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2nd April 2023
For years, Evan did everything he could to tell the story of modern Russia. It is now our turn to keep the light shining on him
theguardian.com My friend Evan Gershkovich is no spy. Just a brave reporter jailed in Moscow | Pjotr Sauer The US journalist arrested last week is the first to be accused of espionage in Russia since the cold war
1st April 2023
Russiain backed Orthodox Church Metropolitan Pavlo Lebid supporting Russia’s genocide in Ukraine has been placed under house arrest #UkraineWar #Ukrainian #UkrainianArmy #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussiaIsCollapsing #UkraineWillWin #Russia #RussiaIsLosing
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1st April 2023
Goodnight #Ukraine. Russia hasn’t changed since 1939. It’s still invading countries.
Michael O’Leary: I think we would go back into Ukraine within days. Certainly immediately with destination flights. #business #Ryanair #ukraineNews
odessa-journal.com Ryanair Group CEO, Michael O’Leary: Airline will return to Ukraine as fast as possible once it is… CEO of Ryanair Group, Michael O’Leary, said that his airline will return to Ukraine as soon as possible, as soon as the aviation authorities deem it safe.
Rare black fallow deer seen in the Baryczy valley in Poland. tanczacachmura
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2nd April 2023
🔴An ex-convict Wagner mercenary on leave from his frontline unit terrorised his home village in central Russia, smashed up cars and allegedly killed an old woman.
Read the full article here: https://telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/01/wagner-mercenary-rampage-in-home-village-russia/
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2nd April 2023
Russia’s Wagner Group mercenary company now comparable to armies of Hungary, Slovakia, according to Ukrainian military spokesman. For context, Slovakia’s Armed Forces number 19,000 personnel, and Hungary’s have 40,000 troops, according to the World Bank 2019 data.
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The mercenaries of the “Wagner” PMC have set up a base in the dungeon of the Artemivsk Champagne Wines Factory in #Bakhmut. The occupiers have headquarters, control rooms, barracks, a hospital and a place for firing. The Wagnerians move around the catacombs in cars.
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This is the Champagne Factory in Bakhmut. Wagner mercenaries turned the dungeon into their headquarters. They use the bottles of sparkling wine to practice their shooting skills. #StopRussia
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Ukrainian Community in Ireland Retweeted
Kyiv, in spring, is the most beautiful city. “Flower sellers,” 1917, by great Ukrainian impressionist Oleksandr Murashko (1875-1919). Unfortunately, his life wasn’t long – he was killed by bolsheviks near his house two years after he made this painting.
Ukrainian Community in Ireland Retweeted
Russian ships return to Ireland’s west coast despite appearing to depart for Africa. Irish tracking efforts stymied by the fact that, as of Friday afternoon, the Naval Service had no ships at sea due to a lack of personnel
2nd April 2023
Ukraine government organization
“Action is character.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Total combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to April 2, 2023:
1st April 2023
A video posted to a Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel Friday and geolocated by CNN shows a black flag, a hallmark of leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s PMC Wagner, flying atop the building in the snow-covered city, west of the river that flows down the middle of Bakhmut #StopRussiaNOW
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Many are welcoming the recent indictments of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. But as
explains, pursuing criminal prosecutions against high-profile political figures carries serious risks. https://bit.ly/40PoUoV
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Just the facts: “He dined w/a white supremacist. He called for termination of the Constitution. He vowed to make retribution a hallmark of a second term. He has called Putin a genius. STILL TRUMP REMAINS A STRONG FRONTRUNNER FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION”
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The state bureaucracy website Gosuslugi has disabled the option that allowed users to delete their profile data. The change happened shortly after the Defense Ministry announced it would start using electronic military summonses this spring.
Ahead of spring military draft, Russian state bureaucracy portal stops letting users delete their…
Quotation from Sam Harris….
Samuel Benjamin Harris is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Wikipedia
Born: April 9, 1967 (age 55 years), Los Angeles, California, United States
“There is never a moment where I find Trump persuasive. When I look at him I see a man without any inner life. I see the most superficial person on Earth. This is a guy who has been totally hollowed out by greed and self regard and delusion. If I caught some sort of brain virus and I started talking about myself the way Trump talks about himself, I would throw myself out a fucking window. That barely overstates it. Do you remember that scene at the end of The Exorcist where the priest is driving out the devil from Linda Blair and the devil comes into him and he just hurls himself out the window to end all the madness? Well, it would be like that.”
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