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[Link] Vladimir Putin Explains Why State Media Is Better Than Wikipedia
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
“Of course, objective, important, in-depth information that’s been gathered properly and skillfully…this is in great demand,” Putin said, according to a translation of the video by journalist Kevin Rothrock. “And that’s why you can’t just use Wikipedia.
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[Link] $35m chalets, $14,000 bottles of wine and $700 tips: Russians made this town rich. Now they have vanished
Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
Before the war against Ukraine started just over a month ago, the exclusive French ski resort of Courchevel was buzzing with wealthy Russians. They constituted 7 per cent of its tourist population, but in terms of the town's income, Russia's elite were a goldmine.
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[Link] How Russia Used the War in Ukraine to ‘Occupy’ Another Neighbouring Country
Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com
The Belarusian dictator’s complicity in letting his country be used by Russia to attack Ukraine has effectively turned Belarus into a Russian client state and amounts to an occupation, the country’s opposition says.
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[Link] The Antonov An-225 Seems To Have Been Destroyed After All
Read: 3/3/2022 hackaday.com
Something that probably unites most Hackaday readers is a love of machines, particularly unique or interesting ones.
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[Link] Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.
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[Link] Vladimir Putin Is Worried About ‘Cancel Culture’
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
Watching Putin warn about the dangers of cancel culture of progressive intolerance while throwing his biggest critic in jail is just a more absurd version of what’s become routine in the U.S.
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[Link] China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem
Read: 26/9/2021 foreignpolicy.com
Why do great powers fight great wars? The conventional answer is a story of rising challengers and declining hegemons. An ascendant power, which chafes at the rules of the existing order, gains ground on an established power—the country that made those rules.
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