The rf’s manipulative actions to intensify the EU’s gas blackmail for the purpose of political pressure. For 9 years, russia has been using gas blackmail in a hybrid war against Ukraine. The documented information and psychological campaigns had distinct recurring narratives that “Ukraine will not survive” without russian gas. The same narratives are now being…
Why russia has attacked civilian objects almost 60 times more often than military ones during five months of the war Contrary to the statements of the russian president that “the russian army does not strike at any civilian objects”, most of the attacks are aimed at peaceful residential areas, including houses, hospitals, schools, and train…
The tour of the rf Foreign Minister s.lavrov to Africa has once again drawn public attention to the russian private military company “Wagner”, which has often been used as one of putin’s favorite instruments of influence in Africa, where russia helps to increase the gold and foreign exchange reserves and avoid Western sanctions. Putin uses…
The interview has sparked unprecedentedly wide response both in Ukraine and the West predominantly because of Lavrov’s announcement of russia having territorial ambitions beyond Donetsk and Luhansk regions. But other Lavrov’s high profile “confessions” has gone unnoticed against the backdrop of discussion about his, detached from reality, assertions. In this article, we will refute all…
The report of the Ministry of Economic Development of russia states: in the first half of 2022, the number of citizens in russia who filed for bankruptcy increased by 37.8% compared to the same period in 2021. More than 121,000 citizens of the russian federation liquidated their assets to pay off their debts. Contrary to…
CCD ( The Center Countering Disinformation) analyses the appeal of the House of Representatives of US’s speaker Nansy Pelosi to the Secretary of State Blinken to officially declare Russia as a state sponsoring terrorism. A state-sponsor of terrorism is a country which, according to official perception of the US State Department,aids acts of international terrorism.The…
Due to the russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission announced the seventh package of sanctions against the russian federation. The new package of sanctions is aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the previous six packages of sanctions and also implies the prohibition of the import of russian gold to the EU, particularly through third-party…
Reasons and consequences of russia’s tactics of mass eviction of residents of the occupied part of Southern Ukraine. Russian occupation forces in Khersonshchyna report that residents will be forcibly evicted from the oblast if they do not comply with their “orders”. The “document” was signed by the so-called head of the military-civilian administration of the…
From Head of MFA russia s. lavrov’s article “about staging as a method of the West’s politics”. The chief kremlin diplomat thinks of the war in Ukraine as an ‘unfair play of the West’. In his opinion, russian army kills tens of thousands of Ukrainians and destroys the infrastructure of our country ‘to stop the…
On July 14, 2022, putin signed Federal Law No. 272-FZ “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation”, which allows the government to put the country’s economy on a war footing during so-called military operations abroad. The explanatory note to the draft law recognizes that in the conditions of the war in Ukraine,…
Once again, the russian federation rejects the effectiveness of Western sanctions and claims that the economy retains “stability of work and positive dynamics of development.” But russia has lost a significant part of the European market and access to the components for russian industry. Difficulties arose with the production and fixing the weapons, due to…
According to Jake Sullivan, it is still not clear whether Iran managed to provide Russia with these drones, however, according to the information available in the White House, there is some evidence that Teheran is preparing to train Russian personnel to use drones in July. Drones have become an important component of the war in…
