Any time I heard about Novaya Gazeta, it was always them doing incredibly brave journalism. Sad to hear they got shut down for good.
They moved to https://novayagazeta.eu/
How They Tried to Kill Me
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#32Russia as a state didn't "descend into fascism". It was always like that. For centuries. I have heard stories about NKVD methods since childhood. The victims were my family members living in the estern Poland, after it was invaded by Stalin at the very beginnings of WW2. What was happening before red revolution, during tsars rule, is in the literature. It is funny how generations of intelligent, well-educated western…
The rest of Europe (if Russia can be considered as being in Europe) went through centuries of war, revolution, upheaval, debate, and other forms of blood, sweat, and tears... all of it culminating in modern humanist thought. Modern Europeans across the socio-economic spectrum think of themselves as having rights and opinions and so on. That's a novel idea in human history (and one we should all heartily embrace)
Russia had more than it's fair share of heartache, but it is not an outlier in not having been through the Western European developmental pressure cooker.
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#33The journalists that have been killed in/by Russia in the past 20 years either revealed corruption close to Putin's inner circle or human rights violations by Russian forces in Chechnya.
It was inevitable that they would also begin to target journalists who revealed human rights violations by Russian forces in Ukraine.
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#34The part that really got to me was this paragraph: >“That is what drives us crazy,” the detective said. “You come here and act like you’re on vacation. Like this is some paradise. It doesn’t even occur to you to keep yourself safe. We have political killings here. The Russian special services are active in Germany. Your carelessness, yours and your colleagues, knows no bounds.” It's very difficult to reconcile what s…
I remember a few years back Iran send assassins to kill Iranian dissidents in Germany, Austria, and Belgium. The assassins were caught and politely returned to Iran on a private plane.
No punishment for planned/attempted murder.
The West is hopelessly naive about sophisticated and brutal adversaries like Russia and Iran.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neither her nor "liberals" needed such a bad joke (I hope it was one?).
No, it wasn't a joke, not all of us share the same beliefs when it comes to this war. I was alluding to the fact that the Russian liberals, like this lady is, usually get attacked from both sides, and it seemed to me that the OP was unhappy with some of her literary performance in this article (an attack, in other words).
Huh what? Maybe language gap, but to me it sounded like you made kind of ironic/sarcastic underlining of OPs attack by meaning "that's how liberals are, they need some slack", so painting her as liberal and also painting liberals as needing slack sounded like a typical thing right OR left extreme may say.. but as you say right about sharing not the same beliefs: That as well as politics should ideally just stay out of here what is firstly a personal sad story, and also doesn't belong into HN?
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#36Considering that she's presumably well-informed about global affairs, her resistance to the idea that russian secret services might be out to kill her, and especially her refusal to believe she might have been poisoned, is rather striking. It's almost as if she had no idea that russian agents have been poisoning prominent people in foreign lands for the last couple of decades. Perhaps she thinks she's not prominent e…
Julia Ioffe has talked about some of the less-lethal intimidation tactics that are used against foreign journalists in Russia.
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#37Russia as a state didn't "descend into fascism". It was always like that. For centuries. I have heard stories about NKVD methods since childhood. The victims were my family members living in the estern Poland, after it was invaded by Stalin at the very beginnings of WW2. What was happening before red revolution, during tsars rule, is in the literature. It is funny how generations of intelligent, well-educated western…
The rest of Europe (if Russia can be considered as being in Europe) went through centuries of war, revolution, upheaval, debate, and other forms of blood, sweat, and tears... all of it culminating in modern humanist thought. Modern Europeans across the socio-economic spectrum think of themselves as having rights and opinions and so on. That's a novel idea in human history (and one we should all heartily embrace) Russ…
Russia is unique in that it was european enough to be the colonizer not the colonized (so it didn't get modern law from its colonial masters), and yet not european enough to develop a modern approach to human rights by itself.
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#38This is really scary, disturbing and infuriating.
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#39The German counter-terrorism forces hold quite a bit of blame here. These things happening on German soil are unacceptable and it shouldn't be the victim's fault.
What is German media saying about this?
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#40The part that really got to me was this paragraph: >“That is what drives us crazy,” the detective said. “You come here and act like you’re on vacation. Like this is some paradise. It doesn’t even occur to you to keep yourself safe. We have political killings here. The Russian special services are active in Germany. Your carelessness, yours and your colleagues, knows no bounds.” It's very difficult to reconcile what s…
I remember a few years back Iran send assassins to kill Iranian dissidents in Germany, Austria, and Belgium. The assassins were caught and politely returned to Iran on a private plane. No punishment for planned/attempted murder. The West is hopelessly naive about sophisticated and brutal adversaries like Russia and Iran.
It’s not naïvety, it’s that that west would appreciate the same treatment when they send spies and assassins, which they do.