The Foundation for Defense of National Values - sanctioned by Treasury for its role in US election interference - has published the results of its recent polling in #Mali.
FZNC sent Maksim Shugalei to Mali late last year.
They claim that their 4,300 respondents generally feel more positively about the direction of the country since June of last year
They also report negative views of MINUSMA and French contingents in Mali
… and very positive attitudes towards Putin.
They also claim to have observed substantial increase in popular support for Assimi Goita - given their past activity, this is more valuable in telling us FZNC’s and it’s Russian patrons preferences
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Our team @C4ADS unmasked new details regarding Russia’s Wagner Group in Sudan, their activities and the scale of their operation - from gold mining to their relationship with the Rapid Support Forces. 1/
We worked with @declanwalsh to corroborate documentation collected by @dossier_center, and findings from Sudanese anticorruption officials. These show the history of Wagner Group-related mining and commercial activity over the last five years in Sudan.
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Wagner Group network mining activity in Sudan has scaled and professionalized since its humble beginnings. They have learned to better hide their activities by relying further on the Russian military for logistics.
From press release: “Today’s action targets a Kremlin-aligned yacht brokerage, several prominent Russian government officials, and a close Putin associate and money-manager, Sergei Roldugin, who is a custodian of President Putin’s offshore wealth.”
Rosgvardia Spetsnaz in Kherson sporting “ISIS Hunters” patch. This doesn’t = Wagner as some in replies suggest, but is interesting in terms of symbols and culture in Russian mil.
Vitaliy Milonov posted an image to VK that he claims shows him and Yevgeniy Prigozhin in Donbas. Milonov is the hyper-reactionary United Russia deputy who led the charge on anti-LGBT laws.
Telegram channel Mozhem Obyasnit (formerly Khodorkovskiy’s Otkritie Media) claims that Prigozhin was sent to directly coordinate Wagner Group actions in-country. t.me/mozhemobyasnit…