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  Nothing in the spanish news about this. Nor on the tele. Nor in the papers. 
  Its still an ongoing investigation. 
  Source: i live in BCN
context: Russia has been doing shit like this for years now, and should remind everyone that Putin already declared war on the West.  
  He’s just furious that we finally woke up and started retaliating.  And that his military sucks borscht. >
  
  They started their hybrid war against the west a decade ago. By the time of Brexit they had years of practice eg in Eastern Europe and of course Ukraine and Russia itself. >
  
  Not even remotely surprised. Rootin' Tootin' Pootin is the puppetmaster, after all. >
  
  There are a couple very big reasons why Putin and the Kremlin do this.  
  Firstly so Putin can point to other countries problems and say western democracy is just as corrupt, if not more so, than Russian Sovereign democracy. If that is perceived to be true then the Russian public won't bother wanting true democracy.  
  The second big purpose is to cause the affected countries to turn their attention inwards. That leaves Putin and the Kremlin to do whatever they please while others aren't paying attention.  
  The ultimate goal though is simply for Putin to live. To continue living he needs to remain in power. For that to remain so he believes he needs to stop people wanting and trying to bring about democracy.  
  The ultra paranoid KGB brain in Putin believes that America and the CIA are always plotting to overthrow him. He sees democracy and NATO as weapons used by America and the CIA to topple him. He's deadly afraid of being toppled as has happened by other dictators.  
  So all this is basically his way of staying alive. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Continue reading the main story The radical group is only partially aligned with the Russian government.
  Because the group shares Moscow's aims of undermining Western governments and sowing chaos in Europe, Russian intelligence has been able to influence its operations, according to American officials.
  The ability to use the Russian Imperial Movement as a sometime proxy force is useful to Russian intelligence, particularly because that makes it more difficult for rival countries to attribute actions to the Russian government.
  
  
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  Russia has been orchestrating the rise of right-wing politics for years. It's a clever way to destabilize the West, and I'm afraid his tricks are working in our society. >
  
  The whole 'Trump' card almost took US out of NATO and ended democracy in the violent insurrection attempt that aimed at assassinating high ranking Democrats to come to power. The lawlessless danger of the Criminal Empire can not bw overstated, and the best thing for global peace would be the destruction of the failed Russian state. >
  
  Sounds par for the course for the Russian crime empire. I mean, this is the country that routinely assassainates, poisons and murders enemy of the crime empire in countries all over the world. Every day we are closer to the collapse of Putin's tyranny is a good day for peace. Every FSB killer killed, of an unfortunate accident, protects 100s or 1000s of innocents from murder.
  This war will be the end of the barbarians with their 20th century derision against the progress of the 21st. >
  
  Putin determined to remind the world he's the head of global organized crime.  He's stolen more money than anyone who's ever lived and he's hobbled and humiliated the Russian nation. >
  
  Stop being afraid of that MF... Show him force or else things will be much worse...
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  Edit: Grammar... :(