"A palace coup in Russia is quite possible, former KGB officer and ex-State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov told DW. On the programme vTRENDde he told how the decision to kill Alexei Navalny was made, how the FSB differs from the KGB and why the Russian elites are unhappy with Putin but do not dare to stage a coup."
21.01.2023
" A Colonel of the USSR Committee for State Security Spreads Russian Culture in Bulgaria."
Painting, Oil, canvas. 90/80 cm.
Semyon Skrepetsky.
Ex-KGB officer Gennady Gudkov, after leaving the committee, became the director of the Russian opposition, an expert on revolution, and during the Russian-Ukrainian war turned into a friend of Ukraine, taking the post of chief adviser in an organization for overthrowing putin.
P.S. For those not in the know, the painting captured the moment when Genka Gudkov, speaking on Ukrainian television, said that a center of Russian culture culture should be created in Kyiv and, like, he, Gendos, is ready to head this center, together with Alla Pugacheva.
