In today's #vatniksoup and in the first edition of "Where are they now?",I'll do an update on some of your favorite vatniks around the world, and report on what they've been up to.
If there's someone or something you'd like to hear more about, let me know in the comments👇
1/17
Let's start with everyone's favorite former naval officer, Sarah "Donbass Devushka" Bils. She recently gave an interview to RT, where she doubled down on her previous statements, stating that "truth is our most potent weapon".
2/17
That's a weird statement coming from a person who faked to be a "poor woman from Lugansk", Latvian, Gazan, and so on.
Now, what's even funnier, that on 24 Mar 2022, she faked that her father was in Mariupol (thank you NAFO investigators!).
3/17
In the interview, she also said that "we [the DD channel] have native Russians among our ranks,as well as a diverse array of voices from around the globe".She also stated that their Telegram channel has grown by over 10 000 spectators. Sarah (and RT) also claims that #NAFO..
4/17
..is sponsored by so-called Five Eyes, referring to the intel alliance between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US.
Watch out, they'll soon try to get "Five Eyes" trending!
There's also been buzz around Finnish oligarch Gennady Timchenko. Finnish Ministry of the Interior declared that the decision of Timchenko's Finnish nationality was done "by the book". Her daughter's Finnish passport was fast-tracked, too.
6/17
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In today's #vatniksoup I'm going to talk about the "antiwar movement". After Putin organized the fake referendums in the four Ukrainian Oblasts,various pro-Kremlin parties started calling for immediate peace in Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, the movement was planned by the Kremlin.1/18
In Sep 2022, Russia organized referendums to join Ukrainian Oblasts of Kherson,Zaporizhzhia,Donetsk & Luhansk to the Russian Federation.The whole scenario was absurd - everyone knew that the referendums were totally fake & Russia didn't even control any of these areas fully.
2/18
And suddenly, hundreds of vatnik voices around the world started touting one thing, and one thing only: peace.
Next I'll talk about the distress of the Finnish pro-Kremlin scene. The whole gang is suffering of a serious election hangover - the results were devastating and not-so-suprisingly none of them were elected. The Grand Old Vatnik, @johanbek has mostly been joking around,...
9/17
...@HuuhtanenPanu has his full focus on the class action lawsuit against me and probably the whole of NATO, and the Kremlin-paid @janus_putkonen had most of his money stolen by his long-time associate, Jonathan Widell.
Banks started his work career at the insurance market, eventually becoming a relatively successful businessman. According to The Guardian, Banks had set up 37 different companies with slight variations of his name.
4/20
Three of them had the same date of birth but listed different companies. When asked about this, Arron's spokesperson declared that he'd prefer to "correct [the Guardian’s] mistakes in court".
One of Banks' companies, Eldon Insurance, increased its profits by almost...
5/20
...17 million £ for the first half of 2017. He claimed that this profit increase was due to the same AI technology that they used in the Brexit campaign. Banks is also involved in mining in South Africa and has connections to companies based in Gibraltar and the Isle of Man.
6/20
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll discuss Russian online information operations, and how they are perceived around the world. In the West, we often perceive this propaganda only targeted at us, which is far from the truth.
1/17
As I've written previously, the idea of Russian information operations date back to days of KGB, and it is part of the, aktivnye meropriyatiya, or active measures. Active measures includes activities like espionage, propaganda, sabotage and assassination, and it is ...
2/17
...and was part of Russia's foreign policy. Another related term related to info ops is hybrid warfare, which is a theory of military strategy that blends conventional warfare with irregular warfare, cyberwarfare and warfare in the information space.
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American political consultant and lobbyist, Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr). He's best-known for his work as an advisor to Donald Trump & for his alleged connections with Julian Assange and the GRU in relation to the leaked DNC e-mails.
1/20
Stone has been involved US politics for a long time, and he'd started his dirty tricks already in 1972, when he contributed money to Nixon's rival under the name of Trotskyist youth group, and tipped about this to the local news.
2/20
In 1977, he won the presidency of the Young Republicans with Paul Manafort as his campaign manager. In 1980, Stone and Manafort launched a lobbying company, BMS, together with partner Charlie Black. The company represented basically anyone with money, including Zaire's...
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a Russo-Ukrainian businessman and politician, Oleg Tsaryov (@OlegTsarov). He's best-known for acting as a pro-Russian separatist officer in Donetsk, Ukraine, and revealing Yanukovych's plan to become the dictator of Ukraine.
1/19
Oleg was born in 1970 in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro) in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He became an MP in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada in 2002, later joining Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions. He was re-elected again in 2006, in 2007, and in 2012.
2/19
When the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity got in full swing, Tsaryov was one of the most fervent supporters of using violent against the protestors, whom he called "terrorists, bandits and extremists."