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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Message from Kharkiv, from a great friend and colleague who I work with all the time on University research. He's now manning barricades: "situation is hard. City terrorised with artillery fire. People being killed in the streets, on their way home or to shelters...(1/4)

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peter pomerantsev

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If Germany doesn’t sanction Russia why don’t we sanction Germany. Not sure I want cars made with the help of Uighur concentration camps or German products powered by Russian gas that fund an atrocity machine

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A Ukrainian family spent three weeks in a cellar with Russian soldiers. When I interviewed them I found their strange relationship has lessons for how to win the war….With thanks to my colleague Andrii Bashtovyi who first told me about this story

‘We Can Only Be Enemies’

One family’s experience of Russia’s invasion offers a path to the end of the war.

www.theatlantic.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

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They have no hope basically. There's no medicine or treatment or way to leave. First responders are at the limit: they don't have enough people, resources. There are so many artillery hits that they can't keep up. It's outright terror campaign against civilians. Civilians."

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peter pomerantsev

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Musk pushing Putin propaganda is not historically new: British aristos did the same in WWII with Hitler 'peace offers'. What's new is that an oligarch can switch off critical internet infrastructure at whim, and undermine crucial military operations against a genocidal regime.

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peter pomerantsev

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3 years

I feel ashamed. Ashamed that Ukrainians are fighting the return of imperialism and fascism in Europe, fighting for the ‘values’ that Europe is meant to stand for but has forgotten the meaning of. And we safe Europeans do nothing. When we can. First: Take Russia out of SWIFT now.

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

West is doing an AMAZING job... of responding to 2014. That's when we needed sanctions and arming Ukrainians. We're 'winning' the last war. Not sure we've quite caught up with this new one yet

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

There's no way to leave as air raids don't stop. The hits are on places unrelated to military or infrastructure: sports centres; homes; cafes. There's about 25 pharmacies working for a city of 1.5 million. It's hardest for people with bed-ridden relatives, the old, disabled.

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

Grad fire just hit the Петихадка (sorry if wrong spelling), where people were queuing. It's a blood bath. Many deaths. The Northern Saltivka, a densely populated places in town, is subject to air raids all times of day and night. People haven't left shelters five days...

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peter pomerantsev

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3 years

We are choosing Russian oligarchs over Ukrainian kids. They are dying and we are betraying them with weak sanctions. Go hit the essence of the Putin system. It's a kleptocracy. Go after the kleptocrats.

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

Putin’s constant calling us all ‘Nazis’ is a way to drain the term of meaning and resonance and thus clear the mental space for Putin’s own essence of fascism. Destroy the meaning of words which acted as taboos to check behaviour, to make the worst behaviour possible again

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‘Russia is a culture where you have crime without punishment and punishment without crime’. The Ukrainian scholars Tetiana Ogarkova and ⁦ @yermolenko_v ⁩ helps me understand what lies behind Russia’s acts of extreme violence

What lies behind Russia’s acts of extreme violence? Freudian analysis offers an answer | Peter...

The blowing up of a Ukrainian dam echoes a traditional cycle of destruction and self-destruction marking the country’s history

www.theguardian.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

they hit residential areas. then they wait for journalists and locals to turn up. then they hit them again. today they killed oksana, whose series on the gulag is vital to understand the people who killed her. just despair and anger. century over century. this empire must die

Alexey Kovalyov

@Alexey__Kovalev

2 years

And now it's someone I've known for 16 years and worked with at several independent outlets. Oksana Baulina, a Russian journalist with phenomenal sense of moral clarity, killed by Russian rocket fire on a reporting mission in Kyiv today. I'm yet to process this.

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

If you say, as Lavrov and Putin do continuously, that a people don't exist, and those that do are 'Nazis' (therefore, in a perverse logic, Untermenschen): it's a conscious way to pave the path towards casual mass murder.

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peter pomerantsev

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2 months

Russia hits hospitals. Over and over. Country to country. "Putin sent warplanes to systematically target hospitals During the siege of Alepp, more than 440 civilians died, including 90 children. The attacks killed newborn babies, doctors, and students."

Putin’s Gruesome Playbook

Russia’s indiscriminate bombing in Ukraine looks startlingly familiar.

foreignpolicy.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Russia needs to stop being a threat: to its neighbours, to the world. That has to be the starting point of any policy framing. We can’t be held hostage by a chronically abusive state.

