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peter pomerantsev
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Senior Fellow, Agora Institute Johns Hopkins Uni Author: How to Win an Information War; This is Not Propaganda ; Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Mar 6, 2022
    Message from Kharkiv, from a great friend and colleague who I work with all the time on University research. He's now manning barricades: "situation is hard. City terrorised with artillery fire. People being killed in the streets, on their way home or to shelters...(1/4)
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Apr 10, 2022
    If Germany doesn’t sanction Russia why don’t we sanction Germany. Not sure I want cars made with the help of Uighur concentration camps or German products powered by Russian gas that fund an atrocity machine
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    peter pomerantsev
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    May 2, 2022
    A Ukrainian family spent three weeks in a cellar with Russian soldiers. When I interviewed them I found their strange relationship has lessons for how to win the war….With thanks to my colleague Andrii Bashtovyi who first told me about this story
    ‘We Can Only Be Enemies’
    From theatlantic.com
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Mar 6, 2022
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    They have no hope basically. There's no medicine or treatment or way to leave. First responders are at the limit: they don't have enough people, resources. There are so many artillery hits that they can't keep up. It's outright terror campaign against civilians. Civilians."
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Oct 12, 2022
    Musk pushing Putin propaganda is not historically new: British aristos did the same in WWII with Hitler 'peace offers'. What's new is that an oligarch can switch off critical internet infrastructure at whim, and undermine crucial military operations against a genocidal regime.
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Feb 24, 2022
    I feel ashamed. Ashamed that Ukrainians are fighting the return of imperialism and fascism in Europe, fighting for the ‘values’ that Europe is meant to stand for but has forgotten the meaning of. And we safe Europeans do nothing. When we can. First: Take Russia out of SWIFT now.
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Mar 9, 2022
    West is doing an AMAZING job... of responding to 2014. That's when we needed sanctions and arming Ukrainians. We're 'winning' the last war. Not sure we've quite caught up with this new one yet
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Mar 6, 2022
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    There's no way to leave as air raids don't stop. The hits are on places unrelated to military or infrastructure: sports centres; homes; cafes. There's about 25 pharmacies working for a city of 1.5 million. It's hardest for people with bed-ridden relatives, the old, disabled.
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Mar 6, 2022
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    Grad fire just hit the Петихадка (sorry if wrong spelling), where people were queuing. It's a blood bath. Many deaths. The Northern Saltivka, a densely populated places in town, is subject to air raids all times of day and night. People haven't left shelters five days...
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Feb 24, 2022
    We are choosing Russian oligarchs over Ukrainian kids. They are dying and we are betraying them with weak sanctions. Go hit the essence of the Putin system. It's a kleptocracy. Go after the kleptocrats.
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Feb 27, 2022
    Putin’s constant calling us all ‘Nazis’ is a way to drain the term of meaning and resonance and thus clear the mental space for Putin’s own essence of fascism. Destroy the meaning of words which acted as taboos to check behaviour, to make the worst behaviour possible again
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Jun 11, 2023
    ‘Russia is a culture where you have crime without punishment and punishment without crime’. The Ukrainian scholars Tetiana Ogarkova and ⁦@yermolenko_v⁩ helps me understand what lies behind Russia’s acts of extreme violence
    theguardian.com
    What lies behind Russia’s acts of extreme violence? Freudian analysis offers an answer | Peter...
    The blowing up of a Ukrainian dam echoes a traditional cycle of destruction and self-destruction marking the country’s history
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Mar 23, 2022
    they hit residential areas. then they wait for journalists and locals to turn up. then they hit them again. today they killed oksana, whose series on the gulag is vital to understand the people who killed her. just despair and anger. century over century. this empire must die
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    Mar 23, 2022
    And now it's someone I've known for 16 years and worked with at several independent outlets. Oksana Baulina, a Russian journalist with phenomenal sense of moral clarity, killed by Russian rocket fire on a reporting mission in Kyiv today. I'm yet to process this.
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Mar 1, 2022
    If you say, as Lavrov and Putin do continuously, that a people don't exist, and those that do are 'Nazis' (therefore, in a perverse logic, Untermenschen): it's a conscious way to pave the path towards casual mass murder.