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Balazs Wirth

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Wide eyed wanderer. Opinions are my own, re-post usually mean endorsement.

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Dietmar Pichler @dietmarpichler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ich freue mich, dass der Report "Pro-Russische Narrative und Diskursmanipulation in Österreich" nun online ist. Unter diesem Link kann man eine kleine Übersicht einsehen und den gesamten Report herunterladen: @inved.bsky.social inved.eu/insight/pres...
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PRESSEAUSSENDUNG: Neuer INVED-Report: Prorussische Narrative im österreichischen Informationsraum massiv verbreitet – INVED
Rund 75 % der untersuchten Kommentare offen oder latent prorussisch Unabhängig davon spülen Algorithmen immer wieder Inhalte der russischen Staatspropaganda in die Userfeeds Über 3/4 der in Österreich...
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DG MEME @ecmemes.bsky.social · 14h
Our reasonable conditions for the UK to rejoin the EU: - Make tabloid editors recite the Act of Contrition on TV - Drive on the right side of the road - Revoke pub privileges for Brexiteers - Adopt the € - Add Kaja Kallas to the line of succession to the throne
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Oliver Das Gupta @oliverdasgupta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Aktuell (30.09.2026) in „Heute“: Inserate von ORF, Mobilitätsagentur Wien sowie „freundliche Unterstützung“ von Bundesministerium Innovation, Mobilität und Infrastruktur sowie Stadt Wien
Aktuell (30.09.2026) in „Heute“:

Inserate von ORF, Mobilitätsagentur Wien sowie „freundliche Unterstützung“ von Bundesministerium Innovation, Mobilität und Infrastruktur sowie Stadt WienAktuell (30.09.2026) in „Heute“:

Inserate von ORF, Mobilitätsagentur Wien sowie „freundliche Unterstützung“ von Bundesministerium Innovation, Mobilität und Infrastruktur sowie Stadt Wien
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Oliver Das Gupta @oliverdasgupta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Servus Österreich. Die angeblichen #Gratiszeitungen „heute“ & „oe24“ kosten die Steuerzahler. Diese #Medien drucken auffällig viele #Inserate, die direkt/indirekt vom Geld der Menschen in 🇦🇹 bezahlt werden: Es inserieren Ministerien, Bundesländer, staatliche Einrichtungen & Unternehmen, Parteien, ORF
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Russia sends nuclear warning to NATO as tensions rise in the Baltic" (Reuters, today) Here we go again... 🥱 vatniksoup.com/en/nuclear-t...
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Russian Nuclear Threats Timeline | Vatnik Soup
Vatnik Soup: Your most comprehensive resource on pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 30/09/2026
⚡️ Russia strikes Ukrainian power pylon with steel-cutting drone for 1st time, Zelensky's adviser says. The warhead was designed to destroy high-voltage pylons and steel bridges and contains a 40-kilogram main charge and four additional destructive modules, Serhii Beskrestnov said.
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Russia strikes Ukrainian power pylon with steel-cutting drone for 1st time, Zelensky's adviser says
The warhead was designed to destroy high-voltage pylons and steel bridges and contains a 40-kilogram main charge and four additional destructive modules, Serhii Beskrestnov said.
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Sarah Höfler @aquageo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ja das links mittig ist der erste Bezirk. Und wenn man sich das nun für die Kulturlandschaften in Mitteleuropa insgesamt vorstellt, wird klar warum unsere Landschaft so viel von ihrer Fähigkeit Wasser zu speichern, eingebüßt hat. #Klimalandschaften
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 30/09/2026
”Unauthorized attempted or actual access to computers is a federal crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. OpenAI says no one intended this but DOJ would be a laughingstock if it took this at face value: subpoena OpenAI and find out who knew what when.” garymarcus.substack.com/p/can-compan...
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Can companies like OpenAI keep getting away with what they are doing? An interview with Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout
“The most powerful tool is the power to dissolve corporations that engage in repeat lawbreaking.”
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Marco Globe @marcoglobe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
„schön für den Tourismus“ könnte sich ganz bald ändern. Die Speicherstände für die künstl. Beschneiungen sind zT extrem niedrig.Und sollten die Niederschläge in dieser Deutlichkeit ausbleiben,werden die Rufe der Winter-Touristiker nach Entschädigung jene der Landwirte wie flüstern erscheinen lassen.
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Christoph Dolna-Gruber @chrigru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Österreichweite Abweichung der Niederschläge gegenüber dem langjährigen Durchschnitt: ❄️ Winter: -29 % 🌷 Frühling: -47 % ⛱️ Sommer: -29 % 🍂 Herbst: -12 % (bisher) Schön für Tourismus, Sport und Events - eine Katastrophe für Wasserversorgung, Wasserkraft und Landwirtschaft. Und kein Ende in Sicht...
