Mr Putin offered no evidence for his claims, which the US dismissed as “absurd”. “If we have even one person who goes out for unauthorised riots, detain and imprison him. Both events apparently caught the Kremlin and FSB security service off-guard. It’s a failure of everyone: the domestic policy supervisors in the Kremlin, the special services and the local authorities,” an unnamed Kremlin official who formerly worked in the security services told the Moscow Times. Everyone in the Kremlin, the FSB and the interior ministry knew about it.

Source: The Irish Times October 31, 2023 21:20 UTC