Thomas Roper
Thomas Röper is a German non-fiction author and blogger living in Russia for decades. He runs the website Anti-Spiegel.ru, as well as Telegram and YouTube channels which have been accused of promoting pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation, as well as Covid-19 conspiracy theories. Röper appears continuously on Russian state television, including the Russian Defense Ministry's TV station Zvezda. Starting from July 2023, he has been hosting the weekly show "Anti-Spiegel-TV" in collaboration with the Russian-backed international broadcaster RT DE.
Röper published a book with translated Putin's speeches. He told the Komsomolskaya Pravda that there had to be a counterbalance "to the reports from Kyiv" and he saw it as his job to fulfill the role.
Missions
Individual Observers at the 2022 pseudo-referendum for the formal annexation of occupied territories of Kherson to Russia
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Institutional affiliation to Anti-Spiegel.ru website
The violations that I saw only concern threats from Ukraine, there were attempts to attack us, we saw shelling. At the voting itself, I did not see any violations: the ballot boxes were sealed, the booths were in place. [Translated from Russian]
The German Thomas Röper emphasized that the inhabitants of the Kherson region are opposed to the Kyiv regime due to the constant destruction of peaceful infrastructure. [Translated from Russian]
Individual Observers at the 2023 territorial pseudo-elections in the occupied territories of Ukraine
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Institutional affiliation to Anti-Spiegel.ru website
I was at the referendum last year, where there was a rush, but then everything was well organized. Now there was more time, everything was planned. Now we see how it is all organized, we were at the polling stations, everything is ready there. The most interesting day will be voting day, of course, but from the organizational point of view there is nothing to complain about. [Translated from Russian]
The election commission of the Zaporozhye region was visited by foreign electoral experts who came to the region for the elections, reports RIA Novosti correspondent.
Among the guests were Sebastian Salgado (Argentina), Fernando Moragon (Spain), Israel Gomez Arconada (Mexico), White Reid (USA), Thomas Reper (Germany), Goran Šimpraga (Serbia), Goran Petronijevic (Serbia) and Ljubica Blaškova (Slovakia). [Translated from Russian]
