Call to action!
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message from @rusdemsoc
"We cannot allow ourselves to get used to this criminal war, let alone remain silent when Putin claims that it is being waged on our behalf and with our support." @rusdemsoc
These banners speak volumes (Prague, 26.3.2022)
It's been nearly a year since Putin has started an atrocious war against Ukraine
On Feb 24-26 there will be massive rallies & demonstrations held by Russians all over the world to protest against this terrible war
Russians living abroad, join them!
📷 Russians in 🇨🇿 (26.3.2022)
📢 Save the Date
📣 Russians all over the world protesting against this terrible war
🗓 When? February 24-26
Remember the pig heads at the Paris mosques? Or the Jewish centers painted green?
I knew exactly whose work it was the moment I saw it. Now — I finally have the proof. 🧵 [1/19]
My colleagues at the @dossier_center have obtained a large internal leak from a Moscow company called the Social Design Agency, or SDA.
It is run by a political operative named Ilya Gambashidze, the Kremlin is contracting him to manufacture scandals.
[2/19]
Their work is divided into two parts: online and offline. Online, the SDA writes fake news and posts fake videos. Offline, it pays crews from the Balkans to stage real stunts on European streets.
It's now abundantly clear that many of Europe's "spontaneous" scandals originated in Moscow.
"Privacy. That's iPhone." Apple pulled 1,213 apps from its Russian App Store last year at the Kremlin's request — more than from China, Vietnam, India, Korea, and the U.S. combined.
🧵 Most were VPN apps used to access WhatsApp
To understand why they're doing this, you have to look at what the Kremlin wants people to use instead — a state messenger called MAX, built by VK, whose CEO is the son of Kremlin domestic policy adviser Sergei Kiriyenko. It's an app with a back door for security services.
[2/12]
A federal law passed in 2025 required MAX to be pre-installed on every smartphone sold in Russia by September. The design follows China's WeChat: one app for messages, payments, government services, digital passport, medical insurance, and tax records.
The Kremlin has a plan for the Armenian NGOs left stranded after USAID's collapse: take them over.
Leaked documents obtained by @dossier_center show it's just one piece of Moscow's effort to derail Armenia's pivot to the West 🧵[1/21]
Dossier Center has obtained internal Kremlin-linked strategy documents showing how Russian political consultants have been trying to influence Armenia's election by building, from nothing, an entire ecosystem of opposition to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
[2/21]
Publicly, Putin claims (of course) Moscow doesn't interfere in Armenian politics. Privately, Kremlin-linked consultants coordinated polling, messaging, coalition planning, media operations, and campaign strategy to weaken Pashinyan and halt Armenia's pivot to the West.
Those were the closing lines of a note left by Nina Litvinova, 80, before she stepped out of a window in Moscow.
🧵Read her story
Nina Litvinova was born in Moscow in 1945 into one of the most consequential Soviet families. Her grandfather Maxim Litvinov ran Stalin's foreign ministry in the 1930s and served as ambassador to Washington during the war. He was Jewish and an open anti-fascist.
[2/16]
Stalin pushed him out in 1939 to clear the way for the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. After the war, when Litvinov warned American journalists that Moscow would soon turn on the West, Stalin recalled him.
He died in 1951 with a loaded revolver by his bed — an "insurance policy" against the secret police.
His "fortress" is cracking and half his decrees are now secret — so Russians can't see how badly the regime is failing.
Here's what he's hiding 👇 [1/11]
There have been no precedents to this blackout in modern history. In 2023, Putin set a record: 49.5% of presidential decrees were secret. Even last year, almost 45% of his orders remain hidden from public view. Half of the Russian government's actions are now officially "invisible."
[2/11]
What gets classified tells you what they fear. Examples:
➜ The "Cannibal Battalions": Secret decrees likely mask the mass pardoning of murderers and rapists sent to the front. The state calls them heroes but keeps the paperwork hidden because the public would revolt.