Posts Tagged
Kremlin

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  2019/07/26 - 12:40 • Op-ed, Russian Aggression

  Shevtsova: Kremlin’s ‘obsession’ with Ukraine crippling Russia

  The Kremlin’s “obsession” with Ukraine, Lilia Shevtsova, once again this week very much on display in the wake of the Verkhovna Rada elections not only prevents Moscow from understanding what is in fact taking place in Ukraine and...

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  2019/06/08 - 14:28 • Russian Aggression, War in the Donbas

  The meaning of Kremlin’s ultimatum to Zelensky

  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in his interview with Russia’s RBK channel warned that it would not be possible to “continue the work of the Normandy Four” “with a clean slate.” Lavrov is demanding that the new Ukrainian...

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  2019/01/29 - 23:51 • More, Politics, Ukraine

  Is Tymoshenko a pro-Russian candidate? The facts, the fiction, and the mysteries

  Of the current candidates, President Petro Poroshenko has made his position clear. Obviously, we know where the pro-Russian candidates such as Yuriy Boiko and Vadym Rabinovych stand, and according to the polls their chances of being...

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  2018/07/27 - 12:51 • More, War in the Donbas

  Three assumptions about the Donbas

  Putin doesn’t need the Donbas… this was the case even at the start of the war. The Donbas is not Crimea, which has a sacred importance for Russians and which is worth an enormous investment risk. Putin wants the Donbas to be part of...

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  2018/05/20 - 12:10 • International, More

  Another country where ‘local’ Nazis are a front for Russia – Georgia

  “The majority of the leaders of Georgian fascists and neo-Nazis are in one way or another connected with Russian organizations and money,” another example of the Kremlin’s proclivity for using extremists of all kinds in other...

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  2018/05/02 - 22:33 • More

  The Kremlin Guard: Russia’s pro-government youth organizations

  The leader of the Young Guard (Molodaya Gvardiya, MG) of United Russia Denis Davydov announced that the organization plans to create groups to combat opposition movements in every region of the country. According to him,...

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  2017/09/28 - 21:05 • International

  Beware – This Film Was Made by the West to Destabilise Russia!

  Most recently, we learned that comedy movies can be a “planned provocation” and part of a western plot to destabilise Russia. Such are the words from the Russian authorities about Armando Iannucci’s new film, The Death of Stalin. As...

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  2017/09/07 - 14:13 • International

  Initiatives to counter disinformation spring up in the Russian language

  Prominent Russian sociologist and dissident Igor Eidman has started a new Facebook group to “counter Kremlin propaganda” in Germany, as reported by Brian Whitmore of RFE/RL in his daily roundup of trends related to Russia. The group...

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• 2017/08/14 - 19:50 • International, Ukraine

  Russian Active Measures Used to Attack Ukrainian Civil Society

  Russian special services have been heavily involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. From their officers commanding the so-called ‘separatist’ forces to cyber attacks and old-school spying, Russian authorities have pulled out all...

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  2017/07/20 - 09:15 • International, More, Ukraine, War in the Donbas

  Ukrainian attitudes harden against Kremlin’s positions on Donbas

  According to new polls, 60 percent of Ukrainians favor the introduction of international peacekeepers in the Donbas; and 55 percent oppose any special status for that region, a hardening of Ukrainian attitudes about things the Kremlin...

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