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Nataliya Vasilyeva

2 years

Probably my most important long-read in 12 months: The Chechelyuk family was trapped by the Russian invasion in Mariupol. They have survived bombings, trauma and loss of their home. Their daughters were taken to a filtration camp. But only one made it out.

'My sister was imprisoned in Ukraine - why will no one tell me where she is?'

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

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2 years

It's been more than 48hrs since the Moskva sank with 500 people aboard. We still haven't seen any photos/videos of the rescued crew. What is most stunning we haven't seen a single wife or mother going public about the loss, demanding answers from the Russian government.

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I've been covering Russia for 14 and I have seen space for public debate shrinking every year and people getting increasingly scared of speaking out but the level of fear we're seeing now is unmatched.

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3 years

About 1,000 people at this anti war protest right now. These are taking away protesters indiscriminately. I was briefly detained even though I was saying repeatedly I’m a journalist.

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4 years

Devastating news from Minsk: the Belarusian foreign ministry has stripped dozens of locals journalists working for foreign media of their press accreditation, affecting the entire bureaus of Reuters, AP, AFP, Deutsche Welle. 1/2

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2 years

Vladimir Soloviev, Russia's propagandist-in-chief, launched a scathing tirade against the MoD this morning, demanding answers about what happened to the Moskva and how it could possibly have been destroyed as easily was it was.

Здесь Шепелин

@ilya_shepelin

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Владимиру Рудольфычу, похоже, сегодня платёж от Минобороны не прошел. Был в бешенстве!!

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

To wake up in a Nazi Germany. I'm ashamed and can't breathe.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Russia is a country that built a new society in 1991. People have mastered new professions, built private sectors of the economy from scratch that rivaled many in the world: from IT and banking to hospitality and theatre. Putin has decimated it all, robbing Russians of a future.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

5 years

Moscow Mayor Sobyanin drops the bomb and orders a full lockdown in Moscow - on a four hours’ notice. No walks outside, even physical exercises are allowed.

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2 years

Jaw-dropping Lavrov at a presser right now when asked why Russia targets civilian infrastructure in Ukraine including the territory it claims their own: "We were bombing Nazis in Stalingrad, too."

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

If you wonder why it's stunning for Russia, please google "Kursk submarine."

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

90 days ago Vladimir Putin insisted "Russia has no intension of occupying Ukraine." Now Russia controls swathes of southern and eastern Ukraine, and Putin signed a decree to make it easier for Ukrainians in the Kherson and the Zaporizhzhia regions to get Russian citizenship.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

I spoke to the Russian diplomat who quit this morning. “It would be a badge of honour,” Mr Bondarev said when asked about accusations of betraying the Kremlin. “I have done my duty as a citizen as I see it - probably for the first time in my 41 years.”

Russian counsellor to UN quits over Ukraine invasion: ‘I have never been so ashamed of my country’

In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Boris Bondarev says it was his moral duty to take a stand against the Putin regime

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

Protesters are marching across Novosibirsk, Russia's third-largest city, chanting "Putin is a thief."

Egor Mikhaylov 🦤

@lampimampi

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

Putin's meeting with Xi is off to a rocky start as Putin tells see in opening remarks he understands Xi's "questions and concerns" re Russia's invasion. Clearly, Xi is not going to heap the Kremlin with praise for starting the war in Ukraine.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Sergey Naryshkin, head of Russia's foreign intelligence agency SVR, in a stunning exchange with President Putin said stuttering he supports "incorporating Donetsk and Luhansk into Russia." "We're not talking about it yet," Mr Putin interrupted him.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Alexei Navalny in court right now: "I want the court to record that I'm calling for the war to be stopped. People who unleashed this war are gangsters and thieves."

