Anna Malpas

AFP London, formerly Kyiv, Warsaw, Moscow, just my own opinions

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Russian papers report the consequences of Moscow’s week-long mobile internet blackout. “Sales of walkie-talkies are up 27%, sales of pagers up 73%...sales of road atlases up 170%.” Meanwhile, high oil prices mean that
Russia’s “export revenues are growing.” #ReadingRussia

[Ben Tavener @BBCBenTavener]

Mobile internet still down in central Moscow. Pedestrians, couriers and taxi drivers look lost. People connecting to wifi outside cafés/banks. Vedomosti says sales of pagers, paper maps and landline phones through roof. And now even wifi in the Duma (parliament) reportedly out!

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇺🇦 Ageing and alone in a bomb-scarred Ukrainian high-rise

Ukrainian pensioner Grygory Gladysh is the last occupant of a shelled Soviet-era residential building in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, having seen his family and neighbours leave since the start of the war.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Fake AI satellite imagery spurs disinformation in US-Iran war

https://t.co/Qb9L2wUYQZ

[Evan Gershkovich @evangershkovich]

Sorry. Phone died. What did I miss? In the meantime, I wrote a book

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

In April 2022, a Russian missile strike on Odesa killed Yuriy Glodan's baby daughter, wife and mother-in-law. He died a year later on the frontlines. AFP spoke to those who knew the Glodans, as Ukrainians reflect on the heartache of now four years of war.
https://t.co/1lHeYmAYG4

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Monarchy at 'crunch point' and king may have to 'stand aside': ex-prince's biographer.

Historian and biographer Andrew Lownie tells AFP that the British royal family is at a "crunch point", adding that if it is found that "they have been abetting him, enabling him, protecting him, then I think Charles will have to stand aside"

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

London Fashion Week launched on Thursday with a rare visit from King Charles III only hours after his brother Andrew's sensational arrest -- his presence overshadowing an event traditionally focused on revealing new talent.
https://t.co/4WUY2ZiPaI

[Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk]

It is shocking how little coverage there is of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine due to Russia's destruction of its energy grid. It's -20C outside and half of the country experienced a total blackout today. Metro trains stopped operating in Kyiv and Kharkiv today. Rolling blackouts have been ongoing for weeks, often with no heating and running water inside people's houses. People get sick and die because of this. In the meantime, Russians laugh and call for more strikes to punish Ukraine for its unwillingness to surrender. These are strikes affecting millions of civilians amid the harshest winter in decades. These are crimes against humanity that Russia is confident it will get away with. We cannot let that happen

[Catherine Belton @CatherineBelton]

Hi @JeffBezos. I'm proud to work with colleagues @FrancescaEbel @maryilyushina @RobynDixon__ who have fearlessly exposed Russia's brutal decimation of its own troops & economy in its pursuit of aggressive imperial expansion. Their work has never mattered more. #SaveThePost

[Anna Malpas @malpasanna]

Freed Belarus dissident Bialiatski vows to keep resisting regime from exile, by @olacicho https://t.co/FXljwjqXyJ via @RFI_En

[The Moscow Times @MoscowTimes]

Bulatov emerged in the 1970s as a leading figure of the Soviet pop art scene, bending figurative imagery with slogans and text to challenge state propaganda.
https://t.co/EBNBo6PxsS

[Anna Malpas @malpasanna]

https://t.co/I9lboc4Ojy

[Anna Malpas @malpasanna]

https://t.co/P3iq0oL18d

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Tolerance, a film depicting the ‘horrors of life in the West’, was watched by just 192 people on its opening weekend ⬇️ https://t.co/SwFHzL8e4A

[Andrei Soldatov @AndreiSoldatov]

Just got upgraded to Russia’s international wanted list (previously I was on the inter-state one—i.e. Kremlin-friendly countries).
Apparently, our new book really pissed some people off in Moscow: this is what Russian literary criticism looks like now.
https://t.co/v1ITQREM2b

[Rachel Blundy @rachelblundy]

Our reporters at @afp have spotted false posts spreading a fabricated story about Dutch police detaining members of the Israel Defense Forces.

The main image shared alongside the posts actually shows an Irish cartel member being arrested in Spain in 2022 https://t.co/nTK1zobwH9

[Rachel Blundy @rachelblundy]

Posing as a fortune teller on his YouTube channel, former British teacher Waqar Malik tells thousands of followers that he can predict this year's exam questions...
https://t.co/SPu3jBSWbe by @malpasanna for @AFP

[Rachel Blundy @rachelblundy]

AI-enabled disinformation has clouded the diplomatic push to end the war in Ukraine https://t.co/PIOAarMBOb via @AFP

[Rachel Blundy @rachelblundy]

An investigation by British newspaper The Times has found that far-right leader Tommy Robinson is using US-based app Minnect to earn thousands of pounds as a "coach" to the far right https://t.co/GNeYwI3Drl