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Eyes on Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine for The Wall Street Journal. Previously in Turkey, Central Asia, and Central Pennsylvania.

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3 years
Like a scene out of Death of Stalin. Victory Day celebrations in Uzbekistan. This is hilarious.
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3 years
На «Дне памяти» в Узбекистане военные не смогли определиться с тем, как выразить дань уважения гимну страны — отдать честь или приложить руку к сердцу. Выглядело это комично
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2 years
Start of anti-war protests in Russia. This one in Irkutsk.
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2 years
И ещё Иркутск. Начало шествия против войны с Украиной
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1/Earlier this year, @washingtonpost reported that Egypt planned on secretly sending Russia 40,000 rockets. That deal was eventually scuppered by U.S. pressure. What we didn't know was that weeks after the deal was thwarted, a Russian delegation landed in Cairo....
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2 years
A fantastic interview with Fiona Hill on how the West has empowered Putin and the likelihood of nuclear attack. We are already, she said, in the middle of a third World War, whether we’ve fully grasped it or not via @politico
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3/Deliveries are meant to start next month. But that's not all, the Egypt story was just a part of a broad campaign by Russia to turn to its former arms customers for spare parts as it ramps up its own munitions production. Our story w/ @summer_said
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1 year
84 days ago Evan was one of the best reporters covering Russia. Then they threw him in prison. He's still there.
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9 months
2/They wanted to make sure ties with Egypt were still solid and asked Cairo to prove it by giving Moscow more than 100 helicopter engines for the Ukraine front line. At first there was silence from the Egyptian side. But when Sisi met Putin in St Pete this past July he agreed.
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5 years
Sweden has run out of trash.
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6 years
A day after Russian government said it destroyed all its Novichok agents, a Foreign Ministry deputy says neither Russia nor USSR had any programs to develop it to begin with. So that should clear things up.
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2 years
Great to be back in Kyiv
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5 years
Russian train delayed for two hours because a single galloping (?) camel who refused to veer off the tracks
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10 months
Last year, Russia quietly began to steal 100,000s of tons of Ukrainian grain from newly occupied regions, exporting it to Russian-allied countries in the Middle East. Yesterday, our @WSJ video team won a @LoebAwards for their investigation
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3 years
Only one day after being taken off the Ryanair flight.
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3 years
❗️According to his mother, Roman Protasevich is in hospital in critical condition - heart disease.
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8 years
Putin's foreign policy adviser says after 30-min phone call w/ Trump, the Kremlin's still not entirely sure what his position is on Ukraine
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2 years
After Russia’s demonstration of firepower in Kharkiv, this is what’s left of school 134. What’s happened to civilian targets there in the last days must surely be a message intended for Kyiv.
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1 year
More than 300 foreign correspondents who reported from Russia, including yours truly, sign a letter to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, demanding Evan be freed. #IStandWithEvan Journalism is not a crime.
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7 years
The Ladaborghini
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2 years
Shoigu’s acquiescence to the invasion demonstrated his loyalty to Mr. Putin’s po­lit­i­cal ob­jec­tives in Eu­rope. But if the op­er­a­tion fails, the Krem­lin leader would likely look for a scape­goat. “It all de­pends on how this all ends for Putin”
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5 years
Remember when 100 Russian servicemen were sent to Venezuela in what everyone thought was a sign of Russia ramping up support for Maduro? It was because Russia’s state arms contractor was pulling out
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2 years
The last 2 journalists in Mariupol documented its descent into chaos and destruction at the hands of Russian invaders. They were on a Russian hit list as Ukrainian police spirited them out. Please read, understand the dangers they went through to report
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4 years
Pretty stunning account of Russian security service's tailing of Navalny while in Tomsk. Basically this: "We have this file containing everything he did, from the sushi he ordered to the juice he bought and we didn't see him get poisoned, we promise"
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1 year
84 days ago Evan was one of the best reporters covering Russia. Then they threw him in prison for doing his job. He's still there #IStandwithEvan
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2 years
“The failures that we’re see­ing now is them hav­ing to work with a larger force than they’ve ever em­ployed in real com­bat conditions as op­posed to an exercise”
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7 years
“It was crazy - I laid on top of the kids. They’re 20. I‘m 53. I lived a good life,” said Mike McGarry
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4 years
If you want a read on Russia and Biden's Sec of State pick, Antony Blinken, this hour-long interview on everything from meeting Putin before his presidency to the Putin-Trump years, this is a very good place to start
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1 year
“Evan doesn’t want to be the story, he wants to be telling the story from inside Russia.” Evan has been in Russian custody for five days now. He’s no spy. #IStandWithEvan
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2 years
Putin's personal cameraman quit after Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- either because of constant quarantine to be with Putin or opposition to the war, we'll probably never know
@the_ins_ru
The Insider
2 years
«Проект»: из Кремля уволился личный оператор Путина. Это произошло после записи объявления войны против Украины.
