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International Correspondent, Sky News. Ex-Moscow corro. Views here my own etc, retweets aides-memoires not endorsements.

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Diana Magnay

3 months

Our final farewell to Alexey #Navalny . I shall not look upon his like again. Our TV report from Moscow tonight. 'We will never forgive': Thousands line streets of Moscow for funeral of Alexey Navalny via @YouTube

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'We will never forgive': Thousands line streets of Moscow for funeral...

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Diana Magnay

2 years

Brave Muscovites 🇷🇺 💙

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4 years

Picture of the day

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To the #Moscow of one month ago, you are already a memory, a different era. This city I have loved still looks the same but it is another place. My thoughts from the last few days.

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Russia: Moscow looks the same but is utterly transformed

Sanctions and an Orwellian fear of speaking out have ripped up the future Russians could have had.

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2 years

🩰 Prima Ballerina Olga Smirnova has quit the #Bolshoi & Russia, saying ‘I never thought that I would be ashamed of Russia, I have always been proud of the talented Russian people, our cultural and sporting achievements. But now the line is drawn on the before and after’

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3 years

Riot police marching up and down Tverskaya; more arrests. This is what freedom looks like in central Moscow tonight, two hours after #Navalny was sentenced to jail for supposedly breaking his parole

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Diana Magnay

3 months

Yep. And to claim western journalists don’t interview Putin. It’s because the Kremlin says no to our requests, Tucker, every time. Because they see no benefit in being asked the hard questions. Plus airing it verbatim is a Kremlin pre-requisite, not a sign of press freedom.

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Quite something to complain about how not enough American journalists are reporting on the Russian side of Putin's invasion of Ukraine when two of them – Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva – are *in jail right now* for doing just that

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1 year

Please watch our documentary. For all who ask what the Russian people are thinking. We went to Samara, Ulan-Ude, Belgorod, Krasnodar ... it's a snapshot, patriotism to despair. I have no answers. But I hope you'll watch.

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Documentary: Russia At War - Putin's Home Front

Sky News' Russia Correspondent Diana Magnay speaks to Russians about their country's war on Ukraine, one year on from the launch of Vladimir Putin's "special...

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2 years

The mood in Moscow is hard to capture, but the police on every corner give a sense of it. The end of McDonalds here marks the end of an era, as sanctions close in on Russia’s future. Three decades set now for reverse. Here’s my report via @YouTube

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War in Ukraine: How is the invasion affecting Muscovites?

More and more multi-national companies are halting their operations in Russia, with US brands Coca-Cola, Pepsi and McDonald's all pulling down the shutters f...

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2 years

Moscow has emptied of the people I knew. Somehow it feels like the rest are sleep-walking into a new reality. In Soviet times ppl only really talked in the safety of their kitchens. That is again the direction of travel. Our report last night via @YouTubel

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Ukraine War: Putin expands his information crackdown

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3 months

From Navalny’s team: thank you to everyone who’s thinking about Alexey today

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Спасибо всем, кто сегодня думает об Алексее

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2 years

Nukes on Moscow’s streets are always horrifyingly sinister. Is this the new Sarmat missile? Possibly - during rehearsals we don’t get the hardware low down. Particularly hideous in my photo is the fact it’s parked up next to the Ukrainian restaurant, Odessa Mama.

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2 years

I don’t even know what to write. Except that I am desperately sad. And angry

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Diana Magnay

3 years

#Navalny beyond frustrated by hair-splitting from prosecution on the days of the week he was supposed to check in for parole. Prosecution continues in calm monotone re x date - ‘yes or no?’ ‘Are you listening to yourself?’ Navalny says

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Diana Magnay

3 years

I am so shocked by what I saw last night. Checkpoints on the streets where I walk every day, police acting as you say like soldiers from a horror movie, I had thought Putin knew better than to repeat what he saw in Belarus here. I was wrong.

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When I was 5 or 6 I had this recurring nightmare of finding myself on a street and having to desperately run and hide from gangs of soldiers. No idea where it came from. Too young to have watched films. But I guess it kind of looked like this.

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2 years

Before you sleep, if you can sleep. Slava Ukraini!

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My favorite video of all time. It’s not even close. Someone played the Ukrainian National anthem on their trumpet in #Sumy during clashes.

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Diana Magnay

3 months

Farewell to Alexey #Navalny , one of Russia’s greatest dissidents laid to rest. So many thousands came to say goodbye, a sombre day. ‘Navalny our hero’, ‘We thank the parents for their son’, ‘We do not forgive’ - all chants we heard today. Police kept their distance, for once.

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Diana Magnay

3 years

‘Respected dear Lady, Okrestina is not a sanatorium’. That’s what Lukashenko replied when I asked him about torture in #Belarus detention centres. He wants to see the evidence. He should be under no doubt that it is being compiled.

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Sky News

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Sky's Moscow correspondent @DiMagnaySky challenges the Belarusian president about the treatment of his country's citizens. Read the latest here:

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Diana Magnay

3 years

#Tsinamouskaya ’s husband confirms he’s in Kiev, fled last night cos staying in Minsk wasn’t safe. Says Kristina’s decision was not pre-planned, he hopes one day they can go back (btw contrary to reports they don’t have a kid) #Belarus #Tokyo2020

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Diana Magnay

4 years

We have been released. All is well.

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Belarus Free Theatre

4 years

Sky News correspondent @DiMagnaySky is detained along with her Belarusian colleagues Anastasiya Leonova and Vadim Nechayev in #Minsk . They are currently being held at Soviet Detention Centre. Please share #Belarus

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2 years

‘I’m scared’, was all her sign said. мне страшно. ‘Better that than to live in today’s Russia’, she told me as police carted her away. #Russia #Protests

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More women than men at the protest in Moscow - one by one, they were thrown into police vans

Diana Magnay writes: "A young woman holds up a placard. It says 'I'm scared' in Russian. I tell her it's brave to do this. Then the police come."

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Diana Magnay

3 months

‘Together again’. This photo today at the Nemtsov memorial of Alexey Navalny and Boris Nemtsov. Touched by the girl who just walked by, saw it, grinned with joy taking a photo and nodded her respects. May their souls rest in peace.

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Diana Magnay

3 months

Just crossed the bridge outside the Kremlin where Boris Nemtsov was killed in 2015. In six years being in Moscow, I don’t remember ever not seeing flowers, or the memorial to him present in some way. Now there is nothing there. A gut punch somehow. To add to all the others.

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Diana Magnay

2 years

I think I missed a trick coming to the #Putin press conference in work gear.

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3 years

#Moscow protests messy already, 40 mins in. Wonder what the night will bring; car horns beeping in support, Belarus-style; riot police seem to be taking a leaf out of the Belarusian playbook too.

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Diana Magnay

3 years

Riot police readying themselves outside Moscow city court for #Navalny supporters. Not the first time Russian prison service has asked for Navalny’s host of suspended sentences to be turned into jail terms. This time given street (and Kremlin) pressure, will the judge agree?

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2 years

Super dramatic stuff from Aktobe Kazakhstan were protestors are trying to break into regional govt HQ. Cries of ‘Old Man Go’ in protests across the country tell you all you need to know about popular frustration over who’s in charge - still ostensibly #Nazarbayev

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The Insider

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Протестующие в Актобе начали штурм областного акимата. Несколько тысяч человек пытаются прорваться в административное здание.

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2 years

Marina #Ovsyannikova , the journalist who held up a ‘no war’ sign on state TV, has been arrested after she single picketed outside the Kremlin to protest the slaughter of children in #Vinnytsia . Today she wrote she wasn’t scared of arrest. Her lawyer hasn’t been able to reach her.

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3 months

I am beyond horrified. Even though I should not be surprised. What an incredibly brave man Alexei #Navalny was. What a horrifically sad day this is.

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Diana Magnay

2 years

Well, that was a strange day. Our piece from PMC Wagner’s sparkling new opening in St Petersburg as Putin signs into law the ability to mobilise convicts guilty of the most serious crimes. Laws bent to fit reality in this new 🇷🇺.