Ostap Yarysh

@OstapYarysh

2 years

"All our hope is in the famine", says lead Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan. She openly admits that Russia doesn't want to resolve the food crisis. On the contrary, Russia is interested in it, deliberately starving people in Africa and Asia to achieve its political goals.

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peter pomerantsev

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1 year

beneath the veneer of military 'tactics' you see the stupid leer of destruction for the sake of it. They can't create, so all that's left is to destroy. Not in some pseudo-glorious self-immolation, they are petty cowards, but a loser shitting and smearing their faeces over life

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

this is the Ru strategy now: terrorise civilians with random strikes so they can never live freely, so the sky is always a menace, so that Ukraine can never rest easy. It's the most cowardly, dirty, nasty strategy. The strategy of the humiliated bitter twisted miserable sadistic

olexander scherba🇺🇦

@olex_scherba

2 years

Vinnytsya being hit. Residential area. Casualties, including a dead child. Many Ukrainians feverishly dialing Vinnytsya now to check on their relatives. Myself included. Fuck Putin. Fuck Russia. #fuckputin #StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraineNow

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Crossing border from Ukraine to Poland is wrenching. Paradoxically it's from the sense you are crossing into safety. A few metres, a few steps, and you are in a different zone. The trees, fields, light are all the same. But here you're secure- and Ukraine is still an open wound

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Call it what it is - intent to genocide

Why Russia’s War in Ukraine Is a Genocide

It’s not just a land grab, but a bid to expunge a nation.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

They couldn’t take Kharkiv so now they try to terrorise and break it psychologically. But people are so tough now they rush to help, console the victims- but show not a jot of panic or jolt of fear. Just sigh with sadness and mutter anger and resolve

olexander scherba🇺🇦

@olex_scherba

2 years

Russian missiles strike #Kharkiv . Putin’s “liberation” goes on… #StandWithUkraine ️ #ArmUkraineNow

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher was found guilty and hanged at Nuremberg for inciting genocide. What fate awaits Putin's propagandists?

Russia’s genocidal propaganda must not be passed off as freedom of speech | Peter Pomerantsev

As cases of war crimes pile up against Russia, can peddlers of hate be held to account?

www.theguardian.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Am v worried about what Kremlin will use as an excuse for martial law in Russia: so many reports of Putin planning an atrocity inside Russia and blaming Ukraine

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

US weakness on Syrian atrocities saw destruction of humanitarian norms, emboldened dictators, helped cause a refugee tsunami that played a huge role in bringing nationalist populists like Trump to power. Many of same team now in White House. I pray they learnt lessons

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peter pomerantsev

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1 year

Kramatorsk. This time the Russians destroyed a pizza parlour. Last year they hit a train station full of refugees. @TRPukraine collects evidence, tells stories, builds cases: let's close the gap between truth to justice

An Inside View of a Deadly Attack on a Ukrainian Rail Station

Survivors detail how a Russian missile strike disrupted the evacuation of civilians from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

3 years

in the social media groups in DNR one hears fear, cynicism, humor, tiredness. Some people worried about getting on buses as Russians might bomb them as casus belli. A sense of being extras dragged into someone else's mad, bad movie.

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

@WayneJordash is prob the top intl lawyer looking at war crimes in Ukraine. V professional, cool, savage scathing dissection of amnesty research on Ukr army

What is wrong with Amnesty International’s Conclusions that “Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger...

By Wayne Jordash and Anna Mykytenko

www.pravda.com.ua

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

I keep on getting seeing discussions about 'who is winning the information war' between Putin and Ze. I'm not sure that's an entirely accurate way to frame things Here's why... (1/3)

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

Collaborative communication is when you engage people, treat them as equals. Sure the Ukrainian army do all sort of psy-ops to survive. But Ze is treating people as equals, trying to engage and inspire them - that's not 'information war'. It's the opposite.

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peter pomerantsev

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1 year

This amazing scoop is just a taster of how the russian war crimes machine survives on western tech. Stop arming our enemies who want to destroy democracies - and the US especially. Democracies should arm each other instead

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@NewsHour

1 year

As sanctions have been ramped up to choke Russia’s war efforts, one high tech American manufacturer may be flouting export controls.

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

The sanctions, such as they are, are not being communicated to Ukrainians. Many tell me they feel abandoned. Need explainers in Ukr and Russian, US and UK officials to go on Ukrainian TV. Russia has its info-war machine, where is our democratic communications response?

