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Journalist | Currently at @JSKstanford | Co-founder @Codastory & @zegfest (check us out!) | past life: BBC foreign corr in Central Asia, Mid East,US,India

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@antelava
natalia antelava
7 months
As AI takes over more of our lives and more of us retreat into our individual bubbles, that shrinking shared space we call our “public square” is ever more crucial to preserve. Journalism can help us save it, but only if we separate it from the news cycle.
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@antelava
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3 years
In Tbilisi tonight #Ukraine
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5 years
“Theresa May has resigned” announced George Galloway. “Let me give you a hug,” Steve Bannon replied. I pulled a camera out just as they let go of tight embrace but here is the far right and far left very much on the same page in Almaty #Kazakhstan
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Here’s she is: the beautiful, talented, generous & ever inspiring Victoria Amelina reading poetry at the Kyiv Book fair just two days before she was hit by a Russian missile. Monsters.
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4 years
“Alexey is not afraid. I am not afraid. You shouldn’t be afraid either” says #Navalny ‘s wife before getting into car to leave the airport without her husband. What a story.
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@antelava
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5 months
That’s right. We are witnessing an epic failure by legacy media to report from the frontline of global backlash against rising autocracy which is endangering free speech and media everywhere. No quality reporting = stronger conspiracists & disinfo = autocrats win.
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Beefeater
5 months
This should have been the front page of every credible media source. About half a million protestors have gathered in Tbilisi, with a population of 1 million, chanting "Yes to Europe" and "No to the russian law."
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2 years
just chatted with a Russian woman in Istanbul airport who was weeping from happiness about the “liberated territories” in Ukraine. “I normally stay out of politics, but finally these people are free!”… a housewife who lives in Spain, on way home to visit parents #UkraineWar
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@antelava
natalia antelava
3 years
RIP @oksana_baulina . Oksana was brave, fun and fierce. Before she came to @CodaStory to take on a project that exposed Putin's dangerous re-writing of history, she worked with Navalny production team, exposing Putin's corruption. Honor her by sharing stories she wanted to tell.
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@CodaStory
Coda Story
3 years
All of us at Coda are devastated that our brave colleague Oksana Baulina was killed in Kyiv. Oksana was the journalist behind Generation Gulag, which documented the dangerous re-writing of history in Putin’s Russia. Please watch and share her work.
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natalia antelava
6 years
A Georgian condom manufacturer marks the tenth anniversary of August war with Russia with this special edition of their product
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@antelava
natalia antelava
3 years
What made Putin truly powerful was not the narratives he molded or territories that he grabbed. It was the complacent, stubborn refusal of the collective West to accept that he was at war with them.
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natalia antelava
5 years
Remember those days when we used to laugh at daughters of Central Asian dictators ?
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Karen Tumulty
5 years
Let's imagine what the reaction would have been if @ChelseaClinton had done this:
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natalia antelava
5 years
Extraordinary: Russian MOD just put out a threatening statement against @LaStampa journalist @jacopo_iacoboni . Jacopo and I just worked together on the story below. He pissed Russian officials off so much that MOD now tells him 'Who digs the grave, crashes into it". 👇
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Coda Story
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Russia is using the #coronavirus crisis to carry out an “unimaginable” influence operation in a NATO country. An investigation by @codastory and @LaStampa
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@antelava
natalia antelava
3 years
Not only framing of this conversation was off. It was also deeply disturbing to have been invited to the @BBCRadio4 Media Show to be constantly interrupted and cut off & then find parts of my answers cut out of subsequent broadcasts. Here’s one example
@carolecadwalla
Carole Cadwalladr
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This is so bizarre. This week’s @bbc Media Show asks ‘Why are Russian oligarchs only now in the spotlight?’ & ‘Why is it only now that the mainstream press has put the oligarchs in the spotlight?’ WHAT?!? We at @guardian & @ObserverUK did. The problem is @bbc NEVER followed up
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natalia antelava
5 years
In Russia official #covid19 numbers are low but 5 Russian virologists contacted by @codastory described overwhelmed respiratory wards, shortages of protective gear + severe delays in testing. All five declined to go on the record, for fear of retribution.
