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02 Agentstvo journalists have identified some of the soldiers invited to join Putin’s new “true elite” managerial school, and wouldn’t you know it there are multiple suspected war criminals among the bunch. https://www.agents.media/obvinyaemyj-v-rasstrele-mirnogo-zhitelya-v-buche-popal-v-novuyu-elitu-putina/
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03 Confirmation of what has seemed inevitable and ongoing for some time already: “Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons” https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/biden-ukraine-weapons-strike-russia-00160731
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04 The Ukrainian sources who spoke to FT for this story seem to be quite worried about Zelensky’s mental state when it comes to his growling at Biden. Ze has grown more “emotional and nervous.” The feeling inside Ze’s office is “paranoia” and “deep anxiety.” He’s “biting the hand that feeds you.” https://www.ft.com/content/96697013-abe9-4873-84fa-fabe59775aff
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05 It's like watching Frieza's power transformations in reverse.
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06 Political analysts weigh in on Putin appointing his former security chief to head Russia’s State Council. Theories include “he’s counterbalancing the Security Council” and “Putin is testing/training Alexey Dyumin for bigger future roles.” https://www.agents.media/putin-uslozhnil-strukturu-vlasti-naznachiv-svoego-byvshego-adyutanta-sekretarem-gossoveta/
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07 This dunk on Putin’s clearly bad-faith reading of the Ukrainian Constitution would feel a lot more confident if Stefanchuk didn’t sprinkle in the insinuation that some of his colleagues in the legislature are maybe traitors in league with The Enemy.
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08 Armenian regulators have taken Channel One off the air, citing unpaid debts owed by its local subsidiary. In recent months, officials have censored shows from Tigran Keosayan and Vladimir Solovyov for violating local media rules and insulting Armenians. https://zona.media/news/2024/05/28/armenia
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09 Nikki Haley's aide before boarding the plane to Israel: Madam, I'm terribly sorry. The only movie I saved to your iPad before our flight is the original Mortal Kombat adaptation. I can't apologize enough for this oversi—Nikki Haley: It's fine.
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10 it's more of what you'd call a guide-red-linehttps://c.im/@CNN/112521117927914474
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11 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the former United States ambassador to the United Nations.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/28/nikki-haley-finish-them-missile-israel
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12 I guess this is what you have to resort to when you don't own a popular messenger app of your own? https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166451/telegram-copilot-microsoft-ai-chatbot
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13 Russia ditching its flat income tax feels like streaming services morphing back into traditional cable networks in the sense that it’s a real incentive to return to old illegal habits (tax evasion / copyright piracy).
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14 It’s post-election time, which means let’s get some unpopular policymaking out of the way. Russia is moving toward reinstating progressive personal income taxes. The tax evasion to come will blow your mind. https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/05/28/russia-s-finance-ministry-proposes-return-to-progressive-taxes-on-personal-income
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15 Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk dismisses Putin’s suggestion that Zelensky has lost legitimacy because of suspended presidential elections. Stefanchuk also suggests that “Ukrainian” politicians (his scare quotes) who echo these criticisms of Ze are “preparing the ground.”https://www.facebook.com/stefanchuk.official/posts/pfbid0opmKktxEkFAe2H7Gwy6J66gMxb4k5ppH8qpUF5uqrWhouGmLAEDvQ3GmzNJKief8l
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16 Footage of Macron earlier today calling on NATO allies to allow Kyiv to use Western advanced weapons to “neutralize” military bases located inside Russia.
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17 Folks, we at @meduza_en are polling you fine people to find out what makes you tick. If you’ve got a spare minute, please share a little autobiographical info and then spill the beans. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/05/28/help-make-meduza-better
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18 The event is also happening less than two weeks before the first scheduled Biden-Trump televised debate.
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19 Zelensky says Putin will applaud Biden’s decision not to attend the June 15–16 “peace summit” in Switzerland. The event, to which Russia is not invited, is roughly 140 days before Biden faces reelection in a race where Trump has (narrowly) led polls for eight straight months.
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20 This is sad. Threads is another corporate nightmare, and Bluesky still lacks the freedom and customization available on Mastodon. Oh well.
https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/112518875269848230
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21 Putin explains his views on what remains of the Ukrainian government’s “legitimacy.”
