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Old Soviet joke. It's 1961. Elderly Ukrainian babushka is told the amazing news: 'The Russians have gone up into space!' She smiles hopefully. 'What - all of them?'

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@Abhyudaysarkar2 @MarkGaleotti Kharkov is what the locals call it. It's a Russian speaking city. If you believe that Russian speakers are Russian - or 'vatniks' as you insultingly describe them - is to support Putin's world view. 40% of Ukrainians - including Zelensky - speak Russian as their first language.

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@McFaul That is racist and appalling. We are not fighting for the right to be like Russia. You should know better - not all Russians support Putin. On the contrary, we should allow visa free travel for all young Russians to the free world.

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Unfortunate problem for this narrative on Georgia protests is that parliament was democratically elected - if it is ousted by a minority that does not agree that makes Georgia an undemocratic failed state and the protests a coup.

Jay in Kyiv

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People of Georgia might finally have the courage to do what Ukraine did in 2013 by ousting the Russian barbarians from their government.

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@Tendar Doubtless Kyiv air defence is doing a great job. But this video is not perhaps the best illustration of that as it ends with ... a major missile hit on Kyiv.

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Suspected Russian spies charged after major UK national security investigation - spent a decade living in Great Yarmouth. These guys really drew the short straw

Suspected Russian spies charged after major UK national security investigation

Suspected Russian spies have been detained as a part of a major UK investigation.

www.express.co.uk

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Quick note to conspiracy theorists going on about Moscow being full of cops and cameras. Crocus is, crucially, not in Moscow. Its just outside the ring road with easy access to every motorway. Checkpoints are inside the ring road not outside. That's why the attackers chose Crocus

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2 years

The stage is (literally) being set for the new show trials of Azov fighters in Mariupol. Is this the tragedy or the farce part of history's repetition?

The Moscow Times

@MoscowTimes

2 years

Russia is reconstructing the Mariupol Chamber Philharmonic Hall and plans to use it for the trials of Azov Regiment fighters who surrendered after defending the Ukrainian city, reports said.

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Funeral in Kyiv of 25 year old Canadian volunteer Austin Bercier in the Mikhailovsky cathedral. Many of the mourners wounded, on crutches. Dignified and moving.

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@tassagency_en Wow, yes! That would make total sense. Ukraine would violate the Chemical Weapons Convention in a totally verifiable way because they want to lose Western public support and NATO weaponry.

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The Russians being shot in this video are all empty handed and not carrying weapons …

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@VladDavidzon Do you know anything about Bandera?

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9 months

To everyone sharing this video of Olga Skabeeva talking about 284,000 obituaries - she was talking about UKRAINE not Russia. So this post is fundamentally dishonest - not a scales-fall-from-Russian-propagandist eyes moment at all. Beware fake news.

Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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And now, suddenly, one of the leading propagandist of Putin’s 🇷🇺 war reveals that she is shocked - rightly so - by having found 284.000 obituaries on social media in 🇷🇺. There would be duplicates, but it’s still a very high figure.

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Serhii Plokhy in the Times Literary Supplement on my book Overreach: "Matthews presents the best current analysis of the countdown to war ... Based on the author’s intimate knowledge of Russia and its political life, this is the best available account."

The Kremlin’s attempt to recreate the Russian Empire

In December 2021 I accepted an invitation from the former prime minister of Ukraine, Oleksiy Honcharuk, to attend a conference that he had co-organized at

www.the-tls.co.uk

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@rshereme Yanukovych was democratically elected in 2010 with 48.95% of the vote compared with 45.47% for Tymoshenko. Election observers from the OSCE said there were no indications of serious fraud and described the vote as an "impressive display" of democracy

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Sorry I must have been the last person on Earth to realise just how dumb and ill informed Russell Brand is.

Russell Brand

@rustyrockets

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Did NATO’s expansion play a pivotal role in triggering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

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@johnsweeneyroar Both Soviet and Chinese equipment is always date-stamped with month+year of manufacture (weirdly including clothing). Hence in this case this 7.62 Kalashnikov PK ammo produced in 1971 (or 1969, its not clear which figure is the date). So not a smoking gun for modern ammo transfer

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2 years

@JamesRWithers As a journalist you will surely recognise that Russia being "on the brink" of defeat isn't news, it's speculation. When the reporting supports the thesis, it becomes news. Retaking Izyum will be major news indeed - but even that's not the same as a total Russian collapse.

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@SevaSamokhvalov Fascinating argument but the shift is hardly tectonic - Levada's polls in March and October broadly showed a 50-50 split, with 15% of each radically pro and anti and 35% mildly so. 57% against is indeed an important shift but not a game changer - yet

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Young Japanese girl half his size throws Putin on the mat in 2000

Historic Vids

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Vladimir Putin gets tossed in Judo by a young girl during a 2000 trip to Japan

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Except that it was pretty clear that the Russians were not negotiating in good faith in early 2022 ... send Medinsky ffs as their front man to Minsk, then pathological liar Lavrov who just weeks before had sworn that there would be no invasion.

Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

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This is an incredibly damning piece of historical evidence: This is Davyd Arakhamia, parliamentary leader of Zelensky's ''Servant of the People'' party. He led the Ukrainian delegation at peace talks with the Russians in Belarus and Türkiye in 2022, a few…

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How about we leave collective punishment to Putin? Definition of a civilized country is judging people on actions not passports, race, religion or sexuality. Refusal to implement collective punishment is one of the things that makes us different from the enemies of freedom.

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@owenmatth

7 months

With the brilliant @DalrympleWill and @tweeter_anita on their fascinating podcast Empire taking about Imperial Russia's colonisation of America

Empire Podcast

@EmpirePodUK

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🚨 New episode 🚨 The Russian Conquest of America In the 18th century, Vitus Bering travelled from Russia to America. He set in motion a chain of events that would lead to Russia owning Alaska and land as far south as California. @DalrympleWill + @tweeter_anita + @owenmatth

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Trying to restore the “Russian world” by force, Putin has destroyed it. In May 2013, 80 per cent of Ukrainians said they had a positive general attitude to Russia. Last May, only 2 per cent of the Ukrainians gave that answer. Putin has done for Pushkin.

Putin, Pushkin and the decline of the Russian empire

Behind Ukraine��s rejection of Russia’s revered poet is a much bigger story of imperial decay

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Problem with starting talks now is that Putin has no incentive to compromise. As @McFaul points out, there is zero reason for the Kremlin to make any kind of deal until they know the results of the next US Presidential election. So another 15 months of stalemate, minimum.

BenAris

@bneeditor

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So definitely starting to see strong signs of Ukraine fatigue again Been kinda of saying this a while now: west has no war goal other than “Ukraine can’t lose”. “Ukraine must win” is clearly NOT. A goal. So wtf are we doing. End it now & start talks. That’s going to be ugly

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Prigozhin in an office looking ... political. Remarkably sober and fair assessment of the muddle that is Russian strategy and the strength and skill of Ukraine. He gets more dangerous the more rational he is.

Natalka

@NatalkaKyiv

11 months

Did Prigozhin switch sides or is he talking like this in preparation for the upcoming military coup? My money is on the latter. I think all will be blamed on ‘happy grandpa’ and he will be forced out of the Kremlin shortly. #Russia #Prigozhin #RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine …

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@francis_scarr Igor Korotchenko is indeed a Kremlin loyalist but he actually has a track record of being surprisingly frank about Russian military vulnerability. Worth listening to what he has to say - if he's worried, the Russian General Staff is worried.

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What nonsense - 'a rump Russia reduced to the area bounded by St. Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod would .. cease being a major geopolitical player and thus a threat to any of its neighbors.' 'Rump' = still be the largest and most populous country in Europe, with nukes.

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Motyl: "It’s time to start taking the potential disintegration of Russia seriously."

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@McFaul German politicians certainly were discussing precisely that in 1915. WW2 would have been avoided if they had succeeded in pushing through a peace deal then.

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1 year

@MuKappa You are claiming that Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a Russian 'imperialist' for pointing out that the Kremlin retained significant control of post-Soviet Central Asia? That's absurd. Why not just come out and say what you really believe: that there is no such thing as a good Russian?

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@IsabelOakeshott Umm - I count about half Union Jacks and half EU flags in that Last Night of the Proms crowd Isabel. EU membership is no more 'slavery' than membership of NATO.

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@MaxBlumenthal Max do you understand Russian? Arestovych did /not/ say Dnipro tragedy was caused by a Ukrainian SAM but that the Russian missile was shot down in flight and destroyed the building where it fell.

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@arusbridger actually as of February 2023 EU and UK e-passports work in the same gates. you are in the wrong queue. I go through every week.

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@ClarkeMicah Peter you are gross misinformed. In the wake of the Maidan the US and EU bent over backwards to KEEP Yanukovych in power till Dec 14 elex. Instead, he fled and Petro Poroshenko was democratically elected in May. The unconstitutional part was Yanukovych's rapid departure.

