Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍

PhD candidate in Tissue Engineering in Stevens Group at Imperial | London Humanist Choir | FIRM committee 2020-2021 | All views are my own

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

@ViewFromTheQ Thank you for your work! The queue would not be the same without you 🥰 see you in 27!

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

@SaraISCarvalho Great! Keep it up

[Vladimir Kara-Murza @vkaramurza]

Four years ago today Maria Kalesnikava, one of the leaders and symbols of the Belarus protests, was abducted in Minsk by Lukashenka’s security services. She was later sentenced to 11 years in prison.

She is held in complete isolation, denied medical care, and deliberately starved in prison. She is down to 45 kg. She is gravely ill. No one knows how much time she has left.

Maria Kalesnikava must be freed now—if necessary, by an international prisoner exchange, like we were last month. Today, it is no longer only a question of unjust imprisonment—it is a question of life or death.

#SOSMаria
#freekalesnikava

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

It’s twenty years since Beslan. Twenty years since the start of the siege at School No.1, which ended in explosions & gunfire. 334 people were killed, including 186 children. I will never forget the scale of grief, the sobbing, the sound of a town burying its dead.

[Mediazona @mediazona_en]

US citizen Ksenia Karelina is sentenced to 12 years for treason by Russian court. On 24 Feb 2022, she donated $51.8 to a humanitarian foundation Razom for Ukraine from her US bank account. Karelina was arrested in Jan 2024 when she came to Yekaterinburg to visit family

Photo: VK

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

We were #200 on queue cards, 1st through the ground pass sales, and are #80 in the virtual queue, for which every entry could be 2 tickets. So very unlikely to get resale tickets this year due to virtual queue

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

@ViewFromTheQ For anyone who wants to camp in the queue for resale tickets, it is really not worth it with the new system. Show court ticket holders, both ballot and queue, are allowed to join the virtual queue for other courts, and there’s no order to entry.

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

@Geniy__Seksa - у меня докторская степень, которая далась мне огромным трудом
- я свободно говорю, работаю и шучу (!) на английском
- у меня самые крутые, интересные, веселые друзья со всех уголков мира
- я хорошая дочь и сестра
- я могу признать, если я чего-то не знаю или если я не права

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

Visas for PhD students only from ‘best performing universities’? What in the elitist shit is this? What are these best performing universities exactly? Can this government spit in the faces of brilliant academics all over UK HEIs any more? Asking for a friend

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Only the best-performing universities should be allowed to issue visas to foreign students as part of measures to reduce net migration to tens of thousands of people a year, a report endorsed by Michael Gove has recommended ⬇️ https://t.co/Em35IBmwJO

[Yulia Navalnaya @yulia_navalnaya]

I'd like to ask European politicians: "What's changed since you sanctioned Russian oligarchs?"

Neither Fridman nor Aven have spoken out against the war or made any efforts to stop it — they've simply hired expensive lawyers and influential lobbyists.

Anti-war Russians in Europe face numerous challenges, but for Russian oligarchs, money easily resolves everything.

It's the third year of the war, yet there's been no specific mechanism for imposing or lifting sanctions. Decisions are made based on the principle of "who can reach whom first."

Lifting sanctions against Fridman and Aven is detrimental. It'll only weaken the anti-war movement and prolong Putin's stay in power.

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

@sebacallens You are in London? 👀

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

Sunak has to go. No single person should have the power to or even feel capable of threatening to leave the court of human rights just because their ludacrous policy doesn’t fit it. Upholding the standards of human rights are infinitely more important than any policy, period.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Rishi Sunak has said that controlling illegal immigration is “more important” than membership of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

However, some Cabinet ministers privately warned against leaving the ECHR ⬇️ https://t.co/18g7WXzSlc

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

This is mental?! Russian special forces have been using remote fields-based weapons to inflict brain damage on US diplomats?

[The Insider @InsiderEng]

❗Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on Americans, at home and abroad

A joint investigation by The Insider, @60Minutes, and @derspiegel.

https://t.co/MuqpqrhR43

[The Guardian @guardian]

Russian journalist who covered Navalny trials jailed on extremism charges https://t.co/Cxn0gXiLSU

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

@KantWilde Недельным экзистенциальным кризисом 🥲

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

The most "transparent" elections in Russia

If you think the ending of this video is unexpected, you are wrong. Most likely, in the extended version, the policeman himself decides to "help" them.

[Konstantin Sonin @k_sonin]

Per @novayagazeta_en snapshot estimates, every second vote for Putin in March 2024 elections was fabricated. That is, he didn't get even a majority of the vote - despite that opposition was barred from running or campaigning.

The "Shpilkin method", named after statistician and election forensics analyst Sergei Shpilkin, is basically very simple - it just assumes that without falsifications, the relationship between turnout and Putin's vote share follows the normal (Gaussian) distribution. The estimate of the fabricated vote is the difference between the "normal" and reported numbers.

The Shpilkin method does produce a good estimate of the extent of falsifications. In those elections that were not falsified, Putin's vote share have always followed the normal distribution. In 2011, our own estimates of the extent of the vote fraud, which did not rely on any assumptions about distributions (https://t.co/ox7q2Y0ifd) basically confirmed the estimates via the Shpilkin method.

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

Queued for 8 hours today to vote in Russian presidential elections, but the embassy decided to close even though there was probably close to 1000 of us still waiting to vote.

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

Спиздили наши голоса и теперь радостно извергают вонь

[Katya Pchelintseva 🤍💙🤍 @katya_pch]

@kristinaboyar Ретинол, увлажнять, и параллельно смотреть на женщин, которые стареют красиво, чтобы выработать любовь к красивым морщинам!