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

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.

"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.”

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.

"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/…

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-… Abramovich's Evraz, for example, per @wwwproektmedia investigation, supplies raw materials for Russian tank factories, as well as chemicals for an explosives factory & a missile producer, according to contracts cited here war-proekt.media/spisok-oligark…

Important @ArabellaPike on the ganging up against Elizabeth Gilbert's novel just because it was set in 1930s Soviet Russia: "What are publishers & writers to do in the face of such protests? Pretend that Russia or the Soviet Union do not or did not exist? thetimes.co.uk/article/why-th… "And where does this end? Literary agents report a reluctance, particularly among US publishers, to take on Russian writers or subjects, even those critical of the Putin regime. What next? No reading of War and Peace? No Russian history books?"

"The proposed agreements involve locking in multiyear commitments to provide funding, weapons & potentially formal promises to come to one another’s aid. They would insulate Ukraine from major political shifts in the West." With @missy_ryan @emilyrauhala washingtonpost.com/national-secur… “What we really want to do is send an unambiguous signal to Putin that regardless of what happens in the West in the coming couple of years, the West will remain supportive of Ukraine’s defense for as long as it takes,” the official said.

"The West has failed to turn around industrial policy to meet Ukraine’s needs for ammunition & other weaponry. Kyiv’s existing stores are becoming depleted, as are the West’s own stockpiles, raising the risk of shortages in supplies." w/@emilyrauhala washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/… “The penny has dropped that this might go on longer and that you have to invest in your industry if we are going to make this sustainable,” said @Jack_Watling. “The fact of the matter is that this was obvious in April last year, but people sat on their hands.”

"The documents show for the first time the Kremlin’s direct attempts to interfere in German politics by seeking to forge a new coalition between the far left and the AfD, as well as to support protests against the German government." washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/… "The documents record meetings between Kremlin officials and Russian political strategists, and the Kremlin’s orders for the strategists to focus on Germany to build antiwar sentiment in Europe and dampen support for Ukraine."

Three cheers to @IoWBobSeely for successfully bringing in a bill today to prevent SLAPPS - abusive lawsuits by the superrich seeking to silence critics -- a model he rightly called "legal gangsterism" used by "organised crime, authoritarian states and their oligarch proxies". The bill introduced by @IoWBobSeely picks up the mantle from the UK justice ministry which has failed to follow through on promises for reform to stop this decades long abuse of the system, which Seely called a stain on London's legal reputation and our democracy.

This looks to be an impressive government response to counter abuse of the UK legal system by the super-rich: The reforms will introduce "a new statutory early dismissal process to stop these cases – allowing judges to throw out claims that lack merit." gov.uk/government/con… This will include a 3-part test – with clear criteria to help courts determine whether a case is a SLAPP. First, it will assess if the case is against activity in the public interest – for example investigating financial misconduct by a company or individual.

The Commons also heard from @IoWBobSeely who "congratulated @HarperCollinsUK massively" for fighting the SLAPP cases against me and @tomburgis in an environment where "publishers as well as journalists are intimidated into silence." 'The message is clear: don't write about Russia, don't write about those close to the Russian leader, don't write about state oligarchs who hide their dodgy dealings in plain sight. The result is that freedom of speech is being stifled journalistic investigations are unlaunched.'

Incredible moments in Commons this pm as @DavidDavisMP lays into extraordinarily rich individuals using lawfare and SLAPP cases to "shut down scrutiny through fear" in a way that can "undermine the security of the state". He cited the flurry of cases filed against HarperCollins and me over Putin's People by 4 Russian billionaires and Russian state oil major Rosneft, 2 months after @navalny quoted from the book in his video on Putin's palace.