🧵 1. While investigating TikTokers who claim everything in Latvia is terrible, I contacted one of them—sailor Rudakov (Solomon Bernshtein). He was spreading Kremlin propaganda. Shortly after our conversation, he moved to Belarus, walked around Minsk, and praised life there. ➡️ - ThreadSky

ingaspringe.bsky.social • 31 days ago

🧵 1. While investigating TikTokers who claim everything in Latvia is terrible, I contacted one of them—sailor Rudakov (Solomon Bernshtein). He was spreading Kremlin propaganda. Shortly after our conversation, he moved to Belarus, walked around Minsk, and praised life there. ➡️

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ingaspringe.bsky.social•31 days ago

🧵 2. We noticed that such stories are becoming more frequent. Ordinary people and professional propagandists claimed to be fleeing the Baltics due to LGBTQ issues, NATO, and "Russophobia." Their "interviews" mainly appeared on four YT, like Sprats in Exile.

ingaspringe.bsky.social•31 days ago

🧵 3. Sprats in exile is run by a former Rīga resident, Stefanov. Last year, he obtained Russian citizenship. He is a former Sputnik journalist. The channel was created after the EU imposed sanctions on Kremlin media, leading to their shutdown on major social media platforms. ➡️

ingaspringe.bsky.social•31 days ago

🧵 4. The Belarusian market is covered by Samuļs. His broadcasts are also aired on Belarusian state radio. Samuļs told me he does this for free. In the picture, all three figures have fled legal proceedings—Samuļs and Aleksejevs from Latvia, and the third from Lithuania. ➡️

ingaspringe.bsky.social•31 days ago

🧵 5. Mamikins has the largest following. A former Sputnik editor, Kasems, suspects he records in an RT studio, but Mamikins denies it. Kasems says another YT channel, Baltijskij gruz, also operates from an RT-linked studio—he worked there during his Sputnik days. ➡️

ingaspringe.bsky.social•31 days ago

🧵 6. Data from various sources suggest: around 1700 people have moved from the Baltics to RUS and a few hundred to Belarus since the war began. It seems that TikTok had shut down the accounts of some of these propagandists.
Read my story. #VatnikSoup
https://en.rebaltica.lv/2025/01/kremlin-propaganda-revives-as-neutral-youtube-channels-amid-claims-of-baltic-migration/

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