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2 years

Sunrise from the highest skyscraper in Europe: the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg. The spire is above the cloud cover and gets a bit more sun...🌞

Восход с «Лахта Центр»

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2 years

@daniel_charms @KLalh No it isn't (unless you only think of punishment as this legal thing...)

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2 years

@unseenhorizons @daniel_charms @KLalh yes... after an emotional breakdown. The whole point is that punishment within is worse (and more important) than formal punishment. But there is hope. Crime, Punishment, Repentance and Change would've made too long a title though...

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@kvk4

2 years

This is tiring. No, visa bans based on nationality are bad not because someone will "use them as propaganda". They are bad because they are discriminatory, go against basic human rights and basic human decency. And, yes, people suggesting those for Russians *are* Russophobes.

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@kvk4

2 years

BTW, apart from being historically wrong, this is also highly disrespectful to nations which were actually colonized.

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@kvk4

10 months

@meduzaproject Далее вы узнаете: Почему от сердца к солнцу уже давно не "нацистское приветствие" Почему исполнение песни Бий москаля, складайте трупи уже давно не является актом "русофобии". Почему использование вольфсангеля уже давно не имеет отношение к "нацизму".

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@kvk4

5 years

@MarkAmesExiled @yashalevine I am sorry to butt in, but is this the same Sipher who also thinks that one can't not be a Russophobe? Just checking.

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@kvk4

3 years

@ABarbashin @GTCost Yup. And being Ukrainian and wishing that Ukrainian army does not attack fellow Ukrainians in Donbass should be the most pro-Ukrainian thin you can do in the moment.

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@kvk4

4 years

@v_vuksanovic @bneeditor I am sorry, but just out of curiosity: does this picture imply that men in Serbia hold their breath for the duration of the intercourse?

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@kvk4

9 months

@Volod_Ishchenko I could never understand this. :-( There are literally thousands and thousands of Soviet UKR heroes from WWII. Not even generals, "ordinary" people. Why are they never celebrated in the modern UKR? :-( Why would it hurt?

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@kvk4

3 years

@fabrice_deprez @ichbinilya Nazis didn't need pretexts...

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11 months

@bneeditor Re: allowing police "to fire live rounds into crowds", I highly recommend this painstakingly detailed account of those events:

Ivan Katchanovski

@I_Katchanovski

1 year

My open-access article "The Maidan Massacre Trial and Investigation Revelations: Implications for the Ukraine-Russia War and Relations" is now published in peer-reviewed journal. It can be freely downloaded, posted & republished in whole or in part. 1/

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3 years

@mich261213 Гинцбург не говорил этого. Удалите это, пожалуйста...

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@kvk4

4 years

@DanRosenheck @ECONdailycharts @TheEconomist There is a panic effect here. Anyone with a coronavirus (e.g. common cold) rushes to the doctor. So, no, this data doesn't show the COVID-19 rate.

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@kvk4

5 years

@yashalevine @od_sobolev He must have had 100+ connections to Russians. Some of them - close to Putin! #Resist

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@kvk4

4 months

@TarikCyrilAmar My favorite part is: Twitter: "Carlson committed treason!" Christiane Amanpour: "I was trying to commit treason every day in the last two years and will continue to do so!"

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@kvk4

5 years

@anders_aslund Also only 78,000 cars were sold in Ukraine in 2018. Vs. 200,000 in 2013. Japan & its cars are being marginalized for many good reasons.

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@kvk4

5 years

@aaron_schwa Do you want to know what "уебаться", "заебаться", "выебаться", "переебнуться", "приебаться", "наебаться", "въебаться" а также "проебать" mean?

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@kvk4

10 months

@ragipsoylu @aaron_schwa Not what the poll says. It says "recognize". They are not going to "recognize" any territorial losses. I doubt anyone expects them to. ~42% are ready for some sort of compromise (~51% are not). And 61% of those who come from the East where most of the fighting is (~36% are not).

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@kvk4

2 years

Putin worked with Yushenko and Timoshenko, he is working with the Western-oriented Pashinyan, he is working with the Turkey-oriented Aliev. But facts don't matter when you see the world the way you *want* it to be.

Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

2 years

Amidst all Putin’s breast-beating about Nato and Ukraine, its worth remembering the original 2013/14 crisis was triggered by Ukraine seeking closer relations with the EU, not Nato. This is not about Russian security; it’s about Putin’s refusal to let Ukraine orient itself West

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5 years

@mashamendieta @maxseddon Director General of the BBC [1992-2000] Sir John Birt after being knighted in 1998. Source: UPPA/Photoshot

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@kvk4

5 years

@aaron_schwa No. "отъебаться" is to FO. E.g. "Трамп, отъебись от России!" "съебаться" is to run away. E.g. "Ручка Скрипаля намазана, съебываемся." BTW (since you are bound to ask) "доебаться" is to harass someone. E.g. "Трамп доебался до Хуайвей"

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@kvk4

1 year

@SevaUT Nonsense! It's genetic! Please, refer to my article: "Genocide in your genes: how Moksha heritage affected Russian psyche." Original text in Ukrainian can be found at www dot goodvatnickdeadvatnick dot ua

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@kvk4

5 years

@davidbrunnstrom @CIA @StateDept "Владение" is singular, geniuses...

