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Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
I'll be on LIVE with @LevPo tonight at 6pm Eastern, talking everything Russia, Ukraine, & Trump.
Tune in!
๐ด Live Show Tonight from 6 PM EST - Is Donald Trumpโs surge of support for Russia the breaking point for the MAGA movement? We will break down the current geopolitical realities w/ @Teoyaomiquu & @ratlpolicy
youtube.com/watch?v=1hWazebqโฆ
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
If you were ever wondering how obvious the op is.
So many of you were played.
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
An ancient Ukrainian vyshyvanka (embroidered shirt) from a time before Russia even existed.
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
Jeffrey Sachs is on the media advisory board of a Moscow-based organization (MKNE) with a stated purpose of waging โinformation warfareโ against the West via a โfamily of podcasts.โ
You should know this, Tucker.
You were on the same board.
teapawt.org/ryanmauro/status/21006โฆ
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
Designate Russia as a State Sponsor of Child Abuse
(make it a thing)
๐จ New Research Article w/Iuliia Hoban on Russia's forcible transfers of Ukrainian children:
We investigate how the Russian state has constructed narratives about ๐บ๐ฆ children in an effort to justify their crimes against them--and avoid accountability. ๐งต
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1โฆ
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
No wonder Elon boosted her. She is a complete Russian fabrication like most "influencers" on this app.
Data Republicanโs past work in Ukraine for a company started by โthe Bill Gates of the Urals,โ serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and ACM ICPC veteran, recruiter, and sponsor from St. Petersburg whose past business co-founders have ties to YANDEX.
๐ท๐บ in ๐บ๐ฆ SNAP INC & LOOKSERY
Jennica Pounds (@DataRepublican) managed Snap Inc.โs large โUkrainian engineering teamโ (from the 2015 Looksery app acquisition that was developed in Odessa and SOCHI ๐ท๐บ) as Principal Software Engineer and Director of Software Engineering in Snap Lab. CEO Evan Spiegel arranged private extraction contractors to help โevacuate team membersโ during the 2022 invasion.
Shaburov sold Looksery to Snap Inc. (owner of Snapchat) for $150M . About 25% of shares went to the companyโs top managers and technical team for startups. Shaburov became a Snap Inc. co-owner (Pounds worked for in Odessa) via shares. Looksery was removed from app stores; its features integrated into Snapchat.
๐ท๐บ VICTOR SHABUROV
Lookseryโs real-time face-tracking technology (foundation of Snapchat Lenses) was co-founded by Russian-born Victor Shaburov (b. 1977, Yekaterinburg).
Victor Shaburov won several Math Olympiads in school and later the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). He attended the Specialized Educational and Research Center of Ural State University (now SESC of Ural Federal University), then transferred to St. Petersburg State Universityโs Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics (MatMech), graduating with honors in 1999.
โ> Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev - Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St Petersburg University.
In 2016, twice ICPC world champion and Roem.ru founder Yuri Sinodov congratulated his colleagues:
โThe sponsors of the St. Petersburg University team are Kontakte and Viktor Shaburov (Everyone knows about the Kontakte Olympiad participants, and Victor has already sponsored one team, which became the backbone of the Looksery project, bought by Snapchat last year for $150M).โ
Shaburov today remains heavily invested in sponsoring AMC ICPC Olympiads via Botan Investments, spending about $200K annually.
๐งฎVictor Shaburov uses the AMC ICPC Olympiads to recruit talent for his startups:
โถ๏ธSt. Petersburg State University (SPbU) is a frequent ICPC winnerโwhere Shaburov met his SPB business partner Filippov in 1999.
โถ๏ธAlexander Mashrabov and Grigory Tkachenko (both ๐ท๐บ Russian)โ previously at YANDEX, started AI Factory based in Sochi, which was also sold to Snap Inc in 2019.
โถ๏ธYuri Monastyrshin ๐บ๐ฆ recruited by Shaburov in 2014, after holding 2 open programming competitions at the Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University.
๐ท๐บ SPB Software House - YANDEX Shell
In 1999 in St. Petersburg, Victor Shaburov co-founded SPB Software House on Rubinshteina Street with Vasily Filippov, who competed for the SPbU team at the 1999 ACM-ICPC World Finals.
