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Nov 17, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
On our last and final panel @khodorkovsky_en gives us a glimpse into what he believes is the timeline of a new Russian Constitution and how the Ukrainian invasion has changed it:
"When we talk about the Constitution, the question is what Constitution are we talking about — if we are talking about the Constitution of democratic Russia, uniform throughout all of the Russian territory, then of course the war pushed aside such a Constitution and I am not entirely sure it will exist in the next 20 years.
Dec 8, 2022 5 tweets 4 min read
[TODAY IN HISTORY] Thirty-five years ago, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which reduced the number of weapons in US and Soviet #nuclear stockpiles. Expand the graphic below for a timeline of the INF Treaty ⤵ (1/5) 1987: On December 8th, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev s 🎧 Listen to a recording of Reagan and Gorbachev from the INF Treaty signing, courtesy of the Kennan Institute/@CWIHP audio archive. Reagan famously used the Russian phrase “доверяй, но проверяй” — “Trust, but verify.” wilsoncenter.org/article/reagan… (2/5)