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  • Russian corruption reporter dies from head injury

    06/30/2009 12:15:39 PM PDT · by Califreak · 8 replies · 389+ views
    Southern Ledger ^ | 6/30/09 | Karina Loffee
    A local corruption reporter in Russia died of head injuries on Monday in what police said Tuesday was a drunken fall. Colleagues, on the other hand, are sure it was a revenge attack for muckraking journalism. Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, 63, the editor of a Rostov-on-Don newspaper whose name translates as Corruption and Crime died Monday of a severe head injury sustained April 30. Police say Yaroshenko was drunk and hit his head on the stairs, but colleagues claim Yaroshenko was attacked. "I have no doubt that the attack was directly connected to Yaroshenko's writing and is payback for his journalistic work,"...
  • CT “Hundreds of Dead”: Inside the Fallout from Trump’s Ukraine Intel Pause (Blaming Trump for Kursk)

    03/07/2025 12:08:47 PM PST · by janetjanet998 · 109 replies
    flow of military intelligence to Ukraine this week has aided the Russian advance along a critical part of the front, weakening the negotiating position of President Volodymyr Zelensky and killing many Ukrainian soldiers in recent days, according to five senior Western and Ukrainian officials and military officers familiar with the situation.
  • This Is the Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump’s Return

    11/15/2024 7:52:27 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 43 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Nov. 15, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ET | M. Gessen
    For those bewildered by why so many Americans apparently voted against the values of liberal democracy, Balint Magyar has a useful formulation. “Liberal democracy,” he says, “offers moral constraints without problem-solving” — a lot of rules, not a lot of change — while “populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints.” Magyar, a scholar of autocracy, isn’t interested in calling Donald Trump a fascist. He sees the president-elect’s appeal in terms of something more primal: “Trump promises that you don’t have to think about other people.” Around the world, populist autocrats have leveraged the thrilling power of that promise to transform their...