Change in Russia

Nadin Brzezinski
6 min readOct 31, 2024

I was reading Telegram and came across this on Gulagu Net. It’s remarkable because it shows the Prighozin rebellion inside a prison. It’s worthy because it reveals the prison officers’ fear that this revolt would succeed. It also tells me they believed Evgeny Prighozin would work with the liberals.

This alone is of interest, but there is more. Here is the post:

With a delay of a couple of weeks, I watched the episode of Katerina Gordeeva with Evgenia and Vladimir Kara-Murza.

I recommend it to everyone.

One of the excerpts from the conversation is about Prigozhin’s rebellion in June 2023.

- I was in a two-room cell then, in a two-person cell. We woke up, and my neighbor, as always, turned on the TV. And some completely crazy things suddenly started playing on TV. Something about a state of emergency, they showed some columns of military equipment, Putin’s speech with fear in his eyes. Remember when he stands in the Kremlin against the backdrop of a wooden wall, and he just looks confused and afraid?

- It’s already in a day.

- Yes, yes, yes. But we didn’t know anything about it before. And it was very funny. It was Saturday. And on Saturdays the prison authorities are not at their workplaces. Suddenly the door opens, the officers come in, take me somewhere, bring

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB