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I wanted to thank the many people who expressed support for my brother who was arrested in Moscow protest #StandWithUkraine. This means a lot to us. His last message was that he was released close to midnight. I brought up his plight 1) (thread)
2) not because I see equival. in Moscow protesters' plight and of kids hiding in shelters in Kiev hearing rockets and sirens. It is to highlight the obvious-that #Putin claim that "Russian people" desire the #occupation is a sham. That he has been waging a war on his own people
3) That even prior to invading in 2014 he developed and tested during the 2011-12 anti-Putin #SnowflakeRevolution rallies sophisticated machinery of media misinformation defaming protesters as fascists and opportunists on West. payroll. On this see my and @koheiw7 et al. paper in
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The segment in the @BBC feature below is taken from a longish interview @BBCChrisMorris recorded with me about #Russia #sanctions last week. I don’t blame journalists or producers but worth mentioning that perhaps due to editorial issues it omitted the following (see thread):
1) That I began by saying this was an opportune moment to discuss #sanctions against #Russia. I was on strike supporting #UCUStrikes and colleagues on precarious contracts and protesting against #USS pension cuts.
2) That I thought the Lincoln's Inn Fields backdrop of striking #UCUStrikes LSE campus was symbolic. Some of the things I said were:
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Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat, inspired by the #PanamaPapers, is on @netflix this weekend! 🍿

But do you know where all the documents came from? Or what happened to Mossack Fonseca (the firm at the center of the investigation) after we published?

bit.ly/2o0WTgP
@netflix If you're new to the #PanamaPapers – or just didn't keep up since it was released in 2016 – this quick overview will show you *some* of the change it created.

bit.ly/2MFm7wo #laundromat
Or go back to where it all began. Our 2016 announcement about the #PanamaPapers – the world's biggest journalism #collaboration. We worked with more than 370 journalists from nearly 80 countries. (That figure has since grown.)

Here's what we found: bit.ly/2VUhujQ
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Don't have time for a real thread on this, but there has been a lot happening on the global money laundering network cases! I just have to share it! We are seeing historic transparency into the corruption of banking, politics & enabling of crimes! #ButNothingsHappening
@OCCRP & @ICIJ & other groups are breaking stories on the Troika Laundromat, another gigantic scheme to launder money from Russia into supposedly reputable banks in West who chose to not ask questions! #TroikaLaundromat
@OCCRP @ICIJ Like many others, this case has tentacles spreading around the world & leads to the deaths of individuals involved or investigating the case.
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