3 days ago · Moscow
Brexiters can’t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Moscow. The first report grouped here was at 13 Oct 2026, 15:21 UTC. The headline in use is “Brexiters can’t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Russian meddling probably didn’t affect the referendum result – but the Kremlin’s motives for wanting to undermine the EU still matter Russian territorial aggression against Ukraine didn’t feature much in the Brexit referendum campaign. It made headlines briefly when Boris Johnson blamed Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea on the European…
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- First reported by The Guardian UK
Brexiters can’t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr
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- The Guardian