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She says that role was "born on the Maidan", shorthand for the mass protests in 2014 that eventually swept a pro-Russian president from power.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

Asked if he knew about Gill making pro-Russian statements, Farage said: "I didn't know anything about it."

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

A Spanish fact-checking group, EFE Verifica, said last month that it was among the targets of a pro-Russian operation that had tried for months to distract journalists and fact checkers with false alerts.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024

The ministry identified the men as Viktor Medvedchuk, a high-profile, pro-Russian Ukrainian politician and the leader of the effort, and Artem Marchevskyi, a Ukrainian-Israeli citizen who allegedly ran the website, the Czech-registered Voice of Europe.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

Thereafter he retained most of his pro-Russian Ministers, even though the second Legislative Assembly, elected in the spring of that year, was strongly Liberal and anti-Russian.

From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by Rose, John Holland