Russia

[Lani]

[pipistrelle]

#IStandWithPutin is trending. Bots working hard.

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[RVInit]

So all social media have been doing a great job of stopping the propaganda, except, of course, Twitter.

[tek]

yet when a 'Leader' can sit in his cozy office and send kids off to die for his fantasies, it shows character something something

[Suranis]

#IStandWithPutin is trending. Bots working hard.

I was pointed at a really interesting thread analyzing it.

https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/statu ... 1727020032

See new TweetsConversationMarc Owen Jones@marcowenjonesThread 1/ This is a thread on pro-Russian propaganda & #disinformation. I analysed the hashtags "i stand with Putin" & "i stand with Russia'. I analysed around 20,000 Twitter interactions involving 9600 unique accounts

Bots
Engagement Farming

[raison de arizona]

#IStandWithPutin is trending. Bots working hard.

I was pointed at a really interesting thread analyzing it.

That was fascinating, thanks!



News outlets in Russia shutting down in response to the criminalization of reporting on the war in Ukraine.

Just a few hours after Echo Moskvy, Dozhd is halting its work, "temporarily" for now. They say it's because of the law, about to be passed, criminalizing publication of "fake news" — eg, that there is a war in Ukraine. In one day, two of Russia's top independent outlets close.

[raison de arizona]

More bad news.

Putin's new Iron Curtain is descending over Russia faster than anyone could have imagined. The country that we knew is gone, vaporized in a week of Putin's war.

Echo of Moscow, Russia's flagship liberal radio station, is shutting down, its editor @aavst announces. The station was a symbol of Russia's newfound freedom after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

[Volkonski]

[raison de arizona]

Moldova applied for EU membership too. Also.

[Atticus Finch]

I wouldn't mind if Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina join Georgia applying to the E.U.

[Chilidog]

Moldova applied for EU membership too. Also.

Anyone want to see what Orly Taitz thinks about that?

LOL

[Volkonski]

[raison de arizona]

Russian military distributing flyers in Melitopol:
- Russia is not fighting with Ukrainian ppl, only Kyiv junta
- Ppl have nothing to fear. Russia guarantees you peace and security
- Do not leave your house unless necessary
- Do not approach military
- Read our telegram channels

[bob]

Read our telegram channels

The home to "patriots."

[AndyinPA]

I know someone, a friend's daughter, whom I knew very well when she was growing up, who was transferred to Moscow by her company about 10-12 years ago. When her company, after a few years, wanted to transfer her once again, out of Russia, she quit the company and took another job to stay in Russia. She eventually got Russian citizenship. My friend says that Jenny says that Putin is really a good guy and misunderstood by the US (and the rest of the free world).

I have been wondering what she thinks now, but if I had to guess, she still thinks he's a good guy, misunderstood by the US.

[bill_g]

Sounds like she could have a red hat embroidered with MRGA.

[raison de arizona]

It’s with a heavy heart that we have had to suspend @BBCNews operations in Russia until we assess impact of new laws which outlaw independent journalism. Thoughts with colleagues in Moscow whose voices cannot be silenced for long.

We are not pulling out @BBCNews journalists from Moscow, as some articles are suggesting. We cannot use their reporting for the time being but they remain valued members of our teams and we hope to get them back on our output as soon as possible.

The new laws are no joke, folks:

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Also, Russia has blocked Facebook.

[raison de arizona]

Word on the bird site is that Russia is blocking Twitter, BBC, and a few other things, but I haven't seen the confirmations I've seen on them blocking Facebook. FWIW:

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Also, Putin would like everyone to not be mean to him anymore.

[tek]

Russia urges neighbors not to escalate tensions or introduce any restrictions

That's Russia's job.

[Volkonski]

NEXTA@nexta_tv·45mThe head of Aeroflot, Mikhail Poluboyarinov, has left his post and probably #Russia as well

Earlier, the head of Pobeda Airlines, Andrei Kalmykov, also left his post. On March 4, he published a farewell letter to the employees.

[Foggy]

[Volkonski]

S&P Dow Jones will remove all Russia stocks from its indices

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-st ... =154956936

S&P Dow Jones, which manages both the S&P 500 index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, said Friday it is stripping Russian stocks from its primary equity indices, adding to the financial isolation of the nation after it invaded Ukraine.

The index giant said it will remove Russian stocks listed or domiciled in Russia, including those trading via American depositary receipts, within its standard equity indices before the open of trading on March 9.

S&P Dow Jones said it will also drop Russia from its "emerging market" designation given the "deterioration" in its markets, instead classifying it as "standalone" — which means Russia companies as a whole would have to go through a new assessment at some point to be considered for one of the index company's three country classifications, which are developed, emerging and frontier.

The decision could further drain foreign investment from Russian companies, since the S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices are relied on by many American mutual funds and ETFs to build their portfolios. When a company is removed from one of the indices, it means that those index-based funds will no longer buy shares in that business — typically triggering a decline in its stock price.

[Volkonski]

Reuters
@Reuters
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BBC halts reporting in Russia after new law, Bloomberg and Canada's CBC follow suit http://reut.rs/3sFZ8oT

[Suranis]

Also, Putin would like everyone to not be mean to him anymore.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1499838338857058308

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... sanctions/

Speaking via video link at a ceremony raising the Russian flag on a Kaliningrad ferry, Putin called for global coordination at a time when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its second week.

“I think that everyone should think about normalizing relations and cooperating normally,” he said.

He said Russia saw no need to aggravate tensions with other countries, claiming that Moscow’s actions in Ukraine only came “in response to unfriendly actions toward Russia.”

“We have no bad intentions. There is no need to escalate the situation, impose restrictions. We fulfill all obligations,” he said. “If someone does not want to cooperate with us within the framework of single cooperation, and by doing so harms themselves, they will, of course, harm us too.”

The United States and countries around the world have imposed historic, wide-ranging sanctions on Russia in hopes of isolating the country enough that Putin will be pressured to abandon the war. Even after the White House and Treasury Department announced an expansion on the number of Russian oligarchs subject to U.S. sanctions aiming to punish the financial elite close to Putin, the Russian president claimed Friday that his country would resolve the problem caused by the numerous sanctions. Putin even argued that Russia would benefit by developing new skills.

“We will just have to move some projects a little to the right, to acquire additional competencies. But we will still solve the problems that we face,” he said. “In the end, we will even benefit from this because we will acquire additional competencies.”

I really have no words.

[New Turtle]

"Additional competencies" = everyone will need to become potato farmer.