Bastrykin’s Repression Manifesto
It appears Russia is about to become much more repressive and oppressive, quashing all opposition and not allowing any personal expression. This is not just a return to the Soviet State, this has the...
View ArticleRussia ‘breaks’ military deal with America and threatens US warplanes over Syria
A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft takes off from a base near Latakia in Syria CREDIT: REUTERS Any agreement signed by Russia is broken before it’s even signed, even a military agreement between the...
View ArticleAuthoritarian Regimes Send Westerners Agitprop To Inflame Far-Left, Far-Right
Russia, Iran, China, and Venezuela are funding political propaganda masquerading as news that stokes the anger of Western countries’ far Left and Right. APRIL 19, 2016 By Mike Gonzalez Russia, Iran,...
View ArticleEstonian Report Details Russia’s ‘Hybrid Threat’ to Europe
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov / AP Combating Russian propaganda increasingly important front in information war BY: Molly McKew April 18, 2016 4:00 pm A new report by the Estonian Internal...
View ArticleTerrorist and extremist crimes on rise in Russia in 2015 – report
This is Russian reporting on the reason for Russian Head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin calling for a crackdown on opposition talk, further restricting speech of Russian citizens....
View ArticlePutin’s Downfall: The Coming Crisis Of The Russian Regime
Nikolay Petrov SUMMARY • Russia’s political regime is unsustainable. It has no capacity to reform, and faces growing economic woes, crumbling infrastructure, and warring elites. • After widespread...
View ArticleRussia Non-Responds To Panama Papers
Russia’s response to the release of the Panama Papers is typical and predictable. Whenever anything embarrassing or detrimental to Russia or Russian President Putin is released, Russia whips out the...
View ArticleThe Kremlin’s Spin, NATO’s Reality
The Daily Vertical: The Kremlin’s Spin, NATO’s Reality (Transcript) Brian Whitmore April 20, 2016 The Kremlin and its surrogates are spinning today’s meeting of the NATO-Russia Council as the end of...
View ArticleRussia Continues Revising Soviet History
Here is yet another example of one of the world’s worst murders being rewritten into a Russian hero. What a pity that people like Stalin, so rarely come into this world. Putin said revising history is...
View ArticleCrimea: OSCE condemns Russian prosecutions of journalists
The origin of this story is the OSCE, a neutral organization. This story is not being carried in Sputnik News, RT, TASS, Pravda, or any other major Russian news source, English or Russian. Gee, I...
View ArticlePolish minister says Russia preparing aggression against NATO
Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:06am BST WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s defence minister has said Russia continued to pose a serious threat to NATO and that Moscow was systematically preparing for aggression against...
View ArticleRussian editor who reported on Putin’s circle to take study leave
Editorial Director, RBC Media Holding Elizaveta Osetinskaya attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland January 22, 2016. REUTERS/RUBEN SPRICH Can you spell...
View ArticleCrimean speaker calls journalists names “enemies of Russia”
Vladimir Konstantinov (center) The Chairman of the State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov considers the journalists of the Internet resource “Crimea.Realities” enemies of the Republic. Thus, he...
View ArticleHow to bypass the blocking of websites in Kazakhstan
Caricature Ansy Mustafa (Translated from Russian by my Chrome browser) Vyacheslav Polovinko Published 04/20/2016 At the beginning of this week the website “Medusa”, covering the global and Russian...
View ArticlePutin Is A ‘Smart But Truly Evil Man,’ Says Madeleine Albright
Notice, the Russian response is to attack the source. </end editorial> BY DAMIEN SHARKOV ON 4/20/16 AT 1:22 PM Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has incurred the wrath of Russian...
View ArticleVerbal slugfest at NATO-Russia meeting
“waah” Putin used the meeting in Brussels as a Wailing Wall: With great indignation, he accused NATO of unlawfully expanding in Eastern Europe. The increased deployment of troops there, however, was...
View ArticleTrial And Error: Putin’s Savchenko Slip-Up
Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko during her sentencing hearing in Donetsk last month. (VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP/Getty Images) By Adrian Bonenberger Mr. Bonenberger was an infantry officer in the...
View ArticleNATO DISMISSES RUSSIAN CLAIMS OF CIVIL WAR IN UKRAINE
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks after a NATO-Russia Council at the Alliance’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, April 20. FRANCOIS LENOIR/REUTERS It is a wee bit difficult to justify...
View ArticleRussia Disinformation Digest Friday 22 April 2016
News: No adverts on disinformation sites Analysis: Answers from the President News: Reports without Borders warns of “era of propaganda” Analysis: Too successful? Friday fun: The most watched TV show...
View ArticleThe Russian Foreign Ministry has presented “their” evidence of fraud in the...
The Russian Foreign Ministry attempts to counter Bellingcat’s proof that Russia lied about the MH17 shootdown. Fail. </end editorial> (Translated from Russian by my Chrome browser) April 22,...
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