Russian Naziism. Plain and unvarnished.
Petro Andriushchenko
Head of Center for the Study of the Occupation I Керівник Центру вивчення окупації I Consultant & Analyst
Interregional Academy of Personnel Management Center for the Study of the Occupation I Центр вивчення окупації
Ukraine
June 23, 2025
Night. Kyiv. Again.
4 killed. 13 injured. Among them — two children and a pregnant woman.
A combined Russian strike on “military” Kyiv. Another act of terror.
And all this — almost simultaneously with Russia’s speech at the UN.
Russia was indignantly condemning the strikes on… Iran.
Yes, the very same Iran that supplies Russia with Shahed drones, missiles, and ammunition for attacks on Kyiv.
This is what the apotheosis of Russian cynicism looks like.
When a terrorist complains about threats — to its partner in crime.
And the world still listens.
Video here :
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Occupied Dependents: Why Russia Is Handing Out Perks in the Occupied Territories
The Russian State Duma has passed a draft law in its first reading that exempts the company “Yediny Zakupshchik”(“Unified Purchaser”) from paying VAT until 2028. This company supplies electricity to the temporarily occupied territories — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
But this isn’t about operational costs — it’s about direct budget subsidies to cover losses from deliberately lowered electricity tariffs.
What does this mean?
First of all, it confirms a direct subsidy model for maintaining the occupation.
The bill explicitly acknowledges that energy supply to the occupied territories is economically unprofitable.
That is:
local electricity tariffs are significantly lower than market rates;
the entire shortfall is covered by Russia’s federal budget.
🟡 In other words, Russia isn’t expecting these territories to be financially self-sustaining — at least not until 2028.
This is a textbook case of imperial-colonial financing — where politically valuable land is subsidized despite the economic absurdity of doing so.
No integration, just containment
All of this points to a deliberate stalling of any real integration.
Instead of fostering local budgets or enabling economic self-sufficiency, Moscow is creating a privileged subsidy bubblefor the occupied zones.
These areas aren’t being merged into Russia’s economic system — they’re being held apart as isolated, manually controlled financial enclaves.
In return, local governance, business, and even the population are stripped of any leverage or influence.
This isn’t about electricity — it’s about control.
This is the social contract of occupation, Russian-style:
“We give you cheap electricity — you stay quiet.”
What we’re seeing is a repressive-subsidy model,
where benefits replace freedom,
and handouts replace the future.
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In Mariupol, Russian military personnel have started being temporarily housed in newly built mortgage-financed residential complexes.
What an elegant solution — using their own “Russians” as a human shield.
An interesting trend.
For now, we’re seeing this happening en masse along Metallurgiv Avenue, in the so-called “Leningradsky” housing complex.
But as always — it all starts small…
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How do the Russians conceal the number of Mariupol residents they’ve killed? Simple — by turning the cemetery into an abandoned wasteland.
Give it a couple more years like this, and no one will be able to see, find, or even remember that this was once the burial site of tens of thousands murdered by Russia.
Total decay as a tactic of erasure.
This is Russian Nazism. Plain and unvarnished.