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pipistrelle wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:00 am #IStandWithPutin is trending. Bots working hard.

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

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Suranis wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:45 am

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:00 am #IStandWithPutin is trending. Bots working hard.

I was pointed at a really interesting thread analyzing it.

Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya wrote: 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.

Susan Glasser @sbg1 wrote: 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.

Anton Troianovski @antontroian wrote: 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.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:50 pm Moldova applied for EU membership too. Also.

Dmitri Alperovitch @DAlperovitch wrote: 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

Read our telegram channels

Jonathan Munro @jonathancmunro wrote: 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.

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Russia urges neighbors not to escalate tensions or introduce any restrictions

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.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 3:30 pm Also, Putin would like everyone to not be mean to him anymore.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1499838338857058308

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.”