Hier zit letterlijk één week tussen.

Een minister van Justitie en Veiligheid die zich mengt in de vrije pers en met ophitspolitiek het werk van journalisten nog moeilijker maakt.

Onacceptabel.

En een beangstigende voorbode van het nieuwe kabinet

ik weet dat jullie het hier allemaal prachtig vinden, maar dit is dus wel een minister van Justitie en Veiligheid (!) die mij hier als journalist (wiens leven echt niet altijd even veilig is) op het schavot plaatst vanwege het stellen van een vraag. meer niet. ik stelde een

First deputy minister of defence Ruslan Tsalikov (widely seen a n2 after Shoigu) also appears to be on his way out

Proud to have worked on the latest investigations from Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project's Caucuses team.

First: Our reporters found that the family of Ilham Aliyev's top bodyguard (who has a modest salary) owns 3 mansions on one street in posh north London (and much more).

occrp.org/en/investigati…

We can now officially bury the 'technocrats versus siloviki' model of Russian elites.

Yuriy Butusov's assessment of the situation in Kharkiv oblast. He says Russian advances have slowed now that they are running into defensive positions and their losses are increasing, though he says that some of existing fortifications were built in the wrong locations. He says

Economist Andrey Belousov appointed on a MoD. What does it say? A quick🧵
- Putin's priority is war; war of attrition is won by economics. Belousov is in favor of stimulating demand from the budget, which means that military spending will at least not decrease but rather increase

Andrei Belousov, Russia’s new defence minister has served as Russia’s representative to the EBRD, heads the National Council for Financial Stability of the Central Bank from the Russian Federation, and laid out his thoughts on interest rates just last week. Truly an Economic War.

And Peskov just said the Kremlin will announce Patrushev’s new position in the next few das

Shoigu is taking Patrushev’s job as secretary of the security council

The past pattern had been when they change the Minister of Defense, they tend to swap out the Chief of General Staff - will be interesting to see if this holds during the war.

Russia’s economy has been put on war footing so it’s telling that an economist now leads the defence ministry

Putin replacing Shoigu as defence minister with former deputy prime minister and longtime economic advisor Andrei Belousov

A really worthy cause — can’t recommend OC Media enough

It’s Mothers’ Day, Sunday May 12, 2024.

A sad one for Ella Milman, whose son , WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, was detained by the FSB Mar 29, 2023.

1 year & 44 days ago

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The story of a Ukrainian saxophonist from a Mariupol military band who returned from 20 months of Russian captivity.

Malnutrition, beatings, electric shocks & forced rituals of reading poetry praising Russia.

There are 23 musicians still in Ru prisons

theguardian.com/world/article/…

Joost Klein disqualified. Disproportionate and disgraceful decision EBU. Long live the future of Eurovision - not. With this EBU anything can happen in future

After the Union Club canceled my book talk in Frankfurt, offering no indication that they had even read the book, my friend Joshua Yaffa (the event's moderator) sent a letter to the club's president about the absurdity of this ostensible effort to protect Jews by censoring them:

Today marks 58 long weeks that our colleague Evan Gershkovich has been wrongfully imprisoned in Russia. Read about the fight to free him. time.com/6852858/evan-g…