#directorate v

[tomorrowusa]

It's difficult to comprehend how stupid Prigozhin was to think that he could still flit around Russia with impunity after his June mutiny. Working with Putin for decades somehow failed to enlighten him on the nature of his boss.

'Message Sent': Russian Elite, Nationalists On Notice After Prigozhin's Presumed Death

I may have some qualms about Wikipedia but I'll readily admit that they are good at compiling lists. This is a particularly useful one.

Suspicious deaths of Russian businesspeople (2022–2023)

Despite the title, it's not limited to people in business – though they do make up the bulk of the names. It includes politicians and anybody who might loosely be considered an opponent of Putin. If I counted correctly, there are 44 names – with Yevgeny Prigozhin and his deputy being the last two. It does not include people who were killed before the start of 2022. This shorter list from Yahoo UK does include several victims killed earlier.

Putin is running his own version of Murder Incorporated out of the Kremlin. The excellent investigative journalism site Bellingcat wrote about a branch of the FSB (successor to the KGB) which is in charge of political hits.

"V" For “Vympel”: FSB’s Secretive Department “V” Behind Assassination Of Georgian Asylum Seeker In Germany

The in-depth article concentrates on one case but there's a lot of information which details overall operations of Putin's murder bureaucracy.

Putin's old day job was a colonel in the KGB. In Soviet times the KGB and its predecessors had a department nicknamed "wet affairs" (мокрые дела) which engaged in assassinations. It engineered the murder of Leon Trotsky in Mexico.

Killing opponents is in Putin's blood. The only differences are that in this century Putin has no qualms about operating inside Russia itself and against supposed opponents who don't directly threaten him. Putin is as paranoid as Stalin.

It's puzzling to consider how Prigozhin probably knew all this but still thought he could go about his business as usual.

One lesson here is that if you are taking action against Putin, don't stop before you've completed it. The June mutiny may have succeeded if Prigozhin didn't get wet feet on the road to Moscow – and it would be Putin who had the most high profile funeral in Russia this year.

[shalida]

✨ masterpost for all of my 2021 film journal posters !!! ✨(i re-edited a bunch bc i switched from working traditionally to strictly digital nearly halfway through~) hope you like them!

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[evanpeters]

EVAN PETERS FILMOGRAPHY

EVAN PETERS as Randy in The Accomplice (Short 2017)

[uspiria]

Themes & Variations (1928) dir. Germaine Dulac

[cornsarts]

The man o war, commonly mistaken for a jellyfish, is a colonial organism made up of zooids that have different jobs in the colony. This animal has a reputation for its painful stings that can leave a human in agony for hours. Its venom is held in its tentacles that are used for hunting and paralyzing fish to eat. Despite the potent stings, there are some animals that are unaffected, such as the blue sea dragon, a kind of sea slug. These creatures feed on other animals found in the open ocean, including the man o war and other toxic siphonophores. Not only are they immune to the stings, the blue dragon stores the stinging cells from the man o war to use for its own hunting and defense.

[lascitasdelashoras]

James McTeigue - V for Vendetta

[askarsjustsoswedish]

Flashing gifs // Alexander Skarsgård – 68th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards – Los Angeles, 6 Feb ’16.  WMTV, Y/T (x)

[snowstudios1]

The Scarlet / Violet DLC is fun however I do feel robbed in one aspect of it.

Slight story spoilers below the cut

WE WERE ROBED OF THE DISASTER CREW HANGING OUT IN KITAKAMI. Clavell knew Kitakami could not handle the bullshit the disaster crew would bring and I personally think that he is very boring for thinking that.

[polarf0x]

I read my favorite Greek myths in my spare time and found inspiration. Attention! It's just AU based on the "Orfeo's Game" skin series!

[wowifinallywatched]

Tell me why I'm re-watching Saw V and tell me why I stopped on frame 0:29:23 and tell me why i cried out and I'll tell you why it's because I saw a glimpse a fucking GLIMPSE OF THE NAME ADAM STANHEIGHT AND NOW I AM SOBBING ON THE GROUND ONCE AGAIN

[g0dlyv1th4ru5]

I like to think that the Director, being from the south and undoubtedly has spent some portion of his childhood in the woods shooting beer cans, has god like accuracy. So when Alpha got his first body and found out that his aim ain't worth a shit he was just like

[valentinedussaut]

Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988)

[dantelionwishes]

Ok but, after Sada and Turo (who are pretty af in your style, oh my god) I gotta ask you... What about young Grand and Clavell??? 👀👀👀❤️

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[i-suggest-weed]

that’s a character in a mask to you

I on the other hand know their face is just like that

[uspiria]

Themes & Variations (1928) dir. Germaine Dulac

[vyeoh]

Not to sound incredibly pretentious but I am genuinely concerned with how "strong visual aesthetic" is becoming conflated automatically with "good movie". Like the nightmare scenario is that movies just look pretty while saying absolutely nothing