Dec 19, 2025
Most Viewedis averyanov dead?
Multiple media and social posts on 19 December 2025 claim that GRU Major General Andrei (Andrey) Averyanov was killed in a drone strike on a tanker in the Mediterranean, but those reports remain uncon...
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30 resultsDec 10, 2025
Most Viewed"Russian tails" have been found in data analysis of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. This points to election interference. Why isn't there more concern about this?
Analysts and several outlets report a statistical anomaly dubbed the “Russian Tail” — a flattened-but-extended tail in vote-distribution curves that analysts previously tied to manipulated elections i...
Nov 11, 2025
Most ViewedThere is no evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 and 2024 elections.
The claim that is false with respect to 2016 and contested but supported for 2024 by multiple U.S. government reports and major press investigations. U.S. intelligence agencies, special counsel findin...
Jan 20, 2026
Which countries have historically used sleeper agents and what methods do they employ?
Sleeper agents have been a recurrent instrument of statecraft from the 20th century to today, used most prominently by Soviet and Russian services but also deployed or feared from Western intelligence...
Jan 12, 2026
Did Russia help Donald trump get elected
Yes — multiple U.S. government investigations and independent reporting conclude that the Russian government mounted a broad, coordinated operation aimed at aiding Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential bid...
Dec 4, 2025
Craig Murray disputes sktipal sturgess poisonings
Craig Murray has long disputed the official UK account that Russia’s GRU poisoned Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury and that discarded novichok later killed Dawn Sturgess; he has argued alternativ...
Nov 15, 2025
What sanctions or diplomatic actions did the Obama administration take against Russia in 2016?
The Obama administration’s December 29, 2016 actions combined new cyber-focused sanctions, designation of specific Russian intelligence services and officers, asset-and-travel authorities via an amend...
Dec 10, 2025
Which specific incidents or plots link Russian operatives to bombings of planes flying from Europe to America?
European and U.S. officials say intelligence uncovered a sabotage campaign that placed incendiary devices in cargo parcels that ignited at delivery hubs in Britain, Germany and Poland and which Wester...
Nov 16, 2025
What evidence did the Mueller Report provide on Russian election interference in 2016?
The Mueller Report concluded that the Russian government “interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion,” using two principal operations: a social‑media campaign run ...
Jan 29, 2026
What role did social media play in Russia's 2016 election interference efforts?
Social media was the central battlefield for ’s information operation: -linked actors used networks to masquerade as Americans, seed divisive content, buy targeted ads, amplify hacked material, and pr...
Nov 23, 2025
Is Storm 1516 a ussian false news organization
Public reporting and multiple open-source investigations identify "Storm‑1516" not as a single Russian state news outlet but as a Kremlin-linked disinformation operation that creates and amplifies fak...
Nov 27, 2025
How did Clinton respond to findings in the Mueller report and congressional probes about election hacking?
Hillary Clinton publicly responded to the Mueller report and related congressional probes by saying the documents confirmed Russian meddling in 2016 and showed evidence of obstruction of justice, and ...
Nov 23, 2025
What role did Russian influence operations play in US elections from 2016 to 2024 and how did Trump respond?
U.S. officials and multiple investigations concluded Russia ran sustained influence and hacking operations beginning in 2016 and continuing through the 2024 cycle, shifting from fake social accounts a...
Oct 12, 2025
What role did Russian intelligence play in the 2016 US presidential election according to the Mueller Report?
The Mueller Report concluded that , employing cyber intrusions, social-media "active measures," and the release of stolen materials to benefit Donald Trump’s candidacy, while the special counsel did n...
Feb 2, 2026
Russian collusion In 2016
Multiple investigations and independent research conclude that the n government waged a deliberate interference campaign in —using and the Internet Research Agency’s —to harm Hillary Clinton’s campaig...
Feb 1, 2026
Which specific Steele dossier allegations did later public documents or indictments corroborate, if any?
Public records and later indictments corroborated fragments of the dossier—principally that ran cyber-operations in 2016 and that some figures had contacts with Russian-linked actors—but they did not ...
Jan 18, 2026
Is there any solid evidence of Russia and China attempting to perpetrate social schismogenesis in the US, especially through social media?
Yes — for Russia there is solid, publicly documented evidence of deliberate campaigns to sow social division in the United States, including covert social-media networks, hack-and-leak operations, fab...
Jan 17, 2026
What findings about Clinton’s role appear in the Mueller report and subsequent congressional investigations?
The Mueller report concluded that Russian actors mounted a multifaceted campaign that both hacked Democratic targets and ran a social‑media operation intended to damage Hillary Clinton and help Donald...
Jan 15, 2026
What did the Senate Intelligence Committee report specifically say about Manafort and Kilimnik?
The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Paul Manafort’s relationship with Konstantin Kilimnik represented “a grave counterintelligence threat,” documenting repeated attempts by Man...
Jan 6, 2026
What evidence did the Mueller Report present on Trump campaign Russia contacts?
The Mueller Report cataloged extensive "links" and contacts between Trump campaign officials and people tied to the Russian government—detailing meetings, communications, and offers of hacked material...