Mr. Putin Resumes His War in Ukraine - NYT Editorial | U.S. Considers Supplying Arms to Ukraine Forces, Officials Say - NYT | "...just as in Soviet times, Russian embassies abroad and Moscow organizations... are busily involved in creating “pseudo-organizations, with pseud-experts, pseudo-lawyers, and pseudo-journalists” who the Russian authorities then use to isolate other points of view while promoting their own." - Moscow Seeking to Make Russian Diaspora a Soviet-Style Political Weapon Against West, Pasternak Says - by Paul Goble | Бойцы батальона «Айдар» блокируют проезжую часть около здания Минобоны в Киеве - Коммерсантъ
"And perhaps most seriously and again just as in Soviet times, Russian embassies abroad and Moscow organizations supposedly intended to help them are busily involved in creating “pseudo-organizations, with pseud-experts, pseudo-lawyers, and pseudo-journalists” who the Russian authorities then use to isolate other points of view while promoting their own." Moscow Seeking to Make Russian Diaspora a Soviet-Style Political Weapon Against West, Pasternak Says by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com) Monday February 2 nd , 2015 at 11:32 AM Window On Eurasia -- New Series 1 Share Paul Goble Staunton, February 2 – Russian embassies and other organizations Moscow has set up ostensibly to promote Russian ideas are actually working to transform Russian diasporas into obedient political weapons against the West and are treating them in ways that recall Soviet times, according to the head of the Russian compatriots organization in the