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Awww ... Russia missing out on European heatwave which has sent gas consumption and prices plunging across the continent. Does the weather do karma?

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@owenmatth

7 months

Nobody in this video is saying 'прикрывайте'. He's saying كويسين - kuisin in Palestinian Arabic, meaning good. You're welcome.

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@leonidragozin

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Anything is possible but you need some imagination to here прикрывайте here.

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My latest cover piece in The Spectator on the ugly reality of partition of Ukraine

Putin’s ‘peace’ is a partitioned Ukraine

Is Vladimir Putin trying to end his war in Ukraine? According to recent reports, the Kremlin has launched a new ‘back-channel diplomacy’ to reach out to senior officials in the Joe Biden administra...

www.spectator.co.uk

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2 years

Journalist and historian @owenmatth tours the Arctic settlements created to facilitate Stalin’s gulag archipelago, a constellation of populated cities and towns still around decades after the collapse of the Soviet slave labor system | @newlinesmag

Where the Russian Gulag Once Thrived, Life Remains Isolated

I spent 10 days traveling through the remains of Stalin’s slave-labor system — and the towns and cities that sprung up around it.

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1 year

Actually Zelensky did try to implement the Minsk Agreements and indeed did a deal with the L/DNR leadership in October 2019 to have a referendum on future status under OSCE auspices - but was prevented by nationalist backlash in Kyiv

Leonid ХВ Ragozin

@leonidragozin

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IMO the reason for Zelensky’s maximalism is that anything short of full victory will warrant the question of why he chose to accept the battle rather than implement Minsk agreements. What was all the unimaginable sacrifice for?

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Putin's MH17 blunder will cost Russia a trillion-dollars - The Economist http://t.co/Ozs5jOlJIZ

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@alexstubb @BernardKouchner I would say you started out with two frozen conflicts ... the North Ossetian and Abkhaz people have agency too outside great power politics.

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@McFaul Or you change generals when you are about to launch a major counter offensive - which may be exactly what #Russia is about to do, using #WagnerPMC cannon fodder as a battering ram to concentrate Kyiv forces in the defence of Bahmut.

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@OPolianichev Suggest you check your facts. Vasily Vereshchagin's 1871 painting 'Apotheosis of War' was considered profoundly antiwar and banned from exhibition in Russia. Ironically dedicated "to all great conquerors, past, present and to come." The skulls are Russian.

The Apotheosis of War - Wikipedia

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@owenmatth

1 year

More Ukrainian trains ran on time on Jan 15th than British ones. Yes, you read that right. #railway #strikes

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Don't want to be the most boring guy at the party, but yes, we had another best on-schedule day yesterday: - 97% trains departed on time - 96% trains arrived on time Yes, we are obsessed with running on schedule.

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@nicholadrummond Indeed - though in fact Prince Philip did not have any actual Greek blood. The Greek royal family were 100% German/Danish/British

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Crocus terrorists trying to escape to Belarus makes more sense than escaping to Ukraine. There is only one working border post between Russia and Ukraine and it involves long interrogation. But Belarus border is open - its a unitary state, notionally.

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@den_kazansky

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Putin said the terrorists were trying to escape across Ukrainian border However his words were denied by russian ambassador to Belarus Dmitry Krutoy. He stated, terrorists were trying to escape to Belarus. And the Belarusian special services prevented them from crossing border

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@Lyla_lilas Fake - footage reversed

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@Trollstoy88 Why is this presented as a gotcha moment? As Zelensky has said regularly in his broadcasts, Russian is a language of Ukraine too, spoken by 40% of its population as a 1st language and close to 100% as a 2nd. It doesn't being to Russia any more than English belongs to England

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Cute: @VladDavidzon reports that this wife harassed some Russian diners at a Tbilisi hotel by reading war news out loud. If she was trying to prove that some Ukrainians can be as bigoted, racist and obnoxious as the worst Putin supporters, she succeeded. Well done.

Vladislav Davidzon

@VladDavidzon

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Breaking news from Georgia: My Ukrainian wife glared at Russian couple across communal table from us at breakfast; took out phone and began to read war news out loud to me. Russian couple stood up and left after 3 minutes of listening to statistics of kindapped Ukrainian kids...

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Introducing my new YouTube show 'Cursed Questions' on the Zima Magazine channel - first interview with Alexei Venediktov has over 150,000 views and nearly 1000 comments. Take a look!

