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Vladimir Solovyov speaking at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 2008:
A war against Ukraine would be "the most terrible crime you can think of"
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Francis Scarr
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Francis Scarr
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Currently studying International Security @PSIASciencesPo, back watching Russia for @BBCMonitoring in summer ‘26
- In an extremely rare moment of candour on Russian state TV today, defence columnist Mikhail Khodaryonok gave a damning assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine and his country's international isolation. It's fairly long but worth your time so I've added subtitles.
00:00 - A crowd gathered this evening on Arbat, Moscow's main pedestrian street, shouts "Send Putin to the trenches!"
00:00 - Russian TV host Andrei Norkin's realisation that his country lacks freedom of speech: If I back the decision to withdraw from Kherson, I'm going to jail for questioning Russia's territorial integrity And if I oppose it, I'm going to jail for discrediting the armed forces
00:00 - You couldn't make this up Last night Russian state TV ran a report on the unexpected 'benefits' of having your son killed in Ukraine You can buy a Lada with the compensation given to you by the state!
00:00 - Graffiti in St Petersburg: "To start with you were indifferent to politics and now you're cannon fodder"
- Russian radio station Kommersant FM has been hacked and is currently playing Ukrainian and anti-war songs kommersant.ru/fm/player
- Here's state TV presenter Sergei Brilyov lauding Russia's "special military operation" on tonight's news He holds a British passport and owns an apartment in West London
- An op-ed for state news agency RIA Novosti titled "What Russia should do with Ukraine" by pundit Timofei Sergeitsev has created quite a stir today The rhetoric is truly horrific, even by the standards of what I'm used to seeing from pro-Kremlin media Below are a few quotes:
- Well that was a surprise
Replying to @elonmusk and @LindseyGrahamSCBelow is the electoral map of 2012. Blue is the pro-Russia party. - This morning the online Russian TV schedule page was hacked The name of every programme was changed to "On your hands is the blood of thousands of Ukrainians and their hundreds of murdered children. TV and the authorities are lying. No to war"
00:00 - Over the weekend, Italian TV host Massimo Giletti went to Russia where he interviewed Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova and top state TV host Vladimir Solovyov Fellow Italian journalist Alessandro Sallusti wasn't impressed... (thanks to @LBuscicchi for translating)
00:00 - A Wagner fighter who answered Prigozhin’s call to fight in Ukraine while serving a lengthy jail term for beating his elderly mother to death in a drunken frenzy has now received a "hero’s funeral" e1.ru/text/gorod/202…