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natalia antelava
11 months
When you discover that your 10 year old has been secretly messaging @taylorswift13 on behalf of Ukraine 🇺🇦
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natalia antelava
7 months
This tweet is suddenly having a bit of a comeback
@antelava
natalia antelava
5 years
“Theresa May has resigned” announced George Galloway. “Let me give you a hug,” Steve Bannon replied. I pulled a camera out just as they let go of tight embrace but here is the far right and far left very much on the same page in Almaty #Kazakhstan
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1 year
Flights from Moscow full and Georgia border is suddenly looking busy …
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natalia antelava
3 years
"There is no explanation, no military target in sight, this is not a strategic town" chilling, heart-wrenching piece by @MarquardtA #UkraineRussianWar
@MarquardtA
Alex Marquardt
3 years
In a village south of Kyiv we met Ihor Mozhaev picking through the rubble of his home after a Russian air strike Friday. He lost 5 family members, including his wife and 12yo daughter. "Just leave Ukraine alone already. God help this to end as soon as possible." (W/ @gultuysuz )
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natalia antelava
1 year
Hate writing pieces about colleagues. But the recent @VICENews exclusive from Russia is a masterclass on how to become a tool in someone else’s disinformation game
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natalia antelava
3 years
This is Lekso Lashkarava. One of 53 journalists beaten by a far right mob while trying to cover @TbilisiPride .Lekso was operated on & recovering but this morning he died. No official cause yet but what we know is that his attackers were encouraged by the church and the government
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natalia antelava
2 years
“As genocide as it gets” says genocide scholar
@eugene_finkel
Eugene Finkel
2 years
As a genocide scholar I am an empiricist, I usually dismiss rhetoric. I also take genocide claims with a truckload of salt because activists apply it almost everywhere now. Not now. There are actions, there is intent. It's as genocide as it gets. Pure, simple and for all to see
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natalia antelava
3 years
Speechless. Phenomenal sense of moral clarity is right. And humanity. We worked together on one of the best projects @CodaStory has ever done: Generation Gulag. Will share some of the amazing work later...for now just speechless
@Alexey__Kovalev
Alexey Kovalyov
3 years
And now it's someone I've known for 16 years and worked with at several independent outlets. Oksana Baulina, a Russian journalist with phenomenal sense of moral clarity, killed by Russian rocket fire on a reporting mission in Kyiv today. I'm yet to process this.
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natalia antelava
3 years
This is Europe 2022. Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee across #Kyiv by crossing the Irpin river. Saturday, March 5, 2022. #Ukraine #UkraineUnderAtta сk #UkraineRussianWar by @EmilioMorenatti / @AP
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natalia antelava
3 years
#Ukraine ️ is not trending on Twitter in the UK anymore. The war is disappearing from our social media feeds. But no, it’s not over and this raises questions for big tech platforms that we can’t afford to leave unanswered.
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natalia antelava
5 years
It wasn’t a handshake it was a hug. It wasn’t a debate, it was a full mutual agreement on stage. Bannon did disagree with you once - you didn’t disagree with him at all. At lunch you got up six times to show Bannon smth on your phone. So let’s not pretend none of that happened
@georgegalloway
George Galloway
5 years
If you think I shouldn’t debate with the man who ran @realDonaldTrump presidential election and who continues to influence the White House you’re too stupid to be on my timeline. If you think I shouldn’t shake hands with those I’ve just debated with you’re too ill-mannered to be
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3 years
Incredible video
@PjotrSauer
Pjotr Sauer
3 years
A Russian pilot tells passengers that he believes “the war in Ukraine is a crime,” adding “I think each sensible citizens will agree with me and will do everything to make it stop.” Rare to see public opposition to the war given the consequences such a statement will have
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natalia antelava
3 years
Love this. Vitaly Kim, the hip governor of Mykolaiv region, where fighting has been intense, at Putin's infamous table #UkraineRussianWar
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@Koshman
Sergiy Koshman
3 years
This is one of #Ukrainian heroes. Mr. Vitaliy Kim is of Korean descent, and is currently the governor of #Mykolaiv Region. There is a heavy fighting against #Russians in his area, but he stays positive, calm and constructive. Lets make him famous!
