On September 6, Russian military correspondent Semen Pegov posted information on his Telegram-channel WarGonzo (WG) about “members of one Russian Private Military Company [PMC] being currently deployed in Yemen.” He ascribed this information to data received from “three anonymous sources…
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Moldova’s Democratic Façade Crumbles as Supreme Court Invalidates Democratic Election
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• •Jamestown: On June 25, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Moldova denied opposition candidate Andrei Nastase (leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party) legal recourse, thus upholding the June 21 decision of the Appellate Court to invalidate the…
Russia’s S-400 Air Defense System to Receive New Long-Range Missile, Likely for Sale to China for SCS
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• •Russia has reportedly completed user trials of the 40N6E long-range missile for the S-400 Triumf advanced interceptor-based air defense systems (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler), according to a Russian defense industry source. “The state trials of the 40N6E long-range surface-to-air (SAM) missile…
Russia-linked Hackers Target German Political Foundations
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• •Hackers with connections to Russia have tried to spy on German political foundations associated with the country’s largest parties, according to security experts. The Friedrich Ebert and the Konrad Adenauer Foundations were targeted by hackers in March and April this…
Iran Builds Soft Power in Georgia to Foster Tighter Nexus With Russia
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• •“I appreciate that Georgia has [a governmental] agency that directly works on religious affairs and with religions. I am very pleased that thanks to the efforts of Georgian government representatives, different religions and ethnic groups peacefully coexist here. That is…
OFAC Designation of Putin’s Spy Agency May Trip Up U.S. Exports
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• •The recent OFAC sanctions on Russia’s FSB né KGB, which is the Kremlin’s spy agency, may have unintended consequences. According to this article on the Russian website by my friend Иван Ткачёв (Ivan Tkachev) the FSB, besides doing typical spy things, is also…
Beijing Encroaching on Moscow’s Military Dominance in Tajikistan
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• •Putin-Netanyahu Meeting Strengthens Russia-Israel Ties
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• •Moscow’s intervention in Syria’s civil war has propelled Russia into the center of Middle Eastern politics and substantially enhanced its ties with virtually every Middle Eastern state. Israel is no exception. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently concluded his fourth…
The Futility of Dialogue With Putin
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• •The need to keep the channels of dialogue open with an unpredictable Russia is taken as an absolute imperative by many Western politicians. But they are often surprised when this tactic backfires. The foreign ministers of the member states of…
Moscow Plays Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Against Crimean Tatars
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• •According to Refat Chubarov, the president of the Crimean Tatar World Congress and the elected chairperson of the Mejlis (the quasi-governing assembly of the Crimean Tatars), the Russian Federation is in the process of creating a Crimean Tatar military corps…