Vyacheslav Gimadi

@vigimadi

3 years

Алексей Навальный: " война призвана отвлечь внимание от проблем России, приведет только к большему обеднению... я считаю развязавших эту войну бандитами и ворами. Я начал политическую деятельность, чтобы бороться с этим воровским преступным режимом"

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

Extraordinary statement from Putin this morning that breaks a two decade-long pact between the Kremlin and the Russian people: You can get on with their lives while we're do whatever we live on the international stage.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

7 months

Muscovites are applauding and throwing flowers at the hearse as it drives to the cemetery.

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@Kira_Yarmysh

7 months

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Alarming news from Navalny's spokeswoman who says that Navalny's tests show that he could die of cardiac arrest "any moment now." He's on hunger strike, protesting the prison administration's refusal to let me see a civilian doctor.

Кира Ярмыш

@Kira_Yarmysh

3 years

Люди обычно избегают слова "умирает". Но сейчас Алексей умирает. При его состоянии это вопрос дней.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

I have not been to a protest in Russia where I saw so many women crying or on the verge of tears because of what happened,

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Absolutely the best one so far

𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑆𝑎ℎ𝑢𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑜

@mrsahuquillo

3 years

A Putin le gustan las mesas grandes, eso es así

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

Veteran NTV correspondent Pavel Lobkov on FB: "Has it ever happened in history that a flagship warship disappeared without a trace like an ex you ban on social media? No crew, no widows, no words about heroism, no official condolences."

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Friday night for Ukrainian friends. When I text a photographer friend to ask how he’s doing: “Still alive. Russian tanks are firing outside.” Tell me how we got to this point again?

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Pictured: The head of Russia's Central Bank and Russia's minister of economy.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

My 14-year-old niece in Moscow had a special lesson this week where they were told about “fake news” including about the places where my friends and colleagues have witnessed actual war crimes. How low can you go?

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Journalists, artists, priests, single mothers in my 🇷🇺Facebook feed this morning: "This is a dark day. Day of shame. Russia invaded Ukraine." "I'm ashamed of drinking coffee in a cafe here while my friends in Kyiv woke up to air raids." "Mythical insanity and evil." "Horror."

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

A thin and gaunt Alexei Navalny at an appeal hearing just now - first time we saw him at the high security prison he was moved to earlier this month.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

This basically means that they could be arrested and charged if they’re caught on the streets reporting. Hard to process the impact this decision will have. 2/2

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

5 years

Russia's arguably best-known male tennis player joins the protest:

Kafelnikov Yevgeny

@KYevgeni

5 years

Иду в обход

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

Navalny’s video about “Putin’s palace” has got a stunning 16 million views on YouTube in 17 hours since it was released. His most-watched video - about then-PM Medvedev’s alleged wealth - got 37 millions views in total.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

I'm not in Russia but I keep hearing that Russians (including myself) are having a massive deja-vu moment re late February: talks of closed borders, martial law, men scrambling to buy tickets to get out of the country.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Russian doctors have penned a petition demanding a stop to the war. I've already seen anti-war petitions from teachers, journalists and even psychiatrists and mental health professionals.

The Siberian Times

@siberian_times

3 years

Russian doctors demanded Putin stopped the war in Ukraine. 'We strongly oppose the military actions carried out by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine. The war will take multiple lives, cripple so many destinies we won’t be able to help however hard we try

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

7 months

Lots of middle-aged and elderly women who are supposed to be Putin's core electorate.

Matthew Luxmoore

@mjluxmoore

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Incredible scenes in Moscow today, surreal even. Hundreds chanting Navalny’s name as his body is brought to the church - honouring a man the Kremlin branded an extremist, and killed

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

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Five years in prison for talking to a reporter on camera in the street - this is your answer why opinion polls in Russia should be taken with a massive pinch of salt these days:

Mediazona

@mediazona_en

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Moscow City Court toughened the sentence for Yury Kokhovets, who gave a street interview to RFE/RL and talked about the war un Ukraine. Instead of 5 years of penal labor, Kokhovets will now have to serve 5.5 years of actual prison time. He was taken into custody in the court

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4 years

"Well done, Belarusians!" - Mikhail Gorbachev has spoken in support of anti-Lukashenko protesters in Belarus (in Rus)

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3 years

I left Russia on Friday. The scenes I've witnessed in Tbilisi and Istanbul this weekend are straight out of history books. The talk on the streets of Istanbul and Tbilisi is all about where to go, where to settle.

