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RT @AseyevStanislav: Occupied Kherson. The inscription on a check from a supermarket, in Ukrainian: “I am a people whose power of Truth has…

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RT @visegrad24: While speaking on the same panel a few weeks ago, Putin questioned Kazakhstan’s independence in front of President Tokayev.…

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RT @TadeuszGiczan: A huge loss for Belarus and Ukraine. Near Lysychansk, the commander of the Volat battalion of the Belarusian Kastus Kali…

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@kamilkazani All free [Novgorod] citizens were given a vote. The assembly… could dismiss the prince. Within the city, neighborhoods exercised considerable autonomy. Novgorod was eventually conquered by Ivan III and added to the Muscovite state.

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RT @JuliaDavisNews: Meanwhile on Russian state TV: Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the Chechen detachment “Akhmat” fighting in Ukraine, te…

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@kamilkazani “…the Mongols undermined any legal traditions inherited fr Byzantium & made political life far harsher and more cruel. In sharp contract to the Christian princes of Europe Mongol rulers saw themselves as pure predators whose avaowed purpose was to extracts resources.” ~Fukuyama

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@kamilkazani “They punished resistance harshly and were perfectly willing to execute the inhabitants of entire towns simply to make a point. They recruited Russian princes, including the Muscovite prince who would go on to create the Russian state to act as their tax collectors…”

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@kamilkazani “The Mongols thus trained several generations of Russian leaders in their own predatory tactics. Indeed, through intermarriage they merged with the Russian population… Russian state building was driven by the need to wage war.”

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@kamilkazani The city of Novgorod in the far NW was never conquered by the Mongols and remained a vigorous commercial republic through the early appanage period… tightly integrated with the Baltic trade… gateway for European goods… N’s prince was limited in his powers by the assembly.

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@kamilkazani The rise of Russian absolutism was not foreordained by some inner logic of Russian culture. There were in fact precedents in Russian history for Western-style republican institutions, or for representative assemblies, which provided some alternative…

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RT @HannaLiubakova: #Belarus This young and brave Belarusian was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for a post criticising Putin and Lukashen…

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@EcoHomeboy @kamilkazani I advise people to read all the evidence Fukuyama assembles, but to be wary his conclusions. Regardless of that, the evidence of Russia (Muskovy) inheriting institutions and attitudes from the Horde seems conclusive. They evolved as their vassal for almost 300 years.

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RT @na_intel: Ukrainian soldiers just back from the Donbas for a few days rest. They say the fight in the east is more brutal than nr. Kyiv…

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RT @visegrad24: Today, Sweden’s PM Magdalena Andersson gifted Zelensky with a copy of the letter of Swedish King Charles XII, dated 1711, w…

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RT @RALee85: “The exposed lowlands of Kherson mean that any Ukrainian advance there feels the full force of Russian artillery…An attempt…

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RT @EuromaidanPR: The orcs are preparing to flee from Kherson, but they cannot do so without our washing machines and refrigerators.

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RT @mhmck: Extensive artillery bombardments are underway in Kherson region, as detected in satellite imagery. The preponderance of fire is…