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Ukrainians have to die for Europe for Europeans to remember what Europe means

Benjamin Haddad

@benjaminhaddad

2 years

I know it’s a cliché, but this really feels like a turning point for Europe. The way people talk, the anger of the usual cynics or sober minds. The conversations I’ve heard about defense spending, NATO, energy independence these last few days feel like something truly different.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

gave lectures here a few years ago. we tried to tease out the difference between nazi and kremlin propaganda. wouldn't be much to tease out now

Christopher Miller

@ChristopherJM

2 years

Another devastating Russian strike on Kharkiv. This one hit the Karazin National University’s School of Sociology which sits across the street from the regional Interior Ministry office. Video via Anton Gerashenko, aide to Interior Minister.

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peter pomerantsev

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'Information war' is the essence and practice of Putinism. It's an approach to communication that treats people as fools- not citizens. It's deeply cynical, and implies all words are weapons, that talk of 'values' and 'rights' are just manipulation...

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

1 year

this research by @TRPUkraine and @dpatrikarakos shows Russian torture in Ukraine as an almost casual cultural policy. Russia's aim is to normalise atrocity. They have many allies in this. It will be one hell of a fight to stop that.

Inside Putin's torture chambers

Occupied Ukraine is a world of beatings, electrocution and endless pain

unherd.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Finance friends: are we as deluded about our sanctions as the Kremlin is about its army? We think they’re powerful but actually they’re rubbish?

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

1 year

Phenomenal piece about the murder of a writer, a buried book, life under occupation, Russia’s brutal repression of Ukrainians’ and Ukraine’s right to exist. Make sure to read to end: The postscript.

A murdered writer, his secret diary of the invasion of Ukraine – and the war crimes investigator...

When he realised the Russians were coming for him, Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko buried his journal. Then he was taken away never to return. Now, his chronicle has been unearthed …

www.theguardian.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

what does one call a society where this is possible? what word for the way the man pulls her off the bus? the reactions of the bystanders?

WarTranslated (Dmitri)

@wartranslated

2 years

In Russia, an elderly woman was kicked out (literally) from the bus for criticising the war Russia wages against Ukraine.

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

Death and the Dictator: Putin is an old man scared of death trying to turn back time. Ukraine and Ukrainians are as his blood sacrifice. His invasion of their country is his attempt to forestall his personal, inevitable demise

Putin's Attack on Ukraine Is an Attempt to Delay His Own Inevitable Demise

To understand Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, we have to see that he's an aging dictator acting out his death wish

time.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Putin's domestic propaganda enables the mass murder of Ukrainians, claiming they are 'not a real nation' and 'nazis' that have to be destroyed...but here's the thing...WE fund and enable it...(1/2)

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Putin will go as far as possible. Ukraine is the start. Other parts of Central Europe next. The US is the 'great enemy' that needs to be humiliated. Yet our sanctions let many Russian banks off hook. We're not touching his real power: oil. We're just not getting what's at stake

Steven Feldstein

@SteveJFeldstein

2 years

“This is Moscow’s way of war. Mr. Putin’s forces will continue to terrorize the country to induce surrender. If they don’t succeed, they will burn it all down. It’s either bow or vanish; no third option is allowed.”

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Coverage on Western rolling media can help Putin. On the ground amazing (Clarissa Ward remarkable). But doom talking in studios is putting down Ukrainian efforts with the 'countdown to fall of Kyiv' framing. Apocalyptical framing temtping, but an editorial choice that helps Putin

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Taking meetings in Kyiv underground today. This lady making coffees for all and smiling smiling through the booms. Coffee especially lovely this morning

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

If you won’t provide a No Fly Zone, then at least give Ze more planes, more anti aircraft weapons, everything he needs to clear the skies

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

As she lay dying in a North London hospital, my grandmother started to hallucinate scenes from her Ukrainian childhood. All around the ward she saw starving children, skeletal, collapsing in the long, white, strip-light corridors…

Ukraine Is Our Past and Our Future

As the horrors in Ukraine are revealed to the world, the echoes with World War Two become impossible to ignore

time.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

This is the right framing - Putin will go as far as he can. We need to start working out what that means in practice- how does he ‘test’ Nato?