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7 years
17th century Cossack map of Buryatia and Lake Baikal. Their maps were oriented facing the rising sun.
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2 years
Kherson was the first major city to fall in the Russian invasion, now it has become the center of Kyiv's counter attack strategy there to push the Russians back and land at Crimea's doorstep
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3 years
U.S. has asked Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to temporarily take in Afghans who assisted with American military’s invasion and occupation of the country as part of a broader U.S. security deal with the central Asian countries
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1 year
In an effort to weed out the disloyal, Russian authorities have started detaining and firing high-ranking officers, including Gen “Armageddon” Surovikin and “Butcher of Mariupol” Col. Gen. Mizintsev. My story on the shockwaves inside the defense ministry
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2 years
In the midst of the Russ­ian in­va­sion, John Spor’s promi­nence in Mariupol as a designer for US weapons became a problem. Soon Chechens showed up at his house. “It’s not safe here anymore,” he told his sister.
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10 months
Russia has based its Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean port of Sevastopol since 1783. Increasing Ukrainian attacks on the fleet however, have forced it to withdraw the bulk of its naval force to safer harbors W/ @jmalsin
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2 years
Of all the responses to Putin's fast-track annexation of four Ukrainian regions, the best may be the head of Ukraine's postal service, Ukrposhta, declaring the Kremlin property of the mail service and that they're opening a Ukrainian post office inside
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1 year
Fascinating reporting by @BrianSpegele on the Russia-China border, where promises of closer ties between Moscow and Beijing aren't panning out. ...a museum in Heihe is dedicated to what's depicted as centuries of aggression by Russia against the Chinese
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3 years
For the last 11 years, I’ve had the incredible luck to report on Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia for @WSJ I’ve made friends, met kindred spirits and had enough adventures for a lifetime, but it’s time for a new chapter.
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2 years
Putin built a power structure that shelters him from bad news and compounded his Ukraine miscalculations. “Vladimir Vladimirovich doesn’t need to be upset right now.” W/ ⁦ @evangershkovich ⁩ ⁦ @drewhinshaw ⁩ ⁦ @JoeWSJ
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6 years
Today 65 years ago Stalin died. Not a bad time to take a look at the amazing work done by Memorial in collecting data of those shot under Stalin
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4 years
Hilarious. Teacher: Give yourself a grade for your work Me and my friend:
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2 years
Behind front lines, Russia is losing a less visible battle — for fuel, food and supplies. A very thorough readout on the logistics failure of the Russian army by ⁦ @StephenFidler1 ⁩ and myself
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7 years
@AnnCoulter @RichardBSpencer On left and right, no one really cares to understand Russia, just a safe place for everyone's projections
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In 20 years, Russia will be the only country that is recognizably European.
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4 years
On Vladimir Putin's birthday today, Pussy Riot has planted a rainbow flag on the main FSB building in Moscow and demands today be declared LBGTQ visibility day. I'm sure we'll see a thoughtful response.
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Peter Verzilov
4 years
Участники Pussy Riot потребовали объявить 7 октября - день рождения Владимира Путина - государственным праздником - "Днем видимости ЛГБТК". С днём видимости, Владимир Владимирович.
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1 year
The most sensitive and beautiful profile of one of the best reporters I've ever worked with by @yaffaesque To make clear that journalism, not spying, is Evan’s métier feels a clarification so obvious as to be offensive to have to put in writing.
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2 years
The surrounding roads are mined and the port blocked. Food is running out, and the Russians have stopped humanitarian attempts to bring it in. Electricity is mostly gone and water is sparse, with residents melting snow to drink.
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2 years
Putin's level of paranoia right now must be so high, I wouldn't be surprised if he came to meetings like these armed.
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Putin meeting from a different time zone.
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7 years
You expose Russian officials building mansions on wildlife preserves, you get beaten with a fractured skull and broken nose. By @NatVasilyevaAP 2017 was supposedly the Year of Ecology in Russia
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2 years
Every paragraph of this report from Mariupol reads like a punch to the gut.
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2 years
The surrounding roads are mined and the port blocked. Food is running out, and the Russians have stopped humanitarian attempts to bring it in. Electricity is mostly gone and water is sparse, with residents melting snow to drink.
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6 years
Amazing story from Korotkov about why bad things happen to those who cross Evgeny Prigozhin, of IRA and and Wagner fame. So good Korotkov even got a severed goat's head and numerous threats as signs of appreciation days before it was published
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2 years
Fast Western military vehicles gave Ukrainian forces the upper hand to pierce RU defensive lines, quickly expand control and create fear among its troops “Without high mobility, we wouldn’t have been able to outplay Russians,” @MBielieskov
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2 years
Dear @LOTPLAirlines I'm going to Ukraine today and you have my bullet proof vest. Thing is, I could really use it.
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8 years
Putin has decided to withdraw from Rome Statute of ICC - which establishes war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity as 'criminal'
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2 years
Dozens of Ukrainian civilians were killed on a 4-mile stretch of road outside Kyiv in March. Our WSJ analysis of videos, photos and social media posts reveals how Russian forces positioned themselves around the road to fire on and kidnap fleeing civilians
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3 years
Starting next week I’ll be the new @WSJ correspondent for Israel and Palestinian Territories. Looking forward to the stories ahead, new friends and working with the team of complete pros we have across the Middle East. Stay tuned!
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6 years
Spring is definitely in the air here in Moscow, along with the rumbling of S-400s, intercontinental ballistic missiles and tanks through the streets
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6 years
The perfect jacket for so many occasions. Moscow Metro Spring 2018 collection
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2 years
In the first days of the war, Ramzan Kadyrov threw his troops into battle. As trouble for Russia mounts, he is straining to prove his utility -- and keep crucial funds from the Kremlin pouring in. W/ @evangershkovich
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7 years
For the Fourth of July, Russian state TV is surgically dissecting "the lie of American democracy." Happy 4th!
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4 years
This getting interviewed by your next of kin thing could really gain some traction here in the post-Soviet space. Off the top of my head, Belarus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan. Any others?
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4 years
. @DonaldJTrumpJr to President Trump: "When I look at your accomplishments -- they're incredible."
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1 year
Putin should have read ⁦ @evangershkovich ⁩ reporting on Russia to understand his Kremlin’s failures, not thrown him in jail. A wonderful tribute to our colleague, now in a Russian jail.⁩ Bring him home. #istandwithevan
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4 years
Russia's defense ministry says it's starting military drills on the Caspian Sea, that is just over 200 miles away from continued shelling and fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh. They also say it's fine and don't worry about it.
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2 years
Russian troops came within minutes of finding Zelensky and his family in the first hours of the war, their gunfire once audible inside his office walls Fantastic interview from ⁦ @shustry
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4 years
Belarus riot police turn, make for a slow retreat and then run for safety as protesters gain ground. Amazing video. h/t @IvarDale
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6 years
Kremlin adviser on Venezuela: ‘It’s too far away and the logistical capacity is lacking to carry out a substantial operation.’
