Author: disinfo1
In the city of Buzuluk, Orenburg region, a poster with a blurred photo of President Vladimir Putin appeared on one of the store’s houses, accompanied by an ironic message about recent price increases: “Prices have risen in 2026 because of this man! Don’t hesitate to thank him for it!”, the text next to the image read. Subsequently, members of the patriotic organization “Russian Community” came to the store, demanding the removal of the poster, threatening with a criminal case for “insulting the authority” (art. 319 of the Penal Code). The saleswoman responded that “there is freedom of speech and democracy…
A high-ranking Russian general, previously appreciated by the Moscow leadership, but challenged by his own soldiers for his harsh tactics, was removed from his position after four years spent in key command positions in the war in Ukraine. This is about Lieutenant General Suhrab Ahmedov, 51 years old, originally from Dagestan, whose dismissal was initially signaled by Russian mil-blog type channels, close to the Kremlin. The information was subsequently taken over by the independent Russian press and Ukrainian sources, although the Russian Ministry of Defense did not officially confirm the change. A rapid career in the army Ahmedov was considered…
Over 200,000 households have been left without electricity in the Russia-occupied territory in southern Ukraine, following an attack by the Ukrainian army, announced the Moscow-installed authorities on Sunday. “As a result of an enemy attack on the energy infrastructures in the region, a large part of the Zaporizhia region was left without electricity”, announced Evgheni Balitski, who governs the Russia-occupied areas in this territory, according to Agerpres. According to Balitski, 213,000 subscribers and 386 localities in the Zaporizhia region are currently deprived of electricity following this attack. The governor installed by Moscow in the neighboring Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, reported…
What until recently seemed like a rhetorical extravagance of Donald Trump begins to take on a doctrinal shape. The American administration no longer talks about Greenland as a geopolitical joke, but as a “national security imperative”. And the arguments used are, for Europe, unsettling. Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff at the White House and one of President Trump’s most influential ideologues, put it bluntly: states are not entitled to keep territories they cannot defend. And Denmark, in his opinion, does not meet this criterion in the case of Greenland. “The new international competition is moving to the polar region,”…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined European leaders on Sunday warning that NATO risks entering a “dangerous spiral” of destabilization, after Donald Trump threatened to trigger a trade war against allies opposing the United States’ takeover of Greenland. In an unprecedented joint statement, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom conveyed their firm support for the “principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity” and expressed their full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland. Trump’s intervention shocked the military alliance. The American president announced that states opposing the takeover of the autonomous…
Governments around the world reacted cautiously on Sunday to the invitation of the American president, Donald Trump, to join his initiative called the Council for Peace, reports Reuters, quoted by Agerpres. Only Hungary, whose prime minister, Viktor Orban, is a close ally of Trump, unequivocally accepted the invitation sent to about 60 countries. The Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, stated that he agrees in principle, but the details are still being worked out. The Presidential Administration in Bucharest confirmed on Sunday that President Nicuşor Dan had received the letter officially inviting Romania to become a member of the Council.…
The Storm-1516 network, affiliated with the Kremlin, has carried out campaigns to manipulate public opinion in the Republic of Moldova in the post-election period in the fall of 2025. The finding is contained in a report by the Center for Strategic Communication and Counteracting Disinformation, which mentions that Storm-1516 used accounts with large audiences to amplify manipulative messages. According to the report, among the exploited themes were European integration, security, militarization, arms trafficking, the legitimacy of elections, and external control over NGOs and the media. The network’s operations included the production and distribution of fabricated materials, including staged videos and…
The American messaging application WhatsApp will cease to function in Russia in 2026, announced the vice president of the State Duma Committee for Information Policy, Andrei Svintsov. “By the end of the year, Roskomnadzor will take a set of measures to completely block WhatsApp. This is related to the fact that WhatsApp belongs to the company Meta, declared extremist in Russia,” the deputy told TASS. He called these measures “absolutely justified”, considering that parliamentary elections are to take place in Russia in 2026. In turn, Roskomnadzor announced on January 15 that it sees no reason to lift the restrictions imposed…
Revenues in Russia’s budget from the oil and gas sector have dramatically decreased. In December, they amounted to just 448 billion rubles, and for the entire year of 2025 — to 8.48 trillion rubles, according to the Ministry of Finance. This is the lowest level since 2020, the year of the pandemic, when revenues were 405 billion in August and 5.2 trillion for the whole year. Then, the average price of Russian oil was 41.7 dollars per barrel. In the last months of 2025, similar levels were reached: 44.9 dollars in November and 39.2 dollars in December, according to the…
The European Commission will present, before July, a new European security strategy, intended to provide an “adequate response” to geopolitical changes, announced on Thursday the President of the institution, Ursula von der Leyen, according to EFE, quoted by Agerpres. “The goal is, in fact, to gather all the knowledge to recognize the changes, the geostrategic changes and existing needs, but also the geopolitical changes in our world and to provide an adequate response to them,” stated Ursula von der Leyen, in a press conference held on the occasion of the visit of the College of European Commissioners to Cyprus. In…