Current stories from it include all Russian media reporting on Ukraine now being required to only use information and data from "official Russian sources" (ie. the government) on pain of having their websites blocked and fines of up to 5 million rubles (about 60,000 US dollars).
They also include the Russian Ministry of Defence denying it has used any missiles, aircraft or artillery against Ukrainian cities or 'abandoned Ukrainian military positions'. 🙄
As well as accusing the Ukrainians of 'staging' videos of civilian casualties. 🙄🙄🙄
But the best one, which I really recommend - and as it's based in Latvia, will be fine, is Meduza. Even better: it's in English!
Quite naturally, an awful lot of Russians - many of whom will be appalled right now - will never trust Western media.
One option for them might be to compare the information from these three websites. At least the differing perspectives should give them something to think about.
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Someone just asked me how long I think the war will last. Well - it depends on your definition really.
Of course, nobody really knows... but what I anticipate is as follows.
1. Kyiv falls within days. Zelensky is likely killed. A puppet government is installed.
2. The rest of Ukraine also falls - in a manner of speaking - within weeks. But...
3. That's when the guerilla fighting really kicks in. With Russia, claiming to be in 'control', sustaining constant casualties which undermine Putin back home.
4. Western sanctions steadily ratchet up. Nobody other than rogue states recognise the puppet government; the Russian economy falls into ever greater disrepair; the already appalled Russian people become gradually more and more fed up.
2. Treating the country that's been invaded and the country that's invaded it as equivalent
3. Complaining about any support of any kind being given to the country that's been invaded
4. Referring to a dead diplomatic agreement which has been ripped up by the aggressor
5. Referring to a democratically elected government as a 'regime'
6. Citing public annoucements of entirely accurate intelligence about the likelihood of an invasion as 'pouring oil on the fire' (in other words, STWC would rather not know, cos the truth is VERY AWKWARD for them)
The statement is extraordinarily foolish and the speed of their furious backpedalling leaves me wondering if the Labour MPs who signed it even read it.
Without even mentioning the Tories' dodgy beyond belief financial dealings, it blames Britain (!) for war having broken out.
No. It was to warn the peoples of the world what was coming - and especially to counter Russian disinformation, which will manifest itself as never before now.
The intelligence said Russia would invade. Russia has invaded.
The statement also predictably blames NATO and denies Ukraine has any sovereign right to join it or any other military alliance - despite everything we're seeing today confirming why it was so frantic to join.
At this dreadful hour, I'm not just thinking of the Ukrainian people. I'm also thinking of the Russian people.
A people who are bombarded, day after day after day, with completely fake news. Which speaks in dark tones of 'genocide' against Russians in Ukraine.
Which ever since 2014, has insisted that Ukraine has been taken over by 'Nazis'.
That's despite the far right having one single seat out of 450 in the Ukrainian Parliament. And despite, too, almost all parties represented in that Parliament being pro-European.
It's even despite the Ukrainian President himself being Jewish.
The reason the appalling Viktor Yanukovych was brought down was he wilfully ignored the wishes of his people. Instead, he jailed political opponents, rigged elections, and slaughtered 100 protestors.
4. Some of whom think Jeremy Corbyn could magically have solved this crisis, like they think he also magically solved Northern Ireland
5. Insist there's only one reason for Labour's defeat in 2019, when there are very many
6. Insisted a London-based Remainer could never win back the Red Wall, yet he's winning back the Red Wall
7. Used a massive child abuse scandal to lie through their teeth and parrot far-right conspiracies about Keir Starmer, with zero regard for the victims' suffering whatsoever
If people on here know this little history, that's their problem.
The countries of Eastern Europe haven't joined NATO or want to join NATO because they want to invade Russia. It's because they want to stop Russia EVER INVADING THEM AGAIN.
They want to stop a nuclear kleptocratic mafia state ruled by an iron fist invading them. Which has already invaded Georgia, invaded Ukraine, denied Ukraine's right to exist, and its leader described USSR's collapse as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century".