Mack Tubridy
Journalist and Editor at The Moscow Times
Personal tweets of a militant Wisconsinite, no matter what Fed tells you.
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1 month ago |
themoscowtimes.com | Mack Tubridy
For over 25 years, British ethnographer Jeremy Morris has been traveling to the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow. The largely provincial region first appeared as the backdrop to his debut book on working-class communities in Russia after the Soviet collapse.
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Jan 30, 2025 |
themoscowtimes.com | Mack Tubridy
The Trump administration’s abrupt freeze on foreign aid has plunged exiled Russian NGOs and media outlets into uncertainty, jeopardizing their funding and posing what some describe as the greatest challenge to Russian civil society since the Kremlin enacted its “undesirable” organization law a decade ago. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a sweeping directive last Friday, pausing all foreign aid for 90 days.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
themoscowtimes.com | Mack Tubridy
Several independent Russian media outlets are embroiled in a scandal surrounding revelations that a freelance reporter supplemented her reporting with fabricated details in dozens of different stories they published. The journalist, who wrote under the pseudonym Asiya Nesoevaya, contributed articles to publications like Meduza, Novaya Gazeta Europe, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Russian service, IStories and Holod.
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Sep 12, 2024 |
themoscowtimes.com | Mack Tubridy
Ukrainian drones have targeted northern Russia’s Murmansk region at least twice over the past month. Taking place some 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) from Russia’s border with Ukraine, the drone attacks mark the deepest strikes inside Russian territory since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbor two and a half years ago. The first reported strike in the region on Aug.
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Sep 11, 2024 |
themoscowtimes.com | Mack Tubridy
In their first and possibly last debate on Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris faced off in what has shaped up to be one of the most contentious U.S. presidential elections in recent memory. While domestic issues such as the cost of living crisis, immigration and abortion took center stage, the candidates’ starkly different views on foreign policy, especially on the war in Ukraine, led to some of the night’s most heated exchanges.
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This would support my hypothesis that Russia doesn't take these talks with the slightest ounce of seriousness, and Putin, aware of the fact that that's how it kind of looks to the adults in the room, is probably going to try to meet with Trump in the coming days.
BREAKING: The Kremlin announced that Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky, along with several other Russian officials, including those from the Defense Ministry, will attend Thursday's talks in Istanbul. https://t.co/5paaxiIudk
RT @petrkozlov: My latest: Although Putin does not see Zelensky as his equal and will only agree to meet him in the event of his "public ca…
I think this scenario is now more likely, given the odd lack of information from the Kremlin about who will attend the Istanbul talks and even a hint of a basic game plan, as well as confirmation that Witkoff and Rubio will be in Turkey on Friday.
Another possibility is that Putin could meet Trump somewhere in the Middle East, schmooze him, and send his cronies to Turkey, with Zelensky refusing to meet with them.
