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Claudiu Târziu’s Controversial Pro-Russian Stance and Alignment

Claudiu Richard Târziu is a Romanian right-wing politician. He...

Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka: Is She Pro Russian MEP in EU Parliament?

Tatjana Ždanoka, a Latvian MEP affiliated with the Latvian...

Madagascar: the contested ambassador of the European Union, Isabelle Delattre, is leaving

The head of European diplomacy, Isabelle Delattre-Burger, will leave Madagascar. The news was confirmed at the end of last week. Is this departure linked...

Marina Tauber: Moldova’s Pro-Russian Firebrand and Her Controversial Rise

Marina Tauber is a Moldovan politician. Since 2019 she has been a Member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova. On 31 May...

Moldova’s Vladimir Voronin: A Communist Leader with Deep Russian Ties

Vladimir Voronin is a Moldovan politician. He served as the third President of Moldova from 2001 until 2009 and has been the head of...

Janus Kostia Putkonen: Finland’s Voice for Russian Propaganda

Janus Kostia Putkonen is a Finnish theatre director, journalist, Political activist eurosceptic and propagandist. Putkonen was the editor-in-chief of the Verkkomedia website, which was...

Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski: Serbia’s Anti-NATO, Pro-Russia Advocate

Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski is a Serbian politician. She co-established the far-right Serbian Party Oathkeepers (SSZ) in 2012 and is currently acting as its president....

Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski: Serbia’s Anti-NATO, Pro-Russia Advocate

Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski is a Serbian politician. She co-established the far-right Serbian Party Oathkeepers (SSZ) in 2012 and is currently acting as its president....

From Powerlifting to Politics: The Pro-Russia Stance of Ano Turtiainen

Ano Veli Samuel Turtiainen is a Finnish ex-powerlifter and politician who acted as a member of the Parliament of Finland representing the South-Eastern Finland...

Controversial Pro-Russia Journalist Peter Volgin Runs for European Parliament

Peter Volgin is a Bulgarian journalist and Politician. Peter Volgin openly used his platform on Bulgarian public radio to spread pro-Russian views. This caused...

Vladimir Linderman: A Latvian Political Activist with Pro-Russian Ties

Vladimir Ilyich Linderman is a Latvian political activist. By many, he is considered to be a pro-Russian. In 1991, Linderman operated in the Russian...

Italian Senator Paolo Tosato: A Key Player in Russia’s Anti-Sanction Lobby

Paolo Tosato is an Italian politician. He has been a Senator in the Italian Senate since 2014. In 2016 Tosato introduced a resolution against sanctions...

Aslan Bzhania: Aligning Abkhazia’s Future with Russia’s Strategic Interests

Aslan Georgievich Bzhania is an Abkhaz politician. He has served as the President of Abkhazia since 23 April 2020. Russia has been planning to...

Corneliu Furculiţă’s Role in the Pro-Russian Strategy in Moldovan Governance

Corneliu Furculiţă is a moldovan politician and member of Repubic of Moldova’s Parlimanet since 2014. He also acts as president of the parliamentary faction...

Vlad Batrîncea: Moldova’s Pro-Russian Champion in the Parliament

Vlad Batrîncea is a Moldovan politician. He currently functions as Vice President of the Parliament of Moldova. He was the executive secretary of the...

Miroslavs Mitrofanovs: The Pro-Russia Politician Influencing Latvian Politics

Miroslavs Mitrofanovs or Miroslav Mitrofanovis a Latvian Russian politician. In 2020 Mitrofanovs, alongside his party associates was included in the EU Platform for Democratic...

Grzegorz Braun: A Pro-Russian Voice in Polish Politics

Grzegorz Michał Braun is a Polish politician. He has performed as a member of the Sejm for Rzeszów and as Chairman of the Confederation...

Miloš Zeman: Eurosceptic President with Pro-Russia Leanings and Controversial Decisions

Miloš Zeman is a Czech politician. He acted as the third president of the Czech Republic from 2013 to 2023. He also previously acted...

Andrii Derkach: Pro-Kremlin Agent in Ukraine

Andrii Leonidovych Derkach is a former Ukrainian politician and businessman. In 2020  was stripped of Ukrainian citizenship. In August 2020, U.S. counterintelligence director William...

Zurab Makharadze: The Pro-Russian Face of Georgia’s Alt Info

Zurab Makharadze has long acted as the face of the ultra-right-wing and pro-Russia Georgian party Conservative Movement/Alt-Info. Makharadze has been the facade of Alt...

Sandro Bregadze and the Pro-Russian Allegations

Sandro Bregadze is a Georgian politician. He also serves as a Member of Parliament from 1999 to 2004. From 2014 to 2016 he acted...

Irma Inashvili and the Alliance of Patriots: Georgia’s Pro-Russian Vanguard

Irma Inashvili is a Georgian politician. She has been a constituent of the Parliament of Georgia since November 2016, symbolising the Alliance of Patriots...

The Fall of a Lithuanian Politician: Mindaugas Bastys’ Pro-Moscow Links

Mindaugas Bastys is a political and public figure in Lithuania. Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Lithuanian Social-Democrat Party (LSDP), which was an element...

Andros Kyprianou: A Cypriot Politician’s Russian Ties and Advocacy

Andros Kyprianou is a Cypriot politician. He was the General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People from 2009 to 2021 and currently...

Dmitry Kozlov: Pro-Russian Agent in Cypriot Politics

In 2023 it has come to light that a secretive Moscow group cultivated relations with Cypriot politicians and successfully moved a motion in Cyprus’s...

Stefano Valdegamberi’s Pro-Russia Advocacy

Stefano Valdegamberi is a politician from Veneto, Italy. Valdegamberi is a classic conservative and has been a founding member of the pro-life caucus within...

