The Kremlin banned public and private media from widely covering Navalny's funeral
A Moscow Times source close to the Kremlin and a senior official at a major national publication said that the presidential administration instructed both state television and online media not to cover Navalny's farewell and funeral
2003 Yuri Shchekochikhin
2003 Sergei Yushenkov
2006 Anna Politkovskaya
2006 Alexander Litvinenko
2009 Stanislav Markelov
2009 Anastasia Baburova
2009 Natalia Estemirova
2009 Sergei Magnitsky
2015 Boris Nemtsov
2024 Alexei Navalny
Khrystyna and Svitlana were singing in the street in Zaporizhzhia an hour before a Russian missile strike on the city, and this video of them was filmed.
One of them died yesterday at the site of the strike. She was 19 years old. The other girl died in the ICU today. She was 21.
Knowing US MAGA Republicans, Donald Trump, and House Speaker Mike Johnson have procedurally blocked all US military aid to Ukraine, Putin is depleting Ukrainian Air defenses by overwhelming it with missiles; 110+ Russian rockets last night alone across Ukraine!
Putin and the Republicans will leave the Ukrainians defenseless against the Russian barbaric onslaught!
Nothing to see here, just the GOP carrying #Putin’s water… again.
Jennifer Griffin:
#Russia launches cruise missiles for first time in 80 days at Kyiv after Putin congratulates Republicans for blocking aid to #Ukraine in address on Russian State TV.
US Republicans block further aid in budget agreement
Strong support for pro-Putin candidate in Slovakia
Russian ally Serbia moves military to Kosovo border
#Putin is patient, wages a multi-front war of attrition against the West and uses disinformation and the platforms of extremist populists like US Republicans as his tool.
I haven’t even bothered to post about it because of the framing.
Applebaum nailed it.
Via Anne Applebaum:
It wasn't an "election" in #Russia; stop using that word.
It was an orchestrated propaganda exercise designed to convince Russians, and the rest of us, to ignore the catastrophe #Putin has inflicted on his nation. 300,000+ Russian men are dead and wounded for no reason at all.
This is what a traitor to the United States looks like in 2024.
His name is Tucker Carlson.
He took a large amount of money from Vladimir Putin to interview him, give him a hyped up positive spin, and then blame President Biden for the war in Ukraine.
#Krugman: "The answer is, unfortunately, obvious. Whatever Republican hard-liners may say, they want Putin to win. They view the Putin regime’s cruelty and repression as admirable features that America should emulate. They support a wannabe dictator at home and are sympathetic to actual dictators abroad.
What they are, basically, is enemies of democracy, both abroad and at home."
For those of you who thought this story wasn’t being carried by MSM, it is. I’ve seen it everywhere.
AFP—President #Biden slammed as "appalling and dangerous" comments by Donald #Trump downplaying US commitments to #NATO, warning Sunday that the former president intends to give #Russia leader Vladimir #Putin "a greenlight for more war and violence."
#Putin's interview was beyond embarrassing, to be honest. Basically his entire argument is that #Ukraine historically belonged to #Russia.
By his own logic, Russia and Ukraine should both be part of Iran because the ancient Scythians (an Iranic people) lived there thousands of years ago, long before the arrival of the Slavic peoples.
This is exactly why I hope we erase natl borders one day and become one global federation. This planet doesn't belong to anyone. We're just guests here.
"And if Mr Putin and the Russian officials are worried about their troops in Ukraine getting hit with weapons from other countries, then the easiest thing to do is just take your troops and leave"
Putin’s plane has left Moscow for St. Petersburg. Looks like he is fleeing from the advancing Wagner Group military column (twitter.com)
Matt Gaetz would rather have Russia than Ukraine in NATO (www.newsweek.com)
"Why would you pick Ukraine? Why not extend NATO to Russia and make it an anti-China alliance?" the GOP congressman said.