Arkady Ostrovsky
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The Economist, Russia Editor. Author of The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War, winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize for Books.
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My interview with General Valery Zaluzhny, a reflective and humble commander of Ukrainian army. Ukraine’s top general on the breakthrough he needs to beat Russia from
@TheEconomist
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Alexei Navalny has been poisoned. He was on the plane from Siberia to Moscow when he fell sick. The plane made an emergency landing at an airport half way and he is being taken to hospital, according to his press secretary
Сегодня утром Навальный возвращался в Москву из Томска. В полёте ему стало плохо. Самолет экстренно сел в Омске. У Алексея токсическое отравление. Сейчас мы на скорой едем в больницу
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Alexei Navalny
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Russian television is in full military swing and frenzy . Two minutes of fireworks followed by Putin’s rant about defence, followed by news of Ukrainian attack on DNR LNR and saboteurs in Crimea.
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While the world’s attention is focused on Ukraine, Russia quietly stages a de facto occupation of Belarus. Troops to stay indefinitely and oversee constitutional referendum
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Kira Yarmysh
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, Alexei Navalny’s wonderful press secretary and author detained along with other members of Navalny’s team, ahead of January 23rd protests. The repressive machine cannot move into reverse.
Слышу, как в дежурной части по рации кто-то спрашивает: «Ярмыш доставили? Но вы смотрите, не отпускайте, а то нас всех уволят». Аааа, это очень смешно)
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Alexei Navalny is hospitalized with a mysterious allergic reaction after spending three days in jail. Given the Kremlin’s history of dealing with its enemies this is very alarming and deserves immediate attention.
Сегодня утром (9.30 утра) Алексей Навальный был госпитализирован с диагнозом «острая аллергическая реакция»: сильный отек лица и покраснение кожных покровов. Источник аллергической реакции не определён. За всю свою жизнь Алексей никогда прежде не испытывал аллергической реакции>>
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in case you missed it, the biggest geopolitical story is breaking in the South Caucasus on the border with Russia, Turkey and Iran. Armenia has just surrendered in its war with Azerbaijan.
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Alla Pugacheva, the single most famous Soviet and post Soviet pop diva, an icon across the former Soviet space and particularly among the generation of Putin supporters speaks out clearly and simply against the war. This is an important count-down moment.
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@navalny
is right now being tortured by sleep deprivation. Every hour of the night a prison guard come and wakes him up because “he is inclined to flee”. This is a man who voluntarily returned to Russia knowing that he would go to jail.
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Russia stops all international flights out of the country. Land borders still seem to be open.
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Navalny is moved in secret from the penal colony where he was transferred only 10 days ago. His lawyers don’t know where he is. Meantime The EU Council of Europe demands that Russia abides by the decision of the ECHR and releases him immediately.
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@Navalny
Navalny is deteriorating fast in Russia’s jail and his health is now in a critical state, say his doctors who are still not allowed to see him.
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People are gathering on the streets across Belarus to protest against Lukashenko's blatantly rigged election which gives him 80% and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya 7%. Lukashenko has brought in the army and turning off the internet.
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Another threshold of repression passed in Russia. Liliya Chanysheva, former head of one of Navalny’s regional branches, arrested today for legally and openly working for the organisation that was RETROSPECTIVELY declared “extremist”. She faces 10 years in jail.
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My farewell to Mikhail Gorbachev. I was lucky to meet and thank him in person for the freedom he gave us.
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Putin implicitly threatens any outside power wishing to interfere with nuclear strike.
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@navalny
is awarded the highest Moral Courage Award by the
@GenevaCouncil
on human rights.
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The Kremlin resorts to hostage taking and arrests an elderly father of
@ioannZH
Ivan Zhdanov, a key member of the Navalny team who has called for a 500,000 strong protest.
У меня за выходные арестовали отца. И нет сомнений, что из-за меня. Это самое страшное для меня, что могло произойти.
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Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyev compares Navalny to Hitler, giving preference to....Hitler. Self-revealing.