YANDEX acquired SPB Software in November 2011 for approximately $38.4M (retention incentives for founders to stay 1โ2 years). Named SPB founders who continued at Yandex:
๐ฉ๐ช Sebastian-Justus Schmidt โ SPB CEO. Appointed EVP Mobile and General Manager at Yandex.
๐ท๐บ Vasily Filippov โ SPB COO. Headed mobile distribution/related roles at Yandex before founding MEL Science.
๐ท๐บ Yaroslav Goncharov โ SPB CTO. Remained at Yandex until around 2013; later founded FaceApp.
๐ท๐บ Olga Steidl โ SPB CMO/VP. Confirmed founders would continue at Yandex.
Yandex leadership at acquisition:
๐ท๐บ Arkady Volozh โ CEO and co-founder (announced the deal, citing mobile as key growth strategy).
๐ท๐บ Ilya Segalovich โ co-founder (with Volozh).
Shaburovโs later path included a company (acquired by Opera Software), Looksery (~$150M Snap exit), AI Factory (acquired by Snap for Cameos), engineering leadership at Snap, and investing via Botan Investments. Shaburov lives in Gibraltar ๐ฌ๐ฎ and holds a Cypriot ๐จ๐พ nationality.
@BiggerTruth @Restitutor_
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
After Trump gives 7.1 billion in sanctions relief to Moscow, Putin backs the Iranian regime in direct defiance of Trump's proposed deal.
Within days of the sanctions relief, Russia agreed to send additional scientists to support Iran's nuclear program.
There will be war.
Russian cargo aircraft were flying into Iran days after Iranian members of parliament called for nuclear testing. Naderi called for a live test in an October 18 interview with Khaneh Eghtesad, and Nattaj asked Khamenei for a new decision on October 20. The flights were logged at Bushehr's 6th Tactical Air Base on October 22.
The Iranian regime released an AI video on October 23rd showing Khamenei approving nuclear weapons use.
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
Guess who's a pumpkin this year? It's ANDRIJA PUHARICH (from the cover of INTELECTRONICS), carved by my beloved Nassim (I only hollowed his head out). Happy Halloween! ๐
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
GET THE BOOK: The Epstein Conspiracy: How Russia Turned a Lie About Jeffrey Epstein Into a Weapon Against America, Israel, and Jews.
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
Because they're northern IRAN (ARYANA), i.e. SCYTHIA, and were invaded by genocidally barbaric Turks and Mongols โ who imposed the subhuman cult of Islam on them โ and because that's an inconvenient truth.
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
Data Republican aka Jennica Pounds has a pronounced Pro Russia Anti Ukraine bias.
๐๏ธJanuary 21st, 2026:
๐DR to Jack PoSoviet:
Can we meet tomorrow?
๐Jack PoSoviet to DR:
Come to Davos!
[[ DR goes to Davos ]]
๐๏ธJanuary 22nd, 2026: in Davos at the Ukraine House exhibition on the Ukraine War "Russia has teamed up with China, North Korea and Iran. They are preparing for long-term confrontation." - Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO
๐Data Interpreter for DR:
โDavos update with the @DataRepublican: will say the Ukraine House exhibit was rather dark. From drone simulations to rather bleak quotes asserting Russia's aggression.โ
๐SKDoubleDub33, prolific defender of DR:
โI wonder how much influence people like Victoria Nuland, NED, Brookings, Institute for the Study of War and all of the other swamp creatures had on this exhibit?โ
๐DR:
โWe've known a long time that keeping Ukraine in war isn't in Ukranians' interest. It's in EU's interest so they can bleed Russian resources and thus don't have to spend on NATO
๐๏ธJune 2nd 2025:
๐๐บ๐ฆ Maksim P. Martynyuk @Maksim_P_M Asks DR:
โData, what do you mean "idk whose idea it was to drone a nuclear country"!?!? Those planes were used to bomb Ukraine. Including civilians. Reigning terror every night. Why in the world is Ukraine not allowed to defend itself?โ
๐DR replies:
โThat is the emotional response. โ
The realistic response is that Ukraine never had the ability to defend itself. & that there is a very real chance none of this would have happened without NATO expansion. โ
You cannot state an endgame for this because you do not have one that does not involve pulling United States into war against Russia.โ
๐๏ธApril 12th 2025:
DR:
โI've long come to the conclusion that Zelensky has no strategic vision; he genuinely has zero critical thinking skills and is taking all his advice from EU leaders who slap him on the back and praise him how strong and brave he is to stand up against Putin.
