Robert Horvath
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Academic @Latrobe . Admirer of East Slavic cultures. Sanctioned by Russian Foreign Ministry. Author of Putin's Fascists (2021).
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This is wrong. Putin's dictatorship is founded upon social atomisation. Under totalitarian conditions, citizens acting together in public space is radically subversive. There is nothing the regime wants more than for a de-politicised population to cower in their apartments. 1/9
This was a foolish strategy by the Russian opposition: These people's votes are going to be stolen anyway, and lines at polling stations allows the regime to claim a high turnout, making the sham vote seem legitimate.
When faced with a sham election simply don't participate.
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Navalny's death has not only provoked an outpouring of grief among his admirers. It has also triggered an explosion of ill-informed commentary from Western 'experts.' In terms of factual errors and racist bigotry, this diatribe in Foreign Policy is probably the worst. 1/16
The West has got to stop placing all of its chips on a singular Russian opposition figure.
It’s failed, over and over again. And it distracts us from how much of a threat Russian nationalism truly is—and how far it extends beyond Putin.
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The worst thing about the anti-Western left is not its hostility to democratic values, but its lack of empathy - its inability to understand the role of fear in the lives of those living under brutal dictatorships.
@SpiritofHo
"This is State Institution for Measuring Public Support for the Glorious Leader speaking, are you ready to answer a couple of questions anonymously, public sector worker Ivan Petrovich, date of birth 12.04.1974, place of residence 19 Govnarskaya street, apartment 54?"
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No political myth is more pernicious than the idea that revolutionaries and freedom-fighters can do no wrong. For over century, a parade of enlightened intellectuals have abdicated their moral judgment and whitewashed progressive atrocities in the name of 'solidarity.' 1/3
No progressive should feel the need to publicly condemn any choices by the Palestinian resistance. Doing so just adds to the perception that their cause is unjust. Condemnation is the speech-act you perform when breaking contact off with someone, not when standing in solidarity.
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Few have done more than Professors Walt and Mearsheimer to normalise Putin's aggression and to nurture the politics of appeasement.
Here Walt spreads the falsehood that Russians 'across the political spectrum saw Ukraine joining NATO ... as a threat.' 1/7
If you're alarmed about a possible Chinese "base" on Cuba, you might begin to grasp why Russians from across the political spectrum saw Ukraine joining NATO one day as a threat. Doesn't make the invasion any less illegal or tragic, but it does help you understand why it happened.
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Wrong.
@Navalny
's focus on corruption makes it harder for Putin to wage war. It delegitimises a regime that claims to be defending Russia against the evil, materialistic West, while its elite enjoy a plutocratic, 'Western' lifestyle of 'yachts and mansions.' 1/3
As a Central Asian, I have always been struck by the way in which
@Navalny
and his colleagues focus on corruption as the most pressing problem in 🇷🇺. When their country wages a brazenly imperialist war against 🇺🇦, the unwavering focus on yachts and mansions seems oddly myopic. 🧵
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More lies about Ukraine from the British left. The journalist Owen Jones claims that only 10,000 Ukrainians civilians have died in Russia's war, 'according to the UN.' He fails to mention that this figure - which only records confirmed deaths - is a massive underestimation. 1/3
My question to
@piersmorgan
.
If you consider Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to be genocide, then why not Israel’s invasion of Gaza?
The death rate is much higher.
The overall destruction is much worse.
The genocidal rhetoric is there.
So why not?
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Error 1. Navalny did not 'spend years… refusing to condemn Moscow’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014.' In fact Navalny opposed the invasion loudly and repeatedly. 2/16
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An appallingly uncritical interview by
@Peter_Fitz
with the pro-Putin film maker and conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone. Fitzsimmons, a popular historian, leaves a succession of lies about recent history unchallenged. 1/7
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Those who mock Russians' passivity under Putin's dictatorship might try to imagine themselves in the place of 18-year old antiwar activist Maksim Lypkan. Cellmates forcibly shaved his head, leaving him with a 'rooster' crest, & threatened to rape him. 1/3
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Images of 'Russian culture' are central to the propaganda of Putin's genocidal war. So it is hardly surprising that many Ukrainians have come to despise the very idea of Russian culture. But the claim that 'Russian culture created Putin' is simplistic & counter-productive. 1/17
Russian culture created Vladimir Putin.
