Julia Ioffe

Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe

RT @christogrozev: Children with cancer used to create propaganda posters for war. Where's the bottom? https://t.co/OtpHcB5qzU — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @christogrozev: Kadyrov's henchmen gloating and boasting over the total destruction they've brought to Borodyanka, near Kyiv. What make… — PolitiTweet.org

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Looks like Putin has taken an American citizen—a basketball star at that—hostage. https://t.co/jneldQHPSy — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s another story that didn’t even merit a mention on Kremlin TV: the 1.2 million refugees who fled Ukraine in just 10 days. Why would they flee their own liberation? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SaoSasha: no one has a crystal ball, obviously, but michael has been consistently right about the military aspects of this whole thing… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Acyn Twitter in the last few days. — PolitiTweet.org

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Spent an evening watching Kremlin TV. To call it lies would be an insult to lies. — PolitiTweet.org

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Want to know what's missing from the "news" on Kremlin TV? Any mention of the crash of the ruble and the Russian economy, the mass exodus of Russians from the country and the FSB's efforts to stop them, the lines at Russian ATMs to get money out... — PolitiTweet.org

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They're also showing destroyed buildings—and saying, without any evidence, that it is the work of "Ukrainian nationalists." They're calling the Ukrainian army "occupiers"—a master class in projection. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @farhip: Some internal news: In response to Putin’s threats against reporters in Russia, the @washingtonpost will remove bylines and dat… — PolitiTweet.org

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What else? The law that gives 5 yr prison sentence for criticizing Russian army? It's "protecting Russian army from psychological back-stabbing." The law that gives 15 yrs for real reporting on the war? It's "protecting Russian citizens from disinformation." — PolitiTweet.org

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Kremlin TV also says that any shelling of civilian areas in Ukraine is because the Ukrainian military is using "terrorist" means by placing artillery in civilian areas and then using Western journalists to show the damage to make Russia look bad. — PolitiTweet.org

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Kremlin TV also showed a taped confession of a Ukrainian POW, shown shirtless so that his Ukrainian trident tattoo was visible. Visibly nervous, terrified and reading off a script, he "confesses" to various "provocations." This is a violation of the Geneva Conventions. — PolitiTweet.org

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Some other details: the Ukrainian government is called "Nazis," the Ukrainian military - "nationalist formations." Russians, according to Kremlin TV, are being greeted as liberators and are providing humanitarian aid to local population after Ukrainians shut off energy/food. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MiriamElder: @jlfeder Some may have seen this old video of Zelensky shutting down a homophobic heckler going around again recently. Not… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MiriamElder: Queer activists are among those staying—or returning to Ukraine—to fight the invasion by Russia and the assault on LGBT ri… — PolitiTweet.org

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Russian state TV about Russian attacks on the Chernihiv region: "The fact that a special operation is happening is evident only from columns of Russian military vehicles and checkpoints." Re: civilians "their safety is a priority for our military personnel. Chernihiv: https://t.co/L7y9sjQIXA — PolitiTweet.org

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Lindsey Graham just said publicly what everyone has been saying privately. But, as I wrote earlier this week, wishing for Putin's death is both an admission of powerlessness—and an abdication of responsibility. https://t.co/18O500xxsX — PolitiTweet.org

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@CircusPubes 100000% — PolitiTweet.org

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"After call with Putin, Macron convinced that ‘the worst is yet to come’ and that Russia wants to take all of Ukraine" Tell me again how this is about NATO expansion. https://t.co/EKRP13m5SW — PolitiTweet.org

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I fear Alina is exactly right. — PolitiTweet.org

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@baratunde @PuckNews Thank you, friend. 💙💛 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @baratunde: This latest in @PuckNews from @juliaioffe is an astounding, terrifying and powerful piece of writing all at once. I am in aw… — PolitiTweet.org

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@SaStevo1970 lol okay I wish I knew as little about the world and history as you do. I would sleep better at night. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the span of exactly one week, Russia went from an authoritarian country to a totalitarian one. The distance between the two is always short, and one prepares the ground for the other. — PolitiTweet.org

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Liars gonna lie. — PolitiTweet.org

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The yachts of two more Russian oligarchs have been confiscated. One of them is Putin’s old buddy Gennady Timchenko, who loved loved loved to sue Western journalists for even mentioning him and Putin in the same sentence. https://t.co/3BjMhlVNB5… — PolitiTweet.org

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Just to clarify: I am not equating the experiences of Russians and Ukrainians. Ukrainians have it infinitely worse. But it is a fact that Putin is destroying both countries, even if he’s using very different methods. — PolitiTweet.org