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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

6 years

It’s going to be a long day at Prague airport….

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

Just got through immigration at Barcelona - 5 mins wait with my Irish passport. Non-EU passports including UK, minimum one hour queuing. Brits are going to start their summer hols with one hell of a shock this year. #BrexitOpportunities

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

I am excited and humbled to announce that I have been appointed the Rector of the @IWM_Vienna , one of Central Europe’s leading advanced research institutes. I am taking up the post on May 4 and will be moving to the Austrian capital.

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@MishaGlenny

3 years

New York’s typically demure messaging strategy.

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@MishaGlenny

3 years

My Guardian obituary of the masterful Milos Vasic, greatly mourned by many in Serbia, the former Yugoslavia, and by so many foreign journos and diplomats who needed to learn what exactly was going on during and after Milosevic’s dictatorship in Serbia.

Miloš Vasić obituary

Leading Serbian investigative journalist who exposed the shadowy systems of corruption under the rule of Slobodan Milošević

www.theguardian.com

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

5 years

⁦ @GeorgeMonbiot ⁩ once again doing the work of ten mortal journalists. Please read!

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

Czech Railways putting on special trains to take Ukrainian refugees to the Czech Republic, helping to take the pressure off Poland as tens of thousands stream into Poland. Everything for free.

Johann Schneider @johannschnei.bsky.social

@JohannSchnei

2 years

Die Tschechische Bahn @ceskedrahy_ bringt Geflüchtete mit Sonderzügen von der Polnisch-Ukrainischen Grenze nach Tschechien. Ukrainische Staatsbürger:innen fahren in Tschechien gratis mit der Bahn. 💛💙

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

Don’t Look Now but this is Venice, 9:30pm, Saturday night, July 2020.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

5 years

Utterly shocking news - Matthew Hedges jailed for life by a court in the UAE. 5 minute hearing. No lawyer present. Jeremy Hunt’s appeals to UAE ignored. These are the people that Liam Fox and his ilk want to strengthen ties with after Brexit. A disgrace.

Matthew Hedges: British academic accused of spying jailed for life in UAE

Durham University student was detained while on way home from PhD research trip

www.theguardian.com

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

#McMafia Hello everyone, as the author of McMafia, the book, and an Executive Producer on the TV show, let me tell you reports in the Sun and the Mail that the BBC has dropped the show are in fact, to use a technical term, ‘complete bollocks’. Very much on track for Season 2.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

Serious cracks appearing between Putin and Min Def, and with Security Services. If anyone knows this man @AndreiSoldatov does - I strongly recommend you follow him and @IrinaBorogan if you don’t already.

Andrei Soldatov

@AndreiSoldatov

2 years

Putin appears to be truly unhappy with the FSB in Ukraine: he attacked the 5 Service SOiMS (FSB's foreign Intelligence branch). Sergei Beseda, head of the Service, and his deputy Bolukh, head of the DOI, placed under house arrest, according to my sources inside.

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4 years

I’ve been pondering our situation...

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@MishaGlenny

5 years

OMG - I hadn’t seen this. We have a Foreign Secretary opining about Europe without the first idea of post-war Europe101. I’m speechless.

Dr. Jennifer Cassidy

@OxfordDiplomat

5 years

Jeremy Hunt casually saying that Slovenia was a “Soviet vassal state”. Former president of Slovenia saying, “he comes to Slovenia asking us for a favour [to discuss how to avoid a no-deal] while arrogantly insulting us. We were never a vassal state” 🇪🇺

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Misha Glenny

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4 years

Just so we are clear...

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

The Reinvention of @piersmorgan into one of the few journalists holding the UK government to account is one of the most unexpected consequences of Covid in this country. That senior cabinet ministers will no longer subject themselves to his questions is a badge of honour.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

You tell him, Susanna!

Susanna Reid

@susannareid100

2 years

No, JRM. Being furious the Prime Minister may have broken the law by holding gatherings when people couldn’t visit loved ones - even when they were dying - is not “fluff” “trivial” and “nonsense” and saying this is a total outrage.

