Sergei Shoigu is now going to head the Russian security council instead of Nikolai Patrushev, arguably Putin's closest aide. No word on where the latter is going.
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Attention David Davis Liam Byrne MP Bob Seely MP Margaret Hodge: 'Schilling's, Mission and Carter Ruck have been incessantly lobbying Ministry of Justice officials... The bill requires High Court judges to try to read people's minds in the quest to identify a SLAPP'

Congratulations to Vladimir Kara-Murza for winning the 2024 The Pulitzer Prizes on Commentary for his extraordinary columns from prison in Vladimir Putin's Russia. You can read his columns here: washingtonpost.com/people/vladimi…

So proud & happy to see the greatest ever mentor David E. Hoffman win a very well-deserved Pulitzer for a series of editorials exposing the methods of authoritarian regimes in cracking down on dissent in the digital age.

UN experts are 'horrified' at the mass graves unearthed in the Gaza Strip -- 390+ bodies at Nasser & Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, 'many reportedly showing signs of torture & summary executions' and potentially 'people buried alive.” ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

'Putin’s inauguration will showcase Russia’s shift into what pro-Kremlin commentators call a “revolutionary power” set on upending the global order & demanding totalitarian autocracy be respected as an alternative to democracy Robyn Dixon tour de force washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

So glad to have finally had a chance to read David McCloskey ' Moscow X. Absolutely gripping and I'm so flattered to read so many haunting echoes of real-life plot lines from Putin's People, especially at the beginning. A must-read

'Too many Western observers have been quick to dismiss the implications of coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, & Russia. The 4 countries have their differences. Yet their shared aim of weakening the US provides a strong adhesive.' Andrea Kendall-Taylor foreignaffairs.com/china/axis-uph…

Congrats Abbie Cheeseman on winning our 2024 Stern-Bryan fellowship -- and to all of our finalists, an exceptional group of early career journalists. Can't wait to see what you all do next.

Stunned fury in Moscow. Medvedev fantasizes about a second civil war in America, other officials focus on the fact that the House voted on Hitler’s birthday. Putin’s bet that he will outlast Western resolve has failed, at least for 2024. t.me/medvedev_teleg…

The rule for considering the bill passed with more Democratic than Republican support but it also won a majority of GOP votes, making it clear that despite a pocket of deep resistance from the far right, there is broad bipartisan backing for the $95bn aid nytimes.com/2024/04/19/us/…

A Russian hacking group is suspected of carrying out a cyberattack in January that caused a tank at a Texas water facility to overflow, according to a cybersecurity firm.

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Grim dispatch by Dan Sabbagh from Kharkiv. Russia is pulverising the city

The attack on 🇮🇱 tonight was of a magnitude that 🇺🇦 suffers on a fairly regular basis. Same drones. Similar missiles. Week after week. Month after month.