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Somaen posted:Nemtsov and Navalny aren't just critics, they are/were legitimate political contenders with federal political weight, organization and electoral support, the Kremlin has a bunch of no-action critics that are comfortably integrated into the whole controlled opposition system We're publishing details of more of the FSB assassination team's activities over the coming weeks, I think we have 5 or 6 more examples to publish of people being followed then falling suddenly and mysteriously ill and we keep finding more and more. These assassinations appear to be regular business for the FSB, and it's not just political figures who are targeted.
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Lichtenstein posted:Which, perfectly understandable on a personal level, but also everyone somehow apparently just shrugged and went "yep, nothing weird about running for the highest office in such state". Like how the gently caress is a politician allowed to make such an admission and keep his career?
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Brown Moses posted:We're publishing details of more of the FSB assassination team's activities over the coming weeks, I think we have 5 or 6 more examples to publish of people being followed then falling suddenly and mysteriously ill and we keep finding more and more. These assassinations appear to be regular business for the FSB, and it's not just political figures who are targeted. Thank the british government for allowing russia to assassinate russian exiles on their territory for the last 30 years. Guess the Brits shouldn't have invested in western russia
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Thank the british government for allowing russia to assassinate russian exiles on their territory for the last 30 years.
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Grouchio posted:Wait how and for what purpose? What part is confusing to you? The London banking system shelled out billions to russia as investments and those investments were divvied up amongst the oligarchs of both Exiled and russian mafia loyalists. The mafia loyalists are Putin's soldiers which blend in and out of being government employees. So you'll have FSB agents who are Lts in the gangs they operate within. The FSB is used for high level assassinations while the russian mafia operating out of european countries are used for low level hits or the usual intimidation if being followed everywhere etc. So russia took the investments post soviet fall and Britain is on the hook with the loans. If britain took a hard stance against the fact that Russia just caps people in london with impunity then their investments would be in jeopardy.
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I thought it had more to do with the sheer amount of property Russian oligarchs own in London and they could pretty much tank property values on a whim.
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Oracle posted:I thought it had more to do with the sheer amount of property Russian oligarchs own in London and they could pretty much tank property values on a whim. I doubt oligarchs would be keen on tanking their own investments in unison like that, kinda goes against the oligarch modus operandi of gently caress you got mine.
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madeintaipei posted:Does anyone in Russia besides their families, who lost their beloved, care about the slow but steady attrition of Wagner mercenaries? If there would be any significant action in Ukraine, it wont be just mercenaries and illegal "volunteers" under DNR warlords - by "contract" I mean people who signed for paid armed service past their draft year (recruiters vulture around them all the time because it is good cash if you are from a depressed region) and professional soldiers.
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Russia kicked out 20 Czech diplomats as retaliation for kicking out 18 of theirs for blowing up that ammo dump. That's almost all of the embassy staff lol. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56796324
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The talk on the town is that the future of Nord Stream 2 will set the tone now. If Russia's allowed to finish the project, it basically means the EU's powerless to do poo poo (or doesn't really want to).
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Mokotow posted:The talk on the town is that the future of Nord Stream 2 will set the tone now. If Russia's allowed to finish the project, it basically means the EU's powerless to do poo poo (or doesn't really want to). I dream of the day when Germany will stop sabotaging EU security interests for short-term economic gain.
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MiddleOne posted:I dream of the day when Germany will stop sabotaging EU security interests for short-term economic gain. Any day now. *Thinks back on Nord Stream 1, where german chancellor applied heavy political pressure to other countries to push it through, and then immediately got a job on a Gazprom board.* Any day now.
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MiddleOne posted:I dream of the day when Germany will stop sabotaging EU security interests for short-term economic gain. 2. Just invest shitloads into renewables EU, lol
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Grouchio posted:1. Would the SPD be up for the job of doing just that? When you classify trees as renewable anything can happen.
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karthun posted:When you classify trees as renewable anything can happen. Yeah, Germany continues to be the textbook case for Greenwashing, shuttering their nuclear plants and now NIMBYism stopping their Renewables rollout so they are back to being dependent on Coal and Russian Gas.
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karthun posted:When you classify trees as renewable anything can happen. Tree burn tree grow It makes more sense in german I'm sure
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Grouchio posted:1. Would the SPD be up for the job of doing just that? SPD is up to being irrelevant while auditioning for Russian oil and gas industry jobs. Their foreign ministers have been utterly boot-licking of Russia compared to the overall Merkel government. A potential Green government is gonna be weird, though, given their hate of nuclear, but gas is hardly green itself.
