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2 years

"Sorry, can't talk now, I'm at the illegal annexation."

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3 years

So-called "driving experts" are saying that crashing my car into a tree was a disastrous error and that I should have been looking where I was going. What they don't seem to realize is that this was a *feint* designed to achieve my broader strategic aims: 🧵(1/47)

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Turkmenistan's president went on a low-key bicycle ride this morning. And by low-key I mean he was greeted by many hundreds of people forced to stand clapping for him and to join him on his ride as dancers and singers performed along his route

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3 years

Nobody told Tajikistan's president you're not supposed to take your body doubles out on official trips with you

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2 years

Tajikistan's president demands respect from Russian President Vladimir Putin in a remarkable outburst at Central Asia-Russia summit in Astana

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7 months

Steven Seagal visits injured Crocus City victims in hospital, as if they haven't suffered enough

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3 years

Aeroflot plane tries to sneak into Italy by going through a secret back route via Kazakhstan but Greeks tell them to sling their hook

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3 years

*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation

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2 years

Rahmon blames the collapse of the Soviet Union on failure by Moscow to give proper consideration to the interests of the "small republics," implying that Russia is making the same mistakes all over again

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6 years

Turkmenistan's president lifts golden weights bar before his applauding Cabinet. Will the madness ever cease?

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5 years

Turkmenistan's president doing pistol target practice while riding a bicycle, because obviously

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6 years

Tip for officials in Turkmenistan: Why doesn't just one of you take notes and then share with everybody else later

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7 years

George Orwell, 1984 Vladimir Putin, 2018 h/t @ChristopherJM (Putin pic by @AZemlianichenko )

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2 years

Uzbekistan: This protest footage, apparently filmed in Nukus, Karakalpakstan, on July 1 (not today), defies belief. To dismiss this as the work of criminal gangs is really very unwise

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Peter Leonard

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3 years

Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev looked solid, but he turned out to be hollow

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4 years

Turkmenistan's president absolutely mullers a pyramid of oil drums with a machine gun mounted on a Chevy Suburban and hit targets with the world's slowest bullets

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3 years

Interesting little video about why Russian tanks so often lose their turrets

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Peter Leonard

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7 years

Nigel Farage: An Introduction

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3 years

Unbridled joy: Turkmenistan has a new president

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2 years

This rambling, unscripted rant by Tajikistan's president, directed entirely at an uncomfortable-looking Vladimir Putin, is something really quite extraordinary

Рахмон – Путину: Мы хотим, чтобы нас уважали | Rahmon tells Putin: We...

Президент Таджикистана Эмомали Рахмон 14 октября в Астане на саммите «Центральная Азия – Россия» высказался о сотрудничестве с Россией. Подробнее https://cen...

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Peter Leonard

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2 months

Pavel Kushnir, a 39-year-old pianist, had his funeral yesterday after dying in a pretrial detention centre in Birobidzhan, Russia. He was arrested for posting anti-war videos on YouTube.

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2 months

I wonder what the native language of a person who goes on Telegram to incite British people to "make arsons against the objects of Migrants" might be...

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3 years

Chechen tyrant Ramzan Kadyrov is no good at basketball, but how about football?

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3 years

That's actually the governor of the Sughd region, for those few improbably interested to know.

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4 years

Turkmenistan's president brings great energy to his Zoom meetings

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5 years

Tajikistan's president relaxing on a flying carpet floating above a reservoir

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4 years

Snow leopards in Tajikistan performing for the camera. I can never get over what beautiful animals these

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3 years

Note to all to remember that the fall of the ruble will hurt many vulnerable people; the old and the poor, people with no sway over Russian government policy, and particularly labour migrants from neighbouring countries. This is nothing but a tragedy

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3 years

The ruble, which was already at a historic low, down almost 30% so far. Russia's central bank is pushing back trading several hours ahead of what is likely an even bigger crash. We are truly in uncharted territory here.

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4 years

Turkmenistan's president loves cycling ("velosport"), he bloody loves it. Here he is walking around a giant monument erected to cycling as a song about cycling is performed in the background

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4 years

When Turkmenistan's president leaves to go anywhere, all his top officials have to stand in a row waving like small children

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1 year

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...

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Peter Leonard

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3 years

Putin stated that one of his intentions behind invading Ukraine was to "de-Nazify" the country. Ukraine is led by this man:

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3 years

6/11. President Zelensky does not mention that his grandfather’s father and much of his family were murdered in the Holocaust.

