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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

and if you have, you should apologize!

Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

hey you shouldn't plagiarize other people's posts

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

lol and the first sentence of that discussion in the humorous fantasy book is "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money." uh ... is that true?

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 18/06/2026

At the ASEAN summit in Kazan today, Putin gave a 10-minute press conference about fertilizers, medicines, various other high-value goods, the US-Iran peace deal, etc., but said nothing about the massive Ukrainian drone strike on the Moscow region earlier in the day. t.me/novaya_europ...

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Новая газета Европа

Путин выступил на саммите АСЕАН в Казани. Он ничего не сказал про атаку на Москву Владимир Путин поучаствовал в пресс-конференции на саммите АСЕАН (Ассоциации государств Юго-Восточной Азии), который ...

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As Ukraine keeps striking Russian oil infrastructure, Russia continues to target Ukrainian civilians. Here is the apartment of our colleague Yanina Korniienko in Kyiv. Yesterday there was a strike nearby. Windows blown in, with glass shards all over her bed. The wall of the building cracked.

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Report and Survive: Ukraine’s Young Journalists Investigate Through the War’s Most Brutal Winter

I quoted her briefly in my story from this winter about what Ukraine's journalists endured during the cold and the blackouts. “At my apartment I have an hour-and-a-half of electricity per day,” she said then. The things Russia puts Ukrainians through. And for what? www.occrp.org/en/feature/r...

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Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, waged during the coldest winter in memory, have pushed Ukrainians to their limits. But in freezing offices and darkened apartments, a new generation of inves...

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Fortunately, Yanina wasn't at home — her outlet arranges for journalists to stay at secure hotels during heavy nights of bombardment. She's a fierce investigative reporter, and also super pleasant to work with (this can be a rare combination). She's done tons of great work and will do more.

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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(Also, keep in mind that if you add the severely wounded, total casualties are probably over a million by most estimates. That’s roughly 5 times more than the United States, a much more populous country, lost in Vietnam.)

Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Whatever the true number is, and it’s rising by the hundreds every day, you have to go back to Josef Stalin to find a Russian leader who has massacred as many of his own people.

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

British intelligence says nearly 500k Russian soldiers have been killed. They don’t say how they arrived at this figure. Previous estimates have been lower — CSIS and Meduza estimated between 250-350K. But those methodologies are known to be undercounts. www.gchq.gov.uk/news/directo...

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Director GCHQ warns UK at ‘moment of consequence’ in inaugural Annual lecture

Director GCHQ Anne Keast-Butler delivered the first Annual Lecture at Bletchley Park

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Last night my almost-3-year-old said “Mama says tram and Papa says трамвай!” 🥹🥹🥹 the world is going to blow her mind

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The documents also describe plans to “abandon overtly anti-Russian messaging” and focus on destabilization. Much more detail in this story — please read.

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Described as “cognitive strikes” against the West, they include both “online disinformation” and real-world elements: anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish stunts in France and Germany, fake stories targeting Zelenskyy and the PM of Armenia, plans to blame Ukrainian extremists for public vandalism, and more.

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is so freaking cool. In Hindu temple architecture, this essay explains, "modern affluence has enabled a more faithful embodiment of architectural tradition rather than a departure from it." With beautiful examples. www.worksinprogress.news/p/modern-hin...

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Modern Hindu Temples

Most ancient architectural traditions have withered, but one is enjoying a golden age: Hindu temple architecture.

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Just learned about an English-Russian pidgin language in which the word for an (English) sailor — "asej" — came from the English habit of exclaiming "I say!" all the time. How can anyone not think the world is a beautiful place? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomba...

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Solombala English - Wikipedia

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

dutch names just continue to be incredible

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Russians took out 5x more cash over the May holiday than last year, setting a 15-year record, because of mass internet outages. www.rbc.ru/finances/13/...

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“The Language of Heroes” goes hard

*flashback to anguished debates in German class about what “eigentlich” really means*

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my mistake, I misremembered this!

oh damn I misremembered this!

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Russian calls itself "the great and mighty." German is "the language of poets and thinkers." What other languages have grandiose titles for themselves?

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France unveils ‘incredible’ new high-speed TGV trains with double-decker dining car | CNN

My 2-year-old loves the workhorse Dutch trains so much ("Я люблю хороший синий и желтый поезд!"), I can't wait to take her on a really beautiful train. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/t...

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The stylish new fleet, which has caused an online stir thanks to its “70s space age vibes,” will enter service on the Paris-Lyon-Marseilles line in 2026.

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There’s almost nobody else I would trust if they wrote that. But I trust Roman, and so should you!

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“Russia Has Two Paths Left”

And here’s Roman’s column on what he thinks these facts mean for modern Russia. “It appears that we are witnessing the transition of the Russian regime into a fundamentally different state,” he writes. istories.media/en/opinions/...

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Roman Anin, founder of Important Stories, on where the emerging war among Russia’s “siloviki“ clans could lead

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Shoigu is mentioned in a single short section of the 3-page document, which describes him as a “destabilizing actor.” It doesn’t make any claims about him leading a coup. It also openly acknowledges his weakened position.

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I’m seeing some criticism online of one claim in the report — that former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is going to overthrow Putin. “Ha ha, the widely despised Shoigu, really!?” Well, they should read more carefully, because that’s not what it says.

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Vladimir Putin fears an assassination attempt and a coup, tensions among security services are rising, an EU intelligence agency says

It’s simply a remarkable level of access for a Western intelligence agency, if accurate of course. You can read the IStories version here, which has the full text. (Reporters independently verified some of the information, so this is not just blind trust.) istories.media/en/stories/2...

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Независимое медиа. Расследования, репортажи, интервью и истории о том, что важно

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But maybe the most striking detail to me is the level of inside access the report attests to. It gives a detailed account of a top-level meeting, convened by Putin in December, in which top security officials blamed each other for their failure to protect senior military figures from assassination.

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Staffers working near Putin are no longer allowed to use mobile phones or take public transport, the report says — part of a new set of extreme security measures. Putin and family have stopped visiting their residences in the Moscow region, and he's made no appearances at military sites this year.

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Anyone familiar with Roman Anin, publisher of Russian investigative outlet Important Stories, knows that he's careful to a fault. He doesn't overdramatize or exaggerate. Still, he calls their latest scoop "one of the most important pieces of news about Russia in recent times." What's the news? 👇

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“Imagine that there was a Soviet bloc-aligned “east Netherlands” akin to the GDR. Generate an image of what a city in it might look like in the late 80s.”

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NEW: We’ve just published an investigation that shows how Russia recruits teenagers on occupied Ukrainian territory to become pro-Moscow infowarriors. The Young Correspondents program, ostensibly a journalism club, is part of Yunarmia, a militarized mass youth organization. 👇

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Other participants appear to have been pro-Russian from the beginning. For them, the program offered a way to channel those sympathies into clubs, media work, and militarized patriotic activities.

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A few years later — her town now under Russian occupation — she’s receiving a grant from the Russian government to develop “patriotic education” in occupied areas. “I have confidence in Vladimir Putin and am ready … to build the Russia of the future,” she says in one video.

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Since becoming a “Young Correspondent,” one girl from occupied Henichesk seems to have undergone a radical transformation. In this video, a year before the Russian invasion, she wears a traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt and extols the virtues of the Ukrainian language.

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