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This is a tired, uninspired speech full of lies about Nazism in the West & Ukraine, but it contains no real ideology, just a lot of World War II nostalgia. This cannot inspire anybody & the final Lermontov quote about defending Moscow would appear to predict disaster.

2 Russian top state bank chief executives:

Andrey Akimov, CEO of Gazprombank, was an owner of at least eight companies formed in the British Virgin Islands. One of them held $360 million.

Putin’s chief money launderer: US sanctioned April 6, 2018.

washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

Herman Gref, CEO of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, controlled an offshore trust with companies nested within it, with assets totaling more than $54 million, the Pandora Papers show.

Finally sanctioned by the US & EU February 2022.

In about 2017, a Panamanian company held by the trust lent $30.5 million to a trust benefiting Putin’s former deputy chief of staff Kirill Androsov, now managing Gref’s money laundering from Singapore.

Still not sanctioned. Singapore plays dubious role.

english.elpais.com/international/…

New Ukrainian concern about full Russian military mobilization in Transnistria.

Previously, the Ukrainian military have played down the Russian troops there as few (2,000) & poorly trained. This looks more like a diversionary meaneuvre than real offensive.

pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2022/…