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In 2016, when i was still at The Moscow Times, I wrote this profile of Pavel #Durov and his new tech baby, Telegram. Back then, it had 100m users and that seemed huge. Today, it's 900m. themoscowtimes.com/2016/03/03/how…

French authorities are going after Pavel Durov’s brother, too, long credited as the brains behind the company’s meteoric success. But they’ll have a harder time arresting him. Apparently, he’s in Russia. politico.eu/article/exclus…

Wonder why Russia keeps expelling or banning journalists with a deep knowledge of the country 🤔 Probably not because it knows Andrew E. Kramer Nathan Hodge Paul Sonne Neil MacFarquhar Thomas Grove are such experts that they can do their excellent work from abroad edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/med…

Komkommertijd bestaat niet in Rusland, zo weet vaste gast bij Buitenlandse Zaken @evahartog . In deze aflevering neemt Eva de stand van zaken in Rusland door. Plus: de laatste fase van de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen. @rutgerhoeven Casper Thomas buff.ly/47f4lXp

When freedom means exile: Inside the Russian prisoner swap politico.eu/article/freedo… by Eva Hartog in POLITICOEurope

Powerful read: Eva Hartog spoke to our colleagues & others freed during prisoner swap with #Russia. From being pressed to ask for Putin's clemency, to release from jail, to exile... to hope. Oleg Orlov's last word: "It’s time to plan for the future." politico.eu/article/freedo…

Nice read from POLITICOEurope about the historic prisoner swap

Truly fascinating read by Shaun Walker on the Spanish freelance journalist suspected of doubling as a Russian spy who was released as part of the prison swap this summer theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

EU is losing votes to Russia in #Moldova and #Georgia and has to do better in countering Russia's hybrid warfare. A far away carrot is not enough Call from Eva Hartog in POLITICOEurope, on the eve of Georgian elections politico.eu/article/russia…

This is a terrific profile of Kaja Kallas from Stuart Lau and Eva Hartog. It opens with a story about her facing down Merkel's proposal to invite Putin to an EU leaders' meeting in 2021, when she was still a newbie PM: "A summit on what? What is it for?" politico.eu/article/kaja-k…