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# ![@27khv Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1864354944473509888.png) @27khv Brian McDonald

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### Top Social Posts
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"McFaul keeps saying this like it proves something but anyone who watched his Moscow years with both eyes open remembers a different story. The lack of self awareness is staggering. 👇 He arrived in Russia carrying the baggage of his own scholarship. A man whod made his name anatomising colour revolutions suddenly dropped into a capital that saw those movements not as academic curiosities but as existential threats. After all in 2005 he'd even written a paper titled "American Efforts at Promoting Regime Change in the Soviet Union and then Russia: Lessons Learned." The Kremlin didnt need to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1993741827149844928)  2025-11-26T18:01Z 15.9K followers, 178.6K engagements


"@_JeanLeon Once China realises you cant call a luxury car Happy Lucky Dragon Leopard X its over for all of us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1994449776419434812)  2025-11-28T16:54Z 15.9K followers, 230.4K engagements


"The claims are nonsense to anyone who can read a history book. Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was the largest invasion in history and her own Finland took part (alongside Germany Hungary Romania and Italy). Japan attacked the Russian Far East in 1938. China struck Damansky Island in 1969. As for the idea that Russia (or the USSR) has invaded XX countries since 1925 that number is simply fabricated. Astonishing that CBS let it pass without any challenge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998093203895967955)  2025-12-08T18:11Z 15.9K followers, 28.7K engagements


"Russias Gamaleya Institute says it has produced the first test batches of an mRNA cancer vaccine and received approval to use it in patients. The promise is huge personalised oncology based on tumour genetics. However the proof will be in outcomes. not announcements"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998739081988046864)  2025-12-10T12:58Z 15.9K followers, 5761 engagements


"French ambassador Nicolas de Rivire says EU states must accept Russia as a European power when it comes to reshaping the continent after the Ukraine conflict. Speaking to RBK he argued that geography history and shared interests make coexistence inevitable. And that the next XX years matter more than the last 35"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998740560127918423)  2025-12-10T13:04Z 15.9K followers, 7850 engagements


"Putin responding. just now to a question from a reporter on why Russia and the US have excluded the EU from Ukraine peace talks (my translation): "They had this fantasy about imposing a strategic defeat on Russia and all these talking points EU officials keep repeating show some of them are still stuck in these illusions. Even though they know they absolutely know that ship sailed ages ago and was never realistic in the first place. They just convinced themselves it was true because they wanted to believe it. And now they cant bring themselves to admit they were wrong. Theyve basically taken"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1995882228820111807)  2025-12-02T15:46Z 15.9K followers, 758.3K engagements


"While walking in central Moscow yesterday with US negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev was wearing a jacket stamped with Putins quote: Russia is not a country that fears anything. A pretty pointed wardrobe choice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1996195516477259914)  2025-12-03T12:31Z 15.9K followers, 16.2K engagements


"Bild breathlessly warning that Putins satellites fly over Germany every day is hilarious. Everyones satellites fly over Germany daily: American Chinese EU British even commercial ones. Thats how orbit works. It doesnt swerve around Bavaria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1997686940280524848)  2025-12-07T15:17Z 15.9K followers, 72.6K engagements


"Ekaterina Mizulina head of the controversial 'League for Safe Internet' and known for strongly pro-government positions says she is receiving messages from children aged XXX upset over the Roblox ban. she claims every second child tells her they want to leave Russia. State regulator Roskomnadzor has blocked Roblox citing alleged extremism violence and LGBT content. Mizulina says she collected appeals from teenagers and parents for unblocking and sent them to Roskomnadzor but the agency replied it sees no grounds to reverse the ban"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1997961946327310686)  2025-12-08T09:30Z 15.9K followers, 4299 engagements


"The latest IMF data shows Russia (2917 PPP) now has higher net monthly incomes than nine EU member states when adjusted for cost of living (ahead of Slovenia just behind Lithuania). Denmark tops Europe for financial well being followed by Switzerland. And keep an eye on Poland: its about to overtake Italy and is closing in on the UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998319686425989124)  2025-12-09T09:11Z 15.9K followers, 16.9K engagements


"And we are back to seven. Roscosmos reports that the Soyuz MS-27 descent capsule has landed safely in Kazakhstan bringing home cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky along with NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim. The crew spent XXX days in orbit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998329597562126693)  2025-12-09T09:51Z 15.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Billionaire Oleg Deripaska has warned that Russia is sleepwalking into a cave of isolated internet unless private AI companies are left alone to operate. His critique lands as Stanford ranks Russia 28th of XX in AI ecosystem strength and the IMF places it 53rd out of XXX in readiness. Well behind China and much of the rest of Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998739772425007227)  2025-12-10T13:01Z 15.9K followers, 4640 engagements


