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General Dmitri Miliutin, deputy head of the operational information department of one of the most secret units of the FSB, the “5th service”, is in Ukraine, Moldova and the pro-Russian separatist region of Transnistria. Recently, a video of his 50th birthday party in a Moscow restaurant, a well-watered banquet that speaks volumes about Soviet nostalgia for the “siloviki” of the security services, has been circulating on social media.
More than thirty years after the collapse of the USSR, the concept of influence continues to be structural in Russia’s relations with its “near abroad”, which it considers its own territory. Diplomacy, military alliances with the presence of bases, as in Armenia, but also economic pressures, corruption, destabilization, information intoxication are among the many tools of this policy of influence led by Moscow, whose armed intervention…
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Source: Le Figaro
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