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Feb 5 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
As the German edition of RT has been severely damaged by the latest round of the EU sanctions, it’s worth reviewing research our great colleagues did on that edition. 1/5
“RT DE and Other Russian State Media in Germany” by Silvia Stöber @tavisupleba : democratic-integrity.eu/rt-de-and-othe… 2/5
“The Information War of RT DE” by Jonas Andreae @jonasandreae : democratic-integrity.eu/the-informatio… 3/5
“Russian Media in Germany” by Susanne Spahn @SusanneSpahn1 : freiheit.org/east-and-south… 4/5
Also check the entire publication project of the Centre for Democratic Integrity @Dem_Integrity : “RT in Europe and beyond”: democratic-integrity.eu/rt-in-europe-a… 5/5
And check out my lecture on the history of Russia Today/RT: “Russia Today from Soft Power to Political Warfare”:

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When Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov appeared in a home video in November 2022 to dispel the rumours about his alleged hospitalisation in Indonesia while attending the G20 summit, various Western observers focused on all the wrong things with their sarcastic comments. 1/8
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Ever since the European Parliament adopted the controversial yet potentially game-changing resolution on recognising Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism (tinyurl.com/37kvj857), everybody has been - expectedly - discussing the resolution's primary thesis only. 1/7
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Aug 28, 2022
Ukraine needs to do something painful yet necessary: a THREAD 👇🏻
Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine is more than a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It’s even more than Russia’s war on Europe. Essentially, what we have today is the continuation of the Second World War.
Rather than dismissing or ridiculing Russia’s claims of waging an anti-fascist struggle, we must take them seriously - but importantly - put them in the context of ->
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Jun 15, 2022
I was happy to take part in the panel discussion "A War of Values: Can Europe find its place in a new world?" organised by Debates on Europe @DebatesOnEurope in Dresden, here's the video:
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Already now, we witness the emergence of a new geopolitical reality in which Central and Eastern Europe, and especially the Three Seas bloc, will play a role politically more significant than Western Europe. 3/4
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Jun 14, 2022
Russian government official Dmitry Rogozin: “What has emerged in place of Ukraine is an existential threat to the Russian people, Russian history, the Russian language and Russian civilisation”. 1/9 Image
According to the speaker of the Russian “parliament” Vyacheslav Volodin, Russia is Putin, so if you replace “Russian” with “Putin’s” in Rogozin’s quote, you’ll realise that Rogozin is actually right. 2/9
In a follow-up tweet, Rogozin expectedly calls for the genocide of Ukrainians, saying that the Russians need to accomplish what their grandfathers failed to do - he probably meant the Holodomor, Stalin’s attempt to destroy the Ukrainians through the artificial famine. 3/9 Image
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Jun 5, 2022
The Ukrainian Security Service published an analytical report of the Russian FSB related to #Russia's genocidal invasion of #Ukraine: ssu.gov.ua/novyny/sbu-otr… Here I will highlight some FSB's guidelines on what influence operations Russia should carry out in Europe, thread -> 1/6
Russian influence operations in Europe recommended by the FSB:
- Dropping a massive package of information on "facts" and "forecasts" on the decline of the quality of life in the EU linked to the EU governments' policies supporting "nationalist groups" in Ukraine; 2/6
- provoking internal social pressure on governments and political elites of Western countries;
- forming a negative opinion among residents of European countries towards their governments' policies on Russia; 3/6
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