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4 years

This is me with my International Emmy which just arrived for my role as Executive Producer on #McMafia . Roll on Season 2! You can still catch Season 1 on @BBCiPlayer @BritBox_UK @amazon @skyatlantic and @netflix !

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

Wenceslas Square in Prague right now.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

8 months

As Publicity Manager of Verso when IC was published, no book led to as much discussion and praise from academic and general constituencies.Nor have I seen any book quoted as often as IC across so many disciplines in my reading ever since. And Ben was such a decent thoughtful man.

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

@daniel_dsj2110

8 months

Benedict Anderson’s, “Imagined Communities,” was published 40 years ago in 1983. Given the current times, a bit surprising that not much has been written, as far as I know, on the fortieth anniversary of the book.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

11 months

After reading this threat, the idea of replacing the management of the UK’s private water companies each with a colony of beavers begins to look like a rational choice.

Sam Knowlton

@samdknowlton

11 months

A single beaver pond holds an estimated 1.1 million gallons of water and recharges underlying aquifers with an even greater amount of water. Upon European arrival to North America, as many as 65 million beaver dams strung together waterways and hydrated landscapes.

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@MishaGlenny

3 years

A trenchant and resolutely correct assessment from Timothy Garton Ash - what is happening in Poland represents a major challenge to the EU. Let’s hope the Commission and other EU institutions finally wake up to confront this threat.

Timothy Garton Ash

@fromTGA

3 years

1. This is a crucial moment for Polish democracy. If likely upper house rejection of #LexTVN is overridden by a 2nd vote in lower house, Poland's major independent TV news channel cld fall into government-supporting hands. (thread)

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

Covid closes in on the 100 Acre Wood.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

I've always loved the ingenious theatricality of Nigerian criminals. Chapeau!

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

This is critical - the second phase of Milosevic’s downfall in October 2000 was when public and private sector workers went on strike. Final phase was the security forces (police, army and special forces) visibly scaling down their intervention against the street protests.

Christopher Miller

@ChristopherJM

4 years

Minsk metro workers have walked off the job, joining thousands of workers striking at state enterprises across the country and showing support for the protests.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

This is terrific. The cartel in three Rio favelas imposes a curfew to prevent the spread of Covid, specifically citing the state’s total indifference and incompetence in matters of public health. ‘Anyone seen in the street after 8pm will learn to respect the curfew next time.'

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

5 years

Totally brilliant piece of reporting by @GeorgeMonbiot . Must read

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

The same was true of The Times this morning.

James Withers

@JamesRWithers

2 years

There are 23 stories on the front page of the BBC News website. 23 are about the death of the Queen. I get the seismic nature of the event, but Russia is on the brink of the biggest military defeat in 80 years. On our continent. And nothing.

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@MishaGlenny

9 months

Shakespeare reacts: Now does he feel His secret murders sticking on his hands. Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach. Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

HOORAY! Judge dismisses claim against @tomburgis and @HarperCollinsUK brought by central Asian company ENRC. Now everyone can go out and buy his book Kleptopia - a terrific piece of journalism.

Dominic Casciani

@BBCDomC

2 years

Well this is interesting: @tomburgis - author of Kleptopia - how dirty money is conquering the world - has just won the defamation action brought against him by one of the companies that features in his rather gripping investigation:

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

The new normal

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@MishaGlenny

5 years

Recovered from an antiquarian bookshop in Prague. One of Kafka’s lesser known earlier novels which he abandoned as even he found the subject too miserable and soul-destroying.

Tomáš Prouza

@ProuzaTomas

5 years

Dnešek měl být tím slavným dnem, kdy Britové “získají zpátky kontrolu”. Místo toho je jejich neschopnost na čemkoliv se dohodnout teleportovala do paralelního vesmíru Franze Kafky...