Stefano Valdegamberi’s Pro-Russia Advocacy

Stefano Valdegamberi is a politician from Veneto, Italy. Valdegamberi is a classic conservative and has been a founding member of the pro-life caucus within...

Máté Kocsis and the Fidesz Agenda: Hungary’s Pro-Russian Politics

Máté Kocsis is a Hungarian politician, who acted as Mayor of Józsefváros from 2009 to 2018. He also represents Józsefváros in the National Assembly...

Markus Beisicht: A Pro-Putin Operative in Germany

Markus Kurt Beisicht is a German right-wing extremist politician and associate of the Leverkusen City Council. He was director of the right-wing extremist citizens'...

Russian Sponsorship Scandal: Marcus Pretzell’s Controversial Moscow Visit

Marcus Pretzell is a German politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament from Germany from 2016 to 2019. He was an associate...

The Controversial Saga of Artem Marchevskiy: Pro-Kremlin Operative

Artem Marchevskiy is a controversial and close associate of pro-Russia Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. He left Prague for Slovakia after Czech authorities inflicted sanctions...

Nenad Popović: A Serbian Figure in Putin’s Orbit

Nenad Popović is a Serbian politician. He served as minister without portfolio from 2017 to 2022, and again from 2024 onwards. A long-time associate...

The Pro-Russia Agenda of Aleksandar Vulin: Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister

Aleksandar Vulin is a Serbian politician and lawyer. Currently, he has been Acting as Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia since 2024. He performed as...

Viktor Yanukovych: A Pro-Russia Presidency and its Fallout

Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is an ex-Ukrainian politician, who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also performed as the...

Former Ukraine President Poroshenko’s Controversial Ties with Pro-Russia Forces

Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko is a Ukrainian politician who acted as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. In 2021, Ukrainian authorities positioned...

Nikolai Malinov’s Spying and Pro-Russia Affiliations

Nikolay Simeonov Malinov is a politician and public figure. He is indicted of spying for Russia and sanctioned by the US for corruption and...

The Controversial Journey of Vadim Zinovyevich Rabinovich: A Pro-Kremlin MouthPiece

Vadim Zinovyevich Rabinovich is an Israeli and ex-Ukrainian oligarch and Jewish community leader. He is an ex-leader of the prohibited Opposition Platform — For...

Igor Dodon’s Political Journey Through Moldova’s Pro-Russian Presidency

Igor Dodon is a Moldovan politician who previously functioned as the President of Moldova from 23 December 2016 to 24 December 2020. He presently...

Governor Evghenia Guțul: A Portrait of Pro-Russian Leadership in Moldova

Evghenia Guțul also known as Yevgenia Gutsul and Eugenia Guțul, is a Moldovan Gagauzian jurist and politician, who has functioned as Governor of Gagauzia...

Nikola Macedonia’s Transition from Pro-Western to Pro-Russian Politics

Nikola Gruevski is an ex-Macedonian politician who acted as Prime Minister of Macedonia from 2006 until his resignation. In May 2018 he was convicted...

Peter Pellegrini: The Pro-Russian Shift in Slovak Politics

Peter Pellegrini is a Slovak politician. He is the president-elect of Slovakia. He currently operates as the Speaker of the National Council since September...

Mateusz Piskorski’s Alleged Affiliation with Russia

Mateusz Andrzej Piskorskiis a far-right Polish politician. In February 2015, Mateusz Piskorski launched a new political party called "Zmiana" ("Change"), a political medium that...

Ilan Shor’s Pro-Russian Bloc: A Challenge to Moldova’s European Course

Ilan Shor is a Moldovan politician. He is a pro-Moscow opposition figure in Moldovan politics who has been represented as "a leading figure in...

AfD’s Harald Weyel: A Pro-Russian Politician Under Scrutiny

Harald Weyel is a German politician. He designates Alternative for Germany. Harald Weyel has acted as a member of the Bundestag from the state...

Georgi Parvanov’s Pro-Russia Stance in a Pro-Western Bulgaria

Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a Bulgarian politician who served as President of Bulgaria from 2002 to 2012. His political views have been described as...

Milorad Dodik: The Pro-Russia Politician of Republika Srpska”

Milorad Dodik is a Bosnian Serb politician acting as the 8th president of Republika Srpska since 2022, having earlier served from 2010 to 2018....

Dragan Stanojević: The Man Behind Serbia’s Pro-Russian Movement

Dragan Stanojević is a Serbian politician and businessman. He is the leader of the right-wing populist We–The Voice from the People political organization. A...

Volen Siderov: A Champion of Pro-Russian Nationalism in Bulgaria

Volen Nikolov Siderov is a Bulgarian far-right politician. He is the leader of the nationalist party Attack (Ataka). He has been the editor of...

Leonid Pasechnik’s Legacy: A Collaborator in Russia’s Aggressive Agenda

Leonid Ivanovich Pasechnik is a Ukrainian politician who has functioned as Head of the Luhansk People's Republic since 2017. He has held the role...

Ekaterina Gubareva: The Rise and Fall of a Pro-Russian Operative

Ekaterina Yurevna Gubareva is a Ukrainian pro-Russian activist and Putin-backed political figure. Gubareva has earlier held senior roles in pro-Russian separatist-held territory. She was...

Kostadin Kostadinov: The Pro-Russian Voice in Bulgarian Politics

Kostadin Todorov Kostadinov is a far-right and ultranationalist Bulgarian politician. He is the leader of the ultranationalist Revival party. The party is portrayed by...

Petr Bystron and the Far-Right AfD’s Alleged Ties to Russia

Petr Bystron is a German politician. He was a contender for Munich North for the Bundestag during the German national election in 2017 for...
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