В.Р. Соловьев (2021) : "Да и Гитлер был очень смелым человеком. В отличие от этого, гульфикфюрера, не косил от армии. Воевал и воевал доблестно".
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Хорошо было бы сейчас, чтобы какое нибудь российское издание обзвонило ВСЕХ главных ньюзмерков связанных с властью и попросило бы выскзаться на тему верят ли они в версию следсвтия и что вообще думают по поводу самого громкого дела Голунова, что называется for the record.
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Navalny’s wise and his personal doctor want him to to be transported to a hospital in Europe. The hospital in Omsk which is swarming with FSB refuses to provide necessary documents. Are they trying to delay it, so the toxin cannot be identified? Or worse ?
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Ten days after Navalny’s smart voting tactic undermines Putin’s legitimacy in the rigged parliamentary elections, the Kremlin launches a new criminal case against
@navalny
and his team for “extremism”. It carries a sentence of up to 10 years in jail.
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2/Russia is swapping its "mediation" for military presence on the ground and will control Lachin corridor between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. Azerabaijan gets a corridor to Nakhichevan and Turkey gets access to Azerbaijan proper. Doest not get bigger than that
in case you missed it, the biggest geopolitical story is breaking in the South Caucasus on the border with Russia, Turkey and Iran. Armenia has just surrendered in its war with Azerbaijan.
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At the end of a terrible day not just Russia but for everyone who believes in human courage and freedom, here is my tribute to Alexei. How Alexei Navalny defied Putin from
@TheEconomist
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In a mockery of justice, the Kremlin puts Navalny on trial inside a police station. a big step towards Stalinist tribunals. He is being tried for surviving an attempt on his life.
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A year ago
@navalny
flew back to Russia and made history. As the plane started to descend, he scribbled on my boarding pass: “Yo, Arkady, last time I passed notes across rows was at school. Glad you are on this funny flight going I don’t know where”.
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Navalny makes history with his speech in court. It is up there along with the words of Solzhenitsyn, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela
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Watched two main end of the week news (propaganda) shows on Russian television. Ukraine is conspicuously absent from both. No sense of mobilisation or preparation for war. A lot of trumpeting of geopolitical importance and great diplomatic status
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Putin sounds like a broken record..."it is them not us" -- but his speech normalises the war and establishes it a permanent new reality of Russian life. A forever war...
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An open letter sent to The Economist today from nearly 80 eminent writers, actors, artists, historians and public intellectuals from around the world highlights the ignominy Mr Putin is bringing upon himself and his regime.
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European Parliament has awarded Andrei Sakharov prize for human rights and freedom of thought to
@navalny
. It is a big and well deserved honour.
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The European Court of Human Rights orders Russia, a member of the council of Europe, to release
@navalny
with immediate effect
ЕСПЧ потребовал немедленно освободить Алексея Навального
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Reports of deputy head of Russia’s national guard, former Putin body guard, being arrested.
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Our report about Russia’s war crimes around Kyiv. Those who committed these atrocities believe that violence is strength and empathy is weakness. Aggression has been cultivated for years by the Kremlin. from
@TheEconomist
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War comes home. My story about growing cracks in the Kremlin's facade of normalcy.
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100 years ago
@TheEconomist
did not report the Bolshevik Revolution. Now we make up for it. Here is what we say
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Putin makes possibly one of his biggest blunders by evoking a crude sexual metaphors re Ukraine. He say “like it or not you have to bear it by beauty”. This is the language of the rapist. If there was any chance of Zelensky agreeing to some for of Minsk this is likely to end it.
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Crestfallen faces in central Moscow. A few thousand people - mostly young. Chanting “net voine”. No to war. Many detentions. Reports of 650 arrests across Russia.
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The fact that she speaks after having gone back to Russia makes it all the more important
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Putin is making a major history speech, denying Ukraine’s existence.
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After a cowardly decoy operation, the Kremlin transfers Navalny to the notorious colony No 2 where precisely nothing is allowed. Displaying his unbreakable spirit and irony he calls it "a friendly concentration camp" straight out of Orwell's 1984. Behind this irony lies Gulag.
