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Navalny didn’t believe in death. Neither do I
I jumped out of my chair. An involuntary shock reaction to the headline in the New York Times. It doesn’t seem possible. The other night, a friend of Navalny’s, Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, talked to Lawrence O’Donnell. When O’Donnell suggested … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Journalism, The Facts of Life, War on Ukraine
Tagged Alexey Navalny, Lawrence O'Donnell, Masha Gessen, Mikhail Zygar, Russian history, The New Yorker, Tucker Carlson
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“Russia Russia Russia!”
From Harper’s Weekly Review: Russian officials in the Belgorod region held a ribbon-cutting for a new bridge that appeared to be stolen from a neighboring village; a Russian volunteer asked social media followers for donations of body bags for soldiers … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life, War on Ukraine
Tagged Belgorod bridge, Russian Avdiivka, Ukraine, UN Human Rights Council
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But which St. Petersburg?
[Sic] From Harper’s Weekly Review: Austria’s pro-Russia former foreign minister was reported to be moving to St. Petersburg, along with her two ponies.
Posted in Immigration, Politics, The Facts of Life, War on Ukraine
Tagged Austria, Harper's, pro-Russia, St Petersburg
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