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Feb 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Some Russians are protesting Putin's attack on Ukraine despite a total ban on protesting and immediate heavy crackdowns from riot police. Here's a gathering of about 200 in St Petersburg
A few hundred people in Moscow, where there are also reports of many arrests.
People in Moscow shouting "No to war!"

653 arrests at anti-war protests in 40 Russian cities tonight, according to monitor @OvdInfo. Most of them in Moscow and St Petersburg

@OvdInfo Quite a few in Ekaterinburg

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Feb 25
Putin claims Russia is mostly fighting "nationalists" and calls on Ukraine's armed forces to surrender.

"Take power into your own hands. It looks like it'll be easier for us to make a deal with you than this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis." Image
The whole root of the Ukraine crisis, according to Putin, is that the 2014 Euromaidan revolution was a foreign-backed armed coup against a democratically elected president. Here he is calling for a foreign-backed armed coup in Ukraine in this very video
The way Putin pronounces “banderovtsy” (followers of Ukrainian nationalist icon Stephan Bandera) makes it sound like he is taking about Ostap Bender (wily anti-hero of classic Soviet satire The Twelve Chairs)
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Feb 24
US sanctions on dollar transactions for Sberbank, Russia's largest bank by a long way, are a big deal and will be painful in the short term for the Russian financial system.

But those sanctions aren't as tough as those on VTB, which cut it out of the financial system entirely.
A few quick notes on these banks.

Sberbank was a staid Soviet-style institution before it got a new lease on life under Herman Gref, Putin's most liberal confidant. He styled it after Silicon Valley and tried to make it an example for Russian reform.

ft.com/content/3450c8…
By all accounts, Gref did a great job modernizing Sberbank – it was one of Europe's most profitable companies.

But as it became clear in recent years Putin had no interest in reform, however, its tech ambitions began to founder as well.

ft.com/content/4b5248…
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Feb 24
It’s too early to say what the Russian people make of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but he’s already lost a few celebrities. Most of these guys rely heavily on the state for their living.

A short thread.
Ivan Urgant, Russia’s equivalent of Steven Colbert (who was once on his show): “Fear and pain. NO to war.”
Maxim Galkin, singer and husband of Alla Pugacheva, Russia’s biggest celebrity:

“I’ve been talking to friends and relatives from Ukraine since early morning! I can’t find the words to say what I feel! How can this be possible! There can be no justification for war! No to war!”
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Feb 24
Putin has summoned the oligarchs for a meeting in the Kremlin later today, the Kremlin says.
Behold Russia's business elite, in the Kremlin's Hall of the Order of St Catherine, where the astonishing security council session with Putin was on Monday.

Alexander Shokhin, who heads the oligarch lobby group, is talking about cryptocurrency regulation as Ukraine burns.
Herman Gref of Sberbank – one of the few heads of major state companies and longtime Putin confidantes not on US sanctions yet – has worn a blueberry suit for the occasion. He does not look thrilled to be there.
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Feb 24
Vladimir Putin has launched a massive invasion of Ukraine.

The FT will be tracking every development with me and @NastassiaAstra in Moscow, @polinaivanovva and @JohnReedwrites in Kyiv, @HenryJFoy in Brussels, @VJMallet in Paris, and @GuyChazan in Berlin.

ft.com/content/5b4235…
@NastassiaAstra @polinaivanovva @JohnReedwrites @HenryJFoy @VJMallet @GuyChazan A tale of two speeches: how Putin's bloodcurdling declaration of war and Zelensky's heartfelt appeal for peace showed, as the latter said, that "Ukraine on your TV news and the real Ukraine are two totally different countries."

ft.com/content/0783ea…
“The Putin whom Macron met at the Kremlin was not the same as the one he saw the previous time they had met in December 2019. This Putin was more rigid, more isolated, and basically one who had gone haywire in terms of ideology and security policy.”

ft.com/content/878727…
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Feb 24
New Zelensky statement:

“Ukrainians will never give up their freedom and independence to anyone. Only we have been determining our future since 1991. But now the fate of not only our state is being decided, but also what life in Europe will be like.” president.gov.ua/en/news/rosiya…
"The Russian state is on the side of evil, but much depends on the Russian people," Zelensky says.

“Russians will choose personally which path each of them will take. For all who have not yet lost their conscience, it is time to go the streets and protest against this war."
Zelensky: "Ukraine will not surrender its freedom, whatever Moscow thinks. For Ukrainians independence and the right to live free on our land is the highest value. Russia like a suicidal scoundrel attacked our country this morning, just as Fascist Germany did in World War II."
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