Silicon Curtain

Silicon Bites Ep287 | 2026-02-17 | “Bad things are coming for Russia”: Z-Patriot Maxim Kalashnikov goes full doom-monger on the crisis of statehood enveloping Russia. Today’s warning siren isn’t coming from liberal Moscow, Navalny’s team or TV Rain. It’s coming from the other side of the ideological trench: the Z-Patriot ecosystem. And one of its loudest, most apocalyptic voices — Maksim Kalashnikov — is now saying the quiet part out loud: Russia isn’t just losing momentum in a war, it’s sliding into a crisis of statehood.