Russia

Russia
Capital city	Moscow
Location	Asia
Leader	Russia/President Incumbent: Vladimir Putin Since 7 May 2012
Type	nation state
Subgroups	• FSO • FSB • FAPSI • GRU • SVR • KGB
Interest of	Lukas Andriukaitis, Leon Aron, Stephen Cohen, Keir Giles, Nigel Gould-Davies, John Lough, NewColdWar.org, Robert van der Noordaa, Richard Sakwa, David Satter, Leonard Schapiro, Rod Thornton, United States European Command, Helene Carrere d'Encausse
Owner of	Russia Today
Member of	G-20, Global Counter Terrorism Forum, UN/SC
Subpage	•Russia/Cyberwarfare •Russia/Deputy Prime Minister •Russia/Espionage •Russia/President •Russia/Prime Minister •Russia/Propaganda
The largest nation state in the world

Russia is the largest nation state in the world. In 2013, Russia was #3 in the world in terms of military expenditure.

History

Formerly the USSR, the country experienced turmoil after the end of the Cold War.

Arms Production

Russia was the #2 nation worldwide as regards arms export from 2012-2016, after fellow UN/Security Council member, US.

Fossil fuel reserves

As well as the 8th largest oil reserves, Russia has the largest gas reserves of any nation state, about 25% of total global reserves. It also has a lot of tar sands.

Leadership

Vladimir Putin has been an important figure in Russian politics of the last 2 decades. He became FSB Director on 25 July 1998, Russian Prime Minister on 9 August 1999 and Russian President on 7 May 2000.

Russophobia

Full article: Russophobia

One of the apartment blocks destroyed by explosives in September 1999, a deep event which the Russian leadership exploited a casus belli for the invasion of Chechnya.

Irrational fear of Russia is termed "Russophobia". Western commercially-controlled media and governments have been building up this enemy image after the success of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election.

"Russian Propaganda"

Full article: “Russian Propaganda”

This website was accused by the spooky ProporNot website as being a supplier of "Russian propaganda" - notwithstanding its pages on events such as the 9/99 bombings. The general pattern of NATO-friendly groups attempting to reboot Cold War was clear to many observers since about 2016, but the first clear documentary evidence of a deliberate campaign funded by UK Deep state-backed groups emerged only in late 2018 after the Integrity Initiative leak of 2018.

US Election Interference

After Donald Trump was elected, unnamed Russians were accused of interference in the 2016 US presidential election, through social media such as Twitter).

Society

“As commentators such as Mark Galotti and Edward Lucas have long pointed out, the Putin state has long co-opted Russian criminality to act as an information source, purveyor of corruption and in supporting Russia/Foreign policy aims including murders outside Russia. However, due to difficulties to say the least in obtaining convictions or even meeting criminal standards of evidence against persons outside the jurisdiction, much information which would demonstrate these links are often limited in numbers and quality. This is especially so due to the lack of understanding of the semi militarised ethos of Russian society.”
Euan Grant

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Integrity Initiative/Purposes	“It is vital to understand the reasons behind Putin’s warped reasoning – the fact that he is prepared to lie and to kill to protect his wealth and power – if we are to comprehend why the Kremlin has launched this information attack on the West. Only then can we begin to combat it. In Soviet times there was an ideological element, the battle of Capitalism versus Communism. That no longer plays a part. But Putin wants the West at least to respect Russia; better still to fear Russia. That is Putin’s mindset. If in Soviet times the leadership of the USSR relied on Western sympathisers with the Communist cause to help them in their mission, nowadays the Kremlin can call upon support in the West from three groups of people: naïve Russophiles who, despite all the evidence to the contrary, believe that Putin “can’t be all that bad, and anyway the Americans are just as bad”; those who are prepared to toe the Russian line in return for money; or those who are being blackmailed.”	Integrity Initiative	May 2018
Bernard Montgomery	“The next war on land will be very different from the last one, in that we shall have to fight it in a different way. In reaching a decision on that matter, we must first be clear about certain rules of war. Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China". It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives, and an army fighting there would be engulfed by what is known as the Ming Bing, the people's insurgents.”	Bernard Montgomery	30 May 1962
Russophobia	“RF is not a “normal” country in most senses of the word. Crucially, Russians see life & the world very differently from us. While economics is of course important to them, in the broadest sense Russians are not nearly as driven by economic & financial considerations.”		13 January 2015
Richard Sakwa	“NATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence.”	Richard Sakwa	2015

 

