Emily Jones
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Tag: Russia
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UKRAINE UPDATE
SATURDAY 30 JULY 2022 UKRAINE Occupied Territories The Russian government is planning to hold “referendums” in the occupied regions of Ukraine as early as September. They have already issued passports (newborns are registered as Russian citizens), replaced the currency with the ruble, put internet through Russian servers and arrested hundreds who have resisted. The referendums,… Read.
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DOJ INDICTS RUSSIAN NATIONAL: IS THIS THE BEGINNING OR THE END?
WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2022 UKRAINE, THE LATEST, Podcast by the Telegraph (7/27/22) Interviews with people on the ground in Ukraine. Kherson, the beginning of a counterattack is possible. One of the most important bridges has been closed for civilians. The Ukrainians don’t want to destroy the bridge since they may have to use it. A… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE:
MONDAY 25 JULY 2022 UKRAINE: THE LATEST Podcast from the Telegraph The Ukrainians are looking for points of weakness in the Russian forces. We should see a love of movement in the South. The Ukrainians need to deny the bridges for heavy military equipment but leave them open to civilian traffic. The export of the… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA
FRIDAY 14 JULY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: UKRAINECAST, Podcast from BBC (7/13/22) Ukraine has announced it has killed dozens of soldiers in a bombing of a Russian ammunitions’ depot in the southern city of Nova Kakhovka (east of Kherson). This strike is reported to have been carried out by the American supplied HIMARS system. In Kherson,… Read.
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UKRAINE: We are strong. We are Ukrainians
FRIDAY 1 JULY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE Podcast: The Kremlin File with Jessikka Aro, Finnish journalist and author of “Putin’s Trolls.” · Jessikka Aro started researching Russian trolls as far back as 2014. She was subsequently trolled, harassed and eventually had to move out of Finland. · Aro was trying in 2014 to write about the… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: This war has changed the world in ways we cannot even imagine.
TUESDAY 28 JUNE 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: UKRAINE, THE LATEST, Notes from the PODCAST of the Telegraph Day 125 There are street battles around Lisichansk (across the river from Sieverodonetsk, which the Russians took a few days ago.) NATO has agreed to increase the number of troops available on high alert. G7 has agreed to explore… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: EU Membership Status to be Announced Today
THURSDAY 23 JUNE 2022 Article: Arrests in Ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/moscow-legislator-jailed-after-opposing-action-in-ukraine/2022/06/21/1f92622a-f187-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html UKRAINE UPDATE UKRAINE, THE LATEST, PODCAST, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Day 120 Heavy shelling in the last few days. The eastern part of the Donbas is being destroyed. Ukraine has had to pull out of several hamlets. More shelling in Kharkiv. Precision artillery is now in Ukraine… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: “Everything that can burn is on fire.” “Please don’t forget about us.”
WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE UKRAINE: THE LATEST, THE TELEGRAPH Podcast, 6/22/22 On Twitter at @cjjohns1951 “Everything that can burn is on fire.” “It’s been very violent.” The Donbas is still getting an “absolute pounding.” Extreme pressure on Sieverodonetsk. Forces of the DPR have lost 55% of its original strength. Snake Island Ukrainians… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: “Who’s next?” President of Kazakhstan humiliates Putin
MONDAY 20 JUNE 2022 @cjjohns1951 UKRAINE: THE LATEST Podcast, 6/20/22 “Nobody is going to break us. We are strong. We are Ukrainians.” Day 117. There has been an attack on Snake Island this morning. This indicates that there was a Ukrainian counter-attack. There was an assassination attempt on a prison boss by the Ukrainians in… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: GALEOTTI BANNED FROM RUSSIA
SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2022 Global News Podcast, Podcast Putin gave a speech yesterday. St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Sanctions against Russia will hurt the West more than Russia. China’s Xi Jinping gave a telecast speech. There was another talk of expansionism against Ukraine. Only three regions of Ukraine actually belong to Ukraine, the rest were… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: STRUGGLE IN THE DONBAS
UKRAINE UPDATE, 6/16/22 Air raid sirens went off while the four European leaders were in Kyiv today. This was their first trip to Ukraine since the war began. Ukraine says that it is outmatched by 10/1 by the Russian armaments. Ukraine, the Latest Podcast by The Telegraph France, Germany, Italy and Romania, the leaders from… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: NAVALNY
NYT Headline “Western officials questioned Ukraine’s ability to keep resisting the Russian onslaught.” Navalny has been transferred to a higher security prison from the camp where he was staying. This caused alarm since early Tuesday reporting was that Navalny’s lawyer showed up at a court hearing and Russian officials denied having a prisoner by the… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: “Why won’t they just help us?”
TUESDAY 14 JUNE 2022 UKRAINE WORLD PODCAST: RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM, interview with Vera Tolz, Professor of Russian studies at University of Manchester The place of Ukraine is different in the Russian imperial imagination. Ethnic Russians started to compose a minority of the empire. Draconian decrees against the Ukrainian language, for example. The modern Russian nation started… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: Putin as Peter the Great, It’s time to take sides
SUNDAY 12 JUNE 2022 Twitter: @cjjohns1951 Podcasts about Ukraine: “Ukraine: The Latest” The Telegraph; “Ukraine World”; The Kyiv Independent; Euromaidan Press UKRAINE UPDATE UKRAINE WORLD Fighting still intense in Sievierodonetsk. Ukrainian partisans are making controlling the territory taken by the Russians difficult. The Russian-controlled airbase in Kherson has been blown up a dozen times. In… Read.
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UKRAINE: FULL TEXT OF PUTIN’S SPEECH
Law, Power, and Justice 