The New York Times’ automated voice reads Putin’s middle initial as a number. It sounds very czar-like: Vladimir the Fifth Putin of Russia.

I don't like being cursed at. It feels good though when someone who ends up on a sanction list is not only a security threat, but also personally unpleasant bsky.app/profile/sait...

Mari Saito@saitomri.bsky.social · last yr.

The European Union sanctions today included 3 pro-Russia activists we’ve been following since our ‘23 investigation. When reached by phone, one of them simply told a Reuters reporter to “fuck off” before hanging up www.reuters.com/world/eu-san... @mashatsvetkova.bsky.social @zverevlive.bsky.social

Sadly, this RDX production site and this scale of investment don't leave us hope that peace is Russia's long-term plan. We reported this story with @reporter-polina.bsky.social @mcneill.bsky.social @christianlowe.bsky.social @zverevlive.bsky.social www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Russia building major new explosives facility as Ukraine war drags on

Increasing the supply of explosives available to fill munitions is critical to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine. A Reuters analysis of documents and satellite imagery finds that the new production line could boost its firepower significantly.

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Assad and his family arrived in Moscow, TASS says citing a Kremlin source

Assad’s fall gives a hope to the exiled Russian opposition. Navalny’s ally Leonid Volkov tweeted: “Bashar al-Assad won more than 95% at the last fair and transparent elections.” For context - Putin got 87% of votes earlier this year

Just saw Jerry Seinfeld on a Wikipedia list of Syrian Americans. His mother was a Syrian Jew from Aleppo. I did not know this

It’s not AI hallucinating, it’s in the news www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I was on my way to a party when I read that Syria’s Homs had been taken over by rebels. When I arrived there, I said that Assad’s regime will collapse before the party ends. It did. I can’t say it was absolutely unpredictable

Georgia, the country, is getting serious

Felix Light@felixlight.bsky.social · 2y ago

Someone showed up to the protest in Tbilisi with a … machine gun for fireworks?

The best thing about Alexei Navalny’s memoir is it’s like he’s alive and talking. But once the book is over it hits again that he’s not. Here Navalny tells from a Russian prison about his and his wife’s “bohemian” habit of weekend brunches with oysters and Bloody Marys at trips to NYC

Here’s a starter pack for Reuters journalists working on long form investigative work: go.bsky.app/KdvXWY6

This is a story a lot of reporters have been chasing: Starting in 2015, a massive cyberespionage campaign targeted some of America's most prominent environmentalists. Now, we can reveal that the FBI has been probing whether a longtime Exxon lobbyist was involved. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Exclusive: Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails, sources say

The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter.

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This is an insane coincidence. The only place in Manhattan where Trump won since he started running for president was at the address of executed Rosenberg spies www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump's only Manhattan electoral win is this block on the Lower East Side

The sole exception was a Lower East Side neighborhood that was once home to Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

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Hello! Most of you likely already know this, but for newcomers like myself, here is a helpful tool to find everybody you followed on that other social network we all once loved chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store

Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

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