Ambassadors to Russia

Nation state	Start	Description
Ambassador to Russia
UK/Ambassador to Russia	1801
US/Ambassador to Russia	19 December 1780

 

Events

Event	Description
1993 Russian constitutional crisis
2013 Volgograd bombings
2014 Winter Olympics
9-99/Ryazan incident	Moscow FSB officers discovered wiring up what looked like a bomb in the basement of a building by night. Local FSB unaware. Claimed to be a terror drill but no documentation was presented. Instead documents were sealed and discussion of it prohibited in the Duma.
Russian apartment bombings	A 'Russian 9/11' which boosted support for the second war that was launched in Chechnya

 

Groups Headquartered Here

A Group Headquartered Here	Description
Central Bank of Russia
Concord Management and Consulting
FSB	Russian intelligence agency, successor to the KGB
Frunze Military Academy
KGB
Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Russia Today	A global TV channel backed by the Russian government

 

Citizens of Russia on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Vladimir Bukovsky	30 December 1942		Russian dissident who spoke at the 1979 JCIT.
Alexander Litvinenko	30 August 1962	23 November 2006	An exiled Russian spook turned whistleblower who died of Polonium poisoning in London.
Moshe Sharett	16 October 1894	7 July 1965

 

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Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:British Interests in Ukraine	article	15 May 2014	David Malone	A forensic analysis of some of the British interests in Ukraine and - by inference, events leading up to and following the February 2014 coup
Document:Canada Takes A Hostage: Free Meng Wanzhou	Article	8 December 2018	Christopher Black	Canadians should be angry about these traitors isolating Canada from China, from Russia, from Iran and their great cultures, and condemning Canada to be nothing more than an outpost of the American empire. For traitors they are as they betray the Canadian people by serving the interests of the Americans and their war machine. Free Meng Wanzhou, for so long as she is held hostage, so are we all.
Document:Economic Tasks - Vladimir Putin	article	30 January 2012	Vladimir Putin	A quintessentially orthodox IMF/WTO economic analysis from the Russian Prime Minister in the run up to the Presidential election in March 2012.
Document:Ed Miliband’s decision to oppose military action against Syria is an action of statesmanship of which Britons will be proud	Article	28 August 2013	Michael Meacher	It is all very well to rush to war in a surge of moral outrage, it is quite another to spell out clearly what are the war objectives and how exactly they are to be achieved.
Document:First Recorded Successful Novichok Synthesis was in 2016 – By Iran, in Cooperation with the OPCW	blog post	17 March 2018	Craig Murray	Beginning in late 2016, Iranian scientists succeeded in synthesising a number of Novichoks in full cooperation with the OPCW. This makes a complete nonsense of Theresa May’s “of a type developed by Russia” line, used to Parliament and the UN Security Council.
Document:H.RES.758	legal document	18 November 2014	US Congress	This bill puts America on a footing for war against Russia. It has received close to zero coverage in the US and other establishment media.
Document:How Russia betrayed America	essay	10 March 2015	Mike King	A useful mirror image of the Anglo-US-Nato official narrative about Russia
Document:Hushing Up - and Profiting from - Saudi Aggressions while Warmongering against Russia	article	29 August 2015	Stephen Gowans	The gross hypocricy inherent in the foreign policy actions of Anglo-US-NATO governments
Document:Igor Strelkov and Russia's Fifth Column	article	12 September 2014	'The Saker'	Extended commentary and analysis of the statement by Igor Strelkov about the West's war on Russia and Russia's 5th Column problem
Document:It’s Nato that’s empire-building, not Putin	article	7 March 2015	Peter Hitchens	Rare honesty, peppered with obligatory obeisances to western official narratives, about Nato empire-building since 1990 from a western mainsteam media journalist.
Document:Mueller Scrambles To Limit Evidence After Indicted Russians Actually Show Up In Court	Article	13 June 2018	'Tyler Durden'	This is probably the first time in the history of litigation that a plaintiff (here, prosecutor) has told a court that it may not have obtained good service of process on a defendant that has appeared to defend the case on the merits. Robert Mueller to US District Court: "We didn’t really mean it, Judge! We had no idea they might actually show up!"
Document:Myths about Contemporary Russia	article	28 April 2014	Fr Andrew	An article that comprehensively refutes the major western demonising myths about Russia
Document:Nyet means Nyet	diplomatic communication	1 February 2008	William J Burns	February 2008 classified diplomatic cable from US ambassador to Russia William J Burns to the State Department about how Russia views NATO involvement in Ukraine
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Document:Russia is a Bangladesh with missiles	article	22 April 2016	Madeleine Albright Eduard Limonov	Insulting comments by Madeleine Albright about Vladimir Putin and Russia, responded to in kind by Eduard Limonov