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7 years
A lot depends now on whether Assad escalates on the ground. There are U.S. troops on the ground in Syria that could be targets now.
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10 years
Donetsk Poeple's Republic really hoping the Yes votes win in #Scotland
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4 years
Head of Russian lab that produced Sputnik V Coronavirus vaccine says ready to help Donald Trump fight Covid, "If he appeals officially to the Russian authorities."
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8 years
McCain calls on Trump to help Ukraine against Russia attack
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6 years
When Russians hate Americans, it's a mundane hatred like hating burnt toast. When they hate the British there's an extravagance and passion to it that can't be matched.
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5 years
BDSM Bank: “The bank you’re tied to”
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Вестник базы
5 years
Российский маркетинг, бессмысленный и беспощадный!
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5 years
Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine fixers arrested on campaign-finance charges
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6 years
Great news! Turkish court throws out former ⁦ @WSJ ⁩ Ayla Albayrak’s ⁦ @aylushka_a ⁩ court case, annulling last year’s conviction
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6 years
This is the excellent investigation that got two Reuters journalists arrested and sentenced to prison in Myanmar. Read it, share it.
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RIA’s Kremlin pool making it very clear Putin’s entourage is carrying the nuclear briefcase while he’s in Beijing for the Belt and Road Summit. Stay to the end for the briefcase close up!
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Есть такие чемоданы, без которых не обходится ни одна поездка Путина
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8 years
Russia 24 weather woman says coming rains may complicate efforts to take Palmyra back
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3 years
Painful to see one of Moscow’s best foreign journalists forced out. Thanks for all your work @sarahrainsford
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2 years
In 2019, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency ran war games on how the US should respond if Russia invades Ukraine and uses a nuclear weapon. The results of the war games are classified, one of the participants told me, “There were no happy outcomes.”
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1 year
Girkin-Strelkov ripping into Putin’s state of the union speech line by line 🍿
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2 years
The best way to spite western colonialism is to relocate to North Korea
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Sam Greene
2 years
Дожили
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7 years
Oh cool! You can get free wifi right by the FSB building!
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4 years
The line of Belarusians in line to vote in Moscow is mindblowing.
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3 years
As Navalny supporters try to chip away at passive support for President Putin, they’re running up against the pillars on which he’s built his rule: Putin’s political base, apathy and those who fear change in the country
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Erdogan cancels @Enes_Kanter 's passport for his support of Gulen's hizmet movement. Stuck in Romanian airport
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I'm being held at Romanian airport by Police!!
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2 years
Russia's announced its withdrawal from Kherson, the only regional capital it seized during its invasion "Kherson and surrounding areas can't be fully supplied under the current conditions"
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5 years
At 2:32 p.m., Russian ground control can be heard in an Air Force transmission providing a pilot with a longitude and latitude that correspond to Nabad al Hayat hospital’s exact location. A look into Russia’s systematic bombing of Syrian hospitals.
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4 years
I’m amazed this needs repeating, but it apparently does. It’s like we learned nothing from 2016. The need to wonder whether Russia wants this or that candidate just shows how susceptible the US is to these campaigns.
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Jake Tapper
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3/ The report in the Washington Post, which broke the story, stated not that the Russians want Sanders to get election president, but rather that "Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest."
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2 years
“They’ve spent decades work­ing to con­trol in­for­ma­tion the Rus­sians re­ceive, but you just can’t hide a mush­room cloud,” said Mr. Spencer.
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Eight months into Ukraine’s war with Russia, its emerging strategy combines classic military ops with battlefield opportunism to exploit incompetence of Russian forces—and is changing the course of the fight W/ ⁦ @StephenFidler1 ⁦⁦ @marson_jr
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7 years
Requiem for a hitman, a look into the life and death of the man who followed the fight against Russia. @AlanCullison and I report.
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5 years
Looks like the Duma is calling an extraordinary session next week to discuss interference in Russia's internal affairs, i.e. find a way to pin blame for ongoing Moscow protests on the U.S. - if experience is anything to go by.
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