Salisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (158)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. The Bellingcat expose of Col Chepiga is a huge publicity disaster for Russia. The British press is having a field day exposing Russian...
View ArticleSteve Gutterman’s Week In Russia
If you’re interested in Russia, you’ll love Steve Gutterman’s Week In Russia. RFE/RL’s news editor dissects some of the key developments over the previous week and offers some of the takeaways going...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (159)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Definitely another self-inflicted propaganda “epic fail” week, in some respects probably worse than the previous two, as...
View ArticleUkraine Ad Hoc Media Update (34)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Russian “covert ops team captured”. Pssst. *whispering* Russia, covert means nobody knows they’re there and nobody gets caught. The victim...
View ArticleDPRK / PRC / WESTPAC Ad Hoc Update (38)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> A very active week on both DPRK and China matters. In the briefest of summaries, the Beijing leadership is very unhappy...
View ArticleRussia / Strategy Ad Hoc Media Update (50)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> NATO / EU / Russia Reports UK fighter jets intercept Russian bombers approaching UK airspace – GOV.UK Russian Blackjack...
View ArticleRussians Harass Ukrainian Navy Units in Azov Sea and Black Sea (3)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Pres Poroshenko accepts two former USCG cutters from the US. Update on Russian campaign in Azov Sea including a nice...
View ArticleRussia Losing the War of the Churches (7)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Now the Ecumenical Patriarch has published a report accusing Russia of usurping the Ukrainian church. This is considered a breach of canonical...
View ArticleRussians Confirm, Then Deny Skripal Assassin
In yet another bizarre twist involving Russia, villagers in Berezovka, Russia first confirmed, then only hours later deny, that named Skripal assassin, Colonel Chepiga is a native of their village....
View ArticleMoscow Times: Why Russia’s Crimean Consensus Is Over
Here is a gutsy OpEd by Konstantin Gaaze </end editorial> With support for the Kremlin waning, repression is all it has left. BY KONSTANTIN GAAZE Sept. 24 2018 – 18:09 General elections this...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (160)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Michael Peck’s article in National Interest’s “Russia to China: You Shouldn’t Have Stolen Our Jet Fighter” slams Russia in a very powerful way in...
View ArticleYou Lost Me At “Horrible”
I was reading an article by Jason Easley, “The Russians Are Getting Heavily Involved In The Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight“. Good article, well researched, it cited Hamilton 68 information and...
View ArticleRIAC Is Full Of “Russian Propaganda”
Let me clear, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) is not fair, objective, or unbiased in any shape, way or fashion. RIAC spews propaganda, more gently than trolls, but they seek to promote...
View ArticleU.S. embassy calls on Russia to stop spreading propaganda
The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has called on Russia to stop spreading destabilizing propaganda. “On the International Day for Universal Access to Information, we call on Russia to stop spreading...
View ArticleRussian propaganda, real and serious problem for R. Moldova, says Maia Sandu
Sep 29, 2018 A real and serious problem in the Republic of Moldova is Russian propaganda, in the context in which Kremlin’s policy is that of keeping the region in the eastern vicinity (of the European...
View ArticleUkraine imposes sanctions against Russian transportation companies
If you don’t see it yet, the noose is tightening around a declaration that Russia is supporting terrorist activities. Russian companies have now been declared as supporting terrorist activities in...
View ArticleRussia May Prop Up Assad With Eight S-300 Systems
In what may be a wee bit of overkill, Russia may supply Syria with up to 8 x S-300 systems. An S-300 can cover almost all of Israel from Damascus, with only one system. Initially, Russia would...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (161)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> While UK media publish excerpts from Col Skripal’s memoir, being published days from now, and elaborate on further...
View ArticleRussia Is Using Hungary In Anti-Ukraine Influence Operations
In one very overt operation and in another probable operation, Russia is attempting to use Hungary and the Hungarian diaspora in Ukraine to smear Ukraine’s name and to perhaps literally attack Ukraine....
View ArticleU.S. ambassador accuses China of ‘bullying’ with ‘propaganda ads’
SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 / 8:37 AM Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) – A week after an official Chinese newspaper ran a four-page ad in a U.S. daily touting the mutual benefits of U.S.-China trade, the U.S....
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