Olga Tokariuk

@olgatokariuk

2 years

It's a mistake to think that NATO support to Ukraine would be a provocation for Putin. He is provoked by the weakness, not by strength. There was no objective reason for Russia to invade Ukraine. Putin did it because he knew he would get away with it. Next move: attack on NATO

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peter pomerantsev

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"The Russian project has failed, so the aim now is to bring everyone down to its own level, drag all down to its cellar” | Time

Russia Wants to Lock Ukraine Back in the Soviet Cellar

What precisely is this cellar that Russia wants to drive Ukraine into? What lurks in the basement of the Russian mind?

time.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

1 year

For many Russians truth is a subset of power. If Putin is powerful he is “believed”. Defeat him on the battlefield, undermine his system in courts, his power to define reality slips. It’s not truth that leads to justice, it’s justice that leads to truth

What happens when leaders disregard the truth? Putin and Trump are about to find out | Peter...

A novel approach to holding Russia accountable for atrocities in Ukraine could ensure that lies and mass murder do not go unpunished

www.theguardian.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

11 months

Stop the killing machines that make the missiles that murder civilians. This way you disrupt Russia’s war machine. Ukrainian civilians are saved. The Kremlin’s self confidence gets shaken. Their perception of impunity crumbles. The evil eats itself faster.

Boycott Russia

@Boycott_RU

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Ukraine informed the German government that a so-called CNC machine manufactured by @spinnergmbh is en route to an ammunition plant in Russia from Turkey. It is a tool that will help Russia produce tank projectiles to kill Ukrainians.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

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After they beat Azat Azatyan so bad blood came out of his ears the Russians began to interrogate him about his faith. “When did you become a Baptist? When did you become an American spy?”…on how Russia’s war against evangelicals is a war against America

Russia's War Against Evangelicals

Putin's Russia has led an at times brutal campaign against evangelicals inside Russia and in the occupied parts of Ukraine.

time.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

11 months

Read to the last paragraph which will stay with you forever

Oleksandr Mykhed

@mykhed_o

11 months

My new essay for @guardian about summer full of losses and pain. My brothers in arms. Missile attacks. Funerals of our friends and teachers. And unbearable waiting for the Autumn attacks on infrastructure and blackouts.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

4 months

Your weekend read: incredible insight on the tough but deeply inspiring reality of how a society survives a long hard war. From my colleague ⁦ @ngumenyuk ⁩

Brave New Ukraine

How the world’s most besieged democracy is adjusting to permanent war.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Putin's aim is simple: show all the Western rhetoric about 'values' is empty, and that democracy a charade. If we aren't ready for at least some costs around sanctions, he's right (also what's the point of EU stabilisation funds if they can't be used for moments like these?)

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

On the road from Bucha to Kyiv it’s not the rusting wrecks of Putin’s tanks that bring it all home, not the burnt out hulks of houses and shopping centres, but the crowds of pine trees leaning permanently at an angle in the same direction, deformed by the trajectory of artillery

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

3 years

Germany needed an 'energy freedom' policy that massively diversified supply. Instead it got energy 'security' that makes it dependent on an authoritarian power...why that choice? if Germany 'fears' Russia, why make oneself dependent? What gives? Genuine question...

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

this war is not just a problem you can 'localise' to Russia-Ukraine. There's an increasingly coordinated network of dictatorships and soft authoritarians who think the 21st century belongs to them. Orban is a tiny footsoldier in this network, but symbolic as he's inside EU

toomas ilves, ex-verif

@IlvesToomas

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"Even allowing for election night euphoria, Orban’s taunting of Zelensky — on the day that brutal apparent war crimes committed against Ukrainian civilians were uncovered — was grotesque."

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

more here....

We Need to Rethink the 'Information War' with Russia

The West needs to stand up for its historic values against Russia.

time.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

There is no politburo any more to eject a Russian leader destroying the country. But there must be a concept among elites that there is a greater Russian project that needs to be preserved beyond one man. 'Vladimir Vladimorovich, thank you for your services, the car is waiting.'