Russia’s impending doom of censorship and sanctions meant I had no choice but to flee

The Telegraph’s Russia correspondent is among thousands of escapees from Vladimir Putin’s autocratic regime in the wake of the Ukraine war

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

Mood in Minsk right now. A local journalist friend tells me when I say several foreign correspondents will be leaving next week: “You guys are going to go, and we will all get shot.”

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

The resilience of Ukrainians and their love for their capital is truly stunning:

Nataliya Gumenyuk

@ngumenyuk

2 years

Our beautiful Kyiv comes back to live. Subway is to run, restaurants to open, least important check-points are removed to make traffic easier. Mayors asks ppl not to come at least for a week, but they return. Border police confirms more ppl come back then leave Ukraine now

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

@rprose Sure. I'm just amazed they don't even have to try hard to hide: there are no grieving relatives in the streets or online demanding answers.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

8 years

Hard to give an estimate to the Moscow protest. But this is clearly the largest unsanctioned protest since i started covering Russia in 2008

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

My journalist friends got a call from the MFA this morning informing them of the decision. Everyone is shell-shocked, not knowing how to keep on working, thinking about moving abroad for a while at least.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Zelenskiy in a live broadcast on the US intel: “If you have additional, 100 percent-certain information about a Russian invasion of Ukraine, please share it with us. I cannot agree or disagree with what hasn’t happened yet. Right now there is no full-scale invasion of Ukraine."

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

Belarusian MFA credentials were a rare thing for journalists to rely on to keep them safe. All bets are off now.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Re reports of several countries stopping issuing visas for Russians. Putin's cronies have luxury homes in Europe, the US. Their kinds have citizenship or residence permits in those countries. They don't need to do paperwork to apply for a Schengen visa for a Greek holiday.

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4 years

It's been 20 hours since Bellingcat published its investigation into Navalny's poisoning - and Navalny's YouTube video of the investigation has garnered more than 5 million views - yet we have not heard a word from the Kremlin or even one of its top propagandists.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Scattered groups of protesters. Several hundred now. Police snatch out those chanting “No to war”

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

Navalny in his final argument quotes the Bible: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied." He says: "I feel satisfaction because in a difficult movement I've followed this manual and stayed true to it."

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3 years

Ukraine's health minister says 198 civilians including three children have died since the start of the Russian invasion.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

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Tatyana @Stanovaya whose predictions of the war have sadly for all of us been consistently true says the Kremlin with the Duma vote today and referendum announcement is gearing up for an "all-out war" unless Ukraine and the West back down.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Metadata on Putin's video declaring war on Ukraine suggests it was recorded no later than 7 pm on Monday. He's also wearing the same clothes he did when he recorded an address on Monday recognising the independence of separatist statelets.

CIT

@CITeam_ru

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Более того, одежда Путина совпадает с его одеждо�� на заседании СБ РФ 21 февраля и на видео о признании ДНР и ЛНР 2/4

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4 years

When you thought this story couldn't get even more cinematic. “If he were in the air for longer, and they hadn’t landed in such an abrupt way, possibly, things would have not gone the way they did."

Navalny releases audio of Russian agent confessing and suggesting poison was in underwear

Russian opposition figure posed as a senior intelligence official on a call with one of the men suspected to be behind the attack

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

8 years

Stunning thing about today's anti-corruption protests in Russia is that they are held from Vladivostok to Moscow;we haven't seen this in yrs

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

Xi, meanwhile, has called onRussia to "assume the role of great powers and play a guiding role to inject stability and positive energy into a world rocked by social turmoil". Wonder how the war in Ukraine plays into the 'stability' narrative here.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

5 months

I know it’s a Saturday night but a Russian court has just arrested our Reuters colleague. Journalism is not a crime. Konstantin is a TV producer, not an “extremist”. He ought to be released immediately.

