Meh... no time to think about this right now.

After reading the article, it reveals quite a bit about the insider politics in Russia. I’m surprise that Putin did not order Ilya Ponomarev assassinated for what he considers an insurrection.

What he considers an insurrection?    It is insurrection.

"...I am an admirer of Lenin."  --Ilya Ponomarev

He says he is a Bolshevik too.  In contrast:

....[Putin] spoke about the Bolsheviks, the masterminds of the 1917 October revolution and the founders of the Soviet state. To many in Russia, Putin’s interpretation of the revolution would sound odd. He accused the Bolsheviks of treachery...
    More than half of the Russian people still view Lenin as a positive figure. Now Putin, with his signature evasiveness—and careful not to mention him by name—has called him a traitor. With streets and statues honoring Lenin all over Russia, Putin’s interpretation hardly contributes to a uniform version of history.
(Putin Disses Lenin by Masha Lipman, The New Yorker)

He kicked out the Jewish oligarchs too.  Later, a "globalist" argues:
(George Soros Slams Putin, Warns Of "Existential Threat ...)
(George Soros: Russia poses existential threat to Europe ...)

Apparently Russian nationalism is supposedly an "existential threat" to the EU, one of their other projects:

....after the Second World War, Kalergi, thanks to frantic and tireless activity and the support of Winston Churchill, the Jewish Masonic Lodge B’nai B’rith and major newspapers like the New York Times, the plan manages to be accepted by the United States Government. The CIA later undertakes the completion of the project.

The essence of the Kalergi plan

In his book «Praktischer Idealismus», Kalergi indicates that the residents of the future “United States of Europe” will not be the People of the Old Continent, but a kind of sub-humans, products of miscegenation. He clearly states that the peoples of Europe should interbreed with Asians and colored races, thus creating a multinational flock with no quality and easily controlled by the ruling elite.

Kalergi proclaims the abolition of the right of self-determination and then the elimination of nations with the use of ethnic separatist movements and mass migration. In order for Europe to be controlled by an elite, he wants to turn people into one homogeneous mixed breed of Blacks, Whites and Asians. Who is is this elite however?  Link