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Large-scale independent campaign inside Russia ahead of the State Duma elections, with >224 400 000 views
Exposing the Kremlin
12.11.2026
🚨Kremlin FIMI actors exploited 🇪🇸Spain’s November 11 general strike
Left-oriented networks invoked class solidarity, police repression, and opposition to NATO while blaming Spain’s socioeconomic problems on military assistance to Ukraine. Far-right actors instead portrayed the strike as an electoral operation orchestrated by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the left. These opposing narratives converged on discrediting Spain’s political institutions and Sánchez’s government, exploiting ideological divisions to intensify polarization ahead of the election.
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05.11.2026
🚨The Kremlin made the supposed threat to Kaliningrad a central theme of its escalating rhetoric toward Europe, reinforcing its nuclear threats even through official diplomatic channels.
Putin and Lavrov declared Russia ready for war with Europe, and the pro-war Z community began outlining scenarios for such a conflict. The narrative surrounding Kaliningrad may serve two complementary purposes: building a pretext for Russian escalation in Europe and seeking to deter a European response in advance. By threatening nuclear escalation over Kaliningrad, Moscow may be trying to shield potential Russian aggression elsewhere from Western countermeasures involving attacks on or isolation of the exclave.
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30.10.2026
🚨Kremlin FIMI networks are intervening in the information environment ahead of the November 3 US midterms
Russia-aligned information activity is visible across several mechanisms:
– The Matryoshka/Operation Overload network distributed fabricated celebrity and news-format attacks on Democratic candidates;
– Storm-1516 circulated apparently AI-generated false misconduct allegations;
– Doppelgänger deployed imitation news sites and automated quote-posting;
– multilingual Pravda network republished domestic US partisan messages.
Russian state media and FIMI channels concurrently advanced divergent interpretations of Trump’s electoral position, pressure on Ukraine and potential confrontation over Iran.
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