Bet this guy's smirking tonight...Russian rat-fucker supreme, Vladislav Surkhov:

[Leghorn21]

Surkov is a unique character in Putin’s Kremlin. Unlike many of the yes men and former security officials who surround the Russian president, he first came to prominence as a marketing man for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oligarch who would later be jailed for a decade. In 1999, he moved to the Kremlin. He almost never gives interviews, and has been shrouded in mystery over the years.

During Putin’s first decade, Surkov was known for coordinating the “matrix” of Russian politics, cultivating fake opposition parties and funding pro-Kremlin youth groups. He personally curated what was allowed on to Russia’s television screens, and was seen as the architect of “post-truth politics” where facts are relative, a version of which some have suggested has now taken hold in the west.

(my emphasis)

much more (article is from oct. '16):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/Oct/26/kremlin-puppet-masters-leaked-emails-vladislav-surkov-east-ukraine





Thanks to DUer AlexSF for teaching us about Surkov

[sinkingfeeling]

1. He looks like Rowan Atkinson, who played the Black Adder.

[monmouth4]

2. He reminds me of Manafort.n/t