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Mar 16 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Zelensky addresses the U.S. Congress.
No dubbing:
Just ended. Standing ovation.
He asked explicitly for a no-fly zone, and also invoked 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and MLK Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. Very tailored for Americans. He then followed with a video showing the destruction caused by Russia’s invasion. We’ll see if anything changes in Washington.
Though Ze asked again for the no-fly zone, he also stressed that less direct military support (more weapons, etc.) can also help save Ukraine.

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Mar 18
People in Moscow are leaving the pro-war rally at Luzhniki Stadium already. Before the event has even started. (They got their tickets punched, so they can split now.)
Thirty minutes into the event, and here’s the flood of people leaving. I guess they didn’t want to hear @M_Simonyan, the RT propagandist who made one of the opening speeches. t.me/sotavision/374…
The event was very well attended, thanks apparently to massive numbers of state employees being ordered to go. Official figures: 95k in the stadium (which has a capacity of 81k) and 100k hanging around outside. t.me/rian_ru/154339
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Mar 16
Putin is delivering another speech packed with all the familiar paranoia & lies. He says the “special op” is going according to plan. Kyiv wants foreign help to develop nukes. Russia isn’t occupying Ukraine. Moscow needed to go beyond Donbas. Kyiv commits terrorist attacks.
The West is an “empire of lies” (he loves this term) that wants to split Russian society with a “fifth column,” Russians abroad are persecuted, the West wants to dismember Russia. All the old favorites.
He says half the world (ie the developing world) hasn’t joined the U.S.-led sanctions against Russia, and that’s were the planet’s future lies anyway, so screw the West, etc.
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Mar 16
Wow. A couple of days ago, anti-torture activist Sergey Saveliev was arrested for trespassing on the French villa owned by Katerina Tikhonova (allegedly one of Putin’s daughters). The local cops just released him after confirming no property damage. t.me/sotavision/373…
A day or so earlier, a local French activist broke into the villa and found documents from the previous owners, Putin's former son-in-law Kirill Shamalov and billionaire Gennady Timchenko. theins.ru/korrupciya/249…
Video from inside:
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Mar 15
Here’s an excellent primer on Russia’s wartime censorship laws from the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis. I’ll add my own brief summary: a thread on the forms of punishment introduced for different “violations.” 1/9 sova-center.ru/misuse/news/la…
Administrative Code 20.3.3 makes it a misdemeanor to “discredit the use of Russia’s military in operations to defend national interests and maintain peace” and outlaws public incitements to prevent such use of the military. First-time offenses are punishable by fines. 2/9
The second clause of this administrative code makes it an aggravated offense when the first offense is combined with calls for unpermitted protests. 3/9
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Mar 15
Sources tell the sometimes reliable outlet Baza that Russian officials have decided to press FELONY, not misdemeanor, charges against Ovsyannikova, bringing the full force of the new law against her (public disinfo, not merely discrediting the military). Up to 15 years in prison.
t.me/bazabazon/10632
Meanwhile, @pchikov shares a different report arguing that she’ll face up to 10 years in prison, not the full 15. But still arguing that felony charges are coming. t.me/NetFreedomsPro…
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Mar 14
Apparently, a woman just ran onto the stage during a Russian state television news broadcast with a sign that said, “Stop the war! Don’t believe propaganda! They’re lying to you here!”
And she’s chanting in Russian, “No to war! Stop the war!”
For those saying this demonstrator will automatically get 15 years in prison: I believe that prison only becomes a punishment for “war disinfo” with repeat offenses. So for that to be in play, she’d need a previous conviction, or they’d need to charge her with 2 crimes here.
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