This is from the blog The Eye of the Needle:

By Cesare Sacchetti

There is a word in Russian that could perfectly encapsulate the events of last Saturday:maskirovka.

This term refers to the Russian military strategy of deception, where the government creates critical and fake crises to address real threats, represented in this case by potential moles working for foreign powers.

And that is exactly what Russia did three days ago. Initially, many people thought Russia had plunged into a crisis similar to the one in 1991.

During those dramatic days, Russia was completing its transition from the old Communist bloc, the USSR, to the new Russian State owned by a few reckless oligarchs along with foreign entities, especially the so-called deep American state.

A group of nostalgic Communists attempted to oust then-President Mikhail Gorbachev, but they were…