One of #Time100Next this year: Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation @FedorovMykhailo, who has played a critical role in fighting Russia on the digital front, using the Kremlin's own playbook against it time.com/collection/tim…
"Previously, he was instrumental in making people see what a modern Ukraine looks like. And now, he is at the center of an effort to counteract Russian propaganda in real time" writes @vestager time.com/collection/tim…
Interesting to look at Ukrainian digital officials' early focus on credibility in retrospect.

“In a way, we are trying to protect our brand," Fedorov told me in March. "Our brand as one of an honest nation and an honest people trying to tell the truth.” time.com/6157308/its-ou…
Also on the #TIME100Next list: Oleksandr Kubrakov, who became Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure nine months before the war.

I wrote about the role he's played in a UN-backed deal that helped reopen Ukraine’s ports to countries facing food shortages time.com/collection/tim…

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Oct 2
As Brazilians vote today, a spate of politically motivated death threats, physical attacks, and killings across the country in recent weeks have raised fears of more widespread violence after the election

My latest: time.com/6218560/politi…
While violence against candidates is not unprecedented in Brazilian elections—Bolsonaro himself was stabbed in 2018 —this election has seen an unusual uptick in attacks between supporters & violent threats against public officials, ministers & poll workers time.com/6218560/politi…
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TIME's new cover: Inside the mind of Gen. Zaluzhny, a man who never expected to find himself leading Ukraine's armed forces, in his first interview since Russia invaded his country - what it says about Ukraine's military & what comes next.

With @shustry time.com/6216213/ukrain… Image
Zaluzhny was drinking a beer at his wife’s birthday party when he got the call that he was being tapped for the nation’s top military title, outranked only by the Zelensky himself.

“I’ve often looked back and asked myself: How did I get myself into this?”time.com/6216213/ukrain…
Zaluzhny rose through the ranks with a new generation of officers bridging very different eras: raised in Soviet Ukraine but eager to shed USSR military dogma and modernize Ukrainian forces from the rigid Soviet model.

Now that's making all the difference time.com/6216213/ukrain…
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Mar 8
The heads of U.S. intelligence agencies are testifying to Congress about worldwide threats to national security this morning, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Includes CIA Director William Burns, FBI Director Christopher Wray, DNI Avril Haines. Image
DNI Avril Haines says Putin's "recent and tragic invasion of Ukraine...has produced a shock to the geopolitical order with implications for the future that we are only beginning to understand."
DNI Avril Haines tells Congress Russia's invasion has proceeded like the US intel community predicted - "only they're facing significantly more resistance from the Ukrainians than they expected, encountering serious military shortcomings."
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I can’t wrap my mind around the existence of this clip.
Five years later, in a much darker world
Another surreal clip from "Servant of the People": in this one, Zelensky yells "Putin has been toppled!" (via @andrejfnovak)
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Ukraine's Ambassador to the UN read out text messages between a Russian soldier and his mother moments before he was killed. He read them in Russian.

"Mama, I'm in Ukraine. There is a real war raging here. I'm afraid. We are bombing all of the cities...even targeting civilians."
Here's a transcript of a Russian soldier's last text messages to his mother that Ukraine's Ambassador to the UN just read out from screenshots at the emergency session of the UN General Assembly
Ukraine's UN Ambassador asks assembly to “visualize the magnitude of the tragedy...imagine next to you, next to every nameplate of every single country in this general assembly, more than 30 souls of killed Russian soldiers already. Next to every name of every single country."
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Feb 27
New: EU commission chief announces it will “ban the Kremlin’s media machine in the EU,” among other measures.
 
“The state-owned RT and Sputnik, and their subsidiaries, will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin’s war [and] toxic and harmful disinformation”
This comes after Poland banned RT Thursday (following Germany’s decision to do so last month). French lawmakers asked for RT’s license to be rescinded, and British PM Boris Johnson urged the country’s media regulator to monitor RT UK for “disinformation” time.com/6151578/russia…
The EU’s ban of RT is a big deal, and could have serious long term consequences.

Previously, EU countries and the US had been reluctant to ban RT or take heavy-handed action because they feared a retaliatory response from Putin against Western news organizations in Russia.
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