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Anton Shekhovtsov

@shekhovtsov.substack.com
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PhD UCL SSEES, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist at EUObserver, outdoor research fellow.

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026
Here’s an interview (in English) I did for the French “Rearmer la democratie” podcast, talking about relations and non-relations between Russia and the European far right: dirtypolitics.substack.com/p/pourqu…
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 26/09/2026
Heute in der Druckausgabe: „Acht Gründe, warum die Techno-Oligarchie gefährlicher ist als der Faschismus“: buff.ly/UJ3STcv
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 22/09/2026
French President Marine Le Pen has successfully lobbied for the removal of two Russian, Putin-linked billionaires, Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, from the EU sanctions list.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 21/09/2026
Peter Thiel’s Reverse Alchemy: shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/peter-th…
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 20/09/2026
Peter Thiel’s Reverse Alchemy: buff.ly/sTZRTla
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 20/09/2026
Alchemy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, theology, cultural history, and cyberpunk fiction meet in the money-waste-immortality knot behind the techno-oligarchic crypto dream. shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 17/09/2026
Russia is trying to push Kyrgyz payment system Vexpay into China’s financial bloodstream to keep circumventing Western sanctions and funding its war machine. buff.ly/G2EeCTi
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 16/09/2026
How Russia turns Europe's divisions into power. buff.ly/h7fZE5X
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 13/09/2026
Leaked document reveals Russia’s desperate push into China’s financial system: buff.ly/G2EeCTi
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 11/09/2026
A leaked document reveals Russia’s desperate push into China’s financial system via Kyrgyz operator Vexpay: buff.ly/G2EeCTi
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 10/09/2026
A leaked Russian briefing note for Putin reveals how Russia hopes to use a Kyrgyz payment platform, Vexpay, and Chinese help to slip its war money past Western sanctions: buff.ly/G2EeCTi
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 10/09/2026
In Eastern Europe, they’d distribute free buckwheat on election day in a subtle attempt to buy votes; in the US, they compensate for the lack of imagination in vote-buying with narcissistic shamelessness.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 09/09/2026
Following his previous, more ambiguous response towards the far-right victory in one of the oblasts of East Germany, US President Donald Trump is now casting aside all uncertainty.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 07/09/2026
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 07/09/2026
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 07/09/2026
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 07/09/2026
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 07/09/2026
Theme Park “Germania” in construction.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 04/09/2026
A sting operation against Reform UK, exploiting their greed and disrespect towards UK electoral laws. This has reminded me of the “Ibiza affair” in Austria back in the day, and I now wonder if similar operations are in development in Germany or France. buff.ly/EU16uS8
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 03/09/2026
The SBU even published a video in which Kaplunov allegedly confessed to his collaboration with a Russian contact acting in the interests of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). 8/14
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 03/09/2026
Eventually, Kaplunov became RDK's deputy commander for combat operations. 4/14
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 03/09/2026
At the centre of this story is Stepan Kaplunov, a Russian neo-Nazi who defected from the Russian army in 2014 and left for Ukraine, where he joined Ukraine's forces defending the country from Russian aggression. 2/14
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 03/09/2026
The recent fire-fight between members of Ukraine's Security Service and Main Directorate of Intelligence has been one of the weirdest developments in Ukraine this year. 1/14
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 02/09/2026
CNN posting AI-generated disaster porn reflects the Dead Internet Clock ticking just seconds away from the final midnight.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 02/09/2026
Ukraine's former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov is launching a new defence-technology company, with Palantir reported to be its lead investor. 1/2
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 01/09/2026
I’m looking forward to the day when policymakers start speaking in normal language.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 20/08/2026
Techno-Oligarchy and the Theft of Tomorrow: shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/techno-o…
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 16/08/2026
The private society Dialog spent twenty years keeping its name out of the newspapers; now it’s suing to get into the law reports. 1/4
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 14/08/2026
Michael Vance, one of the most radical anti-EU figures among high-ranking US officials, has been confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, meaning he will head the US State Department's in-house analytical bureau. 1/3
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 13/08/2026
Austria's Defence Ministry has urgently asked all soldiers whether they recognise or were contacted by 21 people suspected of being Russian intelligence officers under diplomatic cover in Vienna. It fears the operatives (linked to the GRU, SVR and FSB) targeted military staff to extract information.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 09/08/2026
It's a bitter irony that, after millions of pages of dystopian fiction, the moment humankind finally built AI-driven autonomous robots was also the moment the world chose to ignore Asimov’s famous First Law of Robotics: “A robot may not injure a human being” shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/russias-wa...