There are still many people who “admire russian culture.” Such people believe that it is “Putin’s war against Ukraine.” These beliefs couldn’t be further from truth.
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It is difficult to think of a better way for
#NAFO
to discredit itself than by drawing parallels between the perpetrators of a genocidal war and those campaigning to liberate a political prisoner - who is being tortured as these zealots tap on their keyboards. 1/2
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Powerful statement on genocide apologists by the distinguished historian and writer Maria Tumarkin.
She explains her withdrawal from the Adelaide Writers' Festival for featuring a Palestinian writer who vilified Zelensky as 'Nazi-promoting Zionist' 1/7
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On 12 March, he used his blog to explain his opposition to the invasion as a violation of Russia's international obligations under the Budapest Memorandum & because 'the change of state borders in Europe with the use of force is unacceptable' 4/16
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Error 2. The claim that Navalny's interview where he said that Crimea would not be quickly returned to Ukraine was evidence of 'revanchist' views. His actual position was that the invasion had created a political problem- like Cyprus & Kosovo -that would not be easily solved.6/16
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It's 7 years since death of André Glucksmann, the French anti-totalitarian philosopher who made common cause with Soviet dissidents, with Memorial & Politkovskaya, & raised the alarm about Putin while Western leaders were signing gas deals & praising the dictator 1/5
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Navalny's anti-revanchist position is obvious in the same interview, where he stated:'there is nothing more damaging to the interests of the Russian people than this imperialist chauvinism. It is not in the interests of Russians to be engaged in seizing neighboring republics.7/16
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Casey's incitement to hate is also a gift to the Kremlin propagandists, who are desperate to show that the West is seeking to destroy not merely Putin's dictatorship but Russian culture as such. Expect his words to be quoted repeatedly by Moscow's war propagandists. 16/16
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On 19 March, he denounced Putin in the NYT for resorting to 'imperialist annexation' as 'a strategic choice to bolster his regime’s survival.' He also debunked Kremlin propaganda claims that Crimea was dear to Russian hearts. 5/16
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Stalin's terror, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's killing fields, & Ethiopia's Red Terror, all found their apologists in the best Western universities. What they failed to grasp is that violence & terror becomes a way of life that invariably corrupts the perpetrators. 2/3
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As leader of the Party of Progress, he was behind a March 2 statement that condemned the invasion as contradicting Russia's interests, and called for a halt to Russia's preparations for intervention. 3/16
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Error 3. The treatment of Navalny as an ethnonationalist on the basis of statements from a very short period in 2007-08, when he was trying to build an anti-Putin coalition of liberals and nationalists, on the model of Ukraine's Orange Revolution. 9/16
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This exercise in psychoanalytical cultural relativism is a gift to the Kremlin. By locating the origins of Putin's genocidal war in Russian culture and history, it exonerates the leaders who ordered it and the security forces and mercenaries that implemented it. 1/6
‘Russia is a culture where you have crime without punishment and punishment without crime’. The Ukrainian scholars Tetiana Ogarkova and
@yermolenko_v
helps me understand what lies behind Russia’s acts of extreme violence
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The reality is that Navalny evolved and his position on Russian nationalism changed. By 2011, he was exhorting the crowd at a radical nationalist rally to empathise with the plight of the inhabitants of the Muslim republics of the Russian Caucasus. 10/16
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1/14 The ground around the Putin regime is cracking. Nearly 800 students and staff at the Moscow State University of International Relations, an elite university and training ground for diplomats, sign anti-war petition
#StandWithUkraine
Translation follows.
Hundreds of MGIMO students and faculty sign a letter protesting Russia's war in Ukraine. . Mostly just young people who once imagined a diplomatic career. Respect.