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2 years

@Tiiyee @chipmanj Imagine being the CEO of the "International Institute of Strategic Studies" and not knowing basic things... 🤦‍♂️ He also doesn't seem to realize the consequences of the "Western states sinking remaining Russian ships in Black Sea". "Strategic Studies" he is doing... 😱

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@kvk4

4 years

@StephenThorson @ggreenwald Asking? That was blackmailing, not "asking". What you also don't realize is that they replaced that AG with a politician who everyone knew was corrupt. 😱

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@kvk4

2 years

@bneeditor Meet Bill Browder. But you can trust him on the rest of his stories.

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3 years

@fabrice_deprez Russians knew how to build beautiful streets! 😄

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2 years

@MarkAmesExiled Along with Nina Jankowicz, another famous disinformation warrior...

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4 years

@KevinRothrock @CIA @nytimes Anyone who paid attention to @nytimes Russia reporting in the last 4 years knows that this @nytimes ad was written by @nytimes . 🙀

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5 years

@jason_kint @nytimes This should never be allowed to happen again. Ban contacts with Russians. Make Russians wear a red star prominently on their clothing.

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4 years

Media is building a narrative around Putin not congratulating Biden on election win. I looked at what happened before. Not difficult! Concession / congrats '16 Nov 8 / 9 '12 Nov 6 / 7 '08 Nov 4 / 5 '04 Nov 4 / 4 '00: Dec 13 / 14

Bianna Golodryga

@biannagolodryga

4 years

In 2016, Putin waited roughly 2 hours to congratulate Trump after he was announced President-elect. In 2020, 24 hours after Biden was announced President-elect, continued radio silence out of the Kremlin.

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5 years

@MikeRuney @yaffaesque @nytopinion Volodya is informal for Vladimir. Its consistent use in the article is meant to belittle and offend.

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4 years

@maxseddon @KevinRothrock That was the last event before a ban takes effect until April 30.

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2 years

@LindseySnell Reminder. US government funded this:

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@kvk4

3 years

Dear American taxpayers. Did you know that your government sponsors anti-vax messaging? Now you do. Hopefully there is a journalist somewhere to look into this.

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3 years

@SStapczynski @vanessadezem @josefinefokuhl Solar/wind can't replace nuclear or coal. Adding more of it would only exacerbate the problem. :-(

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5 years

@YorukIsik @McFaul No. He dashed off to Baghdad. Dashing off to Baghdad might not have created a thousand re-tweets, so, why not exaggerate just a little... :-( (Sochi is in 7 days, on the 14th.)

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3 years

@maria_shagina I thought the whole point of the NS2 discussions is fear that Russia would use pipelines as leverage (which is such a bad thing to do!)? Now the EU normalizes using pipelines as leverage? Me confused.

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@kvk4

6 years

@sarahrainsford The Russian version is a clear translation from English.

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4 years

@grudkev @AlexNicest Nothing to do with economic cycles. Both were reactions to independent external events.

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5 years

@KevinRothrock Добрый день, уважаемая редакция Медузы! Глубоко уважая данное издание и всех без исключения кто там работает, я весьма обеспокоен качеством опросов в твиттере редактора вашей англоязычной версии.

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1 year

@SobolLubov Тем временем...

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3 years

@elkmovie @BeijingPalmer And then Mongolia rules them all? We've seen that happen before...

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5 years

@SevaUT This is much likelier: teachers paid in vodka bottles -- for resale, 1997.

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3 years

@JavierBlas @ntrickett16 No worries. Ofgem surely has a bunch of "low-cost renewables" on hand to replace gas... 😎

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5 years

@simongerman600 Rus is not a person. Actually we don't know exactly what it is referring to, but most likely a viking tribe...

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3 years

@bneeditor Funny how Poland & Lithuania are building a totally redundant GIPL to a totally redundant LNG terminal. "Security and better negotiating position" is what they say. But Russia should be denied same approach because "already enough capacity". Zero logic. Literally zero.

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3 years

@ntsafos @agata_loskot EU supply management— - Hey Gazprom, you are too large, we'll build new LNG terminals to cut you down to size - Also, your new pipeline to bring us more & cheaper gas: FO - Your long-term contracts? Welcome to court! ... - Gazprom? Hello! We need more gas!😱Now! Where are you?😡

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5 years

@vasyunin Интересно наложить на это карту эвакуации из Ленинграда...

