Diana Magnay
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Diana Magnay
@DiMagnaySky
International Correspondent, Sky News. Ex-Moscow corro. Views here my own etc, retweets aides-memoires not endorsements.
- To the #Moscow of one month ago, you are already a memory, a different era. This city I have loved still looks the same but it is another place. My thoughts from the last few days.
- Our final farewell to Alexey #Navalny. I shall not look upon his like again. Our TV report from Moscow tonight. 'We will never forgive': Thousands line streets of Moscow for funeral of Alexey Navalny youtu.be/EADVFU4RJBU?si… via @YouTube
- Riot police marching up and down Tverskaya; more arrests. This is what freedom looks like in central Moscow tonight, two hours after #Navalny was sentenced to jail for supposedly breaking his parole
00:00 - 🩰 Prima Ballerina Olga Smirnova has quit the #Bolshoi & Russia, saying ‘I never thought that I would be ashamed of Russia, I have always been proud of the talented Russian people, our cultural and sporting achievements. But now the line is drawn on the before and after’
- Yep. And to claim western journalists don’t interview Putin. It’s because the Kremlin says no to our requests, Tucker, every time. Because they see no benefit in being asked the hard questions. Plus airing it verbatim is a Kremlin pre-requisite, not a sign of press freedom.Quite something to complain about how not enough American journalists are reporting on the Russian side of Putin's invasion of Ukraine when two of them – Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva – are *in jail right now* for doing just that
- Please watch our documentary. For all who ask what the Russian people are thinking. We went to Samara, Ulan-Ude, Belgorod, Krasnodar ... it's a snapshot, patriotism to despair. I have no answers. But I hope you'll watch.
- The mood in Moscow is hard to capture, but the police on every corner give a sense of it. The end of McDonalds here marks the end of an era, as sanctions close in on Russia’s future. Three decades set now for reverse. Here’s my report youtu.be/BtYS4F2B8Ns via @YouTube
- Moscow has emptied of the people I knew. Somehow it feels like the rest are sleep-walking into a new reality. In Soviet times ppl only really talked in the safety of their kitchens. That is again the direction of travel. Our report last night youtu.be/-hT76aCcd0I via @YouTubel
- From Navalny’s team: thank you to everyone who’s thinking about Alexey todayСпасибо всем, кто сегодня думает об Алексее
- Nukes on Moscow’s streets are always horrifyingly sinister. Is this the new Sarmat missile? Possibly - during rehearsals we don’t get the hardware low down. Particularly hideous in my photo is the fact it’s parked up next to the Ukrainian restaurant, Odessa Mama.
- I don’t even know what to write. Except that I am desperately sad. And angry
- #Navalny beyond frustrated by hair-splitting from prosecution on the days of the week he was supposed to check in for parole. Prosecution continues in calm monotone re x date - ‘yes or no?’ ‘Are you listening to yourself?’ Navalny says
