We've had an uptick in usage in Eastern Europe & rumors are circulating that Signal is hacked & compromised. This is false. Signal is not hacked. We believe these rumors are part of a coordinated misinformation campaign meant to encourage people to use less secure alternatives.

Senior EU officials tell me the EU is considering offering qualified Russian 🇷🇺 citizens EU 🇪🇺 passports - to accelerate Russian economic brain drain This is just one of many innovative measures being considered to complement economic sanctions now in place 🇪🇺🇺🇦

1/12 We - Russia - want to be a nation of peace. Alas, few people would call us that now.

My alma mater, Moscow State University, is against the war. 3,500 alumni, professors and students (and counting) signed the anti-war letter. "War is the most brutal act of dehumanization that, as we learned in the University, shall never be repeated." msualumniagainstwar.notion.site/0378ab0a071948…

In #StPetersburg, #Russia, the police detained a well-known survivor of the Siege of Leningrad Yelena Osipova at an anti-war #protest:

Vladimir Putin is increasingly fighting two wars: one in Ukraine, and one at home. A week in, neither is going terribly well. (A 🧵, in case that wasn't obvious.)

I'm Belarusian. Seeing more and more hate against Belarusians as a result of Lukashenko's participation in Putin's atrocious war against Ukraine, I have a few things to say.

I know I study #Ukrainians’ civic identity & what motivates their protest mobilization. & keep finding in my research that Ukrainians’ democratic duty & attachment to their state is unshakable. But this is remarkable: city of 100000 under siege sees a large protest #Melitopol

#Ukrainains in temporarily occupied Kherson showing their civic identity and homeland attachment that we with volodymyr Kulyk Grigore Pop-Eleches Graeme Robertson Henry Hale have so often written about. 1/n

#Ukrainians protest their temporary occupation in #Melitopol that strong civic identity that we found in Identity and Borders in Flux : Ukraine is in strong display in a south eastern town where people are certainly russophones and many are ethically Russian. Tell me again how I got my research wrong.

Start of anti-war protests in Russia. This one in Irkutsk.

В Петербурге люди идут в сторону Александровского сада

#Russia More than 2000 people have been detained in Russia during anti-war protests. This is Moscow. This man is singing the state anthem of #Ukraine

Петербург, спасибо!

- I survived the blockade of Leningrad. My father died on the frontline. My mother died, I was lying next to my dead mother. My elder brothers died. - Did you come here to defend the fascists? - What? We have friends in Ukraine, hiding in cellars. - Arrest them all. In Moscow.

Not all Russians support Putin's war. Thousands of brave people came out in 49 Russian cities. Some 4,400 were arrested today alone. (It's also worth noting that these protests were called for by Alexey Navalny from jail, via Instagram.) meduza.io/news/2022/03/0…

When we say Kyiv is winning the information war, far too often we only mean information spaces we inhabit. Pulling apart the most obvious RU info op to date (as we did using semantic modelling), very clear it is targeting BRICS, Africa, Asia. Not the West really at all.

Hunger, Inequality and the Birth of Oxfam International . Max Lawson guests on today's duncangreenlse.bsky.social oxfamapps.org/fp2p/hunger-in…

📢The call for panels for the EADI/CeSA general conference 2023 is out! #NewDevRhythms 🔎Towards New Rhythms of Development 📅 10-13 July 2023, Lisbon and hybrid 📝Apply by 04 September & spread far and wide! eadi.org/eadi-cesa-23

The reaction of this speaker to my conclusions at the end of the Agora sessionat #EDDs showed a total failure of respect and (in my personal view as a #WOC) of inclusion. 🧵