Mediazona

@mediazona_en

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BREAKING @Reuters producer Konstantin Gabov was just sent to pre-trial detention in Moscow, accused of “participating in an extremist community” for preparing content earlier for Navalny LIVE YouTube channel

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

Navalny to the court representative: i was in a coma, then I was in an ICU. I sent you medical documents, you had my address and contacts. What else could I have done to comply with my probation requirements better?

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

Russian General Surovikin has just reported to Minister Shoigu on state TV, suggesting a pull-out from Kherson, saying that Russia cannot properly defend the city and its residents. Shoigu has agreed.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

Ukrainians in occupied territories have been tortured by Russian forces for merely keeping a Ukrainian flag at home.

Francis Scarr

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You just couldn't make it up Today Putin said that he's always had "enormous respect" for Ukraine as well as its culture and language

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

The mobilisation decree published this morning is incredibly vague, making it possible to call up millions of Russian men including millions of university graduates who received junior officer ranks years ago as part of their studies to be engineers etc.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 months

Let's spare a thought for Belarusian political prisoners like Maria Kalesnikava and Viktar Babaryka who are still stuck in Belarusian jails and have not been heard from for over a year.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

Just astonishing: A few hours before the Bellingcat investigation was published, Navalny called up one of the men implicated in the poisoning, posing as an aide to the FSB chief, and essentially extracted a confession from him.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

First weekend of March in brotherly nations: Russian journalists are asking Ukrainian journalists how they’re surviving under Russians bombing. Ukrainian journalists worry about Russian journalists fleeing the country to dodge treason charges for reporting the war.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

@SamRamani2 These rallies didn’t “erupt”. They’ve been organised by the Kremlin that paid and coerced people to provide a semblance of support.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

Good morning from Samarkand where Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are having a rare one-on-one later today

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3 years

For a second day in a row, Russia's state-owned Rossiya 24 keeps running Putin's argument that Russia "had no choice" but to attack Ukraine. They still call it a "special military operation in the Donbass." Not a single word about airstrikes Kyiv, Kharkiv etc.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Officials now say results of electronic voting in Moscow will be announced at 2pm local time, i.e. 18 hours after polls closed. I still haven't seen a convincing technical explanation why it takes so long to unveil the results.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

I have no words to describe my gratitude to Russia's only independent news channel @tvrain @tikhondzyadko @katyakotrikadze who have been running a live news broadcast of the invasion since early hours, bringing in voices from Russia and Ukraine. Do considering making a donation.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

For weeks before the invasion all smart Russia analysts and journalists used to say: no way Putin is going to invade because he can’t explain a war on Ukraine to his people. Now the official line is: “We had no other choice.” An explanation no sane person would come up with.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

Navalny keeps joking even when he announces a hunger strike:“I mean, to hell with the right leg. I would have done with the left one somehow. But losing two legs at once is where I cross the line. It would be unfair: everyone has two legs and I have none.”

Alexei Navalny goes on hunger strike to protest lack of medical help in Russian jail

The Kremlin critic's team raised alarm about his deteriorating condition last week but he has not been allowed to see a civilian doctor

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Putin on letting the Central Bank pursue a prudent, independent monetary policy: "If we don't do it, we will end up like Turkey." 🇷🇺🤝🇹🇷

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

A law adopted in Russia on Friday that bans the word 'war' while describing Moscow's "special operation in Ukraine" makes independent reporting impossible. It makes it a criminal offense. I've been writing and reporting for a living for 14 years, and I intend to keep doing that.

