Financial crimes; financial integrity; sanctions; AML/CFT; trainer; Army veteran; former Treasury intelligence officer; immigrant from the former USSR (Ukraine); foreign policy and financial intelligence nerd. Website: https://irenekenyon.substack.com/
Former Ukrainian Deputy PM and ex-Ambassador to the US Olha Stefanishyna received a new notice of suspicion from anti-corruption authorities. The High Anti-Corruption Court is considering preventive measures behind closed doors following her dismissal. www.kyivpost.com/post/81769
Re-upping my post from a few days ago along with the new article on the questionable editorial judgments by @economist.com 👇 nationalinterest.org/feature/why-...
Why Did ‘The Economist’ Platform a Russian Oligarch?The magazine’s recent interview discussing the future of Russia merely restated Vladimir Putin’s talking points.nationalinterest.orgAndrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦russia is attempting genocide in 🇺🇦 It won't stop until it is stopped! Yet 'diplomacy' is a go to word in our politics. It sounds humane while shifting responsibility from the aggressor to the victim. You don’t have to work for the kremlin to amplify its lies! chakhoyan.substack.com/p/the-london...
Debanking - was closing Trump Organization accounts a political move for Capital One? Some claim that laws such as the Corporate Transparency Act and the manual post-SAR review practice now confirmed by FinCEN as discretionary are time consuming and onerous irenekenyon.substack.com/p/trump-capi...
Debanking for Politics?Capital One strikes backirenekenyon.substack.com
🤖 Russia has circulated an AI-generated video falsely claiming Ukraine struck a civilian gas station, in what Ukrainian officials describe as another disinformation campaign
Russia spreads AI-generated video alleging strike on gas station in Poltava OblastRussian propaganda channels are circulating an AI-generated video falsely alleging the destruction of a gas station in Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) report...english.nv.ua
Ukraine's vile and brutal attacks on Wildberries in 2026 forced russia to start its defensive invasion in 2014.
In a report endorsed by the former head of MI6, the Henry Jackson Society said a staggering 50% of the Russians in London - 75,000 - were informants for Putin. Russia has many operatives across Europe.
POLITICO EuropeA Paris court today rejected Russian television star Xenia Fedorova's appeal against a ruling that she must leave the country, a week after French authorities accused her of acting as "a conduit for disinformation campaigns" orchestrated by Moscow.
More than 80 U.S. senators have backed the legislation. However, its passage has been delayed by a dispute over Trump’s authority to impose tariffs on the largest buyers of Russian oil and gas. Eleven Democratic senators and Republican Rand Paul are seeking to remove those provisions.
Moscow restaurant bombing kills three people as device carried by woman explodes
Moscow restaurant bombing kills three people as device carried by woman explodesMore than 20 people injured in explosion near Italian restaurant on Saturday night, authorities say
A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed three people and injured at least 21 in an explosion near a restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, authorities said.
The explosion occurred just before 8pm close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinskaya Square, the police said. Continue reading...www.theguardian.comMore substantive article on critical thinking and analysis. irenekenyon.substack.com/p/spain-ceut...
Spain and the Moroccan InvasionMaking an assessmentirenekenyon.substack.com
President Hollande's administration sold millions of euros worth of arms and high-tech military equipment to Russia the entire time he was in office. @jnbarrot.bsky.social EdSolomon.substack.com/p/european-u...
European Union Arms Sales to Russia is InexcusableArms sales to Russia wasn't stopped until April 8, 2022, 6 weeks after Russia's major invasion of Ukraine.edsolomon.substack.com2/2 I respectfully disagree with Mr. Bondarev on one important point: Europe's failure to support Ukraine to victory isn't merely due to "impotence". Rather, it is because the EU has prioritized crass financial interests over human lives and global security. edsolomon.substack.com/p/nato-and-t...
NATO and the European Union are throwing Ukraine under the bus.It's not personal, it's business.edsolomon.substack.com
Republicans continue to weaken the US by detaching us from Ukraine, which has the world's most innovative military. Russia is in charge of the GOP! www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Pentagon ends leadership of Ukraine aid group as US distances from EuropeThe move follows numerous changes the Trump administration has made to the decades-old alliance.www.politico.com
Google has removed a new AI feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after launch, after researchers showed it generating fake war scenes, collapsed landmarks, and fictional nuclear facilities placed over real coordinates.
Google withdraws new Earth AI toolGoogle Earth’s new feature let users add AI-generated elements to real locations.tvpworld.com