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Anne Applebaum
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Staff writer . , . Author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy. @anneapplebaum@journa.host
Warsaw, London, Washingtonlinktr.ee/anneapplebaumJoined May 2011

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More than 100 thousand Israelis are demonstrating tonight in Tel Aviv and other cities around the country against Netanyahu's plan to weaken the supreme court and other Democratic institutions. This is the 6th week in a row demonstrations are taking place
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Has someone written the definitive explanation of why China, which has high tech satellites, internet spyware and access to reams of stolen data, would even need a spy balloon?
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I remain convinced that an authentically color-blind society—one that recognizes histories of difference but refuses to fetishize or reproduce them—is the destination we must aim for. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi
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"Lenin, Stalin, and their successors wanted to subjugate the entire world to their Soviet dictatorship of the proletariat. They failed—but they did a lot of damage while trying. Putin will also fail, but he too can do a lot of damage while trying. And not only in Ukraine."
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Amazing, manages to lie and tell the truth at the same time (Kaczynski did pay the money, which may or may not have been his, but only in order to get out of paying even more money as a penalty for losing a libel case)
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The head of the Polish ruling party, Jarosław Kaczyński, has donated USD 12 000 to the Ukrainian Army. 🇵🇱🇺🇦
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I understand the logic (and no need to explain it to me) but it still seems strange that when employment surges and more people have jobs, the stock market goes *down*
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. & Jeff Gerth devoted 24,000 words to a piece criticizing media coverage of the Trump-Russia scandal &...totally missed the point of the scandal. Worse, they bolstered Trump's bogus, self-serving narrative. Please read (and RT) my critique of theirs.
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The modern battle that most resembled Stalingrad took place in Mariupol, where extraordinarily brave Ukrainians fought to the bitter end to defend themselves against a brutal invasion by Russia, an autocratic power that seeks to eradicate their culture and their nation
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Putin appears in Volgograd, former Stalingrad, to mark 80th anniversary of defeat of Nazi invaders. (State TV dateline is "Stalingrad," not Volgograd.)
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Interesting thread
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Late to this excellent and thoughtful piece by @StevenErlanger that provoked much debate inside @EurasiaGroup. But I don't buy the idea that there's a structural shift underway in the EU - with power and influence moving east. Longish thread 1/ nytimes.com/2023/01/26/wor
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All of this is preparation for what will be the ugliest, and least democratic, elections to take place in Poland since 1989 - if they are even democratic at all. Rules are already being changed, money moved around in order to fix the results.
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Just as in 1990s Russia, the Polish ruling party is now transferring massive amounts of state wealth into "private" foundations run by their supporters. Naturally that money will be used to keep the Party in power (and maintain the lifestyle of its members) in return
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Była zmiana prawa, powstał fundusz ministra edukacji Przemysława Czarnka, a dziś w ramach dotacji organizacje bliskie obozu władzy otrzymują wielomilionowe dotacje na zakup nowych siedzib czy ich budowę. POLECAMY tekst @jsuchecka i @piotrszostak_ ⤵ tvn24.pl/premium/willa-
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