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@dasha_reports

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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
More signs that the mobilization in Russia is far from partial. This 32-year old IT worked has been drafted despite not having done any military training or study
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Рустем Адагамов
2 years
Виктор Бугреев, 32 года, он айтишник Сбера в Москве, повестку получил вчера: "Я никогда не служил, не проходил воинскую службу, не имею военной специальности, не имею военной кафедры. Поеду, что делать. Или уголовное дело".
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3 years
An inspirational quote:
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3 years
Wow Only just watched this - chills
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Peter Stefanovic
3 years
Breaking: Courageous Labour MP @DawnButlerBrent has just been told to leave the Chamber by Deputy Speaker for raising my film which public have sent to 27 MILLION VIEWS in protest at Prime Ministers rampant lying in Parliament & calling PM a lier Thank you for your courage Dawn
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Like King Charles, I have a new job! Today I start as consumer goods reporter at Bloomberg @business in London. So excited to work with @DeirdreHipwell and her formidable team! Here I am already enjoying its famous canteen
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Alexei Navalny sentenced to additional 9 years
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Соболь Любовь
2 years
Алексея Навального признали виновным в мошенничестве и оскорблении судьи. Наказание: 9 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима. ПОЗОР
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
HEAD OF GERMAN NETWORK AGENCY - NO DECISION ON NORD STREAM 2 IN FIRST HALF OF 2022 - REUTERS
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
@francska1 also why has her jacket got her name on it? is she being forcibly held at a boarding school and made to do these videos?
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Dasha Afanasieva
1 year
@lyzl I feel invested in this story. Updates please
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Dasha Afanasieva
1 year
@dieworkwear Pls someone do Sally. Especially when she gets the Christmas tree
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1 year
@SparrowEnjoyer I’m really shocked by the misogyny. I didn’t think I could be anymore but I really am
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
what a powerful piece from @yarotrof - Ivanova became a symbol for Russian propaganda after a viral video showed her bringing out a Soviet flag to greet soldiers in her village in Ukraine. But her tale is one of grief and poverty in the post-Soviet world.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
@Psythor I get what you mean but surely that’s exactly when you get it. Isn’t it the idea that everyones thinking I don’t belong here/ got here by being posh and connected etc
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
🚨🚨I can't quite believe it but today is my last day at Reuters after almost 10 years! 🚨🚨
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Worst oceans sequel ever
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
@fesshole This is ridiculous. Both the 10 year argument and an adult getting cash in an envelope from an old person. Grow up.
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Dasha Afanasieva
1 year
@SonyPicturesUK this movie looks gross and old fashioned what were they thinking
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Yes ofc since fiscal, monetary and ask nicely are the core pillars of economic policy
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Sanctioned Russian aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska calls for the overhaul of Russia's entire economic system. "We can't sit this out like we did in 2014. It's necessary to change economic policy, we need to end this who state capitalism thing."
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Dasha Afanasieva
7 months
@ChrisO_wiki @dossier_center It’s giving Bond villain lair
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Podcast recommendations for a long (a very long) drive please?
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
still can't get over the Telegraph not being hacked
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Personal news: I passed my driving test first time.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
My parents have set up a motion sensor camera next to the tree to stop this happening. It’s not working. Merry Christmas!
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
@IlyaMatveev_ Curious to read some egs
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2 years
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
It's remarkable how many people think Reuters rhymes with Hooters
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
my first businessweek feature! 👀👀👀👀👀 expertly led by @devinleonard and masterfully edited by @daniellesacks @BW
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Deirdre Hipwell
2 years
This is such a great read in Bloomberg's BusinessWeek mag on the story behind how Ben & Jerry’s ended up at war with its corporate parent, including interviews with key protagonists in the battle via the excellent @devinleonard and @dasha_reports via @BW
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Turkey's annual rate of inflation feels more like
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Icecream kolbasa. It’s good to be back #russia
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
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Seva
2 years
chasing yachts is fun but many of the current measures seem to be “let’s cut the russians out of our racket” rather than “let’s change laws that enable corrupt oligarchs everywhere”
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
more than 50% of employment in russia (and belarus) is essentially the state. that's a major lever for quashing protests. attending one gets you fired from a state owned enterprise - if you get off lightly. how will that change if the govt can't pay staff?
