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3 months ago

Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianism

In 1937, Joseph Stalin commissioned a sweeping census of the Soviet Un…

Sergei Lavrov trolls the West by wearing Soviet CCCP top to showdown between Trump and Putin in Alaska

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The shirt has been seen as an inflammatory and offensive gesture towards Ukraine because CCCP is a Russian abbreviation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

4 months ago

Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned | Anna Aslanyan

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Books – on LGBTQ+ themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying oppressors’ work

  • Anna Aslanyan is a journalist and translator, and the author…

5 months ago

Russians absent from world chess top 10 for first time since official lists began

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A poor outing from Ian Nepomniachtchi brought up an unlikely first but Serjey Karjakin made a strong comeback at Blitz last week

It would have been inconceivable in the glory days of the Soviet chess …

Tskaltubo, Stalin’s spa resort: the decay of a Soviet past in Georgia

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Tskaltubo enjoyed years of prosperity as a jewel of Soviet architecture. But after the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 the sanatoriums were abandoned, and in 1992 people fleeing the war in Abkh…

6 months ago

The USSR occupied eastern Europe, calling it ‘liberation’ – Russia is repeating the crime in Ukraine | Sergei Lebedev

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

In the post-Soviet states, statues can be removed and street names changed. But achieving sovereignty of memory is far harder

We often hear that it is Russia’s inability or unwillingness to deal with …

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