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Oct 1 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Wow, thought this was a photoshop, but it's legit.

As cached yesterday by the internet archive, the *official page* of the Education Ministry of Dagestan — a Russian region! — republished Zelensky's speech calling on Caucasian peoples not to fight in Ukraine.
"In his speech, he emphasized that the peoples of Dagestan should not die in Russia's vile and shameful war."

The site, dagminobr.ru is now down. A rogue employee? A hack? Or something more?

(Dagestan has been an epicenter of protest since the mobilization)
credit to @lilygrutcher for first finding this

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We've just published this story about Andriivka, a small village about an hour outside Kyiv. Please read and share.

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Aug 8
Just watched a very uncomfortable exchange on @tvrain. The anchor, Anna Mongait, was interviewing Sergei Leschenko, a former Ukrainian legislator and now an advisor to Zelensky's office.

It was a polite interview, but at the end something happened that made my hair stand on end.
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Aug 7
One of my favorite Russian poets and singer-songwriters, Veronika Dolina, just published a moving poem about how strange and alien her beloved Moscow feels, given what Russia is doing.

Normally I'd share it, but I've sort of hit my limit with wistful Russian liberal sadness.
She's made it clear from the beginning that she's devastated by the war, so it's not really about her. And no matter what happens, I'll always love the Russian language and all the great and humane things that have been written and composed in it. But...
The only emotion I feel comfortable expressing — the only one I feel is appropriate to express — is rage.

There will be time for elegiac tears later. But imagine some poet walking around Berlin in 1942 sighing about how this isn't his beloved Germany anymore.
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Aug 5
I just spoke with a senior employee from Amnesty International.

Their sum-up: “It’s a dark moment for the movement, there’s no other way to put it.”

Also: "We threw a party the Russian state was eager to attend for its own political purposes.”

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Aug 5
There's been lots of smart, strong criticism of @amnesty's Ukraine report by specialists in the laws of war (I'll link below) — not to mention their own colleagues on the ground — so I don't want to defend the report itself.

But I think it's worth pointing out a few things:
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b) A lot of the vitriol against Amnesty has the tone of "HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE UKRAINE WHEN RUSSIA IS THE ONE ATTACKING." But surely it can't work this way — it can't be *completely impermissible* to point to alleged violations committed by a defending force.
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I did a quick and dirty translation of the hyper-nationalistic screed that was posted by Dmitry Medvedev's VK account a few hours ago, and then quickly removed.

His spokesman says the account was hacked, and that he didn't write it.
That doesn't sound very plausible to me. Russian social networks are all joking that it was a drunk post. But who knows? If it wasn't a hack, it's hard to understand what the point was. A signal to hardline nationalists?
A 'cry of the soul' that was regretted as having gone too far? Or was ordered taken down? Who knows what's going on anymore.

My translation is in the rest of the thread. I did it real quick, so apologies for any errors. It's quite poorly written so I did a bit of cleanup. 👇
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