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Misha Glenny

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8 months

At a loose end in Vienna on Sunday? Come and hear the magnificent Fintan O'Toole, perhaps the finest non-fiction writer in the English language, talk about Trump, Brexit, Ireland and Europe. In conversation with me at 5pm at the Academy of Fine Arts on the Schillerplatz. #VHF23

IWM

@IWM_Vienna

8 months

Writer @fotoole has chronicled the rise of the new Anglo-American populists in his columns with unparalleled wit & acuity. In conversation with IWM Rector @MishaGlenny , he will assess our democracies' resilience against the populist storm. #VHF23

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@MishaGlenny

3 years

I cannot believe that the government of the Czech Republic whose people know exactly what it means to be enthralled by an intolerant dictatorship can pursue this policy.

Ian Willoughby

@Ian_Willoughby

3 years

"Prague says it will not suspend deportations to Afghanistan" This is just shameful.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

I don’t usually post MUST READs but this piece by @alexander_clapp is utterly superb. If your interested in gangsters, oligarchs and the way the world really works, or the Balkans, Mediterranean, Greece/Turkey, Erdogan, Dubai, heroin..in fact just read it.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

6 years

We have seen several sober analyses from unquestionably serious thinkers like @fotoole that we run a real risk of a reemergence of fascism. Centre right, Centrists, Social Democrats and the Left need to study the sectarian politics of Germany 1930-33 to avoid the role of midwife.

Fintan O'Toole

@fotoole

6 years

Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow via @IrishTimesOpEd

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@MishaGlenny

7 months

If you read one piece about the events inn Israel and Palestine, read this: David Grossman: Israel is in a nightmare. Who will we be when we rise from the ashes? via @ft

David Grossman: Israel is in a nightmare. Who will we be when we rise from the ashes?

We can only imagine the magnitude of fear and hatred that will now come to the surface

www.ft.com

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

3 years

Worth remembering that life in Taiwan is normal - zero Covid. Why? Because difficult decisions based on scientific evidence were taken early. Above all - strict quarantine for anybody entering the country and rigorous test and trace.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

It’s more than baffling, Simon, it’s immoral and disgraceful. The BMJ head argued forcefully on Newsnight last night the failure to roll out tests means thousands of NHS frontline staff in quarantine unnecessarily. The great majority not ill but cannot risk working unless tested.

Simon Nixon

@Simon_Nixon

4 years

Good letter to ⁦ @thetimes ⁩. It’s clear that Britain has all the facilities necessary for the government to have massively ramped up testing weeks ago. Baffling why it hasn’t happened.

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@MishaGlenny

3 years

Queen’s Speech omits two anti-money laundering reforms: No Reg of Overseas’ Entities or Companies House reform. London continues to welcome money-launderers, whether criminals, oligarchs or tax evaders. Background at #RUSI ’s blog @OliverBullough @tomburgis

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

I was there!

Ian Willoughby

@Ian_Willoughby

2 years

The first public demonstration permitted by Czechoslovakia's Communists took place 33 years ago today, on 10 December – Human Rights Day – 1988. Among the speakers was Václav Havel and Marta Kubišová sang Kde domov můj. A plaque now marks the venue, Prague's Škroupovo náměstí.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

7 months

Absolutely terrific thread. Highly recommend a read.

Szymon Pifczyk

@sheemawn

7 months

It's 2023, 109 years after WW1 started, yet the pre-WW1 imperial borders are still visible on the election map of Poland - and on many others, for that matter. A thread 🧵🧵🧵-->

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2 years

@MissusVee My paternal grandfather had the remarkable foresight to be born in Newry (1896). May God bless the RoI and all who sail in her for having the munificence to confer citizenship on me. 🙏🙏🙏

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

Over the past two decades, @PrivateEyeNews has been THE journal of record on corruption, money-laundering, UK government malfeasance. It is our indispensable guide in combatting the many crimes of the rich and powerful. It is also VERY funny. Triples all round to its team!