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Casey's factual errors and his failure to grasp the divergent possibilities of nationalism leads him to an appalling conclusion: 'the West must focus on snuffing out Russian nationalism, wherever it finds it.' This is the crude, genocidal language of Kremlin talk-shows. 15/16
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Prof. Steven Seegel, a brilliant scholar and one of academia's most eloquent defenders of Ukraine, has prompted an important discussion about Navalny's team and the Ukrainian cause. I'd like to contribute a thread. 1/11
How many protests against the war has the Navalny team organized? How much money have they sent to Ukrainian victims of war and genocide? What humanitarian aid orgs alternative to UN and Red Cross have they founded? What are their plans for reparation and reconstruction? GO. 🇺🇦
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By 2013, militant Russian nationalists like Egor Prosvirin had had enough, and were declaring that Navalny had never been a Russian nationalist, merely a liberal who had used nationalists for his own ends. 11/16
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An appalling headline in Melbourne's
@theage
, which treats Putin's mockery of the democratic process as if it were a genuine election. Like 'elections' in North Korea, quotation marks should be obligatory for coverage of this kind of authoritarian farce.
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It was reiterated by his call for the dispersal of power in a post-Putin Russia, by the replacement of Putin's superpresidential regime with a parliamentary system as 'the only way to stop the endless cycle of imperial authoritarianism' 13/16
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An absurd, grossly misleading statement.
To say that the Russian opposition 'is as autocratic as the Kremlin' betrays an abysmal ignorance of both. The record shows that while the Kremlin re-totalitarianised Russia, the opposition talked about ways to limit state power. 1/4
Navalnaya prohibits critique of her late husband. The cult must continue, no right to oppose what he stood for. Russian opposition is as autocratic as the Kremlin.
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Navalny's opposition to Russian imperialism is clear from his call to his compatriots to demonstrate against Putin's full-scale war against Ukraine: 'if, to prevent war, we need to fill up the jails and police vans, we will fill up the jails and police vans.' 12/16
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'....It is in the interests of Russians to fight corruption, the struggle with alcoholism etc. The resolution of internal problems. It is in the interest of Russians to make sure that the still colossal oil rent is working for Russians.' 8/16
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@TimothyDSnyder
claims that the past 30 years showed that the West didn't have an ability to influence Russia. In fact, we barely tried. More often than not, Western leaders and policymakers turned a deaf ear to brave Russians who raised the alarm about Putin. 1/13
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In his opposition to imperialism & his support for democracy, Navalny became a paragon of liberal nationalism. As
@stefanauer_hku
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It is also a lie that Navalny ignored the problem of Russian imperialism. It was absolutely central to his call for a transition from a presidential to a parliamentary republic as 'the only way to stop the endless cycle of imperial authoritarianism.' 3/3
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The Czech Republic's
@prezidentPavel
has called for all Russian expats to be under 'strict surveillance' in Europe, & pointed to the brutal internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 as a precedent.
He appears to make an exception for the family of Russia's top missile maker 1/4
❗️В Праге зять главного ракетостроителя России избил активиста «Весны»
Фигурант расследования ФБК Ростислав Зориков напал на активиста, когда тот мирно протестовал возле его особняка. Протестующий зафиксировал побои — но полиция посоветовала ему «подождать до понедельника».
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In the history of tyranny, there are few parallels to the disappearance of a moral giant like
@navalny
, an inspiration to millions & a symbol of a peaceful, democratic Russia. Sakharov, Mandela, Suu Kyi, & Liu Xiaobo endured brutal persecution, but never vanished into thin air.
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Of course, 'solidarity' was always a hollow gesture. It was others, far from Western university campuses, who endured the maelstroms of violence that ultimately claimed vast numbers of the 'people' in whose name the revolutionaries inflicted their righteous massacres. 3/3
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This iconic image is now part of the history of the struggle for democracy in Russia. If Putin and his regime falls, it is certain to feature in the chapter of history textbooks about the end of the dictatorship.
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Once again the Putin regime underlines the link between its genocidal war against Ukraine & domestic terror. On the same day that it launches missiles to destroy Ukrainian hospitals & apartment buildings, it sentences a young pro-democracy politician to 9 years in prison.1/4
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Every democratic revolution has its antecedents. If Putin falls, historians will look back to the crowds massing at Navalny's funeral and the noon queues at polling stations as moments when the ice began to crack. 9/9
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@navalny
, Russia's most important pro-democracy, anti-imperialist politician, has been held in prison for 1,000 days under conditions that constitute torture. Yesterday Putin's secret police arrested his lawyers.
