"Sergei Skripal" - Google News: How Putin's Russia turned humour into a weapon - Stock Daily Dish

November 22, 2019

Operation Novichok "Sergei Skripal" - Google News: How Putin's Russia turned humour into a weapon - Stock Daily Dish Western intelligence services tracked Russian spy in Catalonia - EL PAIS Douma, Chlorine Gas and Occam's Razor - CounterPunch Consulate general of Finland to Hong Kong tells Finns to avoid demonstrations - ScandAsia.com "Sergei Skripal" - Google News: How Putin's Russia turned humour into a weapon - Stock Daily Dish In the dying days of the Soviet Union, Russians used humour to escape the bleak reality of economic stagnation, food shortages and long queues. Political satire flourished on TV in the form of latex puppets during the 1990s, but it was quickly slapped down when Vladimir Putin came to power. read more Western intelligence services tracked Russian spy in Catalonia - EL PAIS General Denis Sergeev, the Russian spy who traveled to Barcelona in 2017 on the eve of the October 1 illegal referendum in Catalonia, carried out subversive operations in a dozen or so countries in Europe and Asia. read more Douma, Chlorine Gas and Occam's Razor - CounterPunch On June 21, 2019 I wrote an article for CounterPunch titled “The Douma Gas Attack: What’s the Evidence It was a False Flag?” It was a critique of a self-described whistleblower’s report that implicitly absolved Bashar al-Assad for the April 7, 2018 chlorine gas attack that left between forty and fifty people dead in Douma, a town six miles northeast of Damascus. read more Consulate general of Finland to Hong Kong tells Finns to avoid demonstrations - ScandAsia.com Riot police patrol the streets outside the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where dozens of pro-democracy protesters remain, on 21 November 2019. PHOTO: AFP Consulate General of Finland in Hong Kong and Macao advised on 19th November 2019 Finnish visitors and residence in Hong Kong to avoid demonstration areas. read more

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