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[–] [email protected] 325 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 215 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Actually a legit question.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Alexei Chernykh of Russia's anti-corruption police was killed while doing garden work

Must have been Russia. They dislike anything that is anti-corruption.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'd be willing to bet that their anti-corruption police are just as corrupt as their normal police.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like to think he was killed for shaking down the normal police for bribes to cover their corruption.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’d like to think he was killed for planting the marigolds next to the petunias.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Well they are trying to free Ukraine from nazis with nazis,… so it’s kind of their m.o.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm guessing that these corruption police are just for appearances, or to be used to get rid of anything that Putin himself labels as "corruption", since they work for him.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well there's corruption that flows to you, but corruption that doesn't flow to you? You better believe that's a paddlin'.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But since everyone is corrupt in Russia, anti-corruption means you can go after whoever you want to get out of the way.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

I’m surprised he didn’t fall out of a window while mowing lawn. It’s anybody’s guess at his time.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Alexei Chernykh of Russia's anti-corruption police was killed while doing garden work at his country cottage in Shchetinovka, Russia - just 1,000ft from the Ukraine border.

If he was with the anti-corruption police, it might have been someone in the military (with access to drones) that he was investigating for corruption.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or, and this might be a crazy theory, if he was only 1k feet from the Ukrainian border, maybe, just maybe, Ukraine got him, since he would be a high profile target and Russia is currently at war with Ukraine. He worked for Putin, so despite the "anti-corruption" title, the chances of him actually going after real corruption is slim to none. "Corruption" in this case probably just means "whoever Putin is mad at atm". Even if he was killed by his own team for whatever reason, the one behind it would most likely be Putin himself.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Alexei Chernykh of Russia's anti-corruption police

Who knows but he probably had many enemies in his own team.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Man it would suck to be in any sort of military or political position there. Never knowing from day to day who you are going to piss off next or what window you are going to get pushed out of.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 162 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hope he had just started mowing, man that would suck to mow for an while then get vaporized.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t know, a lawn with just a small portion mowed and the rest standing tall? That shit would haunt me in my own afterlife.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The knife missile could take care of both problems at once.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Here's how I picture it. Half way through in the middle of the row with a 1 to 2 root crater marking the transition between the neat grass and the unmowed grass

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"phew. Last strip...blyat"

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

finishes mowing

Regular Orc: "Looks great! Just need to finish the edging with the weed-gets vaporized"

Ghost Orc realizing his edging will remain undone for eternity: blyat

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully the HOA fines out...

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Kbin showing a fucking Manga as preview is just hillarious lol

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see the KGB stopped trying to be subtle about it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure this was Ukraine. Hard to keep track, it's dangerous to work for Putin

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm guessing Ukraine or Putin doing it to make it look like Ukraine.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just to complete story:

  1. He was working at Department for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption, DCECaC(УБЭПиК) for short. Basically financial police.
  2. He was killed by bomb dropped from drone, not by kamikaze drone. It doesn't look like what Ukrainians would do.
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn’t look like what Ukrainians would do.

I've watched tons of grenade drops from drones on the old site. What about this seems like not something Ukraine would do?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because they drop grenades on their territory and use kamikaze drones on Russia. And again, financial police? They could spend grenade much better.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

TBH, I thought this was an Onion headline at first.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

In soviet Russia drone mows you - down

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Site shows a 404 with a large video ad for a money laundering scam?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you try fixing it to a link that isn't to a tabloid shitrag? 😂

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meanwhile, in Belarus, Lukashenko is reconsidering his career aspirations. Maybe being Colonel in Polish army would be safer.

Edit: wrong word fixed (bring -> being)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Not the onion

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Two can play the plausible deniability game.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Terrorist putler is cleaning house.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dudes house was a 1000 feet away from the border?

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