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Moldovan authorities have accused Russia of extensive interference in the country’s elections, alleging actions aimed at influencing the vote’s outcome. Stanislav Sekrieru, national security adviser to President Maia Sandu, highlighted “massive Russian interference” as a significant threat to the integrity of the election process.

One key example cited by Sekrieru involved the organized transport of voters from the breakaway region of Transnistria. This act, deemed illegal under Moldova’s election code, reportedly involved hundreds of individuals brought in to vote. Sekrieru shared footage from a charter flight, initially posted by Russia’s “Sputnik,” showing a plane filled with Moldovan passport holders. “The plane appears to be carrying between 260 and 400 voters,” Sekrieru stated, underscoring what he described as “clear evidence of large-scale, organized voter transport.”

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The current pro-European leader of Moldova, Maya Sandu, won the second round of the presidential elections in Moldova.

After counting almost 100% of the ballots, she won 55.41% of the votes, while her rival, the former Prosecutor General of Moldova Oleksandr Stoianoglo, who represents the opposition pro-Russian "Party of Socialists", won 44.59% of the votes.

Therefore, the advantage of Sandu over Stojanoglo amounted to more than 181,730 votes

In her victory speech, delivered after nearly all votes were tallied, Sandu said that she had listened to the voices of her supporters and those of her opponent, Stoianoglo. She said that her primary goal for the coming years would be to serve as a president for all citizens.

“Today, dear Moldovans, you have given a lesson in democracy, worthy of being written in history books... Freedom, truth, and justice have prevailed,” she said.

Well done Moldova.

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Details of Russia's agreement with North Korea regarding troop deployments have been made public by South Korean intelligence.

▪️Russia pays the North Korean regime around $2,000 per month for each soldier it sends to participate in the war against Ukraine

▪️North Korea gains access to Russian missile and space technology

▪️Russians to fight on its side should war erupt on the Korean Peninsula.

▪️North Korea will receive around 700,000 tons of rice annually to assist its own food production shortfalls.

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🇨🇿 President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel allowed several dozen citizens to join the ranks of the Armed Forces.

In total, more than 180 Czechs appealed to Pavel to allow them to join the Ukrainian army

Currently, it is known that the president allowed 60 citizens of the country to join the ranks of the Armed Forces. At the same time, it is unclear exactly how many Czechs went to Ukraine for the war, because some did so without permission.

This is great news because it means they won't be arrested as mercenaries on their return. Let's hope other countries follow.

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NK troops open fire on Russians

https://youtu.be/PDNlI2U73BM?si=3Cx7jpQMAx7JTBB0

Good Morning. MASTODON ATE MY POST YESTERDAY. I had a little accident hurrying down the stairs from my front deck. I think it's mostly muscle and a kidney punch by a stair. I am staying in bed this morning. I got up to feed the cats and make coffee. Very difficult. Once I am upright it's painful but tolerable. Extreme pain going from horizontal to vertical.

Last night it was a series of storms. Terror went out. But he goes out in rain. Sammie was no go. OKC got tornadoes. We are expecting some in the afternoon. We got a lot of rain. But the major part is this afternoon.

https://open.substack.com/pub/martinkuz/p/liberty-in-retreat?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=70k1h

Rick Wilson
https://open.substack.com/pub/therickwilson/p/campaign-video-update-3-nov?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=70k1h

The Georgia GOP gets on a judicial shitlist.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/smells-like-gop-desperation-in-georgia?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=70k1h

Seagal, 72, had a distinctly ballooned belly in a newly released Russian propaganda film — “In The Name of Justice”

The images are some of the latest of Seagal, who was granted Russian citizenship in 2016 and has been offloading his vast portfolio of American real estate ever since.

During the documentary, Seagal's bloated belly is so large his untucked shirt hung down from his waist, being pushed out by his massive midriff. 

The 30-minute documentary, publicly available on Russian website Smotrim. ru and operated by Russian state-run broadcaster VGTRK, was released on October 10.

It follows the portly Putin partisan wandering around Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, between drone shots of rubble and bombed-out buildings.

It looks like he has eaten all the russian army provisions and is in a very poor state for his martial arts performances.

