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TexasTowelie

(120,475 posts)
Thu May 1, 2025, 05:12 AM Thursday

GRU Expands List of Targets - Opponents and Critics of Kremlin May be Targeted. - Silicon Curtain



Edition No136 | 30-04-2025 - It’s been reported that Putin's spies are building a hit list of journalists, politicians, and public figures across Europe. GRU agents have been ordered to collect home addresses of Kremlin critics for potential "active measures." Aktivni meropriyatiyi.

This story has been repeated by respected opposition figures such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky on social media, and we’ll be doing more research and interviews to check the scale of reality and risk that this change may involve. But if such a list is being compiled by Putin’s spies it will likely include journalists, politicians, and public figures across Europe.

According to Dossier Centre sources, Russian military intelligence agents received urgent orders in early 2025 to gather information on critics who influence public opinion against the Kremlin. If Kremlin behaviour during three years of full-scale war is anything to judge by, then the primary targets will be more traditional opponents and critics. We can judge this from those who make it onto the list of Foreign Agents and Undesirable Organisations. It includes journalists and politicians. Domestic opponents of the regime who are now in exile and active in critiquing it, or even actively involved in opposing it. The list especially focuses on those who are directly assisting Ukraine, either trough roles in NGOs, think Tanks and high-profile organisations, but also those in civic society, or who are fundraising at scale for Ukraine.
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GRU Expands List of Targets - Opponents and Critics of Kremlin May be Targeted. - Silicon Curtain (Original Post) TexasTowelie Thursday OP
Why other countries Hornedfrog2000 Thursday #1

Hornedfrog2000

(155 posts)
1. Why other countries
Thu May 1, 2025, 07:19 AM
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Arent killing russian spies, etc. In various ways is beyond me. Start killing the oligarchs. This is WAR! They are actively attacking us on a constant basis, and we stand here and wonder if we should defend ourselves.

The day these assholes were burning documents at the russian embasy is the day Obama should have crushed them. Nope we threw them out of the country, thatll do it... jesus we were so unprepared and still have no adequate response. Insane

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