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Russia aims to erode Ukraine support via US 2024 election meddling, US officials say

US officials have warned that Russia is leading a group of adversaries looking to influence the 2024 US presidential election through the use of hired commercial firms and generative artificial intelligence.

byYuri Zoria

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Moscow pursuing ‘forced integration’ of Belarus into Russia now, Sivitsky says

Russian actions toward Belarus since 2015 show that Moscow is no longer pursuing the “union deal” it had…

byPaul A. Goble

Saber training of Russian pseudo-Cossacks on the border with Belarus (Image: Screen capture of Belsat video on YouTube)

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Could Putin’s pseudo-Cossacks on Belarusian border become ‘the little green men’ in Belarus?

As relations between Moscow and Minsk deteriorate, the Russian government has moved units of Vladimir Putin’s pseudo-Cossacks into…

byPaul A. Goble

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Are Russian oligarchs serving as Putin’s ‘little green men’ in Belarus?

In the wake of the political changes in Yerevan, Belarusian analysts are saying that Moscow would not react…

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

A painting of Trump, Putin and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen prominently displayed at a Trump party in Moscow hosted by Kremlin functionaries to celebrate his election as US president, which was facilitated by Russia's covert meddling. Russia's meddling in French elections six month later to help Le Pen backfired and she lost to Emmanuel Macron. November 2016, Moscow, Russia (Image: mogaznews.com)

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Moscow inserts political operatives into African countries where elections are scheduled

Even as the United States and other Western countries wrestle with the question of how involved Russian operatives…

byPaul A. Goble

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Putin planning to interfere in Belarusian elections to replace Lukashenka, Sivitsky says

Russians already now are “considering scenarios of a so-called ‘transit of power’ in Belarus” in the parliamentary and…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian state crest in front of full moon (Image: vedomosti.ru)

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Putin’s meddling in US elections backfiring on his own allies at home and on Americans who helped them, Shevtsova says

The Kremlin’s effort to affect the outcome of the 2016 US presidential elections has provoked one consequence Moscow…

byPaul A. Goble

“Who Was At June 2016 Meeting” — CNN screen grab (July 15)

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To Russia with love: pivotal signals to Putin from Trump Jr meeting

This month’s explosive revelations documented in an email chain that Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting explicitly pitched…

byPaula Chertok

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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Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or even enough

Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the…

byPaul A. Goble

Trump and Putin matryoshka dolls for sale in Moscow, Russia (Image: vedomosti.ru)

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‘Trump is again OURS,’ Moscow commentators say

There has been yet another mood swing in Moscow about Donald Trump. After his election, Russian officials and…

byPaul A. Goble

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Conflict with North Korea may be Trump’s red herring, the author of “Blowing Up Russia” says

Yuri, you said on many occasions that Trump is Putin’s agent. What do you think about the US…

byKseniya Kirillova

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Conservatism takes a hit under Trump

In the first weeks of the Donald Trump’s presidency, what was clear long before the elections became even…

byKseniya Kirillova

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The real danger of Artemenko’s “peace plan” for Ukraine

The so-called “Artemenko peace plan” is a much larger plot than appears at first glance. Behind the little-known…

byVitaly Portnikov

Former national security advisor, former Director of US Defense Intelligence Agency, retired Lieutenant General Mike Flynn at a conference and gala dinner celebrating the 10th anniversary of Russia’s propaganda arm, media channel “RT” (formerly “Russia Today”) seated at the head table at the gala, with Vladimir Putin, his then-chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov and press spokesman Dmitry Peskov, among other Russian officials. Also seated at the same table is 2016 Green Party candidate for president Dr. Jill Stein. December 10, 2015 in Moscow. (Image: video capture)

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Flynngate reflects Putin’s penchant for high-risk counterproductive actions, Khzmalyan says

The growing scandal in Washington around Moscow’s efforts to penetrate and influence the Trump Administration recalls the FSB’s…

byPaul A. Goble

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Flynn’s resignation – de-Kremlinization of the White House?

The formal reason behind the resignation of Donald Trump’s national security advisor Michael Flynn was a media scandal…

byKseniya Kirillova

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In the age of Trump: perils and promises

The new American president has just taken office, but the world is already fearful as never before. In…

byKseniya Kirillova

Donald Trump denies being open to kompromat blackmail by the Kremlin (Political cartoon by Felix Schaad / Tages-Anzeiger)

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Khrushchev gave us ‘sputnik,’ Gorbachev ‘perestroika,’ and Putin … ‘kompromat’

The changing nature of the country centered on Moscow is well reflected in the words its leaders have…

byPaul A. Goble

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Trump’s pick of Tillerson for Secretary of State while dismissing CIA intelligence on Russia causes consternation

US President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t assumed office and his Electoral College vote has yet to be officially confirmed by the Congress,…

byKseniya Kirillova

Trump and Putin. (Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Aleksey Nikolskyi/Getty Images and Jim Watson/Getty Images.)

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Trump Revolution: From Russia With Revenge

Last week the Washington Post Deputy Editorial Director Jackson Diehl published an article titled “Putin’s hope to ignite Eurasia-style protests in the…

byKseniya Kirillova