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Russia: Shadowy Wagner mercenary group opens St Petersburg HQ

Russia’s secretive Wagner mercenary group has come out of the shadows by opening a new headquarters in the country's second city, billed as a tech campus for...

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2 years

Pushkin Square, Moscow now. The sign says ‘stop killing’.

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2 years

@BBCSteveR @BenHNoble ‘Sometimes it makes me so sad that I cry’. Farewell to Valentina, may the Grandad Oligarch appear in Kursk and thank you @BBCSteveR , we will all miss Valentina!

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2 years

What an incredible, jaw-dropping moment to witness. Watch ⁦ @alexrossiSKY ⁩ from the streets of #Kherson and feel the people’s joy at their hard won liberation from 🇷🇺 control #Ukraine #Russia #SkyNews

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Ukraine war: Sky News witnesses Kherson liberation

One resident told Sky there is no electricity or water in the city, but "we don't care because we have our guys on the street".

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Diana Magnay

3 years

‘I want the world to know that in #Belarus , journalism is a crime’. That’s what Katya Andreyeva told her husband to tell us after she & her colleague were sentenced to two years in jail for simply doing their job.

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Belarus journalists jailed for two years for live-streaming protest

The sentences have been condemned and come days after police carried out raids on dozens of journalists and activists.

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Diana Magnay

1 year

Devastated, sad and angry at the egregious arrest of @evangershkovich who could not be a better journalist and liveliest, smiliest, most ebullient of people. Journalism is NOT a crime. Our 💔 are broken and with you, Evan. If only you could see our support.

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3 months

‘May it provide solace to all of his supporters in exile who could not be there. May it prove some comfort to his wife Yulia and their two children, who for their own safety could not attend their own father’s funeral’.

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Alexei Navalny's funeral lifts spirits as many feared hope died with Russian opposition leader

Thousands came to honour him in Moscow at the funeral that his mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, fought so hard to have.

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4 years

Still no access for foreigners to worst ever industrial spill in the Arctic, but #SkyNews Moscow bureau as Russian citizens could fly to Norilsk. Here’s what they found:

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Norilsk: The city built by gulag prisoners where Russia guards its Arctic secrets

Environmental activists are frustrated by how authorities handled a diesel spill which poured into two Arctic rivers in late May.

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3 years

We found ourselves accidentally inside the new, large field camp nr Voronezh as tensions across the border in #Donbas ratchet up. But is the military build-up just coercive diplomacy? #Russia #Ukraine

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3 years

Police lined up outside the Matrosskaya Tishina prison in #Moscow where #Navalny is detained. Protestors are on their way here.

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Diana Magnay

4 years

She is in Moscow. I just bumped into her voting at the embassy with the kids. She told me she wanted to be with them on this important day. Her husband Valery says she will return to Minsk tonight.

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Felix Light

4 years

RIA Novosti reporting Veronika Tsepkalo, one of the opposition trio has fled Belarus, fearing arrest. Her husband Valery left for Moscow a few weeks ago. Another of the 3 was briefly arrested last night & the candidate herself is in hiding.

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3 years

Seems I’m a representative of the British embassy too. With a badge clearly saying PRESS on it. I asked her why she was filming me but she didn’t answer. Great journalism NTV

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3 years

В суд по делу Навального приехал еще один представитель дипмиссии Великобритании

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3 years

In #Russia in 2018, 8300 women were killed. That works out at 22 a day. We’re a long way from the concept of male allies here. A tougher institutional response might not have saved poor Vera Pekhteleva, but it would help combat this awful plague of domestic violence. My report👇

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'If he beats you, he loves you': How Russia's decision to decriminalise domestic violence is continuing to kill. Read the full report from @DiMagnaySky 👇

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5 years

If you liked the Sky/HBO #Chernobyl series, then tune in tonight on #SkyAtlantic at 9p for our doco on the real-life heroes. AZ-5 and the Chernobyl control room, the cost of lies, the Soviet spirit & the unbelievable sacrifice - it’s all there. ‘If not us, then who?’ #SkyNews

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2 years

#Russia : 1,386 arrested across 38 cities. And no - it’s not just because they don’t want mobilisation; they don’t want any of this. Those who don’t call them brave have read nothing on 🇷🇺 this past decade. Our piece from last night #SkyNews via @YouTube

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Russia: Hundreds of protestors arrested following Putin's mobilisat...

