From the early 1990s through around 1998 I was one of the very few people living in the US South who subscribed to “Cottage Life.”
Completely unapologetic propaganda.
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“After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and actually a few months before the war, we noticed an increase of Russian citizens recruited to pilot these sailing boats carrying migrants, and their involvement has become almost systematic.”
The trend started earlier?
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Hope he stays away from the windows of tall buildings…
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It is still around.
In 2022, Russian Life condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, calling it an “illegal, unjustified, unprovoked act that is in direct violation of international law”.
I looked it up thinking maybe it was started during glasnost, but it goes back earlier than that. Changed ownership in the '90s, according to that.
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Boris Johnson makes surprise trip to Ukraine?
No. Zero surprise at all. That narcissistic charlatan will do anything to get in a positive spotlight.
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You’d think South Africa, of all places, might remember the power of a boycott.
They clearly don’t think Russia should be subject to one, so they need to be subject to another one, themselves.
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From the indictment:
Charles McGonigal, the defendant, served in the FBI from 1996 to 2018. During his FBI career, McGonigal worked in Russian counterintelligence and organized crime matters and counter-espionage, among other areas. Beginning in 2016 until his retirement in 2018, McGonigal served as the Special Agent in Charge (“SAC”) of the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI’s New York Field Office. As SAC, McGonigal supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska. Among other things, in 2018, McGonigal, while acting as SAC, received and reviewed a then-classified list of Russian oligarchs with close ties to the Kremlin who would be considered for sanctions to be imposed as a result of Russia’s 2014 conflict with Ukraine.
The indictment says that McGonigal was first introduced to an agent of Deripaska’s in 2018, but that hasn’t stopped speculation on events before that.
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Let’s revisit this guy Deripaska…
Smell something? It’s not Russian caviar.
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Russia says Ukraine “will pay” if they acquire the German-built tanks they need to repel Russian forces. It seems like that’s the sort of threat that might have been more effective before Russia invaded?
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Pay Russia back for invading maybe?
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Putin didn’t expect Leopards to eat his face.
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The indictment doesn’t name which law firm McGonigal (after leaving the FBI) got to represent Deripaska to try to be “delisted” from the sanctions, but that Reuters article names two possibilities.
I’m also reminded that, in his 2018 testimony, James Comey said to Raja Krishnamoorthi he was dismissed before he could potentially receive a report on an investigation into leaks at the New York field office. Krishnamoorthi seemed more concerned at the time with Rudy Giuliani getting info on potential investigations into Trump, but Comey was talking about leaks in 2016.
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This part near the end was interesting:
“Since he took command, officers have been attempting to clamp down on non-regulation uniform, travel in civilian vehicles, the use of mobile phones, and non-standard haircuts,” the intelligence assessment said. “The measures have been met with skeptical feedback. However, some of the greatest derision has been reserved for attempts to improve the standard of troops’ shaving.”
So the Wagner Group is like the Howling Commandos of war crimes?
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Sounds to me like they don’t want to be leaving shabby corpses behind.
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