"The Russian owner of the largest startup in Europe Revoluts Nikolay Storonsky says that Europeans are lazy and don't want to work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998873928220160150)  2025-12-10T21:54Z 15.9K followers, 210.7K engagements


"Billionaire Alexei Mordashov says Russias economy is shifting toward a chaebol modeldominated by giants like Severstal Rosatom and Norilsk Nickel. He warns of monopolies and weak SME growth. But is this really worse than the old oligarch model 👇 Where the likes of Abramovich Friedman and Melnichenko made fortunes in Russiathen moved their assets families and loyalties West. Buying mansions in London chalets in Switzerland and docking mega-yachts in the Med. One tycoon in Moscow told me that he believes over $X trillion (net) was stripped out of Russia between 1991 and 2021. A staggering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1947963809508855879)  2025-07-23T10:15Z 15.9K followers, 7447 engagements


"Bild reports that around 1400 German companies still operate in Russia including Hochland Beiersdorf (Nivea Eucerin) Metro and Braun. all citing responsibility to local staff and patients as reasons for staying. Their combined turnover last year: XX billion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1977368163449712910)  2025-10-12T13:38Z 15.9K followers, 4380 engagements


"An astonishing winner from Lokomotiv against CSKA today in today's Russian Premier League game. Have you ever seen anything like this before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1979627486356074910)  2025-10-18T19:15Z 15.9K followers, 37.1K engagements


"RussiaUS space cooperation continues despite everything on Earth. A Soyuz rocket has launched from Baikonur carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev along with NASA astronaut Christopher Williams. Theyll spend XXX days in orbit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1993981267763720291)  2025-11-27T09:52Z 15.9K followers, 95.9K engagements


"Another unbelievable statement from the EUs chief diplomat Kaja Kallas: she claims no country has attacked Russia in the last XXX years. Well apart from current EU members Germany Romania Finland Italy Hungary Slovakia Croatia and friends on XX June 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1994122699699060931)  2025-11-27T19:14Z 15.9K followers, 103.8K engagements


"Russias biggest viral hit right now is a calf meeting snow for the first time and trying to catch snowflakes with its mouth. You can keep your influencers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1994337311534748079)  2025-11-28T09:27Z 15.9K followers, 126.6K engagements


"A story that sounds too insane to be true: a dog in Novosibirsk blew up an entire apartment after turning on a stove with his teeth. The bug spray can on top detonated blasting out windows and doors. Fido survived by hiding on the balcony like a tiny action hero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1994864348066373725)  2025-11-29T20:21Z 15.9K followers, 371.6K engagements


"Fun fact: If the Ottomans hadnt retaken Azov in 1711 St Petersburg would likely have been built on Russias southern coast instead of the Baltic. Taganrogs Mediterranean-ish breezes instead of St Petes freezing swamps. A different climate a different Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1995453442609840415)  2025-12-01T11:22Z 15.9K followers, 10.4K engagements


"The GUM ice rink has opened with the usual winter show food stalls bells drums the whole thing. But the real fun Seven Nation Army being mangled in Russian across Red Square with very strange lyrics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1995552087761998226)  2025-12-01T17:54Z 15.9K followers, 11K engagements


"Reuters reports that Turkey slashed its purchases of Russian Urals crude by a third last month. With Trumps new sanctions squeezing Lukoil and Rosneft and the EU preparing a ban on fuel refined from Russian oil in early 2026 Turkish refiners are apparently scrambling for alternative suppliers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1995804206637142294)  2025-12-02T10:36Z 15.9K followers, 2895 engagements


"RussiaUS talks underway in the Kremlin right now. Putin is flanked by Kirill Dmitriev and Yuri Ushakov; the American side is Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1995907944978727215)  2025-12-02T17:28Z 15.9K followers, 10.5K engagements


"RBK journalist Pavel Demidovich writes that Eurostat data shows the complete transformation of EU-Russia trade since 2022. The bloc has just recorded two consecutive quarters of trade surplus with Moscow (1.5bn in Q3 2025) thanks to sanctions that collapsed turnover. EU imports from Russia are down XX% since 2022; Russian oil products have fallen from XX% of supply to 1%. US LNG now covers XX% of EU gas imports Norway 25%. Full exit from Russian gas is planned by 2027. EU exports to Russia are down XX% (except pharma). Russia now makes up barely X% of EU trade. Trade has been reduced to the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1996197897302397099)  2025-12-03T12:40Z 15.9K followers, 3589 engagements