WARNING: FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE START OF THIS REPORT.Sky’s Diana Magnay reports from Moscow where protestors are being arrested following Vladimir Putin’...

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2 years

British ballet star Xander Parish quit the Mariinsky last week after 12 years in St P; he was their principal dancer, recipient of an OBE for bettering UK-Russian relations.

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1 year

Please tune in. I hope you’ll find it interesting #skynews

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3 years

A terrible day for press freedoms and deeply sad for our small journalist corps to see a brilliant, fearless journalist and colleague expelled. @sarahrainsford , you told this story too well.

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BBC Press Office

3 years

Statement from Tim Davie on the expulsion of BBC Moscow Correspondent Sarah Rainsford.

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3 years

Russia’s independent Novaya Gazeta publishes extraordinary video of a guy dressed as a courier spraying sth from his bike tyre (?) at their offices. A chemical attack they say on the day they published two big stories on atrocities in Syria & Chechnya.

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В сети появилось видео, как у редакции «Новой газеты» распылили неизвестное вещество. Человек, одетый в форму курьера, пустил его то ли из шины велосипеда (то ли из сумки) и медленно уехал. Видео: телеграм-канал /moscowmap

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8 months

Moments like these make me so proud of this network. ⁦ @jamesmatthewsky ⁩ asking Elon Musk the right questions (even if he got no answers). A doorstep for the history books ⁦ @SkyNews ⁩ #Ukraine

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Elon Musk refuses to answer if his 'ignorance and ego' cost Ukrainian...

Billionaire Elon Musk has refused to answer Sky News questions about claims he foiled a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships.The businessman behind SpaceX an...

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2 years

Interesting. The merits of great reporting by @ronzheimer in the confusion of a multitude of awful photos and terrible truths

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Paul Ronzheimer

2 years

EXCLUSIVE @BILD : We spoke to local dentist Sergey in the village about this horror-photo: „The teeth look like the ones from my cabinet, my house was looted by russians. They come from people that I treated all these years. I took these teeth out.“ Story:

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2 years

To add to the horrors, the manifold injustices against Alexei #Navalny continue with a guilty verdict on ‘massive fraud’ charges which cld add another 13 yrs to his jail term.

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1 year

After the carnage at #Soledar , we visited #Wagner ’s 🇷🇺 heartland. My piece on #Prigozhin ’s recent victory streak, its terrible cost and his sledgehammer tradecraft 👇👇👇

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Ukraine war: Russian mercenary Wagner Group suffers heavy losses as their boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin,...

The mercenaries are a powerful force in the war and are driving Russia's offensive around Bakhmut. But mounting casualties mean recruitment in Russia's prisons is getting harder.

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1 year

Despite numerous arrests, Muscovites are still leaving flowers at the statue of 🇺🇦 poet Lesya Ukrainka in Moscow, in memory of those killed in that hideous missile strike on a residential building in #Dnipro 9 days ago. Which #Russia still denies responsibility for.

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2 years

All the banners and bandstands ready to go in Red Square for Russia to annex huge chunks of Ukraine it has no legal right to. Friday will be one heck of a performance.

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Sky News

2 years

Russia says it will formally annex four regions of Ukraine where occupied areas held Kremlin-orchestrated 'referendums' on joining Russian. Sky's Diana Magnay has the latest. Read more: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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3 years

Qudos to my BBC colleagues. For some utterly baffling reason the #Belarus state border committee has barred us from entry, whilst allowing CNN and the BBC in. ‘We want to give other media a chance who havn’t been there yet’, they say tho both teams have been there for days.

