#Mikhail Zygar

[yourdailyqueer]

Mikhail Zygar

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 31 January 1981  

Ethnicity: White - Russian

Occupation: Journalist, writer, activist

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

"On February 7 [2022], French president Emmanuel Macron arrives in Moscow and holds a six-hour talk with Putin late into the night. Or rather, according to a high-ranking French diplomat, he listens to Putin’s six-hour history lecture. At a joint press conference with the French president, Putin loses his cool, slamming Zelensky’s unwillingness to abide by the Minsk agreements: “The current president recently stated he doesn’t like a single point of the Minsk agreements. Like it or not, be patient, my beauty. There’s no other way!” Russian journalists are shocked: many recognize the source of this statement, from the punk band Krasnaya Plesen (Red Mold), popular in Russia in the 1990s. The song in question is about necrophilia. The full chorus, which Putin quoted from, goes as follows: The beauty sleeps in her coffin. I creep up and fuck. Like it or not, sleep, my beauty!"

Mikhail Zygar, War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

That's absolutely horrible.

[russianreader]

North Korea Sounds Nice

Chulpan Khamatova, Sobchak Live, 6 June 2012 [Ksenia] Sobchak: You want your children to live in a stable country without revolution? [Chulpan] Khamatova: Without revolution. It could be some kind of changes in mindset. Without revolutions. I don’t want revolution. I’m categorical on this point, because the heads of completely innocent people fly in revolution and all these wars. I don’t think…

[incoherentbabblings]

There are so many batshit bad history things about Putin's interview, but saying Ukrainian identity is Polish propaganda and WWII was Poland's fault for not giving Germany Danzig and it was justice for what Poland did to Czechoslovakia and ahhhhhhhhhh. Like yes, Poland was absolutely shit at international relations in the 1920s and 30s. Doesn't mean Nazi propaganda is correct.

Russia’s hated of Poland... frankly incredible.

[adribosch-fan]

El hombre que podría desafiar a Putin

Por Mikhail Zygar Al parecer, el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, por fin se dio cuenta de que la guerra en Ucrania creó a un competidor peligroso para su poder: Yevgeny Prigozhin, fundador de la empresa militar privada Grupo Wagner, cuyas tropas combaten junto al ejército ruso. Dependiendo del punto de vista de cada persona, Prigozhin podría ser considerado la persona del año o el villano…

[canberramaidan]

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance by Mikhail Zygar

[darkmaga-retard]

CIA, MI6 Praise Kursk Invasion. Ukrainian drones strike Moscow region. Kamala Launches ‘Policy’ Website. Overthrowing the Constitution. WHO: Cell Phones and 5G are TOTALLY safe

Lioness of Judah Ministry

Sep 10, 2024

CIA, MI6 Chiefs Praise Ukraine's Kursk Invasion For Bringing War To 'Ordinary Russians'

Burns & Moore spoke at an unprecedented joint public event in London...

CIA Director William Burns and Richard Moore, the head of the UK’s MI6 foreign intelligence agency, spoke at an unprecedented joint public event in London on Saturday, where they praised Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Moore said the Kursk invasion was "typically audacious and bold on the part of the Ukrainians, to try and change the game" and said it had "brought the war home to ordinary Russians." Burns said the operation in Kursk was a "significant tactical achievement" that boosted morale in Ukraine. While the fighting continues in Kursk, Russian forces have been making more rapid gains in Ukraine’s Donbas region since the invasion was launched.

Nuland confirms West told Zelensky to abandon peace deal

Ukraine-Russia talks fell apart after Kiev asked foreign backers for advice, the former US deputy secretary of state has said

The US, UK and other backers of Ukraine told Kiev to reject the deal reached at the 2022 Istanbul peace talks with Russia, former US under secretary of state Victoria Nuland has said. In an interview with Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, former editor-in-chief of the liberal news channel Dozhd, which aired on Thursday, Nuland was asked to comment on reports that the peace process between Moscow and Kiev in late March and early April 2022 collapsed after then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Ukraine and told Vladimir Zelensky to keep fighting.

Multiple drones intercepted near Moscow – mayor

At least ten UAVs were shot down while approaching the Russian capital overnight

Russian air defenses thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow during the night, according to the city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin. Preliminary reports indicate there were no casualties or damage on the ground. The first UAV was intercepted in the Lyubertsy district on the outskirts of the Russian capital, the official stated on Telegram around 2:30am on Tuesday. Fifteen minutes later, Sobyanin reported that two more drones were shot down in the Ramensky district southeast of Moscow. He noted that falling debris did not cause any casualties or damage, stating that emergency services were working at the sites.

BREAKING Russia: Ukrainian drones are striking Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, for the first time ever It’s the second-largest airport in Moscow after Sheremetyevo Airport

The moment when a Ukrainian UAV struck a residential building in Ramenskoye, suburbs of Moscow. The drone crashed right into the middle of the building

The drone crashed right into the middle of the building. One person was injured. The drone crashed into an apartment on the ninth floor, resulting in destroyed windows & more...

[frederickchill]

How would you summarize your reading choices for this year?

The Sandman.

But well, if we think about proper books, I learned a lot more about Soviet Russia and the feel of it through such books as:

- Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

- I love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko

- Dangerous Soviet Things by Aleksandra Arkhipova

- The Climb by Anatolii Boukreev

- War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar

- and multiple novels by the great Soviet sci fi writers - The Strugatsky Brothers.

