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That is electoral campaign in Putin's Russia.Opposition leader @IlyaYashin is arrested during the meeting in Kostroma

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Russian police confiscated the equipment & ransacked the office of @navalny party after @IlyaYashin arrest today

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#Russia introduces new hard currency for #BRICS, 1 brick equals 10 rubles

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20 September 2015 "anti-globalization movement of Russia" will hold an international expert conference "Dialogue of Nations. The right to self-determination and the construction of a multipolar world. "
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Among the honored guests of the conference are expected to lead the organization and the movement for the independence of the various regions of the world: "The Texas National Movement" Movement "Uhuru" for the protection of political and civil rights of the African population of the United States, "an independent and sovereign nation state of Hawaii," the State "Borinquen" (Puerto Rica), the Irish party Sinn Fein, "Irish Republican Socialist Party," a coalition of parties "Catalan Solidarity for Independence," Italian party "Millennium" Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara).

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According to data from the invitation to the forum, ADR is ready to pay the expenses for foreign visitors flight, airport transfers and accommodation in Moscow. This information was confirmed to RBC ions. According to him, as the ADR, as well as its foreign visitors are NGOs with limited resources, so a tacit rule of the host country assumes the basic costs - so it was in the case of foreign trips of Russian activists say, in the Middle East.
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At the same time, the organization regularly participates in competitions of the National Charity Fund. ... This year to organize the conference, it has achieved the target of the grant of 2 million rubles. In the latter case, the ADR was among the 99 winners from a total of more than 400 applications.

National Charity Fund was founded in late 1999 at the initiative of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as Russian National Military Fund. His goal - the transfer of funds to support the development of military and military-patriotic projects. Director of the Foundation since 2009, works Lieutenant-General Vladimir Nosov. Prior to that, he held the post of first deputy head of the department of military counter-intelligence of the FSB. The budget is formed by voluntary contributions from the public and grants. Among the donors there is a public entity (Roman Abramovich, Suleiman Kerimov), large companies (Sberbank, Lukoil, "Severstal" Onexim), there is an opportunity for ordinary citizens to transfer funds via SMS. The Fund operates under the patronage of the Russian president and his administration, stated on the website of the organization.

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It is no coincidence that Putin frequents the Café des Artistes. The reason for this is its owner and chef, Stefan Warnig. Putin knew him as a little boy, when he played with the Russian’s two daughters. After all, Stefan’s father, Matthias Warnig, is a very good friend of Putin’s.

The German who has the trust of the Russian president is 59 years old, with silver-grey hair. Most people believe that no one in Germany has as close and cordial a relationship with the Russian president as former chancellor Gerhard Schröder. But that is not entirely true.

Warnig’s acquaintance with Putin dates back further than Schröder’s, to a time before the Russian became one of the most powerful men in the world. Warnig meets up with Putin much more often than Schröder. Unlike most heads of state, who often have to wait months for an audience with the Russian president, Warnig is a regular at the Kremlin. The two men see each other “generally every three weeks”, sources in Moscow say.

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The Ukraine crisis is having a particularly strong impact on Warnig. On 31 July, the EU put the most important shareholders of Bank Rossiya on the blacklist: the Putin confidants Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov. Before that, the US froze assets of Bank Rossiya and made transactions with it illegal.

Warnig knows both bankers very well. Since 2003 he has been a member of the board of directors in the institution nicknamed the “bank of Putin’s friends”. Russia’s second-largest credit institution, VTB Bank, which has more than 100,000 employees, was also hit by the American-European measures. Warnig serves as a member of its supervisory board.

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Warnig is on the board of directors of Rosneft, the largest energy company in the world. ... In Russia, the oil is transported by Transneft which oversees 70,000km of pipelines. Warnig is also on the board of directors of Transneft.

Warnig is chairman of the board of directors at Rusal, the largest aluminium producer in the world.

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When it comes to gas exports, Warnig is managing director of Nord Stream AG, the company that operates the gas pipeline connecting Russia’s Vyborg with Germany’s Lubmin, via the Baltic sea. Here, the story comes full circle. The chairman of the shareholders’ committee is another friend of Putin: Gerhard Schröder.

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In top 100 headlines in Russian media today - not a single mention of Ukraine. This is surreal.

Simply overnight, Ukraine ceased to exist for Russians. Zero. Nought. No #SaveDonbass, no "Russian world", NOTHING.

The most common message by #Kremtrolls in the past 48 hours: "Putin overtook Obama as world leader". The power of micro-ambition.

RU media is in overdrive to sell the Syrian invasion to population. That will be a hard sell, though. Too similar to Afghanistan.

Here's the huge domestic problem Putin has...and why he can't afford airtime for Ukraine in the news (data Sep 25)

Just imagine the media volume/intensity that is needed to sell this war in Russia.

And no, this is not your Ukraine, where most Russians sympathized with the "rebels", and could internalize human cost

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