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Researcher, international development consultant. Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, Africa, bad puns. Not Dmitry Medvedev. Not quite the master of understatement.
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Jan 23, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
THE POLES ARE COMING

Today in Kremlin propaganda: NATO armies are about to invade Russia

Some highlights🧵

First, NATO pushed Ukrainians to fight. Now they are running out of Ukrainians, and Poles are being pushed to replace them.

1/ "The Poles are resisting and trying to recruit those Ukrainians who fled to Europe to send them to the front. The Baltic neighbours are hiding behind the backs of the Poles."

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Oct 10, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
In his latest Telegram post, Medvedev celebrates today's bloody rocket attacks on Ukrainian civilians and threatens Ukraine with total destruction

🧵 Image The first episode has been played. There will be others.

Moreover, I'll express my personal position. I can't help but mention it now. The Ukrainian state in its current configuration with the Nazi political regime will pose a constant, direct and clear threat to Russia.

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Sep 21, 2022 17 tweets 2 min read
It's on It's about defending Russia's sovereignty and independence

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Sep 20, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Moscow mayor Sobyanin announces converting Russia's largest migration centre (Sakharovo) into a mobilisation centre where non-Russian nationals can enlist to fight in Ukraine

(The Russian parliament has just approved a new citizenship law) The new law basically hands Russian citizenship to anyone who wants to become cannon fodder in Ukraine

www-sobyanin-ru.translate.goog/o-sodeistvii-m…
Sep 20, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
🇬🇧 PM Liz Truss at the @UN:

"UK will match its current (2022) military support for 🇺🇦Ukraine in 2023" The UK is already 2nd largest military donor to Ukraine, committing £2.3bn in 2022. We've trained 27,000 members of UAF since 2015, and last year we've provided 100s of rockets, 5 air defence systems, 120 armoured vehicles and over 200,000 pieces of non-lethal military equipment
Sep 5, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Vladimir Putin approved the "Concept of Russia's humanitarian policy abroad" identifying four key priorities, and what a feast of imperialist illusion it is

🧵 Image Priority 1: "Contributing to the expansion of the cultural presence of the Russian Federation in Central and Eastern Europe, taking into account the readiness of the countries of the region for this"

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Aug 23, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read
Before every anniversary of the shameful Ribbentrop Molotov pact (August 23), Kremlin propaganda goes into a whitewashing frenzy denying any Soviet links with Nazi Germany - now further reinforced by the myth of "European invasion" (= Ukraine 2022, of course)

1/ ImageImage Every year, Poland gets an honourable mention in Kremlin propaganda as an ally of Nazi Germany based on the "Góralski" SS Legion

Planned as a mighty force of 10000, the Legion actually ended up with *five* men - its story would make a great Tarantino script

A tragi-comic🧵
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Jun 13, 2022 19 tweets 4 min read
Poland is plotting to invade Ukraine and take over Central Europe from the Baltic to Adriatic

RIA Novosti published a lengthy piece bemoaning Poland's imperialist ambitions and its alliance with NATO and the USA

Key points 🧵 - Poland sent $2 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine, including more than 240 tanks, almost 100 armoured vehicles and weapons, ammunition and missiles.
- Poland announced Ukraine will receive $470 million worth of arms, partly paid for by the European Union

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May 17, 2022 18 tweets 3 min read
Lavrov's first public keynote since the beginning of the war in Ukraine - at the 'New Horizons Educational Marathon' (the other keynote is by Kadyrov) - is a true festival of lies

live 🧵below NATO wants a unipolar world. They promised Russia they won't enlarge, even in 2009, and that they won't threaten us, but they tricked us.

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May 16, 2022 13 tweets 3 min read
Kremlin's new target: homosexuals

The main cause of conflict between Russia and the West is homosexuality, says @mkomsomolets

A long homophobic 🧵below The main cause of the clash of values between Russia and the West is... homosexuality

Aren't American patriotic like us? Sure they are.
Don't they respect their history? They do.
Don't they keep the faith? Sure, even Biden is 'the famous Catholic Joe'

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May 14, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
Medvedev last letter (May 14) targets G7 summit communiqué with the energy of an angry child threatening his parents

"G7 will continue to wage a covert war with Russia, instead of dealing with problems with fuel and food for their disgruntled residents"

translation 🧵 "A commentary on the main points of the G7 communiqué (not surprising for us at all)"

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May 13, 2022 13 tweets 2 min read
🇷🇺Dmytry Medvedev's latest letter ('Friday the 13th'):

The world is facing 10 imminent plagues including poverty, hunger, war and disease - all result of anti-Russian sanctions

translation 🧵below 1. A number of global supply chains of goods will collapse, a major logistical crisis is possible, including the collapse of the activities of foreign airlines that are prohibited from flying over Russian territory.

