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[Link] Hundreds of Wagner Men Vanish From Putin’s Designated Exile

Read: 22/8/2023 www.thedailybeast.com

Wagner fighters are reportedly leaving Belarus in droves, just weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin had them exiled in the aftermath of their failed march on Moscow.

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[Link] Families of drafted Russian soldiers accuse Putin of snubbing them

Read: 23/11/2022 www.theguardian.com

Two months after mobilising tens of thousands of Russian men, the Kremlin has said that Vladimir Putin will grant some of their mothers and wives an audience to quell fears over the mass call-up.

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[Link] Vladimir Putin Explains Why State Media Is Better Than Wikipedia

Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com

“Of course, objective, important, in-depth information that’s been gathered properly and skillfully…this is in great demand,” Putin said, according to a translation of the video by journalist Kevin Rothrock. “And that’s why you can’t just use Wikipedia.

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[Link] Israel says Putin apologised for foreign minister's Hitler remarks

Read: 6/5/2022 www.theguardian.com

The Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, said on Thursday that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had apologised for his foreign minister’s claims that Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins.

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[Link] Putin’s Former Judo Buddy Calls Him ‘Cowardly’ After the Russian Leader Lost His Black Belt

Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com

TOKYO — One of Japan’s most distinguished judo leaders has criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, calling out his “cowardly” acts and joining a chorus of condemnation from civil society worldwide.

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[Link] $35m chalets, $14,000 bottles of wine and $700 tips: Russians made this town rich. Now they have vanished

Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au

Before the war against Ukraine started just over a month ago, the exclusive French ski resort of Courchevel was buzzing with wealthy Russians. They constituted 7 per cent of its tourist population, but in terms of the town's income, Russia's elite were a goldmine.

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[Link] How Russia Used the War in Ukraine to ‘Occupy’ Another Neighbouring Country

Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com

The Belarusian dictator’s complicity in letting his country be used by Russia to attack Ukraine has effectively turned Belarus into a Russian client state and amounts to an occupation, the country’s opposition says.

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[Link] Russian Agent Maria Butina Says Ukraine’s Jewish President Is ‘Reviving Fascism’

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

In 2018, she was convicted in the U.S. for acting as an agent for Russia. Now she's backing Putin's war on Ukraine. Maria Butina's attempts to infiltrate the NRA and Republican political circles as a Russian agent got her an 18-month prison sentence in the United States.

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[Link] Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule

Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.

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[Link] Vladimir Putin Is Worried About ‘Cancel Culture’

Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com

Watching Putin warn about the dangers of cancel culture of progressive intolerance while throwing his biggest critic in jail is just a more absurd version of what’s become routine in the U.S.

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[Link] ‘Psychological violence’: Alexei Navalny says he is forced to watch eight hours of state TV a day

Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has given his first interview from prison, comparing it to a Chinese labor camp and saying he is forced to watch eight hours of state television a day.

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[Link] Pussy Riot Members Are on House Arrest and Can't Even Get Groceries

Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com

Nadya Tolokonnikova, founder of Russian punk rock group and performance collective Pussy Riot, speaks with gracefully articulated rage.

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