Watching #Navalny on CNN. It's nothing new to those who have followed his story, but it's great that the film features the brilliant work of @christogrozev, who is nothing less than a XXI-century, real-life Sherlock Holmes.
"It's elementary"
Really, Christo's explanations of how he solved Navalny's poisoning and unmasked his killers without ever leaving his house beats anything Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote.
Absolutely magnificent. Don't EVER get in this man's corsshairs.
When your own deductive brilliance shocks even you.
It is not I who is brilliant, my dear friend. It is the world who is dumb.
Send this Bulgarian genius to catch Jack the Ripper. Should take him all of 20 minutes.

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Apr 26
Transnistria, where I was born and raised, has been under Russian occupation since (and this is not a typo) 1992. The root of the conflict is the fact that the region, the eastern bank of the Dniester River and my native city of Bender, is mostly populated with Russian speakers🧵
The left bank of the Dniester was formerly a part of Ukraine, known as the Moldavian Autonomous SSR. It had some Romanian speakers, but the majority were ethnic Russians and Ukrainians, primarily concentrated in the city of Tiraspol.
After the war, Stalin reannexed Moldova...
(the region between the Dienster and Prut rivers, which was a part of Romania between the World Wars) and named it the Moldavian SSR. However, he detached the northernmost (Bukovyna) and the southernmost (Bugeac) parts of it and gave them to Ukraine...
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Apr 26
Here comes another long-ass Slava Russia/Ukraine-explainer thread. In this one, I would like to draw a contrast between the invader and Ukraine from an unusual yet pertinent point of view: the humor culture and the usage of humor in politics.
Believe it or not, it explains A LOT.
You may have heard that Zelensky is a professional comedian. The original source of his fame is the Russian TV show called KVN. I have a thorough explanation of KVN and Zelensky's role in it in this old blog post (from 2019). Below is the TL;DR version.
slavadoesamerica.com/a-ukrainian-jo…
KVN is a competition between comedy teams. Originally, in Soviet times, the teams were predominantly collegiate and their humor often strayed into satire. During Perestroika, KVN was the source of the most biting and fearless political discourse in the USSR...
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Apr 19
More from everyday, regular Russians.
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"The longer this goes on, the more certain I am that we need to cleanse Ukraine entirely, completely, it's the absolute rock bottom", says this young lady...
"Selling (racial slur for Ukrainian women), cheap. They stink and are dirty, but that goes without saying, just wash them in kerosene, and they will be like Russian girls. But they quack in (racial slur for Ukrainian language), but it's not a problem, just read their tongue out"
"Everyone has had fucking enough of (racial slur for Ukrainians), worthless fucking creatures", opines Alexei, and his friends wholeheartedly agree.
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Apr 19
Father of a Moskva sailor
1) posts zwastikas, "fight for Motherland"
2) son is "MIA", gov't won't say anything, how dishonest and terrible
3) Ukrainians show up and tell him what they think of his son
4) "People who call themselves Ukrainians are not human, all you have is hate"
They honestly, seriously don't get it.
They don't understand why Ukrainians are fighting back. They don't understand why they are not happy to see those who have come to liberate them from Nazism. They don't understand why they just don't give up to the glorious might of Putin.
They don't understand how anyone could be hating Russian soldiers, who are the noblest, bravest, most selfless liberators from Nazism in history. They don't understand how anyone could be so evil as to actually kill them.
None of this is registering. Russia good, Ukraine Nazi.
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Apr 17
Watching a match in New York. A bunch of Oyrishmen are here to take on the Noo Yawkahs in a game of Gaelic Fitba.
The score so far is 0-4 to 0-3 for the hosts. Image
And the hosts are down, 0-6 to 1-5. Rotten luck, lads.
Paging @CharlesPPierce. If New York wins (down 0-10 to 1-8 at halftime), will it be the greatest upset in Gaelic sports history?
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Apr 15
From Russia's Channel 1:
"Everyone must realize that what's ahead is a mobilization and a global war against all our enemies. Our national ideology is war. And the only job for us, and for our authority, is to explain to all of Russia's people this heroic image of our future."
For 20 years, Russians have been inundated with war propaganda. With a necrophilic cult of World War II. They dressed up toddler as heroic wounded soldiers. They were taught that the war was the climax of Russia's and the world's history. They were conditioned to want it again.
And here it is. It is happening. A war to let Putin rule forever and let his cronies keep stealing money. To make citizens of free countries tremble in fear of the rabid bear. To have Russian police in the streets of Kyiv, Warsaw and Helsinki arrest people for silent protests.
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