Private Eye Magazine

@PrivateEyeNews

2 years

9 years after the Eye exposed rampant Russian money-laundering in London and 6 years since we revealed the scale of anonymous offshore ownership of UK property, it takes a war to finally make the government take action. Full story in the brand new Private Eye, out today.

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

Putin is losing the plot big time.

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@ianbremmer

2 years

a truly unhinged rant by putin, after three weeks of doing everything he can to destroy his country.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

Remarkable editorial in @FT Virus lays bare the fragility of the social contract. This passage stands out:

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

This version of war booty was first modelled in Yugoslavia, notably by Arkan and other organised crime figures who provided additional military capacity in exchange for appropriated goods and land. The state sanctions it.

Anastasiia Lapatina

@lapatina_

2 years

Russians opened a market in Belarus where they sell things they stole from Ukrainian homes, including dishwashers, bicycles, carpets, etc. All this is taken to Belarus in a centralized manner, via Russian trucks. Some things are also shipped to Russia. This is beyond me

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Misha Glenny

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8 years

I believe Boris Johnson's 'half-Turkish ancestry' has left him with a loathing of Britain and Churchill in particular because of Gallipoli.

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

The Czech Public Prosecutor has charged former Prime Minister, Andrej Babis, with embezzlement of €2 millions in relation to EU subsidies which Babis allegedly diverted into his Stork's Nest spa and wellness centre. (in Czech).

Kauza Čapí hnízdo: Šaroch podal obžalobu na Babiše a jeho někdejší poradkyni Nagyovou

Státní zástupce Jaroslav Šaroch podal v pondělí obžalobu na předsedu hnutí ANO a bývalého premiéra Andreje Babiše a jeho někdejší poradkyni Janu Nagyovou (dříve Mayerovou) v kauze kolem padesátimil...

domaci.hn.cz

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2 years

This is a much more important story than the Djoković one.

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@MishaGlenny

5 years

The video games industry where Britain is currently a world leader would collapse within a year or two. Dominated by EU labour - average starting salary between £20-22k.

Samuel West 💙💛

@exitthelemming

5 years

This is advice from a right wing think tank, not yet government policy. But. @EquityUK : if these were actors in UK, what proportion would be allowed to stay? I’d guess 20% tops. Figures like this disbar the huge majority of artists, and not for artistic reasons

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4 years

Great news from New York #McMafia gets the recognition it deserves as #BestDramaSeries at the #InternationalEmmyAwards2019 .

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@Nawazuddin_S

4 years

It’s a pure delight 2 b receiving d beautiful winner trophy at d #InternationalEmmyAwards2019 Gala in NewYork wid 1 of my fav Director #JamesWatkins for our work #McMafia Congratulations @jginorton #DavidStrathairn @CubaPictures #HosseinAmini & Team @iemmys @BBC #BestDramaSeries

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2 years

Ursula von der Leyen has just told the European Parliament that the European Commission will open proceedings against Hungary for violating the rule of law. Budapest could lose 100% of its European subsidies. The main problem: Corruption and embezzlement of EU funds.

Katerina Safarikova

@KacaSaf

2 years

BREAKING: Šéfka EK @vonderleyen právě v EP oznámila, že EK zahajuje proceduru proti Maďarsku kvůli porušování právního státu. HU může přijít o 100 % dotací. Hlavní problém: korupce a podvody s EU penězi. Pojistka rozpočtu je aktivována poprvé. @RESPEKT_CZ @Aktualnecz @hospodarky

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6 years

Congratulations to @Aiannucci - when governments ban comedy and satire, you know you have hit the bull’s eye. #TheDeathOfStalin - genius film.

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

Well worth keeping an eye on the election in Brazil. Potentially as important as the US mid-terms. Bolsonaro issuing implied threats that he might not accept the result if he loses. Follow @adowniebrazil inter alia.

Brazil’s presidential campaign launches amid fears of violence and upheaval

Far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is trailing in the polls and has hinted he will not cede power if defeated

www.theguardian.com

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

Whenever Hungary has become involved in a war or taken sides in the last 150 years, it has always been on the losing side. Hopefully this rule of thumb will continue to apply.