Alexei Navalny moved to ‘concentration camp’ known for strict control
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Ясная и важная колонка
@sguriev
An important and clear explanation from
@sguriev
why attempted murder of
@navalny
was in the interest of the Kremlin.
Моя колонка в
@VTimesMedia
про то, что политические преступления Кремля указывают нам на то, чего Кремль боится больше всего. То, что делал Немцов и то, что делает Навальный - это экзистенциальная угроза для этого режима
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PS. Navalny, who was illegally detained at the border and his lawyers who were demoted access to him were notified of the “trial” 1 (one) minute before it started. Such is the fear in the Kremlin.
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This is episode 1 of our new podcast series about free thinking Russians. And my first experience as a host.
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If you have missed it, here is my piece about the exodus of Russia's intellectual elite and Russian exiles in Georgia and elsewhere.
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“Mr Navalny’s courage has captured the world’s imagination and put the Kremlin on the defensive. He deserves support. What becomes of him matters not only to Russia—a vast, talented country captured by rapacious ex-spooks—but to the world.” Our leader
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It is shame that Zelenskyy did not find any words for Navalny’s family and for all those who mourn his death in Russia, who speak against the war who support its victims, risking their life and freedom
“Putin kills whoever he wants, be it an opposition leader or anyone else who seems a target.” President Zelensky reacts to the death of Putin’s fiercest critic: “After the murder of Alexey Navalny, it’s absurd to perceive Putin as a supposedly legitimate head of a Russian state.”
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Partisan campaign: Alexei Navalny tells Russians they have a choice via
@TheEconomist
Two days with Navalny
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My interview with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, president elect of Belarus who represents her country’s transformation from a docile former Soviet republic into a sovereign nation
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Shame and fury. No other words. The fate of freedom is decided in Kyiv this night.
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It seemed the Kremlin never actually promised Putin would speak tonight. So the build up and suspense could be theatre designed to add mystery, miracle and authority to Putin’s image and an air gravity to his “fateful” decision on meaningless “referenda”
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Navalny detained at the border control. His wife and his lawyer pass the border.
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It is hard to imagine Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Putin coexisting in the same country. My interview with Navalny this week.
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Russian state TV propaganda yesterday launched its disinformation operation with a story about Ukrainian “radicals” drawing close to separatist areas and brining chemical weapons. A step closer to war.
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Navalny is handed a sentence of 2.8 years. His team calls for a protest next to the Kremlin right now
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Faced with the possibility of the largest protest in modern Russia’s history and the prospect of suffering a crushing defeat in the parliamentary elections in September, the Kremlin has responded with drastic threats of political repression.
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30 years ago, a free and independent Ukraine was key to Yeltsin’s power and his idea of a free and democratic Russia. Now thwarting Ukraine’s freedom and independence is key to Putin’s power and Russia as a version of the USSR. My essay:
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Channel One, main state TV channel, puts out a special news bulletin in the middle of the night. By doing so admitting it is an emergency.
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Belarus is yet to lose Lukashenko, but he appears to have already lost Belarus. My quick take on extraordinary events in Belarus.
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Лучший экономический доклад, который я читал послденее время
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Russians greet Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine with dismay, not enthusiasm from
@TheEconomist
my take on the mood in Moscow.
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Whatever happens next it is damaging to Putin. Won’t be surprised if they say that Prigozhin was a British spy - like Beria …
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2. Very different tone from 2014 when television had been waging a full on information war in advance of russian military offensive in Ukraine. This time anchors stressing that Putin is yet to make his decision about what to do next. A sense of hiatus.
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State television is extremely important as an indicator/amplifier of the Kremlin position
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Evan
@evangershkovich
is a wonderful person and an excellent journalist who has been taken hostage by the FSB. Out thoughts are with him and his family. The Kremlin escalates its war on truth from
@TheEconomist
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The largest anti-Moscow and anti-Putin street protest in the history of the Russian Far East, a week after Putin's phoney plebiscite, shows the strength of regionalism and the degree of discontent across the country.
