Oliver Dónal Fisk

trainee reporter / translator @novayagazeta_en | 🇮🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧 studying 🇷🇺 | Glasgow-Tartu MA (@IMCEERES) ‘26 via TCD, МГУ, & TLU

[Oliver Dónal Fisk @olifisk]

@PjotrSauer rare aesthetic: reading a tweet about pictures not loading, which includes a picture that is not loading, without the picture loading

[Joanna Lillis @joannalillis]

Voting for renewal or more of the same? #Kazakhstan holds election featuring no real opposition parties, with pro-presidential party formed only in May set to win, against backdrop of arrests. My piece for @TheEconomist
https://t.co/zcT0SRHmIc

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

I just can’t believe that the inaugural owner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do something like this

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

To believe this is about drug smuggling, you have to ignore Trump’s pardon of the former Honduran president for drug smuggling.

To believe it’s about Maduro’s democratic legitimacy, you have to believe Trump cares even slightly about democratic legitimacy.

Alternatively:

[Anton Barbashin @ABarbashin]

I don't know how much you are following Russian opposition internal fighting but they are at it again.
Here are two pieces about the general attitudes towards "Team Navalny" and "Team Khodorkovsky"
The bottom line is - event their followers are tired of this infighting
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[Oliver Dónal Fisk @olifisk]

💥Poland shoots down multiple Russian drones over its airspace in most direct NATO-Russia confrontation since Turkey downed a Russian jet back in 2015💥

🇵🇱 calls incident an "unprecedented" act of 🇷🇺 aggression, my latest for @novayagazeta_en:

https://t.co/kEK4ftll83

[Robert Horvath @RG_Horvath]

This week @CaolanReports, whose pro-Ukraine advocacy I admire, added his voice to the torrent of posthumous vilification directed at Navalny, claiming incorrectly that he supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A refutation in four parts. 1/20

[Novaya Gazeta Europe @novayagazeta_en]

Trump announced on Friday that two American nuclear submarines would be deployed to the “appropriate regions” in apparent response to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev labelling the White House’s recent peace ultimatum a “step towards war”. ⤵️

[Oliver Dónal Fisk @olifisk]

My latest for @novayagazeta_en!

Featuring Trump sparring with Russia's former president, nuclear submarines *potentially* being deployed *somewhere*, and Putin bonding with Lukashenko at an archipelagic monastery on a lake.

[Novaya Gazeta Europe @novayagazeta_en]

Trump announced on Friday that two American nuclear submarines would be deployed to the “appropriate regions” in apparent response to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev labelling the White House’s recent peace ultimatum a “step towards war”. ⤵️

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Today, I published what is probably my most important article in quite a long time. In this piece, I revealed how the Trump administration is covertly manipulating social media platforms & algorithms to boost the administration’s narrative and suppress opposing lines of thought.

[Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos]

Quite a stat

[Oliver Dónal Fisk @olifisk]

Really happy to have been able to translate this piece for @novayagazeta_en !

So few public cultural institutions in Russia remain free of political influence these days, and Erarta's example shows how difficult and constant the battle is.

[Novaya Gazeta Europe @novayagazeta_en]

Since St. Petersburg’s Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art first opened its doors in 2010, its exhibitions have pushed the limits of creative and political conformity, a challenging task that has only become more so as Russia sinks ever deeper into authoritarianism. 🧵

[Stephen Sackur @stephensackur]

BBC management is closing ⁦@BBCHARDtalk⁩ after three decades holding power to account around the world. Here are some thoughts ⬇️

‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC https://t.co/d4vvOTQ6HR

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Untitled, by Cy Twombly, 1990, 📸 by Dan Sheridan // @Inphosports

[Seán Mac an tSíthigh @Buailtin]

“Irish is a dead language!”

Listen to Misha Yerhidzé, a 10 year old Ukranian boy who fled the war with his mother just over two years ago and settled in Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, in the West Kerry Gaeltacht. He has embraced the language and music of his new community.

[Novaya Gazeta Europe @novayagazeta_en]

Secret back channel negotiations between Russia and the United States have been held in Switzerland in recent months to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing three sources with knowledge of the matter. ⤵️

[Oliver Dónal Fisk @olifisk]

@John_ForemanCBE Not sure it’s so harmless, ZAPAD 2021 helped preparations for the full-scale invasion in 2022, no?

“By conducting exercises in Russia’s Western Military District, it gave Russia the pretext for positioning forces near the Ukrainian border”

https://t.co/l3Ak83SU51

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Love story. Artwork by Soviet rockstar Viktor Tsoi, USSR, 1980s

[Steven Godofsky @sgodofsk]

The pro-Yoon protestors in South Korea are flying American flags, but the anti-Yoon protestors are flying Virginia flags.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Jimmy Carter outlived one of his obituary writers: