Misha Friedman

Photographer. Moldova - New York. Pulitzer finalist. ex-MSF. MSc Russian Politics. Books on memory, activism and reforms in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

[Misha Friedman @MishaFriedman]

One of my Covid stories, which was recognized by the Picture of the Year competition, is finally online:

https://t.co/j49tvRIb2L

[Jonathan O'Connor @ninkibah]

The text of my short speech to the GA follows. If you want to see my delivery and Arkady Dvorkovich’s reaction, you can watch here:
https://t.co/Da5M906DgM

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

https://t.co/OJjIimACEx

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@davidllada @elenadesaa1999 Vonnegut

[Nataliya Vasilyeva @Nat_Vasilyeva]

Incredibly hard to read but the torture and inhumane treatment of Ukrainians in Russian custody have to be studied and documented. A diary of a Kherson civilian illegally captured and tortured in 2022 (in Rus). There is also a mention of underage inmates:
https://t.co/oSs4E6zo4Q

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please stop by if you are in New York this Thursday. I promise the talk won’t be as heavy as it sounds.

[Misha Friedman @MishaFriedman]

please stop by if you are in New York this Thursday. I promise the talk won’t be as heavy as it sounds.

[Misha Friedman @MishaFriedman]

@davidllada except these aren’t normal sponsors

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@davidllada by that logic, those who excelled in team environments are much more likely to succeed in groups/managerial roles than soloists from chess/tennis/boxing.

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@AjedrezdPrimera @davidllada very fitting for it to happen on the day messi met trump

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In case you missed this book a couple of years ago, now you can buy it in New York City’s Ukrainian Museum.

https://t.co/5hOao4DHr4

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@TarjeiJS @durarbayli i remember the wild and somewhat suspicious norm-clinching endgame against Mendonca. without getting into the letter of the law, this eighteen player swiss hardly qualifies as an open.

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@TarjeiJS @durarbayli respectfully, which of Mishra’s norms came from an Open? To the best of my recollection, it was something like seventy games in seventy-two days, all in round robins.

[Misha Friedman @MishaFriedman]

@TarjeiJS @durarbayli Karjakin’s first norm was obtained in an Open. Ironically, it was also Aeroflot. Mishra didn’t. I suspect you read my work that led to Fide rule change?

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Is Epstein the Sauron of our times?

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As someone whose work led @FIDE_chess to introduce a rule requiring all prospective grandmasters to obtain at least one norm in an open tournament, it’s very depressing to see Faustino Oro’s parents chose Aeroflot Open in Moscow to try to break the youngest GM record.

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Did you know that Ian Nepomniachtchi was one of the players who helped Magnus Carlsen prepare for his first World Championship match in 2013, the one in which he took the title from Vishy Anand? Getty photographer @MishaFriedman was granted access to the training camp in Norway — on the sole condition that the photos could only be released after the match was over.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Russian attack drones hit multiple residential buildings in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, this morning.

Seen here, a Russian Shahed-136 slams into a tower block in the Pozniaky neighborhood.

[Misha Friedman @MishaFriedman]

@PHChess @ChessProblem well, unlike his “youngest” predecessors, Oro will need to earn his final norm in an open with at least forty participants.

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@TarjeiJS compared to some of his predecessors, his path to “youngest gm” is just remarkable.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Dnipro.