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1 year

@maximananyev @LukeBMM Don't cheat. There is nothing wrong with breakfast, so there is no need for a Russian word for it.

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6 years

@KevinRothrock Таблица отвратительных фраз:

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5 years

@Bfklin @simongerman600 Read foreign books.

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2 years

@maria_shagina They want to launch it as soon as possible, but it is not critical. Where is the contradiction?

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5 years

@andrewdkaufman No! Dostoevsky goes up to the counter, buys the cheapest coffee, then notices that he got more change than he was due. He wants to gamble it away, leaves, but thinks about God and comes back, leaves again, comes back again. Finally he returns the wrong change. #LiteraryStarbucks

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4 years

@bneeditor And we've just learnt that the "Steel dossier" was based pretty much exclusively on info from an obscure US-based Russian with no access to any Kremlin insider information. Steel then "embellished" and peddled it to the various US IC agencies and politicians. 🤦 Pure crookedry.

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3 years

@steveglines @TadeuszGiczan You know about this how?

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3 years

Feb 2: Blinken & Kuleba have a call Feb 3: Zelensky bans 3 opposition TV channels May 6: Blinken & Zelensky meet May 11: Ukraine charges one of the leaders of a popular opposition party with treason Hard to believe this is a coincidence.

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2 years

It's amazing how a narrative created by Western pundits and media clouds the minds of even the most balanced researchers. The 2008 conflict timing was picked by Saakashvili. So the only question here is whether Zelensky follows that path. I highly doubt anyone thinks so, though.

Rob Lee

@RALee85

2 years

An interesting consideration is whether Russia wants to start a significant escalation while China is hosting the Olympics. The last time China hosted an Olympics, the Russia-Georgia War occurred. Not sure if that is a factor or not.

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3 years

@Tatiana_Evd I think there is something wrong with the axis (unless of course countries' economic performance depends on their alphabetic position).

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3 years

Dear American taxpayers. Did you know that your government sponsors anti-vax messaging? Now you do. Hopefully there is a journalist somewhere to look into this.

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@kvk4

4 years

@orsonpresence @Alexey__Kovalev But NO articles! 🙏

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3 years

@bneeditor Don't worry! The collective West is pouring enough money into think tanks, media, and the rest of the "civil society" to make even a tiny bit of normalization with RU impossible...

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1 year

@TarikCyrilAmar Painful to see European values being thrown out the window one by one in this fight for European values. 😳

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6 years

@maxseddon @KyivPost And if it wasn't a "gift to the Kremlin", it would have been just fine... Amazing, how it is not about right or wrong, but about how much pleasure "the Kremlin" finds in this or that action.

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2 years

One of the biggest issues of Western policy-making towards Russia is that they first create distorted narratives of past events and then use them to predict the future. Example ⬇️

Pavel Podvig

@russianforces

2 years

I understand the temptation of drawing a direct parallel with 2014, but that's not quite what happened. Crimea was not a response to the EU agreement - Putin Has the U.S. Right Where He Wants It

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@kvk4

9 months

@andrewsweiss @AndriyKostinUa Oh, great! Please, ask about the investigation of Oles Buzina killing. It's been 8,5 years. Thank you!

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@kvk4

4 years

@andrewsweiss Who said Putin is "all-powerful"? He rules through a complex web of formal, informal and customary structures and mechanisms. Threat of criminal prosecution in one of those.

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@kvk4

3 years

There are "us" and there are "Russians". But how to tell a Russian from us, normal people? Our League for the Proper Identification of Russians demands swift action so that we are able to spot a Russian in the crowd. Please, join our movement!

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2 years

@shaunwalker7 @andrewsweiss Therefore whatever Putin think, he has only two options: a humiliating climbdown or an invasion of Ukraine. (72/72)

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@kvk4

7 months

@meduzaproject ... "ведь отличить легального и нелегального мигранта, если он на велосипеде НЕВОЗМОЖНО!" -- добавили финские пограничники.

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2 years

@RALee85 4) Ceasefire falling apart, advanced weapons used by UKR in Donbass 5) Large increase in delivery of Western weapons to UKR 6) Talk of establishing more training centers/bases with NATO countries 7) Medvedchuk arrest 8) GER/FR refusing to push UKR to implement Minsk

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9 months

@meduzaproject Господи! Зачем?! 🤮

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5 months

@aaron_schwa @aaronjmate Yes. Unless you can provide for an exact violation.

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4 years

@ArtyomLukin US politics has lots of inertia and is not at all about any coherent strategy. Winning the next election in the next couple of years is the horizon. Russia is much more convenient as a scapegoat. No racist overtones, no "Russian American" lobby. Expect little change.

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@kvk4

4 years

@sguriev Кто делал фактчекинг? Почему эти фактчекеры правы? Кто их назначил фактчекерами? Каков был процесс их назначения фактчекерами? Какова процедура аппеляция их фактчекинга?