Российский оппозиционный политик Алексей Навальный незаконно содержится в пыточных тюремных условиях уже 1000 дней
Семье запрещены посещения
Адвокаты арестованы
Не существует больше возможности, даже узнать, жив ли Алексей
#freeNavalny
#свободуНавальному
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The treason charges against
@vkaramurza
, an embodiment of selfless patriotism, are an indictment of the morally bankrupt regime that levelled them. No one has done more to resist the Kremlin's efforts to identify the regime with Russia and its culture. 1/2
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And there is nothing it fears more than collective protest actions. From the coloured revolutions in the former Soviet space to the Bolotnaya protests of 2011-12, brave citizens have used authoritarian elections as a pretext to cross the red lines of repressive regimes. 2/9
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One day before
@9Investigation
broadcast a hard-hitting report on the Navalny case and Putin's poisonings featuring
@vkaramurza
and
@Billbrowder
, Channel 9 is paralysed by an unprecedented cyberattack
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The Russian antiwar activist Anatolii Berezikov has died in pre-trial detention in Rostov-on-Don. He was being prosecuted for disseminating leaflets supporting Ukraine's 'I want to live' campaign (encouraging RF soldiers to surrender). 1/2
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For citizens of democracies, it is difficult to conceive of the courage required to defy a totalitarian regime. Almost everyone who joined those queues at noon knew about regime's pitiless brutality towards ordinary people who openly expressed their dissent. 4/9
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A strong contender for the year's most incompetent, most misleading headline. Navalny, Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin are dissidents. Prigozhin was a Kremlin-proxy, a warlord, and unquestionably a war criminal.
Russian dissident Yevgeny Prigozhin reported dead after a plane crash outside Moscow
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What is unbelievable is this shameful, Orwellian misrepresentation of the position of
@navalny
and
@ACF_int
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Unbelievable.
Amid Russia's incessant missile attacks on Ukrainian cities, Navalny's foundation
@ACF_int
publishes an investigation entitled "Who is stealing on missile construction," investigating officials who rob "Russia's defense capacities"
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It also makes it much harder to recruit Russians to fight. Enlistment is an an act of self-sacrifice, a gesture of faith in the arguments for war made by political leaders. When Putin is exposed as a mendacious kleptocrat, those arguments become much less persuasive. 2/3
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This crowd is not only challenging a brutal dictator; it is also refuting the scholarship of Western academics who have advanced cultural relativist excuses for totalitarian repression, telling us that Chinese people don't need the freedoms that we take for granted. 1/3
Crowd of at least 100 making its way to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Sunday night, chanting, “We want universal values,” “We want freedom, equality, democracy, rule of law,” “We don’t want dictatorship,” “We don’t want personality cult.”
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Putin's genocidal war is built on lies about Ukraine. Western journalists and commentators like
@Peter_Fitz
who provide a platform for Putin's apologists and fail to challenge those lies are complicit in that war. 7/7
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Some would have heard of Aleksei Moskalev, who was investigated by the secret police because his young daughter drew an antiwar cartoon in school. She was put in an orphanage; he is now in a labour camp. 5/9
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Like the prison letters of Michnik and Havel, Navalny's writings from the Gulag are becoming part of the literature of anti-totalitarianism. When Putin's regime lies in ruins, Navalny's words will help future generations to understand its bizarre blend of corruption & fanaticism.
“Lies, lies, and nothing but lies. It will collapse and fall apart. Putin’s state is unviable”
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Alexei Navalny’s letter
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Everyone in the noon queues would have understood that the regime gained nothing from their protest. In an election spread over 3 days, with widespread online voting, the sudden appearance of long lines outside polling stations was an anomaly, not evidence of popular support. 8/9
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Some of those protests achieved democratic revolutions and toppled dictators. Others built the social solidarity that made future breakthroughs possible. All represented a victory over fear and apathy. All became part of the collective memory of democratic protesters. 3/9
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When Putin's dictatorship lies in ruins, someone will write a history of the brave Russian activists who aided Ukrainian war refugees to escape Russia. These activists may be working in the shadows, but they are an essential part of the moral resistance to Putinism.
