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Nov 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Today it's GRU day in Russia. My personal wishes on this important day to Chepiga, Mishkin and their 100s of colleagues whose personal, and often intimate, details we now know better than their spouses do. С праздником!
.@Dobrokhotov, after 6 years of joint investigations into GRU operations, what are your 3 most memorable moments?
For me, one of the most memorable moments was when we got access to the leaked #Runtastic data of Gordienko - a trained GRU assassin. The data had his pulse history on a per minute basis - and we found his pulse spike on the day we outed him - and he had to flee from Switzerland.
And there's always this one
Yet, it's hard to beat the guy who have us both his real name (in the email address) and his last name (in the leaked password), and is now in jail on Norway.

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Nov 1
A micro-thread on a whole new level of Kremlin route of disinfo laundering & manipulation.
1. UK media publish story that Liz Truss's phone was hacked. The hack was apparently discovered "during the summer", and was hushed by PM Boris Johnson bbc.in/3zsFqzL .
2. All-round conspiracy boy @KimDotcom posts either a sarcastic or purposely misleading tweet saying Truss sent message to Blinken saying "it's done" a minute after Nord Stream pipeline blew up, and that's how Russia found out.
Obviously this is not possible, given that the hack was discovered during Johnson's rule (i.e. by early July), and the explosions took place in later September. (Plus, the whole idea of only @KimDotcom knowing is wacky). However, this is no obstacle for the Kremlin
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Oct 30
A short 🧵 on how Russian intelligence launders fake news by using helpful EU "media".
A leading headline in Russian state media today is that "Poland plans to capture Western Ukraine and hold a referendum". The cited source is "the Belgian portal Modern Democracy".
Indeed, three days ago the Greek-owned portal "Modern Democracy" published an article with verbatim the same allegations. moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/10/27/pol….
The site ModernDemocracy.eu indeed exists, it's not flagged as a fake news site, it's editor in chief has a thriving LinkedIn profile and we even share 6 contacts, one of whom has endorsed him.
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Oct 28
Watching Nothing New on the Western Front while arguing in telegram with Russian soldiers in Ukraine about the inevitability of their demise. "don't bury us yet, this may be the demise or Britain instead. We can be in London soon".. and then this scene comes up.
"At least we do not live boring lives" as the last line of defense for this war.
Ещё жду ответа.
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Oct 28
Breaking: Norwegian authorities named the real identity of the fake "Brazilian researcher": his name is Mikhail Mikhushin, born 1978. This announcement is in line with what we, together with our investigative partners, had already discovered, and I will add some more details:
As a reminder, his cover identity was José Assis Giammaria (born 1984). It was clear that that was a fake identity, as we found that he first appeared on the horizon with that ID in 2006, when he applied for Brazilian passport and social security number claiming a BR mother.
(Mind you, 2006 is the year that at least three other GRU illegals - one of whom Maria Adela Kuhlfeld, or Olga Kolobova - obtained or tried to obtain South-American citizenship. The Peruvians caught "Kuhfeld"'s application and stopped the process, Brazil apparently was more lax).
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Oct 25
Wow. Norway arrested a "Brazilian" university researcher at University of Tromso, who studied "hybrid threats". The catch? He's a Russian spy, not a Brazilian professor. More to come soon.
vg.no/nyheter/innenr…
The researcher apparently graduated from the Center for Military Studies in Calgary. Also, implausibly, he worked on a hybrid-threats university project called "The Grey Zone" facebook.com/CMSS.Calgary/p…
So the latest crazy twist to the fake-Brazilian spy story is that he attended a hybrid threats working symposium in Vilnius sponsored by the EU, where one of the simulation topics was "what to do if Nord Stream pipelines are sabotaged". Image
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Oct 24
When I first confronted one of the missile programmers months ago, I asked him how he sleeps at night after what he does. He snapped back: "Be professional. Ask a professional question". I asked him why they kill so many civilians. He wrote "You know well I can't answer this".
Mind you, he seemed the nicest of them all. A guy who tweeted about the latest Hollywood movies, organized fashionista parties, had a hipstery beard, and listened to cool music. But clearly, he treated killing people as a day job.
Captain Ilyin, a missile programmer from the Kalibr team, and his wife were renting out a room in their apartment.
The main condition? "Only to a girl with a Slavic appearance".
These are the Russian "de-nazificators" of Ukraine.
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