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

3 months

from Kharkiv to Tbilisi to Budapest and right to the heart of the GOP…all fronts in the relentless rise of networked, kleptocratic authoritarians. Join the effort on how to beat them

Coda Story

@CodaStory

3 months

Georgia is now a front line in the global battle against rising authoritarianism. On Sunday, join @anneapplebaum , @peterpomeranzev , @antelava and journalists and activists from the region for a conversation exploring why Georgia's fight is so significant.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Fascinating to tag along with @anneapplebaum and @JeffreyGoldberg to interview Pres Zelensky. I used to wonder how he would deal with politics. I underestimated him and his profession: actors understand people and truth. Satirists get politics. It’s good training for the top job

Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum

2 years

"In a part of the world where leadership implies stiff posture and a pompous manner—and where signaling military authority requires, at a minimum, highly visible epaulets—he instead evokes feelings of trust" @JeffreyGoldberg and I on Zelensky, from Kyiv

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peter pomerantsev

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2 years

As Zelensky visits DC, I put Russia's invasion in context of the larger clash between networked authoritarians and democratic solidarity. This war is the front line in the great global struggle of the 21st century. It's not the Cold War redux, it's new...

Autocrats Are Weaponizing Globalization. Ukraine Is Where They Must Be Stopped

To secure Ukraine’s sovereignty—and our own—we need to break the power of networked authoritarians

time.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Kharkiv is under constant bombardment. Civilians being targeted on purpose. The great Ukrainian author Zhadan is fighting and writing

Dr Sasha Dovzhyk

@sasha_weirdsley

2 years

That time of day when I log in to check if Serhii Zhadan, my favourite poet and volunteer from Kharkiv, is still alive. He is and kicking ass as per usual. (A fragment translated from the Ukrainian by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin; a photo of Zhadan delivering goods to his city).

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

5 years

so glad Guardian did the serialisation of my new book. It all started with an essay I did for the Long Read years ago, and now has grown into a whole book!

The disinformation age: a revolution in propaganda

Troll farms, bots, dark ads, fake news ... from Putin’s Russia to Brexit Britain, new methods are being used to change politics and crush dissent. It’s time to fight back

www.theguardian.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

@TimothyDSnyder @jasonintrator @anneapplebaum it's like the Ruscists quote the Nazis on purpose- signaling their own fascist heritage as a trick of intimidation. 'You think we're fascist- damn right we are- so be very afraid'

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

3 years

A useful Russian verb: кошмарить. То nightmare someone. Or more prosaically 'to give them nightmares'. Or perhaps 'to make their lives into a nightmare'. But I sort of like 'to nightmare'. People. Whole countries...

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

1 year

Last Sunday with @vamelina . Now she’s been murdered by another Russian attack on a civilian object. Another Ukrainian writer killed by Russia- she always saw herself part of that centuries old story. This time Ukraine will win. The Empire will die. But oh oh oh how she is missed

Nataliya Gumenyuk

@ngumenyuk

1 year

“What is the crime Russia is committing in Ukraine”… what a crowd is listening to the @TRPUkraine discussion during Book Arsenal Festival in Kyiv. Shows a lot how much the issue matters @peterpomeranzev @avalaina @WayneJordash @vamelina Jonathan Littel @PIJLab @janinedigi

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

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How to trick Hitler and Subvert Nazi Propaganda: the tale of Sefton Delmer. Part cabaret, part psy-op

The Man Who Used Nazi Propaganda to Help the Allies Win

The strange tale of a fake Nazi radio station that helped win the war. And what it can teach us about disinformation today.

time.com

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Passover for me this year could only be in Kyiv. A nation fighting from extermination by a Putin Pharoah, trying to keep its humanity while yearning for revenge. The rabbis thought about this: how to repel your oppressor without becoming like them

I can feel my heart hardening as the war goes on

Palm Sunday in Perugia. Umbrians were scuttling around with twigs and leaves, but I was in town to celebrate another faith. It was the annual International Journalism Festival, which hasn’t been...

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

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And yet the Ru refugees I talk to do advocate for a shift in visa policies: no visas for all employees of state media, United Russia and all others who are part of genocidal war. Scholz is just using language of rights to dress up lack of policy innovation. Not for the first time

Luke Cooper

@lukecooper100

2 years

Not for the first time in recent history, Germany puts itself on the right side of the migration debate. This means there will be no EU ban on Russian travel to Europe. A legal route for dissidents seeking refugee protection will continue to exist.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

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the biggest 'escalation' in this war is to make it last forever and then the calculations get riskier and riskier. give ukraine air power. this will get to a less risky place much faster. also- just so blatantly the right thing to do.

Ukrainian Air Force

@KpsZSU

2 years

⚡The Ukrainian Air Force would like to address misinformation published in multiple Western media outlets regarding the situation in the 🇺🇦 sky and support from our @NATO allies. More in 🧵(1/16) #ProtectU АSky #StopRussia #UkraineUnderAtta сk

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peter pomerantsev

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Very important UN vote today to condemn Putin's war. China, India, UAE the big holdouts...please do all to make sure vote passes....

