Mark Lansbury

2024-08-05 10:36:21

Russia's critics abroad say the Kremlin is intensifying attacks

With all dissent snuffed out at home, Russia is turning its attention to opponents who have sought refuge in the West.

“When I left Russia and came to Prague, I had this illusion of security,” says Alesya.

"Parasites can’t sleep in peace..." was one of the messages that investigative journalist Alesya Marokhovskaya received last year.

The threats were accompanied by the name of the street in Prague where she lived. “I moved house to make it harder for them,” says Alesya.

“We thought it may just be some crazy Czech guy who was pro-Putin and had recognised me on the street.”

But then the messages became more sinister - calling her a "scumbag" and promising to find her "wherever she walks her wheezing dog".

Alesya’s dog really does wheeze when it walks. She informed the Czech police.

Later, Alesya was due to fly to Sweden to attend a conference. The sender then sent even more specific threats: details of her flight, seat number and the hotel she had booked. “It was clear they had high-level access to documents,” Alesya says. “It looks like the behaviour of the Russian state.”

Alesya had been branded a 'foreign agent’ years before by the Russian government, due to her work at independent Russian news website iStories.

#Intimidation is the intent,” suggests Mark Galeotti. “The idea that you'd better keep your head down. It’s a way of deterring the emergence of some kind of coherent political opposition to the #Kremlin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl4y0j47xe4o

#RussianTerrorism #terrorism #IStories #Putin #PoliceState #FSB

Russia's critics abroad say the Kremlin is intensifying attacks

With dissent snuffed out at home, Russia intensifies attacks on opponents seeking refuge in the West.

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Mark Lansbury

2024-04-30 11:58:20

Trump is Putin's only hope now

Putin's one hope will remain. The #Kremlin will desperately await its savior from Mar-a-Lago – who one #Republican reportedly called “Orange Jesus.”

Whether #Trump’s return to the Oval Office really would end the ordeal that Putin created for himself is another story. For now, Russia is once again heading for failure in Ukraine.

https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-trump-is-putins-only-hope-now/

#RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussianAggression #StandWithUkraine

Opinion: Trump is Putin's only hope now

The news this past week was undoubtedly met with relief in Kyiv and with grief in the Kremlin. The U.S. Congress finally broke its six-month logjam and approved a new package of military aid for Ukraine (as well as for Israel and Taiwan). And the breakthrough came only days

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Mark Lansbury

2023-03-16 12:27:32

Leaked document exposes Kremlin's 10-year plan to undermine Moldova

A Western intelligence source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Kremlin's Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation had allegedly created the document, titled "Strategic goals of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Moldova," in 2021.

According to the document, Russia’s key goals are to ensure that Moldovan policymakers and society, in general, have a negative attitude toward NATO and that the country has a strong presence of pro-Russian influence groups in politics and the economy.

https://kyivindependent.com/investigations/leaked-document-exposes-kremlins-10-year-plan-to-undermine-moldova

#RussianAggression #Moldova #leaked #Kremlin #NATO #InformationWarfare

Investigation: Leaked document exposes Kremlin's 10-year plan to undermine Moldova

Editor's note: This story is a collaboration between the Kyiv Independent and media partners, including Delfi Meedia (Estonia), Expressen (Sweden), Dossier Center (U.K.), Rise Moldova, Frontstory, VSquare (Poland), Süddeutsche Zeitung, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Rundfunk WDR, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Germany), and Yahoo News

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