Posted by “When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don’t know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell you. You have no way of checking up on them. You have no way of deciding whether there is any truth in what they are saying.” Howard Zinn
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According to the businessman, who has been on US sanctions lists since 2018 and who is considered by the US authorities to be one of the oligarchs closest to #Putin, the situation in the economy is “very difficult” and will remain so until at least 2025. #RussiaIsCollapsing
2nd March 2023
WSJ — “More than 1,000 multinational companies have left or substantially curtailed operations in Russia, according to the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, which has compiled a database of the corporate exodus since the beginning of the war”
Global Companies Are Finding It Hard to Leave Russia
Every Russian Commander in the chain of orders for acts like this will be held accountable by a War Crimes Tribunal after Ukraine wins this War. We, the international community, should establish a Tribunal now and put Russian Commanders on notice…they cannot act with impunity.
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Nika Melkozerova
@NikaMelkozerova
Mar 2
Zaporizhzhia tonight. Russian missile hit a five-story residential building at night when people were sleeping. This is a Ukrainian city Russia has attached to its own territory, even though it doesn’t even control the most part of the region, just cause Russia wants to.
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3rd March 2023
LATEST with top journo Irina Tabaranu of
on jailed Transnistrian dissident Victor Plescanov. He remains in prison without right to appeal. Activist
says sanctions are in order against the regime- exclusive – #freeVictor
Don’t miss our Twitter Space with
on Friday 3/3 at 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) to find out more about the aberrations of the Russian state and how to hold Russia accountable. https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1yNGaNPLZWqJj
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EUvsDisinfo
@EUvsDisinfo
Feb 28
.@Billbrowder has been raising awareness of aberrations of the Russian state, and therefore has been the Kremlin’s a target for years. How does he keep the good fight alive? Join us on Twitter Space on Friday 3/3 at 17.00 CET to
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WSJ — “More than 1,000 multinational companies have left or substantially curtailed operations in Russia, according to the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, which has compiled a database of the corporate exodus since the beginning of the war”
Global Companies Are Finding It Hard to Leave Russia
Tangled in sanctions and Russian bureaucracy, or just looking for a buyer, many companies who promised quick exits are still there.
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3rd March 2023
Russian pilot gets 12 years in prison for bombing Kharkiv Oblast
pravda.com.ua Russian pilot gets 12 years in prison for bombing Kharkiv Oblast A Russian pilot who bombed the Kharkiv TV tower has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. ============
Ukraine government organization
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We will never forget the defenders who gave lives for our freedom and independence. We remember the horrific price our people pay for a free and peaceful future. Eternal memory and glory to our warriors!
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3rd March 2023
Ukraine government organization
reporting from a hospital in Bakhmut
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Nobel laureate Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in prison in Belarus
pravda.com.ua Nobel laureate Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in prison in Belarus A court in Minsk, Belarus, has sentenced Nobel laureate and political prisoner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison, while three other human
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VIDEO: Russian Foreign Minister draws audible laughs from the audience when he claims the war was started by Ukraine
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3rd March 2023
The first “Spartan” armored personnel carriers purchased by the Serhiy Prytula Foundation are already in Ukraine. Along with the “Spartan” : FV434, medical evac. command machines “Sultan”, “Stormer”, FV432 “Bulldog” and “Samson”.
Ukrainian Community in Ireland Retweeted
3rd March 2023
The so-called “anti-war” rallies in Europe and the U.S. have marched against arming Ukraine, which in the demonstrators’ view would bring an end to Russia’s war of aggression. In reality, such protests play into Russia’s hands. By
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3rd March 2023
The club, called Wagneryonok (“Junior Wagnerite”), currently has 60 members and aims to foster patriotism and prepare young Russians for military service.
In a video published by his press service, Prigozhin can be seen saying that Kyiv’s forces had access to only one road leading out of the city, which has been the site of bloody fighting for months.
3rd March 2023
Exiled Russian activists are working hard to remain one step ahead of the Kremlin and relevant to their audiences from abroad.
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3rd March 2023
IS KADYROV, THE CHIPMUNK, EXPIRING? A source well-connected in Russia tells me that sadistic despot Ramzan Kadyrov’s kidneys are failing. Prigozhin wants to kill Kadyrov (and might), but another terrible sickness (aka Hepatitis C) might be behind Kadyrov’s early expiration.
3rd March 2023
NEWS submarine “Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky” fired a cruise missile “Caliber” from the Sea of Japan , at a ground target, as combat training. The firing range exceeded 1 thousand kilometers. CONCLUSION: We, again, have lights in Kyiv : Russia’s Navy is a rusty bucket.
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3rd March 2023
#RamzanKadyrov Is Reportedly Gravely Ill With Kidney Problems According to Kazakh journalist Azamat Maytanov, the chief nephrologist of the UAE has already arrived in Grozny to treat the Head of #Chechnya and key Kremlin ally
Ramzan Kadyrov Is Reportedly Gravely Ill With Kidney Problems
According to Kazakh journalist Azamat Maytanov, the chief nephrologist of the UAE has already arrived in Grozny to treat the
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3rd March 2023
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Head of the Defence Committee in the German #Bundestag, has criticised the decisions made by former German Chancellor Angela #Merkel, which, in her opinion, made a full-scale Russian attack on #Ukraine possible. : Bundesregierung
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The Odessa Journal
During a working visit to the Lviv region, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited one of the hospitals treating wounded Ukrainian defenders who fought, in particular, in the Bakhmut area. #Zelensky #Ukraine #UkraineWar
odessa-journal.com Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited wounded Ukrainian soldiers in Lviv hospital and presented awards |… During a working visit to the Lviv region, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited one of the hospitals treating wounded
3rd March 2023
In 2008, many supporters of the early acceptance of Ukraine in #NATO, but #Germany and #France opposed it because of Russia’s position. #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UKraineWarNews
3rd March 2023
Russia’s FSB has released first footage from the site of “the attack by Ukrainian saboteurs” in the Bryansk region. 1/4 Video: the FSB
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A young Polish woman volunteering in Ukraine drives near the frontlines during a loud artillery duel.
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3rd March 2023
Bakhmut was visited by the commander of the Eastern Group of Forces Alexander Syrsky for the second time in a week
3rd March 2023
Mobile DNA labs allow identifying those killed in Ukraine in just over an hour Without them, id’g those killed in a mass grave in Izium would have stretched out for 5 years. Ukraine is using them to build 24.6k war crime cases agst Russia
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3rd March 2023
Estonia’s Foreign Minister
believes that Ukraine’s membership in NATO is the only way to guarantee its security, apart from the “impossible and undesirable” option of delivering nuclear weapons to Ukraine
euromaidanpress.com Only restoring Ukraine’s nuclear status can be an alternative to its NATO membership – Estonia’s… Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu believes that Ukraine’s membership in NATO is the only way to guarantee its security, apart
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3rd March 2023
The Wagner Group and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin provide guns for hire in a murky global operation with close links to Putin. #AJStartHere with
explains who they are and why the war in Ukraine has shifted things. Watch the full episode http://aje.me/SH23
Who Watches the Watchers? 