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Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former convict who parlayed a St. Petersburg restaurant business into lucrative Kremlin contracts, founded the notorious private mercenary company Wagner, and became both a key figure in Russia’s war on Ukraine and a relentless critic of the military command, is now in open …
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When Vladimir Putin took in a Paul McCartney concert on Red Square nearly two decades ago this month, Andrei Makarevich rocked out next to the Russian president as the ex-Beatle performed an encore of “Back In The U.S.S.R.” Five years later, Makarevich — one of Russia’s best-known rock stars — …
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China has emerged as a potent outlet for Kremlin disinformation and propaganda for its February invasion of Ukraine, with Beijing officials and state media echoing the Kremlin’s justification for the war and often parroting false claims about events while ignoring commentary from Kyiv. But Chinese …
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Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter tracking China’s resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. I’m RFE/RL correspondent Reid Standish and here’s what I’m following right now. China has so far refused to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin’s …
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While international audiences saw images of besieged Ukrainian cities and thousands of civilians fleeing the country through humanitarian corridors that have faced Russian bombardment, Chinese viewers were shown Russian aid convoys bringing supplies to beleaguered Ukrainians. China’s People’s …
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SOFIA — Ivaylo Ivanov was thumbing through a folder of documents at his spartan doctor’s office in Novo Selo, a sleepy village in northern Bulgaria, when he got an unexpected visit on January 17. With his camera on, one of the country’s most notorious anti-vaxxers, Ventsislav Angelov, stormed in, …
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China and Russia have pushed disinformation and propaganda about the origins of COVID-19, unproven cures for the disease, and the efficacy of vaccines aimed at winning over foreign audiences and sowing distrust toward Western governments since the emergence of the deadly virus in the Chinese city …
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An analysis of content produced by the Russian television network RT indicates the existence of two “parallel universes”: one for its domestic audience and a completely different one for international viewers. Long-term research by Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in …
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In an official statement on May 20, the synod of the Orthodox Church of Moldova urged the government to make any eventual vaccine against the deadly coronavirus voluntary. “Societies in many European countries are protesting against the mandatory use of vaccines, particularly vaccines against …
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MOSCOW — In October 2015, Russian blogger and space enthusiast Vitaly Yegorov began crowdfunding for an ambitious project. With help from aerospace engineers, he pledged to send a microsatellite to the moon and bring back the clearest images to date of the places where American astronauts landed as …
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