Béla Rásky

@BelaRasky

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Übrigens: Wann immer Ungarn in den letzten 150 Jahren in einen militärischen Konflikt verwickelt war oder Partei ergriffen hat, war's die Verliererseite... Hoffentlich bewahrheitet sich die Faustregel weiter.

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2 years

Some very disturbing developments in the Western Balkans related to Ukraine. I’ll be looking at this in detail later today.

Agon Maliqi

@AgonMaliqi

2 years

🚨🚨🚨 The head of Russian Security Services Patrushev arrives in Belgrade this week in the middle of the Ukraine war. This destabilisation attempt in Montenegro comes from a party once described by U.S officials as “an offshoot of the GRU”. Kosovo & Bosnia beware.

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1 year

Brexit, Northern Ireland and the Tory Party

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Misha Glenny

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6 years

Very good discussion on @BBCr4today about the Kashoggi disappearance with @bbclysedoucet and @philippesands . The UK government happy to rail against Russian responsibility for Skripal but quiet both on Saudi and Turkish repression and possible murder of journalists.

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4 years

Here’s a wee piece I wrote about why Russia is thrilled with Brexit.

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2 years

The Times reports this morning that Suella Braverman is a ‘done deal’ as Home Secretary in the event of a Truss victory. Talk about out of the frying pan…

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

This is big.

Eerik N Kross

@EerikNKross

2 years

FSB arrests the commander of the 🇷🇺 Black Sea fleet vice admiral Igor Ossipov. Obviously for the bad weather and an accidental fire on board of Moskva. 8th general out of commission by 🇺🇦 action in this war.

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Front page of Austria’s largest circulation daily. ‘A country in free fall. Great Britain. Government chaos, currency collapse, inflation. The nation staggers from one crisis to the next.’ This is the more conservative paper.

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2 years

I’m back with Ep 1 of The Invention of Poland on @BBCRadio4 ! Long before #Putin tried it, someone else controlled #Ukraine . Learn how one of Europe’s largest states, the #Polish - #Lithuanian Commonwealth was gobbled up by three greedy neighbours in 1795.

BBC Radio 4 - The Invention Of..., Poland, Obliterated from the map

Misha Glenny on how Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine were wiped from the map.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

Quite extraordinary!

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@MishaGlenny

4 years

It’s currently being translated into Macedonian specifically for the Macedonian sado-masochist community...

Igor Trajkovski

@mkrobot

4 years

In progress (800 страни за садомазохисти)

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

This’ll cheer you up if nothing else can.

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@robbeorn

2 years

I have found this frankly wonderful archive of a Northern Ireland primary #school disco in the 1960s while working on a report and it might be the best thing I’ve ever seen.

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@MishaGlenny

8 years

Excellent piece in The Irish Times by the ever perceptive @fotoole on the muddled English nationalism behind Brexit

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

Given the Israeli decision to withdraw its diplomats Ukraine and the advice to Israeli citizens to leave, it is worth remembering that Israel has an unrivalled intel network in this region as over 1 million citizens are originally from Ukraine or Russia.

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6 years

You’ve got to admire Jean-Paul Satre. He identified hell as being ‘other people at breakfast’, yet he’d never been to Stansted Airport on a Friday morning. As the holidays are now over, I guess this must only be the 1st or 2nd circle.

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

This is a fascinating story. Has the PM inadvertently blurted out a future 'barrage'? Or does he not have a grasp of his brief? 🤔Could be either or both.

Mirror Politics

@MirrorPolitics

2 years

No10 admit Boris Johnson 'misspoke' by claiming Roman Abramovich faces sanctions

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

6 years

Unusual problems of early Homo Sapiens #1

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

@brezaleksandar @DimitarBechev Morally it makes no difference in the end but I think Putin actually believes some of his nonsense about Russia and Ukraine. Milosevic didn’t give a toss about Serbian nationalist mythology except as a tool to faciliate his path to power and then consolidate it.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

3 years

How wonderful to see this article in @WiredUK about the great @Cecillia who created the app Crossfire that warns residents of Rio if shooting starts. An incredibly talented and industrious journalist, she was an invaluable help in writing my book, Nemesis.

