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Analyst focused on eastern 🇺🇦, editor at @liberalemoderne Past @OSCE_SMM, @MoscowTimes, @warstudies n.vontwickel@greyfriars.oxon.org | https://t.co/zMH3AHOfrD
May 24, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
German supermarket tycoon Karl-Erivan #Haub might be alive in Moscow w his Russian girlfriend, a new doumentary shows. Haub was declared dead in 2021, three years after disappearing during a ski trip in Switzerland... Haub turned off his phone during his mysterious ski tour near Zermatt on 7 April 2018. His alleged Russian partner moved to Moscow on the same day after quitting her job in St Pete. She apparently lives in the flashy tower on Mosfilmovskaya 8 Image
Apr 27, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Putin has signed a decree allowing authorities to deport inhabitants from the occupied territories in Ukraine if they haven’t accepted Russian citizenship. 1/ The decre allows deportation if such a person is found to present a threat to Russia's national security - a no-brainer in today's Russia 2/ publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/…
Oct 3, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
According to @bbcrussian, Russian Duma members today voted for the annexation of four Ukrainian regions "unanimously" - but with varying degrees of presence - 413 for Donetsk, 412 for Luhansk, 411 for Kherson and just 409 for Saporizhzhia bbc.com/russian/news-6… h/t @IPreobrazensky
Sep 7, 2018 6 tweets 3 min read
Full-blown purge underway in the Donetsk "People's Republic" against the people close to slain leader #Zakharchenko and his "revenue minister" Timofeyev. New separatist strongman Pushilin fired six ministers today - including justice, transport, industry and agriculture dan-news.info/politics/pushi…