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@kvk4

3 years

@bneeditor We should really get away from the "pro-Ukraine" label. Ukrainians who are friendly to Russia are as much Ukrainians as those who are not. All of the them are "pro-Ukraine" even if their views on the world differ. The rest is AC propaganda, which we should avoid.

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2 years

@SevaUT I don't know. Ukraine has been wooing investors while saying they are at war with Russia and a further large scale invasion is imminent. It's a 21st century thing, I guess...

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3 years

@bneeditor I am sorry, is she talking about Ukrainian treatment of Russian speakers here?

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4 years

@pelifosoff @leonidvolkov Цинизм смешной... Борец с диктаторами Майкл Блумберг. ⬇️

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@TarikCyrilAmar I have an easy suggestion. The guy on the left and the guy on the right switch places. Both get what they want + motivation will carry Arkady to victory.

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4 years

@KevinRothrock Hooray! Ukraine was able to make Crimeans suffer by switching them the water. That'll teach them to love their Ukrainian masters!

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2 years

@TarikCyrilAmar Imagine Europe giving Ukraine €100bn with a condition of implementing Minsk II a couple of years ago. Just imagine! PS Ukraine was begging for "~€2-3bn, please" at the time...

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3 years

@27khv @TarikCyrilAmar @anders_aslund It's worse. Much worse. Anders took, I think, ~$500K while being on the Supervisory board of UKR railways. I believe he resigned when Zelensky tried to cut that pay to usual levels of a Ukrainian bureaucrat.

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@kvk4

1 year

@I_Katchanovski Just learnt that 59% of Ukrainians (in territories under central government control, I assume), wanted negotiations with Russia in May 2022.

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@kvk4

2 years

A reminder that Ukraine doesn't actually want Crimea and Donbass back. Well, at least not with the people who live there. If it did, it would've showed those people that they would be welcome "at home", not that they would be harshly discriminated against.

Sergey Radchenko

@DrRadchenko

2 years

These require that the minority language print media furnish Ukrainian versions of their publications. Here's the relevant provision. This does not apply to publications in English and "EU languages" and mainly affects Russian publications.

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1 year

@fabrice_deprez Definitely a great way to show people in Donbass and Crimea what awaits them after "liberation".

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6 years

@andrewsweiss @CarnegieEndow That's the Clapper who said that Russians are "are almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever..."?

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4 years

@TadeuszGiczan @bneeditor It was meant to be launched in 2020 as per IAEA.

More Newcomers Eye Nuclear Power as UAE, Belarus Set to Start Operating First Nuclear Power Plants

www.iaea.org

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1 year

@TarikCyrilAmar Yes, but also, remember, that if you do that, you are betraying one of the basic human rights principles.

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3 years

@DonatJelly @SevaUT Russian population doesn't "live in fear" of NATO. But, you are right, Putin's stature internally would be much helped by a deal with NATO.

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2 years

@lindseyhilsum @RolandOliphant Good point. Also, there was no "threat of genocide" in Kosovo, as Chancellor Scholz claimed yesterday in Moscow...

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4 months

@DrRadchenko Self-poking in the eye... ⬇️

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2 years

@DrRadchenko Americans can't get fish out of an icy river because they don't have a word for прорубь. 😱

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8 months

@andrewsweiss Or he could've put together a different thread. But he won't.

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11 months

@TarikCyrilAmar @WSJopinion Reminder, NATO can't provoke anyone... oh, wait!

Shashank Joshi

@shashj

11 months

“not a single mention of a [NATO] Tokyo office was made in the joint communique, after France and, in the last hour, Germany, signaled that it might not be a good idea to provoke China”

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2 years

Framing Russo-Ukrainian relations as "colonial" is mostly used for the purposes of current political discourse. Actual history is much different (although not without pain & injustice).

Sergey Radchenko

@DrRadchenko

2 years

While I am tempted to agree with @McFaul on emotional grounds, I would take an exception on academic grounds, for two reasons. First, Western colonial enterprise in Africa and Asia was based on economic exploitation underpinned by a racist ideology.

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4 years

@hubert21121968 @AricToler @bellingcat Please, don't tell Russians how to structure their language. In Russian "black" can be very offensive and "negr" is usually neutral. Languages are different. Respect that.

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@kvk4

8 months

@andrewsweiss So, are you saying the Democrats (who actually ousted McCarthy) are in cahoots with the Kremlin? 🤔

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1 year

@rochowanski @GTCost Also, this is collective punishment.

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1 year

@I_Katchanovski Dog meet tail.

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3 years

@bneeditor It's been 32 years since the USSR officially admitted it was a crime. But nothing is enough for Ilves. He wants to ever use this to bash Russia. It's a tool for him.

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