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Will Vernon

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Reporting live - @BBCSteveR with me and @mattgodtv on the Polish-Belarus border

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1 year

Brave Ilya Yashin, due to be sentenced today: ‘It is better to spend 10 years behind bars, being an honest man, than silently burning with shame for the blood that your government sheds’. Hearing on hold for now tho due to an apparent bomb threat at the Moscow court. #Russia

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3 years

Central Moscow blocked to pedestrian traffic, 7 metro stations closed. Hard to see where protestors will gather but Putin doesn’t want them near the Kremlin. Not scared Mr President? Protests already in cities across #Russia #Navalny #SkyNews

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A kiss goodbye for his wife Yulia as #Navalny follows police come to arrest him at border control. Tragically predictable.

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Задержание Алексея

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We went to the huge ‘Russia’ exhibition in Moscow cos you won’t be able to, and spoke to Shaman, just because. A look at how Russia is controlling the narrative in the build-up to next March’s elections via @YouTube

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How the Kremlin creates a nation of patriots - and makes Russians...

Sky's Diana Magnay has visited a huge new exhibition in Moscow dedicated to Russia - where the crowds are told Russia is great and the Ukraine war is in hand...

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2 years

Pleased, proud and about bloody time! It is a delight and a pain to have you here as my friend and competition @BBCSteveR . I shall salute you as editor from now on xx

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Steve Rosenberg

2 years

A little announcement.

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3 months

For the record, 🇷🇺 . Thank you 🇵🇱 @radeksikorski

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Carl Bildt

3 months

This intervention by @radeksikorski 🇵🇱 in the 🇺🇳 Security Council today will be a classic. Not much left of 🇷🇺 after that.

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Love the fact Seibert feels he must clarify that it is not as tho #Navalny poisoned himself. Tone laden with irony - ‘one or two examples where this has happened before’.

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You will smash it @IvorBennett . So excited for all that is to come - and a little bit envious too, missing my Sky Moscow team xxx

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Ivor Bennett

14 days

Thrilled to say I’ve finally arrived in Russia as the new Sky News Moscow correspondent. Big shoes to fill ( @DiMagnaySky ) but supported by a fantastic team ( @katyamotyakina & co) And what a week to start - inauguration today, Victory Day Thursday. Please do tune in! @SkyNews

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#Navalny asks for half an hour to get acquainted with case materials. Judge asks him why he hasn’t already when it’s been going since August. ‘Since August I’ve had a lot to do’

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3 years

Riot police line Tverskaya, the main avenue down to the Kremlin. It’s clear which side the cars are on. So much for #Navalny being insignificant, as Putin likes to suggest.

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2 years

No words. Except there were - two words written in giant letters to stop the bombs. ‘Children’. Beggars belief. #Mariupol

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Shashank Joshi

2 years

Striking satellite imagery taken on Monday of the Mariupol Drama Theatre—hit by an air strike today. 1,200 civilians were sheltering in it. The image shows that the word “children” is written in Russian in large white letters in front of & behind the theatre. (📸: @Maxar )

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5 years

Thought I’d temporarily hung up my Moscow hat to cover the #Labour campaign, only for the PM to compare Corbyn with Stalin on day 1 of the campaign trail. And let’s not forget the tories are still sitting on that Russia report. Who knew Moscow wld be so relevant?! #GE2019

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And on the 🩰 theme, this was Novaya Gazeta’s front cover, printed on 9th March, ‘in accordance with all the new laws of the criminal code’. Swan Lake in soviet times was always played on state TV essentially when the lights went out.

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2 years

10,000 detained, many badly injured; horrific video from the morgue of direct bullet wounds to the head. A return to normality should not mean the authorities get to hide what happened here. #kazakhstan #almaty

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#Prigozhin likes to aim high but a Wagner rep as Deputy Defence Minister? Unlikely … A look at the latest contracts spat between #Wagner & the MOD and what might be next for Evgeny Prigozhin

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Ranting Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin may recognise his influence is on the wane

The oligarch understands what's needed of him in the Putin system, whether that is by way of internet trolls, mercenaries pushing through the Kremlin's agenda in far-flung corners of the world or...

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Alexei #Navalny ’s wife, Yulia, has just entered the courtroom for her husband’s appeal in the veteran libel case. First time presumably she’ll have seen him too - if only by video link - since he finished his 3 week hunger strike

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2 years

An inspiration in love, life and leadership #Gorby

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6 years

‘We can no longer fully rely on the White House’, says German FM as Trump promises an ‘extraordinary relationship’ with Putin. Pretty extraordinary already and exactly why the WH is unreliable.

