[PDF file]: […] be riddled with errors.’ 25 Kyle Cunliffe, ‘Donald Trump spying allegations: more likely useful idiot than Putin’s agent’ at or . 21 House of Trump, House of Putin (New York: Dutton, 2018) and American Kompromat (New York: Dutton, 2021) 22 23 See . 24 London: Simon & Schuster, 1994 See or . 25 7 […]
[PDF file]: […] the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Christian Right legal operation which has offices in many cities, including London. And then there is the Christian Right’s admiration for Vladimir Putin. Franklin Graham (see below) actually had a 45 minute meeting with the man who had bought Russia back to Christianity in December 2015; while during the […]
[PDF file]: […] big investigations by Reuters into aspects of Russia’s economy4 7 and the second is a long review of a new 46 47 book on the rise of Putin and his associates.4 8 The two articles are complimentary in many ways. Both show, for example, that the current Russian kleptocracy has been created with and […]
[PDF file]: […] and comrade Trumpski So here’s one side. This is David Corn, a left-leaning writer, in the left-leaning Mother Jones: ‘Here are the indisputable basics. Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered a covert assault, employing information warfare, on the 2016 US election. A 2017 report of the intelligence community, the 2019 report of Special Counsel Robert […]
[PDF file]: […] they arrived. This saved Rusal a significant amount of time and money. Among those who invested in Rusal was Leonid Blavatnik, a multibillionaire with close ties to Putin. Since 2015, Blavatnik has donated $7 million to ‘campaign funds controlled by Mitch McConnell’. (pp. 152-155). Blavatnik, one of the richest men in the world, has […]
[PDF file]: […] all the redactions to properly fact check this information? There is then some truly odd obfuscation at Paragraph 57, which says that ‘a number of critics of Putin and the Russian government have sought sanctuary in the UK, fearing politically motivated criminal charges and harassment’ and the ensuing footnote says ‘These include such high-profile […]
[PDF file]: […] the world as social networks. 15 Photographs have always been one of the easiest ways to judge a nation’s development. For example, those released of Prime Minister Putin are always a ‘look at me’ command, never interactive. He changes his accessories – most recently a lion cub – but the technique has not been […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate (again) John Durham, assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut, was appointed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate (again) John Durham, assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut, was appointed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the […]
[…] a “reputation laundering” process. In brief, Russian influence in the UK is “the new normal”, and there are a lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business and social scene, and accepted because of their wealth. This level of integration – in “Londongrad” in particular […]