Проклятые вопросы | Алексей Венедиктов с Оуэном Мэтьюзом

«Проклятые вопросы» с британским писателем Оуэном Мэтьюзом — новый специальный проект журнала «Зима» на YouTube, посвященный России, ее месту в современном м...

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Hilariously inept Russian propaganda purporting to be an AfD-sponsored anti-Ukraine aid film. Unfortunately the producers used pretty well-known Russian actors, plus they included the line "Heil Zelensky" which, to put it mildly, would never figure in an actual German ad ...

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Russian Telegram channels spread what they say is German AfD party 'social advertising', mocking the govt support for Ukraine. The problem is that Russian professional film actors are filmed in it, like this guy, Igor Alexeev ()

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@OzKaterji @IlvesToomas "I don’t care about the life of a Russian conscript as much as I do the life of a Ukrainian civilian" You do know that conscripts have no choice but to join the army, by definition, right? Maybe you mean Russian contract soldiers, who do have a choice.

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One year on: how will the Ukraine war end? My cover story this week for The Spectator via @spectator

One year on: how will the Ukraine war end?

In early October 2021 President Joe Biden, the CIA director William Burns and other top members of the US’s national security team gathered in the Oval Office to hear a disturbing briefing from US...

www.spectator.co.uk

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@BenjaminNorton Unfortunately, the EU did not impose its model on Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq. Evidently losing their touch.

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Time to stop listening to crazy old loons like Noam Chomsky and Seymour Hersh. It's embarrassing.

Times Radio

@TimesRadio

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Noam Chomsky claims Jeremy Corbyn won an “enormous victory” in the 2017 election. @MattChorley challenges him on the facts of Corbyn’s leadership Tune to from 10am 📻

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@ChrisO_wiki Ah so targeting people because of their nationality is funny and cool? Judge people for what they do and say not for their race or nationality. That's the principle free Europeans fought and died for in the last century. This is racist and obnoxious.

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@TheNewDonbass "A number of troubled issues"??? Guys, if you're going to the trouble to make fakes like this, at least try to make sure they are written in more or less grammatical English. Ask native speaker Graham Philips to help you out, he lives in Donetsk.

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@InfoAgeStrategy I have been to Crocus many times, most recently last year. Security theatre is everywhere in Moscow - metal detectors x-ray machines security guards. But its totally lackadaisical. The emergency exits were not 'all locked' though some were - but that's sloppiness not conspiracy

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@Trollstoy88 Hate to rain on your parade but I think there may be a reason to revise those Russian tank figures down somewhat.

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Ukraine Territorial Defence Forces take trolling to a hilarious new level ...

Ukraine Territorial Defense Forces

@TDF_UA

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Our new CAPTCHA in Ukraine… Prove that you’re not a robot:

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@tunkuv Same reason Gladiator isn't in Latin?

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Sanctions are working – whatever Putin says via @spectator

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@IuliiaMendel complained. that account now suspended ...

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"After war in #ukraine we should do same with Russians" - do you propose that NATO occupy Russia? How would you set about doing that? Presumably, by fighting a nuclear war first?

Brooks Newmark 🌻 🇺🇦

@BrooksNewmark

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Denazification of Germans in 1945. British servicemen take Germans to cinema to show crimes of Hitler's Nazi regime. After war in #ukraine we should do same with Russians. Let them see the #crimesagainsthumanity Putin has committed in name of Russians. #russianwarcrimes 🇺🇦 👇

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@pravda_eng That's a pedestrian bridge in a park, and they missed it. NB - cost of single Russian cruise missile over $500,000. And they are running out

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@michaeldweiss I'm puzzled by this argument that Azov soldiers couldn't be wearing Russian-language badges. I interviewed lots of Azov, Dnipro and Right Sector guys and many were Russian speaking. And BTW many Ukrainian far right militants are Russophones from Kharkiv, Dnipro, Mariupol, Odesa

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"Putin celebrates Christmas night at the Annunciation Cathedral in the Kremlin" says press release. But there is daylight outside the window. Presumably priests did a fake Christmas service in the daytime? Putin strikingly small, alone, cornered, lying even about his churchgoing.

