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Feb 23 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Here's a thread of pics from the protest at the Russian embassy in London tonight. Not as many people as there could be. And they seemed to be mostly Ukrainians, not locals. But I loved the multiple references to sanctions — those messages seem to be getting through.

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Feb 24
not bad
"Unsanctioned demonstrations" — those not approved in advance by the authorities — are illegal in Russia. Any one of these people could be arrested, over a hundred have already. Some of the arrests in Moscow were quite harsh today.
There's also other kinds of pressure. This message from the Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow is telling its artists not to say ANYTHING about Ukraine.

"According to the Department of Culture ... any negative comments will be interpreted as betrayal of the Motherland." Image
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Feb 21
⚠️ Putin meeting with security council just started. They are all sitting far away from him in a big room.
"We need to decide what we're going to do next," he says, his voice echoing. Lavrov is speaking now.
This manages to feel very ominous — huge pit in my stomach — while also being extremely boring
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Feb 18
Pro-separatist Telegram channel claims Ukrainians have blown up a gas pipeline near Luhansk.
Looks like a bigger deal than the car bomb earlier today. Ukrainian intelligence warned earlier that separatists had placed explosive devices around the area for false flag purposes. This playbook is boring and exposed to death in the wider world. Locally still going full-on.
!! they’re claiming this is the Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline - one of the largest in the world.

Breathless language: “It thundered across the whole city! The earth shook! The sky lit up in a bright flash! Now pillars of flame rise to the sky!”
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Feb 9
Russian journalist Ksenia Mironova is a very young woman whose partner Ivan Safronov is in prison on politically motivated charges.

She's written a heartrending and brutally honest Facebook post about her life.

In this thread, a translation of most of it.👇
"Hello. What’s it like when your partner’s in jail?

How can I say it."
"It’s when everyone says 'our friend was taken away,”'and what got taken away from you was half of you, your family, your schedule for the day, your life plans, your holidays, your important events, your future."
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Dec 22, 2021
I wrote about how @OCCRP's award-winning Serbian member center, @KRIKrs, is being persecuted through smear campaigns, death threats, and an incredible 9 lawsuits at once.

And what this says about the EU's commitment to democracy. (1/11)
occrp.org/en/blog/15706-…
KRIK are some of the best investigative journalists in the world. They have uncovered story after story exposing corruption and criminal connections at the highest level of the Serbian government. These are things the Serbian people deserve to know. (2/11)
In return, KRIK has been stalked, harassed, spied on, and threatened. Apartments broken into. And, as my story explains, lawsuit after frivolous lawsuit, which wastes time and money and distracts them from their work. (3/11)
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Feb 22, 2021
Three years ago last night, a young Slovak journalist named Jan Kuciak, who was collaborating with us on a story, was murdered in cold blood in his home. His fiancee was also shot dead.
At the time, Jan was investigating the doings of Marian Kočner, a brash and famously corrupt businessman. After a sensational trial, Kočner was found not guilty of ordering Jan's murder (though prosecutors are appealing).
But, ironically, Kočner has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for fraud — the very same story that our colleague Jan was just beginning to unravel.
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