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ukraine's Intel says Russia is moving propaganda film crews into occupied Oleshky. Residents will be forced to say on camera how everything is rosy under occupation and they are not cold and starved at all. #SaveOleshky
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Dietmar Pichler @dietmarpichler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
-Rund 75 % der untersuchten Kommentare offen oder latent prorussisch -Unabhängig davon spülen Algorithmen immer wieder Inhalte der russischen Staatspropaganda in Userfeeds -Über 3/4 der in Österreich lebenden Ukrainer werden mit russischen Narrativen, Täter-Opfer-Umkehr & Hate Speech konfrontiert⬇️
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 30/09/2026
⚡️Ukraine, over 50 allies sign pledge on return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. Fifty countries and four other organizations signed a pledge on Sept. 29 calling for the return of Ukrainian prisoners of war, unlawfully detained civilians, and children abducted by Russia.
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Ukraine, over 50 allies sign pledge on return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia
"With the treatment of Ukrainian children, of POWs and detained civilians within the Russian Federation, there is actually a rather limited amount of coincidence involved. It is a systemic challenge,"...
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Markus T. 🇪🇺 ♥️ 📎 @bettercallmarkus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mir geht es so am Nerv, dass wir konsequent das falsche tun. Wir haben heuer in Österreich Ernteausfälle von bis zu 70 % (!!) bei Rüben und Kartoffeln. Und statt mehr für Klimatschutz zu tun erhöhen wir Pendlerpauschale und führen einen Tankrabatt ein.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen: We are not dwarfs. There's a dwarf that behaves like a giant. That's true. And that's Russia.
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Ö. Ges. für ME/CFS @mecfs.at · 29/09/2026
❗Petition “Meine Würde” für faire Begutachtungen - Jetzt unterzeichnen!❗ Ab sofort könnt ihr die von der #Lebenshilfe organisierte Petition “Meine Würde - Petition für faire, ärztliche Begutachtungen” unterzeichnen. 👉Zur Petition: mein.aufstehn.at/pet... 1/3
Zu lesen ist ein Zitat von Priv. Doz. Dr. Manuela Zlamy, Ph.D: “[...] Ein holistischer Ansatz soll bei der Begutachtung beachtet werden. Dabei stehen die Patient:innen als Individuum mit ihren individuellen Problemen im Vordergrund. [...]”. 
Zu lesen ist: "Meine Würde: Petition für faire, ärztliche Begutachtungen. Jetzt Petition unterschreiben: meinewürde.at "
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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 29/09/2026
These are not products of an effective design process. Instead of starting with a purpose and finding the best way to satisfy it they are starting with a behemoth existing material and desperately trying to find ways to make it useful. This is anti-design.
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Sarah Höfler @aquageo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bin eine von 3000 Obfrauen/Obmännern 😊 Gemeinsam in eine bessere Zukunft ist mir dabei wichtiger als das bisserl Geld, das sich die Mitglieder sparen bzw. mehr bekommen für ihren Strom.
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Starker Anstieg bei Energiegemeinschaften
In Oberösterreich gibt es inzwischen knapp 3.000 Energiegemeinschaften. Damit liegt das Bundesland deutlich vor Wien und Niederösterreich. Innerhalb eines Jahres ist die Zahl in Oberösterreich um 40 P...
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A former Wagner fighter, now in Ukrainian captivity, said Russian mercenaries in Mali used captured Africans as live subjects for brutal "tactical medicine training." In 2023-2024, Russian instructors deliberately maimed African prisoners, after which the mercenaries practiced stopping bleeding.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Zelenskyy: Belgium will transfer three F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine by the end of the year.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now would be a very good time for Trump to implement those "bone crushing" sanctions against Russia. He signed the act, so no doubt they'll be announced any time now.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Prime Minister of Estonia has accused the RF of an arson attack on the premises of Milrem Robotics. Milrem Robotics manufactures THeMIS uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs), which it has been supplying to Ukraine since 2022.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
…or, like Russia, spent every night tearing down Russian apartment blocks with sleeping residents inside with Flamingo missiles.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just imagine the amount of squealing, hands thrown up to the heavens, and shirts torn open in righteous indignation if Ukraine, even once (!) responded to Russia’s mass killings and barbaric bombardment of historical heritage by striking the Bolshoi Theatre or the Hermitage…
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arnisatepelija.bsky.social @arnisatepelija.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Vučić's resignation is a chronicle of a resignation foretold: a long-awaited move answering the pulsing rage of the protests that followed the deaths of 16 people in the collapse of the Novi Sad railway station roof in November 2024. It leaves a rule of law wreck track behind too.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 29/09/2026
⚡️ Demonstrators marched through Berlin in support of civilians trapped in Russian-occupied Oleshky. Protesters called for heightened pressure on Moscow, an immediate end to the blockade blocking humanitarian aid, and guaranteed safe passage to evacuate civilians.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1/ China is displacing Russia as a supplier of military equipment to Central Asia. With Russia's own military-industrial complex under sanctions and with heavy domestic demand due to the Ukraine war, China is now ideally situated to replace Russian defence exports. ⬇️
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29/09/2026
⚡Putin restricts publication of Russian refinery, energy data amid Ukrainian strikes Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Sept. 28 restricting access to data on the country's oil refineries/energy exports amid an intensifying Ukrainian campaign against Russia's oil infrastructure.