Theo Merz

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My friend and colleague @Nat_Vasilyeva has written about fleeing Putin's Russia, along with thousands of others. It could be 100 years ago: "The talk on the streets of Istanbul and Tbilisi is all about where to go, where to settle"

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

A bit of fashion reporting here: In a £10,500 Italian designer coat, a limping Vladimir Putin tries to rally his people

In a £10,500 Italian designer coat, a limping Vladimir Putin tries to rally his people

Thousands cheer president's tub-thumping speech which quoted chapter and verse from the Bible, although they dare not do otherwise

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

7 years

This is finally out. My story on what everyone knows about but is too afraid to speak about: Thousands of Russian private contractors fighting in Syria

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

That’s great. It’s 2am. I’m Russian, and I can’t sleep because my country is bombing Kyiv, a city of my friends and colleagues. Just because they won’t bend to Russian threats.

Mikhail Ulyanov

@Amb_Ulyanov

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Don’t even dream about that. Our seat in the #UNSC was enshrined in the UN Charter by the Victory in the Second World War with 27 millions of the Soviet victims in the fight against Nazis.

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Russia is going to splash out 1 billion rubles (£13 million) to buy flags and Russian coats of arms for schools for what will now become an obligatory nationwide daily flag-raising ceremony. Thousands of schools in rural Russia still don't have indoor plumbing.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

It'll be the first high-profile diplo defection since the start of the invasion if confirmed.

Hillel Neuer

@HillelNeuer

2 years

BREAKING: 🇷🇺 Russia’s Counsellor to the United Nations in Geneva has resigned. Boris Bondarev: “Never have I been so ashamed of my country.” UN Watch is now calling on all other Russian diplomats at the United Nations—and worldwide—to follow his moral example and resign. 🧵:

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

5 years

Unprecedented wave of police raids this morning targeting associates of Alexei Navalny across Russia: over 80 homes, 29 cities, from Vladivostok to Krasnodar.

Leonid Volkov

@leonidvolkov

5 years

В списке уже 29 городов. Адресов больше 80: не только квартиры координаторов и штабы, но и квартиры сотрудников штабов, активных волонтеров; в ряде случаев приходят по месту регистрации, к родственникам.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

Another act of bravery in Russia: A student chants "No to war! Free Ukraine! Putin is a devil!" at a school graduation part in a small town in Dagestan. She gets a round of applause.

Во время последнего звонка в дагестанской школе выпускница сказала: «Нет войне! Свободу Украине!...

Во время линейки, посвященной последнему звонку, в дагестанской школе выпускница выступила против войны в Украине. Видео...

zona.media

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Back home after 3 hours in the street with protests. The crowd is mostly 20-30 year olds, with older people mixed in. Impossible to give an estimate more accurate than "thousands." People were genuinely perplexed that riot police stood by and refrained from dispersing the crowd.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

Navalny supporters are even rallying in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 8 times zones east of Moscow

Sergey Radchenko

@DrRadchenko

4 years

Ahead of Navalny protests in Moscow later today, here's what's happening on the other side of Russia, in Sakhalin: . The authorities resorted to some interesting tactics there, including changing school times to prevent youngsters from joining the protest.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

7 months

It's almost 9 p.m. in Moscow, and Navalny supporters are still queuing to say farewell at the cemetery.

лиля́ кебáб

@lilydavay

7 months

Вот он вход, так далеко… мы прошли просто огромный крюк. Надеюсь дойдем до 21:30. До 21:00 мои самые оптимистичные прогнозы

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

6 years

Meet Valentina. She lives in Ukraine. See the woman behind the barbed-wire fence? That's her sister Raisa. She lives in Russia

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

What if President Zelenky signed a decree to fast-track Ukrainian citizenship for residents of Krasnodar and Bryansk? Would Russia be "understanding" about it?

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

Navalny in court via video-link right this morning: "What's happening right now is a historic crime, involving hundreds of thousand people in Putin's crime. And if I need to be in jail to be able to say that, I will stay here."