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A startk, powerful and important reporting from a Ukrainian village trying to make sense of Russian occupation by the excellent
@olliecarroll
"Russian soldiers making ethical choices inside a lawless military structure that expected nothing of them."
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Fight between Prigozhin (and whoever stands behind him) and the army breaks into the open. The Kremlin and the FSB open the case for armed insurrection. This is more serious than a drone attack on Moscow. It is happening in Moscow.
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Gulag that never died. My piece about prison and fear in Russia.
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2/1 Lukashenko is pushing the country to the brink of a revolution. Judging by the Kremlin's TV propaganda, Putin decided to back him all the way. Protests is Belarus resonating across Russia.
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It used to be a popular joke that the Kremlin’s favourite response to external threat is to bomb Voronezh. Now it is not a joke
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This is bad news for Ukraine and for the peace’s process. Kurt Volker was one of the few solid and consistent defenders of Ukraine’s territorial integrity who had both knowledge and convictions
Volker’s resignation came as House leaders announced that they planned to interview him next week as part of their impeachment inquiry.
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Russia's Novaya Gazeta is coming out in two languages this week - Russian and in Ukrainian. "Putin is spinning a nuclear button in his finger like a set of keys from an expensive car..." Dmitry Muratov (Nobel Peace Prize winner).
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My friends in Ukraine and in Russia are mystified by the lack of serious sanctions! Where are they??? As Russia troops approach Kyiv, time is of essence.
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@KyivPost
horrific. but why do you call 33-year-old woman a "girl" and what is it with the photo?
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There seems to be a real disinformation campaign mounted by the Kremlin in response to the international outcry about Navalny’s poisoning and imprisonment.
"Unearthed"? I posted that photo on my twitter account years ago! The idea that I was trying to hide the fact of my chance encounter with Navalany at
@MoscowTimes
gala w/ hundreds there is silly. Of all the important issues to write about in 2021, you chose this.
#Smallness
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Sergei Zuev, Russia respected academic and head of one of the country’s top independent universities, who is gravely ill, is being taken to jail after undergoing several heart operations - presumably to force out of him a false confession in a fabricated case.
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"Россия выбрала свободу. Мы живем в свободной демократической стране где уважают права человека" Володин.
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Не дать спрятать одно дело в другом. Свободу Голунову и Волкову.
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Here is our special Christmas edition of the Intelligence. Volodymyr Zelensky first podcast appearance. It was a privilege and a pleasure.
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Here is our latest episode starring Andrei Sakharov, nuclear physicist and humanist, Maria Eismont, a lawyer, and Dmitry Ivanov, a 23 year old math student now serving 8.5 years in jail. We publish slightly later than usual - to take account of the news.
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Evgenia Berkovich, Russian theatre director, poet, artist, arrested for her theatre production staged three years ago. Lev Dodin’s legendary Maly Drama Theatre sealed and threatened with closure. This is Stalinism.
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Or it could be a sign of things going wrong. Like the Ferris Wheel that broke immediately after Putin opened it.
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The Economist on the arrest of Ivan Golunov - the most consequential political event in Russia.
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It seems that the annexation and referenda in Donbas only make sense if Putin is prepared to use nuclear weapons or chemical.
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Очень важный текст
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The poisoning of
@navalny
and threats to international peace and security posed by the Kremlin are incrementally linked. The West should pay attention - for its own sake.
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Putin announces partial mobilisation to call up reservists to fight in Ukraine
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Navalny’s team is opening the second front inside Russia, reactivating their regional network against mobilisation and war
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My story about a new wave of repressions in Russia. It was published shortly before the latest announcement from Memorial
@hrc_memorial
that Russian prosecutors have demanded its liquidation for violating "foreign agents" law.
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Flight with Alexei Navalny on board just landed at Moscow Shermetyevo airport. Diverted from Vnukovo for “technician problems” where a large crowd was supposed to greet him.
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NATO’s position of privately telling Russian officials and journalists that it has no appetite for taking in Ukraine and Georgia is what makes Putin hopeful that he can force NATO to say it publicly. He is exploiting a gap between statements and beliefs.
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