Posts by maximedwards@journa.host
(DIR) Post #AQKJdZqO1JLrOtiG3s by maximedwards@journa.host
2022-12-06T10:11:37Z
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@rf спасибочки
(DIR) Post #AQKJf9tHU7tfUFoxBA by maximedwards@journa.host
2022-12-06T10:11:56Z
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@rf спасибочки
(DIR) Post #AULp6aeAiwBZyIqY0u by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-04-05T19:00:04Z
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in which Brazilian police discover that none other than the Russian consul in Rio had been paying detained GRU spy 'Victor Ferreira' (real name Sergey Cherkasov) every month #brazil #russia https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2023/04/pf-mapeou-depositos-de-membros-do-governo-da-russia-a-suposto-espiao-no-brasil.shtml
(DIR) Post #AULp6bPJtdtqKWuCVE by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-04-05T19:02:25Z
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for background on this absurd story, read Bellingcat's report. When 'Victor's' cover was blown by Dutch intelligence, and he was arrested in Brazil for having used a false Brazilian ID document, Moscow suddenly remembered that he had been wanted all along for a drug smuggling case. But open source evidence, including court records from that unrelated case, didn't add up.tl;dr - Moscow wants its spy back, Brazil will probably extradite himhttps://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/11/28/moscows-mule-how-russia-rewrote-a-narcotics-case-to-get-its-spy-back/
(DIR) Post #AULpFyqi6s1tdjBmMK by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-04-05T19:08:18Z
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...there seems to be a clear pattern here of Moscow using Latin American passports, issued to false identities, for its spooks overseas. There was the 'Peruvian' Maria Adela, whom Bellingcat and partners outed and the 'Brazilian' researcher in Norway. Two recently uncovered were a 'Brazilian' and a 'Mexican.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/03/why-two-alleged-deep-cover-russian-spies-most-unusual-yet
(DIR) Post #AULqkJHCpGK9dTblLc by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-04-05T19:25:23Z
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@lauren yes, while the widespread misapprehension of the difference between 'public' and 'state' media (which is actually a difference) becomes harder to resolve. but is fodder for low-information contrarians who want their prejudices confirmed.
(DIR) Post #AV4hp1xuy5PMNiT5KS by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-04-27T10:31:27Z
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IMHO, a 50/50 chance that this is a.) Companies House being their usual incompetent selves or b.) an elaborate troll (a company name of 'Grainholding' is just too on the nose given the looted agricultural products from the region; Saldo can also find somebody to hold the company in his name). #russia #ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/27/volodymyr-saldo-uk-company-set-up-in-name-of-top-putin-official-in-ukraine
(DIR) Post #AWBEGankKNRaL1uEEq by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-05-30T12:05:44Z
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Yurchak on how not to understand Russians' popular support (or lack of, or ambivalence towards) the war on #Ukraine."It’s not my job to comfort you. In fact, this is a catastrophe, including a moral one, we are all participating in a moral catastrophe. The catastrophe is not that everyone in Russia is fooled and supporting the war, but that people are simply powerless, they cannot mobilize against it, at least not yet."https://postsocialism.org/2023/05/23/alexei-yurchak-the-present-moral-catastrophe-the-ussr-and-putin/
(DIR) Post #AWBRBGqKP5uuOWuFIe by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-05-30T14:24:42Z
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@kravietz i don't think this is an excuse for their passivity but an explanation for it. we need explanations if we are to develop messaging which sticks. 'they don't have the truth' is simplistic and doesn't engage with the very complex heuristic methods people develop to actively resist receiving uncomfortable information they may even suspect to be true
(DIR) Post #AX15QPzFHKvMrSfdy4 by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-06-24T10:45:13Z
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On #Prigozhin’s rebellion, bear in mind that Wagner has significance beyond Ukraine: it’s spearheaded Russia’s presence across Africa, in the CAR, Burkina Faso, Mali, Sudan and reportedly Cameroon. You have to wonder what their implosion would do to Russia’s overtures to the continent, and the security of the regimes it props up. #Russia #Ukraine
(DIR) Post #AXHR4K6sEwH3qP8pbk by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-07-02T09:26:20Z
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Which OSINT accounts are worth following on the Fediverse? The community has long been synonymous with Twitter, hopefully there’ll be momentum to change that given current events. #osint
(DIR) Post #AXHR4LEi3I8VKzobSa by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-07-02T09:26:59Z
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*apart from Bellingcat!
(DIR) Post #AYw1PCcZIqIVDUCwQi by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-08-19T21:43:31Z
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“Twitter allows journalists to be lazy. And very productively lazy… The right wing ecosystem has figured this out and understands #Twitter as the best place for manipulating journalists. Journalists, meanwhile, have not quit their Twitter habit.” — excellent interview with Ethan Zuckerman on Twitter and the future of a digital public space (or rather the costs of the illusion that we could have a single one): https://www.wired.com/story/have-a-nice-future-podcast-8/
(DIR) Post #Aa0RMOuvoUJ2JpTNRo by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-09-21T15:58:57Z
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Our latest, showing open source clues about the consequences of Azerbaijan's latest attack on Nagorno-#Karabakh. Due to internet and electricity blackouts there are slim pickings, but we can see some indications that large numbers of local Armenians are fleeing their homes.https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/09/21/chaos-and-crisis-as-azerbaijan-attacks-nagorno-karabakh/
(DIR) Post #Aa0ROuFWIBsC4ZIVYe by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-09-21T18:49:35Z
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Excellent podcast by the excellent OC Media team asking (and offering good answers) to burning questions on Karabakh — will Armenians be offered any autonomy? Will they be compelled to flee to Armenia? And what does Azerbaijani society make of this? #Karabakh #Azerbaijan #Armenia https://oc-media.org/podcasts/podcast-the-end-of-nagorno-karabakh/
(DIR) Post #AbX9G2QzmtvdqaqQkK by maximedwards@journa.host
2023-11-06T15:17:31Z
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The BBC looks into the background of the antisemitic mob which gathered in Dagestan recently, delving into the Morning Dagestan Telegram channel and others which first spread misinformation about the flight from Tel Aviv. #Israel #Russia https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67269477