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3 years

Turkmenistan's president being serenaded by a pair of poultry factory farm workers in the frozen food section

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Putin is a right-wing YouTuber with a nuclear arsenal at his disposal

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3 years

Putin is delivering another speech packed with all the familiar paranoia & lies. He says the “special op” is going according to plan. Kyiv wants foreign help to develop nukes. Russia isn’t occupying Ukraine. Moscow needed to go beyond Donbas. Kyiv commits terrorist attacks.

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8 years

Nothing says "I'm in charge" like addressing the nation via FaceTime #Turkey

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8 years

Turkish TV broadcasts a message from Erdogan claiming he's in control and will punish the coup leaders

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2 years

This sort of picture really makes me wish I’d taken the trouble to learn how to photoshop

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5 years

Turkmenistan's president here, taking a break from researching/writing another book about plants -- while sitting in front a table full of herbs -- to watch footage of himself playing music on TV with his grandson

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3 years

Turkmenistan’s new president watches a dance routine by cadet police officers, looks a bit unimpressed (Dancing already a dominant theme of this young presidency)

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3 years

The new president of Turkmenistan's most exciting stunt so far is to speak English

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6 years

Turkmenistan's version of The Bachelor is super-weird

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3 years

Turkmenistan has a new president, but the old photoshop guy has kept his job

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4 years

Turkmenistan's president builds a snowman as his onlooking grandson takes photos, and then decorates the snowman with spray paint. Afterwards, minions bearing flowers clap at the snowman for a very, very long time

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3 years

Hello boys and girls, I am the Marvelous Magical Professor Ashrafio Ghanio, and for my first trick I will be disappearing from Kabul with suitcases full of your money

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2 years

Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan conflict has escalated to levels possibly beyond April 2021. Flashpoints across distant sections of the border. Kyrgyz media reporting that even Batken has been shelled, which is a dangerous and unprecedented development

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4 years

Tajikistan's president (again) standing in front of a giant cauldron of plov

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10 months

I have seen funerals more cheerful than the New Year dinner of Turkmenistan's ruling family

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3 years

Kazakhstan: Statue of former President Nazarbayev reportedly being pulled down in the capital of the Almaty region, Taldykorgan

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3 years

Daud Muradov, a resident of Chechnya who had moved to France and sought political asylum only to be denied and extradited back to Russia, has died in a pre-trial detention facility in Grozny. Rights activists say he was tortured at length before his death

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1 year

Listening to newly minted Russia pundits on Twitter Spaces talking about "Chechenian" troops and such is like taking a soothing bath in dog piss-warm idiot broth.

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3 years

Turkmenistan's president, right, will not be outdone by Putin in the talking-to-people-across-huge-tables stakes. His table is also much rounder than anything the Russians can muster

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4 years

Bishkek's Ala-Too square has gone full Maidan at the moment, 1 am local time #Kyrgyzstan

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7 months

Cannot recall ever seeing such complete official bewilderment in Russia following such an attack. State media figures now dismissing ISIS claims, but also failing to come forward with their own narrative, which they normally do fast

Раньше всех. Ну почти.

❗️Заявления от лица якобы ИГИЛ об ответственности за теракт в Подмосковье, это фейк, сообщает журналист ВГТРК Андрей Медведев. "Помимо того, что в официальных ТГ каналах ИГ нет никакой информации,...

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2 years

Tajikistan's president dispirited by the cutlet he has been served in the train restaurant car

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3 years

Many Russian military commissariat officers are about to suddenly become very wealthy

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3 years

Food for thought: with many exceptions, men in Russia between the ages of 18 and 27 are obligated to serve in the military. The next wave of conscription is next week, beginning April 1.

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3 years

Watching this show on Russian state TV is increasingly coming to feel like sitting at the end of a bar and eavesdropping on a bunch of embittered divorcees with chronic erectile dysfunction issues

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3 years

Leading Russian propagandist @VRSoloviev says Russia will "absolutely" take the war beyond Ukraine. "With these sanctions, who said we should stop at the borders of Ukraine," he says with a chuckle. "We'll hit them. We'll absolutely hit them." (h/t @ITolochko )

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2 years

Wait, is that a green screen background?!

