Roman #Romachev, head of the so-called private intelligence firm R-Techno, continues to serve as a Kremlin mouthpiece in a regime-driven propaganda feedback loop that insults logic, dismantles reason, and betrays any pretense of independent analysis. His latest appearance on SolovievLive—an ideological septic tank masquerading as news—offers a fever dream of Cold War paranoia wrapped in conspiracy logic and delivered with the smug conviction of someone who long ago forfeited credibility for access and approval.
In a commentary dripping with sycophantic allegiance, Romachev frames Russian emigrants and non-systemic opposition abroad not as victims of state repression, but as the vanguard of an imagined MI6-led color revolution. He presents this migration not as a predictable response to authoritarian crackdowns, war, and censorship, but as a deliberate maneuver engineered by foreign intelligence to destabilize the Russian state. His logic unravels quickly under scrutiny. The mass exodus of independent journalists, artists, and activists from Russia followed the state’s own brutal dismantling of civic space. Moscow’s legal war on dissent, including criminalization of speech, military mobilization, and systemic surveillance, created the very pool of exiles Romachev now labels as strategic assets of foreign subversion.
No evidence supports his implication that British intelligence orchestrates a coup through opposition émigrés. His statement, devoid of specificity, offers no timeline, actors, or mechanisms. It only recycles the Kremlin’s obsession with “color revolutions,” a conceptual scapegoat used since Georgia’s 2003 Rose Revolution to justify domestic repression. Romachev echoes the Kremlin’s irrational fear that Western soft power hides behind every exile Telegram channel, every human rights statement, every oppositional podcast. He completely omits any structural cause for the opposition’s departure, ignoring Russia’s political imprisonments, battlefield failures, and economic degradation.
Romachev’s allegiance to Vladimir Putin has calcified into ideological dependency. His supposed expertise collapses into servitude the moment he ignores evidence in favor of paranoia. The claim that émigrés now form a “weapon of the future” strips agency from individuals and recasts them as enemy tools. In doing so, he prepares the domestic audience for further repressive laws, crackdowns on diasporic communications, and new waves of scapegoating. The very suggestion that any Russian abroad with a conscience now operates under foreign command fits perfectly within the Kremlin’s broader narrative of national betrayal, where citizenship equals loyalty to the regime, not to the state or to moral conscience.
Romachev’s framing lacks analytical depth and functions instead as a ritual performance of ideological obedience. His use of the word “relocates” in place of “refugees” or “exiles” subtly erases the trauma and coercion that underlie this migration. His invocation of MI6 without attribution, sourcing, or corroboration does not even qualify as a theory—it’s a threat. It prepares Russian audiences for a future where communication with exiled relatives, consumption of alternative media, or criticism of state policies might become prosecutable as foreign collusion.
In any meaningful analysis, Romachev ceases to function as an analyst and reveals himself as a full-fledged operator in Putin’s psychological warfare apparatus. He props up fantasies of Western subversion not to uncover truth, but to repress it. He sells fear disguised as foresight, and obedience disguised as intelligence work. His performance remains useful to the Kremlin precisely because it affirms its lies, feeds its persecution narrative, and manufactures consent through intellectual cowardice. No matter how many suits he wears or Telegram posts he authors, Romachev is no more an intelligence expert than Soloviev is a journalist—both serve the same altar, and both sacrifice truth in defense of a collapsing empire.
