Ukrainian officials have promoted highly produced videos attempting to drive home the visceral shock of war. They also run a Telegram channel showing videos of killed or captured Russian soldiers as a way to alert their family members and stoke anti-military anger back home.
Social media companies and media outlets in the West have also started helping Russians circumvent that censorship by using the special software Tor, which routes Internet traffic through a scattered network of servers, effectively neutralizing the website blockade.
BBC has also turned to one of media’s earliest marvels, shortwave radio, to reach Russian listeners, saying this month it would start broadcasting on new frequencies that “can be received clearly in Kyiv and parts of Russia.”
#VoiceofAmerica and #RadioFreeEurope/#RadioLiberty, is not transmitting over shortwave. But the owners of a shortwave station in Okeechobee, FL whose radio antennas tower over a cow pasture, said that they have started beaming Voice of America broadcasts over the airwaves to Ru
The world is working so hard to get Russians the real story. By airwaves, text, internet, apps, email. Not sure what Russians will do with the info, but Putin can't stop it.
The first time since 9/11 that the democracies of the world have come together with one voice.
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Thousands of Russians streamed out of train stations and airports in Europe this week, leaving behind a home country that is increasingly isolated from the rest of the world and a gov that is moving to stamp out dissent
An estimated 500 Russians are already arriving at the main railway station each day, despite difficult entry reqs. Travelers must be Ru or Finnish citizens with visa, and must have been vaxd with a vax that’s accepted by Finnish auth. That excl Russia’s most widely admin shots
That's why term limits are vital!
“Maybe we deserve it — because we allowed the dictator to hold on to power for 20 years,” she said. “Now, we’re the country of Putin.”
As a mob ransacked the Capitol Roger Stone hurried to pack a suitcase inside the Willard hotel. He wrapped his tailored suits in trash bags, reversed his black face mask so its “Free Roger Stone” logo was hidden, then slipped out of town for a hastily arranged private flight
“I really want to get out of here,” Stone told an aide. Stone said he feared prosecution by the incoming attorney general, Merrick Garland. “He is not a friend,” Stone said. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Interesting that Stone allowed himself to be filmed during this period. Proves he thought everything was legal, when he was told it wasn't. He thought they would rule the world. They didn't
The WH on Wed announced new sanctions on Belarus and Russian defense firms, as well as export controls designed to target “Russia’s refining capacity over the long-term," washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022…
America’s sanctions are expected to be more complicated than those imposed by the E.U., targeting not just the individuals but also their family members and companies they own
DOJ announced the creation of “Task Force KleptoCapture” to coord prosecutors and other federal
investigators in the effort to prosecute sanctions against “corrupt Russian oligarchs.” The task force will be led by a prosecutor with the U.S.A. Office for the SDNY and include leadership from the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, DHS and IRS, among other federal agencies.
Just last week, many European countries were still so somnolent about the threat Russia posed to Ukraine that Germany’s spy chief was caught unawares in Kyiv when the Kremlin invasion started. He had to be extracted in a special operation. washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/…
But over just a handful of days, Europe has been shocked out of a post-Cold War era — and state of mind — in which it left many of the democratic world’s most burning security problems to the US
It has been dizzying for some of the continent’s Russia hawks, especially those in
Eastern Europe who campaigned for tougher measures against the Kremlin for years but were ignored by bigger countries including Germany, Italy and France.
People are banned from trying to “trick” or “mislead” other users, violating anyone’s “privacy or publicity rights,” or posting messages that “depict violence” or include messages related to “sexual fetishes,” “sugar babies” or “sexually suggestive”
phrases. People are also forbidden from posting anything “false,” “indecent,” “misleading,” “profane,” “obscene,” “filthy” or “otherwise objectionable.”