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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 6h

US withdraws from a top European anti-corruption watchdog, which Russia and Belarus left before. buff.ly/qEIK9Os

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026

Ireland is helping supply Russia’s war machine. buff.ly/C8t1Yyv

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026

So why are the South Korean authorities in scandal mode now, demanding an apology from Ukraine? No idea, to be honest – perhaps some domestic reasons. 8/8

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026

In the end, the transfer became possible on two grounds: (1) South Korea regards everyone in North Korea as its own citizens, and (2) the two soldiers themselves expressed a wish to be sent to the South. And that second point had been reported already in 2025. 7/8

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026

The reason it took so long was a debate about international norms: legally, Ukraine was obliged to hand the North Korean POWs over either to Russia (the side they had fought for) or to North Korea (their country of citizenship). 6/8

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026

The transfer to South Korea had been discussed _publicly_ by Seoul and Kyiv for many months, and only a few months ago it was reported that the two sides had reached an agreement on it. 5/8

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026

For anyone who actually followed the story of Ukraine's capture of the North Korean soldiers, this presumed South Korean outrage is very odd, to say the least. 4/8

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026

South Korean authorities immediately freaked out, claiming that Ukraine had violated a non-disclosure agreement by making the transfer public. 3/8

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026

They were handed over to South Korea, as Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed recently. 2/8

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026

A strange situation with the two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine during its incursion into the Kursk oblast. 1/8

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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…

Two men face forward in a split screen. The left man wears glasses and a maroon shirt. The right man wears a white shirt and earphones. Text reads Pourquoi les extremes soutiennent la Russie. DIRTHPOLITICS.SUBSTACK.COM. REARMER LA DEMOCRATIE.

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 27/09/2026

Russia's War, Artificial Intelligence, and the Race to Delegate Killing. shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/russias-…

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 27/09/2026

U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global Al weapons pact. buff.ly/owBVyox The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry.

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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 · 23/09/2026

I agree. But what I mean is that - simplistically - calls to kill all “those who” have rather quite nasty impact on those who call for that, than on the wellbeing of the targets of those calls.

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 23/09/2026

Viewed objectively, an egoistic perspective here is a humanistic one: since your opinion doesn't fucking matter in the bigger picture anyway, why not defend one that doesn't breed hatred and poison your mind? 4/4

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 23/09/2026

The logical separation is real: on one side, an object of division they cannot affect; on the other, the effect that fighting over it has on themselves – and on others who, likewise, cannot affect it. 3/4

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 23/09/2026

What they do influence is their own psychological health, their peace of mind, and perhaps that of the people in their information bubble. 2/4

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 23/09/2026

Most people who comment hatefully online on particular world developments will never have any influence over those developments – neither advancing nor hindering them – because such matters are, as it were, “above their pay grade”. 1/4

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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Buchvorstellung an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 25.9.2026, 18:00 www.literaturport.de/veranstaltun... @bbaw.bsky.social @shekhovtsov.substack.com @dgoberlin.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social @susannworschech.bsky.social @kiu-network.bsky.social

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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 · 22/09/2026

Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks. buff.ly/8gUjmYf

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 21/09/2026

A journalist asked what I thought about the elections in Russia. I said that elections in Russia would be a great thing, and I look forward to seeing them.

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 21/09/2026

European spy chiefs warn Moscow is planning more decisive action against Nato. buff.ly/I4MfWGG Intelligence officers say Russian campaign could intensify ‘in months, not years’ – but that panic risks playing into Kremlin psy-ops.

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European spy chiefs warn Moscow is planning more decisive action against Nato

Exclusive: Intelligence officers say Russian campaign could intensify ‘in months, not years’ – but that panic risks playing into Kremlin psy-ops

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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 · 19/09/2026

Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds. buff.ly/Ffl3TBT The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns.

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 18/09/2026

Russians are growing fearful that Putin may soon order a massive new mobilisation for the war against Ukraine after this weekend's "parliamentary" "elections". buff.ly/4fcYimJ

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 18/09/2026

Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico stated that he has no intention of fulfilling his country’s obligations under Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, or of taking part in the defence of allies in the event of a Russian attack.

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Jana Zikmundova @jzk55.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Since the Russian 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan has become a leading conduit for Russian sanctions evasion: EU-origin dual-use goods flowed into the country and were re-exported onward to Russia at sharply elevated volumes." More to come ❔️ ⤵️

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 17/09/2026

Raiffeisen shares slump after short-seller Grizzly spotlights Russia ties. buff.ly/0jTqjMb

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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

US Attorney General Todd Blanche appears unlikely to investigate a Russian oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin who allegedly paid thousands of dollars to bankroll festivities for Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding. buff.ly/QEzZLBb

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Blanche says investigation into Russian oligarch's wedding gift to Trump Jr. is unlikely

Trump's family members say have no connection to Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 16/09/2026

Former Kosovo president Thaci sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes. buff.ly/W7r08zJ

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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 · 16/09/2026

How Russia Turns Europe’s Divisions into Power. buff.ly/h7fZE5X Anton Shekhovtsov explains why Moscow does not need Europeans to become pro-Russian and why its campaign against Western unity remains tied to Vladimir Putin.

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