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natalia antelava
4 years
Just as you thought things couldn’t get more confusing: ABC shows voter lines in Georgia the country while talking about #GEORGIA count. Georgians delighted, take to social media, demand a say in the #Elections2020 😂
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natalia antelava
1 year
Abuse of UK’s libel laws means the game is rigged and all journalists are vulnerable “I hope everyone can look at what has happened to @carolecadwalla and recognize this is a sign of a system that is broken.” Says @OliverBullough
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Coda Story
1 year
"If you get it wrong, and you offend someone prepared to take you on, your life as you know it is over." In this week's Oligarchy, @OliverBullough looks at the exorbitant cost of libel litigation in the UK.
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natalia antelava
2 years
The curse of « former ussr » … Would @nytimes describe Kenya as a “former British colony”? Words matter so enough already
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natalia antelava
3 years
This video of Uzbekistan Victory day celebration is straight out of a @Aiannucci film. Couldn't make it up.
@tvrain
Дождь
3 years
На «Дне памяти» в Узбекистане военные не смогли определиться с тем, как выразить дань уважения гимну страны — отдать честь или приложить руку к сердцу. Выглядело это комично
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natalia antelava
7 months
Navalny was a genius when it came to tech. And he had a crazy, innovative plan for using it to stand up to Putin. But @apple and @Google took Putin’s side and so the whole plan collapsed. How Big Tech Let Navalny Down ⬇️
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natalia antelava
3 years
I think what made Putin truly powerful was not the lies he told, narratives he molded or territories that he grabbed. It was the complacent, stubborn refusal of the collective West to accept that he was at war with them. #UkraineRussiaWar #RussiaUkraine
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natalia antelava
3 years
Mind blowing on so many levels, including how Lukashenka just created a whole new reality for so many dissidents around the world. A simple act of flying from one safe country to another is no longer safe if you are flying over a dictator who does not like you. Insane
@iyad_elbaghdadi
İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
3 years
A commercial flight was flying from Athens to Lithuania, a flight path that has it fly over Belarus. While in Belarus's airspace, it was intercepted by military jets and forced to land, because there was a journalist from Belarus on board who is wanted in the country
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natalia antelava
1 year
No one can spin it like Putin: newsrooms across Africa are covering Putin’s generous decision to write off the continent’s 20 billion USD debt. Except… the “debt” has been written off again and again. Details in @CodaStory ’s Disinfo matters. Do sign up
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natalia antelava
3 years
You can watch the whole thing but you won't hear the bit where I talk about Lebedev & Lukashenko going off for a private meeting after the interview. It was cut out from the program even tho it was in my Newsnight report at the time
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natalia antelava
3 years
Tbilisi tonight #UkraineRussiaWar
@MtavariChannel
Mtavari TV
3 years
Rustaveli avenue in support of Ukraine | Tbilisi, Georgia ✊🇺🇦🇬🇪
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natalia antelava
9 years
Amazing image of hippo led thru the streets after #tbilisiflood destroys city zoo http://t.co/WfCLpmtnPn
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natalia antelava
3 years
And to understand why it is so difficult for the British establishment (including, tragically the BBC) to tackle this hugely important subject of kleptocratic influence sign up to @OliverBullough 's brilliant Oligarchy newsletter for @CodaStory
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natalia antelava
3 years
I can think of so many parties, conferences, gatherings where over the years my take on Russia and dangers of its imperial ambition was met with a condescending “let’s not go crazy here”. @edwardlucas explains the price of that attitude brilliantly 👇🏼🧵
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Edward Lucas
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Today’s Mail on Sunday
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natalia antelava
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BS: “How could you reach me? How did you get the information?” UM: “Look, we know each of you. We have a database of your soldiers. We have telephone numbers, names, surnames, dates of birth — we know everything about you, you get it?. If you go forward, you will all die here.
