Anton Shekhovtsov

@A_SHEKH0VTS0V

Director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity (), author of "Russia and the Western Far Right" ()

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  1. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    For Putin, Ukraine is an oddity, a mistake and a problem: A Slavic nation choosing liberal democracy and rapprochement with the West, defying his insistence that Russia’s destiny lies outside the West, outside Europe

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  2. 5 hours ago

    My latest for Haaretz.

    . For Russia’s rulers, Ukraine is an oddity, a mistake of history defying its civilizational 'destiny' and threatening the Kremlin’s domestic propaganda. And Putin has now chosen a violent solution for his 'Ukraine problem'
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  3. 6 hours ago

    No, the West did not humiliate Russia. The shameless and indifferent Russian elites did that -- by plundering Russian people, by raping the Russian civil society, by corrupting the very soul of the country - and eventually by convincing many the West was responsible for all that.

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  4. 22 hours ago

    Many ask: where will Putin stop? Putin will stop where he will be stopped.

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  5. Retweeted
    Feb 21

    Bueno, tras la agresión imperialista rusa voy a hablar de la Rusia actual, de Vladimir Putin y su filosofía/ ideología política a partir de una serie de libros académicos. Empezaré con "Russia and the Western Far Right" de publicado por Routledge. Hilo 1

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  6. Feb 21

    Just to be perfectly clear: Russia has not simply recognised independence of the “republics” in the occupied areas of eastern Ukraine. Putin has ordered Russian troops to officially take control over the occupied Ukrainian territories. This means only one thing: INVASION.

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  7. Feb 21

    One very important issue is crystal clear now: it is Ukraine, not Russia, that needs international security guarantees. Russia needs nothing but condemnation and sanctions - and those, I hope, it will have in full.

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  8. Feb 21

    Let me explain, in a nutshell, Putin's speech on the recognition of the "people's republics".

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  9. Feb 21

    If you understand Russian, this is must-watch: Sergey Naryshkin, Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, bumbles and stutter as he apparently forgets what Putin wants to hear from him regarding Ukraine:

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  10. Feb 21

    ⚡ Moscow: if we recognise independence of the "people's republics", and even if the West condemns the action and introduces sanctions, with time they will themselves be asking us to restore relations, as the history of our recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia shows us.

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  11. Feb 21

    Looks like Moscow is going to recognise "independence" of the "people's republics" in Russia-occupied eastern Ukraine.

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  12. Feb 21

    The Russian FSB says a "missile" "from Ukraine" destroyed a Russian checkpoint close to the Ukrainian border. I wonder if the FSB can produce an image of this "checkpoint" BEFORE the "missile" hit it.

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    According to FSB that was their checkpoint near the border. No casualties
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  13. Feb 21

    In 2021, we saw the continuation of three major trends regarding Moscow’s influence in Europe: the shrinking of traditional soft power, retreat from electoral interference, and an increase in the role of more sinister persuasion instruments:

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  14. Feb 20

    Reports are coming in that in the “people’s republics” in the Russia-occupied Donbass men as young as 16 are forcibly taken to assembly points and then transported to front lines - they apparently have no military training and are likely to be used as cannon fodder.

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  15. Feb 20

    As we were watching the developments around Ukraine, a prominent Odessa-born Soviet-American historian Alexander Yanov sadly passed away in NYC at the age of 91 two days ago. Back in 1995, he wrote:

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  16. Feb 20

    A successful transformation of Ukraine into a democracy will be a "bad example" for the Russian middle class awaking to the costs of maintaining Putin's regime, says Hugues Mingarelli, former EU Ambassador to Ukraine, in the recent episode of :

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  17. Feb 19

    Putin tried to tout even to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:

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  18. Feb 19

    Ukraine has no problem with ethnicity - after all, Ukraine’s president is a native Russian speaker of Jewish background. What the country does have a problem with is invaders of any ethnic origin. Ukraine is multi-ethnic, so are the invaders. “Genocide” talk is 2/2

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  19. Feb 19

    Drawing on its playbook, the Kremlin is in full swing making up : an alleged genocide of ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Note that a significant percentage of the Ukrainian military defending their Motherland from Putin’s aggression are of ethnic Russian origin. 1/2

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  20. Feb 18

    “Donbass refugees” fooled into leaving their homes with the help of a cynical Kremlin psyop is one of the keystones of about Ukraine.

    Did you read that leaders of the "people's republics" in Russia-occupied eastern Ukraine announced evacuation of the population of the "republics" to Russia? Media report that the announcements were recorded two ays ago - we are clearly having a case of pre-planned info op.
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