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 05/08/2026
Peter Thiel and Alexander Dugin look like opposites - a US techno-oligarch and a Russian fascist ideologue. Both borrow, however, the same theology of the katechon and the Antichrist. My new essay, "Antichrists and Empires", on where their doctrines clash - and eventually converge: buff.ly/ib9xVDa
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 05/08/2026
This is Elon Musk, a techno-oligarch with 241 million followers on TwitterX, spreading and amplifying Ceuta-linked right-wing disinformation, with one message reaching 9.9 million views and the other 7.9 million as of right now. 1/4
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 01/08/2026
At an international conference in Tübingen a few days ago, I delivered an academic paper, titled “Antichrists and Empires”, discussing (largely opposing) quasi-religious visions of Russian fascism (Alexander Dugin) and US techno-oligarchy (Peter Thiel). 1/2
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 29/07/2026
I hear Basil Fawlty is now supporting the National Front.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 25/07/2026
How men among the ruins would look like I wonder.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 23/07/2026
The great British knee in all its glory! Roderick Spode and his Blackshorts would have been proud.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 23/07/2026
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Manila last night to discuss Russia’s war against Ukraine. Russian demands remain the same - as I translate from Lavrov’s horse language: 1/2
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 22/07/2026
The Techno-Oligarchy’s First “Holocaust”: Government Efficiency and Death by Indifference. shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/the-techno...
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 19/07/2026
Jens Spahn, the leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, has announced his resignation following a controversy over his use of a surrogate mother in the US. He was also an unapologetic participant in several meetings of the secretive society "Dialog": buff.ly/owdK4qc
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 18/07/2026
The 2020 files Trump declassified name Moscow’s info ops in the US in detail. But his address mentions Russia only once, in a list, and makes China the villain. World-class intel in hand, and the one adversary it caught left ignored. shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/russia-t…
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 18/07/2026
The edited volume "Global Narratives of Russian Disinformation", featuring my chapter "'Russia Is Not Our Enemy!' Behind the Pro-Russian Billboard Campaign in Italy", is out on the 24th of July this year: buff.ly/xwOLrGb
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 18/07/2026
No Russian operation, no Russian actor was mentioned. In Trump’s address built on declassified intelligence about foreign interference in the 2020 elections, the country that the US agencies actually caught interfering had been written out of the script. shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/russia-the...
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 16/07/2026
The techno-oligarchy will play its own game, aligning, for the time being, with the Trump regime. 3/4
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 16/07/2026
As my colleagues and I argued last month, the Trump regime is not only launching a frontal political attack on Europe using the far right as a weapon – that was clear already last year – it is also ready to support this _joint_ venture financially. 1/4
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 10/07/2026
Too many, even in the US, have overlooked a different Vance (no relation to JD). He is now awaiting what is likely to be confirmation to lead the US State Department’s in-house analytical bureau. shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/americas…
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 08/07/2026
A decade ago, American anti-EU sentiments were a fringe provocation. Today they run from the Vice President’s office to a State Department nominee awaiting Senate confirmation. My new piece traces how the US anti-EU turn went mainstream. shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/americas…
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 07/07/2026
Organised international sport is organised international corruption by default. IOC, FIFA, etc.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 05/07/2026
Technology companies exploit vulnerabilities in human psychology for money. They monetise the perpetual present. The techno-oligarchy goes further - it does not merely monetise the collapse of time – it politicises it. shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/techno-o…
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 02/07/2026
Last year, the techno-oligarchy orchestrated its first “holocaust” against humanity. This is how it happened: shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/the-techno...
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