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"We can no longer fully rely on the White House", says Foreign Minister @HeikoMaas . In order to recalibrate our partnership with the US we need a united, confident and sovereign Europe! #EuropeUnited #Trump @GermanyintheEU

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3 years

Alexei #Navalny detained for a further 30 days, till 15 Feb judge rules in hastily convened ‘court’ session in a Moscow police station

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3 months

Such a huge queue still to leave flowers for Alexei #Navalny on the third day after his funeral, an hour before the cemetery closes.

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За час до закрытия кладбища длина очереди из людей, желающих возложить цветы к могиле Алексея Навального, превысила 500 метров. Собравшимся сигналят проезжающие мимо автомобили. Многие из машин машут руками. Полиции почти нет, ограждения все сняты Видео: Медиазона

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1 year

Sometimes I find #Russia ’s insistent claims that they’re the ones upholding international law just.too.much. Fellow KCL MA Intl law grads 2016, this one’s for you 💙 @NKuhrt @samagreene

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. @DiMagnaySky challenges Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on 'respect for international law' over the country's invasion of Ukraine. Latest on the war here: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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2 years

When I’m asked why people in #Russia aren’t protesting more, here’s why. But a few are still finding ways. Our TV report from St Petersburg

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Ukraine War: How a simple, solo act of protest can lead to years in...

A simple, solo act of protest can lead to years in prison in Russia as any dissenting voices are quickly silenced. #Russia #Ukraine #prisonSUBSCRIBE to our Y...

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3 months

@maxseddon This day, this terrible day. Markov was a remarkable photographer 💔

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1 year

Our TV report from #Wagner ’s Russian heartland, the carnage of #Soledar , Wagner’s massive losses and #Prigozhin ’s sledgehammer tradecraft. via @YouTube

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Ukraine War: Wagner Group mercenaries suffer heavy losses

Mercenaries from the Wagner Group are a powerful force in the war against Ukraine and are driving Russia's offensive around Bakhmut. However, mounting casual...

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2 years

Hardly even a protest, just a whole lot of people detained. As #Putin signs the words ‘wartime’, ‘mobilisation’ and ‘martial law’ into the criminal code #Moscow #Russia

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2 years

Four areas of Eastern Ukraine - controlled by Russia and pro-Moscow forces - are currently holding referendums on becoming part of Russia. @DiMagnaySky has the latest from Moscow 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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Diana Magnay

3 years

Dramatic from #Navalny : you can’t put the whole country in jail; I insulted the ‘old man in the bunker’ (aka Putin) by surviving; we proved he tried to kill me thro the FSB; he will go down in history as the poisoner; I demand my release. Judge tells him this is not a demo.

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3 years

Camels in the #Arctic , permafrost caves, mammoth bones & billions of mosquitos 🦣 🦟 Stuck in Chersky cos of #wildfires but finally back in #Yakutsk to cover them. Watch our #permafrost report on #SkyNews wed for more on the carbon threat below ground & our 🌳 🔥 report Thurs

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2 years

Well said, Prime Minister

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Boris Johnson

2 years

To the people of Ukraine: Slava Ukraini. To the people of Russia: I do not believe this war is in your name. This crisis, this tragedy, can and must come to an end. Because the world needs a free and sovereign Ukraine.

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2 years

Ahead of ‘Victory Day’ we went to #Yekaterinburg , spoke to die-hard patriots & some exceptionally brave ppl not prepared to sit idly by. Nadezhda who sewed up her mouth in protest; former Mayor Yevgeny Roizman who’s never minced his words. 🙏 watch

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Ukraine War: Russia prepares for 'Victory Day'

Sky’s Diana Magnay has been to Yekaterinburg and spoken to people who have spoken out against the conflict in Ukraine, on the eve of Russia’s annual Victory ...