Hailing from Russia’s Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, Vyacheslav Korshunov began the dangerous job of assisting Ukrainian refugees when the war began, continuing to do so until he was about to be arrested, after which he moved to Georgia, where he now lives. 1/4
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Unchallenged Falsehood 1. The United States did not 'stage a coup in Ukraine in 2014.' It was ordinary Ukrainians who overthrew the pro-Putin kleptocrat, Yanukovych, who was dismantling democratic institutions & killing protesters.2/7
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Unchallenged Falsehood 5. Donbass is not 'the eastern, Russian-minority part of Ukraine.' A majority of the population of Donbass are ethnic Ukrainians. Speaking the Russian language does not make a Ukrainian Russian, any more than speaking English makes Australians British. 6/7
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Radical evil on the march outside the Sydney Opera House. 80 years since Hitler's willing executioners were murdering 6 million Jews, this crowd, with its obscene, genocidal chants, reminds us that eliminationalist anti-Semitism still exists in even the most tolerant societies.
Video: A crowd at the steps of the Sydney Opera House chants "gas the Jews" and "f*ck the Jews" on October 9.
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Others would know of Maksim Lypkan, an 18-year-old student arrested for antiwar protests. Cellmates forcibly shaved his head, leaving him with a 'rooster' crest ('Roosters' were the lowest caste in the Gulag), & threatened to rape him. He is now enduring punitive psychiatry. 6/9
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Misleading on several levels. Politkovskaya was a journalist. Markelov was a human rights lawyer. Estemirova was a Memorial activist. While the West appeased Putin, they challenged the impunity that reigned in Chechnya during Putin's dirty war of the early 2000s. 1/4
Russian journalists Anna politkovskaya, Stanislav Markelov, Natalya Estemirova. Grozny 2005. All of them were assassinated. This is how Russia operates and what Russia is trying to export.
Photo credit: gulagu[.]net
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Unlike a coup, the Euromaidan resulted in the consolidation of democratic institutions. A far more pluralist and democratic Ukraine emerged from the ouster of Yanukovych. Here lies the real source of Putin's loathing for Ukraine: he feared the power of its example. 5/5
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Others would have followed the Gulag odysseys of Vladimir Kara-Murza, Oleg Orlov, Mikhail Kriger, Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Sasha Skochilenko, Kseniya Fadeeva, & countless others. All incarcerated for following the dictates of their consciences & acting like citizens.7/9
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'In the last twelve months I’ve learned a lot and changed my mind a lot. Perhaps the most salient lesson is that anti-war can mean pro-genocide. It means pro-genocide right now in Ukraine.' 2/7
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Unchallenged Falsehood 2. The Ukrainian government is not an 'illegal Kyiv gangster government.' The ouster of Yanukoyvch was followed by democratic elections that were far freer than any conducted in Russia since the 1990s. 3/7
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'All the ‘peace now’ (Habermas et al) talk, all the ‘WWIII’ talk, all the ‘US proxy war’ and ‘Nato warmongering’ talk – all of it, all of them, especially when used as already-loaded-up projectiles – are forms of genocidal speech so long as Russian troops are killing...,' 3/7
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I wrote an article that makes a point that always seemed obvious to me: that the despotic kleptocrat Putin is not Russia. But I am indebted to
@vkaramurza
for making me understand that this needs to be repeated, again and again.
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Unchallenged Falsehood 3. Information about Russian atrocities in Ukraine is not coming from 'neoconservative Washington.' It is coming from reputable human rights organisations, independent journalists, and war crimes investigators. 4/7
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This week's most ludicrous attack on Navalny's legacy. Gonzalez claims that Navalnyists 'are not different from Putin' because of a film festival in Paris organised by 'Russians in Paris'.'
Except that it's not organised by Russians, but by a group of French intellectuals. 1/2
Russians in Paris are organizing a "russian" film festival in homage to Navalny.
