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Mar 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@yandexcom is the largest technology company in Russia and the country's second-largest search engine.

The former head of its news division, Lev Gershenzon, just made this remarkable post on Facebook, addressed to his former colleagues. My translation.
Here's the original Russian link to his post, with a screenshot just in case. facebook.com/lev.gershenzon…
Russians are speaking out.

(h/t to @ioannZH for pointing this out)
and here’s someone who quit

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Mar 3
I live-tweeted the Russian Propag--- excuse me, Education Ministry's "Russia-wide online lesson" about the situation today. You can read that thread here. In this thread, a few thoughts.
Speaking as an editor, I thought it was pretty shambolic. They didn't set the context, there was no narrative arc. It was very haphazard. By *far* the most effective part was when they interviewed residents of the self-proclaimed eastern Ukrainian republics.
Some genuinely moving moments there. Mothers talking about their children killed in Ukrainian shelling, etc. They hammered this home again and again— peaceful civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk were being shelled for years. They said 14k civilians had been killed.
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Mar 3
About to start: the Russian education ministry's Russia-wide "online lesson" about "why the liberation mission in Ukraine was necessary."

The version I'm watching is on the Ministry's page on VKontakte, the Russian Facebook clone. Not sure if it's also streaming elsewhere. Image
"Today we will talk about what will help us understand what's happening," says this... host? Image
"The space around us is full of emotions ... it's important not to get lost in all these opinions. It's important to understand that everything is more complicated than it seems."
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Mar 2
Very disturbing, if true. Murdering prisoners is, of course, a war crime. Even if they have committed war crimes themselves. Zelensky needs to nip this in the bud.

More practically — the goodwill of the entire world is one of Ukraine's top assets. It cannot be squandered.
for anyone thinking, maybe they're just saying they won't take prisoners? first of all, you can't kill people who are surrendering. secondly, they've made themselves very clear:
"From now on there will not be any more Russian artillerymen prisoners. No mercy, no 'please don't kill me, I give up' anymore. ... Whether it's a commander, a driver, an aimer, or a loader: they will be slaughtered like pigs."
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Mar 2
Everyone’s dunking on the “there are no innocent Russians” tweet, but would you dunk on a similar tweet about Germans in Nazi Germany? If not, why not? What’s the difference?

The anti-Nazi White Rose movement distributed pamphlets that said “you are guilty, guilty, guilty!”
The near-universally admired Navalny also uses similar language.

I’ve tweeted before that conditions for protest in Russia are very inauspicious. It’s true. They’re just human beings like anyone anywhere, who want to live their lives and protect their families and be left alone.
But human beings have moral agency.

I wouldn’t have phrased it like McFaul did. But don’t they bear some responsibility? Some?
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Mar 1
Every journalist has those stories they never got around to writing, right? One of mine was going to be about the boom of the Ukrainian IT industry after the Euromaidan revolution Image
I interviewed this young man, an engineer who worked for a company that had developed a device for your pet to play with while you were at work.

He and the other lovely staff in their Kyiv office, on Andriivsky Spusk, told me how excited they were to be building something…
…in their new Ukraine. Talking about finding foreign markets. Attracting talent. Simplified tax procedures.

They didn’t want to talk about Russia or war. They were excited to build stuff.
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Feb 25
Reports that a Ukrainian kindergarten, used as a shelter, was hit. I will not share the images as they’re too graphic. Absent an extremely compelling explanation - hard to imagine what it could be - this is a war crime.
confirmed by defense minister
For the love of God, if this horrifies you, demand that your government heighten the pressure. Best thing outsiders can do.
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