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Ukraine Live Updates: Explosions Rock Kyiv Even as Russia Prepares for Eastern Offensive

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/16/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

Russia-Ukraine war: Boris Johnson banned from Russia; Kyiv military factory destroyed, says Kremlin – live

 

Inching closer.

We're going to Europe in end of May. Concerned we'll be there when NATO strikes.

 

Oh, please.

Russia's sunken warship may have been carrying piece of 'True Cross,' a Christian relic

 

Can we just shut down Facebook already?

His employees soon started noticing Facebook users swarming the restaurant’s page to tar workers as disrespectful and unpatriotic. Some vowed never to eat there again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/15/kentucky-restaurant-ukraine-flag/

 

He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One.

Over the past 40 years, Vladimir Sorokin’s work has punctured nearly every imaginable political and social taboo in Russia.

His novel “Blue Lard,” which features a graphic sex scene between clones of Stalin and Khrushchev, drew a criminal investigation over charges that he was selling pornography. Pro-Kremlin activists accused him of promoting cannibalism and tried to ban his novella “Nastya,” a grisly allegory about a girl who is cooked and eaten by her family. Protesters placed a giant sculpture of a toilet in front of the Bolshoi Theater and threw his books in it, a fecal metaphor that Sorokin said reminded him of “one of my own stories.”

With every attack, Sorokin has only grown bolder, and more popular.

“A Russian writer has two options: Either you are afraid, or you write,” he said in an interview last month. “I write.”

 

Circling back to the sinking of the Moskva.

 

And the foul.

 

Tim Mak, NPR

 

How Russia Media Uses Fox News to Make Its Case

 

Putin's threats are typical bullying tactics. They demand appeasement because that's how they win. Ditto Trump.