Vladimir Putin

This summer, violent mobs associated with the US-backed Tigray People’s Liberation Front assaulted Eritrean festivals across the US and Europe. Western media is now spinning the targeted mob violence as legitimate protest against Eritrea’s government. For 40 years, Eritrean Festivals have been held around the world to sustain the diaspora community’s connections to their homeland and to one another. But this year, a violent, well-coordinated international campaign of sabotage left festival goers badly injured and property damaged. Major Western media […]

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The appointment of the current leader's son is another example of how oligarchy and autocracy is turning the tide against democracy

Putin is quite likely to silence Prigozhin, but he’s equally likely to let him retain control of the notorious St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency which specialises in influencing foreign elections, writes Brian Latham

The head of MI6 was right when he recently declared that China was 'absolutely complicit' in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, writes Brian Latham

Tyrannies have to act, constantly. Thinking comes later. So Russian disinformation will not end with the demise of one oligarch

Despite the odds and the heavy punishments, resistance still exists in Russia. Index on Censorship's Assistant Editor Katie Dancey-Downs talks to those who are braving it to stand up to Putin

The Russian ‘revolt’ that wasn’t, strengthens Putin’s hand.

The post Seymour Hersh: Prigozhin’s Folly appeared first on MintPress News.

Numerous serious casualties were incurred during Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s supposed “coup.” The Grayzone offers an in-depth look at the massacre carried out by some of America’s top Russia experts against their own credibility. When Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a supposed revolt against Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 23, sending his forces on a march toward Moscow following a series of tirades against the country’s defense establishment, Washington’s expert class overflowed with an orgy of regime change […]

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Vladimir Putin is in a catch-22: unable to win any kind of 'victory' that he can sell to his domestic audience, while creating folklore about this 'special military operation'

Many appear to believe it would be reasonable to offer the peninsula as some sort of final settlement of the war in Ukraine to Russia – why? asks Paul Niland