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Michael Weiss
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NEW: Ukrainians are using hacked phone data to warn Russian (and Belarusian) troops to stay out of their country. Some of the Russian replies are… something.
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natalia antelava
3 years
Keep staring at these two images. One from #Chuhuiv near #Kharkiv today another from Georgia in 2008. We've had all the signs all along and there were so many opportunities to stop him. And now it's too late. #Ukraina #UkraineRussia #UkraineRussiaWar
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natalia antelava
5 months
It’s easy to focus on the tedious side of Brussels and take European values for granted when you are on the inside. But change your angle and it’s a whole different story. Georgia is really the best advertisment for the power, the appeal and the promise of Europe.
@EtoBuziashvili
Eto Buziashvili
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Before I’ll tell you why my fellow Georgians and myself are at the anti-Russian, anti-govt protests already 10 days in a row, I want to highlight that we kicked off ourmassive rally today with the EU and Georgian anthems. 1/10
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natalia antelava
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Victoria Amelina now “enters the history of Ukrainian literature – a tragic history filled with unfinished books.” Fellow Ukrainian novelist @AKurkov ’s heart-wrenching tribute to a spectacular human being murdered in Ukraine
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natalia antelava
3 years
@BBCRadio4 Media Show also undermined @AdamBienkov 's investigations as well as @pcaruanagalizia 's excellent reporting on Lebedev. Listeners could tell. Check out this email I received from a stranger:
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natalia antelava
5 years
It won’t make headlines but Russian soldiers just occupied a bit more of Georgia, yet again. “Creeping occupation” is real and it’s scary. @CodaStory teamed up with brilliant Georgian photographer Tako Robakidze to tell this story.
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@antelava
natalia antelava
5 years
The death dance of democracy has begun again, just like in the 20th century, by painting human rights, freedom of the press, judicial independence, science and art to be political questions. By portraying facts and reality as a matter of threatened identity.
@anneapplebaum
Anne Applebaum
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Hungary is lost. And the EU - and the US - did nothing to save it.
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natalia antelava
1 year
Overheard in a Kyiv cafe today: “I bet (whatever is happening around Putin now) is straight out of the Death of Stalin”
@Aiannucci
Armando Iannucci
1 year
You tell me!
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natalia antelava
5 years
I feel physically sick watching #Chernobyl . Nauseous from ugliness of the country I was born in but even more sickened by the anger that 33 years on and it took outsiders to make this film. Exactly how I felt when I watched @Aiannucci ’s Death of Stalin
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natalia antelava
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April 9,’89 is imprinted into memory of every Georgian.Soviet tanks rolled into Tbilisi, killing & wounding pro independence demonstrations. 35 years on, a note on the victims memorial amid fresh anti Russia protests “mum, I am exactly where you were on the 9th of April” 😍💔💪
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natalia antelava
4 years
CNN right now "this is the United States of America. This is not Belarus". Never thought I'd live to hear this #Elections2020
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natalia antelava
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@ClaireBerlinski
ClaireBerlinski.substack.com
3 years
I love it that The NY Times decided to get a quote from a psychologist in Kyiv and got this one:
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natalia antelava
3 years
When people ask why countries like Georgia or Moldova want to join NATO instead of sticking to whatever other security structures are available in the neighbourhood...well this is why. What a mess
@Euan_MacDonald
Euan MacDonald
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@antelava Ukraine intercepted report - Russian comms have broken down, so they’re using mobile phones with local SIMs to communicate - easy to intercept for the Ukrainians.
