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Are you intrigued by Russian politics, culture, and media? Look no further than 'The Russia Guy' Telegram channel, managed by the knowledgeable Kevin Rothrock, also known as @krothrock. This channel offers in-depth analysis of all things Russia, including current events, media monitoring, and expert opinions from Kevin himself. Kevin Rothrock is a reputable source in the field, providing valuable insights and commentary on a wide range of topics related to Russia. Whether you are a political enthusiast, a media buff, or simply curious about Russian affairs, 'The Russia Guy' is the perfect channel for you. Stay informed and engaged with the latest updates and discussions on Russian news and developments. Join 'The Russia Guy' today and delve into the fascinating world of Russia through the eyes of a seasoned expert.

The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 16:43

The daughter of Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia is no dove on Moscow, but I’m struggling to get over the fact that her foundation’s name starts with “RT.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/10/russia-ukraine-war-special-envoy-kellogg/

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 15:43

The Constitution is collapsing, but this pun hurts even worse.

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 08:33

I'm nearly a decade late in this discovery, but I had no idea that Rian Johnson directed a short film to accompany this amazing song by LCD Soundsystem. And it stars Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn, no less!https://youtu.be/5gIhrPGyu6U

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 08:03

One more tonight from NYRB, this one by Gary Saul Morson on the history of Russian liberals and how their deep distrust of ordinary people helped preserve the authoritarianism in Russia that's come back to eat them. American orthodoxy shares some of these assumptions. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/02/13/with-liberals-like-these-russian-liberalism-paul-robinson/

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 07:43

This moment in Robert Paxton's review of Charles de Gaulle's reissued War Memoirs is simply lovely. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/02/13/de-gaulles-gamble-the-war-memoirs-of-charles-de-gaulle/

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 06:48

Daniel Kevles in NYRB reminds us that American leaders have been entrepreneur assholes from the start. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/02/13/farmer-george-washington-at-the-plow-ragsdale/

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 06:13

Xi Jinping will reportedly attend Russia's Victory Day celebration in Moscow on May 9 to mark the 80th anniversary of the USSR's defeat of Nazi Germany. A big show of solidarity from Beijing, and a major optics win for Putin. https://t.me/kommersant/78342

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 03:18

RIP, the penny.

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 02:43

Harrison Ford just set the record for freedom platitudes in a single car commercial.

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 01:33

That pulsating Apple Music logo that keeps popping up during this Half Time show is very annoying.

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 01:28

Who decided to make racing commercials into fuckboy montages?

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 01:23

Canada running Superbowl ads about "Your Ally to the North" to calm down the crazy Americans.

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 00:48

Gotta love how the Superbowl Jesus ad is followed by a Liquid Death commercial blasting "Drink on the job!!"

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 00:43

damn you, Google, for getting to me with a Gemini ad by plucking my paternal heartstrings

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The Russia Guy

10 Feb, 00:28

Pax Americana, baby.

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The Russia Guy

09 Feb, 21:33

Sergey Rogov, scientific director of the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has died. He was 76. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7495931?from=horizontal_lenta

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The Russia Guy

09 Feb, 18:58

oof

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The Russia Guy

09 Feb, 18:03

Looks like RFE/RL and VOA will be on the chopping block, too.

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The Russia Guy

09 Feb, 17:23

With all the attention now on American foreign aid, it's worth returning to Joshua Craze's critical look at the industry of Western humanitarianism. This, published by The Baffler in Nov 2023, is decidedly not the perspective you get in most MSM reports today.https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-angels-dilemma-craze

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The Russia Guy

09 Feb, 09:18

He's a fan, folks.

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The Russia Guy

01 Feb, 19:23

Tom Cotton, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is both saying the quiet part out loud and challenging the messianic rhetoric of America's foreign policy establishment. Critics call Trumpism isolationist, but it's just as aggressive as ever, stripped of the pretty speeches.

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The Russia Guy

01 Feb, 17:43

Ukraine should hold elections by the end of the year if Kyiv can agree to a truce in the coming months, says Keith Kellogg, Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. "Most democratic nations have elections in their time of war. I think it is important they do so." https://www.reuters.com/world/us-wants-ukraine-hold-elections-following-ceasefire-says-trump-envoy-2025-02-01/

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The Russia Guy

01 Feb, 17:28

Russia has started enforcing its new ban on "childfree propaganda." A woman in Sevastopol has been fined 50k rubles ($500) for sharing memes that apparently play up the benefits of having no kids. Lawyers speculate that strict enforcement could even apply to complaining moms. https://t.me/agentstvonews/8987?single

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The Russia Guy

01 Feb, 16:08

wow

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The Russia Guy

01 Feb, 05:04

i miss real journalism like this

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The Russia Guy

01 Feb, 04:53

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The Russia Guy

01 Feb, 02:28

Review of Max Boot's Reagan biography by Jackson Lears in LRB, analyzing the Gipper's ruinous, lasting influence on U.S. domestic and foreign policies. On the latter, Lears makes several criticisms that are "cancelable" among conventional pundits. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/jackson-lears/honey-i-forgot-to-duckIt is remarkable how widely Reagan is beloved among contemporary American policy/media elites. His messianic, manichean worldview clearly resonates with many self-described democracy promoters today. I wonder where Trumpism will land, given America First's awkward relationship with USG orthodoxy.

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 23:48

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 23:13

Maybe we can all escape Big Tech Totalitarianism by relying on the Big Tech from foreign authoritarian states. Just an idea. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/31/certain-topics-are-temporarily-restricted

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 20:43

It looks like this “private army” was shut down within a year of Russia’s invasion (almost two years ago), so it may be wrong to read this story as a reflection of current conditions. Still, a pretty wild tale. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/31/we-ll-send-you-home-in-a-body-bag

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 20:28

To be fair, Donald Trump was born four years before the 22nd Amendment was enacted, so he’s technically exempt. Yes, that’s how it works.

