Anton Shekhovtsov
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Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov is Director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity (Austria), Senior Fellow at the Free Russia Foundation (USA), and an expert at the European Platform for Democratic Elections (Germany). Follow him on Twitter: @A_SHEKH0VTS0V
Four towers of Kremlin propaganda: Russia, Ukraine, South, West
Although Russia started its unprovoked and unjustified aggression against Ukraine as early as late February 2014, when the…
Hail corruption in Putin’s Russia: we need more, not less, of it
In early June of this year, Russian invaders killed Roman Ratushnyi, a 24-year-old Ukrainian civic activist who volunteered…
How the West enabled genocide in Mariupol with its misguided Azov obsession
More than a month has passed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian invaders have already…
Moscow’s genocidal war against Ukraine and new strategy of information warfare
Two weeks ago, Russia has renewed its war against Ukraine. Russian invaders target not only the Ukrainian military…
The Ukrainian far-right National Corps picks up where Svoboda left off
Five years ago, the Ukrainian far-right Svoboda (Freedom) party could legitimately brag about their vast contacts with European far-right movements…
How Eurovision became the Kremlin’s mousetrap
On 22 March 2017, Ukraine’s authorities barred Russia’s entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest from entering Ukraine. The…
Italian delegation to occupied Crimea: between politics and business
On 14-16 October 2016, an Italian delegation consisting of 18 politicians and businessmen visited Crimea illegally annexed by…
The far-right front of Russian active measures in Europe
Tactical collaboration with the European, especially German, extreme right characterised even the Cold War period of Russian history…
Pro-Russian activism of Mateusz Piskorski, detained in Poland
On May 18-19, 2016, the media reported that Poland’s Internal Security Agency searched the homes of the leaders of…
How Alexander Dugin’s Neo-Eurasianists geared up for the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2005-2013
The Neo-Eurasianist perspective on Ukraine was formed already in the 1990s, when Russian fascist Alexander Dugin argued, in…
Is Russia Insider sponsored by a Russian oligarch with the ties to the European far right?
The emails leaked by the Anonymous International last year give us a few insights into the workings of…
Dmytro Yarosh’s resignation from the Right Sector a signal of imminent change
In order to understand the significance of Yarosh’s resignation statement, one needs to consider two important points related…
Russian fascist militants give money to Swedish counterparts
One of the previous posts addressed the issue of two Russian far right organisations, namely the Rodina party…
Russian politicians building an international extreme right alliance
Russia seems to be getting serious about building an international alliance of extreme right parties that would aim…
The three pins of a deadly grenade near the Ukrainian parliament
In the course of the violent protests that took place by the Verkhovna Rada (the building of the…
Spectre of Ukrainian “fascism”: Information wars, political manipulation and reality
The 2014 Ukrainian revolution made the country’s far right a topic of international debate. Once the object of…
State of EU-Russia relations: A brief analysis of the EP vote
On 10 June 2015, the European Parliament adopted a resolution “on the state of EU-Russia relations“. It is…
What does the fascist conference in St. Petersburg tell us about contemporary Russia?
On the 9th of May, Russia will plunge into ritualised mass celebrations to commemorate the 70th anniversary of…
The uneasy reality of antifascism in Ukraine
For almost twenty years of Ukraine’s independence, the term “antifascism” used to have very limited currency in the…
German Die Linke delegation visits right-wing terrorists in Eastern Ukraine
Just two weeks after the leader of the pro-Russian right-wing terrorist organisation “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) Aleksandr Zakharchenko…