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Kirill Mikhailov has been an anti-Putin activist and citizen journalist, taking part in the widespread Russian protests of 2011-2012. After the annexation of Crimea he left Russia for Ukraine and has been a volunteer author/translator since. Follow him on @ReggaeMortis1.
The new Ukrainian government has recently come under fire for allegedly endorsing growing far-right influence in Ukraine. One of the causes for concern is the volunteer Azov regiment, bearing insignia similar to those used by German Nazis....
Russian neo-imperialistic propaganda has been claiming that the annexation of Crimea is a form of “historical justice.” Perhaps, most famously, in his March 16th speech during an event in the Kremlin formalizing the annexation,...
The industrial town of Torez, Donetsk Oblast, has been under pro-Russian control since June. While during the summer Ukrainian offensive the town was a site of pitched battles, after the large-scale Russian invasion in late August it has...
On September 14 Russian “authorities” held elections in occupied Crimea, which saw a landslide victory of Putin’s United Russia (Yedinaya Rossiya) party, largely represented by old Crimean political elites. Russian independent...
The myth of “Novorossiya” (New Russia) has been the central focus of Russia’s propaganda war, accompanying its invasion of eastern Ukraine and numerous attempts to destabilize the country’s southeastern regions from the East’s...
The myth of “Novorossiya” (New Russia) has been the central focus of Russia’s propaganda war, accompanying its invasion of eastern Ukraine and numerous attempts to destabilize the country’s southeastern regions from the East’s...
In 2014, the West was faced with several major international crises, the most notable of which are the spread of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the Moscow-backed insurgency in Eastern Ukraine, which eventually escalated into a full-blown...
Picture: “Novorossiya” as envisaged by pro-Kremlin blogger Fritzmorgen Almost since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine Kremlin-funded media has been preaching the idea of “Novorossiya” – a historical area allegedly...
Russian Ministry of Defense has just tried to shift the blame for MH17 on Ukraine in a press conference covered by Russia Today. One allegation was an Ukrainian Su-25 fighter-bomber being spotted near the Malaysian airliner around the...
Abstract This report investigates the attempted – and partly “successful” – Russian influence in the Austrian Ministry of Defense as well as in organizations in its “entourage.” It starts with the Vienna-based...
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