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2 years

Turkmenistan's president gets a warm-ish embrace from Vladimir Putin

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Tajikistan's president looking disgruntled by the texture of a pear

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6 years

Turkmenistan's president has three laptops and two large tablets, whereas you, like some kind of idiot simpleton, probably don't even have a computer and are looking at this picture through somebody's office window

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Peter Leonard

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3 years

Been writing and thinking about Kazakhstan for the past 72 hours straight and still this CSTO peacekeeping thing (less than 4,000 troops ultimately) still makes absolutely no sense at all when considering the information at our disposal. On no level. Really very perplexing.

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3 years

Seamless transition to adulation of Turkmenistan’s new president: Clerics pray in front of his giant portrait before proceeding with Busby Berkeley routine-style sowing and dances

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3 years

The poor passengers of this Belavia plane are a metaphor for the whole country. Trapped and endangered by the mad, irresponsible behaviour of their leader and forced to go in circles

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3 years

⚡️BREAKING⚡️: Turkmenistan is closing the gate to hell

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3 years

В Туркменистане потушат газовый кратер, горящий более 50 лет

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3 years

Max Blumenthal decides that believing a U.S. government official is OK just this one time

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3 years

I can confirm Bellingcat experienced symptoms consistent with journalistic malpractice and neocon propaganda

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3 years

Kharkiv is meant to serve as an example to the rest of Ukraine about what the price of resisting the Russian invasion will be The Russian-speaking people Putin is claiming to protect are, naturally, paying the cost of this blackmail

Al Jazeera English

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3 years

@natachabut An Al Jazeera team was able to enter the devastated city of Kharkiv in Ukraine after Russia announced a pause in fighting to allow people to leave. Reporter @stratfordch was shocked by what he saw ⤵️

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3 years

Foreign Minister of Russia, whose troops shot down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, killing all 283 passengers onboard, now feigning concern over weapons given to Ukraine posing a danger to civilian aviation

Sky News

@SkyNews

3 years

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accuses western countries of acting "dangerously", claiming that the EU is "in violation of all its principles" by supplying "deadly weapons" to Ukraine. Live: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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3 years

Russia: Putin's spokesman says he has been debriefed on the military's alleged failure to abide by instructions not to use conscripts in Ukraine war and that prosecutors are now investigating. Question now is who is going to be thrown under the bus?

Путин поручил военной прокуратуре разобраться в ситуации с отправкой срочников на Украину - ТАСС

Президент получил доклад о выполнении его указания категорически исключить привлечение срочников для выполнения задач на территории Украины

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2 years

U.S. Marines evacuating Saigon in a "gesture of goodwill"

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2 years

Oh dear, the master has turned on his pupil, and it isn't pretty

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3 years

Kyrgyzstan’s President Japarov was a convicted accomplice to kidnapping before coming to power, but habits are hard to kick, so he just abetted another kidnapping

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3 years

😩😩😩😭😭😭

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2 years

I interviewed this poultry farmer in Kyrgyzstan earlier this year. His story was meant to be a hopeful one about hardworking businesspeople fighting against the odds in a challenging region. And now he’s dead

Kyrgyzstan: Batken’s entrepreneurs struggle while officials weave lofty dreams

A fledgling job-creating enterprise offers hope in a troubled corner of Kyrgyzstan, where the government talks big and does little.

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Mara

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2 years

#StandForKyrgyzstan This farmer is a citizen of Kyrgyzstan. His name is Matisa. Killed by Tajik soldiers.

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Peter Leonard

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2 years

When a mayor in Kazakhstan tried testing out how well his city caters to people with disabilities, he got a nasty surprise. It is bad the situation is so wanting, but fair dues that he had the curiosity to find out. A good show of leadership

Arkadiy Gershman

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В Талдыкоргане (Казахстан) общественники посадили в инвалидные кресла мэра города и подрядчика-дорожника, после чего поехали проверять доступную среду улицы. Оказалось, что её нет (вот это поворот!)

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If you have ever wanted to own a teahouse in the shape of a watermelon, this is your chance. The government of Tajikistan has just put this one, in the town of Hisor, up for auction (estimated value: $3.3 million)

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Peter Leonard

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2 years

Please make the time to read this piece about the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan situation. Beyond the rival claims, the anger, the blaming, there are lives ruined, pointless, maddening tragedies. Nothing matters more than that

Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan: The terror and death of a fruitless border conflict

The traumatized people of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will struggle to find sense in the battles that have led to the spilling of so much blood. The only legacy of the events, our correspondent found,...

