The funeral of Vladlen Tatarsky, the nationalist blogger and military commander, who died in the April 2 attack on a St. Petersburg cafe, was held in Moscow. As reported by the Russian media, the burial chamber of the blogger, near the mercenaries of the Wagner company, was set up in the cemetery of the capital’s Troekurovsky cemetery. “Comrades-in-arms and many thoughtful citizens came to greet him,” writes the official Ria Novosti news agency, adding that “there was a long line at the entrance to the cemetery. Many of those who came couldn’t hold back their tears.” Among those who arrived to pay last respects to the ‘military blogger’ – who ran a popular Telegram channel – were also Wagner founder Evgheny Prigozhin and leader of the nationalist party Ldpr , Deputy Leonid Slutsky, who in his speech called for the reinstatement of the death penalty in Russia.
The 40-year-old blogger, born Maxim Fomin, advocated, among other things, the murder of all Ukrainians during the war with Kiev. Prigozhin thanked him «on behalf of the Wagners». “Tatarsky did a lot to allow us to go to victory and destroy the enemy,” said the contractor’s founder, without specifying which victory he was referring to in particular. Next to the coffin of the fighter-blogger, the notorious Russian mercenaries put a hammer with the words “Not for clubs, but for clubs.” Hammers were used by the Wagners to commit extrajudicial murders of captured deserters. Tatarksy was buried with full military honors, in a ceremony held amid heightened security measures. The man’s wife arrived at the cemetery with a huge escort of heavily armed men, which surprised even the Russian media. Although Tatarsky was an advocate of all-out war against Ukraine, he was also critical of Russia’s military leadership, leading some to speculate that he may have been assassinated by a state apparatus.
Source: IL Tempo

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