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

1 year

You can’t do a coup without a coffee…caption contest time

Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum

1 year

did Wagner fighters stop for coffee on their way into the Rostov MOD headquarters? (photograph credited to Reuters, seen @NYT )

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Language defines reality. Language defines who is a “real” person, and who isn’t. He who controls language controls life and death....what Putin's Nazi talk really means...

What Putin’s Nazi Talk Reveals About His Plans for Ukraine

Despite Putin's absurd claims about 'denazification,' the way he talks about Ukraine is revealing of his bloody plans for the country

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

In his ugly little mind Putin thinks he’s winning. Yes the invasion was a cockup. But the West is even scared to give Ukraine a few old planes. His point has always been: we’re feeble. In a world where might is right he, Xi and every abuser and predator will win.

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@peterpomeranzev

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Don't license entertainment programs. Disable editing systems....this will throw a thousand spanners into the hate machine. More here:

What Putin’s Nazi Talk Reveals About His Plans for Ukraine

Despite Putin's absurd claims about 'denazification,' the way he talks about Ukraine is revealing of his bloody plans for the country

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

1 year

Just take a pause and read this masterpiece Victoria Amelina: Ukraine and the meaning of home

Victoria Amelina: Ukraine and the meaning of home

The long read: Before she was killed by a Russian missile strike, the acclaimed novelist and war crimes researcher wrote about growing up in Moscow’s shadow, and how she came to understand what being...

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

A popular joke in Moscow pro Putin circles: Two Russian soldiers are drinking champagne in Russian-occupied Paris, the whole of Europe conquered. “Did you hear?” one smiles to the other. “We lost the information war.”

How do we solve a problem like Putin? Five leading writers on Russia have their say

The Russian president’s invasion of Ukraine threatens the safety of the entire world. Writers on Russian history and politics try to suggest a way forward

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

3 years

i still don't believe this needs to be repeated.

Paul Niland

@PaulNiland

3 years

🇺🇦 was a neutral country when 🇷🇺 invaded and occupied 7.2% of it.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Western advertising funds the TV spewing war propaganda. Western entertainment products reel viewers in so they stay for the politics. The calls for murder are made on western editing systems, video tech and mixing boards. All this can stop. Stop advertising on Kremlin media..

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the flash point in the great struggle of the 21st century: between one version of an interconnected world that gives justice and rights a chance, and a much darker prospect of weaponized interdependence where networked autocrats coerce democracies

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To secure Ukraine’s sovereignty—and our own—we need to break the power of networked authoritarians, writes @peterpomeranzev

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

General Little Finger (mizinets means little finger in Russian). What a name for a mass murderer

Giorgi Revishvili

@revishvilig

2 years

Reportedly, Colonel-General Mikhail #Mizintsev is commanding the siege of #Mariupol . He also led the operation in #Syria . Mizintsev is the Head of the National Defense Management Center of #Russia since Dec. 2014. He destroys Mariupol, as he used to reduce Syrian cities to rubble

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Listen! How to Win an Information War serialised on BBC Radio 4

BBC Sounds - How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev on BBC Sounds.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

4 years

Many of us thought this this was a skit at first. Even the camera technique is out of In The Loop. Though in this case it's a farce being repeated as tragedy.

Ian Sams

@IanSams

4 years

TRUMP on 1,000 Americans dying from coronavirus each day: “It is what it is.”

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

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If sanctions are to mean anything this has to be halted - culture of impunity still reigns for western companies helping Russian war crime machine. The whole chain of production needs investigating. The machines that make the machines that make the weapons etc

Olga Tokariuk

@olgatokariuk

1 year

Russia is still able to produce 67 missiles per month, according to estimates of Ukraine defence intelligence (HUR). It used missiles made in 2023 for recent attacks on Kyiv. This also means Russia still receives foreign-made components, despite sanctions

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@peterpomeranzev

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'Torment of hell:' Ukraine medic describes Russians routinely torturing her and other prisoners

A Ukrainian medic captured in the deadly siege of Mariupol tells U.S. lawmakers how Russians routinely tortured her and other prisoners, some fatally.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

@POLITICOEurope No Ukraine is paying the price

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@peterpomeranzev

2 years

@dpatrikarakos is doing amazing reporting- stellar

David Patrikarakos

@dpatrikarakos

2 years

“Our greatest ally in this war is #Russia corruption & the nature of its army. The soldier in the field briefs his officer: ‘it’s not good but we’re holding’; next guy reports up: ‘we’re holding’; the next guy: ‘it’s going well! This is why Putin doesn’t know how bad things are.”