And he refuses to see that EU is using Ukraine as a meat grinder to protect and enrich themselves.โ
- Data Republican is also an old friend and colleague of Franco Fridays Charlottesville Unite the Right organizer, Michael Flynn - Steve Bannon QAnon co - conspirator, Unity4JulianAssange , JACK POSOVIET , who has notoriously pushed Multipolar anti NATO Pro Russia propaganda. PoSoviet was doing rogue Diplomacy with Pro Russian Serbs in DC with Gavin Wax in July 2026.
- PoSoviet and DR not only have the same ghost writer, Joshua Lisec, they made a documentary together โUnhumansโ released in August of this year.
Data Republicanโs past work in Ukraine for a company started by โthe Bill Gates of the Urals,โ serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and ACM ICPC veteran, recruiter, and sponsor from St. Petersburg whose past business co-founders have ties to YANDEX.
๐ท๐บ in ๐บ๐ฆ SNAP INC & LOOKSERY
Jennica Pounds (@DataRepublican) managed Snap Inc.โs large โUkrainian engineering teamโ (from the 2015 Looksery app acquisition that was developed in Odessa and SOCHI ๐ท๐บ) as Principal Software Engineer and Director of Software Engineering in Snap Lab. CEO Evan Spiegel arranged private extraction contractors to help โevacuate team membersโ during the 2022 invasion.
Shaburov sold Looksery to Snap Inc. (owner of Snapchat) for $150M . About 25% of shares went to the companyโs top managers and technical team for startups. Shaburov became a Snap Inc. co-owner (Pounds worked for in Odessa) via shares. Looksery was removed from app stores; its features integrated into Snapchat.
๐ท๐บ VICTOR SHABUROV
Lookseryโs real-time face-tracking technology (foundation of Snapchat Lenses) was co-founded by Russian-born Victor Shaburov (b. 1977, Yekaterinburg).
Victor Shaburov won several Math Olympiads in school and later the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). He attended the Specialized Educational and Research Center of Ural State University (now SESC of Ural Federal University), then transferred to St. Petersburg State Universityโs Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics (MatMech), graduating with honors in 1999.
โ> Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev - Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St Petersburg University.
In 2016, twice ICPC world champion and Roem.ru founder Yuri Sinodov congratulated his colleagues:
โThe sponsors of the St. Petersburg University team are Kontakte and Viktor Shaburov (Everyone knows about the Kontakte Olympiad participants, and Victor has already sponsored one team, which became the backbone of the Looksery project, bought by Snapchat last year for $150M).โ
Shaburov today remains heavily invested in sponsoring AMC ICPC Olympiads via Botan Investments, spending about $200K annually.
๐งฎVictor Shaburov uses the AMC ICPC Olympiads to recruit talent for his startups:
โถ๏ธSt. Petersburg State University (SPbU) is a frequent ICPC winnerโwhere Shaburov met his SPB business partner Filippov in 1999.
โถ๏ธAlexander Mashrabov and Grigory Tkachenko (both ๐ท๐บ Russian)โ previously at YANDEX, started AI Factory based in Sochi, which was also sold to Snap Inc in 2019.
โถ๏ธYuri Monastyrshin ๐บ๐ฆ recruited by Shaburov in 2014, after holding 2 open programming competitions at the Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University.
๐ท๐บ SPB Software House - YANDEX Shell
In 1999 in St. Petersburg, Victor Shaburov co-founded SPB Software House on Rubinshteina Street with Vasily Filippov, who competed for the SPbU team at the 1999 ACM-ICPC World Finals.
YANDEX acquired SPB Software in November 2011 for approximately $38.4M (retention incentives for founders to stay 1โ2 years). Named SPB founders who continued at Yandex:
๐ฉ๐ช Sebastian-Justus Schmidt โ SPB CEO. Appointed EVP Mobile and General Manager at Yandex.
๐ท๐บ Vasily Filippov โ SPB COO. Headed mobile distribution/related roles at Yandex before founding MEL Science.
๐ท๐บ Yaroslav Goncharov โ SPB CTO. Remained at Yandex until around 2013; later founded FaceApp.