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natalia antelava
3 years
We were the last journalists in Mariupol. Now there are none. Everyone must read this. #UkraineRussiaWar #Ukraine
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natalia antelava
3 years
The #Ukraine national anthem sends chills down my spine each time I hear it. It goes: Our enemies shall vanish Like dew in the sun; We too shall rule In our beloved country. Soul and body shall we lay down For our freedom look up the rest #UkraineRussianWar
@TsybulskaLiubov
Liubov Tsybulska
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Many of us are forced to live in bombshelters and subway stations now. Forced by Russia’s extreme inhuman cruelty. Our national anthem has become even more special to us in the last few weeks. Kharkiv.
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natalia antelava
3 years
Agree. Like everyone else I am hugely inspired by this show of super human courage but have a massive knot in the stomach thinking about what cornered and already unhinged Putin will do next #UkraineUnderAttack
@drfarls
Robert Farley
3 years
I'm seeing way too much optimism about Ukraine right now. Which I feel too, but it's very early and Russia has a very large army.
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natalia antelava
3 years
lol
@StanphylCap
Stanphyl Capital
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@NicDawes @antelava It's great to see a car from Georgia flying the UKRANIAN flag instead of the CONFEDERATE one!
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natalia antelava
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I was not the only one whose critical comments about Lebedev were quickly shut down throughout the show, while Lionel Barber was able to speak in his defence without the host offering any alternative views or allowing other guests to come in on it.
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natalia antelava
3 years
This war is causing a massive political crisis in Georgia, where the government is effectively a proxy for Russia while people are overwhelmingly on the side of #Ukraine . Throw in 30k Russians fleeing sanctions who are not welcome and you get one big mess #UkraineRussianWar
@achkhikvadze
Ani Chkhikvadze
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Georgia’s seen around 30K Russians going in the country, debates follow whether or not to allow them in, since it’s hard to figure who is fleeing because of sanctions or because of persecution. Mixed feelings. Seen takes that later Russia will invade to “protect its population”.
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@antelava
natalia antelava
2 years
Amazing images from iran
@ianbremmer
ian bremmer
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stunning video coming out of iran in mahsa amini’s hometown of saqez, thousands ignore govt road closures to walk to her gravesite 40 days after her death in the custody of iran’s morality police
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natalia antelava
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“I have a memory of Oksana in a small, quiet moment in St. Petersburg while filming one of the Gulag survivors, Irina Verblovskaya.I remember Oksana taking the time to carefully comb through Irina’s hair before we started rolling.” 🧵
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@antelava
natalia antelava
5 months
Really strong piece from @paraicobrien in Tbilisi. Bravo to @Channel4News for leading their bulletin with it. In Georgia democracy is being assassinated in front of our eyes, its consequential far beyond its borders
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
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Crowds of protesters have gathered again in Georgia's capital, after police broke up demonstrations outside the parliament building. @paraicobrien is in Tbilisi.
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@antelava
natalia antelava
3 years
Oksana Baulina was killed in Kyiv by a Russian missile strike on March 23. She died documenting the real world consequences of the historical revisionism she reported on for @CodaStory . Read this tribute by @katia_patin
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natalia antelava
1 year
My fave so far …
@berlin_bridge
Jessica Berlin
1 year
Meanwhile in Ukraine
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natalia antelava
4 years
Here is the scene in Tbilisi right now. Woman next to me “I am afraid of Covid but I am not letting this government steal my vote’ another massive anti government protest
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@antelava
natalia antelava
3 years
Thank you everyone for your messages. Andrew was in Kabul working for the UNHCR & trying to help the people of Afghanistan. We are extremely concerned for his safety & call on anyone with influence to help secure his release.
@Refugees
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Two journalists on assignment with UNHCR and Afghan nationals working with them have been detained in Kabul. We are doing our utmost to resolve the situation, in coordination with others. We will make no further comment given the nature of the situation.
