Former Moscow Officials Reveal Why They’re Laughing at Putin Now

Citizens of Russia have become the captive audience of a dystopian “comedy club” run by the government, according to some former Moscow officials.

And the Kremlin, it appears, is not in on the joke.

The Russian president declared last week that beer in Prague, where a summit between Kremlin critics recently took place, contains “female sex hormones” and called the opposition officials who met there “half-wits.” On the same day, his best friend Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Security Council and former KGB hardliner, warned of a deadly “radioactive cloud that is now moving towards Western Europe” from Ukraine.

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