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This is a partial list of "enemies of the people" (mostly Russians critical of the Putin regime), which was published on a Russian website called "Enemies of the People.Ru" and widely distributed by Russian media and social networks in late summer 2014. Boris Nemtsov, Putin's most outspoken opponent and #2 on this list, was murdered next to the Kremlin only six months later. The list included not only domestic "enemies," but also some westerners such as Hillary Clinton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George W Bush, John McCain, Joe Biden, Condoleezza Rice, Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth, Denis MacShane, and Michael McFaul, who was the US Ambassador in Moscow at the time. The neighboring countries were represented by former presidents of Ukraine and Georgia Victor Yushchenko and Mikheil Saakashvili respectively. Surprisingly, some former Soviet and Russian leaders were also there, such as Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nikita Khrushchev and Lev Trotsky. At the same time, Lenin and Stalin were missing. (See the full and larger version below)

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‘Enemy of the people’ is a Russian — not an American — term

An enormous and completely justified effort is now going to determine how Moscow influenced the US elections last…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin's speech at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow in February 2012, almost exactly two years before he commanded the Russian military to start the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. (Image: Ilya Varlamov)

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Putin’s language doesn’t threaten Russia’s neighbors but does threaten Russia, Shchetkina says

The Russian language used by Vladimir Putin — unlike the language of Pushkin — “doesn’t threaten Russia’s neighbors…

byPaul A. Goble