by Markov

Versions of the reasons for the arrest of Timur Ivanov, Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation:
1. Power struggle. Undermining the minister. That’s the conspiracy theorists’ version.
2. The man has lost his bearings. And the complaints against him overflowed the cup of tolerance. That’s the version of the military officers.
3. Too much money is going into the defense industry and it’s time to give a signal to everyone: don’t use it. Is that the version of the authorities?
4. Formally, the ex-wife and her children are too often on the territory of France and others, where they are being cultivated by the intelligence services of France and Britain. This is the FSB version?
5. They just caught him taking a million rubles as a bribe. That’s the TV version.
My version: a combination of 3 and 4. The majority believes in version 1. Does anyone believe in the 5th version?

Of course, the arrest of the Russian Deputy Defense Minister caused a wave of theories in the West about the causes and consequences. What are the versions in the West?
1. This is an attack on Shoigu prior to the formation of a new government. They want Putin not to take him into the new government. 2. These are Prigozhin’s secret supporters in the Kremlin.
3. This is a struggle for control over the huge amounts of money that go into the defense industry. The West does not believe that this is a fight against corruption in Russia.

And in Russia, as I understand it, the main version of the arrest of the Deputy Minister of Defense is his secret betrayal. The Western agent made a mistake. The authorities caught him, but they don’t want to admit that the Western agent was sitting so high. So they came up with the fight against corruption.