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  1. 21 hours ago

    What are the odds Whelan does an interview with RT before this is all over?

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  2. Retweeted
    22 hours ago
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    Call me crazy but Scott Rose of Moscow might not be the best source.

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  3. 22 hours ago

    Also asking that fourth country where you hold a passport for consular assistance to deal with Russian espionage charges ... might not be helping

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  4. 23 hours ago

    Paul Whelan, the U.S. ex-Marine held in Russia on espionage charges, is also a citizen of Ireland. He has sought consular assistance from the four (!) countries where he holds passports. May help explain why the State Dept. response has been muted so far

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    Turns out arrested American Paul Whelan also has British and Canadian citizenship -- all 3 countries have a particularly tense relationship with Russia.

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    Jan 3

    The weirdest thing about the Paul Whelan detention is still the muted response from the U.S. government, including Pompeo's statement that "if the detention is not appropriate, we will demand his immediate return."

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    Jan 3

    Having failed to destroy Russian rap, the Kremlin is clearly trying to kill it by becoming rappers themselves. Here chief TV propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov vows to "put my gas pipeline on your sanctions"

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  9. Jan 3

    Paul Whelan is still hoping that Russian investigators will sort everything out, Interfax reports, citing his lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov. ouch.

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    FWIW: Just chatted with several VK "friends" of Paul Whelan. They said his Russian is awful & he used Google Translate to communicate. None met him in person; only chatted over social media - not only VK. One said first contact came over Instagram, where Whelan has private acct.

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  11. Jan 3

    Paul Whelan, the American detained in Moscow under unclear circumstances, has now been charged with espionage, Interfax reports, citing a source

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    Jan 3

    Search and rescue work has now ended at the collapsed apartment block in Magnitogorsk. Officials say no-one is left beneath the rubble. 39 people were killed in the explosion.

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  13. Jan 3

    not the preferred nomenclature

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  14. Retweeted
    27 Dec 2018

    "I will explain why I don't watch television. Because the level of aggression coming out of the screen is dangerous for your health," Ekaterina Andreeva, one of the country's best-known TV anchors, tells in this excellent interview.

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  15. Jan 2

    Just read 's The Grandmaster on my flight home and spent most of it wishing I had wi-fi to dig up more on all the characters he profiled or met. Thoroughly entertaining book about today and the people who are drawn to it

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    Jan 2

    They are now condemned to spending the rest of the year in transit, as per popular superstition.

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  17. Jan 2

    More than 40k people were in the Moscow metro when clocks struck midnight on New Year's

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    Jan 1

    "Freedom" painting by Evsey Moiseyenko, USSR, 1962

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    “John, John, John,” [Mueller] said. “What are you supposed to be?” “Sir, you told me that we dress like lawyers here.” “Yes. But not like drug lawyers.”

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    Jan 2

    We're entering the third year of OPEC+ cuts, yet somehow Russia has managed to keep increasing its annual average production throughout the process, posting another post-Soviet record in 2018

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