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22 Not sure what to make of this comparison between Yeltsin-Zyuganov and Biden-Trump. Zygar's point seems to be that it's dangerous to pin a nation's hopes on one man, but surely Trump's side does this, too. Also, Yeltsin cheated to win reelection and then tapped a future dictator to rule in his stead. That applies to Biden how exactly? I confess that this essay is more head-scratcher than mind-blower. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/opinion/trump-biden-yeltsin-russia.html
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23 Go figure: the active soldiers & veterans who competed for Sept-elections candidacy in United Russia’s recent primaries almost universally failed. In Moscow, they averaged almost 100x fewer votes than the winners. Quite an insight into public views. https://t.me/svobodnieslova/4940
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24 The mayor's office in Novosibirsk has banned a rally by the relatives of mobilized soldiers. The relatives wanted to assemble to demand better psychological care for the soldiers' children, warning that neglected children can be as big a social problem as returning soldiers. https://t.me/zovmobikov/115
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25 Axios: Elon Musk's xAI raises $6 billion to challenge OpenAIhttps://www.axios.com/2024/05/27/elon-musk-xai-6-billion-funding-investors
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26 Russian news podcast titles sound like what you whisper to your friend when returning to your seat in the movie theater after leaving mid-film to go pee.
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27 Hmm. Telegram is reportedly getting a new "Fact Check" feature wherein participating national governments will be able to appoint specific fact-checking orgs to work with Telegram to provide explanatory notes that will appear with content. 🤨 https://t.me/d_code/19247
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28 The dozen or so police cases filed in Russia against Meduza journalists and readers now includes charges against Meduza cofounder and CEO Galina Timchenko. She's accused of "participating in an undersirable org," which is an understatement of course. https://zona.media/news/2024/05/27/timchenko
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29 Dmitry Galanov got a hero's burial earlier this month in Udmurtia. He died fighting in Ukraine after signing up from prison, where he served less than half of a 9.5-year prison sentence for crippling a woman by hitting her in the head with a hammer when robbing her. https://t.me/news_sirena/28444
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30 Russian lawmakers are moving forward with legislation that would introduce new fines on films, books, etc. that "propagate drug use." The dude does not abide in the land of Putin. https://t.me/sotaproject/81120
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31 Russian lawmakers are moving forward with legislation that would introduce new fines on films, books, etc. that "propagate drug use." The dude does not abide in the land of Putin. https://t.me/sotaproject/81120
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32 A court in Turkey has acquitted Mohammad Nizar Arnabeh of murdering Russian feminist activist Anastasia Emelyanova, his fiancée. He initially said he accidentally pushed her into a glass table during an argument. Then he confessed to stabbing her in the leg with a glass shard. Then he said he wasn't even home that evening. https://zona.media/news/2024/05/27/emelyanova
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33 Memorial Day wishes to all my compatriots out there whose families have lost loved ones in uniform. 🇺🇲🪖
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34 Rumors on Telegram that Russia’s new defense minister, Andrey Belousov, is planning a big conference with z-bloggers and "war correspondents," supposedly to boost his image with these influencers and emphasize his break with Shoigu. https://t.me/protiktok/11275
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35 Alex Garland's film "Civil War" is called "Fall of an Empire" in Russian. 👀
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36 Belgorod governor reports that 4 were killed yesterday in Ukrainian shelling, which injured another 18 people, including 2 children. He also says the govt is pressuring creditors to adjust/forgive the debts of locals whose relatives have died in attacks. https://t.me/vvgladkov/7393
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37 Russia is producing artillery shells around three times faster than Ukraine's Western allies and for about a quarter of the cost, according to an analysis by the management consulting firm Bain & Company. https://news.sky.com/story/russia-is-producing-artillery-shells-around-three-times-faster-than-ukraines-western-allies-and-for-about-a-quarter-of-the-cost-13143224
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38 Russia plans to host a meeting of BRICS countries at around the same time as a Swiss-arranged peace conference for Ukraine, which Zelensky just asked Biden and Xi to attend in a video filmed from wreckage in Kharkiv. https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/le-pen-kicks-out-germanys-afd-eyes-bigger-family/"The meeting in Moscow will take place on the level of foreign ministers, which, if confirmed, means China won’t be dispatching top envoy Wang Yi to the Swiss meeting," reports POLITICO. "Beijing earlier told EU diplomats that they won’t be inclined to send a high-level representation to the Swiss event if Russia is not invited." (Russia isn't invited.)