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 19:58

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 19:48

“The president will be implementing tomorrow 25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and 10% tariffs on China.” https://www.semafor.com/article/01/31/2025/us-allies-threaten-retaliation-as-tariffs-loom

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 19:28

how did the world come to be a place where a dad trying to order one pizza and a salad for himself and the kids must pay fifty dollars?? great wonders of the world have been accomplished for less. it’s scientific experiments for the lot of you, children

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 17:43

Sundance shines its light on Russia and Ukraine again. Incidentally, just yesterday, I translated film critic Elena Smolina’s review of “2000 Meters to Andriivka.” https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/31/oscar-winning-ukrainian-filmmaker-mstyslav-chernov-has-a-new-documentary

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 17:04

The amazing appearing, disappearing tens of thousands of DPRK troops.

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 16:13

every headline about this story is American comedy

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 15:58

✊

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 14:48

I know Meta is a money-printing machine, but I still marvel at Zuck's apparent belief that someone would hear the words "OG Facebook" and feel any excitement.

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The Russia Guy

31 Jan, 01:34

Interesting conversation with NYU social theorist Vivek Chibber, who offers a leftist critique of "wokeness" and the liberal-professional utilization of IDPOL. As anti-wokeism fuels right-wing rhetoric more than ever, it's fascinating to hear a leftist teardown.https://pinecast.com/listen/413e9b8e-6b24-43d6-b055-a6ec6871f8b3.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3

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The Russia Guy

23 Jan, 17:43

As Zelensky says Ukraine needs 200k peacekeepers “or nothing,” and European leaders speculate about tens of thousands of postwar troops, Trump is reportedly shrinking the U.S. Euro contingent by 20k men and demanding more cash for the doughboys who stay. https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/23/trump-reportedly-plans-to-cut-u-s-troops-in-europe-by-20-percent

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The Russia Guy

23 Jan, 08:04

Putin has grown "increasingly concerned about distortions in Russia's wartime economy" and "believes key war goals have already been met, including control of land that connects mainland Russia to Crimea, and weakening Ukraine's military," sources tell Reuters. 🤔https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-growing-concerned-by-russias-economy-trump-mulls-more-sanctions-2025-01-23/

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The Russia Guy

23 Jan, 05:04

I went through Trump’s cabinet-level nominees and wrote this compendium of their comments relating to Russia and Ukraine. For all the zany, unconventional figures, the folks who will likely exert the most influence on war policy seem more orthodox. Trump’s “drill, baby, dill” is more central than I realized.https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/23/america-s-new-team

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The Russia Guy

23 Jan, 01:23

oho look what finally arrived in the mail

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The Russia Guy

22 Jan, 23:33

The way to solve America’s RFK Jr. problem is to offer him a shot of Sputnik V and watch him collapse into an existential crisis, torn by his two allegiances.

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The Russia Guy

22 Jan, 21:04

say what you will about the Donald, but his punctuation and spelling choices are just amazing

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The Russia Guy

22 Jan, 15:33

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The Russia Guy

22 Jan, 08:28

Alexandra Prokopenko argues that Putin believes a sovereign, self-reliant Ukraine poses a far graver threat than more distant prospect of economic degradation. The West should plan to capitalize on Russia’s "eventual" economic collapse, but it won't be soon. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/putin-not-yet-desperate

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The Russia Guy

22 Jan, 04:13

Some more reference: The combined standing army of the three Baltic states has roughly 48,650 active duty personnel.

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The Russia Guy

22 Jan, 03:08

Zelensky says “at least 200,000” allied troops would be needed to enforce any peace deal in Ukraine. “From all the Europeans? 200,000, it’s a minimum, otherwise it’s nothing." (At the peak of the Iraq War surge, there were approximately 170,000 US troops in Iraq.) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/21/zelensky-says-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-would-require-200000-allied-troops

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The Russia Guy

22 Jan, 01:04

no.

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The Russia Guy

21 Jan, 16:48

Seeing Zelensky praise Trump’s energy plan (“we will end the Green New Deal,” “that liquid gold under our feet”), I wonder how long it will take before progressives start to gripe about Kyiv’s leadership. Naturally, many are inclined to forgive Ze for political expediencies, but there’s a limit.

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The Russia Guy

21 Jan, 14:43

ooh, I think the oregonian has made the return to broadsheet. won't know for sure until tomorrow's print edition is delivered, but the daily pdf is much changed

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The Russia Guy

21 Jan, 06:18

very good

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The Russia Guy

21 Jan, 04:18

Jesus, he even canceled the half-staff flag order honoring Carter.

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The Russia Guy

21 Jan, 04:13

goodbye to birthright citizenship (and to the 14th amendment, apparently)

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The Russia Guy

21 Jan, 04:08

Putting people over fish! And EXECUTING them

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The Russia Guy

21 Jan, 04:08

U.S. officials will actually be forced to use maps that say "Gulf of America" on them. I wonder if this comes also to public schools? (lol, jk, that would require special funding for public schools)

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The Russia Guy

21 Jan, 03:58

It is the policy of United States that no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/

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The Russia Guy

21 Jan, 01:13

Ukrainian officials arrested the former commander of the brigade with those mass desertions (including dozens while training in France). The suspect is reportedly named Col. Dmitriy Ryumshin. I wonder how strict the state will be, given Ukraine's widespread draft evasion & exhaustion. https://ssu.gov.ua/novyny/sbu-ta-dbr-zatrymaly-komandyra-155i-bryhady-zsu-yakyi-dopustyv-dezertyrstvo-pidlehly

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