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
just realised it's my 3-year @Breakingviews anniversary. time flies scarily fast when you're bashing out agenda-setting financial insight
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Dasha Afanasieva
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@albats @Kira_Yarmysh Она и не ровняла
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Dasha Afanasieva
11 months
I can't believe it's already been a year since I joined @business !!! A year of...
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
dread to think what happens to your family back home if you do surrender. Russia is entering truly scary times. (don't @ me I know Ukrainians being bombed and losing loved ones)
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Oleksiy Sorokin
2 years
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says Russian soldiers should surrender. They won’t be exchanged against their will. “If you don’t want to return to Russia, then, according to the Geneva Conventions and Ukrainian law, no one will transfer you back to Russia,” she said.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
What a tagline. Don Draper eat your heart out
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
@JamesMelville Fathers “giving their daughters away” in 2021 should be an April fool’s
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Just discovered the matryoshka 🪆 emoji. This has been a good day
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
not to be all like drinking the corporate kool aid but Bloomberg matches staff donations to the Turkey/ Syria earthquake in literally 6 minutes. respect.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
lol watched this live but has no idea it was hugh grant’s doing.
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Aaron Fritschner
2 years
Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews with leading Tories trying explain the situation to the British people
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
@thetyronwilson Wow the questions into the ether are the best. Why so expensive? Why did Nationwide lie to me?
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
@Andrew__Roth this verse ended up on Alanis Morissette's cutting room floor
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
“Investment baking” as typo makes me chuckle
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
@liv_mar It’s the missing apostrophe that upsets me more
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Dasha Afanasieva
11 months
No rules anymore
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Maria Pevchikh
11 months
These men are brilliant lawyers. They were defending Alexei Navalny. They were visiting him in prison and representing him in court. Today they were arrested.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
going to spend a couple of weeks with @Reuters news, away from @Breakingviews and am suddenly experiencing a mental flood of commentary ideas i must write. typical.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
I'm going on an extended break and will tell you what I'm doing next when I come back. Peace out ✌️
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Putin dipping a ballpoint pen
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✊Олег Степанов
2 years
Дед совсем неадекватен, «макает» шариковую ручку в подставку, будто он пишет пером и это чернильница🤦‍♂️ Неудивительно, что он в своих больных фантазиях даёт бой англосаксам, печенегам и половцам. Ёбнутый (с)
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
A selfie stick is a game changer for my journalism lol
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Reuters
3 years
From @Breakingviews : Barring a stock market crash or fresh sanctions, Russia's IPO pipeline is unlikely to dry up entirely. But as with a Russian salad, some of its ingredients will not be to everyone's taste, says @dasha_reuters
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
🤯🤯🤯
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Jo Maugham
3 years
Why we are referring a series of transactions involving the Prime Minister's advisor Munira Mirza, Priti Patel and Matt Hancock to the Serious Fraud Office. THREAD.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
@KSergatskova @tvrain The editor apologized and clarified position … but what a F-up
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Tikhon Dzyadko
2 years
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Things I had forgotten after more than a year of no face to face meetings: 1) if you bring your boss, the executive will mainly talk to him even if you are the one writing about their company 2) how to dress or iron
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Dasha Afanasieva
5 months
@davidwhittam LOLed at this in the office thank you
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Good morning especially to the bus driver who didn’t run me over after I inexplicably stopped on my bike on a green light. He stopped me to ask if I was ok, adding with a chuckle “every day, I try not to run anyone over. But today I almost ran you over… god bless!”☺️
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
@SangitaMyska *emphatically retweets*
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Ukrainians on Russians: “Russian slaves ran to IKEA en masse before it closed to buy all sort of crap. What can we say to them when instead of going out onto the streets (to protest) they head to IKEA?”
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Отчаявшаяся домохозяйка
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@novaya_gazeta Украинцы о русских: «Российские рабы перед закрытием IKEA массово побежали в магазины скупать всякий хлам. О чём ещё с ними можно говорить, когда они вместо того, чтобы выйти на улицы своих городов, бегут в закрывающуюся IKEA?» (УНИАН)
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Moody city vibes from @business office
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
anyone who still says "the ukraine", needs to check themselves.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
my first Businessweek byline 👀👀👀
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Phil Serafino
2 years
European companies are warning that prices might have to rise further in 2023 amid tough wage negotiations in a tight labor market via @BW @dasha_reports @WillWilkesNews @KatieLinsell @atorsoli
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Anyone else really struggling to concentrate this year?
