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Ukraine’s Security Service charges MP with state treason, conducts searches

Nestor Shufrych is known as one of the most pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. He was elected as a member of "The Oppositional Party for Life," which had 13% of votes in the 2019 elections.

byBohdan Ben

On April 14, the Security Service of Ukraine reported it had arrested a “mole” within its ranks—Major General Valerii Shaitanov, who served as the chief of the service’s Center for Special Operations “A.” He was detained under suspicion of state treason and for allegedly carrying out terrorist attacks. (Photo: ssu.gov.ua)

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The political dimension of Russia’s spy war in Ukraine

Since the beginning of the undeclared Russian-Ukrainian war in early 2014, the secret services of both countries have…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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The language issue, high-profile killings, social cleavages: ex-SBU general on how Russian FSB plans to destabilize Ukraine

– Where would it be possible to destroy the country? How might this take place? How to counteract…

byRadio Liberty

Despite its backwardness in other things, Putin's Russia is heavily militarized and ready for imperialist aggression all over the world, whether it's a neighboring country, like Georgia or Ukraine, or a remote one, like Syria. (Image: TTOLK.ru)

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Putin has created a Fifth International organizing the right, Felshtinsky says

Marx created the First International; Engels established the Second; Lenin, the Third; Trotsky, the Fourth; and now Vladimir…

byPaul A. Goble

Vladimir Putin with Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany (1988-2005) who became top GAZPROM representative and lobbyist of Putin's interests in the country after leaving his government position. The term "shroederization" now stands for the corruption of Western elites by the Putin regime.

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Putin regime has set up not one but five ‘fifth columns’ in Germany, Eidman says

In the third article of his series on Moscow’s influence operations in the West, Igor Eidman says that…

byPaul A. Goble

Pro-Russian march during the Victory Day celebrations in Minsk, Belarus, May 9, 2018 (Image: svaboda.org)

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Fearful of Moscow and his own people, Lukashenka fails to crush pro-Russian march in Minsk on Victory Day

Despite his heavy-handed approach to any and all demonstrations that he and his regime have not approved in…

byPaul A. Goble

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Putin’s Fixes and Fixations: Russia’s President Prefers Stalin to Lenin, Soviet History to Scandals

The Kremlin has been very busy lately, inside and outside of Russia. Every day it seems something remarkable…

byPaula Chertok