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Mike Eckel
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Opponent of Quiet Desperation. Contains Multitudes. In Search Of Meanness Or Sublimity. Ex-Moscow Correspondent. Vladivostok Fanboy. @RFERL Signal: MikeEckel.16
Prague, Czech Republic
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Joined November 2010
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    Mike Eckel
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    Jun 3
    Frederick Flott had a distinguished career in the US government: @StateDept diplomat, @CIA officer, @USArmy officer (also one-time interpreter for Robert F. Kennedy). Was he also a spy for the KGB? A mystery dug up in the Mitrokhin Archive @Cambridge_Uni
    The KGB's Man At State, Or A Double Agent? A Spy Mystery In A Smuggled Cold War Archive.
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    Mike Eckel
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    Oct 10, 2022
    Tbilisi this evening.
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    Mike Eckel
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    Jan 8, 2021
    Fiona Hill (former WH NSC adviser on Russia affairs), speaking on the record: 😳 thedailybeast.com/after-capitol-…
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    Mike Eckel
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    Apr 11, 2022
    just noticing this little Easter egg that was hidden at the end of the U.S. judge ruling last week ordering the seizure of Vekselberg's yacht.
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    Mike Eckel
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    Jan 23, 2021
    Video of the moment when Navalny ally/lawyer Lyubov Sobol is grabbed by riot cops while speaking in Moscow. (Video by @tvrain)
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    Mike Eckel
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    Mar 6, 2022
    anti-war protests in Moscow today; people chanting "No To War!" newly passed legislation (signed into law on Saturday) makes it crime to call Russia's invasion of Ukraine a "war"-- or an "invasion" for that matter. (source: t.me/teamnavalny)
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    Mike Eckel
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    Mar 21, 2025
    new satellite imagery (from this morning) of Russia's Engles Air Base, which was hit by Ukrainian drones a day earlier. Craters and destroyed buildings are visible. Images 1-3 from March 21; Image 4 from Dec. 2024. 📸@maxar
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    Mike Eckel
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    Feb 25, 2022
    Armed men (Ukrainian) in civilian clothes carrying AK-47s and, in one case, an RPG, now seen on Kyiv street corners
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    Mike Eckel
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    Jan 23, 2021
    Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg. (Video by readovka)
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    Mike Eckel
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    Mar 17, 2022
    WNBA center Brittney Griner appeared in a Moscow court today, where she reportedly pleaded not guilty (to drug charges). The court extended her detention for another two months, according to @mash_breaking
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    Mike Eckel
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    Mar 15, 2022
    А Russian woman stood outside the entrance to Moscow's Christ The Savior Church with the Sixth Commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" written on it. She was arrested. (source: @AvtozakLIVE)
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    Mike Eckel
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    Nov 26, 2022
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    Mike Eckel
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    Jun 4, 2023
    Footage of an intense close-contact tank battle near Bakhmut. Published today by Ukraine's 3rd Assault Brigade (but dated May 31). (source: t.me/ab3army)
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    Mike Eckel
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    Nov 6, 2022
    Cool video (shown by TV Zvezda) of a Norwegian P-3 Orion dropping a sonar buoy in full view of the crew of a Russian nuclear missile submarine, in the Barents Sea (h/t @The_Lookout_N)
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