๐ท๐บ Olga Steidl โ SPB CMO/VP. Confirmed founders would continue at Yandex.
Yandex leadership at acquisition:
๐ท๐บ Arkady Volozh โ CEO and co-founder (announced the deal, citing mobile as key growth strategy).
๐ท๐บ Ilya Segalovich โ co-founder (with Volozh).
Shaburovโs later path included a company (acquired by Opera Software), Looksery (~$150M Snap exit), AI Factory (acquired by Snap for Cameos), engineering leadership at Snap, and investing via Botan Investments. Shaburov lives in Gibraltar ๐ฌ๐ฎ and holds a Cypriot ๐จ๐พ nationality.
@BiggerTruth @Restitutor_
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
Data Republicanโs past work in Ukraine for a company started by โthe Bill Gates of the Urals,โ serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and ACM ICPC veteran, recruiter, and sponsor from St. Petersburg whose past business co-founders have ties to YANDEX.
๐ท๐บ in ๐บ๐ฆ SNAP INC & LOOKSERY
Jennica Pounds (@DataRepublican) managed Snap Inc.โs large โUkrainian engineering teamโ (from the 2015 Looksery app acquisition that was developed in Odessa and SOCHI ๐ท๐บ) as Principal Software Engineer and Director of Software Engineering in Snap Lab. CEO Evan Spiegel arranged private extraction contractors to help โevacuate team membersโ during the 2022 invasion.
Shaburov sold Looksery to Snap Inc. (owner of Snapchat) for $150M . About 25% of shares went to the companyโs top managers and technical team for startups. Shaburov became a Snap Inc. co-owner (Pounds worked for in Odessa) via shares. Looksery was removed from app stores; its features integrated into Snapchat.
๐ท๐บ VICTOR SHABUROV
Lookseryโs real-time face-tracking technology (foundation of Snapchat Lenses) was co-founded by Russian-born Victor Shaburov (b. 1977, Yekaterinburg).
Victor Shaburov won several Math Olympiads in school and later the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). He attended the Specialized Educational and Research Center of Ural State University (now SESC of Ural Federal University), then transferred to St. Petersburg State Universityโs Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics (MatMech), graduating with honors in 1999.
โ> Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev - Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St Petersburg University.
In 2016, twice ICPC world champion and Roem.ru founder Yuri Sinodov congratulated his colleagues:
โThe sponsors of the St. Petersburg University team are Kontakte and Viktor Shaburov (Everyone knows about the Kontakte Olympiad participants, and Victor has already sponsored one team, which became the backbone of the Looksery project, bought by Snapchat last year for $150M).โ
Shaburov today remains heavily invested in sponsoring AMC ICPC Olympiads via Botan Investments, spending about $200K annually.
๐งฎVictor Shaburov uses the AMC ICPC Olympiads to recruit talent for his startups:
โถ๏ธSt. Petersburg State University (SPbU) is a frequent ICPC winnerโwhere Shaburov met his SPB business partner Filippov in 1999.
โถ๏ธAlexander Mashrabov and Grigory Tkachenko (both ๐ท๐บ Russian)โ previously at YANDEX, started AI Factory based in Sochi, which was also sold to Snap Inc in 2019.
โถ๏ธYuri Monastyrshin ๐บ๐ฆ recruited by Shaburov in 2014, after holding 2 open programming competitions at the Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University.
๐ท๐บ SPB Software House - YANDEX Shell
In 1999 in St. Petersburg, Victor Shaburov co-founded SPB Software House on Rubinshteina Street with Vasily Filippov, who competed for the SPbU team at the 1999 ACM-ICPC World Finals.
YANDEX acquired SPB Software in November 2011 for approximately $38.4M (retention incentives for founders to stay 1โ2 years). Named SPB founders who continued at Yandex:
๐ฉ๐ช Sebastian-Justus Schmidt โ SPB CEO. Appointed EVP Mobile and General Manager at Yandex.
๐ท๐บ Vasily Filippov โ SPB COO. Headed mobile distribution/related roles at Yandex before founding MEL Science.
๐ท๐บ Yaroslav Goncharov โ SPB CTO. Remained at Yandex until around 2013; later founded FaceApp.
๐ท๐บ Olga Steidl โ SPB CMO/VP. Confirmed founders would continue at Yandex.