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Putin restricts publication of Russian refinery, energy data amid Ukrainian strikes
Limiting the dissemination of information on export volumes, buyers, transport routes and terminals can make it more difficult for governments and researchers to track Russian energy flows and identif...
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Finnish public broadcaster Yle’s correspondent Maxim Fedorov was about to start a live broadcast from Kyiv when a missile hit close by his home, which the camera recorded in the background
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That she comes from a country that was Fascist, with racial laws and actively implicated in the Holocaust makes things even worse
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not that anyone expects much from the UN anyway, but that the Special Rapporteur dealing with Palestine and Israel doesn't know (or didn’t know before publicly apologizing for pontificating while ignorant) what antisemitism means is probably not a good thing
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/09/2026
There has been little movement in EU circles on the question of using over 200 billion euros ($227 billion) of immobilized Russian assets since Sweden reopened the topic a month ago, but those wanting to move the matter forward are increasingly going public with their ideas.
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Unfreezing Europe's Russian assets debate
There has been little movement in EU circles on the question of using over 200 billion euros ($227 billion) of immobilized Russian assets since Sweden reopened the topic a month ago, but those wanting...
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 28/09/2026
‘The total market for NAV lending is around $150bn, according to research by Fund Finance Partners, with an average deal size of about $150mn. Ten years ago, “the term ‘NAV lending’ [for individuals] didn’t exist.”’ www.ft.com/content/4838...
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Rich turn to borrowing against private equity holdings as payouts slow
Wealthy individuals follow pension funds and institutional investors into NAV lending
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Clemens🇪🇺 @alpenwetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Und noch eine Ergänzung. Harald Lesch am Extremwetterkongress mit klaren Worten. youtube.com/shorts/IJEsL... #EWK #Klimawandel #Klimakrise
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Harald Lesch: "Das ist ein Skandal"
YouTube video by Diskurspunkt
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Democracies are new, and fragile and where corruption and self interest have been rife for centuries. Is it any wonder that Trump has found a way to use that weakness for the sake of his donors? As usual it’s not about the national interests of those governments, but profits and who Trump owes.
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Deals was the $6 billion LNG deal with Albania involving Venture Global. There are at least four other lesser companies, but all have some kind of link to the Trump regime, however vague. The insidious web of American energy and financial imperialism has worked its way into countries whose
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another major player is AKTOR. Chirstos Marafatsos is a registered lobbyist, and joined Trumps political operation as long ago as 2016, as Greek Voices for Trump. He accompanied Guilfoyle to meetings with Balkan officials. Guilfoyle repeatedly promoted the company for Balkan LNG deals. One of those
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
was not about his politics in general, although that probably played a part, but that he would not agree to the extortionate price the US LNG companies want, and Trump owes them. The major investor in Balkan LNG is Venture Global. In 2024 its founders, Pender & Sabel attended Mar-a-lago and later
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OTD in 1939 USSR & its Nazi German allies signed "German-Soviet Boundary & Friendship Treaty" in Moscow just few days after our joint Victory Parade. Both nazis and USSR accused France and GB of trying to "prolong the war".
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Academy of Sciences in Kyiv 🙏🇺🇦
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pavlo, a Ukrainian Defender who has returned from Russian captivity, takes down his picture from a wall of missing and captives. He spent 50 months in Russian captivity. That's over four years....
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Pam Kan-Rice @ucanrpam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
”You see an acceleration in the hydroclimate cycle overall. You see more extreme precipitation when it is raining and more extreme evaporation when it is not, simply by virtue of the temperature being higher than it used to be.” @weatherwest.bsky.social said
A sponge over plants in soil illustrates how the amount of water vapor the atmosphere can hold has increased by 7% with 1 degree Celsius of temperature rise
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can't understand the AI doomer shit without understanding that it is a way of **not dealing with climate change**
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
RUSSIAS TERROR CAMPAIGN Russia spent a very long time perfecting the destruction of civil society in Syria. Its ‘masterpiece’ was conducted towards the end of the conflict in Aleppo, an ancient historic and sizeable city of 1.8 million in 2017. General Surovikin was its mastermind. The campaign
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ChemicalWeapons #Syria #Disarmament #OPCW REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL: PROGRESS IN THE ELIMINATION OF THE SYRIAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROGRAMME www.opcw.org/sites/defaul... Note: Conspiracy theorists have always challenged the #hexamine used to manufacture Syria's sarin. Not anymore ... ...
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 27/09/2026
Gabor Maté built a reputation treating trauma, but on Kremlin media, he repeats the aggressor. 🧵 1/8 ⬇️
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Swiss Vatnik Party initiative was strongly rejected today! A yes would have greatly reduced Switzerland's ability to sanction belligerent states, such as russia.
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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
France is getting vocal about the threat from Russia’s “hybrid” war, but then convinces Europe to lift sanctions on Putin’s buddy Alisher Usmanov, who helps fund that war. What gives? I have a theory! But maybe I’ve written too much spy fiction. alexzfinley.substack.com/p/the-strang...
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The Strange Tale of Lifting Sanctions on Alisher Usmanov
France loudly warns about the threat from Russia, but forces sanctions relief for one of Putin’s besties. What gives?
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