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May 12, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Russian MFA:

"Finland's accession to NATO will cause serious damage to bilateral Russian-Finnish relations, maintaining stability and security in the Northern European region. Russia will be forced to take retaliatory steps, both of a military-technical and other nature" "Finland joining NATO will also be a direct violation of the international legal obligations of Finland, primarily the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947, which obliges parties not to enter into alliances or participate in coalitions directed against each other"
May 12, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
Dmitry Medvedev's latest letter (May 12):

- Western support for Ukraine can lead to an open NATO-Russia conflict
- NATO-Russia war can turn into a nuclear war
- This is bad!

translation🧵below The endless chatter by foreign analysts about NATO's war with Russia does not subside. Moreover, the cynicism of Western "talking heads" is becoming more and more pronounced.

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May 9, 2022 18 tweets 4 min read
In an amazingly frank assessment of Russia's military capability, Kremlin propaganda tube @mkomsomolets admits most RU weapon systems are inferior to US/NATO

"The potential enemy should not be underestimated"

A 🧵before they take the piece down "US Navy can rightly be considered the world's most powerful. It has 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and is located in all oceans & Middle East (...) for comparison: Russian Navy has only 1 aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, and even that one is currently under repair"
May 8, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Dmitry Medvedev's latest letter on "The spectre of communism" accuses Europeans of being too...communist 🇪🇺☭🇷🇺

"Worthy heirs of two Karls - Kautsky and Marx" "The spectre of communism has returned to Europe. Or So, in any case, claim the media. Fat Europeans, provided with gas from various sources, are going to be forced to share with the poor but proud, who do not want to pay Russia in rubles for Russian fuel"
May 7, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Another blood-curdling RIA Novosti piece outlining Russia's grand plans for Ukraine war

"For the first time since 1945, we are waiting for a new victory - without which the very existence of our state will be in question"

3 scenarios below

ria.ru/20220507/pobed… First scenario: Russia has to withstand long-term western sanctions, successfully reorients itself towards East and South (hello 🇨🇳), the West cannot maintain a united front for too long, sanctions regime collapses. Russian victory!
May 6, 2022 11 tweets 2 min read
Dmitry Medvedev's latest letter (May 6):

"Poles have planned a partition of Ukraine"

It puts Poland on top of the Kremlin's propaganda efforts using the old Soviet trope repeated since 1917:

🇵🇱Poland plans to invade 🇺🇦Ukraine - and only 🇷🇺Russia can save it

Translation🧵 "The Poles proclaimed a partition of Ukraine

Polish President Andrzej Duda officially recognized territorial claims to Ukraine.

The masks have dropped. He stated that there would no longer be a border between Poland and Ukraine for decades, or even centuries."

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May 6, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
This morning (May 6), Dmitry Medvedev published a short love letter to Viktor Orban in response to the Hungarian PM's refusal to join the EU's Russia oil sanctions

🇭🇺🇷🇺❤️🧵below "Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had already been included in the "Peacemaker" list [Ukrainian site listing 'enemies of Ukraine] , took a courageous step for a voiceless Europe."

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May 5, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
🇵🇱Poland becomes the target of 🇷🇺Russia's propaganda machine again - this time ex-deputy PM Rogozin, now head of state space agency and Kremlin's nationalist attack dog extraordinaire, calls Poland "the most consistent enemy and the Russian world (Русский мир) and Russia"

🧵 Poland is true to itself. It has always been the most consistent enemy of the Russian world and Russia. Except for those periods of its history, when constant provocation and aggression against neighbors...

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May 5, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
🇷🇺Russian government propaganda has long tried to drive a wedge between 🇵🇱Poland and 🇺🇦Ukraine, but the newest spy scandal is beyond comical:

Step 1:
🕵️SBU recruited Polish spies to work in 🇲🇩Transnistria

🧵 Image Step 2:
The successes achieved by SBU-recruited Polish spies in Transnistria (yes!) has so inspired the security forces and they decided to increase the “area of ​​opportunities” in the 'Polish direction'

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