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Diana Magnay

2 years

Will the 🇷🇺 public accept that hitting every 🇺🇦 city, spreading terror across the entire country, is an ok response to a strike on the Kerch Bridge which killed 3? I just don’t know. I wish they wouldn’t; I fear they might, with the requisite TV spin. A heavy day.

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3 years

The very bravest of Ambassadors. Thank you @laurie_bristow for all that you have done.

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3 years

Nearly 15,000 British nationals, Afghan staff and others at risk have been evacuated from Kabul since Operation Pitting began - our commitment to the people of Afghanistan will endure.

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Vladimir Kara-Murza, from his Siberian jai: ‘If we fall into despondency and despair we give them what they want. We have no right to do that. We owe our late comrades the obligation to continue to fight with even greater strength and realize what they lived and died for’.

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2 years

This will be excellent. The more @BethRigby on our airwaves asking the questions that count, the better. Especially with the backup of the brill @Mollie_Malone1

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Beth Rigby

2 years

PERSONAL NEWS: Very excited to say I’ll be hosting a brand-new big interview show on @skynews . More than politics, we’ll be talking to decision-makers from all walks of life in a show that aims to revive the in-depth interview as a tool of journalism 1/

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@BBCSteveR 💔 lovely to see him smile though. I am glad you’re there so he knows we support and love him xxx

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2 years

Probably the best news since before Covid.

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Tulip Siddiq

2 years

Nazanin’s plane took off from Oman just over half an hour ago and she’s due to arrive in the UK this evening. Here she is on the plane - the final step in what has been a six year long ordeal. #NazaninIsFree

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3 years

Strong protest decor. A reference to the 700 euro loo brush supposedly in Putin’s palace. Oh, I mean - Rotenberg’s hotel. #Navalny #MoscowProtests #skynews

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3 years

I wrote down everything that appalled me that was happening in #Russia ... just from the last week #Navalny #Putin

Alexei Navalny: How Russia and Putin are systematically obliterating dissent

Alexei Navalny: How Russia and Putin are systematically obliterating dissent

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10 years

Pl sign. Our Al Jazeera colleagues' sentence is an egregious wrong and a blight on the name of Egypt. http://t.co/XE9xDK8J2P via @AmnestyOz

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2 years

@DrJadeMcGlynn This is fabulous. Note too always and only canned peas. Per Russian cuisine, the only pea.

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1 year

‘We have truth on our side’. For all the videos of demoralised mobiks & angry wives, the West is still the enemy & they are still patriots. 👇👇our latest on why the 🇷🇺 people are not for turning. Certainly not for now #SkyNews #Russia #Ukraine

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How Russia depicts its fight in Ukraine

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1 year

‘Mama, I love you but I can’t come over to you. I cannot overcome the feeling of anger, disgust, hatred’: messages from #Ukraine to refugees who’ve fled East, to #Russia . My written dispatch from Belgorod

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2 years

A girl was detained outside #Moscow ’s main cathedral yesterday with a sign ‘Thou shalt not kill’. Takes real guts to do what Marina Ovsyannikova did on Channel 1. A fine so far, but just for her social media video. Nervous days. Our report: via @YouTube

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Ukraine War: Journalist fined for protest on Russian State TV

The Russian journalist who staged an anti-war protest live on national television has been fined £210.Marina Ovsyannikova was detained by police after holdin...

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2 years

Just leaving this here as I don’t really have any words. #Russia #USSR #’Victory’ Day

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2 years

#Putin coming into land at the Peter & Paul Fortress in St P for Navy Day, a Tsarist tradition he revived in 2017. Apart from strangling Ukraine economically with its blockade, the Black Sea Fleet has hardly excelled against a barely existing Ukrainian navy. Remember the Moskva ?

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Putin could end this in a heartbeat. But he won’t. Our piece last night on his address to the nation. And me in front of a nuclear missile I happened upon on a weekend stroll. #onlyinrussia via @YouTube

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Putin blames West for starting war in Ukraine

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3 months

Just crossed the bridge outside the Kremlin where Boris Nemtsov was killed in 2015. In six years being in Moscow, I don’t remember ever not seeing flowers, or the memorial to him present in some way. Now there is nothing there. A gut punch somehow. To add to all the others.

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