#Belarus

Timothy Snyder

TimothyDSnyder

1/20. Democracy is precious and exceptional. 2/20. Democracy is undone from within rather than from without. 3/20. The occasion to undo democracy is often an election. 4/20. The mechanism to

Sergey Radchenko

DrRadchenko

I have to say that I am somewhat conflicted on the subject of Russia sanctions. On the one hand, we know (from ample historical experience) that they do not

Andrei Kolesnikov

AndrKolesnikov

THREAD: Did yesterday's state-sponsored violence on the streets of Moscow, Petersburg and other cities fundamentally change the relationship between the state and its subject? 1/ A new pattern is readily

Matthew Luxmoore

mjluxmoore

Protests are taking place across Russia today, calling for Navalny’s release.This is Vladivostok, in the country’s Far East Police are dispersing the crowds with batons https://twitter.com/znak_com/status/1352877638679990272?s=21 https:

Ryan Gallagher

rj_gallagher

New: My investigation of US private equity firm Francisco Partners & its little-known role backing companies that have sold some of the world's most repressive governments surveillance & censorship technologyhttps://www.bloomber

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rachelkawaii

Welcome to the Withdrawn songs jury!We've been ranking the songs that had to withdraw from the Eurovision for one reason or another? Excited to see the results? So are we!

Michael McFaul

McFaul

To answer many questions being asked of me here about Navalny, reupping this old @PostOpinions essay with a short thread (for those who can't get behind the paywall) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-russian-dissident-is-fightin

William Bairamian

Bairamian

When you look at the tactics and rhetoric used by globalist liberals in countries across the world, you realize how unoriginal it all is.It's always the same. But there is

Mandroid

Bigbounce01

A #thread about some cool facts about Russia.1. Russia has a very high literacy rate – with 99.7% of the population able to read and write by age 15 2.

Alexander Baunov

baunov

THREAD 1/7 Saturday’s protests were also noticeable for the lack of humorous slogans and placards in comparison with previous Russian protests . The protesters were very serious, even gloomy. From

Sam Greene

samagreene

It is possible to believe that Twitter and Facebook did the right thing to block Trump, and that, having done so, it lays bear a real problem for American democracy.

Neil Barrett

dr_barrett

My few Twitter followers will know I am VERY critical of @FatEmperor - I may be indignant at the way this fellow Irish man has carried on through the pandemic

Gennady Rudkevich

grudkev

I might do a thread on this later, but for now, let me point out that all electoral fraud is not the same. There is pre-election fraud, election-day fraud, and

Benedict Macdonald

Rebirding1

1. LYNX. Quiet. Solitary. Tufted. Obscure. We’ll explore in coming weeks what other species lynx could save, but in this thread, we’ll focus on landowners. Some are equivocal, some opposed,

Alexander Graef

alxgraef

On 21 May the #Trump administration announced the U.S. #withdrawal from the #OpenSkiesTreaty. It will take effect in November. Tomorrow the 34 member states hold a virtual state conference to

Michael Govern Ready

mikegove12

Goveller’s TravelsFriday 11th September 1727 I had by my computation made four leagues from Blefuscu when a sail steering to the south-east spied me, hung out her ancient – a

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