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2022-05-22 22:57:40 Russian_Monitor pinned « Russian leadership doesn’t have a wide range of options for its decision-making. It’s surely not the view from Kiev or even the sanctions of the West, which outline the only safe track for President Putin. The field for trade offs is limited substantially…» Open / Comment

2022-05-22 21:44:13 Russian leadership doesn’t have a wide range of options for its decision-making. It’s surely not the view from Kiev or even the sanctions of the West, which outline the only safe track for President Putin. The field for trade offs is limited substantially by the Russian public opinion. Nothing less than a victory will be accepted as the job done.

The people put a great deal of trust in the initial decision to enforce peace upon Donbass, get rid of Nazis in Ukraine and eliminate security threats coming from the territory of the country. Approval ratings for the special operation reached the levels of 80%, so did the support for President Putin and his policies.

It hasn’t gone all that swift and easy as some predicted and everyone hoped for. There are casualties. There are economic challenges to deal with. But the people seem resolute.

Yesterday’s gaffe by Leonid Slutsky, the incumbent Head of Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee and the leader-in-waiting of the Liberal Democratic Party, left with no rudder and sails after the decease of the one and only Vladimir Zhirinovsky, showed the limits of trade offs the elite can allow without being rebuffed by the popular outrage. Even consideration to exchange Nazi criminals, captured at ‘Azovstal’, for the Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk was greeted with an absolute indignation.

It’s not that the Russian people are so blood-thirsty, but they are after justice. Peace for Donbass and justice upon those who have been killing Russians in Donetsk and Luhansk for long 8 years was what they fell for to believe in almost three months ago and it is what they will be demanding from their leadership now.

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2022-05-22 11:17:59 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the Italian broadcaster Mediaset has caused a scandal in the country. Not for what was said, because the translation was poor and many things escaped from the Italian public. The debate erupted around… Open / Comment

2022-05-20 23:02:07 The last group of ‘Azovites’ who surrendered today.

2439 surrendered in total at ‘Azovstal’.

Surrendered, not evacuated.

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2022-05-20 21:41:43 All Ukrainian Nazi fighters surrendered at ‘Azovstal’, including Commander of the notorious regiment ‘Azov’.

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2022-05-20 11:53:12 Could we think about this 3 months ago?

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2022-05-19 23:07:18 Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”

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2022-05-19 21:57:09 The campaign to blacken #Russia in the eyes of the developing world has kicked off.

Moscow will be named a scapegoat for what was caused by the Western sanctions, which disrupted logistics and limited the export of seeds and fertilizers from Russia.

The fact that by far most of the Global South or the world outside of the Euro-Atlantic were reluctant to align with Washington on sanctions against Moscow, could not go unnoticed. The nascent food crisis thus is used, just as the hike in gasoline prices in the US was - to put the blame on Putin, and attempt to sway the public opinion against Russia.

The problem is it will not save the people from starving, whereas lifting the sanctions could.

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2022-05-18 14:48:47 #Russia is sending out French, Spanish and Italian diplomats as a step of reciprocity.

It is important that it is understood this way, and not as an escalation of the diplomatic row. The page which was opened with unprecedented mass expulsions of Russian diplomats needs to be turned.

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