https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/21/whats-behind-pro-russian-attitudes-in-eastern-ukraine
21 Apr 2022. Kyiv, Ukraine - Seven weeks after Kreminna's pro-Kremlin mayor was found dead with gunshot wounds, Russian forces seized the Ukrainian town on Tuesday as part of a renewed eastern

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/04/04/who-are-russias-supporters
According to a survey in India conducted by YouGov, a pollster, in March, 40% of respondents approved of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Fifty-four per cent of those polled approved of Mr Putin

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/technology/russia-supporters.html
The pro-Russia sentiment is a stark departure from during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union was viewed by many Americans as a foe. In recent years, that attitude shifted, partly helped along by

https://www.statista.com/chart/29915/global-stance-on-russia/
This chart shows where different countries stand in terms of Russia, as of March 2023. ... having also moved from neutral to pro-Russia by 2023. At the same time, the number of neutral countries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russophilia
Russophilia is the admiration and fondness of Russia (including the era of the Soviet Union and/or the Russian Empire ), Russian history, and Russian culture. The antonym is Russophobia. [1] [2] In the 19th century, Russophilia was often linked to variants of pan-Slavism, since the Russian Empire and autonomous Serbia were the only two Slavic

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/21/why-did-ukraine-suspend-11-pro-russia-parties
After the Euromaidan revolution, and Russia's hostile actions in Crimea and Donbas, however, the pro-Russian camp was marginalised in Ukrainian politics. And at the same time, the pro-Russian

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/31/1077064951/global-culture-wars-some-far-right-groups-in-the-u-s-are-taking-a-pro-russia-sta
Global culture wars: Some far right groups in the U.S. are taking a pro-Russia stance Even as the U.S. opposes Russian aggression into Ukraine, some Americans' attitudes are softening toward

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/28/europe/slovakia-election-russia-supporter-intl-cmd/index.html
So, in essence, they are not pro-peace, they are pro-Russian," he told CNN. Fico previously served as Slovakia's prime minister for more than a decade, first between 2006 and 2010 and then

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/15/1086733797/china-seems-to-be-pro-russia-heres-what-that-means-for-the-war-in-ukraine
Domestically, however, China is signaling that it is solidly pro-Russia. And as NPR's Emily Feng reports, what China does or does not do will have a strong bearing on the conflict. EMILY FENG

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/22/reporters-notebook-how-donbas-evolved-under-separatists
A fan of pro-Russian separatists on a tank, pictured in 2014 [Mansur Mirovalev/Al Jazeera] "To hell with Putin!" he said and added a long expletive.

https://newrepublic.com/article/179393/republican-vladimir-putin-2024-shift
The Russian strongman has yet to topple Ukraine, but he's conquered the GOP. ... the pro-Putin branch of Republicans are noticeably louder than the Reagan descendants. Emboldened by Trump's

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/01/1202879797/pro-russia-ex-premier-leads-party-to-win-slovakia-parliamentary-elections
Pro-Russia ex-PM leads leftist party to win in Slovakia amid concerns in Ukraine The election was a test for the small central European country's support for neighboring Ukraine. The win by Robert

https://www.rferl.org/a/moldova-ukraine-russia-former-president/33011074.html
Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon was challenged on his pro-Kremlin stance over Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine and how Russian-speakers are treated in his country. In an exclusive interview

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67766964
How pro-Russian 'yacht' propaganda influenced US debate over Ukraine aid. A website founded by a former US Marine who now lives in Russia has fuelled a rumour that Volodymyr Zelensky purchased two

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/28/europe/transnistria-russia-protection-moldova-intl/index.html
Pro-Russian rebels in a separatist sliver of Moldova have asked President Vladimir Putin to protect their region from what they claim are threats from Moldova's pro-Western government.

