Mack Tubridy
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So not only did the husband of Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas maintain business interests in Russia after the war, but those interests were also connected with a company that supplies Russian and Belarusian law enforcement agencies with tear gas.
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Russians protesting against the war and Putin’s regime. Tbilisi, December 24.
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A friend in Russia tells me that he voted today. The voting booth wasn't covered, so no privacy. Standing next to the "booth" was a police officer with an assault rifle. And my friend was forced by his employer to send a photo of himself holding his ballot.
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As Monsieur Galeev continues to question the credentials of Russian scholars on the Twitter, let’s recall that time when Steven Seegel asked him a perfectly valid question.
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Western leaders: The news from Moscow is shocking. Our thoughts are with the victims. We condemn terrorism.
Latvia's President:
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Russia's Defense Ministry has finally released a video showing the tactical nuke drills it announced a couple of weeks back. And they've blurred out the warheads.
But just the tips.
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Here's how Transparency International's corruption index works: if I can bribe a traffic cop in your country, you're blood orange or red. But if I can pay lawyers and accountants to set up dozens of shell companies and hide the origins of my cash, then you're lemony yellow.
🔴 OUT NOW! The Corruption Perceptions Index 2022 shows that most of the world continues to fail to fight corruption: 95% of countries have made little to no progress since 2017. Check it out!
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I befriended a Georgian man at the bar last night. He said that I can always reach out to him if I need help or a favor. As an example he said, "If you need your neighbor's annoying dog killed, we can take care of it."
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For anyone who can't get around the paywall, here is a Holod pick-up of the Estonian article:
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Georgia's problem is... there aren't enough beefy far-right dudes? Gotcha.
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Casually and flippantly referring to Shuster as a "Russian asset" is not a good look for Sonin. It's with this same kind of casualness and flippancy that Russian authorities refer to any and all independent journalists in Russia as "foreign agents."
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HOLY COW. The minds behind the Boris Yeltsin Center just dropped a documentary series about the 1990s, including interviews with everyone from Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Anatoli Chubais, and Konstantin Ernst, to Alexander Lukashenko, Boris Nemtsov... and PUTIN.
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"Many Russians who have found shelter in Georgia do not denounce the war in Ukraine; nor do they acknowledge Russia’s ongoing occupation of Georgia. Instead, they claim to remain apolitical."
The author writes, providing zero evidence.
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I understand the urge for people to congratulate us on this designation, but the reality is that being labeled "undesirable" makes it a lot harder for us to do our work and endangers our staff. It's not a "good" thing.
So, if you have a rich uncle, ask him to donate money to MT.
⚡⚡ Russia has named The Moscow Times an "undesirable" organization, Russian news agencies report.
The label bans MT from operating in Russia and puts anyone affiliated with it at risk of criminal prosecution.
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I did not show any interest in Hagia Sofia cat. But Hagia Sofia cat plopped herself into my lap. I gave her some pets. And when I tried to release Hagia Sofia cat, she bit me. Beware of Hagia Sofia cat.
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Situation intensified dramatically. A column of riot police moved on protesters, who then tried to rapidly set up barricades, after which the entire crowd was tear gassed from both sides, which led to a stampede.
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And now food delivery workers are striking in Tbilisi. I spoke to one of the workers at the action, who said he hasn't seen a pay raise over the past year, even though the cost of living has soared. If you (or someone you know) work for Wolt or Glovo, please write to me!
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If you’re ever stuck at Sabiha Gökçen airport in Istanbul without mobile service and need to connect to the internet, go to Jax cafe near the check-in counters. Their WiFi password is Jax54321. Don’t pay 200 lira to these people just for connecting to the internet!
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RIA Novosti has started using AI-generated images for their pieces, and this is the result:
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Rummaging through my papers and documents, and I came across this, from March. The elderly cashier woman scolded me when I bought it.
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The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has sent out an alert about Friday's mass shooting just outside of the Russian capital.
That's two weeks after it warned about "imminent plans" by "extremists" to carry out attacks in Moscow "over the next 48 hours."
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The Russian food delivery service union, Kuryer, whose leader Kirill Ukraintsev was arrested earlier this year, launched a five-day strike starting today, with more the 600 couriers estimated to take part. They demand better wages, work contracts, etc.
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Good thread. If you still follow this shameless hack, don't.
A thread about 'Berlin expert' Sergei Sumlenny
@sumlenny
, the star of English-speaking and
Ukrainian-language Twitter.
Let's start. A the end of the 2000s, Sergei, a graduate of the Journalism Faculty of Moscow
State University, got a job in the pro-Kremlin magazine 'Expert'.
