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21 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
In case your head is not spinning fast enough re political extremism in Eastern Europe, the former head of National-Bolshevik Party in Moscow, Roman Popkov, is now a proponent of Intermarium - a geopolitical project of Ukraine’s Azov movement and the Baltic far right.
The ex-functionary of a party, which fused communist and nazi symbols and rhetorics, now calls Poland, Baltic countries and Ukraine “the free people of Europe” and speaks about the “East European island of freedom”.
Intermarium is anti-EU project that strives to create a pure-race East European “union of sovereign nations” led by Poland.
In Popkov’s own words: “We find ourselves between the rock of Kremlin/Minsk neo-Soviet vampires and the hard place of Western syphilis, which is also of absolutely neo-Soviet nature”.

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21 Oct
Starting to get reaction to my latest piece about malign activity of Ukrainian infowar groups. The reference here is to anal rape with a bottle, a common form of torture used by security agencies in post-Soviet countries. I’ve received a few similar threats in recent days. Image
Reported, but not too hopeful.
Read comments and subtweets to the tweet above to get a feel for the workings of pro-Poroshenko infowar machine.
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21 Oct
A surreal aspect of the ridiculously blatant fake about me produced by a Ukrainian infowar unit is that it was circulated by @Facebook’s official fact checker Stop Fake. I welcome inquiries from journalists/experts interested in this story, detailed here.
intellinews.com/comment-disinf…
The organization’s official account on Twitter as well as its editor-in-chief Yevhen Fedchenko shared not just one, but several language versions of the fake as well as slanderous comments about me that appeared in its wake.
The fake was also endorsed by former Estonian president Henryk Ilves and by several Latvian far right politicians. Among numerous lies and insinuations the hit piece they helped spreading contained personal data related to my close relatives in Russia.
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2 Oct
Shame Ilf & Petrov are not alive to lionise Konstantin Malofeyev and his philosopher friend Aleksandr Dugin, both prominently in the background of “royal wedding” between a former EU bureaucrat from Spain, who happens to be a Romanov, and an Italian “thriller” author.
Books penned by the bride, Rebecca Bettarini, who goes by the alias Georgina Perosch, include:

- Beauty Queen: an international thriller
- Conclave: a spiritual thriller
- AristocraZy: a royal thriller
This is the essence of how Malofeyev’s imperial hobby circle sees Russia’s greatness: Take some petty characters from Western Europe and give them a royal reception in St Petersburg. Feels like colonial genuflexion before the West? Because it is.
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15 Sep
The main issue with Navalny’s Smart Voting is that it is too smart for many. The idea of voting for the communists or for the gangster-ish and far right LDPR is hard sell for its generally liberal and pro-Western constituency. But that’s if you think it is a normal election.>>>
Smart Voting is designed as an act of civic disobedience, a voter flashmob if you like. What it allows is to show that “non-systemic” opposition has a formidable constituency that can impact even the most farcical and illegitimate election.
No matter whether it achieves anything at the polls (the Kremlin has installed multiple shields, including e-voting - a straightforward rigging tool), Smart Voting is already a success given the amount of effort spent on derailing it. The election is profoundly de-legitimized.
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13 Sep
Have you circulated the story about “communists laying wreaths to the monument of NKVD executioners”? Congratulations, you have likely assisted Putin’s administration in neutralizing Navalny’s Smart Voting. Here is how it works: >>>
The story appeared on polit.ru, a website formerly associated with Kremlin spin doctor Modest Kolerov. It attributes the initiative to a generic “communist party”, not to KPRF - Russia’s second largest party.
m.polit.ru/news/2021/09/0…
You will not find any mention of this initiative on KPRF’s own website. Why? Because it is KPRF, which this product of black political technology is striving to discredit in the eyes of liberal pro-Navalny voters.
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12 Sep
Putin has inaugurated a monument to Prince Aleksandr Nevsky “and his army” on the bank of Chudskoye (Peipsi) Lake, facing NATO member Estonia. Related to a 13th century battle with German knights, it’s meant as a symbol of Russia’s defiance in the face of Western aggression.
Kremlin media report that the monument is a brainchild of Putin’s spiritual guru, bishop Tikhon Shevkunov, a man behind an attempt to redraw Russian history with a strongly anti-Western, anti-communist and anti-revolutionary tilt.
Anyone who went to a Russian or Soviet school associates Prince Aleksandr Nevsky with the phrase that came to become a foreign policy motto: “Who will come to us with the sword, will die by the sword”.

The phrase happens to be an invention of film director Sergey Eisenstein.
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