Links Dossier — Official
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The Power Below — Alternatives
/ European Social Fund Plus
Links Dossier — Topics
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Shadow Economies V — The Yeltsin Paradox
/ New York Post (Al Guart)
Flag: tabloid register — corroborate from the BoNY case record
Links Dossier — Topics
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Shadow Economies V — The Yeltsin Paradox
The counter-record on the Swiss-accounts allegations — pair with the Guardian bribes report
Section 2: Post-Soviet Transition & the New Russia
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USSR Collapse
/ Serhii Plokhy (Viking, 2010)
History of the 1945 Yalta Conference — documents the territorial and political settlements that shaped the Cold War division of Europe and its eventual collapse.
Section 5: European Institutions & Influence Operations
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Interference in European Elections
/ Robert Peston (Hodder & Stoughton, 2017)
Peston’s post-Brexit account of how Britain reached the 2016 referendum — documents the political and media dynamics that made Leave possible.
Section B: SDGs & Human Rights References
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The Power Below — Lever and the Crowd
Section B: SDGs & Human Rights References
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SDG Framework
Six aggregate governance indicators covering 200+ economies — control of corruption, rule of law, voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality. Essential for comparing FSU governance trajectories.
Links Dossier — Official
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When the Counters Rule the Commons
Cited in Counters/Commons labour-rights section
Links Dossier — Topics
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Mirror States — European Tradition
Recent historical assessment of Ostpolitik. Flag: party-affiliated site — perspective piece, corroborate factual claims
Links Dossier — Topics
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The Blair-Berlusconi Nexus — Political Complicity and Organised Crime
Wikipedia overview of the Mani Pulite investigation — useful as a reference map of the main figures, timeline and outcomes.
Links Dossier — Topics
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Mirror States — NATO Enlargement Debate
Confirming view of the Albright ‘indispensable nation’ claim; pair with The Nation counter-view
Links Dossier — Topics
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Finance Laundering — Russian Organised Crime
Nick Shaxson analysis of how financial secrecy undermined Western leverage over Russia
Links Dossier — Topics
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Brainwashing and Propaganda
/ Frances Stonor Saunders (1999)
Definitive account of CIA funding of cultural organisations and intellectual journals during the Cold War
Section B: SDGs & Human Rights References
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SDG Framework
UN health agency — publishes health system performance data including the collapse of Soviet healthcare infrastructure during transition. Relevant to the Chernobyl social impact and FSU health crisis threads.
Section 1: Cold War Origins & Intelligence History
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Five Eyes Formation
GCHQ’s official authorised history ignores or dismisses its most controversial activities — documented one-sided account of how institutional histories sanitise intelligence agency conduct.
Section 3: Butler Britain
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House of Lords and Aristocracy
Documents on Prince Andrew’s decade as taxpayer-funded trade envoy are blocked from public scrutiny — FOI obstruction documented by Declassified UK.
Section 3: Butler Britain
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The Oligarch Files
Blair and Putin struck an extraordinary bond in the early 2000s as Russia waged its destructive Chechnya campaign — documents Blair’s active support for Putin’s war crimes in exchange for economic integration.
Links Dossier — Topics
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The Power Below — The Nordic Model
/ People's Policy Project (Matt Bruenig)
Why McDonald’s pays Danish workers c.$22/hr
Section 5: European Institutions & Influence Operations
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Social Market and UK vs EU
Links Dossier — Topics
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Finance Laundering — Laundering Mechanisms
Amnesty International guide linking tax policy and avoidance to human rights obligations
Section 3: Butler Britain
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House of Lords and Aristocracy
Government blocks all information about Prince Andrew’s decade as trade envoy — royal biographer argues the culture of unnecessary secrecy needs to end.
Links Dossier — Topics
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Mirror States — NATO Enlargement Debate
/ Kirk Bennett / The American Interest
Counter-reading of the assurances record; pairs with the NSA briefing books for balance
Links Dossier — Topics
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The Power Below — The Nordic Model
Section B: SDGs & Human Rights References
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SDG Framework
UN food assistance agency — publishes hunger and food insecurity data globally. Relevant to the Ukraine war food security and post-Soviet poverty threads.