This app helps keep Rio’s residents safe from gun crime

Rio de Janeiro’s streets are notorious for their violence. An app is helping keep people out of harm’s way

www.wired.com

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

8 years

@viaSimonRomero Fiuza's crude style & crass faux Anglo forms of address, implicitly xenophobic, are right out of Soviet playbook circa 1968

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

We all need to support @TomBurgis . The Economic Crime Bill must Include protection from SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, oligarchs and criminals throwing millions to lawyers to shut up impoverished journalists). This is dirty money attacking media freedom.

Tom Burgis

@tomburgis

2 years

A London company owned by oligarchs from the former Soviet Union is suing me and my publisher @HarperCollinsUK over Kleptopia, my book about how dirty money is conquering the world. The first hearing was recently delayed but will now be at the High Court this Weds, March 2

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@MishaGlenny

3 years

If you’re interested in South Eastern Europe and how US policy might evolve under Biden, this should be excellent. @IVejvoda @VALERIEin140 #TheBalkans Tomorrow May 13th 17:00 BST; 18:00 CET; 12pm EST. Follow this link to register:

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

6 years

Cristo’s remarkable latest oil barrel sculpture on The Serpentine this morning

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

Very sorry to hear of the death of Vladimir (Vlado) Gligorov, the perceptive economist and political scientist from North Macedonia, at the age of 77. Never infected by irrational nationalism, a sober analyst of ex-Yugoslavia with an unexpectedly mischievous sense of humour. RIP

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

Northern Ireland census results are out. Catholics are more numerous than protestants for the first time. 45.7%/43.5%. A huge symbolic moment. The most astonishing statistic is the drop over 10 yrs of those who describe themselves as only British: from 40% to 30%. Major shift.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

5 years

Many congratulations to @OliverBullough for Moneyland going straight into The Times paperback bestseller list at #1 . Heartily deserved.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

9 years

Any chance of Hazel and Rob forming the Ambridge Axis of Evil? #thearchers

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

3 years

It’s taken 13 years since my prediction in #McMafia that the oligarchy in Transnistria would get Sheriff Tiraspol into the Champions League Group Stage. A quick trip up the road to Kyiv for the Shakhtar tie followed by trips to San Siro and the Bernabeu. #ChampionsLeaguedraw

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

What a remarkably powerful intervention by @ClareDalyMEP . Hard to see how anyone can argue with it.

Clare Daly

@ClareDalyMEP

2 years

Meanwhile in Afghanistan... tens of thousands seeking refuge; five million children facing famine; 500% increase in child marriages; children being sold to feed families... Not a mention of it. My god, they must be wondering what makes their humanitarian crisis so unimportant.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

3 years

Glad to see the divisions forged during the Reformation and the Thirty Years War are still as reliable as ever...

Tom Nuttall

@tom_nuttall

3 years

This is the constituency map Germans are waking up to. SPD dominance in the north, conservatives in the industrial south, dots of Green in some cities, and a very AfD-blue Saxony after the CDU slumped there.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

History lesson: In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, & they lost it all - security, comfort, & freedom. When the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free. Edward Gibbon

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

McMafia is back on @BBCiplayer - if you haven't seen it, now's your chance!

BBC iPlayer

@BBCiPlayer

4 years

When tragedy strikes, Alex Godman finds himself drawn into the criminal world. McMafia. Streaming now on BBC iPlayer.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

Sicily will pay half the cost of travel of all visitors to the island this autumn if borders are open by then.

Sandro da Costa Fernandes

@cafecomkremlin

4 years

🇮🇹 Sicília vai pagar metade do preço da viagem a todos que a visitem a ilha no outono (caso as fronteiras estejas abertas)

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

That is impressive.