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Being chased by a pack of dogs and unintentionally hopping over a fence into a military compound and getting detained for three hours is probably the highlight of my Georgia experience
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Cars honking in support of protesters as they cross the bridge.
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Russian political scientist Grigorii Golosov on Facebook says that the European University in St. Petersburg has "liquidated" its political science department without an official explanation — terrible yet unsurprising news.
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Mikhail Lobanov has announced that he fled Russia
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Russia's Central Election Commission published Vladimir Putin's financial declaration. Main points are:
Earnings (for the past 6 years): 67.59 mln rubles
Property: 77 sq. m. apartment, 18 sq. m. garage, both in St. Petersburg
Vehicles: 3 cars, 1 camping trailer
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I guess I should say “Russia scholars,” not Russian. What’s the news on the damn edit button, Elon?!
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Typical night at the bar in Tbilisi, a loud American with a southern drawl: "Oh, I could handle getting shot in the abdomen. But getting stabbed in the neck - no. That's why I'll never go to the UK... I guess you can call me a libertarian."
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The share of Americans who say the US is providing too much support to Ukraine grew from 7% in March 2022 to 26% in January 2023. Americans who say the US is not providing enough aid to Ukraine decreased from 42% to 20% over the same period.
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Russia's State Duma is apparently considering a draft law that would recognize feminism as an "extremist ideology" following Sunday's explosion attack that killed military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky
⚡️«Сеть феминистских организаций у нас в стране — это почва для экстремистских действий». В Госдуме подготовят законопроект о признании феминизма экстремистской идеологией
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This quote is so incomprehensible, yet I see people sharing it:
- "fallen by 90%" Over what time frame?
- The Baltics are Western Europe?
- "that many reservations were canceled." How many?
- Batumi as "concentration of Russians" Oh, no Russians in the Baltics I guess?
“Group tourism from western Europe has fallen by 90%. After Georgia relaunched flights to Russia, tourists from the Baltic states encountered such pressure from Russian tourists, especially in Batumi that many reservations were cancelled. New reservations from the Baltics are not
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A long but very insightful ethnographic account of how "ordinary" Russians are feeling (or not feeling) the impacts of the war in Ukraine. I'd say a must-read for any observer of Russia.
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Remarkable that journalists continue to harp on the crude narrative of Georgia's "pro-Russia turn" when in reality what we're seeing is a run-of-the-mill slide deeper and deeper into undemocratic/authoritarian politics, which the Kremlin never trademarked.
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A former university instructor told me today that she recently asked students in her freshman course whether any of them knew who Vladimir Putin is. Not a single one of them knew. But they did have a lot to say about late-stage capitalism.
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Ask your Russian friends where Kalmykia is located. I bet they’ll say it’s in Siberia.
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I absolutely agree with Yashin's main thesis, that collective blame against Russians for the war is dumb. But I think we ought to stop generalizing the 700,000 Russians who left the country as politically conscious/active. That is simply not the case.
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Big eruption of the Shiveluch volcano on Kamchatka's eastern range. It's an active volcano to start, but this was an uncommonly large emission, with nearby villages, like Klyuchi, getting covered in a thick layer of ash.
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Pretty outstanding that folks like
@timothymfrye
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@gegs32
are being accused of "justifying Russophobia" when their entire careers have been dedicated to helping people in the West become better informed about, and in that sense, more appreciative of, Russia.
Russia's Foreign Ministry accused the banned individuals of playing a role in steering Washington’s “Russophobic policies” and being directly involved in “anti-Russian actions.”
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Protesters not letting up. Pushed from parliament, now moving somewhere else, not sure where to.
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Visited the recently opened Russian bookstore, Poltory Komnaty, in Istanbul. Very few books available as most were sold in the first two weeks of its operation. Nice place and super nice employees!
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Great deep-dive into Russia's worsening problem of decayed, often Soviet, utilities infrastructure, which is leading to frequent gas explosions in homes, pools of fecal matter oozing from basements, and people killed by exploding pipes of boiling water
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I’ve given too many hours of my life to Yuri Dud. And now he asks to give three hours more. No. This is where it stops.
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Bumping up this article by
@russophiliac
given yesterday's events in St. Petersburg. A worthwhile read, especially the parts about horizontalism.
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Follow the Moscow Times' coverage of the developing situation around Yevgeny Prigozhin and Wagner.
We're awake and reporting!
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Galeevshina must be put to an end. It has claimed too many victims. We must all sign a collective open letter, pleading Comrade Galeev for his forgiveness.
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Yet another independent media outlet, Redaktsiya, closes up shop as Russian authorities look set to ban businesses from advertising with "foreign agents." And remarkable, given how many compromises Redaktsiya has made over the years, especially as wartime censorship worsened.