To no surprise, they include Ukrainian, Armenian, and Georgian film directors such as Larisa Shepitko, Sergei Parajanov, and Otar Iosseliani, and present their work as "russian culture". 1/6
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'Statements in which Zelensky (who’s Jewish) is called a Nazi, fascist, someone responsible for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and/or WWIII are not anti-Zelensky and/or pro-Putin. They are forms of genocide cheering (a step up from genocide apology).' 6/7
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Once again, Elon Musk parrots Kremlin propaganda. This time, he endorses the original, despicable lie behind Putin's genocidal war: the claim that Ukraine's democratic, anti-authoritarian revolution of 2014 was a 'coup.' 1/5
@KanekoaTheGreat
That election was arguably dodgy, but no question that there was indeed a coup
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Unchallenged Falsehood 4. The Ukrainian government did not 'murder' 7-8,000 'separatists' in the Donbass before 2022. The overwhelming majority of deaths occurred in combat in the war that Russia unleashed by seizing the town of Slavyansk in April 2014. 5/7
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To the extent that Ukraine's NATO membership posed a threat, it was not to Russia's national security but to the regime security of Putin's dictatorship. For democrats like Nemtsov, the security of Ukraine mattered because it offered a model for Russia's exit from Putin's tyranny
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It's difficult to exaggerate the importance of
@Leonidvolkov
's visit to Australia. Never before has a leading figure of the Russian opposition engaged so eloquently and tirelessly with academia, opinion-makers, policymakers and government. 1/3
Leonid Volkov is not wasting time in Canberra: a huge meeting at DFAT, a meeting at the National Security College, an interview for ABC's Afternoon Briefing with Greg Jennett, and a meeting with the Chair of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade at the Parliament.
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Whether this toxic, despicable image is the work of a Kremlin troll is uncertain. What is undeniable is that it replicates basic ideas of the Putin regime's propaganda and aids its campaign to kill
@Navalny
, its bravest and most formidable adversary. 2/2
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This included an attempt to organise a protest called 'A Year of Hell' to mark the first anniversary of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. He faces up to 10 years imprisonment on charges of disseminating fake news about the Russian army. 3/3
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After an investigation by
@Navalny
's
@ACF_int
, the Czech government is taking action against Boris Obnosov, the head of the Russian Tactical Missiles Corporation, whose family has extensive property holdings in Prague. 1/3
🎉Власти Чехии проверяют имущество семьи Обносова, главы корпорации «Тактическое ракетное вооружение».
Недавно мы выпустили о нём расследование и от лица
@ACF_int
писали обращения в органы власти Чехии:
Это хорошие новости, спасибо всем, кто смотрел,…
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At a time when the entire scholarly field of 'Russian Studies' is being regularly denounced as an pillar of Russian imperialism, I thought I'd repost this article I wrote - as a researcher in the field of Russian Studies - 15 years ago. 1/6
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I'm horrified by the brutal attack on
@leonidvolkov
, one of the bravest, kindest, most brilliant adversaries of the Putin regime & its war in Ukraine. I was discussant at his presentation at
@UniMelb
last year, when he made a compelling case for democracy in post-Putin Russia.1/2
Leonid Volkov is back home and seems reasonably okay. He broke his right arm but his legs withstood 15 blows from a hammer. He says it was clearly a St. Petersburg-style thug, a message from Putin.
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Two years ago I appeared on Australia's
@9Investigation
with
@vkaramurza
in a documentary about Putin's poisonings. I still remember the soaring eloquence of Kara-Murza's condemnation of the Putin regime's apologists like an ex-ambassador on the panel. 1/4
"When you lose your friends and colleagues, when you have to live in a reality where there are no democratic elections, no peaceful assembly, television is controlled by state propaganda." Russian Opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza on
#UInvestigate
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A grossly misleading tweet.
Navalny's complaint that Russia in 1994 was going not to Europe but to Central Asia has nothing to do with racism. He is making a point about Russia's political trajectory, as Yeltsin consolidated the superpresidential system that led to Putin. 1/4
“мы в 1994-м пошли не в Европу, а в Среднюю Азию”
Navalny’s racism in full display, again
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A searing indictment of the illusions of Paul Keating, ex-Australian PM and leading apologist of the CCP & Putin regime, on the first page of Professor John Fitzgerald's brilliant new book Cadre Country, a study of the mechanisms of power and propaganda in authoritarian China.
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A Russian judge has refused to transfer Sasha Skochilenko from prison to a civilian hospital for treatment for her deteriorating condition (she suffers from celiac disease). She is serving a 7-year sentence for putting antiwar stickers on supermarket items.
