Mansur Mirovalev
Features Writer and Video Journalist at Freelance
Writer, video journalist. Worked with ABC News (both), Al Jazeera, AP, BBC, CNN, CSM, LAT, NatGeo, NBC, Novaya Gazeta, NYT, RFE/RL, WhoWhatWhy, Wired, Vice.
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1 week ago |
aljazeera.com | Mansur Mirovalev
Kyiv, Ukraine - A flight from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok takes almost nine hours - a domestic flight that covers two-thirds of Russia's span between the Baltic and the Pacific. There are about 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) from east to west in Russia, which is 17 million square kilometres (6.6 million square miles), comprising 11 percent of the Earth's landmass - a bit more than the areas of China, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia put together.
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2 weeks ago |
aljazeera.com | Mansur Mirovalev
Breaking down the drone 'revolution' driven by Russia's war on UkraineKyiv, Ukraine - Swarms of Russian kamikaze drones broke through Ukrainian air defence fire early on Tuesday, screeching and shrilling over Kyiv in one of the largest wartime attacks. Oleksandra Yaremchuk, who lives in the Ukrainian capital, said the hours-long sound of two or perhaps three drones above her house felt new and alarming.
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2 weeks ago |
aljazeera.com | Mansur Mirovalev
Kyiv, Ukraine - Russian President Vladimir Putin faces criminal charges for the "unlawful deportation and transfer of children". That is the definition of the 2023 arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court, the intergovernmental tribunal based in The Hague. Recommended Stories On June 2, as ceasefire talks rumbled on, Ukrainian diplomats handed their Russian counterparts a list of hundreds of children that they said were taken from Russia-occupied Ukrainian regions since 2022.
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3 weeks ago |
whowhatwhy.org | Mansur Mirovalev
Zhirinovsky boasted that Moscow should rule lands from “Kabul to Istanbul,” and Russian soldiers would one day “wash their boots in the Indian Ocean.” What unites the suspected killer of a turncoat intelligence officer, an arms trafficker who served 10 years in a US jail, and a lawmaker who snubbed accusations of sexual harassment?
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3 weeks ago |
aljazeera.com | Mansur Mirovalev
Kyiv, Ukraine - Any description of Ukraine's attacks on Russia's fleet of strategic bombers could leave one scrambling for superlatives. Forty-one planes - including supersonic Tu-22M long-range bombers, Tu-95 flying fortresses and A-50 early warning warplanes - were hit and damaged on Sunday on four airfields, including ones in the Arctic and Siberia, Ukrainian authorities and intelligence said.
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“I’m here, in the heart of Russia – if it still has a heart,” #Zelenskyy joked in 2014 near the #Kremlin. “You can say, ‘hail #Ukraine’ in #Moscow, and nothing serious will happen to you. Nothing that can’t be handled by modern medicine.” https://t.co/GQpRszPR1t
“We have a [technological] leap. [#Russians] have a leap. And then they begin to scale it all up because over there, everything is on a government level. They have unreal budgets.” #Ukraine #drones https://t.co/72e1D8IHzx
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