Пивоваров объявил о выходе из телеграм-канала «Редакции» и увольнении части команды из-за закона о запрете рекламы у «иноагентов». Теперь у «Редакции» в ТГ поменяются авторы и название.
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Authorities in Georgia reportedly denied entry into the country to Anna Rivina, founder of NasiliuNet, a domestic violence center. Several Russian activists and journos have been denied entry to Georgia the past year, including Lyubov Sobol, Mikhail Fishman, & Nika Nikulshina.
Основательницу фонда «Насилию.Нет» Анну Ривину не пустили в Грузию.
Об этом «Холоду» сообщила сама Ривина. Она жила в Тбилиси последние месяцы
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@KevinRothrock
As a young American who knows young Americans, I can tell you that Russia is very near the bottom on the list of things concerning young Americans
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Thatcher here says it's "revealing" that Putin did not scramble Russia's entire armed forces in response to the Kursk sinking. Yet just as revealing, if not more, is her referring to modern Russia as the Soviet Union - not once, but twice - nearly a decade after its collapse.
Baroness Thatcher, speaking shortly after the Kursk submarine disaster in
#Russia
in August 2000: "I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should ... have known better".
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@russophiliac
None of my Russian studies instructors (language, literature, history, politics) at university ever said that Russia is the direct and sole successor to Kievan Rus
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The film Golod, about the early 1920s famine in Soviet Russia, and which Russian authorities recently banned from being shown in cinemas, is now available on YouTube!
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Inspiring that at this critical moment Russian emigres in Georgia are fiercely debating whether or not it's imperialistic to think the Georgian dubbing of Barbie sounds funny
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By the way, did you know Prigozhin wrote a children's book? Earlier this month
@MoscowTimes
ran a story on it:
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I was raised by a single mother, so instead of a Father's Day pic, here is an image of the steam-powered Santa Fe 3751, Baldwin Locomotive Work's first 4-8-4 type steamer built in 1927
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Can we cancel this dude already?
It is my deep suspicion that catlovers exist only online and no real person would ever embrace such a thing. I've certainly never met a catlover in reality.
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When I first saw this piece, I immediately thought "Ffs, another one of these." But, truly, it's one of the best treatments of the subject I've read over the past year. Props to
@joshuakucera
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This is beyond insane. Almost half a million dollars starting price (!) for a 1-bedroom apartment in a city where the average monthly income is $600 (1,538 GEL per 2021 stats). It's in bourgeois Vake, yes, but Vake is loathsome, abominable, and ew.
🏢 1-Bedroom 175.0 m2 — Domus Chavchavadze 31
Property ID: 15125
Address: 31, Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, Vake District, Tbilisi, 1079, Georgia
Price: Starting from $406,000
✅ DIRECT LINK:
#premiumrealestate
#realestate
#tbilisi
#vake
#realestateinvest
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I wish Samuel Ramani would stop writing "BREAKING" with each of his tweets as though he's a reporter scooping dat scoop. Wish he would just go away really.
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Why are we still not calling it Prigozhin's Putsch? It's both conceptually accurate and uses alliteration.
"Coup attempt" - bulky
"Mutiny" - sounds like we're on a pirate ship
"Revolt/rebellion" - positive associations
"Insurrection" - bland
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Follow the Moscow Times' liveblog to keep up-to-date on today's developing events.
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With so many pieces on Russians in Georgia saying the same thing over and over again, I tried to do something different with this text.
Give it a read:
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A relevant tweet to remember amidst ongoing claims that Russia is collapsing
If you predict regime stability in Russia, you’ll only be wrong once. If you predict imminent demise, you’ll only be right once.
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Today's rally in front of Georgia's parliament building is just starting, but already the crowds are massive.
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My dispatch from Finland's border with Russia, which has been closed since December last year.
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Too much of a stretch based on a very specific dispute in a very specific region, the Republic of Tatarstan. No, Russia's regions are not prepared to openly challenge the center (i.e. Moscow). 20+ years of intense centralization, on many fronts, have made this nearly impossible.
One of traditionally separatist regions in Russia - Tatarstand - has recently refused to abolish the post of President. Something that indicates that regions are prepared to openly challenge the Federal centre and Putin's authority. Clock is ticking...8/8
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Protests against utility tariff rises are cropping up across Russia: in Bryansk, Kirov, Altai, and Novosibirsk. Residents in other regions are planning similar protests.
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Someone is having fun on the Telegram channel for Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations
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Three stories this morning:
- FT reports that the U.S. asked Kyiv to stop attacks on Russian oil refineries
- Peskov said Russia is now in a "state of war"; no more "special military operation"
- Vyorstka reports Russia is planning to recruit 300,000 men for a siege of Kharkiv
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