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Apr 8 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Revelations about a 2024 call offering aid raise questions about Hungary’s ties to Iran as the Trump administration is supporting Prime Minister Viktor Orban for reelection. washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/…
“Our secret service has already contacted your services and we will share all the information we have gathered during the investigation,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told his Iranian counterpart by telephone, according to a copy of a Hungarian government transcript
The transcript of the call between Szijjarto and Araghchi raises further questions about the political alignments of Orban’s government, especially given that Moscow has a long-standing alliance with Iran and has supported it in its war with the United States.

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Mar 12, 2025
Secret document prepared for Kremlin outlines plan for Russia to weaken US negotiating position on Ukraine by stoking tension between the US & other countries while pushing ahead with efforts to dismantle the Ukrainian state. w/@RobynDixon__ washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/…
It dismisses Trump’s plans for a peace deal within 100 days as “impossible to realize” and says that “a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine crisis cannot happen before 2026.” It rejects any peackeepers & insists on recognition of Russia’s sovereignty over the occupied territories
The document, which was obtained by a European intelligence service, highlights the challenges still facing Trump in reaching any agreement with Russia for a peace deal, now that Kyiv has endorsed Washington’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire.
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Nov 22, 2024
An American businessman who previously worked closely with Kremlin state oil champion Rosneft is seeking to acquire the Swiss-based operating company that controls Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines, according to U.S. Treasury documents Post.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/…
Lynch’s participation in the forced sale of the Yukos assets, together with a consortium of other Moscow-based foreign investors, faced criticism from former Yukos executives that he was acting to help legitimize the Russian state’s takeover of Yukos.
A U.S. official questioned the rationale for any deal that could pave the way for reopening the pipeline. “There is nothing about a Nord Stream 2 revival that is in U.S. interests right now.”
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Apr 17, 2024
"Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the US, & leverage the Ukraine war to forge a global order free from American dominance, according to a secret Foreign Ministry document." washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…
“Russia can create difficulties for the U.S. in many different regions of the world,” the academic said. “This is about the Middle East, northeast Asia, the African continent and even Latin America.”
“For Putin it's absolutely natural that he should try to create the maximum number of problems for the US" said @khodorkovsky_en “The task is to take the US out of the game & then destroy NATO. This doesn’t mean dissolving it, but create the feeling that it isn’t defending them”
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Mar 3, 2024
Всем уже хорошо известно o жестокости Путинского режимa в отношении собственных граждан. Но в честь Навального и всех тех, которые пришли прощаться с ним, мы сделали доступ к русскому переводу книги «Люди Путина» бесплатно. Страна должна знать своих героев postimees-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/2024/03/GGvXV9…
Книгa была названа Книгой года 2020 по версии The Times и The Sunday Times, а также The Daily Telegraph, The Economist, Financial Times и New Statesman.
«Однозначное и абсолютно своевременное предостережение. Ни в одной другой книге вы не найдете столь подробного и убедительного рассказа о правлении Путина. Если вы хотите понять как Россия смогла превратиться в ту страну, которую мы наблюдаем в последние 20 лет, эта книга для вас
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Feb 17, 2024
"The Kremlin ordered a group of Russian political strategists to use social media and fake news articles to try and destabilize Ukrainian society, according to a trove of Kremlin documents. The strategists were told to foment or exaggerate divisions." washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/…
The files, numbering more than 100 documents, were shared with The Post to expose for the first time the scale of Kremlin propaganda targeting Zelensky — efforts that Moscow dubbed “information psychological operations." washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/…
With Zaluzhny now out, the front lines frozen and further military & financial support from the US uncertain, some are concerned that Russia’s covert propaganda efforts could begin to erode national cohesion & morale.
“The most difficult times are ahead,” said one senior official
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Aug 1, 2023
All Russian billionaires suing western courts to lift sanctions will read this and weep. Great indepth investigation on how the companies of Mikhail Fridman, Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov & others are key suppliers for Russia's war machine in Ukraine proekt.media/guide/russian-…
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@wwwproektmedia Fridman's Alfa Bank provided loans to a slew of Russian defence enterprises, including to a major bullet producer at the height of the war & a current credit line to an optical systems maker for Russian bombers, & to raw materials suppliers for nuclear weapon & missile producers
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