Nikita Mikhalkov said in an interview with RT that the war with Ukraine was «sent» to Russia by God so that Russians would reconsider their values. According to him, this was supposed to make society «wake up» and understand what is truly important in life.

#WarinUkraine #NikitaMihalkov #propaganda #Russia

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In the appendices to the draft federal budget for 2027–2029, 74.96 billion rubles were allocated to the federal project «We Are Together». The funds are distributed among Rosmolodezh, «Movement of the First», the Ministry of Education, and other recipients as part of three state programs.

#BudgetoftheRussianFederation #MovementoftheFirst #InstituteforInternetDevelopment #Wearetogether #propaganda #youth #Russia

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Today, one can observe increasing activity of Russian special operations in Europe and expect it to intensify, since Ukrainian resistance relies primarily on European aid. The Kremlin is looking for ways to undermine this alliance no less than for military victories.

#Analytics #droneextermination #WarinUkraine #Germany #hybridwar #sabotage #europe #EuropeanUnion #KseniaFedorova #aftertheUSSR #propaganda #Putin #Russia #specialservices #ultraright #France

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RT on Wednesday morning began publishing excerpts from interviews with two previously convicted former activists from Alexei Navalny’s штабs — Shukhratjon Albekov and Ragnar Rein. The publications came out less than two weeks before the State Duma elections amid the FBK’s call to vote against United Russia.

#RT #AlexeiNavalny #Elections2026 #Kazan #LeonidVolkov #Magadan #propaganda #FBK

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Education Minister Sergey Kravtsov said that students in grades 6–11 have begun being shown 83 short biographical films as part of «Conversations about Important Things». Later, these same materials are planned to be used from grade 5 in the new subject «Spiritual and Moral Culture of Russia».

#MinistryofEducation #propaganda #Conversationsaboutimportantthings #Russia #Schools

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Former Florida deputy sheriff John Mark Dougan fled the US to Russia in 2016 to escape criminal charges when he was 43. Since then, he has given interviews to Russian propagandists as a disillusioned American, claimed to have interfered in US presidential elections, and even allegedly handed «Epstein files» to Russian authorities. He has also created over a hundred websites through which he spreads pro-Russian disinformation to Western audiences. Journalists from The Washington Post have established that Dougan is overseen by the GRU and the Center for Geopolitical Expertise—a think tank linked to philosopher Alexander Dugin. We spoke with Dougan and tell the true biography of a man who made fakes his profession.

#WarinUkraine #MainIntelligenceDirectorate #Dugansbet #theInternet #propaganda #profile #Russia #networktrolls #USA #fakenews

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In the place of the closed GULAG Museum in Moscow, a «Museum of the Genocide of the Soviet People» is being created. If we didn't know what a kingdom of crooked mirrors Russia is today, this could even be welcomed — after all, there really was genocide in the USSR. However, it was not at all the kind that the Russian authorities mean today.

#WorldWarII #genocide #Hitler #Twoleggedbelt #industrialization #historicalmemory #historicalmyths #collectivization #leftandright #propaganda #repressionsintheUSSR #Russia #Stalin #statistics #Trotsky #theeconomyisalmost #essay

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Today marks exactly one year since the Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih. This indiscriminate attack with numerous civilian victims—just one of many of its kind—last spring shattered the fragile hopes that had emerged for a quick end to the war in Ukraine. On this somber anniversary, it's worth remembering: war is not about internet blockades, oil prices, or the ruble exchange rate. War is death every day. Including for those who neither participate in it nor can participate: women, children, and the elderly left behind the front lines.

#WarinUkraine #victimsofwar #violence #propaganda #Russia #statistics

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Critics accuse the creators of the documentary «Mr. Nobody vs. Putin» of exaggerating the scale of brainwashing in Russian schools for a Western audience. But researcher Dmitry Tsibiryov (project «Not the Norm») knows: in reality, the situation is now much worse than shown in the film.

#VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #children #discussion #documentaryfilm #lifeinRussia #Oscar #PavelTalankin #propaganda #family #resistance #school

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It's hard to believe that Vladimir Solovyov was once a respected journalist known for being a courageous interlocutor. Today, he is one of the main mouthpieces of the war that Russia unleashed in Ukraine. At one time, I personally witnessed and, to some extent, was a victim of this metamorphosis.

#PussyRiot #VladimirSolovyov #WarinUkraine #ideology #personalexperience #propaganda #propagandist #protests #Putinism #Russia #PussyRiottrial #TV

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Although the First Amendment, guaranteeing freedom of speech and the press, is still in effect in the USA and protects hundreds of prestigious editorial offices and thousands of talented journalists working in them, for some reason millions of Americans prefer to entrust their information services to very strange people. People who are either directly affiliated with a certain political movement and don’t even try to hide it, or simply lack any expertise in the matters in which citizens with the right to vote listen to them.

#youtube #America #DonaldTrump #theInternet #influencers #conservatives #youth #politicaltechnologies #rightandleft #rightturn #propaganda #socialnetwork #murderofCharlieKirk #essay

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On the walls here, you can see gigantic portraits of Putin, icons, and vinyl records of Vysotsky and Okudzhava (all in one office), lower-level employees are scolded with quotes from Pasternak and Zabolotsky, and TV host Ekaterina Andreeva gives advice on how to properly cope with the anger of superiors at a «Znanie» society lecture.

#WarinUkraine #state #women #lifeinRussia #career #Crimea #Kurskregion #mincult #patriarchy #Patriotism #aftertheUSSR #propaganda #reportage #svo #Officials

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We, Soviet children, were incredibly lucky. We went through patriotic education with books by Vasily Bykov and Boris Vasilyev, Samuil Marshak and Lev Kvitko. And our early youth was not overshadowed by works of Vladimir Medinsky, Oleg Roy, and unknown authors included in the «List of Patriotic Works Created by Contemporary Writers and Recommended for Extracurricular Reading» published last week by the Ministry of Education.

#shaman #AgniaBarto #VladimirMedinsky #VladimirPutin #children #dictatorship #ideology #literature #MinistryofEducation #OlegGazmanov #OlegRoy #aftertheUSSR #propaganda #Russia #SergeiMikhalkov #Stalinism #school

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«There is no crime I wouldn’t commit to realize myself,» Valery Gergiev liked to repeat the words of his idol, Herbert von Karajan. But the renowned German conductor, who became the face of the Third Reich for self-realization, never stooped to shoddy work. That can no longer be said about Gergiev.

#zpatriotism #BolshoiTheatre #ValeryGergiev #WarinUkraine #HerbertvonKarajan #dictatorship #Canada #classicalmusic #Latvia #MariinskyTheatre #Netherlands #propaganda #protests #Putin #SergeyNovikov #SergeiProkofiev #Ukraine #JuliaNavalnaya

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By creating a cult around the image of the past, tries to justify his own authoritarian rule, great-power chauvinism, and external aggression. However, at some point, the reincarnation of Stalinism began to turn against its creators, taking on an oppositional tone.

#VladimirPutin #dictatorship #JosephStalin #CommunistParty #corruption #Crimea #LevadaCenter #propaganda #PutinandStalin #Russia #socialjustice #sociology

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In Soviet times, the Russian emigration was an important base for recruiting foreign agents, but after the collapse of the USSR, its numbers grew many times over – opening up inexhaustible opportunities for Russian intelligence services. The network of Russian influence agents and simple spy centers is visibly becoming denser

#agents #Analytics #antiRussiansanctions #VyacheslavNikonov #Gru #dictatorship #YevgenyPrimakov #Study #kgb #NataliaKardash #aftertheUSSR #legalfund #propaganda #Russianspecialservices #Rossotrudnichestvo #Russianworld #SVR #SergeyLavrov #compatriots #FSB

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