Less than a month before #Russia’s “presidential elections,” the #Kremlin commissioned a secret sociological survey. The survey reveals how voters actually felt about the presidential “candidates,” and where the country’s center of actual opposition lies.
For example, 23 % of respondents, or virtually one in four people, said they would not vote for #Putin under any circumstances.
Since the start of Russian invasion in 2022, #Kremlin played the nuclear card – to frighten Ukraine & deter West from assisting
Putin cast a nuclear threats over his full-scale invasion from the start. After Russian troops invaded Ukraine Putin put his nuclear forces on special combat readiness
The Kremlin’s most recent nuclear card was May 6. Russia held exercises involving tactical nuclear weapons
Two pro-Russian activists in #Germany, whose ties to the #Kremlin were revealed in a Reuters investigation last year, have left Germany and moved to #Russia the couple’s lawyer said in a statement on Monday.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine in 2022, Elena #Kolbasnikova and her romantic partner Max #Schlund have been active in Germany, organising pro-Kremlin rallies to urge #Berlin to abandon its military support to #Kyiv.
On warm weekends, young Russians go out in their cars, with Russian flags on the car, and then drive "car races" while yelling. Residents with small children are particularly excited about the noise. Since there are too few police patrols in the countryside, the Russians are usually already gone by the time a patrol arrives. There are masses of vodka bottles lying on the side of the road.
Leaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a #Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe and around the world
More than 40 #Pravfond documents, obtained by the Danish public broadcaster DR, show that the organisation has had a number of documented former intelligence agents among its leadership
#ussia has dramatically increased its spending on patriotic education and state-run militarised groups for children and teens, from £25m in 2021 to more than £382m in 2024. Since the onset of the conflict, public school textbooks have been rewritten to align with the #Kremlin’s foreign policy, reflecting Russia’s interpretation of history that emphasises the need to reclaim “historical territories” lost to #Ukraine.
Het #kremlin probeert al sinds 2013 banden te ontwikkelen met de #pvv. En met succes. De partij figureert prominent in Russische beïnvloedingscampagnes, blijkt uit gelekte documenten. Geert #wilders probeert om connecties met Rusland uit het zicht te houden.
(Benieuwd hoe Dick #schoof als Kremlin watcher daarmee om gaat. Hij en Putin waren vergelijkbaar in hun carrière.