Russian corruption Archives - Euromaidan Press

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Analysis

Meet “Russian disease,” the centuries-old corruption plaguing Ukraine invasion

From expired rations to sunken flagships, it echoes historical defeats, transforming Putin's "three-day" campaign into a prolonged struggle against not just Ukraine, but Russia's own systemic rot.

byOleksiy Zagorodnyuk

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Russian gas, German elections, and US sanctions

Two high-resonance processes have been simultaneously unfolding in Europe in the last few weeks: the sharp increase in…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Seven reasons why the USA and EU lost to the Nord Stream 2 lobbyists

There is no point in analyzing the work of German and American lobbyists of the Kremlin’s Nord Stream-2…

byEuropean Pravda

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International

“A second Budapest memorandum”: experts on the US-Germany Nord Stream 2 deal

Washington and Berlin have clinched a deal on the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline said to give Russia…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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International

What the US-German deal on Nord Stream 2 promises Ukraine

The document begins with an assurance that the United States and Germany strongly support Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity,…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

Observers concluded that Russia is weaponizing gas supplies and using its dominant position on the European Union gas market to send a political message that Europe would face gas shortages if the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is not completed. But instead of being punished for such behavior, Moscow is being awarded with the lifting of all political obstacles to Nord Stream 2’s completion.

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US-Germany Nord Stream 2 agreement — a victory for Russia

At the same time, European gas storage levels are at only 53 percent of their capacity, or nearly…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Strategic corruption: the new hybrid weapon against the West

The use of corruption in furthering a country’s geopolitical interests is the primary technique currently widely used by…

byYaroslav Bozhko

The Akademik Chersky pipelaying vessel is the ship expected to complete the final stretch of Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany.

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International

Can the vessel Akademik Cherskiy finish Nord Stream 2 pipeline construction?

At the beginning of October 2020, the Akademik Cherskiy—the only Russian pipe-laying ship capable of completing the construction…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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War in Donbas

Russian medics who took part in war against Ukraine complain about stolen combat bonuses

In the Russian city of Gukovo, located in the Rostov Oblast 5 km away from eastern Ukraine, healthcare…

byAlya Shandra

Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream (Nord Stream 1) and Nord Stream 2 (under construction). Image: gazprom.com

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Russia pushes to complete Nord Stream 2 challenging US sanctions

While the United States struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, Russia has deployed two pipe-laying vessels to the Baltic…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Opinion

Portnikov: Who in Ukraine is being bribed by Putin and Gazprom?

Even if literally the next day after the press release about reaching an agreement between Russia and Ukraine…

byVitaly Portnikov

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Portnikov: Why Berlin saves Putin’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

The German tabloid Bild informed its readers about the decision by the Bundestag’s ruling coalition to change the…

byVitaly Portnikov

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Europe fails to see Moscow using economics as a weapon not only against the former Soviet states but against it as well, Tsybulenko says

“In contrast to the countries of the West which are led by the principle, ‘politics is the concentrated…

byPaul A. Goble

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the second session of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation. 3 September 2019. Photo: president.gov.ua

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Portnikov: “Unity” for robbery just like in Russia

When Vladimir Putin became the new president of Russia in 2000, he was opposed by a strong institutional…

byVitaly Portnikov

Matteo Salvini wearing a Putin t-shirt in Moscow (Photo: social media)

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Portnikov: Breathing lighter without Lega

Europeans can breathe easy for the first time in several years: Italy, one of the leading economies of…

byVitaly Portnikov

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

World War III: Putin's hybrid war against Western democracies using the Russian secret services, propaganda journalism and corruption of foreign elites.

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Moscow propaganda tries to hide that Kremlin interests and Russia’s are antithetical, Eidman says

Russian sociologist Igor Eidman has posted the second in a promised series of articles exposing the falsehoods contained…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin addressing his "new nomenklatura" ruling elite. Russian kleptocrats have been parking their stolen wealth in the West since the break-up of the Soviet Union (Image: kremlin.ru)

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‘This isn’t corruption, Sir; this is kleptocracy’ – why Moscow is so angry at Yerevan

In 1789, the Duke of Liancourt told Louis XVI that what the French king faced was “not a…

byPaul A. Goble

Military with state flag of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

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A Moscow paper asks a most inconvenient question: ‘What is the secret of Estonia’s success?’

The independent Moscow newspaper Novyye izvestiya points out that the average pay in Estonia is now “about 1800…

byPaul A. Goble