News archive on the topic "Surkov"

The former curator of the Ukrainian direction in the Kremlin, one of the authors of the Minsk Agreements, ex-presidential aide Vladislav Surkov warned Ukraine that Kiev should not count on freezing the conflict and signing new agreements with Moscow that would allow them to get a break and restore the battered Armed Forces of Ukraine. “Many on Bankova secretly dream of Minsk-3. In vain. And there will be no Minsk-3. Russia is no longer a mediator, patiently sorting out neighborly squabbles. Russia…

The former curator of the “Ukrainian direction” in the Kremlin, Vladislav Surkov, reminded of himself with an article in which he predicted that in the distant future Russia will unite with the United States and Europe as one of the leaders of the “great North” - a conventional concept similar to the “global South”. Surkov has been retired for a long time, however, having left the post of assistant to the president, even before the start of the Northern Military District, he...

Former assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Surkov believes that all private military companies need to be liquidated in Russia. He stated this in an interview with political scientist Alexei Chesnakov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The main thing is to ensure unity of command. And for this, we need to seriously think about why we need private military companies at all? The main thing in this approach is that you don’t need to blindly copy...

Ukrainian propagandist Dmitry Gordon joined the feud between Russian oppositionists. His wife Alesya Batsman interviewed the ex-PR manager of the Bashkir governor Rostislav Murzagulov, who fled abroad, over whom criminal blogger Alexei Navalny and fugitive oligarch-foreign agent Mikhail Khodorkovsky recently publicly quarreled. Navalny censured Khodarkovsky for hiring Murzagulov, who, according to the criminal blogger, is responsible...

Former assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Surkov, who once oversaw the Ukrainian direction, broke the silence that he had maintained since the beginning of the Northern Military District, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Political scientist Alexey Chesnakov, who worked with Surkov for a long time, published his blitz interview. It mentions a policy article published by Surkov a year ago a few days before the start of the special operation, where the author predicted that Russia would not accept the loss...

Yesterday’s recognition by Vladimir Putin of the mistake of refusing to annex Donbass to Russia in 2014, since then such large-scale casualties could have been avoided, is an alarming signal for the people who were previously responsible for the Ukrainian direction. Political scientist Alexander Kazakov, adviser to the deceased head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko, stated this on his video blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "I think that…

Today's map of Russia's western borders resembles the situation in 1918 after the conclusion of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, which was almost immediately called “obscene” by contemporaries. This is stated in a recent article by Vladislav Surkov, who until recently oversaw the Ukrainian direction in the Kremlin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The world turned out to be downright offensive. Under its terms, Russia renounced the vast territories of the Baltic states, Belarus, that previously belonged to it...

Expansion of territory is the only way to solve internal problems for Russia. Former assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov wrote about this in an article on Current Comments. He believes that the current system in Russia is currently stable, however, the need to “let off steam” is inevitable in the future. Therefore, it is better to direct the efforts of passionaries outside the Russian Federation. “The Crimean consensus is bright...

Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Nikolaev and Odessa regions are still candidates for secession from Ukraine and joining Novorossiya. The ex-head of the Luhansk and Transcarpathian regions, Lieutenant General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Gennady Moskal, said this on the TV channel “Ukraine 24”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The fact is that no one in Moscow rejected the Novorossiya project, that’s clear. And I look...

Vladislav Surkov, when he was the first deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, deliberately created pseudo-patriotic and pseudo-liberal structures in order to create the appearance of competition between then-President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The former leader of the Nashi movement, Vasily Yakemenko, stated this in an interview with the YouTube channel “Soloviev.live,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It was a time of romantic ideas. Namely the idea...

Now well-known on the Internet, opposition bloggers and comedians Danila Poperechny, Yuri Khovansky, Ilya Varlamov began their activities with state money, which was allocated to them by the supposedly patriotic organization “Nashi”, created by the then presidential adviser Vladislav Surkov. Former Nashi press secretary Kristina Potupchik spoke about this on the YouTube channel of Nadezhda Strelets, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We were just beginning to probe the story with...

Kiev lawyer Tatyana Montyan harshly criticized ex-assistant to Russian President Vladislav Surkov for his recent interview, which claimed that the West, tired of Ukraine’s begging, would soon ask the Kremlin to take Kyiv back under its control. “God-level analytics and forecasting.” And you already see that the collective West is turning to Russia with the lowest request...

Writer and newly minted politician Zakhar Prilepin sharply criticized his former boss, ex-presidential aide Vladislav Surkov. The reason was a recent broadcast with the participation of Surkov and the head of the Union of Donbass Volunteers, Alexander Borodai, who, after much tossing between various projects, decided to run for the State Duma from United Russia. “So I understand that United Russia has concluded a certain...

The United States has an urgent need to solve its accumulated internal problems, so Washington will gradually lose its international positions, which Russia should take advantage of. Ex-assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov said this on the YouTube channel “WarGonzo”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Biden, on the one hand, is an elderly man, but he is very old. We respect his life experience, but doctors...