Moscow's propaganda machine has been hard at work depicting Europe as a "digital gulag," hellbent on suppressing free speech online.
"Russian propaganda portrays any effort to combat disinformation as a threat to freedom of speech", says Jakub Kalensky, an expert on disinformation.
AI ran our office vending machine for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, gave away a PlayStation, bought a live fishโand taught us a lot about AI agents, writes Joanna Stern.
A beige quote graphic reading: โItโs nonsensical to call this anything other than what it is. Warfare against Europe.โ โ Keir Giles, Russia expert at Chatham House.
Bombs on train tracks. Arson attacks on malls. Poisoned water supplies. These are just some of the recently foiled plots in Russiaโs growing campaign of aggression across Europe. What was once a mere nuisance has escalated into a serious threat.
An #FTEdit ๐งต on the new era of Russian sabotage ๐
Why would a bank hire a thief to run a payments company?
This was the question which I kept returning to while investigating the massive Russian sanctions evasion network, A7.
I think I worked it out. Here's me in @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/to-e...
October planet imagery showing the east wing demolished
September planet imagery showing the east wing before work took place
New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
โโฆdelay underscores that much of the Arab world is now more interested in building ties with Trump, who has grown increasingly frustrated with Putinโs refusal to end Russiaโs invasion of Ukraine despite US diplomatic efforts.โ
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Exclusive: U.S. sanctions make it nearly impossible to pay Iran for its oil. China has figured out how to do it anyway, in an arrangement that has largely been secret.
Excited to unveil the new @washingtonpost.com slogan:
"Democracy Dies in Darkness -
But Anything Dies When We JDAM it.
USA! USA! USA!"
This is so perfectly corrupt Iโm almost impressed.
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"The Development Finance Corporation remains the best tool the United States has to deploy market-based solutions to address global challenges," writes the CSIS Americas Program.
Learn more about the DFC in the Americas: www.csis.org/analysis/ame...
The fact Ukraine still has an independence day in the 4th year of my 3 day war shows I remain a master strategist.
#ะดะตะฝัะฝะตะทะฐะปะตะถะฝะพััั
The United States is taking part in Russiaโs version of the Eurovision Song Contest, alongside a sizable number of dictatorships.
Referring to someone as an "OFAC-sanctioned timeshare fraudster" makes me laugh every time.
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Wonder how Ben and Jerrys feel about being aligned with Donald Trump over Ukraine.
Unconfirmed reports that, in addition to soldiers, missiles and howitzers, Russia is now importing ship launching expertise from North Korea.
New Russian navy ship Captain Ushakov capsized
New from me: Russiaโs war economy is finally running out of road.
Here are six steps Trump should take to hasten that processโand generate the leverage he needs to force Putin to back down.
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for years I was baffled by what people were complaining about re "debanking" until I realized that it was just standard anti-money-laundering practice
OTD in 1975 USSR signed Helsinki Accords promising to respect borders & let countries join what orgs like they want.
As we, the self declared successor state, have *always* followed this, you can trust over a peace deal with Ukraine now.
Wonder if they'll post a few syllabi for me to read...
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Join us next week for the OCCRP Briefing: The New Sanctions Evasion Playbook. Donโt forget to sign up us2.campaign-archive.com?u=8a7b7dd3a0...
Andorraโs top court sentenced 18 executives of Banca Privada dโAndorra to prison terms for laundering money in favor of a client in a complex case lasting 20 months.
Ex-CEO Joan Pau Miquel was sentenced to seven years in prison and a โฌ30 million fine.
Dmitry Artyakov, the son of a top Russian defense official, has been charged by a Spanish judge with being โcriminally responsible for the crime of organized crimeโ in addition to โmoney laundering,โ according to court documents obtained by OCCRP.
www.occrp.org/en/news/sanc...
Interactive Brokers settles with OFAC for $11.8 million after disclosing 12,367 apparent violations across multiple sanctions programs. Definitely one of the longer enforcement notices and worth a read.
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38 North's NK TechLab project obtained a database of North Korean laws updated through mid-2024. Learn more below:
โผ๏ธ Russia: โFT: Hundreds of Russia-linked trusts paralysed in Liechtensteinโ
www.kommersant.ru/doc/7871105
Trump lifts most US sanctions on Syria https://on.ft.com/3Gg1e8A
โWe plan to reduce spending and they [NATO] plan to increase it,โ he said. โSo who is acting aggressively?โ V. Putin
Sorry, irony just went and jumped off the window๐คฃ
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My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life.
In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded.
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A joke right? While Russia bombs Ukrainian cities, U.S. Secretary of State Rubio congratulates Russians on "Russia Day" and says the U.S. remains committed to a "bright future" for the Russian people โ and seeks "mutually beneficial relations" with the Kremlin.
