Moscow culture chief is arrested
NewsThe former head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Alexander Kibovsky, has been arrested and charged with bribery and fraud. He faces up to ten years jail.
As in all such cases in Russia at present, the charges may be politically motivated.
Kibovsky, 51, is a state councillor of the Russian Federation. He was fired from his culture post ten months ago by the Mayor of Moscow.
I wonder if, before he goes to jail, he accidentally slips and falls out a twentieth floor window.
You mean, like James Le Mesurier?
I wonder who he crossed? Regardless of his culpability or no, no one should be exposed to the Russian system.
There’s currently a wave moving through the country where the remnants of normality and reality are drastically removed, because of the need to create the alternative reality as best as possible.
And meanwhile in the West there are people who think that alternative reality is really nice.
Yes, and one will soon be President of the United States.
Let’s hope not!
God forbid he wins, we have absolutely no reason to believe Trump will not act on the retribution he has promised.
US citizens, VOTE! Learn from the recent successes of the British and the French!
He is detained, not arrested.
Where, pray, do you imagine he is, detained OR arrested?
“At present”? Was it ever otherwise in Russia (or the USSR)?
In America he would be qualified as politician…ha…ha!
“As in all such cases in Russia at present, the charges may be politically motivated.” Well, they may be. They also may not be. You’re a journalist, aren’t you supposed to find things out instead of just randomly speculating?
In Russia there are no real differences between such categories. They are this or that according to political needs.
And, apparently, NL did not really read the news. In his defence, Kibovsky claimed he plans to volunteer into Russian army to fight in Ukraine. A game-changer, isn’t it?
That’s what they always say. They say that Russia is corrupted; however, when someone in Russia is arrested for corruption, they say that this may be politically motivated.
Is it just that corruption is widespread and tolerated, but with careful records kept, to be used when necessary to deal with those who fail to please, with the bonus of being able to ‘demonstrate’ that such malfeasance is robustly dealt with?
I bet he was accidentally programming some piece by Silvestrov, or Glière.