Fascism has come to America. What else can you say? These images are just from today. He calls his enemies "vermin," wants to revoke media broadcast licenses, and foments hate against members of ethnic minority groups, whom he promises to deport by the millions in order to fix country's problems.
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On Oct. 7, 2006, Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her apartment building in Moscow. 18 years ago today. The newspaper and the independent reporting it represented are gone in Russia now, too. Also today, Putin turns 72.
I was eleven months into my year-long Fulbright dissertation research stay in Russia when this happened. I initially couldn't imagine they would do that to their own people, but I soon landed on the "it was the FSB" side of the debate.
In 1999, terrorists blew up four residential buildings in Russia, and two other attacks were reportedly thwarted. But to this day, a person’s view on “what really happened” in one of these cases is a good proxy for their views on the current government. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
The phrase “apartment bombings” in Russia evokes a series of terrorist attacks that happened in September 1999. In two weeks, terrorists blew up four residential buildings in various Russian regions, ...
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I'm in the USA, not the UK, but my son is a German major at university and leaves today for 11 months as an exchange student in Germany. I shared this post with him.
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Donald Trump is holding a rally in North Carolina today with Mark Robinson, a virulent misogynist, antisemite, and far-right MAGA extremist. Here is a thread of what Donald Trump endorses. 🧵
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This whole thread and especially this tweet offer excellent insights into the timing of the prisoner swap and how the differences between Biden's transatlanticism and Trump's Euro confrontationalism are likely perceived in Moscow.
@christogrozev: The following is simply an opinion on why Putin agreed (counterintuitively) to a swap deal before Trump came to power (which in Russian calculus has been a given for over a year). The…