Mahir Zeynalov

@MahirZeynalov

2 years

Germany seizes Russian billionare Alisher Usmanov’s 512-foot yacht Dilbar worth $600 million

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

This is fantastic news! Well done @carolecadwalla - hope you can get on with your life now. You have done a huge service to journalists and the public across the United Kingdom.

Press Gazette

@pressgazette

2 years

BREAKING: @carolecadwalla has won her libel battle with @Arron_banks . More to follow

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@MishaGlenny

2 years

Excellent news. TV Drama based on the remarkable memoir of @jakeadelstein about an American crime reporter working for a Japanese newspaper is coming to the BBC.

Tokyo Vice comes to the BBC

Crime drama series based on American journalist Jake Adelstein's non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat acquired by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

9 years

Is there anything this man can’t do??? #putin http://t.co/EYqRQv0emp

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

3 years

The EU must not drop its commitment to admitting the Western Balkans into the Union. Here is an op-ed I wrote with Cathy Ashton, Mark Medish, Alex Rondos and @IVejvoda in advance of the EU Western Balkan summit in Slovenia.

Don’t close the door on the Western Balkans

The EU must reaffirm its commitments to the region or risk a divided Europe.

www.politico.eu

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

3 years

@TanjaBueltmann It’s not just the headline - the whole article suggests very strongly that this is all down to vindictive, Kafkaesque bureaucracies in Europe. Nope - our government voluntarily gave up all our rights in Europe.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

Congratulations to the magnificent @fotoole for winning best non-fiction book at the Irish book awards. Shout out for his editor @drittepolitie1 Neil Belton as well.

Cormac Kinsella

@CormacKinsella

2 years

. ⁦ @AnPostIBAS ⁩ An Post Irish Book Awards 2021: Winners of this year’s prizes announced

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

6 years

Sadly for Gruevski, Orban is not accepting any refugees at the moment, especially those coming up from the Balkans.

Branko Milanovic

@BrankoMilan

6 years

Interesting Europe. Former PM of Macedonia asks for political asylum in Hungary. (Recognized/unrecognized) Prez of Catalonia asks for political asylum in Belgium. Next?

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

4 years

This is one of the most bonkers things I’ve ever seen....and yet...and yet...does it not flirt with genius?

Amanda

@Pandamoanimum

4 years

Angela Lansbury as teapots. A thread.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

I think #Vienna would give #Prague a run for its money but congrats to both.

robertjohnanderson

@rjanderson8

2 years

Its official – #Prague is top in public transport: fantastic tram system, sleek metro, plus buses. You rarely need to use (or buy) a car. It only needs a progressive council that has the courage to impose a congestion charge, build bike lanes etc.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

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Russians working with the FSB attempted to obtain chemicals in Czechia, to use in the manufacture of novichock. Intel then led to a major raid in Germany where a similar op was ongoing. From - excellent news portal.

Aktuálně

www.aktualne.cz

Lukáš Valášek

@lukasvalasek

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Rusové blízcí tajné službě FSB se pokoušeli z Česka dostat chemikálie vhodné i k výrobě novičoku. Zjistili jsme, že to překazila kontrarozvědka BIS. Výsledkem je i velká policejní razie v Německu, kde vysoce toxické látky Rusové také získávali.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

2 years

Well if the Germans can exempt gas, the British half of Belgravia and Mayfair, why not a few leather goods and Ferrari from Italy?

Joe Barnes

@Barnes_Joe

2 years

Italian prime minister Mario Draghi successfully secured a carve out for Italian luxury goods from the EU's package of economic sanctions against Nato, EU dip tells me. 'Apparently selling Gucci loafers to oligarchs is more of a priority than hitting back at Putin,' source adds.

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Misha Glenny

@MishaGlenny

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Couple who ordered $18 bottle of Pinot Noir served a $2k 1989 Mouton Rothschild instead. Neither the couple nor the four bankers who had ordered the Rothschild appeared to notice the difference.

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