#Pavel Aptekar

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The War on Academic Free Speech in Russia Why Should Professors Have Free Speech? Pavel Aptekar Vedomosti November 10, 2019 The desire of certain universities to control the things the public intellectuals they employ as professors say about socially important issues teeters on the verge of censorship and can hardly benefit their reputations, demonstrating only the growing fears of their administrators.

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Yes, thye have done it before. Back in the Soviet Union days, they did cause a fake incident to have an excuse to invade Finland, so personally, I too believe it could happen again. I hope they won’t do it, especially now that the world is already talking about it and it’s unlikely that most of the world would even believe them.

The incident I refer to is the shelling of Mainila, a village on the Russian side of the Finnish - Soviet Union border, which was used to stage an incident to justify an invasion. From the Wikipedia article:

On 26 November 1939 seven shots were fired, and three Finnish observation posts detected their fall. These witnesses estimated that the shells detonated approximately 800 meters (2,600 ft) inside Soviet territory. Finland proposed a neutral investigation of the incident, but the Soviet Union refused and broke diplomatic relations with Finland on November 29.

Materials in the private archives of Soviet party leader Andrei Zhdanov show that the incident was orchestrated to paint Finland as an aggressor and launch an offensive. The Soviet Union then renounced the non-aggression pact with Finland and on 30 November 1939 launched the first offensives of the Winter War.

The Finns conducted an immediate investigation, which concluded that no Finnish artillery or mortars could have reached the village of Mainila. Field Marshal C.G.E. Mannerheim had ordered all Finnish guns drawn back out of range. Finnish border guards testified they had heard the sound of artillery fire from the Soviet side of the border.

Russian historian Pavel Aptekar analyzed declassified Soviet military documents and found that the daily reports from troops in the area did not report any losses in personnel during the time period in question, leading him to conclude that the shelling of Soviet troops was staged.

In his 1970 memoir, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wrote that the Mainila shellings were organized by Artillery Marshal Grigory Kulik. In 1994, Russian President Boris Yeltsin denounced the Winter War, agreeing it had been a war of aggression.

Special effects in movies 🤝 special effects in news.

Russia has done this, faking attacks as pre-text for war in “retaliation”, so I actually believe it could happen again

Also, Ukraine’s infrastructure was hacked recently and a bunch of government sites were painted over with badly written calling cards from “polish” hackers.

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JRL NEWSWATCH: "When flats become safe deposit boxes. Videos showing incredible amounts of money seized from officials and security services convince ordinary people of total corruption of state apparatus." [Russian daily says public convinced of 'corruption of state apparatus'] - Vedomosti/ Pavel Aptekar

JRL NEWSWATCH: “When flats become safe deposit boxes. Videos showing incredible amounts of money seized from officials and security services convince ordinary people of total corruption of state apparatus.” [Russian daily says public convinced of ‘corruption of state apparatus’] – Vedomosti/ Pavel Aptekar

“The phrase … a ‘flat where the money lies’ is increasingly … literal … [when there is] confiscation from yet another high-ranking official or security services officer of colossal amounts of cash stored … at home, in bags and packages. … Rosbalt … and … other media … reported … money and valuables worth R12bn … confiscated from FSB [Federal Security Service] Col Kirill Cherkalin, former chief of…

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How to Shut Down an Independent Trade Union in Russia — The Russian Reader How to Shut Down an Independent Trade Union The reason for the rapid dissolution of Alexei Etmanov’s union was a complaint about what it does: defending the rights of workers Pavel Aptekar Vedomosti January 12, 2018 The St.

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Spooky Knowledge and the Russian Police State Opposition shaman Alexander Gabyshev was detained while walking to Moscow to exorcise Vladimir Putin. Photo courtesy of…

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(Don’t) Pay Your Rates A Petersburg housing services worker risking life and limb to clear snow off the roof of a tenement building in the city's downtown.

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How the Cheka Became the FSB

Мonument to Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky on Shpalernaya Street, near the Smolny, Petersburg city hall. Photo courtesy of yakaev.livejournal.com

How the Cheka Became the FSB The notion of the Cheka’s superiority is one hundred years old Pavel Aptekar Vedomosti December 20, 2017

On December 20, 1917, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (VChK) aka…

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Common People

Patriarch Kirill Sees Russia’s Future in Unity of Common People and Elites Vera Khomogorova RBC November 1, 2017

Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, outlined his vision of Russia’s future. According to the patriarch,  it consists in the complementarity and unity of the elites and common people. 

Patriarch Kirill. Photo courtesy of Valery Sharifulin/TASS

The unity of the common people and…