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A “secret” Russian influence campaign allegedly paid $10 million to prop up a media company hosting what it saw as like-minded, right-wing commentators in the US — including popular pundits like Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin and Tim Pool.The Justice Department indicted two employees of the Russian state-controlled media outlet RT on Wednesday for acting as unregistered foreign agents and laundering $9.7 million in payments to a Tennessee media company to allegedly promote pro-Kremlin propaganda.The employees, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, 31, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, are at large, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, after floating...

INSIDE RUSSIA (Ex LETTERS TO KING) is your window to Russia where living in today's Russia explained. Here you find truth about Russia from the insider you can trust. No fake news, no propaganda, no B.S. Putin's well-armed ruthless and 0:02 heartless sardars the Army of Darkness 0:05 backed by trillions of dollars the 0:09 powerful political machine and numerous 0:11 armies served a powerful and dishonest 0:14 blow to e Caterina dunova a person with 0:17 no money resources or political party 0:20 behind her but with love for Russia guts 0:24 God and His angels and US millions...

A couple of points. Russia bluster against Moldova is just noise. Moldova has no intention of changing the status of Trans-Dniester. Russia is feeling an emotional high in it success in hurting Saakashvili and rubbing his nose in his impotence to do anything about it on the ground. I am hearing a lot about who is at fault and would like to point you to Michael Totten interview in Georgia about that subject http://www.michaeltotten.com. Supposedly in July Medevev had advised his diplomatic staff that the status had changed and that Russia was going to act from an attitude of strength...

The wave of freedom that broke over Eastern Europe swamped the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But -- Russia being Russia -- the thirst for empire can never be slaked. Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych -- having stolen the recent election so blatantly even the EU noticed -- is trying to help Russian President Vladimir Putin turn back the tide. Ah, for the good old days when there was only the Evil Empire to worry about. Each side's submarines played hide and seek with the other's, East German border guards shot those trying to escape the workers' paradise,...