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simon saradzhyan

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Turkmenistan is one example of an authoritarian regime that practices extortion by passport, a kind of transnational repression. Learn more in @astroehlein's Daily Brief:

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9 Nov

In his interview to Ifax today, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov makes clear that, Trump's victory or not, liberalization of conditions for use of nuclear weapons in Russia's 2020 principles of nuclear deterrence are coming. My hot take here saradzhyan.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/it-…

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9 Nov

WSJ: More than $7 billion in drawdown authority allowing the Pentagon to transfer weapons and munitions to Ukraine from its stocks remains unspent, along with over $2 billion to fund long-term equipment contracts for Kyiv wsj.com/politics/natio…

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U.S. Struggles to Rush Weapons to Ukraine Before Trump Takes Office

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6 Nov

This Frenchman got it right wsj.com/finance/how-th…

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How the Trump Whale Correctly Called the Election

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4 residents of Ingushetia are suspected of having rigged guns that were then used by the self-proclaimed ISIS loyalists from Tajikistan during their deadoly terrorist attack on the Crocus hall outside Moscow in exchange for 1 mln rubles. kommersant.ru/doc/7280715?fr…

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