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
You vow not to eat sugar for one day and then your employer serves up strawberry bonbons
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Dasha Afanasieva
6 months
what about US oil servicing companies still working in Russia and helping it fund the war in Ukraine Halliburton, Schlumberger et al
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Sam Greene
6 months
Five policy measures to ensure Navalny’s sacrifice is not in vain For @TheNatlInterest
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
This is the time of year when shops trick you into buying a “spring” jacket or coat you can only wear about 1.5 days a year. Don’t fall for it.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
What a beautiful day. Everyone in London go outside
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Love my block for several people immediately offering to do things for me after I tested positive
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
a really shouty person on the train is telling his mate how Pablo Escobar's son is going to be the face of his mate's rum for 10% royalty and how there's a dispute with the rest of the Escobar fam about using the name. if you're going to be so loud - you're on the record
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
@HannahAlOthman I can report that Russian and Turkish people also think Brits don’t rinse the soap and apparently it’s because of washing up liquid ads where they just let the suds roll off the dish on the dish rack
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Dasha Afanasieva
6 months
Excellent piece 😢
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Pjotr Sauer
6 months
The funeral of a Russian dissident always reflects the political moment. Our piece ahead of tomorrow. “I think the situation is even worse now,” said Anatoly Marchenko’s son who attended his father's funeral at a prison graveyard age 13. W @Andrew__Roth
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
terrified of calling my elderly relatives in case they've been chugging the pervyi kanal
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
@francska1 absolutely crackers
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
This is still just so jarring
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Scared for Turks this morning. For everyone who knows any women and for everyone who’s going to see the price of necessities shoot up.
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
@Hardeep_Matharu @BylineTV this is very insightful. thank you!
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Right. I’m going to finish a sanctions podcast recording and then spend at least 20 minutes looking at homeware and interiors.
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Dasha Afanasieva
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@J_Bloodworth what is wrong with people chilling
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
presenters, be nice to your producers!
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Dasha Afanasieva
5 months
@DrProudman People don’t want to share their power. We need to face up to that. The idea that they will because they have daughters say and want them to excel is often naive. Most people aren’t that empathetic! At most they’ll grant power
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Yesterday I saw a video on Instagram that said in a very authoritative tone that dandruff happens because of toxins in the brain. (Yes I googled it.) Just your daily reminder that quality journalism needs to exist and be fought for.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Finally got used to the cold enough to enjoy this beautiful morning
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
as a journalist I'm like woah never a dull moment in turkey. but as a human and Turkophile am devastated
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Dasha Afanasieva
11 months
i think it's important to say that i went to western and central Ukraine last week and people were nice to me even when they found out i was born in Russia and spoke Russian and not Ukrainian
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
My 2 year old nephew just whatsapp called me completely on his own from my sisters phone and said “hello dasha”. Is he a genius?
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
went to this restaurant yesterday and cannot stop thinking about it. perfect combination of satisfying and innovative. sea buckthorne sauce with root veg, venison and the two japan-inspired desserts were standouts. i want to eat it all again. what a treat. lush sicilian wine too.
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The MICHELIN Guide
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The Michelin Guide Green Star for Sustainability Silo, Hackney Wick, London – England’s only zero waste, closed-loop restaurant:
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
Good morning to everyone especially the really cheerful falafel seller in shoreditch who says good morning to me each time I walk past
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
is there anything worse than listening to yourself asking questions on dictaphone? i just found out i can't say advocate. it come out as advo-cat feline
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
After 2 weeks of pelmeni, saperavi, kharcho and lakomka, leaving Moscow 4 kg in surplus
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
@maxseddon Flare play
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
@Ben_H_Noble I like the headline
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Dasha Afanasieva
1 year
@AyoCaesar Misogyny and misapostrophe are the great scourges of our time
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
I have the time. But I actually just don’t want to watch squid games. There. I said it.
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Dasha Afanasieva
2 years
£54 pounds for an off peak 47 minute return on our railways and the train looks like a health hazard
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Dasha Afanasieva
3 years
Wow not even hiding it
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Dasha Afanasieva
1 year
Choc makers like Ferrero and Lindt want new EU rules to protect forests because they think they're already doing all they can and want others to step up. But sustainability could hit shoppers' wallets via @business w/ @paula_doenecke and @AggieDeSousa
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