Wojtek Grójec

Visual and data journalist, doing things at @RFERL. Sailor, avgeek, and aspiring pilot. @[email protected]

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@Mike_Eckel That was a fun one!

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

NEW: Very pleased to finally share this story. I and a crack team of @RFERL reporters have determined the IDs of 7 Russia-backed militants who along with Igor Girkin ordered firing squad executions of 3 Ukrainians in 2014, setting a dark tone for the war. https://t.co/c5OHIGxRT5

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WATCH: On the fifth anniversary of Boris Nemtsov's death, Prague names a square after the slain Russian opposition leader.

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From stereowheels to samizdat: scroll through and see what communist baggage Czechoslovak schoolkids and students were toting around before the Velvet Revolution: https://t.co/89qqqqT8yL

[Anna Shamanska @_shamanska]

There is one more thing (besides squatting) that could unite the Slavs of the world -- a made-up language meticulously derived from all the Slavic languages. Dobro došli!

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If you are a Slavic language speaker, you will understand this completely made-up language.
So how do you create a language that can be instantly understood by hundreds of millions of people? Interslavic is even used in movies, like the new Czech war drama The Painted Bird.

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🎉RFE/RL has won the 2019 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Multimedia from the @RTDNA for "outstanding achievements in digital journalism." Judges reviewed 11 examples of our news reporting and journalistic skills. Here's a brief look at those pieces:

[Carl Schreck @CarlSchreck]

A witness claims missing Russian man Andrei Kobyshev was held captive by police in March 2017 in an anti-gay purge in Chechnya. His mobile was repeatedly connecting w/a cell tower 250m from Chechnya's Interior Ministry at the time he vanished. https://t.co/okjW6qew74

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Two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles https://t.co/4cNtertz2x

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Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology https://t.co/8PhmLvgyAP

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The story of the 3dfx Voodoo1 https://t.co/g73zLEjfmK

[NatGeoMaps @NatGeoMaps]

At night, places with dense human habitation are easy to spot from space. In some extremely light polluted places, the sky is so filled with light that 99.5 percent of all stars that people can see are completely invisible without optical aid. https://t.co/thKm7ma1C5

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This Kid Spent 9 Years Building An Incredibly Detailed Model Of A Boeing Jet From Paper https://t.co/tDyHQn04qL

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Draco: The Coolest Airplane In The World? https://t.co/Z7OgI64mKh

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Russian soldiers will have to forget about swiping, selfies, and scrolling. What happened?

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What #Putin said and didn't say, and what he meant and didn't mean.
https://t.co/3Ew9B9YcaL

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WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable https://t.co/xPSgymsqLx

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Flight from L.A. to London reaches 801 mph as a furious jet stream packs record-breaking speeds https://t.co/Cez5Hy4nU5

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Air NZ plane forced to turn around after airline forgot to remove reference to Taiwan https://t.co/EGP61LDw0g

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Ukraine’s presidential race is on! A record-breaking 44 candidates are approved to run. The field is the most diverse in Ukraine's history, with veteran politicians vying against a comic, journalists, war vets, career spies, accused criminals, and more. https://t.co/YpuaBb5uBm