Yandex leadership at acquisition:
๐ท๐บ Arkady Volozh โ CEO and co-founder (announced the deal, citing mobile as key growth strategy).
๐ท๐บ Ilya Segalovich โ co-founder (with Volozh).
Shaburovโs later path included a company (acquired by Opera Software), Looksery (~$150M Snap exit), AI Factory (acquired by Snap for Cameos), engineering leadership at Snap, and investing via Botan Investments. Shaburov lives in Gibraltar ๐ฌ๐ฎ and holds a Cypriot ๐จ๐พ nationality.
@BiggerTruth @Restitutor_
I actually managed a Ukrainian team at the time of the Russian invasion. The cost was real and Evan hired paramilitary forces to rescue his employees. I will never, ever forgive Putin for the human cost he created.
That said, thereโs zero realistic path to victory that doesnโt involve pulling the US in a real risk of nuclear war. And there are a lot of interests invested in making sure Ukraine remains a meat grinder so they themselves donโt have to confront Russian costs. I wish more Ukrainians would realize that.
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
๐จEXCLUSIVE๐จ
FRIEND OF TUCKER, CANDACE @realcandaceo, and ALEX JONES @RealAlexJones COLLABS WITH RUSSIAN INTEL PSYOPS TEAM MEMBER
TUCKER WAS LISTED ON THAT SAME RUSSIAN PSYOP TEAM'S MEDIA ADVISORY BOARD
๐ฅGROUP WANTED TUCKER'S HELP CHOOSING MESSENGERS FOR AMERICAN AUDIENCES
๐๏ธThe Russian intelligence front's stated goal is "information warfare" via a "FAMILY OF PODCASTS"
"Elizabeth Lane," a Charlie Kirk assassination conspiracy theorist who RT recently named as one of its "correspondents," released another interview with Stanislav Krapivnik about Ukraine.
Krapivnik is a former U.S. Army officer and member of the Moscow-based International Club of National Unity (known as MKNE), which is the 100-strong Russian influence ops "supergroup" I exposed last month on my podcast.
Russia-linked @imelizabethlane was introduced to Tucker Carlson through a convicted CIA officer who admits to being on the payroll of Russian state media.
Lane, who is from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, admits to sharing information told to her by U.S. special ops veterans she "dated" with Russian special forces operatives when she was in Russia.
Krapivnik is currently fundraising to equip Russian forces in Ukraine with drones.
He uses @youtube as a platform to do so, which violates their TOS because that's a violation of sanctions. Maybe @TeamYouTube can give me a statement about whether they will allow it to continue.
What do you guys think...
Is using your platform to knowingly advertise people as they are openly fundraising for violent sanctioned entities an illegal prohibited "service?"
Isn't it also illegal to provide services--paid or unpaid--to RT?
What do you think, @Kash_Patel, @SecScottBessent, @USTreasury, @TreasuryDepSec, @FBI_Response?
โ
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Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
Trumpโs son secretly went on vacation with a Putinโs oligarch: The two went hunting together in Mongolia this August.
Donald Trump Jr. arrived in Mongolia accompanied by the U.S. Secret Service and Republican donor Kevin Small. Later, Umar Kremlev flew in from Kazakhstan to join him, accompanied by businessman Artur Martirosov.
As a reminder, Kremlev reportedly previously paid for Trump Jr.โs wedding in the Bahamas in secret.
And we wonder why Trump is pro-russian?!
Source: Financial Times
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
The trip highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a tycoon with a criminal record who has close ties to Vladimir Putinโs personal security service. Intelligence experts say such connections are ripe for manipulation. ft.trib.al/p0LBRYI
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
Just the US presidentโs son casually vacationing with a Kremlin-linked oligarch.
Donald Trump Jr. reportedly spent two days hunting in Mongolia with Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch with close ties to putinโs security circle, according to the Financial Times.
Kremlev, who has a criminal record and heads the International Boxing Association, also helped fund Trump Jr.โs lavish wedding celebrations earlier this year.
The two reportedly avoided taking photos together during the trip.
Also, a recent ProPublica investigation also revealed that Kremlev helped pay for Trump Jr.โs wedding celebrations earlier this year.
Sources: Financial Timesโ and ProPublicaโ .
Lev Polyakov ๐ retweeted
Jason Jorjani returns to American Alchemy. You're not gonna want to miss this one...
Coming soon.
