Russia’s armchair warrior? Sergei Kurginyan earns himself a meme on the Russian Internet. Images mixed by Kevin Rothrock.
Russian supporters of the insurgency in eastern Ukraine are panicking after rebels fled from their stronghold in Slovyansk last week. Igor Strelkov, the retired Russian military intelligence colonel who commands the rebel militia, has come under fire from erstwhile admirers for “surrendering” the city to national troops. On July 5, after the retreat from Slovyansk, some Russians turned on Strelkov, suddenly questioning his wisdom and even his motives.
The internecine spectacle was fodder for critics of Ukraine’s insurgency, who seized on a particularly scathing …read more
Source: Global Voices
