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Feb 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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$1.1B flowed from the state budget into the pockets of ministers, police generals and judges. Now Russia claws it back.

Over 5–7 years, authorities seized 100B rubles in corruption cases.

In total, the state grabbed 4T rubles ($44B) in assets. It sold only 8%. ––Moscow Times.1/ Image
Example: billionaire Konstantin Strukov.

The state seized his gold company Yuzhuralzoloto. He had funded United Russia for years. Now he sits in pretrial detention. 2/
Mid-level officials fell too. Former Ural road chief Alexei Borisov owned: 19 land plots, 15 houses, 26 apartments, 40 commercial spaces. Authorities moved to confiscate them. 3/
Former Sochi mayor Alexei Kopaygorodsky: 50 properties, 15 land plots, 10 cars. Former Rostov transport minister Vladimir Okunev: 30 properties, 25 cars. 4/
Former head of Adygea’s Supreme Court Aslan Trakhov: 114 land plots, 26 houses, several shopping centers — accumulated over 20 years in office. The state now scrambles to manage what it seized.

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Feb 12
Putin tightens the grip of dictatorship. Russia has erased WhatsApp from its internet.

Roskomnadzor removed the Meta-owned app — used by at least 100M Russians — from the national registry, making access nearly impossible without VPN workarounds, FT. 1/ Image
It’s a deeper block than past slowdowns.

By Dec, WhatsApp traffic had already been throttled 70-80%. Now Moscow appears to be cutting access long-term — after labeling Meta platforms “extremist” and degrading YouTube. 2/
The push is toward Max — a state-designated “national messenger” owned by VK, linked to Putin’s inner circle.

Modeled on China’s WeChat, it combines messaging and госservices — but without encryption. 3/
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Feb 12
Finland’s DM Antti Häkkänen: Russia shows no will for peace. It fights, while losing heavily on the battlefield and suffering economically.

We must increase support for Ukraine and tighten sanctions. The West must show Putin we are not backing down.

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Häkkänen: Arctic defense and deterrence are about the security of the entire Alliance, including North America.

‘Arctic Sentry’ is a good start, but much more needs to be done.

For Finland, the Arctic has always been crucial to European security.

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Häkkänen: Finland is fully Arctic. Right now, the Gulf of Finland is frozen. Our 300-kilometer border with Russia is covered in snow and ice.

That border is Arctic too. And we must treat it as a serious defense zone.

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Feb 12
Ian Bremmer, President at Eurasia Group: Russia's dug its own grave. They've dug hundreds of thousands over the last 4 years in Ukraine.

They are weaker. Their economy, security, diplomacy is weaker. They're becoming a second rate state that has to follow China's lead. 1/
Bremmer: The global economy today is increasingly multipolar while the security environment is still dominated by the US.

Even if you don't trust the US as a security ally, you don't have many good options. Europeans are buying American weapons. 2/
Bremmer: When you think of the global economy, there are options. Even Canada can diversify with Europeans, Chinese, others.

Modi steps up relations with the EU and Australians and stabilizes with China. This hedge is happening in diversifying away from US trade. 3/
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Feb 12
The IOC disqualified Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych from the Winter Games minutes before his race.

Vladyslav Heraskevych's "helmet of remembrance" honors the two dozen Ukrainian athletes killed since Russia's invasion, Reuters. 1/ Image
The IOC ruled it violated Rule 50.2, which bans political messaging on the field of play.

Heraskevych: “They were killed, but their voice is so loud that the IOC is afraid of them.” 2/
IOC President Kirsty Coventry met him at the start gate and proposed compromises: a black armband or showing the helmet before and after racing.

They didn’t reach agreement. Heraskevych was stripped of accreditation and removed from the venue. 3/
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Feb 12
Sanctions have sent Russia's foreign trade to Soviet-era lows.

Exports now make up just 17.8% of GDP — the lowest in modern Russian history and comparable to the USSR's final years before collapse — United24. 1/ Image
Exports fell from 22.2% of GDP in 2024 to 17.8% in 2025. Imports dropped from 17.8% to 15.2%. Compare that to pre-war levels when exports were typically 25-30% of GDP. 2/
This mirrors 1990-91 Soviet figures almost exactly: exports were 18.2% of GDP in 1990 and 13.3% in 1991. Russia is now as isolated from the global economy as the USSR was before it collapsed. 3/
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Feb 12
Russian opposition figure Kara-Murza in WP: Russians have returned to PACE to shape what Russia must look like after Putin and to draft a roadmap for democratic transition

The Council of Europe admitted 15 anti-war Russian opposition figures, four years after expelling Russia.1/ Image
The delegates replace former Kremlin MPs like Pyotr Tolstoy and ex-ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Petra Bayr, President of the Assembly, opened the session by stating: “Russia is not only a regime.” 2/
Russia joined the Council of Europe in 1996. Membership gave Russian citizens access to the European Court of Human Rights.

Over the years, the court issued thousands of rulings in favor of Russians challenging unlawful state actions. 3/
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