"Ursula Von der Leyen hails this as the dawn of Europes (she means the EU) full energy independence from Russia with the implication is that the bloc has won something. But if you run your finger down the figures the story quickly looks very different. 👇 Gas at the TTF hub still sits at roughly twice the pre-2022 norm (3035 /MWh now against the old 1020 /MWh). The difference is caused by the simple arithmetic of swapping pipelines for tankers because LNG must be frozen shipped and warmed up. Every step fattens the cost for the end user. So all Brussels has done in reality is replaced one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1996244881585455518)  2025-12-03T15:47Z 15.9K followers, 20.1K engagements


"Jack Nicholson greeting a Vladimir Lenin impersonator on Red Square with a Karl Marx look-alike supervising. Moscow 2001"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1996259513482039375)  2025-12-03T16:45Z 15.9K followers, 2772 engagements


"Reuters reports that former Pornhub owner Bernd Bergmayer has asked the US Treasury to let him buy the foreign assets of Russia's Lukoil. The ex-MindGeek boss now an investor calls it a great investment. Sanctions have pushed Lukoil into selling off its operations abroad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1996281986281881928)  2025-12-03T18:14Z 15.9K followers, 2462 engagements


"@kendallhosseini Lets be fair there is diversity in British acting. Some went to Eton others bravely chose Harrow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1996915732874252437)  2025-12-05T12:13Z 15.9K followers, 20.7K engagements


"Putin speaking on BRICS moves to de-dollarize today in New Delhi. "Were happy to point out that more and more countries are now settling trade in their own currencies. National currencies already account for about XX percent of commercial deals with India. The financial and banking links between us are working smoothly. Russian businesses are finding new ways to use the Indian rupees they get from exports. Big joint projects are now being financed in Russian rubles. And our energy cooperation keeps growing strongly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1996918423662501942)  2025-12-05T12:23Z 15.9K followers, 42.7K engagements


"Ukraine never had a nuclear arsenal to give up. It inherited weapons it couldnt control; the launch codes were in Moscow. The US and Britain pushed Kiev to send them to Russia (the CTR program) fearing nuclear materials might leak onto the black market. 👇 Belarus and Kazakhstan faced the same dilemma: Soviet nukes on their soil but no control over them. All three states transferred the warheads to Russia under Washington-supervised programs in exchange for security assurances in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. Ironically every guarantor later broke that deal. The US went first sanctioning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1997397771813552292)  2025-12-06T20:08Z 15.9K followers, 5449 engagements


"Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reacting to the new US National Security Strategy strikes a cautiously optimistic tone tinged with skepticism toward Washingtons entrenched establishment (my translation): ts a pretty big turnaround compared to what we had with the previous administrations. This one is fundamentally different. And right now Trump is strong politically strong at home which gives him room to reshape policy the way he sees it. A lot of the changes were seeing actually line up with our own thinking. So maybe theres a bit of hope that we can keep working together constructively on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1997633079486070820)  2025-12-07T11:43Z 15.9K followers, 11.7K engagements


"Nezavisimaya Gazeta notes that Russian gasoline is now X% more expensive than in the US. $3.23/gal vs $X. Both remain far cheaper than EU pump prices where tax policy makes $68/gal routine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1997943593840087167)  2025-12-08T08:17Z 15.9K followers, 2436 engagements


"@franklinleonard Anjelica Huston Sofia Coppola: this is nothing new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998152280705830953)  2025-12-08T22:06Z 15.9K followers, 3254 engagements


"In Siberias Surgut a girl in a dress was spotted cycling through 27C (16.6F). Meanwhile you hear people on X claiming Russia wont survive the winter. 😉"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1994374034860167456)  2025-11-28T11:53Z 15.9K followers, 472.2K engagements


"Berlins 'World Forum' has apparently appointed a new President of Russia. We live in strange times"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1995799378393444711)  2025-12-02T10:17Z 15.9K followers, 46.8K engagements


"Putin has signaled a fresh drive to tackle Russias notoriously huge black economy telling officials that nothing must slip into the shadows and insisting businesses work legally so revenues flow into the budget"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998104611484586233)  2025-12-08T18:57Z 15.9K followers, 61.8K engagements


"Kommersant reports that Italys UniCredit Group has begun actively winding down its Russian business selling almost its entire long-term leasing portfolio to local firm PR-Leasing while senior management exits the bank. Sources say Western European shareholders are pushing a retreat similar to Intesas aiming to limit losses ahead of any sale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998321003307409535)  2025-12-09T09:17Z 15.9K followers, 2412 engagements


