A Russian-born businessman announced that he would pay a $1 million bounty to officers who would arrest Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia.
Alex Konanykhin wrote on Facebook:
I promise to pay $1,000,000 to the officer(s) who, complying with their constitutional duty, arrest(s) Putin as a war criminal under Russian and international laws. Putin is not the Russian president as he came to power as the result of a special operation of blowing up apartment buildings in Russia, then violated the Constitution by eliminating free elections and murdering his opponents. As an ethnic Russian and a Russia citizen, I see it as my moral duty to facilitate the denazification of Russia. I will continue my assistance to Ukraine in its heroic efforts to withstand the onslaught of Putin’s Orda.
“Translated to English, the Russian word ‘Orda’ means ‘horde,’” Fox Business noted.
Konanykhin told Business Insider, “If enough other people make similar statements, it may increase the chances of Putin getting arrested and brought to justice.”
Newsweek reported of Konanykhin that he fled to the United States and was granted asylum in 1999, adding, “His asylum was revoked four years later and he faced the threat of deportation to Russia before the decision was overturned. According to his website, Konanykhin is currently based in New York City and is the CEO of TransparentBusiness, a digital work platform. It says he is also a panelist on the reality television show ‘Unicorn Hunters’ alongside Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.”
On Thursday, he issued a LinkedIn post saying he did not call for Putin’s assassination, writing, “Some reports suggest that I promised to pay for the assassination of Putin. It is NOT correct. While such an outcome would be cheered by millions of people around the world, I believe that Putin must be brought to justice,” The Times of Israel noted.
On Thursday night, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tweeted that the only to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was for someone to get close enough to Russian president Vladimir Putin to assassinate him. Graham tweeted, “Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country — and the world — a great service.”
Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?
The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.
You would be doing your country – and the world – a great service.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 4, 2022
Graham’s mention of Brutus was a reference to Marcus Junius Brutus, the Roman politician, orator, who was the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar, who believed Caesar had become too autocratic and thus wanted to replace him.
Graham’s mention of Colonel Stauffenberg was a reference to Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg, who made a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf’s Lair on July 20, 1944.
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