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Putin claims he’s fighting Nazis in Ukraine while his regime intimidates Jews in Russia.
via Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/28/moscow-chief-rabbi-putin-fsb-religion-patriarch-kirill/
via Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/28/moscow-chief-rabbi-putin-fsb-religion-patriarch-kirill/
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I Was Moscow’s Chief Rabbi. Russia Forced Me to Flee.
Putin claims he’s fighting Nazis in Ukraine while his regime intimidates Jews in Russia.
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The Vulkan Files: Secret trove offers rare look into Russian cyberwar ambitions
Russian intelligence agencies worked with a Moscow-based defense contractor to strengthen their ability to launch cyberattacks, sow disinformation and surveil sections of the internet, according to thousands of pages of confidential corporate documents.
The documents detail a suite of computer programs and databases that would allow Russia’s intelligence agencies and hacking groups to better find vulnerabilities, coordinate attacks and control online activity. The documents suggest the firm was supporting operations including both social media disinformation and training to remotely disrupt real-world targets.
An anonymous person provided the documents from the contractor, NTC Vulkan, to a German reporter after expressing outrage about Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The leak demonstrates another unintended consequence of President Vladimir Putin’s decision to take his country to war.
Read the full story here.
Russian intelligence agencies worked with a Moscow-based defense contractor to strengthen their ability to launch cyberattacks, sow disinformation and surveil sections of the internet, according to thousands of pages of confidential corporate documents.
The documents detail a suite of computer programs and databases that would allow Russia’s intelligence agencies and hacking groups to better find vulnerabilities, coordinate attacks and control online activity. The documents suggest the firm was supporting operations including both social media disinformation and training to remotely disrupt real-world targets.
An anonymous person provided the documents from the contractor, NTC Vulkan, to a German reporter after expressing outrage about Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The leak demonstrates another unintended consequence of President Vladimir Putin’s decision to take his country to war.
Read the full story here.
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Videos seeming to show Russian soldiers beheading Ukrainian war prisoners have drawn international condemnation.
via Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/12/russia-ukraine-beheading-videos-wagner-group-conscription-war-crimes-putin/
via Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/12/russia-ukraine-beheading-videos-wagner-group-conscription-war-crimes-putin/
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Gruesome Videos Put Russia’s Brutality Back in the Spotlight
Videos seeming to show Russian soldiers beheading Ukrainian war prisoners have drawn international condemnation.
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Russia can fund war in Ukraine for another year despite sanctions, leaked document says
U.S. intelligence holds that Russia will be able to fund the war in Ukraine for at least another year, even under the heavy and increasing weight of unprecedented sanctions, according to leaked U.S. military documents.
The previously unreported documents provide a rare glimpse into Washington’s understanding of the effectiveness of its own economic measures, and of the tenor of the response they have met in Russia, where U.S. intelligence finds that senior officials, agencies and the staff of oligarchs are fretting over the painful disruptions — and adapting to them.
While some of Russia’s economic elites might not agree with the country’s course in Ukraine, and sanctions have hurt their businesses, they are unlikely to withdraw support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to an assessment that appears to date from early March.
Read more here.
U.S. intelligence holds that Russia will be able to fund the war in Ukraine for at least another year, even under the heavy and increasing weight of unprecedented sanctions, according to leaked U.S. military documents.
The previously unreported documents provide a rare glimpse into Washington’s understanding of the effectiveness of its own economic measures, and of the tenor of the response they have met in Russia, where U.S. intelligence finds that senior officials, agencies and the staff of oligarchs are fretting over the painful disruptions — and adapting to them.
While some of Russia’s economic elites might not agree with the country’s course in Ukraine, and sanctions have hurt their businesses, they are unlikely to withdraw support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to an assessment that appears to date from early March.
Read more here.
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The Russian president faces a growing threat from his own citizens.
via Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/10/russian-guerrillas-are-trying-to-violently-overthrow-putin/
via Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/10/russian-guerrillas-are-trying-to-violently-overthrow-putin/
Foreign Policy
Russian Guerrillas Are Trying to Violently Overthrow Putin
The Russian president faces a growing threat from his own citizens.
Forwarded from The Washington Post
Here is the latest from Ukraine:
- Yevgeniy Prigozhin, chief of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, said early Saturday his forces had crossed into Russia from Ukraine and entered Rostov-on-Don, 60 miles from the border.
- Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, has opened a criminal case against Prigozhin over “incitement to armed rebellion” following the Wagner mercenary chief’s comments about leading a “march of justice” against his enemies in the country’s Defense Ministry.
- Several videos circulating on social media, the locations of which were verified by The Post, show unidentified armed fighters dressed in military fatigues and wearing armbands outside Russia’s Southern Military District headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
More live updates here.
- Yevgeniy Prigozhin, chief of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, said early Saturday his forces had crossed into Russia from Ukraine and entered Rostov-on-Don, 60 miles from the border.
- Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, has opened a criminal case against Prigozhin over “incitement to armed rebellion” following the Wagner mercenary chief’s comments about leading a “march of justice” against his enemies in the country’s Defense Ministry.
- Several videos circulating on social media, the locations of which were verified by The Post, show unidentified armed fighters dressed in military fatigues and wearing armbands outside Russia’s Southern Military District headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
More live updates here.
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"Это был шквал беспорядочного огня, который убил тысячи людей и продолжает убивать тысячи".
Документальный фильм Мстислава Чернова "20 дней в Мариуполе" показали в Нью-Йорке. Эту картину уже называют "журналистским подвигом".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9H_Fg_5x4ME
Документальный фильм Мстислава Чернова "20 дней в Мариуполе" показали в Нью-Йорке. Эту картину уже называют "журналистским подвигом".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9H_Fg_5x4ME
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20 Days In Mariupol (trailer) | FRONTLINE
Ukrainian filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mstyslav Chernov offers a window into the practices of conflict zone reporters and an unflinching, anguishing account of the 20 days he and colleagues spent covering Mariupol. "20 Days in Mariupol"…
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Julia Davis (Twitter)
Russian orthodoxy in a nutshell: Yevgeny Nikiforov, head of the religious radio station Radonezh, appeared on TV channel Spas and advocated a brutal genocide of Ukrainians — incinerating them with thermobaric weapons and slitting their throats.
https://t.co/H7CbjACGeh
Russian orthodoxy in a nutshell: Yevgeny Nikiforov, head of the religious radio station Radonezh, appeared on TV channel Spas and advocated a brutal genocide of Ukrainians — incinerating them with thermobaric weapons and slitting their throats.
https://t.co/H7CbjACGeh
YouTube
Russian Orthodox TV channel advocates genocide of Ukrainians
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Putin’s weaponry runs on advanced electronic components obtained from a hidden international market.
via Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/07/western-sanctions-russia-ukraine-war/
via Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/07/western-sanctions-russia-ukraine-war/
Foreign Policy
The Dangerous Loophole in Western Sanctions on Russia
Putin’s weaponry runs on advanced electronic components obtained from a hidden international market.
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In time of war, Russia turns up aggression on transgender citizens
When Russian authorities took away Yan Dvorkin’s 10-year-old adopted son last spring, there was nothing he could do but shout in frustration. His crime? He was a transgender, nonbinary person, married to a man.
The family had fallen afoul of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vehement obsessions, his rejection of what he sees as Western “degradation and degeneration,” in particular transgender people, leading to a raft of repressive laws and, according to LGBTQ+ activists, rising street violence against transgender people.
Putin has framed the Ukraine invasion as a war against “Satanists,” liberal Western values, and “parent number one and parent number two.” His venom is echoed by everyone from state television propagandists to politicians and, as the war has ground on, Russia has witnessed increasingly harsh measures against these groups.
Read the full story here.
When Russian authorities took away Yan Dvorkin’s 10-year-old adopted son last spring, there was nothing he could do but shout in frustration. His crime? He was a transgender, nonbinary person, married to a man.
The family had fallen afoul of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vehement obsessions, his rejection of what he sees as Western “degradation and degeneration,” in particular transgender people, leading to a raft of repressive laws and, according to LGBTQ+ activists, rising street violence against transgender people.
Putin has framed the Ukraine invasion as a war against “Satanists,” liberal Western values, and “parent number one and parent number two.” His venom is echoed by everyone from state television propagandists to politicians and, as the war has ground on, Russia has witnessed increasingly harsh measures against these groups.
Read the full story here.