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natalia antelava
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Tbilisi last night. What you can’t see is the rain. As one friend put it “It rained but not a drop could hit the ground, that’s how close together we stood”. Incredible determination & courage esp against the violence the government has unleashed #TbiliProtests
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natalia antelava
5 years
Day 10 of #TbilisiProtests and more keep coming
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natalia antelava
2 years
So many great things about #Georgia protests, including these amazing slogans. The Georgian one (addressing the government) reads “smoke and sirens is what we go to nightclubs for, you dicks” 🤣💪
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natalia antelava
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Read this thread by the man who is a target of Putin's "denazification" #UkraineRussianWar 👇
@DmytroGurinMP
🇺🇦 Дмитро Гурін, нардеп
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1/I am a member of the Ukrainian Parliament. My parents are now in Mariupol, in a district with 150,000 residents that was razed to the ground.
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natalia antelava
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I keep hearing accounts from non-Ukrainian/non white refugees - specifically students from Yemen and Nigeria - who are not being allowed to enter Poland. This is outrageous #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar #UkraineInvasion
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natalia antelava
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We like to blame others for the disinformation crisis: hostile states, algorithms, big tech, pseudo journalists. But when real journalists break basic journalism rules they too become part of the disastrous information disorder. Case in point ⬇️
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@antelava
natalia antelava
2 years
Every war is a test for tech. Among tech being tested in Ukraine: killer robots! This brilliantly reported @IlyaGridneff piece comes with a warning from @DanielFiott : high-tech solutions should not come at the expense of conventional arms deliveries
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@antelava
natalia antelava
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Russia’s war in Ukraine shows that lack of historical reckoning creates space in which lies can thrive. But what sorts of confrontation with the past is truly successful? @E_Hellerstein finds unexpected answers in Germany & the US
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natalia antelava
3 years
Thank you everyone for your messages. Andrew was in Kabul working for the UNHCR @Refugees trying to help the people of Afghanistan. We are extremely concerned for his safety & call on anyone with influence to help secure his release.
@pdanahar
Paul Danahar
3 years
@AmrullahSaleh2 Andrew North is working for the UN in Kabul. He is a former colleague and a respected journalist. All inquiries about his situation, which his friends and colleagues are obviously concerned about, should be directed to the UN. Please correct your tweet.
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natalia antelava
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“My captors waited in the van with me, watching Russian TikToks for hours on end. Honestly, that was almost worse than the beating.” Amazing first person account of events in Georgia from Luka Gviniashvili for @CodaStory
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natalia antelava
4 years
Lord Evgeny Lebedev 🤦‍♀️ Qualification: son of a Russian oligarch. Bright side: all of the other oligarch children at Eton now have a role model. To understand how it screws the rest of us sign up to Oligarchy newsletter by @OliverBullough
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natalia antelava
1 year
I am SO thrilled by this news! And so grateful to everyone who has worked to bring Nika’s case to global attention including @mariaressa @julieposetti @carolecadwalla & @lvzwestcott of @pressfreedom for at @TbilisiZeg . 🙏🏼 and welcome back @NikaGvaramia212 #JournalismIsNotACrime
@NikaGvaramia212
Nika Gvaramia
1 year
Fighting for justice always brings results & the truth always prevails! The Georgian president has just pardoned Nika from his unjust & politically motivated imprisonment! Thank you friends for all your support ❤️ As Nika puts it, now "onwards until the final victory!" -S
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natalia antelava
11 months
The world is too busy to pay attention but what's happening with tens of thousands of Afghans that are being deported from Pakistan is heartbreaking
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BILAL SARWARY
11 months
An Afghan boy epitomises the sad and forced deportation of Afghans by the Pakistani state. These days shall pass too.
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natalia antelava
2 years
Most mesmerizing video ever …
@maria_avdv
Maria Avdeeva
2 years
Some soldiers carry stolen washing machines with them. Others carry pets in their backpacks. Guess who's gonna win this war.
