The statement was the Kremlin's first explicit acknowledgement that he may have been assassinated.
  • entropicshart@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you think about it, this really is the best way for him to get out of the spotlight for the coup attempt.

    Plane crashed, everything is burnt to shit, some official list says he was on it, some poor blokes remains get buried, and he moves on living under a different name

    • The dogspaw @midwest.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There is zero chance he’s still alive everyone saw the videos before the coup no way he stays quiet if he’s still alive

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    MOSCOW, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that investigators were considering the possibility that the plane carrying mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was downed on purpose, the first explicit acknowledgement that he may have been assassinated.

    The plane crashed exactly two months since Prigozhin took control of the southern city of Rostov in late June, the opening salvo of a mutiny which shook the foundations of President Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

    Russia has informed Brazil’s aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer (EMBR3.SA) jet under international rules “at the moment”, the Brazilian agency told Reuters.

    The day after the crash, Putin sent his condolences to the families of those killed and said he had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the chaotic years of the early 1990s.

    The Kremlin has rejected as an “absolute lie” the suggestion by some Western politicians and commentators - for which they have not provided evidence - that Putin ordered Prigozhin to be killed in revenge.

    Followers of Prigozhin laid flowers, messages and poetry at his grave on Wednesday, hailing him as a fearless warrior.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If you type it like this you can imbed: ![](link)

      Although it looks like your link goes to a page, rather than directly to the file. The link for that is https://media.tenor.com/sLU0qs_Oa30AAAAd/patrick-star.gif so we can imbed with that as ![](https://media.tenor.com/sLU0qs_Oa30AAAAd/patrick-star.gif)

      • motorwerks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Doing the (insert omnipotent being here)'s work! In these situations I always wonder if there’s a page, or something, that I should know about that describes all kinds of format/syntax requirements in 1 place. So, ugh, does that exist?

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Not that I’m aware of lol. Obviously the main thing lemmy uses is Markdown, but I think the syntax is expanded for links and such. Like, there’s also the various ways you can link to communities and users - some are instance agnostic, some aren’t.

          • /c/community@instance - will create an instance agnostic community link.
          • !community@instance - will also create an instance agnostic community link.
          • /u/user@instance - will create an instance agnostic user link, but will not send a mention to the user’s inbox.
          • @user@instance - typing on the website pops up a dropdown box that allows you to select the user, when you click it generates the code [@user@instance](https://instance/u/user), which is not agnostic (it’s in the user’s instance) but does send a mention to the user.
          • ![accesssibility text](image link) will create an imbedded image.

          The first 3 can be a little hit and miss, as they don’t use actual link code but instead rely on the instance or app to generate the link. Lemmy instances running v0.18 and above have this function, with apps it varies more.

          There’s also currently no easy way to link individual comments or posts across instances. Each lemmy instance assigns each post and comment a number, but every instance assigns a unique number so none of them line up. I’m hoping that eventually they’ll just let the first instance decide the number, then every other instance could use number@instance for their copy.