It's quite clear which voices it's listening to now: Ghengis Khan, Ivan Grozny, Jossif Stalin.
RT @MoscowTimes: #OpEd Which voices from its history will Russia choose to heed in response to the challenges it faces in the world today, asks Philip Boobbyer.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/12/26/how-culture-and-faith-might-help-russia-find-its-true-voice-a79803
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Always listen to people who have actually negotiated with the Russians
RT @MarkHertling: On Christmas Eve Putin says he’s “ready to negotiate.”
Having “negotiated” w/ Russian military & Defense Ministry I learned lessons: Even in small things, RU officials don’t negotiate…they demand, then they lie, and then they renege on agreements.
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This, by @andrewmichta, is very good.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-battle-over-future-europe/
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What's reason for the #RunOnRussianBanks?
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In which @RadioFreeTom gets it exactly right.
Thank you.
Merry Christmas https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/12/christmas-in-wartime/672516/
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Cc @TwitterSupport
RT @AntonSpisak: @steve_hanke Please take down this false video. I’m in Slovakia right now and there’re no such protests. You’re sharing a video of the anti-vaccine protests from October 2020 and feeding the pro-Kremlin propaganda.
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This is terrorism, pure and simple. Why do some European leaders talk to terrorists and want to negotiate security guarantees for them?
RT @Euan_MacDonald: Christmas lights courtesy of the Kremlin: Incendiary munitions rain down on Ukraine’s Kherson. Death toll from today’s artillery attack on the city center rises to 10.
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Another insurance scheme. A lot of these lately, aren’t there?
Cc @MoniqueCamarra
RT @TpyxaNews: #Russia: 'Vega' shopping center caught fire in Krasnodar, the area of the fire was 1,000 square meters
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This is terrorism, pure and simple. Why do some European leaders talk to terrorists and want to negotiate security guarantees for them?
RT @Gerashchenko_en: A video from the centre of Kherson was posted by the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration.
As of now, 8 dead and 58 wounded are known. 18 of them are seriously injured.
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Strictly the behavior of a terrorist entity. The goal is to kill and maim as many civilians as possible
RT @KramarenkoMari3: #Kherson
On a day off, on the eve of Christmas, russians attacked the city center. They attacked the market, the shopping center, residential buildings, administrative buildings - the places where the most people are...
1/2
#RussiaIsATerroristState
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The Great @benjaminwittes being great again, what a great way to get through these materials
RT @benjaminwittes: Dog Shirt Daily -- Read With Me: Chapter 1 of the Jan. 6 Committee Final Report https://www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/read-with-me-chapter-1-of-the-jan?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=auto_share&r=22ul4
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Except San Jose, California is in Fahrenheit (Costa Rica at the moment is 23 C) while Rome too is in Celsius but San Jose California is 13C
RT @patriottakes: The weather right now in San Jose, Costa Rica vs. Northwest Georgia.
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Classic tacky по́шлость, improved with Nabokov's playful explanation of the term, "Poshlust"
RT @francis_scarr: Russia's number one basher of "Anglo-Saxons" Maria Zakharova is celebrating her (47th) birthday today
Which is as good a reason as any to recall the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman's phenomenal New York wedding in 2005
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My favorite modern Christmas song, by Sufjan Stevens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYQFeZFLyM4
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asks @aoc a European social democratic intellectual ⤵️
RT @reinraud: Personal corruption is just about the only imaginable rational reason for this vote in support of some of the world’s richest people, who also happen to be endorsers of a criminal, genocidal dictatorship. What is happening, @AOC?
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Oh it's coming for all of you.
Better now in court than 37 years from now in 9 grams while playing with your granddaughter.
RT @GlasnostGone: Today a Ukrainian court found four Russian soldiers guilty of violating the laws and customs of war. They were sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment. Found guilty of torturing Ukrainian soldiers, including beating them with a hammer. https://www.gp.gov.ua/ua/posts/do-11-rokiv-za-gratami-zasudzeno-rosiiskix-viiskovix-yaki-katuvali-ucasnikiv-ato #Ukraine
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Maybe, But would have been "Hyvää Joulua!"
Not "Merry Christmas"
RT @privacyint: "Merry Christmas!" 🎄🎁
That was the very first SMS sent 30 years ago.
Read our latest explainer on one of the most ubiquitous communication technologies👇
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/5001/explainer-sms-30-years-down-line
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