9 years. Well, as the characters of my favorite TV series “The Wire” used to say: “You only do two days. That's the day you go in and the day you come out" I even had a T-shirt with this slogan, but the prison authorities confiscated it, considering the print extremist.

Advancing 2km is now considered a success for #Russia and the Russian #MOD. Didn’t they initially plan with 72h for all of #Ukraine? I guess they counted their chickens before they hatched…

It’s never okay to physically assault someone, never, no matter how vile or crude a joke is. What we just saw at the #Oscars is a disgrace.

The last non-blocked islet of independent speech in Russia, Новая Газета , announced they are stopping publication until "the end of the special operation in Ukraine". Read that - likely for good.

Our experts @AlenaEpifanova_ & Philipp Dietrich also recently published an #Analysis on this. They analyze #Russia's strive for technological independence and information control in-depth & show ways for 🇩🇪 & 🇪🇺 to exploit 🇷🇺 dependency in the realm of #tech. on.dgap.org/3KhTSyc

Russia claims it couldn’t have carried out the attack on #Kramatorsk railway station as it retired the #TochkaU missile system. Videos prove this is a lie and that the system is still in use👇

Familie + Regierung in Einklang zu bringen, ist eine permanente Gratwanderung, zumindest jenseits der patriarchalen Familienordnung (bloßer Rollentausch eingeschlossen). Die Gnadenlosigkeit, mit der vermeintliches Fehlverhalten gejagt wird, ist mir zuwider (egal welcher Couleur).

How dependent is #Russia on Western #technology? What is 🇨🇳’s role in replacing the West as the main supplier of IT to 🇷🇺? Re-watch last week’s discussion w/ our & external experts on 🇷🇺’s strive for digital sovereignty. 📺: on.dgap.org/3rgGx1I

Bundesligavereine als Fahrgäste in der Bahn. Ein Thread.

Ukraine's counter-offensive in the northeast – liberating in a day territory that took Russia a month or more to conquer – is breathtaking. Inspiring, even. But it should also be sobering. Apart from anything else, it reveals just how much we struggle to analyze this war. /1

Really happy to see this paper by my colleague Philipp Dietrich on the Russian #VK company published. Russian state is increasing its control of the Russian internet, following the Chinese playbook. dgap.org/en/research/pu… via DGAP

If you're at #Aleksanteri2023, you can join our panel on producers, transmission channels and consumers of russian propaganda at 15:15 in Hall 4 (B214) with Sergey Sanovich, Philipp Dietrich, @AlenaEpifanova_ and @julia_kling.

[OUT NOW] Digital conglomerate VK Company is trying to build a superapp similar to China’s WeChat for the Russian state. For the #RussiaFile, Philipp Dietrich examines VK’s growth in the context of the war in Ukraine and Russia’s digital strategy: wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/russ…

"VK is no ordinary 🇷🇺 IT company; it is state-controlled and pursues ideological and intelligence goals," our Research Fellow Philipp Dietrich told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on #Russia's effort to exert more control over the Internet. /1 on.dgap.org/3TfHm9K

Ich möchte einmal skizzieren, was ich aktuell für eine differenzierte Haltung zum Gazakrieg halte 🧵 - 🇮🇱 und 🇵🇸 haben das Recht auf einen eigenen Staat in Freiheit und Sicherheit - der Konflikt zwischen 🇮🇱 Sicherheitsbedürfnis und den Milizen in 🇵🇸 Gebieten ist schwer auflösbar

„Russland plant schon seit Jahren, sein Internet mehr und mehr von der Außenwelt abzukoppeln" – so Philipp Dietrich im Capital zur Planung einer 🇷🇺 Spielekonsole. Er sieht hinter den Bestrebungen von Putin vor allem den Wunsch nach Souveränität. capital.de/wirtschaft-pol…

If Russia was to (or when) shut down YouTube - how would they do it? Philipp Dietrich for Riddle Russia ridl.io/russia-keeps-d…

"The potential internet overload is a reason why they may have been reluctant to block Google in the past," Philipp Dietrich told Reuters regarding the YouTube slowdown in 🇷🇺. "Blaming it on Google global cache is amazing for them, it's the perfect way out." buff.ly/4dFCgdL