“Zamestim,” Russian for “We will replace,” made out of the logos of Western companies on a display in St. Petersburg, Russia, in April 2022.Aleksey Smagin/Kommersant, via Alamy
This excellent article debunks the pro-Putin propaganda of the @nytimes.What a shame that the NYT is following the tradition of Walter Duranty, who denied the artificial Stalin famine Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-33.If NYT has any honor: Apologize!https://t.co/kNLB2qOmqs— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) December 29, 2023
Mr. Putin’s economic counterstrikes have helped to fortify support among the elites profiting from the war and to blunt the effects of Western isolation. While Ukraine is preoccupied with short-term imperatives like shoring up international support, the relative resilience of the Russian economy has enabled Mr. Putin to play a long game.Previously undisclosed…
Sometimes, political reporters without a background in business journalism make egregious errors in their coverage of the business exodus from Vladimir Putin’s Russia–and even fall for the strongman’s Potemkin Village-like economic façade. A recent article, entitled How Putin Turned a Western Boycott Into a Bonanza, wrongly suggested that the historic…
A screenshot appearing as a New York Times headline about Russian President Vladimir Putin having “conquered” Ukraine is fake. The headline image has been altered from an authentic Times opinion piece published in late December on Ukraine not needing “all its territory to defeat Putin”.The screenshot is dated Dec. 27, with The New York Times logo printed…
Igor Salikov was a Russian GRU officer and former Wagner PMC fighter who defected after witnessing war crimes in Ukraine. Since 2014, he participated in Russia’s covert takeover of eastern Ukraine under the direction of Vladislav Surkov. In a bombshell interview with Russian human rights activist, Gulagu.net founder Vladimir Osechkin, Salikov described…
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