Segal was raised in America, but his grandparents were Russian immigrants, he is banned from entering Ukraine.

Link to part of the propaganda video in which Segal speaks in English not Russian.
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Documents disclosed in September by the U.S. Department of Justice included one internal plan for Kremlin political strategists to promote a social media campaign to help secure the victory of “US Political Party A” in the presidential elections as its views include “provisions on peace in Ukraine in exchange for territories” as well as “returning troops home from all over the world etc.” Internal Kremlin documents make clear that Political Party A is the Republican Party.

“They have a clear preference for Trump to win. He’s more open to forcing Ukraine to concede and make some disadvantageous deal with Russia to end the war,” said Eric Ciaramella, a former White House official now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “They see him as much more likely to cut off support to Ukraine and as much more likely to damage America’s image abroad.”

Putin would not be satisfied until the United States agrees to rebuild relations with Russia in a way that makes concessions to Moscow’s security concerns and redraws the global security map. Until then, Russia will continue to try to stoke chaos to weaken the United States, Stanovaya said.

Indeed, post-election chaos would greatly benefit Moscow, said the former Kremlin official. “The worse it is in the U.S., the better,” he said.

Russia feigns indifference over U.S. election but roots quietly for Trump - WashingtonPost

MOSCOW — It appeared to be Russia’s strongest endorsement of a U.S. presidential candidate to date. Asked whether he had a preference for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a sly smile.

“Our ‘favorite,’ if you can call it that, was the current president, Mr. Biden,” he told the audience at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok in September. “But he was removed from the race, and he recommended all his supporters to support Ms. Harris. Well, we will do so — we will support her,” he added, his voice laced with irony, as he complimented her “expressive and infectious laugh.”

The Russian leader’s tongue-in-cheek remarks were a light, geopolitical gibe designed to mask a sense in Moscow that Russia would have a lot more to gain from a second Trump presidency even as it publicly downplays the importance of Tuesday’s U.S. elections.

In a clear sign of its interest, the Kremlin and Russia’s military intelligence service have directed multiple disinformation campaigns targeting Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, as well as casting doubt on the validity of the vote, according to U.S. officials and documents previously reported on by The Washington Post.

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin has sought to undermine Western support for Ukraine, promoting far-right isolationist views, and Trump’s candidacy dovetails with Moscow’s agenda, as he has repeatedly criticized U.S. spending on aid for Kyiv.

In Moscow, however, the mood on the surface so far is more muted and pointedly nonchalant than in past election years.

In 2016, Russia’s lower house of parliament, the state Duma, erupted in applause after Donald Trump was declared that election’s victor. Conservative activists organized election parties in Moscow, while Russian propagandists heralded Trump’s win as a new era for U.S.-Russian ties. Putin congratulated Trump on his victory in a telegram, expressing his hope that the new president would work with him to help “lead Russian-American relations out of their current state of crisis.”

But in the eight years since, relations have only worsened, especially since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Last year, Putin rescinded Russia’s ratification of the Nuclear Ban Treaty, which prohibited nuclear test explosions. And the dialogue between Moscow and Washington on matters of strategic security has all but dried up.

Trump has suggested that he could improve ties, frequently speaking admiringly of Putin and telling Tucker Carlson, in an interview on Thursday, that he would pull Russia out of its deepening alliance with China and claiming repeatedly that he could stop the fighting in Ukraine in a day. Few in Moscow, however, say they believe Trump can pull off a complete turnaround in relations — especially after little changed during his first term.

“Of course they want Trump — that’s clear — but the result of this election will not be a game changer for Russia,” said a former Kremlin official who still operates in government circles and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “The situation has become truly terrible. U.S.-Russian relations are in deadlock. And everyone is a hostage of it — even Putin.”

Russian state media has striven to cast the upcoming election as the trigger for a “new civil war” in America, while propagandists have disproportionately attacked Harris and defended Trump, analysts say, recycling insults made by far-right outlets in the United States and repeating Kremlin statements.

Inside Russia’s elite there is a growing expectation that Donald Trump will win and that if he does, there could be a chance to end the war with Ukraine on Moscow’s terms and potentially redraw the global security map.

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