Samantha Berkhead

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[The Moscow Times @MoscowTimes]

The incident is understood to have occurred roughly 20 nautical miles south of the Isle of Wight.
https://t.co/YT7qKvCfZI

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One year ago, nearly 2% of the Siberian republic of Altai's population rallied against political and economic encroachment from Moscow.

What has happened since? https://t.co/xrOBC4EUHA

[Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead]

The timing of this FT piece is also strange... the mobile internet shutdowns in Moscow basically ended three months ago!

[Kevin Rothrock @MrKevinRothrock]

A bit discombobulating to see headlines like this in the Western media, knowing that administrators of popular Telegram channels say their traffic hasn’t fallen off much inside Russia and that shrinking advertising revenue is the real concern. https://t.co/fCA3I4GdtW

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“We’re supposed to project optimism, [because] the forum is the vanity fair of Russian economy,” an employee at a major Russian bank told MT. “But pretending that everything is great gets harder and harder every year.”
https://t.co/uiv3ClL9zx

[Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead]

@BrianMcDonaldIE thanks for the promo xx

[Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead]

@errol_musk Hello Mr. Musk — I’m preparing a Moscow Times story on your recent activities in Russia and would welcome any comment or clarification you’d like to provide. Please feel free to contact me via DM or at [email protected]. Thank you!

[Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead]

Doesn't Politico employ a former RT correspondent though?
https://t.co/kvn63Va76T

[Fabrice Deprez @fabrice_deprez]

Really good piece from Realna Gazeta, a Ukr regional outlet exiled from Luhansk in 2014, about the drone strike in Starobilsk: clarifying what we know, dismissing what is clearly wrong, not engaging in speculation. Proper journalism on a really tense topic https://t.co/fKLlFNXN4t

[Catagélastos @catagelastos]

Some phrases in Solombala English, a 19th c. English-Russian trade pidgin written in Cyrillic

[Ivan U. Kłyszcz @IvanUKlyszcz]

Four words that shook the world, apparently (‘delo idet k zaversheniu’).

I understand why many are eager to interpret these words as a Kremlin signal on negotiations. But Russia is yet to act in a way that renders such interpretation credible. They violated the 9 May ceasefire.

[Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead]

Meduza gutted its English-language team so it could afford to produce this

[Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti]

No, Russia is not on the verge of a coup
Yes, we know about the extensive security precautions around Putin, but as I write in @SpecCoffeeHouse, I'm pretty sceptical about this "European intelligence report" doing the rounds...
https://t.co/lku75RGQEL

[Siobhán O'Grady @siobhan_ogrady]

Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time.
https://t.co/PMxJxiaMcg

[Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead]

the netherlands is so beautiful when you don't have dutch people in your ear (because they talk at around 90 decibels)

[n @faintswan]

the netherlands is so beautiful when you don’t have people in your ear calling it boring

[Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead]

And there it is: Russia’s Defense Ministry confirms that this year’s Victory Day parade will take place without any military equipment.
https://t.co/arpnaeZGe2

[Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead]

@mjluxmoore The information in this tweet, which is attributed to unidentified sources, seems very far-fetched imo

[The Moscow Times @MoscowTimes]

NEW: Russian forces in Mali have suffered major military setbacks in this weekend's attacks that killed the country's defense minister and military intelligence chief, a Moscow Times analysis of videos, images and satellite imagery shows. https://t.co/BjPtjMAO3T

[The Moscow Times @MoscowTimes]

On this day 30 years ago, Chechen rebel leader Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed in a targeted strike as Moscow waged war on separatists in the North Caucasus republic.

Shortly before his death, he told MT he believed Boris Yeltsin had ordered his killing.
https://t.co/gBZzsA6raB

[Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead]

@faridaily_ 🤯 https://t.co/049dz6Ivnd

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The Moscow Times is proud to present “Back to the USSR: When Russia Took a Wrong Turn,” an exhibition of photos from our archive that captures everyday life in Russia during the Yeltsin era and the early years of Putin’s rule.

See more here: https://t.co/9fHdPolmeL