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@peterpomeranzev

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I know it's not clever to talk about the world in terms of 'good versus evil'. Fine. But can we at least agree that evil definitely exists. And we must do everything possible to stop it?

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

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I grew up in a generation where relativism was considered sophisticated and thinking in categories like ‘evil’ deemed naive. We were running away from the question of how to challenge real evil as it bears down relentlessly on everything you love

Letter from Ukraine

LvivMy favourite hotels in Lviv were all booked out over the weekend. The world’s justice elite were in town for a gathering on how to hold Russia accountable for its crimes. The US Attorney General...

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

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Look I know this piece is long, but on the other hand it's still a precis version of my multi-year plod through working out why propaganda and political discourse has gone nuts, and what to do about it if we want to save deliberative democracy....

To Unreality—and Beyond · Issue 6: Unreal

An examination of the “propaganda of unreality” and why age-old principles of resistance to manipulation don’t work against today’s style of unreality.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Governments are being slow. But my sense people in the West finally get it. What Putin represents is so obvious. It not even the words: watch him with the sound off and all is clear. The mean little angry eyes. The sadistic stubby stabby fingers. We all know what this is.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

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Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought clarity about many things- that doesn’t make them easier, but at least we can see our challenges clearly. See superb thread below. Dictatorships like Saudi are not our true partners. Time to unite security, economy and values in alliances

Jessica Berlin

@berlin_bridge

2 years

No one should be surprised that Mohammed bin Bone Saw & Vladimir Novichokovich Putin have buddied up. A thrant (thread-rant) in 6 parts:

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@peterpomeranzev

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A year on from the latest invasion, we're still trying to work out GERMANY WTF?

Peter Pomerantsev: What, Actually, Is Germany’s Problem with Russia?

Our writer has always admired Germany’s approach to its past. Which makes him all the more bewildered about Berlin’s current stance on Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Putin wanted to reset the world order and tilt it harder towards dictatorships and big states bullying small. Instead he's given us a glimpse of a way to counter not just Russia, but also China. Time to realise this is not just a 'local' conflict...

Ukraine must negotiate from a position of strength. But the world’s attention is fading | Peter...

Putin aimed to reset the world order when his forces invaded. Russians must be persuaded he can’t – maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger can help

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

1 year

What an absolute sucker - so simple to manipulate for any colonel

Maria Popova

@PopovaProf

1 year

“Musk’s decision, [..], was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials” How awful that a selfish, uninformed rando affected the course of the war

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

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as the great @fromTGA touches on here there is imperial chauvinism built into so much of 'great' Russian culture. Moreover Moscow's recurrent use of culture as a front for atrocities also helps to explain the disgust with all facets of the 'Russian World'.

In Ukraine, I saw the greatest threat to the Russian world isn’t the west – it’s Putin | Timothy...

The Kremlin’s imperial war has made its own culture a common enemy for people across its former empire, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

3 years

Peace activists are usually the best of us. Often they were right (Vietnam, Iraq). But there are some 'peace' activists who love dictators, back their wars. Is this desire for peace really the desire for security, for a 'protector' figure. Authoritarian urges dressed as anti-war?

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

Look closely and the horror in Ukraine offers us the chance to remake the world for the better. Ukraine has always played this role: the crucible of evil and its antidotes

Ukraine Is Our Past and Our Future

As the horrors in Ukraine are revealed to the world, the echoes with World War Two become impossible to ignore

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

2 years

hey I thought Bout said it was 73 genders? Where she get the extra 12?

Brian Taylor

@bdtaylor_SU

2 years

This is a babushka’s brain on 🇷🇺TV.

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peter pomerantsev

@peterpomeranzev

5 years

You have 30 seconds to solve one of the world’s hardest problems.....love telly:)

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

5 years

“We won’t be able to control content in a user-generated era.” Peter Pomerantsev, author of 'This is Not Propaganda’, says “we have to reveal and be much more transparent about how information is created” in order to combat disinformation #newsnight | @peterpomeranzev

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