Саша Скочиленко не может пройти назначенные врачом обследования из-за отказа судьи одобрить ее вывоз из СИЗО в гражданскую клинику. В тюремной больнице нет обезболивающих для гастроскопии
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Nikita Tushkanov, a 29-year-old history teacher from northern Russia, faces a 2nd consecutive bout of solitary confinement in his labour camp. He is serving a 5-year sentence for describing Ukraine's strike on the Kerch bridge as a 'gift for Putler's birthday.' 1/4
Новый год в ШИЗО вынужден встретить учитель из Коми Никита Тушканов: сегодня руководство ИК-20 Вологодской области второй раз подряд назначило ему 12 суток изолятора
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I can understand the business model of far-right influencers who are joining Kremlin trolls to fan the inferno of lies about Navalny. I cannot understand why some academics, who have a duty to do research and weigh evidence, are joining in. 4/4
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In the post-Soviet Gulag, 'Roosters' (Petukhi) are the lowest caste of prisoners: constant targets of sexual violence and other humiliation. Lypkan was arrested for speaking about his antiwar agitation in an interview with Radio Liberty 2/3
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Putin has murdered the brave, humane man who embodied the possibility of a democratic Russia. One day there will be squares and streets named after him. As for the tyrant whose depravity Navalny exposed, this is the beginning of the end. Birnham Wood will come...
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has died, Russian media report, citing the prison service
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1/14 Keating's warning was not 'brilliant' - it parroted ideas that were widely discussed in op-ed pages at the time. It was also proved wrong by history. There is no correlation between NATO's conduct and Putin's assault on Ukraine.
In this brilliant speech - in 1997, no less - Paul Keating warned of the folly and danger of marching NATO towards Russia’s borders. He was absolutely right…as we are now seeing, in spades.
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We don't know the full extent of civilian casualties in Ukraine, because many of the sites of the worst atrocities are under the control of the principal perpetrator - Russia. 2/3
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Russian culture vs.Putin's war. "Chacha" Ivanov, lead singer of the band Naiv, appears at Moscow concert with the words 'Masha Moskaleva' on his t-shirt. Masha is the 13-year-old girl who was put in an orphanage for drawing antiwar picture at school. Her father was imprisoned.1/2
Солист группы «Наив» Александр «Чача» Иванов во время концерта в Москве вышел на сцену в футболке «Маша Москалева» и рассказал слушателям о преследовании семьи школьницы, сообщил «Медиазоне» читатель
Видео: «Медиазоны»
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The authors of the UN report - the source of Jones' figures - knew this, and stated unequivocally that the actual figures of Ukrainian civilian deaths are 'considerably higher.' 3/3
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In scenes reminiscent of Stalinist show trials, activist Richard Rouz renounces his condemnation of RF atrocities in Bucha. 'I was not watching Defence Ministry briefs and Putin's decrees... I thought that the Russian armed forces were guilty of this.'1/3
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'raping, torturing and kidnapping civilians across Ukraine, and so long as Russian missiles are destroying hospitals, schools and residential highrises with sleeping families inside them daily and nightly.' 4/7
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This is simply wrong. In the late 1990s, Russian communists and authoritarian nationalists used NATO expansion as a mobilising cause. Most democrats saw this is a political problem, not a threat to Russia's national interests. 2/7
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Let us remember the moral cowardice of the West's response to Putinism's foundational crime, the savage war in Chechnya waged by levelling Grozny, zachistka punitive operations, death squads, torture in filtration camps and mass graves blown up with explosives. 2/13
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As he wages genocidal war in Ukraine, Putin proclaims that he has 'consistently supported African peoples in their struggle for liberation from colonial oppression.'
This grotesque lie shrouds a record of atrocity crimes committed by Putin's proxies. 1/6
🇷🇺 Russia's President Vladimir
#Putin
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💬 We have set up bilateral intergovernmental commissions for trade, economic, scientific and technological cooperation with many countries of the continent, and the network of Russian embassies and trade missions in Africa will be expanded
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A new dismal episode in Putin's war against Russian culture. Two brave participants in the 'Mayakovsky Readings' - verse recitals under the statue of the poet in central Moscow - have been sentenced to draconian terms in labour camps. 1/3
Фигурантов «Маяковского дела» Артема Камардина и Егора Штовбу приговорили к семи и пяти с половиной годам лишения свободы
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First, it aids the Putin regime - and its genocidal war - by reinforcing Kremlin propaganda (1) about Putin as a guardian of Russian traditions, and (2) about the unity of a dictator and a people he has stripped of every basic right. 2/17
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