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Dylan Primakoff

@dylanmp.bsky.social

Senior Manager for Eurasia Programs at the National Endowment for Democracy. Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center. Posting mostly about Russia.

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Meduza in English@meduza.io · 4w ago

Nina Litvinova, granddaughter of Stalin's foreign affairs commissar, spent more than half a century helping political prisoners — carrying samizdat to those in Soviet internal exile, then writing to the inmates of Putin's prisons. In May, at 80, she took her own life. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

‘I tried to help them, but my strength gave out’. For half a century, Nina Litvinova stood with Soviet and then Russian political prisoners. In May, at 80, she took her own life. — Meduza

On May 12, the dissident and human rights activist Nina Litvinova died by suicide in Moscow. From the late 1960s on, she devoted her whole life to helping political prisoners, first in the Soviet…

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The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 2mo ago

⚡️Update: At least 6 injured in Kyiv as Russia strikes residential buildings, historic Pechersk Lavra. At least six people have been injured in Kyiv amid a large-scale Russian attack, as a fire continues to burn at the historic Dormition Cathedral in the Pechersk Lavra.

Kyiv's historic Pechersk Lavra burns as Russian rains ballistic missiles on capital

"We ask for prayers for the salvation of the shrine from destruction. Another Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity," Metropolitan Epiphanies, head of the Orthodox Chur...

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Ilya Lozovsky@ichbinilya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: We’ve just published an investigation that shows how Russia recruits teenagers on occupied Ukrainian territory to become pro-Moscow infowarriors. The Young Correspondents program, ostensibly a journalism club, is part of Yunarmia, a militarized mass youth organization. 👇

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Meduza in English@meduza.io · 9mo ago

Russian soldiers who refuse orders to return to duty after being injured are discovering that the military treats such desertion without much sympathy. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

To force deserters back to war, Russia’s military is torturing their families — Meduza

The Russian army has swelled since Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Months into the war, Russia conducted a “partial mobilization” for several chaotic…

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Dylan Primakoff@dylanmp.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This Responsible Statecraft article claiming "Western media is larging ignoring" Ukraine's recruitment struggles and harsh conscription tactics cites articles on that very topic from the BBC, RFERL, the LA Times, and the Telegraph. responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-recr...

Ukraine's 'Busification' — forced conscription — is tip of the iceberg

Western media is largely ignoring that Kyiv has to rip young men off the streets amid recruitment shortages and desertions

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Steve Rosenberg@bbcstever.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“All we were doing was bringing the music we like to a mass audience. We hope we’ll be home soon. It’s what we’re dreaming of most,” Stoptime vocalist Diana Loginova tells me. She & the other members of the band are still in jail after their street concerts. My report from St Petersburg.

How teenager gave street concert and was caught up in Russia's repressive past

Diana Loginova sang songs critical of the Kremlin. The 18-year-old and her bandmate are now in court.

bbc.co.uk

Dylan Primakoff@dylanmp.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A deeply unconvincing piece arguing that since the small amount of available leverage the US has applied to Russia as of this week is – on its own – unlikely to change Russia's outlook on the war, the US should therefore agree to agree to Russia's current negotiating positions.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10mo ago

New sanctions and weapons will not stop Russia. It’s time for Ukraine’s allies to change their flawed strategy | Christopher S Chivvis

Scott Rose@rprose.bsky.social · 10mo ago

On Oct. 7, 2006, Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated in her apartment building in Moscow. 19 years ago today. At least one of the men who planned her murder, a former police officer, has since been pardoned for going to kill again in Ukraine. Also today, Putin turns 73.

Archive photo from Novaya Gazeta, her newspaper, of Politkovskaya sitting at her desk with a pen. She is pictured from below, with a stack of papers in front of her.
Dylan Primakoff@dylanmp.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It's depressing how much bad info on Navalny is still floating around out there. Navalny publicly supported gay marriage as of 2017; the Putin regime put the "international LGBT movement" on its list of terrorist and extremist organizations and jails people for wearing rainbow earrings.

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Mediazona English@en.zona.media · 10mo ago

In January, activist Konstantin Kotov escaped house arrest and fled Russia: he was accused of financing an "extremist organisation" because of a $30 donation to Navalny’s ACF. Today, a Moscow court sentenced him to 5 years in absentia. Read his interview: en.zona.media/article/2025...

“There’s no sense in playing roulette with the court.” Interview with Konstantin Kotov who escaped house arrest after being accused of donating $30 to Navalny’s ACF

Moscow activist Konstantin Kotov’s first criminal case was in 2019: he was sentenced to four years in prison for participating in “unsanctioned protests.” After public outcry it wa...

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Brian Taylor@bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"There is currently no sign Putin will scale back his expansive ambitions unless he concludes that continuing to pursue them may call into question the security of his regime." Sharp and succinct as always from @nigelgould-davies.bsky.social

Russia–Ukraine: peace looks more remote than ever

Russia has not scaled back its ambitions and America will not pressure it to do so. Territorial issues and security guarantees are currently second-order issues. The war remains intractable.

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