https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88542
Russia's invasion largely put an end to this pro-Russian sentiment: by May 2022, only 4 percent in Ukraine's east and 1 percent in the south still had a positive view of Russia. Support for Ukraine joining NATO, on the other hand, had surged to record highs: 69 percent in the east and 81 percent in the south, up from 36 percent in the east

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_pro-Russia_movement
AfD pro-Russia movement. A large part of the right-wing German party Alternative for Germany ( AfD) supports Russia, its foreign policy, and its allies. The German domestic secret service reported based on its findings that Russia is trying to destabilize the democratic system of Germany on many levels. According to the head of the service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine
Pro-Russian protest in Donetsk, 6 April 2014. Pictured are flags of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Empire, and the Eurasian Youth Union. Pro-Russian protesters occupied the Donetsk regional state administration (RSA) building from 1 to 6 March, before being removed by the Security Service of Ukraine.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/22/europe/nigel-farage-ukraine-russia-eu-provoke-intl/index.html
Nigel Farage, a figurehead of the UK's populist right drew the ire of his political opponents following an interview with the BBC where he attributed Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/24/sanction-accounts-social-media/
Pro-Russia rebels are still using Facebook to recruit fighters, spread propaganda. Some of the accounts were first identified by researchers at Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit that

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0vvjzw5ejno
The election candidate ditched by the Labour Party for pro-Russian social media posts has stood for the party several times. Andy Brown, described as a "local legend" by Labour supporters in

https://uacrisis.org/en/changing-face-pro-russian-forces
The largest pro-Russian party splits in two. "Opposition Platform - for Life" is the largest pro-Russian party in Ukraine and the only one represented in Parliament, it has 44 seats. The core party voters are seniors with conservative views. More than half of the voters of the party led by Lyovochkin and Medvedchuk are ages 60 and older.

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/05/01/cisa-and-partners-release-fact-sheet-defending-ot-operations-against-ongoing-pro-russia-hacktivist
Today, CISA, in collaboration with U.S. and international partners, published a joint fact sheet, Defending OT Operations Against Ongoing Pro-Russia Hacktivist Activity.This fact sheet provides information and mitigations associated with cyber operations conducted by pro-Russia hacktivists who seek to compromise industrial control systems (ICS) and small-scale operational technology (OT

https://news.sky.com/story/labour-candidate-andy-brown-suspended-for-sharing-pro-russian-posts-13155289
A Labour Party candidate has been suspended following reports he shared "pro-Russian" posts online. Andy Brown has been dropped as Labour's candidate for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East after

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082345068/why-luhansk-and-donetsk-are-key-to-understanding-the-latest-escalation-in-ukrain
The rebel-controlled territories, which comprise a larger eastern Ukraine region called Donbas that borders Russia, have been led by pro-Russia separatists for nearly a decade.

https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/defending-ot-operations-against-ongoing-pro-russia-hacktivist-activity
The pro-Russia hacktivist activity appears mostly limited to unsophisticated techniques that manipulate ICS equipment to create nuisance effects. However, investigations have identified that these actors are capable of techniques that pose physical threats against insecure and misconfigured OT environments.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cldd44zv3kpo
Nigel Farage has been criticised for suggesting the West "provoked" Russia's invasion of Ukraine by expanding the European Union and Nato military alliance eastwards. The Reform UK leader told the

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-inches-closer-eu-dream-after-decade-war-2024-06-24/
A veteran of Ukraine's 2014 revolution who is now fighting Russian forces, Yehor Sobolev knows the price of Kyiv's decade-long drive to join the European Union as well as anyone.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/25/more-americans-are-winding-up-in-russian-jails-pro/
Russian media reported his name matches a U.S. citizen interviewed in 2020 who said he was born in the Perm region in 1991 and adopted by an American couple at age 2.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/20/putin-vietnam-ukraine-war-to-lam/
SINGAPORE — Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Vietnam on Thursday bolstering support from an old ally in Asia amid Russia's ongoing war with Ukraine, which has left it increasingly