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39 The death toll in Russia’s missile attack on a hardware superstore in Kharkiv climbs to six civilians. Meanwhile, four people are reported dead in Ukrainian attacks today in Belgorod. https://t.me/news_sirena/28395
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40 Interesting report from Kommersant about Major General Ivan Popov, the former 58th Army commander who lost his post after criticizing the brass and was recently arrested on embezzlement charges. It seems he wasn't the original suspect in the case. An unnamed other general allegedly did the embezzling and then transferred (some) of the proceeds to Popov before dying in combat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6727115
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Agentstvo journalists have identified some of the soldiers invited to join Putin’s new “true elite” managerial school, and wouldn’t you know it there are multiple suspected war criminals among the bunch. https://www.agents.media/obvinyaemyj-v-rasstrele-mirnogo-zhitelya-v-buche-popal-v-novuyu-elitu-putina/
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Обвиняемый в расстреле мирного жителя в Буче попал в «новую элиту» Путина • «Агентство»
Офицер 76-й гвардейской десантно-штормовой дивизии ВДВ Нурсултан Муссагалеев прошел отбор в первый поток кадровой программы «Время героев», которую создали по предложению Владимира Путина для формирования «подлинной элиты» России. Служба безопасности Украины обвиняла лично Муссагалеев в причастности к пыткам и убийствам мирных жителей Бучи и окрестностей. Детали. Организаторы программы «Время героев», стартовавшей в 27 мая, не […]
Confirmation of what has seemed inevitable and ongoing for some time already: “Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons” https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/biden-ukraine-weapons-strike-russia-00160731
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Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons
It's a major reversal that will help Ukraine to better defend its second-largest city.
The Ukrainian sources who spoke to FT for this story seem to be quite worried about Zelensky’s mental state when it comes to his growling at Biden. Ze has grown more “emotional and nervous.” The feeling inside Ze’s office is “paranoia” and “deep anxiety.” He’s “biting the hand that feeds you.” https://www.ft.com/content/96697013-abe9-4873-84fa-fabe59775aff
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The Ukrainian sources who spoke to FT for this story seem to be quite worried about Zelensky’s mental state when it comes to his growling at Biden. Ze has grown more “emotional and nervous.” The feeling inside Ze’s office is “paranoia” and “deep anxiety.” He’s “biting the hand that feeds you.”
https://www.ft.com/content/96697013-abe9-4873-84fa-fabe59775affIt's like watching Frieza's power transformations in reverse.
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Attached: 1 image It's like watching Frieza's power transformations in reverse.
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Political analysts weigh in on Putin appointing his former security chief to head Russia’s State Council. Theories include “he’s counterbalancing the Security Council” and “Putin is testing/training Alexey Dyumin for bigger future roles.” https://www.agents.media/putin-uslozhnil-strukturu-vlasti-naznachiv-svoego-byvshego-adyutanta-sekretarem-gossoveta/
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Путин усложнил структуру власти, назначив своего бывшего адъютанта секретарем Госсовета • «Агентство»
Владимир Путин назначил экс-губернатора Тульской области и своего бывшего адъютанта Алексея Дюмина на пост секретаря Госсовета. Это второй за две недели новый пост для Дюмина, который в начале мая был переведен с поста губернатора Тульской области на должность помощника президента. Детали. Пресс-секретарь президента Дмитрий Песков объяснил назначение «процессом ротации». Дюмин будет решать вопросы функционирования этой […]
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This dunk on Putin’s clearly bad-faith reading of the Ukrainian Constitution would feel a lot more confident if Stefanchuk didn’t sprinkle in the insinuation that some of his colleagues in the legislature are maybe traitors in league with The Enemy.
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This dunk on Putin’s clearly bad-faith reading of the Ukrainian Constitution would feel a lot more confident if Stefanchuk didn’t sprinkle in the insinuation that some of his colleagues in the legislature are maybe traitors in league with The Enemy.
Armenian regulators have taken Channel One off the air, citing unpaid debts owed by its local subsidiary. In recent months, officials have censored shows from Tigran Keosayan and Vladimir Solovyov for violating local media rules and insulting Armenians. https://zona.media/news/2024/05/28/armenia
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В Армении за долги приостановили вещание Первого канала
В Армении приостановили вещание российского Первого канала. Об этом агентству ArmenPress сообщил министр высокотехнологи...
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Nikki Haley's aide before boarding the plane to Israel: Madam, I'm terribly sorry. The only movie I saved to your iPad before our flight is the original Mortal Kombat adaptation. I can't apologize enough for this oversi—Nikki Haley: It's fine.
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Nikki Haley's aide before boarding the plane to Israel: Madam, I'm terribly sorry. The only movie I saved to your iPad before our flight is the original Mortal Kombat adaptation. I can't apologize enough for this oversi— Nikki Haley: It's fine.
it's more of what you'd call a guide-red-linehttps://c.im/@CNN/112521117927914474
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#News White House says attack at Rafah camp did not cross Biden’s red line over supporting Israel
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