THE RUSSIA DESK

ERIC ZUESSE—During the coup, eight busloads of Crimeans, who had come to Kiev to demonstrate against the oust-Yanukovych Maidan demonstrations, hurriedly reboarded their buses in order to flee from nazis who were attacking them, and they finally got cornered en-route ...
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THE ISTER—In 2003, Khodorkovsky was criminally prosecuted by Putin for tax evasion and fraud for which he ended up serving 10 years in prison. His protege Leonid Nevzlin was convicted of ordering multiple contract murders on Khodorkovsky’s behalf, and sentenced ...
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PHIL BUTLER—News this morning from Russian made me think about how many times President Vladimir Putin’s hapless assassins had failed to kill his enemies. When the so-called “Sausage King” Vladimir Marugov was skewered by a crossbow bolt in his outdoor ...
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ERIC ZUESSE—The U.S., in a sense, has adopted not only many ‘former’ Nazis, but the mantle of German Nazism — not as regards Jews, but as regards Russia and world-conquest in general: America is the world’s leading aggressive and imperialist ...
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CALEB MAUPIN—The conservative organization known as Judicial Watch reported that 353 counties in more than 29 states across the United States had voter registration rates above 100%, meaning that there were more people registered to vote than eligible voting residents ...
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PEPE ESCOBAR—Trump’s original drive, suggested by Henry Kissinger before the January 2017 inauguration, was to play – what else – Divide and Rule, seducing Russia against China. This was absolute anathema for the Deep State and its Dem minions. Thus ...
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Only thanks to the coordinated actions by the state’s governing bodies and the Belorussian people we managed to save the country from lawlessness and arbitrary rule. I particularly wish to express my deep gratitude to the military and political leadership ...
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In less than a year, this country has managed to develop two vaccines in its public research centers. A third vaccine is on the way. President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday reported on the registration of the second Russian COVID-19 vaccine ...
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F. W. ENGDAHL—Then former Soviet Union Central Asian republic, Kyrgyzstan, has also just erupted in mass protests that have brought down the government for the third time since 2005, over opposition allegations of election fraud. USAID, a known cover often ...
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In matters of health and many others, Russia has maintained very close cooperation with the Venezuelan people. “We have received tons of drugs, PCR tests and today it reaches a maximum level with the arrival of this first batch of ...
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CALEB MAUPIN—Russia has many dissidents, of both leftist and right-wing persuasions. The Communist Party holds seats in the Duma and has long criticized Putin’s leadership. The Liberal Democratic Party is equally critical, and also holds elected office. However, Navalny’s slick ...
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MoA—When the Soviet Union fell apart the Nagorno-Karabakh area had a mixed population of Azerbaijani (also called Azeri) Shia Muslims and Armenian Christians. As in other former Soviet republics ethnic diversity became problematic when the new states evolved. The mixed ...
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