Dmitry Kolezev

@kolezev

1 year

На сайте Кремля: "В Рождественскую ночь глава государства присутствовал на богослужении в Благовещенском соборе Московского Кремля". Но, кажется, за окном не ночь? 🤔

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Amazingly brave guy, jailed for basic decency and good sense objection to the war. By no means are all Russians passive zombies

Natalka

@NatalkaKyiv

9 months

Dmitry Skurikhin, an entrepreneur from the Leningrad region, was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for holding a poster "I'm sorry, Ukraine." The court found Skurikhin guilty of "discrediting the army." This is a part of the speech he gave in court. #Ukraine …

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If anyone out there still harbours some lingering belief in #SyHersh 's #NordStreamBombing story listen to this sad non-interview by @MarkAmesExiled with a poor wreck of a once great journalist. Rambling, full of elementary mistakes and frankly embarrassing.

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@MarkAmesExiled

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🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE: Seymour Hersh discusses his latest scoop on Biden bombing the Nord Stream pipelines, on Radio @TheWarNerd 🚨🚨 Free & Unlocked, courtesy of our subscribers

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Long extract from my new book Overreach in The Times magazine

Inside Putin’s bunker: how he kept the plan to invade Ukraine secret

By the beginning of 2020 the only men in Putin’s inner circle were his oldest, most trusted and – tragically for Russia and Ukraine – most hawkish and paranoid

www.thetimes.co.uk

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The latest in my series of Cursed Questions - interview with brilliant Russian economist Andrei Movchan. Takeaway: unfortunately Putin can afford to fight this war pretty much indefinitely.

«Правление Путина будет сцементировано» Андрей Мовчан с Оуэном...

«Проклятые вопросы» с британским писателем Оуэном Мэтьюзом — новый специальный проект журнала «Зима» на YouTube, посвященный России, ее месту в современном м...

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Really loved appearing on the Empire podcast this week about Imperial Russia's efforts to colonise America!

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

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NEW @EMPIREPOD DROP!!! The Russian Conquest of America

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My recent talk on Richard Sorge at Google's London HQ via @YouTube

An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent | Owen...

Historian Owen Matthews joins Talks at Google to share the fascinating story of Soviet agent Richard Sorge. Once called the "most formidable spy in history"...

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My latest piece in The Spectator: China is playing the long game over peace in Ukraine via @spectator

China is playing the long game over peace in Ukraine

At the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi announced that his country was currently in consultations with ‘our friends in Europe’ over the framework of a...

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@HistoryHit @thehistoryguy Indeed puzzled from the "came from nothing" line. Buonaparte was of Tuscan and Genoese noble descent, the family lived in a palace and his father was Corsica's envoy to the court of Louis XVI.

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Banning Russian students from courses in Czech universities is dumb, racist and counterproductive. The most powerful thing Europe could do to undermine the Putin regime is open up its borders and universities to young Russians.

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Due to the invasion of Ukraine, Czech universities are banning Russians and Belarusians from certain "critical" subjects. To continue their studies, some students write letters about their opposition to the war, others switch to "noncritical" programs. By @CurrentTimeTv

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'By May Russian energy export revenues had dropped to $14.9 billion, less than half of what it had earned in the first month after the invasion' Sanctions are hurting via @spectator

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My book Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's war on Ukraine has been shortlisted for the UK's Parliamentary Book Awards

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@info1Armenia Ermenistan is just the Turkish word for Armenia, just as Yunanistan is the word for Greece. What else would you like a Turkish visitor to call it if he doesn't happen to speak Armenian? Are Greeks insulted when English visitors refer to their country as Greece not Hellas?

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Weird story. US self-described "communist and antifascist" former soldier John McIntyre joins Ukrainian army then defects to Russia which he says was always his plan. He claims that ZSU had snipers stationed on riverbanks to prevent defections to Russia. Sounds like a nutjob.

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“Overreach is a tour de force ... A must-read on the Russo-Ukrainian War and where it leaves Europe and the world" latest review in The Epoch Times

Book Review: ‘Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine’

www.theepochtimes.com

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"The reality is that the Times is becoming the publication through which America’s progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist." Essential reading on the death of non partisan journalism in the US

The Economist

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“Americans can shout about their lack of free speech all they want, but they will never be able to overcome their differences, and deal with any of their real problems, if they do not learn to listen to each other again,” writes James Bennet

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First episode of my new YouTube show Cursed Questions - an interview with Echo Moskvy editor Alexei Venediktov - just hit 200,000 views and over 1500 comments after five days. Check it out (you can switch on subtitles in right hand column).

Проклятые вопросы | Алексей Венедиктов с Оуэном Мэтьюзом

«Проклятые вопросы» с британским писателем Оуэном Мэтьюзом — новый специальный проект журнала «Зима» на YouTube, посвященный России, ее месту в современном м...

