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[Link] Families of drafted Russian soldiers accuse Putin of snubbing them
Read: 23/11/2022 www.theguardian.com
Two months after mobilising tens of thousands of Russian men, the Kremlin has said that Vladimir Putin will grant some of their mothers and wives an audience to quell fears over the mass call-up.
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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] Israel says Putin apologised for foreign minister's Hitler remarks
Read: 6/5/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, said on Thursday that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had apologised for his foreign minister’s claims that Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins.
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[Link] Putin’s Former Judo Buddy Calls Him ‘Cowardly’ After the Russian Leader Lost His Black Belt
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
TOKYO — One of Japan’s most distinguished judo leaders has criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, calling out his “cowardly” acts and joining a chorus of condemnation from civil society worldwide.
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[Link] 'Hooliganism': Russian court fines journalist after marathon grilling for three-second on-air protest
Read: 16/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
News editor Marina Ovsyannikova was ordered to pay 30,000 roubles ($390) for flouting protest legislation. It was not immediately clear if she could also face other, more serious charges. Her lawyer was not immediately reachable for comment.
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[Link] Transparency Org Releases Alleged Leak of Russian Censorship Agency
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets has released what it says is 800GB of data from a section of Roskomnadzor, the Russian government body responsible for censorship in the country.
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[Link] Russian Agent Maria Butina Says Ukraine’s Jewish President Is ‘Reviving Fascism’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
In 2018, she was convicted in the U.S. for acting as an agent for Russia. Now she's backing Putin's war on Ukraine. Maria Butina's attempts to infiltrate the NRA and Republican political circles as a Russian agent got her an 18-month prison sentence in the United States.
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[Link] VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Russia's determination to control the minds of its citizens is proceeding full force. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor has forced Google to delist tens of thousands of new URLs that link to VPN resources providing access to 'banned' content.
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[Link] Morrison government asks Facebook, Twitter and Google to block Russian state media ‘disinformation’
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has asked Facebook, Twitter, Google and other digital platforms to block content generated by Russian state media to curb “disinformation in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine”.
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[Link] Russian talkshows dismiss ‘fake’ reports of military losses
Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Russian state television talkshows are describing videos of missiles striking Ukrainian cities and reports of Russian soldiers killed in action as “fakes”, as the country’s media try to account for photos and video emerging from Ukraine that contradict official reports of the invasion.
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[Link] Ukraine declares state of emergency as fears of Russian invasion grow
Read: 23/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine has introduced a nationwide state of emergency in which special restrictions will apply in order to keep the country calm and protect its economy amid fears of a Russian invasion, a senior Ukrainian security official says.
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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] ‘Psychological violence’: Alexei Navalny says he is forced to watch eight hours of state TV a day
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has given his first interview from prison, comparing it to a Chinese labor camp and saying he is forced to watch eight hours of state television a day.
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