ChrisO_wiki@mastodon.social

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Independent military history author and researcher. Now at https://mastodon.social/@ChrisO_wiki

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Tweet Jan 25, 2023

1/ The release of murderers who have served with the Wagner Group, including the notorious "Black Realtor" Alexander Tyutin, is causing controversy in Russia due to complaints by relatives of their victims. Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin has responded

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Tweet Jan 23, 2023

1/ The Wagner Group has attracted worldwide notoriety for its extreme brutality, which has included the filmed executions of its own members and many other human rights abuses in multiple countries. An interesting account of its evolution has been pu

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Tweet Jan 12, 2023

1/ Yevgeny Prigozhin's apparently premature announcement of Soledar's capture has reportedly led to a desperate push by Wagner to make it a reality. Wagner is fighting without regard for casualties, not just to gain Soledar, but for Prigozhin's reput

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Tweet Dec 19, 2022

1/ In another possible indication of an imminent forthcoming mobilisation of public employees, Moscow police officers have been ordered to pack an 'emergency bag' of items essential for survival. ⬇️ twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1604777108030496768/p

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Tweet Dec 12, 2022

1/ Mobilised Russians are falling sick en masse with bronchitis and pneumonia at their training camp in Siberia, where they are living in tents in temperatures of -30°C (-22°F) according to their wives. They are being given no medicines and are havin

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Tweet Dec 3, 2022

1There's been a lot of fuss about Elon Musk disclosing emails from previous Twitter management about how the company dealt with data from Hunter Biden's laptop that was posted on Twitter. But it's worth pointing out how this is disastrous for both Tw

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Tweet Dec 3, 2022

1/ People across Russia are freezing in their homes in temperatures as low as -38°C because essential utility workers have been mobilised – even after the supposed end of mobilisation – and sent to Ukraine, hindering repair and maintenance work at ho

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Tweet Nov 29, 2022

The Financial Times has more details of the problems advertisers are having currently with Twitter. Again, it's principally functional, not political. (See my earlier thread linked below.) /1 twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1597336026007015424

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Tweet Nov 28, 2022

Elon Musk is yelling about Apple today (I'm not going to quote-tweet him, he's getting too much attention as it is). Instead, I'll highlight an interesting commentary which points out functional, not political, issues that are deterring advertisers o

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Tweet Nov 11, 2022

1/ Wives and mothers of mobilised Russian soldiers have mounted a raid into the war zone to find and rescue their men from the Russian army. They found them sitting in fields without food. The army found the men at the same time and took them to be d

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