Remaining 🇷🇺 friends leaving Moscow as if *it* was under attack, which in a way it is. The sense is that for those unwilling to live in a fascist dictatorship or go down fighting it, these are the last 24-48 hours to act. No comparison to plight of 🇺🇦 refugees but still sickening I'm not much of a prognosticator but this much was clear even before the invasion

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Virtuosic Zelensky speech, addressed to Russians in Russian. "You've been told I'm going to bomb Donbass. Bomb what? The Donetsk stadium where the locals and I cheered for our team at Euro 2012? The bar where we drank when they lost? Luhansk, where my best friend's mom lives?" "Neighbors' cultures always enrich one another. THIS DOES NOT DISSOLVE US IN YOU." Speaking now purely as a writer, this is a hell of a turn of phrase
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Here is the end result of my weeks of thinking about #ChernobylHBO. Basically, I am taking a pause to reassess the kind of stories I’ve been trying to tell. For the last few years, I’ve combined working in Russian film with some stabs at Hollywood. Sold a pilot to TNT, etc. Being “Russian,” most of my pitches that gained traction had to do with Russia. Spy stuff, hacker stuff.

Wow, check out the inaugural issue of Vogue Poland. You could write a damn dissertation on this cover. So here's a short one, in a few tweets. In 1998, when Vogue came to Russia, Soviet chic was the last aesthetic anyone wanted to see -- the whole point was to shed this kind of hard dour grayness and Be Like The West; now, 26 years later (29 for Poland), there's worldwide hunger for precisely this kind of grayness.