I think I understand my own country a lot more now. Which doesn't mean I stand by its choices, of course.

[mariacallous]

sorry if this is too broad a question but do you have any recommendations of books/general literature about Eastern European history/politics (like fall of USSR-now)? i'm realising with keeping up with the war in Ukraine i don't know nearly enough about Eastern Europe (esp for a western leftist). I know you really like Slavenka Drakulić's work so I thought you might know of some others in that area. i'm sorry if you've been asked this before/it's too much bother + thank you in advance! <3

Oh, I'm always happy to answer this question/provide book recommendations, so no worries :)

Apart from Slavenka Drakulić's work, I would say the following, off the top of my head and looking at my bookshelves:

Anything by Anna Politkovskaya

Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine by Sophie Pinkham (this one would be interesting now considering it came out not too long after Maidan and the Crimea and other annexations)

Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia by Anne Garrels

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took On The West by Catherine Belton

The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia by Brian Hall

In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan (and, tentatively, his Balkan Ghosts, just because there's both some skew and quite a bit of stereotyping)

The Balkans by Misha Glenny

The Future is History by Masha Gessen (and really, any of their books, tbh)

Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship by Andrew Wilson

Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allen Little

The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News by Arkady Ostrovsky

Unequal under Socialist: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria by Miglena S. Todorova

All The Kremlin's Men by Mikhail Zygar

Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe and Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum

Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny by Witold Szabłowski

The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe by Marci Shore

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy

Orbanland: Why Viktor Orbán's Hungary Matters by Lasse Skytt

Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light by Caroline Eden

The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash

And then anything my mutuals/followers would recommend, of course.

[cyberbenb]

Russian court sentences exiled journalist Mikhail Zygar in absentia

A Moscow court sentenced exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army, as part of Russia’s intensifying crac Source : kyivindependent.com/russian-c…

[brewminate-blog]

As soon as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar circulated a Facebook petition signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That act led to a new law in Russia criminalizing criticism of the war, and Zygar fled Russia. In his time as a journalist, Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players—from politicians to oligarchs. As an expert on Putin’s moods and behavior, he has spent years studying the Kremlin’s plan regarding Ukraine, and here, in clear, chronological order he explains how we got here.

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Russia puts more Kremlin critics on a wanted list as its crackdown on dissent reaches new levels

MOSCOW: Russian authorities have put more Kremlin critics on a wanted list as its crackdown against dissent reaches unprecedented levels since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine more than two years ago. Independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported Tuesday that it found women’s rights activist Darya Serenko and prominent journalist and author Mikhail Zygar in the Interior Ministry’s database of…

[panelki]

Russia Opens Criminal Case Against Journalist Zygar Over ‘War Fakes’ Russian authorities have pressed criminal charges against journalist Mikhail Zygar for spreading “fake news” about the Russian military, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an anonymous law enforcement source. According to the Baza Telegram channel, which is purported to have links to Russian law enforcement, Zygar is accused of spreading false information on social media about atrocities committed by the Russian army in the Ukrainian city of Bucha. Read more | Subscribe to our channel

[garudabluffs]

Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunner of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade Kholodny Yar holds a cat from his position in the direction of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine aid is at a standstill. What does that mean for the war?

We hear from NPR’s Ukraine bureau chief about the situation on the frontlines.

It’s been nearly two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, With Putin’s forces making strategic gains in the eastern part of the country, there’s increasing international pressure for the U.S. to step up its military aid. 

America has provided more than $47 billion in support to Ukraine since the war began. But a new package of aid is stalled in Congress. Last week, the Senate passed a foreign aid package that included $61 billion for Ukraine. That was blocked by the Republican-controlled House which insisted it include a border security package.

We hear from NPR’s Ukraine bureau chief about the situation on the frontlines.

Guests Joanna Kakissis Ukraine bureau chief, NPR

Dame Karen Pierce British Ambassador to the U.S.

Mikhail Zygar Author of, "War and Punishment Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine"

LISTEN https://the1a.org/segments/ukraine-aid-is-at-a-standstill-what-does-that-mean-for-the-war/

[ballata]

Io amo la storia. #liberopensiero

L'ossessione di Putin per la storia non è nuova. L'uomo "della provvidenza" ha salvato il Paese dalla corruzione degli oligarchi (così si racconta ) che ubriachi di soldi stavano portando il Paese al collasso.

L'opposizione agli uomini è diventata opposizione alle idee, da cui la sfida all'ordine occidentale che disconosce la "storia". Secondo una tesi sostenuta da Mikhail Zygar è stato lo scoppio del Covid ad accentuare un processo cognitivo già pronto.Così si dice che lo Zar sia finito per ascoltare uomini come Andrei Fursenko, figlio di uno degli storici più rinomati dell'Unione Sovietica accademico, personificazione della cultura umanistica nella Russia contemporanea. Oggi l'arrivo di un giornalista usa in russia significa che la volontà di quell'area a

nazionalista anti-globalizzazione è di arrivare a una riappacificazione. Ma ciò arriverebbe a un prezzo assai salato: il riconoscimento che la storia ha ripreso a scorrere, e che la lezione tenuta da Putin va accettata come si accetta una versione scomoda di una verità ignorata...

#robertonicolettiballatibonaffini #russia #putin #zar #storia #impero #geopolitica

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