Another Putin Disaster
POSTED BY: THGRRI
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 22:07
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Hey there RF
I was doing some stats on your posting history and noticed some interesting gaps:
REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS
Monday, March 12, 2018 10:18:17 AM
NRA Video - Scare Tactic from "Saigon Sally"
REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS
Friday, October 27, 2017 7:39:11 AM
WaPo: Hillary Clinton Paid For "Trump Dossier"
and this one:
REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS
Monday, May 8, 2017 1:17:15 PM
TrumpCare - the enema you didn't ask for
FIREFLY AND SERENITY GUERILLA MARKETING
Monday, April 10, 2017 2:07:51 PM
Firefly Cast Before and After
What was going on? And I think if you spent half as much time looking for a real job as you do obsessively patrolling fffans all hours of the day and days of the week, you might manage to find one.
SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time).
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wow... dummy, huh?
Not a Russian dummy or a Nazi dummy today?
lol
I'm not worried. I know that one of them will be attached to me by one of you in a day or two. Whichever "big bad" we're supposed to fear tomorrow is the one you guys are going to call me.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Russian journalists killed in Africa were investigating shadowy Wagner mercenary group linked to 'Putin's cook'
Three Russian journalists who were murdered while on assignment in the Central African Republic were probing the activities of a mercenary group linked to an ally of President Vladimir Putin, according to the exiled oil tycoon who funded their trip.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/russian-journalists-killed-in-africa-we
re-investigating-shadowy-wagner-mercenary-group-linked-to-putins-cook/wcm/1ce1fba6-5ae4-4e89-9c3f-93a152752172
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Putin’s Secret Police Prevent 2 Million From Leaving Russia
MOSCOW — Russia’s Federal Security Service, the FSB, is preventing millions of Russians from going abroad. Its own officers have been told “nevyezdnye” (no foreign travel), and earlier this year it announced stricter border controls for those who want to leave the country, citing the “changed geopolitical situation.”
Several million Russians currently are banned, specifically, from travel to the United States, and more than two million cannot leave the country at all. The number of Russian citizens on so-called “stop lists” and state employees obliged to stay put after signing secrecy agreements ia growing rapidly.
So is concern among Russian elite that a new Iron Curtain, reminiscent of travel restrictions during Soviet times, has begun to descend.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin’s-secret-police-prevent-2-m
illion-from-leaving-russia/ar-BBLlxAU?ocid=spartanntp
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U.S. senators introduce Russia sanctions 'bill from hell'
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/u-s-senators-i
ntroduce-bill-with-new-russia-sanctions-idUSKBN1KN22Q
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Washington Post
A solid decision on Russia — for a change
The Trump administration said Wednesday it would impose new sanctions against Russia as punishment for its use of a nerve agent in an attempt in March to assassinate British citizen and ex-Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
The sanctions again highlighted the gap between President Trump’s conciliatory language toward Russia and the tough position taken by many in Congress and within the administration itself.
Trump, who has resisted congressional insistence on additional sanctions on Russia for election interference and other activities, appeared to have had little choice in the matter, however. Under a 1991 law, he was required to act once the administration determined Russian responsibility for a chemical or biological weapons attack.
A release from the State Department said that such determination had now been made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the attack this spring in Salisbury, England — following a British government conclusion that the administration had said months ago it accepted.
One is tempted to see this as damage control after President Trump’s Helsinki performance and criticism over his lack of personal involvement in preventing midterm election interference. Alternatively, cynics might say this is an attempt to show special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that he’s really not in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pocket.
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Russian Federation warns of 'horrible conflict' if Georgia joins North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Once again we call on Russian Federation to comply with the August 2008 ceasefire agreement and pull its forces out of Georgia, ' said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway Ine Eriksen Soreide. Ten years ago, on their journey to Georgia, our leaders had stopped in Crimea, Ukraine. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia expressed concern over the security situation in the occupied territories and the deterioration of the human rights situation there. The two Baltic nations and Poland stressed that they are striving to make Georgia and Ukraine members of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Medvedev added that NATO's expansion is a threat to Russian Federation.
http://calcionewstime.com/2018/08/russian-federation-warns-of-horrible
-conflict-if-georgia/
Think about it folks. This is happening because these countries are afraid of Russia, because Russia is a threat to them, and because russia has killed their citizens and stolen their land.
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Anyone but Putin: Russians are starting to look for an alternative
It’s hard to lose an election when you control ballot access, the government bureaucracy, the courts, the media, and the votes of vast swathes of the population dependent on state support – and when you are personally endorsed by the supposedly admired national leader. Yet Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party still managed to come out on the wrong end of last week’s gubernatorial election in Primorye region, Russia’s far eastern territory. With 98 percent of the ballots counted, the Kremlin-appointed incumbent was trailing the Communist Party candidate by 47 percent of the vote to 50 percent. The only trick left to the authorities was old-fashioned ballot-stuffing: the incumbent, Acting Gov. Andrei Tarasenko, was declared the winner after several dozen precincts gave him 100 percent of the vote on a 100-percent turnout in the final two hours of counting.
The real winner, a 37-year-old construction executive and regional legislator by the name of Andrei Ishchenko, has no major political achievements, no charisma and no proposals worthy of note. His personality, his politics and his party affiliation did not matter. He had only one advantage in the eyes of voters: He was running against the candidate Putin endorsed.
“Russians are slowly coming to the idea of ‘Anyone but United Russia,’” noted Boris Vishnevsky, an opposition lawmaker in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly. “This is very similar to 1990, when it was ‘Anyone but the Communists.’ The mole of history digs slowly, but irrevocably.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/09/20/anyon
e-but-putin-russians-are-starting-to-look-for-an-alternative/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.aacc3f2999d8
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Anyone but Putin: Russians are starting to look for an alternative
It’s hard to lose an election when you control ballot access, the government bureaucracy, the courts, the media, and the votes of vast swathes of the population dependent on state support – and when you are personally endorsed by the supposedly admired national leader. Yet Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party still managed to come out on the wrong end of last week’s gubernatorial election in Primorye region, Russia’s far eastern territory. With 98 percent of the ballots counted, the Kremlin-appointed incumbent was trailing the Communist Party candidate by 47 percent of the vote to 50 percent. The only trick left to the authorities was old-fashioned ballot-stuffing: the incumbent, Acting Gov. Andrei Tarasenko, was declared the winner after several dozen precincts gave him 100 percent of the vote on a 100-percent turnout in the final two hours of counting.
The real winner, a 37-year-old construction executive and regional legislator by the name of Andrei Ishchenko, has no major political achievements, no charisma and no proposals worthy of note. His personality, his politics and his party affiliation did not matter. He had only one advantage in the eyes of voters: He was running against the candidate Putin endorsed.
“Russians are slowly coming to the idea of ‘Anyone but United Russia,’” noted Boris Vishnevsky, an opposition lawmaker in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly. “This is very similar to 1990, when it was ‘Anyone but the Communists.’ The mole of history digs slowly, but irrevocably.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/09/20/anyon
e-but-putin-russians-are-starting-to-look-for-an-alternative/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.aacc3f2999d8
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That sounds exactly how Trump won the presidency.
I'd urge the Russians to be careful what they wish for.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Russian State TV Tries to Fix Putin's Image
Despite Vladimir Putin’s 18-year grip on power, the Russian president and his United Russia political party are facing increasing opposition and criticism at home, despite continued propaganda efforts to show him as a superman and supreme leader, according to The Economist.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-state-tv-tries-to-fix-put
ins-image/ar-BBNKsUk
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