Sebo 🇷🇺

Russian advocating for a democratic future.

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

In 2022, a sudden doubling of fuel prices helped ignite nationwide unrest in Kazakhstan.

Russia is not Kazakhstan, but its shortages are arriving alongside slowing growth, high rates, and declining confidence.

My latest for Russia Tomorrow:
https://t.co/XXTL9zPBci

#Russia

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

“The relationship between Russia and China has never been one of natural allies or permanent enemies -- it has been one of opportunists.”

🔗Weekly Dispatch: Russia and the Middle Kingdom
https://t.co/OFOgtkMYTi

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

“Davos revealed that even those who once used the ‘nice story’ as the core principal defense… now recognize that abuses of the system had rendered it fully useless.”

🔗 Weekly Dispatch: What They Admitted at Davos
https://t.co/9dMspsgW2Y

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

“Following [Navalny's] death, the opposition in exile became notable for nothing more than fighting among itself.”

🔗 Monthly Essay: Death by Succession Crisis
https://t.co/85uDbQ8lQS

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

“The opposition... had to deal with a monumental realization — it wasn’t designed to outlive Navalny.”

🔗 Monthly Essay: Death by Succession Crisis
https://t.co/85uDbQ8TGq

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

“The Times’ portrayal of the city misinterprets the basic survival instincts of a nation that spans eleven time zones...”

🔗 Weekly Dispatch: Russia's Far East: How Vladivostok Benefits from Centralization
https://t.co/Bch3DGfln0

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

“From the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Free Port initiative, every period of Vladivostok’s vitality has come from deliberate thinking on a national level...”

🔗 Weekly Dispatch: Russia's Far East: How Vladivostok Benefits from Centralization
https://t.co/Bch3DGfln0

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

“Russia’s atomic industry stands as one of the few remnants of the Soviet superpower-state that still works as it was meant to and continues to be a point of national pride.”

🔗 Weekly Dispatch: “Russia’s Enduring Atom”
https://t.co/BQmajNK1ii

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

“While the collapse of advanced Soviet industries and the retreat to reliance on gas and oil bind Russia to a bleak past, the atom ties it to the future.”

#Rosatom #NuclearPolicy

🔗 Read ‘Russia’s Enduring Atom’ on Russia Tomorrow
https://t.co/BQmajNK1ii

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

@JayinKyiv @Kasparov63 For Russia's GDP, the PPP is probably more valuable, but its share would still be only about 3.48% vs the Soviet Union's ~12% peak.

The old men in halls of power aren't convinced by Russian propaganda, but by tens of millions of dollars from the military industrial lobby.*

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

@secretsqrl123 Why are some people pretending Europe would unleash a global depression of unseen proportions that would impact them just as heavily as America because they aren't getting what they want geopolitically. This would be a economic suicide.

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

@mila__alien By this logic, all Ukrainians are fascist because some of the Azov battalion is neo-Nazi. It's horrid behavior, but no justification for smearing >140 million people and degrading the term "fascist" further into meaninglessness.

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

@StratcomCentre The 1996 Accord broke down because Chechen forces under Shamil Basayev, an islamist militant who undermined the civilian government that had signed the very agreement, attacked Russia.

By any measure, the 2nd Chechen War was vastly more justified than the invasion of Ukraine.

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

“If the opposition is to survive, let alone have any chance of saving Russia from the stagnation, corruption, and lawlessness of the Putin regime, it must change its language. It must abandon its endless idealism, and it must abandon Ukraine.”

https://t.co/yGr7whWb2I

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

🚗𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚’𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐤𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐡

The Soviet & Russian auto industries went from postwar glory to collapse, revival, and renewed isolation.

Read about it in part 2 of my series:
🔗 https://t.co/jgsfcf8qJl
#RussiaTomorrow #AutoHistory

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

Today, HRF remembers Alexei Navalny, the fearless advocate for democracy in Russia.

Putin, no doubt, is responsible for Navalny's death. But what he can't kill, what he hasn't killed one year on, is Navalny's spirit and everything he stood for.

[Sebo 🇷🇺 @sebo_ru]

On the tragic anniversary of Alexei Navalny’s murder, I have published a reflection on 2 years of Russia Tomorrow—examining the shifts in Russian politics and global affairs and outlining my vision for making RT a more productive and academic resource.

https://t.co/8s6Ju3Ugp3

[Евросоюз @EUinRussia]

Алексей Навальный отдал свою жизнь за свободную и демократическую 🇷🇺. Сегодня его адвокаты несправедливо находятся в тюрьме вместе с сотнями политзаключенных.

Россия должна немедленно и безоговорочно освободить адвокатов @navalny и всех политзаключенных.

https://t.co/9RpQOwiWai

[Евросоюз @EUinRussia]

В первую годовщину со дня смерти @navalny посол ЕС и послы стран-членов🇪🇺 возложили цветы к могиле политика.

Последние 3 года Навальный провел в бесчеловечных условиях в тюрьме. Он мечтал, чтобы Россия стала свободной и демократичной и заплатил за свою мечту самую высокую цену.

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

Today marks one year without Alexei Navalny. I've said this one year ago and would like to say it again:

Alexei was murdered. Murdered by Putin.

It doesn't matter at all what the official cause of death is, and it matters even less what is written in the official documents. Alexei had a true political talent. He knew how to fire people up, how to find the right words even in seemingly hopeless situations, how to support his followers and maintain enthusiasm and hope for a better future.

These are the qualities that made Alexei Russia's leading politician. These are the qualities needed by politicians of a democratic Russia. These are the qualities the authorities feared. These are the qualities Alexei was killed for..

Photo: Evgeny Feldman/"This is Navalny"