{"id":1390878,"date":"2026-05-07T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-story-with-the-parade-in-moscow-as-an-element-of-the-hostile-ipso-what-is-the-key-goal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:52:02","slug":"the-story-with-the-parade-in-moscow-as-an-element-of-the-hostile-ipso-what-is-the-key-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-story-with-the-parade-in-moscow-as-an-element-of-the-hostile-ipso-what-is-the-key-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaponized Spectacle: What Stands Behind the \u2018Moscow Parade\u2019 Campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe I’m wrong. But the story of the “parade in Moscow” is increasingly resembling a classic Kremlin information and psychological operation. The only question is what its real goal is.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judge for yourself. For the past two weeks, a whole lot of conspiracy theories have been circulating in Moscow. Information is being thrown in that Putin is hiding somewhere other than in his residences and that the Communist Party is allowing opposition rallies (where, apparently, the participants are being re-registered). Sobchak records Ilya Remeslo, a military correspondent, talking about Navalny, Prigozhin, and stopping the war. Where is the FSB looking?<\/p>\n

This looks like a controlled release of steam and at the same time a test of public reaction. At the same time, competition for influence between political players is intensifying in the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

Against this background, Putin is sending signals to the outside world. There was supposedly some kind of appeal to Trump, some letters to European leaders, and talk of a “truce.” All this is superimposed on the Ukrainian information context, where the thesis that “Putin is afraid of Ukraine” is actively spreading. And he responds to Zelensky’s proposal to start a truce on May 6 with drone strikes.<\/p>\n

But here a key contradiction arises. If it is “afraid,” why is it responding with strikes to Kyiv’s proposals to introduce a ceasefire on May 6? Why, instead of de-escalation, do we have the opposite\u2014an escalation of attacks?<\/p>\n\t\t