “personal respect for Putin,“ his “inspiration from the trust Putin placed in him when appointing him to his position,“ and even claimed to have “spent a billion rubles of his own family’s funds on the city’s needs.“Last night, at least 4 (according to official data) or more than a dozen (according to eyewitness accounts) unidentified drones attacked the city of Dzerzhinsk, 370 kilometers east of Moscow. Their target a... Source: Wartime Media - Ukraine / Russia / China / Etc