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OddObserver posted:SPD is up to being irrelevant while auditioning for Russian oil and gas industry jobs. Their foreign ministers have been utterly boot-licking of Russia compared to the overall Merkel government. its not, but the greens have been pushing gas, hard. Hell, Greenpeace runs a Gas reseller in Germany that they bill as "Green Gas". Their hypocrisy is amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace_Energy
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Tree burn tree grow It can only make sense if trees are growing faster then they are burning. I have no faith that is the case under energiewende.
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karthun posted:It can only make sense if trees are growing faster then they are burning. I have no faith that is the case under energiewende. Maybe we can use lights to extend growing season for trees and power the lights with burning trees
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So the Czech prime minister’s trying to pull some poo poo. He says the ammo dump explosion wasn’t an act of national terrorism, because the ammo was Bulgarian and bound for Russia, and just happened to be blown up in Czechia, so no harm done eh 
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Czechia is a stupid name for what should be West Czechoslovakia.
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Mokotow posted:So the Czech prime minister’s trying to pull some poo poo. He says the ammo dump explosion wasn’t an act of national terrorism, because the ammo was Bulgarian and bound for Russia, and just happened to be blown up in Czechia, so no harm done eh
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Is there any other news outlet besides Sputnik that confirmed this? VVVV couldnt find anything with quick google search on my phone, thanks for the link laserghost fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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laserghost posted:Is there any other news outlet besides Sputnik that confirmed this? https://translate.google.com/transl...0713_domaci_knn Although it seems that it might be technically correct , just an extremely stupid thing to say. E Nenonen posted:Czechia is a stupid name for what should be West Czechoslovakia. Could be Western Russia soon, depending on how this goes mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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Czech senate is mulling over expelling all russian diplos, save for the ambassador or charge’d affairs. Would be the biggest escalation since... I dunno, 1985 Soviet Union/UK diplomatic row?
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Grouchio posted:Of course it's the sleazy corporate populist Babis who made this dumb statement. How russophilic was Czechia again?
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Mokotow posted:Czech senate is mulling over expelling all russian diplos, save for the ambassador or charge’d affairs. Would be the biggest escalation since... I dunno, 1985 Soviet Union/UK diplomatic row? Seeing as the US and Russia have expelled each other's diplo's in the last few days does it really count as an escalation?
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Yes, because US and Russia have a lot of staff to have expelled. Conversely, almost all the Czech staff in Moscow is gone, while Russia still has 120 staff in Czechia, working in the embassy and two consulates. Expelling all embassy staff (or closing embassies) is not something that happens often, thus my 1985 comment which I vaguely remember was the last time these escalating expulsions actually started making a dent in the respective diplomatic corps. Mokotow fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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That 120 btw, almost three times more staff than any other equivalent (and many larger) countries. Almost like they have a lot of intelligence people doing bad poo poo there....
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anilEhilated posted:Not very; the problem is it's got an extremely russophilic President who loves to overstep his authority.
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Scaramouche posted:That 120 btw, almost three times more staff than any other equivalent (and many larger) countries. Almost like they have a lot of intelligence people doing bad poo poo there.... ...in Brno and *checks notes* Karlove Vary? 
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Mokotow posted:So the Czech prime minister’s trying to pull some poo poo. He says the ammo dump explosion wasn’t an act of national terrorism, because the ammo was Bulgarian and bound for Russia, and just happened to be blown up in Czechia, so no harm done eh And the soldiers weren't really murdered since they would have died one day anyway. Makes sense 
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Meanwhile, in Belarus, an attempted coup was heroically prevented by Russian and Belarusian secret services. https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-two-men-accused-of-planning-coup-arrested-in-moscow/a-57241861 Basically, KGB and FSB picked a bunch of radicalised (relative) nobodies, who absolutely hated Tikhanovskaya for her peaceful approach to the protest, and led them on with promises of military support during an armed uprising that would culminate with Lukashenko's execution. And two of them even went to Russia to discuss this stuff in person with some 'anti-Lukashenko generals', where they if course got arrested. It reminds me a lot of the movie The Day Shall Come. The sheer ineptitude is staggering. What a great gift to the propaganda machine.
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Unit 29155 are the high level hitmen The 45th Guards Special Purpose Detached Brigade is Putin's army. The Tambov Gang are low level muscle for higher, intimidation, witness tampering, etc Wagner are the selects of these groups commanding russian army regulars who are trustworthy enough to make a slight cash increase over the normal drug dealing rackets WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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Paladinus posted:Meanwhile, in Belarus, an attempted coup was heroically prevented by Russian and Belarusian secret services.
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Dwesa posted:yeah, I am already seeing local kremlinbots parroting that Czech expulsion of America's destiny lies in the wheat fields of belarus. - adolf biden
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