Dylan Primakoff
@dylanmp.bsky.social
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Senior Manager for Eurasia Programs at the National Endowment for Democracy. Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center. Posting mostly about Russia.
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On Oct. 7, 2006, Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated in her apartment building in Moscow. 19 years ago today. At least one of the men who planned her murder, a former police officer, has since been pardoned for going to kill again in Ukraine.

Also today, Putin turns 73.
Archive photo from Novaya Gazeta, her newspaper, of Politkovskaya sitting at her desk with a pen. She is pictured from below, with a stack of papers in front of her.
dylanmp.bsky.social
It's depressing how much bad info on Navalny is still floating around out there. Navalny publicly supported gay marriage as of 2017; the Putin regime put the "international LGBT movement" on its list of terrorist and extremist organizations and jails people for wearing rainbow earrings.
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No movement from the March 2022 position.
kyivindependent.com
⚡️ Security guarantees for Ukraine can't be discussed without Russia's participation, Lavrov claims.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that "seriously discussing security issues without Russia is a road to nowhere."
Security guarantees for Ukraine can't be discussed without Russia's participation, Lavrov claims
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that "seriously discussing security issues without Russia is a road to nowhere."
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lseblogs.bsky.social
#Russia’s ethnic minorities – including Arctic Indigenous ethnicities Chukchi, Inuit, Itelmen, Koryak, Nenets, Nganasan, Udege & Saami – are vastly overrepresented in the death toll of the #war in #Ukraine.

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Maria Vyushkova @demsecinstitute.bsky.social
Young dancers performing on Yhyakh festival in Sangar, Kobyaysky district, Yakutia.
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Great article from @szakonyi.bsky.social on what is being lost with the closure of Russian election monitor Golos: www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/11/w...
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meduza.io
Police raided the Baku office of the Russian state media agency Sputnik Azerbaijan on Monday. The outlet had reportedly continued operating even after it officially suspended operations in compliance with a new Azerbaijani law.
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Police raid Baku office of Russian state media agency Sputnik Azerbaijan — Meduza
Police raided the Baku office of the Russian media agency Sputnik Azerbaijan on Monday, according to local media reports citing the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry.
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dylanmp.bsky.social
Understandable why Russia didn't want to publish its "peace memorandum" before today's talks. This document yet again makes clear that Russia remains uninterested in a diplomatic solution (short of Ukrainian and Western capitulation), as it has repeatedly demonstrated going back to summer 2021.
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shashj.bsky.social
This is getting somewhat lost. The night before Ukraine's drone raid, Russia conducted what was the largest drone attack on Ukraine in the war to date—and, I guess, ever—with 472 Shahed-type attack drones. Broke last week's record by 100 drones.
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Russia shatters drone record, launches 472 UAVs at Ukraine night before Kyiv's strike on Russian airfields
The mass aerial attack breaks Russia's previous record, set just last week on May 26, by over 100 drones.
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nikkimcr.bsky.social
The Bukele regime has arrested Ruth Lopez, an internationally renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has been publicly critical of the Salvadoran government's abuses.

I had the honor of interviewing Ruth earlier this year, she must be freed.

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