"Two newborn rare Amur tiger cubs have made their public debut at Moscow Zoo. The rare red-listed cubs are now exploring their outdoor enclosure. Staff say the mother hid them for weeks and they still minimise contact but the latest check shows both already weigh XX kg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1998329984411107832)  2025-12-09T09:52Z 15.9K followers, 4074 engagements


"Fast fact: Only eight European websites sites make the worlds top XX most visited. Four are based in Russia (Yandex Dzen VK MailRu). The other four are all porn. French/Czech XVideos and XNXX Cyprus-based xHamster (Russian-owned) and Stripchat (British-owned)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1960762116526293340)  2025-08-27T17:51Z 15.9K followers, 70.8K engagements


"Russias McDonalds replacement is now selling cheeseburgers for $XXXX (0.65 / 0.57). A handy reminder of why Purchasing Power Parity matters when you compare living costs or financial strength across countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1991919403462783376)  2025-11-21T17:19Z 15.9K followers, 113.4K engagements


"Probably the best advertisement ever made for the Russian car industry was filmed in 2003: Matt Damon in an old Volga outrunning the FSB and Karl Urbans Mercedes G-Wagen through a chilly and autumnal Moscow. Peak cinema"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1994371438011462097)  2025-11-28T11:42Z 15.9K followers, 45.4K engagements


"The ruble has surged this year up sharply against the dollar euro and even the yuan. Great news if youre a Russian heading abroad or buying imports. But for the Kremlin its a headache: a stronger ruble means fewer rubles per export dollar squeezing budget revenues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1995543054510333964)  2025-12-01T17:18Z 15.9K followers, 1595 engagements


"Putin speaking earlier today on the current state of Russia's economy at a VTB Bank event in Moscow my translation: "Growth has definitely slowed down. In the first nine months of the year Russias GDP went up by just X% and it was only XXX% in the third quarter. The full-year number will probably land somewhere between XXX% and 1%. But honestly this is more or less what we expected. Back when the Central Bank hiked rates and the government rolled out its measures to prevent the economy over-heating and stabilize the ruble we said straight away that the goal was a soft landing.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1995947398925791483)  2025-12-02T20:05Z 15.9K followers, 54.8K engagements


"Stephen Kotkin is not "the leading expert on Russia." He's rather the leading expert on Russia for people who don't know much about Russia. And his thesis here is ridiculous. Every major European state was autocratic expansionist and suspicious of foreigners in the 19th century (Britain France Prussia Austria-Hungary take your pick). Kotkin presents this as uniquely Russian pathology when it was the standard operating system for the continent. And then he skips the one era that completely torpedoes his thesis: 19912008 when Russia bent over backwards to integrate with the West. It flirted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1997017531253457135)  2025-12-05T18:57Z 15.9K followers, 68.3K engagements


"For the first time since its launch XX years ago all eight docking ports on the International Space Station are occupied. Two Russian Progress a pair of Russian Soyuz an American Cygnus a Japanese HTV-X and two of Elon Musk's Space X Dragons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1997285546289479984)  2025-12-06T12:42Z 15.9K followers, 258.8K engagements


"In reality the EU has arguably overestimated its power rather than underestimated it. Despite XX sanctions packages Russia has grown around seven times faster than Germany (roughly XXXX% vs 0.86%) since 2022. The numbers paint a different picture from Kaja Kallas' rhetoric"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1997392850036613513)  2025-12-06T19:48Z 15.9K followers, 20.4K engagements


"The Guardian's Simon Tisdall in September 2022: Putins ship of fools is sinking fast. The Guardian's Simon Tisdall in December 2025: Russias collapsing economy could soon bring Putin down. In the words of that great Mancunian philosopher Morrissey how soon is now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1997950399685542248)  2025-12-08T08:44Z 15.9K followers, 12.9K engagements


"TASS has just published photos of American envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff walking in central Moscow with Kremlin aide Kirill Dmitriev ahead of talks with Vladimir Putin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1995860088435998792)  2025-12-02T14:18Z 15.9K followers, 162.1K engagements


"In St Petersburg this morning Eduard Limonovs old National Bolshevik crew hung a giant banner over Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzors office reading Roskomnadzor ban this banner Their protest is related to recent blocks on Roblox FaceTime Snapchat etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/27khv/status/1999054859916685628)  2025-12-11T09:53Z 15.9K followers, 7452 engagements