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  1. 14 hours ago

    Why is no one talking about Skripal's cats and Guinea pigs, Russian's UN ambassador asks.

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    15 hours ago

    Russian TV has broadcast a recording purportedly of Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned with a rare nerve agent, saying that both she and her father, Sergei V. Skripal, are healthy, and that neither of them suffered long-term health damage. But is it real?

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  3. 17 hours ago

    The Skripal case has prompted dueling Sherlock Holmes analogies at the UN Security Council. Russia's ambassador has compared British investigators to Inspector Lestrade, while the UK Ambassador just compared Russian scientists to Professor Moriarty

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    Apr 3

    Hard to pull out of Syria when this dude has already deployed the “we’ll be here for five years lawn chair” package. Via

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    Apr 2

    Reporter at a Sinclair-owned station: "I feel bad" for viewers "because they're seeing these people they've trusted for decades tell them things they know are essentially propaganda"

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    Apr 2

    White House says Trump discussed a "number of potential venues, including the White House" for a potential meeting with Putin during their March 20 call. "We have nothing further to add at this time."

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    Apr 2

    Kremlin aide says that Trump invited to meet in the White House for their first summit. That would be quite a picture.

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    Apr 2

    Jewberg?! Try harder.

    New fascinating longread on : The Curious Case of David Jewberg, the Fake Senior Pentagon Russia Analyst
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    Mar 30

    CNN: Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin arrived in the United States overnight and is expected to appear before a federal judge in San Francisco where he is facing cyber-related Charges. There has been a effort to get him extradited from the Czech Republic to the US.

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    Mar 29

    When & I reported that Gov. Cuomo had accepted $890,000 from appointees despite a disclaimer on his website saying he wouldn't take donations from appointees, watchdogs urged him to reverse course. Instead, he has changed the disclaimer.

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    Mar 29

    In Paris, building a mile of train track costs $450 million. In New York, it can cost $3.5 billion. Congress just ordered an investigation to figure out why.

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  12. Mar 29

    We’ve reached the ‘provocation’ stage of this crisis.

    The Kremlin says popular anger over the Siberian mall fire was a "well-developed provocation technique," implying that the opposition and America are responsible, rather than the deaths of dozens of children thanks to lax safety regulation and corruption
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    Mar 28

    New police finding in Skripal poisoning case narrows the possibilities for how the victims were sickened.

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    Mar 27

    Last fall, multiple former officials told us that the 's data on the causes of NYC subway delays were in many ways meaningless. (See screenshot below) Every day, it becomes more clear that they were right. Another great story here:

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    Mar 26

    Important to keep in mind that the Petersburg Troll Factory was 100% focused on domestic trolling/bots for quite a while, and the domestic Russian audience is still its main target (despite the sound and fury about US election influence)

    There's a good chance that pro-Kremlin ‘bots’ are trying to vote down footage of the Kemerovo fire and shift blame away from state officials
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  16. Mar 26

    This is an interesting way to handle a sensitive diplomatic dispute

    US administration🇺🇸 ordered the closure of the Russian Consulate in Seattle 🇷🇺. What US Consulate General would you close in , if it was up to you to decide
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    Mar 23

    US ambassador’s phone starts transmitting during her speech in Council. Siri decided that a reference to Syria was a reason to get involved. Occupational hazards....

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    Mar 23

    ‘The Whole World Should Be Concerned’: U.S. Allies React to Bolton’s Appointment. Fiercely intelligent, aggressive, nationalist, hawkish, contemptuous of Iran deal and N Korea. Trump with experience. Our take via

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    Mar 23

    One of the founders of Cambridge Analytica said Bolton’s PAC “was obsessed with how America was becoming limp wristed and spineless”

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    Bolton actually believes in the UN in a strange way, although his vision is very "Russian": i.e. the UNSC is a venue for transactional big power politics based on strength, and norms, human rights, etc. are all just annoying encumbrances. [1/3]

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