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Feb 17 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
I was surprised to discover that my whole family and I have all been banned by British police from attending this weekend's BAFTA awards where the documentary #Navalny is nominated. The reason stated: we "represent a public security risk". (1/3)
I understand the need to keep the public safe (although I don't understand how my son or teenage daughter constitute risk to the public). But moments like this show the growing dangers to independent journalists around the world (2/3).
These dangers don't stem just from murderous dictators, but also from having journalists' voices hushed - instead of amplified - by the civilized world they are trying to serve.

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Loud explosions at Russia's strategic military airfield at Engels, more than 600 km from the Ukrainian border.
Another angle of the explosions. #Baza reports at least three dead, a fire encompassing 120 sq m as of now.
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A Ukrainian drone flying 800 km through Russia undetected - twice - is mind boggling.
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Dec 18, 2022
Such an illiterate sentence. It may have two completely different meanings.
On the substance of it, this new rule is likely to run afoul of at least EU competition regulation and the Digital Services Act. There's no way a ban on cross linking (especially to newer/smaller platforms) will be legal under EU law.
Also, he either has no clue what his own rules are or he is disingenuously lying. Cross-linking to mastodon posts is NOT allowed, I just tried it. Cross-linking to TikTok or Facebook is quite okay though.
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The new and improved AI chatbot is quite something.
Omg. this is pretty good. "Write a song about @bellingcat"
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Nov 28, 2022
Russia's GRU spy was caught by the Dutch and sentenced to 15 years by the Brazilians. Now Russia fabricated a ridiculously inept criminal case against him to try to have him extradited. Read up here.
I have many nuggets from this botched-up extradition story, but my favorite must be how the police "investigator" who was told to just insert a Cherkasov into the old criminal file wasn't really told if he was a man or a woman: so he seemed to assume it was a woman:
But the funniest thing overall in this spy story (so far! more coming up..) must be the luggage tag with which Dutch authorities extradited "Victor Muller Ferreira" to Brazil. Check out the destination airport:
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Nov 17, 2022
The verdict in the #MH17 case is being pronounced, and the court is already making a clear case that the armed invasion in 2014 was controlled by the Kremlin, and thus responsible for the shoot-down. Very likely thus today's verdicts will not be the last, or most important ones.
"The court has ascertained that the Russian Federation coordinated military actions in the DPR, finanzed and provided weapons to the militants, but also undertook military actions on its own. Russia was in full control of the DPR"
The court is now leading up to the verdict, and is addressing the defense arguments. The court did criticize the prosecution over its overly public behavior but concludes this did not affect the court's ability to issue a fair verdict.
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Today it's GRU day in Russia. My personal wishes on this important day to Chepiga, Mishkin and their 100s of colleagues whose personal, and often intimate, details we now know better than their spouses do. С праздником!
.@Dobrokhotov, after 6 years of joint investigations into GRU operations, what are your 3 most memorable moments?
For me, one of the most memorable moments was when we got access to the leaked #Runtastic data of Gordienko - a trained GRU assassin. The data had his pulse history on a per minute basis - and we found his pulse spike on the day we outed him - and he had to flee from Switzerland.
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