The tail wags the dictator: How the Kremlin uses Lukashenko in talks with the West
Far from acting as an independent mediator, Belarus is operating under Kremlin supervision to lobby for sanctions relief, writes @OSW_eng senior fellow Kamil Kłysiński.
https://t.co/D0oJRN99cZ
I can’t even begin to emphasize how interesting this is. Traber was very close to Putin decades ago and Petrov ran so many operations for security services in Spain not to mention how very close he is with Patrushev, Medvedev, FSB Korolev, and many others. Fascinating
Chinese antenna maker Harxon made false claims in its attempt to refute The Insider’s reporting on sales to Russia
The firm recently sent a crisis management letter to its business partners — and included investigative journalists on the mailing list.
https://t.co/u0Q7sXuf4S
New Mexico investigators have sent letters to JPMorgan Chase, Google and more than two dozen companies ordering them to lock down records tied to Jeffrey Epstein and some of his associates, a sign of the widening criminal probe into his Zorro Ranch. https://t.co/2vWTXMjyf0
Elfsight went through a full security review by White House IT & was approved for use.
Postings on Russian-language websites indicate Elfsight was hiring Russian developers, marketing specialists, & others as recently as late May 2026, well after the White House app went live.
Russia’s Oreshnik missile uses Soviet-era gyroscopes that cause it to miss targets by dozens of kilometers, leaked correspondence shows
The issue stems from the GU-503, a Soviet aviation instrument adapted for the Oreshnik, according to @dallas_analytic.
https://t.co/IbfiMRPNae
BREAKING: Russia announces permanent entry ban on UN Watch director Hillel Neuer, sanctioning him and 102 other Canadian public figures for “anti-Russian” activities.
Neuer led the 2022 campaign to expel the Putin regime from the UN Human Rights Council.
https://t.co/b6KkAVZfiP
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1. Something is freaky fishy there. So let me get that straight. An article appears @WIRED about an alleged list on Peter Thiel‘s secret circle website called „society“. The co author is a 🇷🇺 and that’s the only article she wrote for @WIRED. That isn’t all.
🚨 The White House app uses code from a vendor still operating in Russia.
Its founders kept accounts at sanctioned Russian banks after the invasion. One also complained privately about being summoned by Russian tax authorities.
NEWS from The Newsground (link below)