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This is brilliant - the 17th century French map which Putin cites as being evidence of non-existence of Ukraine literally says "Ukraine - Pays des Cossaques." Putin even mentions "Cossackia" as a political entity other than Russia. Putin is nuts.

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Putin is literally staring at the words “Ukraine — Pays des Cossaques” across current Ukraine on this map from 1670.

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Great review of my new novel Red Traitor in the Daily Mail - "This Robert Harris storytelling territory and is told with equal panache and authenticity. There could be no higher praise."

THRILLERS

RAZORBLADE TEARS is as close to a thriller masterpiece as it is possible to get, and a worthy successor to Cosby's stunning debut, Blacktop Wasteland.

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Dan Hannan in The Washington Examiner: "The first major book about the conflict, Overreach gives an eerie insight into the thinking of the men who made the war"

What terms should we impose on a defeated Russia? - Washington Examiner

Vladimir Putin is right to see the Ukrainian war as a titanic struggle against the West. Not, of course, in the sense that NATO provoked the war. Far from pushing for confrontation, Western leaders...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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@afneil Absolutely correct @afneil . My son recently broke his arm in Rome, was seen by three doctors, reset and plastered and home in 3 hours at S Carlo di Nizza. We paid 68 euros. Wait time to be attended was 2 minutes.

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My one-way ticket out of Moscow via @spectator

My one-way ticket out of Moscow

Things fall apart. Moscow friends call to say that I have to urgently send my 19-year-old son out of Russia. He is travelling on his Russian passport and a new law says that he is obliged to register...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Putin needs to change the cast of extras he uses in his photo shoots ... they are becoming almost as familiar to viewers as he is himself

Darth Putin

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Day 312 of my 3 day war. I will be remembered as great patron of Russian theatre who provided work for so many actors. I remain a master strategist.

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My latest in The Spectator: Yevgeny Prigozhin was a dead man walking

Yevgeny Prigozhin was a dead man walking

Yevgeny Prigozhin died, as Macbeth almost said, as one that had been studied in his death. In the last three minutes of its existence, Prigozhin’s private Embraer Legacy jet climbed fast towards the...

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"A fascinating biography ... Owen Matthews tells the story of Sorge’s extraordinary life with tremendous verve and expertise and a real talent for mise en scène ... vividly alive and richly authentic."

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yes ... because the way for Hersh to signal his seriousness is a legendary investigative reporter = to spend hour talking to Mark Ames. Re: My Lai, respect. But that was 50 years ago. Since Hersh denies AQ behind 9/11. With added conspiracy theory re why Sy denied 2nd Pulitzer

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Wow. Just spent hour in the pub listening to @MarkAmesExiled talk to Seymour hersh about his bombshell scoop: USA blew up NS1&2 MUST LISTEN At so many levels. Massive story. Old skool journo doing his ting. All the presidents men level investigation. Marks best since rus days

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@TimothyDSnyder I wish it were actual reporting rather than sloppy hearsay. Understand anonymising sources but this is frustratingly light on specifics - which officials got hit, stabbed etc, where and when, where were these supposed partisan attacks? This is a confection of unsourced rumors.

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Ukrainian stab-in-the-back narrative taking shape

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Повільний Наступ/A Slow Advance (animation)

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@Margageek Ah so targeting people because of their nationality is funny and cool? Judge people for what they do and say not for their race or nationality. That's the principle free Europeans fought and died for in the last century. This is racist and obnoxious.

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"An extraordinary account" - Dominic Lawson's review of my book Overreach in today's Daily Mail

A disturbing portrait of how Putin's propaganda is working

Readers of this newspaper will know the name of Owen Matthews, a veteran Moscow correspondent, from pieces he has written about Russia and Ukraine.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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White Fox, the third and final instalment of my Black Sun trilogy, named as one of the FT's Thrillers of the Year :))))

Best books of 2023 — Thrillers

Adam LeBor selects his must-read titles

www.ft.com

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Brilliant from Oliver Carroll: Inside the Bloody Battle for Ukraine's Donetsk Airport http://t.co/PbG8q9nZjL

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amazingly this is not in fact a Monty Python sketch but a documentary

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@JuliaDavisNews Leonid Kalashnikov is of course wrong that it was Gorbachev that signed the first Soviet nuclear test ban treaty - that was in fact Khrushchev in 1963. The last atmospheric nuclear test was the 55 megaton RDS 220 in Novaya Zemlya on Oct 30th 1961

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