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natalia antelava
2 years
Police has used violence in Tbilisi, but then there are great photos like this (not mine!) that show: policemen are also part of the extraordinarily strong, non-negotiable consensus that’s at the very core of the society in #Georgia : freedom is sacred and Europe is freedom 🇬🇪
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natalia antelava
2 years
"if I’m honest, I celebrate every incinerated Russian tank. I tried to think about the soldiers inside them at the start of the war but I lost that moral battle by week two." Every line in this painfully honest piece by @peterpomeranzev is a pull quote.
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@antelava
natalia antelava
8 years
Wow Sputnik is not even pretending anymore. Hashtag use especially telling
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natalia antelava
6 years
Babchenko now: they came to me about a month ago, told me: your killing been ordered, the money has been paid.They showed me evidence and I understood that it was coming from Russia, probably from state security apparatus they offered me to take part in this sting operation
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natalia antelava
3 years
is this real?!?
@christogrozev
Christo Grozev
3 years
Jesus, Ukraine just killed Gen. Maj. Vitaly Gerassimov, chief of staff of the 41 Army. At Kharkiv. Russia, if you're listening: delete your army.
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natalia antelava
3 years
If our policy is to stay in our safe warm house and watch this slaughter through the window, toasting our newfound unity — then we have already accepted that it is Putin who defines us, not ourselves. #mustread from @MollyMcKew
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Molly McKew
3 years
There is no way back. If we want the war with Putin to end, we must see why the Ukrainians have defied all expectations, and learn to think as they do. We must learn to see not only risk, but the opportunities born by taking them. Via @RenewGreatPower
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natalia antelava
5 months
This photo is NUTS
@Mikiashvili_M
Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
5 months
What a photo! ✊🏻🇬🇪🇪🇺 #NoToRussianLaw #TbilisiProtests #Georgia 📷 Dima Zverev
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natalia antelava
5 years
So @FT ’s @lionelbarber just gave the world’s top thug a platform without challenging him once on things that matter to him.Ukraine?MH17? Not a mention. You got him to say liberalism is dead except your failure to challenge him on helping it die is part of the reason he is right
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natalia antelava
2 years
Truth wins.Can’t watch this without tears.Manila court rules in favor of @rapplerdotcom & @mariaressa . Huge win for them, for the Philippines, for all of us who believe in journalism & free expression. Many more battles ahead but hope Maria & her amazing team pause to celebrate
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natalia antelava
5 years
with memories of #Salisbury still fresh, a site of russian NBC troops in the EU rang alarm bells for many. Chemical weapons experts I spoke to say Russia's NBC unit is believed to overlap with military intelligence (GRU)
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natalia antelava
3 years
And this video of Oksana combing Iryna’s hair …
@katia_patin
Katia Patin
3 years
My favorite video of @oksana_baulina , from filming Gulag survivors in St Petersburg Oksana was fun, passionate, brave, fierce, also, gentle, kind:
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@antelava
natalia antelava
3 years
@snarwani @Natsecjeff Yes because you would not have a sign in Russian in Georgia. For obvious reasons. Let me know if you would like me to explain
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natalia antelava
2 years
Good day to revisit this @CodaStory about “Crimean Bridge. Made with Love” - a 1.5 million dollar state funded production. Money went to Margarita Simonyan who wrote the screenplay & her director husband. It’s all about how THE bridge was built … #Crimea
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natalia antelava
1 year
Rare for a journalist to parachute in and do a piece as nuanced and considerate as this by @shaunwalker7 for the @guardian . Best testimony to why the world needs proper foreign correspondents
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natalia antelava
5 years
The thing that Russians are particularly furious about is that on March 24th @jacopo_iacoboni reported that 80% of aid Kremlin sent to italy was "useless". Russian sent: 15 massive military planes carrying 122 officers from one of the country's most secretive units
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