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2 years

Exchanges of fire on Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border have taken place at three separate locations, which indicates that the crisis has broadened. Latest incident occurred within the last hour

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3 years

Kazakhstan: Very important and intriguing detail with strong shades of Kyrgyzstan 2020. Peaceful people initiate rallies, but shady and violent individuals turn up to sow trouble, and it is never remotely clear who they are or where they came from /1

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Связалась с Уральском. Человек работающий в здании возле акимата сообщил, что у них протест также был мирный, пока не привезли группу агрессивных мужчин, начавших потасовки.

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A man in Kazakhstan had to call rescue workers after getting a replica Spartan helmet stuck on his head

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2 years

Tajikistan's president entranced in a moment of Proustian reverie as he palpates an apple

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8 years

@MiriamElder @Snowden @BuzzFeed @AP Yes, it should be: "18 things only people that abuse confidential databases will understand."

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3 years

Turkmenistan’s new president takes a leaf out of his father’s book and goes out for a mass bike ride, but it is with sadness that I must report that he really doesn’t seem to have his heart in it

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3 years

Kazakhstan conducting a nationwide military readiness drill, just for, oh, you know, no reason

В Минобороны объяснили переброску военной техники на запад Казахстана

Также в министерстве рассказали, куда передвигались военные подразделения в две последние ночи.

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4 years

Turkmenistan's president shows officials the giant dog monument and archway he wants built, shows them many pictures and models of dogs, presumably in case they are confused about what a dog looks like

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4 years

The eagle-eyed may note that he seems to hit anywhere other than the actual barrels before the whole arrangement goes sky-high

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2 years

A cinema in northern Kazakhstan has turned itself into a dormitory for Russians fleeing across the border to avoid mobilization and unable to find accommodation

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4 years

Just begun a 14-hour slow train ride to southern Uzbekistan and my cabin partner’s luggage consists entirely of eight caged birds

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2 years

This well-earned verbal assault on a pretty empty-headed Italian TV personality-cum-journalist paying obeisance to the Kremlin starts slow but goes supersonic in seconds

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2 years

Over the weekend, Italian TV host Massimo Giletti went to Russia where he interviewed Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova and top state TV host Vladimir Solovyov Fellow Italian journalist Alessandro Sallusti wasn't impressed... (thanks to @LBuscicchi for translating)

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3 years

Turnout at the Turkmenistan presidential election was 97.12 percent, according to vote officials. Major suspense over whether Serdar Berdymukhamedov gets more or less than the 97.69 percent his father got in the 2017 election

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3 years

Turkmenistan’s new president opens Cabinet Zoom meeting with lively clapping. Talks to dear old Pa, the former president, also by Zoom. Ends meeting with more clapping

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3 years

A woman tries to grab a Ukrainian flag away from an anti-war protestor in front of the Russian Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, against the backdrop of a currency exchange outlet vividly illustrating the economic pressures of the war (Photo: Danil Usmanov)

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3 years

A kid-friendly guide to Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu's medals

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3 years

In following news and analysis on the unfolding Russia-Ukraine situation, I find myself exasperated at the deployment to two fallback tropes: Putin the strategic chess master and Putin the increasingly isolated and deranged regent 🧵

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6 years

Somebody sees me outside stuck in driving rain and so they invite me, a perfect stranger, into their home and give me this (and are now plying me with soup). This is Tajikistan

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3 years

16 military aircraft were flown yesterday out of Afghanistan into southern Tajikistan as the Afghan air force scrambled to ensure they did not fall into Taliban hands - Eurasianet source

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2 years

Border unrest in Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan: Gunfire exchange in the proximity of Vorukh ongoing at this time. Local sources in Tajikistan say two soldiers wounded in fighting

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6 years

The face of man who looks in a mirror and sees Churchill when everybody else looks at him and sees Benny Hill

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3 years

I really struggle to understand how any supporter of this war in Ukraine could see this before and after from Mariupol and not question their beliefs

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2 years

Uzbekistan: As a semblance of calm returns to Karakalpakstan, these are some developments one should expect, based on domestic and regional precedent: The government will take a short-termist carrot-and-stick approach to overcome this difficult moment 🧵

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5 years

Turkmenistan's president has got a sweet new bike. It has speakers on the handlebar so he can listen to rad music while riding. And they even make these totally sick police car noises

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