SOTA

@sotaproject

2 years

«Вы своим ШИЗО мне рот не заткнёте»: Алексей Навальный в суде вновь высказался о мобилизации Алексея Навального вновь отправили в ШИЗО на 12 суток — ��а этот раз за то, что он «наговорил на прошлом суде про мобилизацию».

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Look at the highly respected CB chief Elvira Nabiullina in this picture

Alec Luhn

@AlecLuhn

3 years

After the ruble collapsed, Russian stocks in London tumbled, the Moscow stock market failed to open & a few oligarchs spoke out against the war, Putin is having a meeting about the economy with officials including the central bank head @tvrain

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

Guards were shouting to prisoners to stand still. "I said: 'I can't stand. You can kill me right now but I can't stand. My leg is broken'." I met with Tamara Shpakova was one of the 100s arrested and tortured in Belarus last month. 📸 @MishaFriedman

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

7 months

The mother of Alexei Navalny and the mother of Yulia Navalnaya at the graveside AP Photo

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

By withdrawing from Kherson, Russia will have lost the only Ukrainian regional capital it has captured since the start of the invasion.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

It's well past noon in Russia and we still haven't hear from any of those technocrat, liberal Russian officials who were supposed to be the voice of reason in Russian establishment.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

The Kremlin has confirmed Olaf Scholz has followed Macron's example and refused to take a PCR test in Russia. Expect more photo-ops with that table of a dizzying length.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

5 years

Worth pointing out that just four days ago Putin in his address to the nation said that Russia has so far managed to control the spread of the disease and that we will able be taking a "week off work", not the full lockdown that Moscow has just announced.

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@Nat_Vasilyeva

8 months

Stunning resilience

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

8 months

🗣️ Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Alexei Navalny, received a standing ovation from the audience as she began a speech to the Munich Security Conference just hours after hearing about the “horrific news” of her husband’s death. Read more ⬇️

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

A group of artists in Russia's Samara lay down on the snow in body bags to protest the war on Ukraine.

Вот Так

@vottak_tv

3 years

«Если живым не дают высказаться против войны — пусть это сделают мертвые» Анонимная группа самарских художников «Невойна» провела на Волге художественную акцию «Слово мертвым». Активисты выложили на снегу тела людей в черных мешках как образ жертв и смерти, которые несет война.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

78 percent have reportedly voted for the amendments as 99.9 percent of the ballots have been counted. That’s way higher than opinion polls have shown and even more than Putin garnered in 2018 while his ratings are at a record low now.

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

3 years

Russia's FM Lavrov just now: "There’s not going to be a war if it depends on Russia. We don’t want a war. But we’re not going to let others trample on our interests either."

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

4 years

NB Lyubov Sobol who was on hunger strike in summer 2019 over the official refusal to let her run in local Moscow elex told me in August that year that Navalny had tried to talk her out of it, warning of possible health risks:

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

7 years

Girls writing out articles from the Russian constitution

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

1 year

Imagine you're a totalitarian government: You jail a foremost rights activist -> he gets a Nobel Peace Prize while still in jail -> you get invited to a 🍰🍰🍰 banquet.

Hanna Liubakova

@HannaLiubakova

1 year

Ambassadors from Russia and #Belarus have been invited to Stockholm's Nobel Prize banquet. While Ales Bialatski, @NobelPrize laureate, is in jail, Lukashenka's loyal representative Dzmitry Mironchyk will enjoy food & drinks in Sweden. Will he be invited to Norway as well?

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Nataliya Vasilyeva

@Nat_Vasilyeva

2 years

I get physically sick every time i hear "it's not about Ukraine" from Russian pundits. I wish they could travel to Mariupol/Chernihiv/Bucha and tell the survivors: Just relax, it's not about you.

Anton Barbashin

@ABarbashin

2 years

Thesis 1: this is not about Ukraine. This is a story of the changing world order, shifting power from the West to China/India and other non-Western world. Thesis 2: With this war Russia has ended it's 300 year attempt to become part of Europe. But this Europe, he says was 1/7

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