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PhD UCL SSEES, visiting professor at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist for EUObserver @euobserver.bsky.social, outdoor research fellow
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The grooming-gangs scandal is a stain on the British state economist.com/britain/2025... It involved a toxic combination of victim-blaming and misguided political correctness.

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Modern proxy bombing, which often involves unwitting, manipulated, or coerced civilians, is a terrifyingly effective instrument of psychological warfare. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

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It does not really matter that a nuclear weapon power which never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has attacked a non-nuclear-weapon state – one that is an NPT signatory. 1/3

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The Russian-Ukrainian war is radically redefining how modern wars are fought, with two technological advancements standing out in particular: drones and proxy bombing. 1/7

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Russians would never have lost beautiful, beautiful Alaska if I was president.

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Le chercheur viennois Anton Shekhovtsov décrit l’obsession de Poutine pour la domination de l’Ukraine comme une quête d’immortalité symbolique, où le dirigeant russe cherche à réécrire l’Histoire en soumettant le peuple ukrainien, tel un personnage de science-fiction. desk-russie.eu/2025/06/15/l...

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Orbán’s propagandist and former Fidesz candidate Georg Spöttle turned out to have maintained a close relationship with the Russian military intelligence service. vsquare.org/germany-hung... Quelle surprise!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve recently written an essay, “Putin’s Genocidal Quest for Symbolic Immortality” shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/putins-gen... And today Putin has essentially quoted, indirectly of course, this essay of mine. 1/3

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The violent death of the old order: “2024 marked a historic peak in state-based conflicts, with 61 active conflicts across 36 countries – the highest number recorded since 1946”. 1/2

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Why Ukraine fights back and will keep on doing so: Ukraine has no other choice shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/why-ukrain...

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Looking at the intimidating military response by the Trump regime to the relatively small-scale protests in Los Angeles, I cannot help but think that Trump would probably have nuked the multi-thousand-strong Maidan Revolution in Ukraine in 2014. 1/5

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Some of the most frequently aired Russia-related debates in Europe are also the most useless: Whether the Putin regime has an ideology, whether Russians bear collective responsibility for the war against Ukraine, or whether Russia can democratise after Putin. 1/3

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An NYC-based Russian citizen Iurii Gugnin allegedly laundered more than $500M through the U.S. financial system, including by facilitating transactions with sanctioned Russian banks www.justice.gov/opa/pr/found...

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UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, citing systematic destruction, starvation, and explicit declarations by Israeli officials, and denounces the complicity of international actors in enabling these actions. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

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RIP Frederick Forsyth, the author of some of the best political thrillers set during the Cold War, “The Day of the Jackal”, “The Odessa File”, “The Fourth Protocol”…

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Los socialdemócratas han impulsado a la extrema derecha para debilitar al centroderecha www.elmundo.es/opinion/luce...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Me: [Fact-checking my argument with ChatGPT] ChatGPT: You’re absolutely right. As Anton Shekhovtsov says… Me: Great – now can you double-check with other sources? ChatGPT: Absolutely. [Proceeds to cite three articles quoting… me]

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

This comment of mine is ageing pretty well… 😎

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The revelations by the Security Service of Ukraine about a cell of Hungarian military intelligence operating in Transcarpathia to the detriment of Ukraine raise serious questions about Hungary’s position within Western political and military alliances.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Putin engages in unabashed projections: “The Ukrainian authorities represent a completely rotten and corrupt regime that relies on terror and is not interested in either peace or people’s lives”.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like Trump has chickened out of his own truth-tweet, where he basically acted as a Kremlin spokesperson. I might be wrong, but I can’t seem to find his truth-tweet archived here: archive.is/VlaEu.

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Russia’s Proto-Trumpist Party a Magnet for the Far Right buff.ly/eeDCtbn Zhirinovsky boasted that Moscow should rule lands from “Kabul to Istanbul,” and Russian soldiers would one day “wash their boots in the Indian Ocean.”

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France and Belgium, EU’s top Russian LNG buyers, refuse to back Brussels’ ban on Russian gas www.politico.eu/article/eus-...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Leaky Pete will not attend a forthcoming meeting of the US-organised international group coordinating military aid to Ukraine apnews.com/article/hegs...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

This is the way the old world order ends – not with a bang but a neigh. Welcome to the interregnum.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Taking candy from a baby: “Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin” www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

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