Document:Russia-US Conventional Military Balance	article	24 July 2015	'The Saker'	Further thoughts on the US-Russia conventional military balance in light of continuing NATO sabre-rattling around Russia's western/southern borderlands
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Document:St Petersburg International Economic Forum	speech	23 May 2014	Vladimir Putin	Vladimir Putin's address to the plenary session of the 18th St Petersburg International Economic Forum on 23 May 2014
Document:The Curious Case Of Russia’s Contradictory Stance Towards 5G Technology	Article	18 May 2019	Andrew Korybko	While RT is telling the English-language international audience to be wary of 5G technology, the Russian state itself is already experimenting with it and doesn’t seem the least bit concerned about the potential health effects that it could have on its people.
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Document:The Meaning of the US Saber-Rattling at the Borders of Russia	article	18 July 2015	'The Saker'	Some thoughts on the Russia - NATO military balance in light of NATO posturing, excercises and sabre-rettling around Russia's wetern and southern borders
Document:The Russians are coming	article	9 May 2014	William Blum	The west's tried and trusted - but lately tired and increasingly absurd - specter of an aggressive, expansionist Russia, demolished in style by the inimitable William Blum
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Document:The World Is on the Brink of War Once Again as All Hell Breaks Loose in Syria	Article	8 February 2018	Darius Shahtahmasebi	With the assistance of the media, the United States and Israel continue to bomb Syria in direct contravention of international law, targeting Russia's ally the Syrian Arab Army, without any significant journalistic or international opposition.
Document:The tyranny of the political spectrum	article	5 March 2017	Peter	Details of an exchange in the comments section of an article on the World Socialist Web Site between the author and a regular WSWS commentator which was quickly removed by the site operators. It illustrates the blinkered censorious nature of activists committed to both 'Left' and 'Right' - in this case the 'Left'.
Document:Time to Start Paying Attention: The US Just Bombed Russians in Syria	Article	9 February 2018	Darius Shahtahmasebi	It is not clear if Russia has a retaliation of its own in mind, but we would do well to remember that when similar incidents took place last year, Russia indicated that they would begin targeting US jets if they had to. Almost immediately after this stark warning, Australia pulled its planes out of its air missions in Syria.
Document:Turkey ambushed Su24 using information supplied by US	report	27 November 2015	Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation	Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, General Bondarev, presents facts of the attack on the Russian Su-24M aircraft carried out by Turkish F-16 fighters in the sky over Syria on 24 November 2015
Document:US Nuclear Policy Review: The World Is Our Enemy	Article	8 February 2018	Christopher Black	“We (the United States) will keep you guessing as to when and against whom we will use them (nuclear weapons). We will maintain our role as the greatest state terrorist by keeping the nuclear Damocles sword over the heads of the people of the world constantly to ensure that the world acts in our interest.”
Document:US is militarizing Ukraine to invade Russia	discussion	20 June 2014	Sergei Glazyev	Vladimir Putin's economic adviser outlines the massive militarisation of Ukraine and the Anglo-US agenda that is behind it.
Document:US media, politicians mobilize against Sochi Olympics	article	10 February 2014	Andrea Peters	A useful analysis of the orchestrated campaign of vilification against Russia and its president coincident with the run-up to the Sochi winter Olympics.
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Document:Vladimir Putin interview with French media	interview	4 June 2014	Vladimir Putin	Vladimir Putin interview with two French media men on the eve of his visit to France for the 70th anniversary commemoration of the Allied Normandy landings
Document:WE are Untermenschen	appeal	3 June 2014	Juan	Heartfelt anger from a Russian speaking anti-Kiev Junta soldier in face of escalating military attacks on the civilian population of Eastern Ukraine by the Junta military and the blatant double-standards indifference of western politicians to the sufferings of people who identify with Russia.
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File:ICA 2017 01.pdf	Report	6 January 2017	Director of National Intelligence	A 25 page report on joint US intelligence agencies assessment of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election.
File:JAR 16-20296.pdf	Report	29 December 2016	FBI DHS	Joint analysis report on alleged efforts by the Russian state to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election by means of computer hacking.
File:Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.pdf	dossier	January 2017	Christopher Steele	A dossier of evidence purporting to demonstrate that Donald Trump and his transition team members have a history of improper contact with the Russian government and that Russian Intelligence collected substantial compromising information on Trump during his Russian business trips.
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