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The Mysterious Novelist who foresaw Putin's Russia and then came to symbolize its moral decay By Sophie Pinkham Read by Olga Koch Fiction has a habit of coming to life in Russia.
On the evening of 2nd April 2023, the Military Blogger Vladlin Tatarsky appeared at an event in St. Petersburg organized by cyberfrontz, a group of semi professional keyboard warriors who boost Kremlin war propaganda online.
With more than half a million followers, Tatarski was a mid tier celebrity on Telegram, the social media app that has become a hub of Russian news and political debate.
As guests mingled, a young woman with long salon waved blonde hair approached Tatarski.
She presented him with an unusual gift, a gold painted statue of himself.
About two minutes later the statue exploded, killing Tatarski and injuring 42 people.
The blonde woman, 26 year old St. Petersburg native Darya Tripova, was arrested the next day.
She said she had believed the statue contained a listening device, not a bomb, and that she had acted on orders from a man in Ukraine she knew only as Gestalt.
Tripova was an unlikely killer.