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On the eve of this hearing, dozens of directors, actors and artists in Europe called on the Serbian authorities not to send Andrei Gnyot - a filmmaker and opposition activist - back to Belarus He insists the charges against him are wholly political This is his last appeal

Starting tomorrow, a long curfew will be introduced in Pokrovsk: civilians will be allowed to spend only 4 hours on the street - from 11:00 to 15:00. The Russians are advancing rapidly towards the city.

Staff shortages, beatings, corruption and harsh treatment of Muslim prisoners have all led to unrest among inmates, with recent uprisings turning deadly. w Ekaterina Bodyagina nytimes.com/2024/08/30/wor…

via ⁦The New York Times⁩ ⁦Christopher Schuetze⁩ nytimes.com/2024/09/01/wor…

One of the US Company founders listed in the DOJ indictment is Lauren Chen, who recently visited Budapest, to speak at MCC Feszt. story for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty mccfeszt.hu/en/performer/l… szabadeuropa.hu/a/magyar-fedoc…

“In our thirty years of polling Arab American voters, we have not witnessed anything like the role that the war on Gaza is having on voter behavior,” said James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute.

One year since Israeli tank fire killed Reuters' Issam Abdallah. "On this first anniversary of his death, we call once again on Israel to investigate his killing fully and transparently, make the findings public and hold those responsible to account." youtu.be/3bAiLyjcBT0?si…

“Standing next to BRICS leaders shaking hands and taking pictures, Vladimir Putin will be trying to tell the world that Russia is not isolated.” Deep dive on Kazan summit by Valerie Hopkins & David Pierson in The New York Times. nytimes.com/2024/10/21/wor…

EXCLUSIVE Elon Musk worked in the US illegally. Investors ordered him to get a visa. He admitted it in an email. Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally - The Washington Post by ⁦Faiz Siddiqui⁩ ⁦Nick Miroff⁩ & me washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via John Burn-Murdoch 2024 Democrats are the red dot. Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.

In Moscow, Trump’s Victory Is Welcomed, but Warily. by Valerie Hopkins in Moscow. nytimes.com/2024/11/15/wor…

The awful reality of this war “Imagine sitting under incoming fire & from their side, it’s 50 shells coming toward you while from our side, it’s just one. Then you see your friends getting torn to pieces & realize that any second it can happen to you" apnews.com/article/desert…

The Bulgarian-Romanian border now ;)

nytimes.com/2024/12/25/wor… via @NYTimes. Kara-Murza. By ⁦Valerie Hopkins⁩

#BreakingNews: 🚨Azerbaijani government sources have exclusively confirmed to Euronews on Thursday that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Aktau on Wednesday.

The war continues to suck resources out of the Russian economy. As in previous wartime years, the biggest single item of state spending in 2025 will be the armed forces. And all the increase in nO&G revenues will go to the military

While in Russian prison, Vladimir Kara-Murza lost 55 pounds and was kept in solitary confinement for 315 days (the UN says more than 15 consecutive days in solitary constitutes torture). “Human beings get used to anything," he tells Valerie Hopkins nytimes.com/2024/12/25/wor…

For all of his dystopian rhetoric, by many traditional metrics, the America that Trump will inherit from Biden is actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since Bush came into office in 2001. nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/…

nytimes.com/2025/01/07/wor… via ⁦New York Times World⁩ by ⁦Valerie Hopkins⁩ photos by ⁦Nanna Heitmann⁩

I’m really excited that my book on the history of Russia’s “illegal” spies comes out soon. It’s taken me years of work and covers a century of Soviet/Russian history... Below, a short thread about the book, as well as info on how to pre-order a copy.