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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: We were leaked the Panama Papers. Here’s how to bring down Putin’s cronies

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The Russian cellist Sergej Roldugin, godfather of Putin’s eldest daughter, has been described as the key to tracing Putin’s hidden fortune. Photograph: Valentin Antonov/EPA
Ɖ Ruśn ćelist Serge Roldūgin, godfaɖr v Pūtin’z eldist dōtr, hz bn dscrîbd az ɖ ci t tresñ Pūtin’z hidn fortyn. Foṭgraf: Valentin Antonov/YPA

W wr līct ɖ Paṇmā Peprz. Hir’z hǎ t brñ dǎn Pūtin’z croniz

(Transcription of an article published in the Observer on 27 March 2022)

Ɖ jṛsdix́nz ɖt hlp clepṭcrats liv in lux̣́ri on stoḷn asets mst stop śīldñ c’rupt ilīts

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Frederik Obermaier n Bastian Obermayer, Tyzde 29 Marć 2022

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Sevn yirz ago, an anoniṃs sors hu wnt bî ɖ nem “Jon Do” pṛvîdd s wɖ ɖ deta ɖt bcem ɖ Paṇmā Peprz – 2.6 teṛbaits v līct dokmnts fṛm ɖ Paṇmeńn lwfrm Mosac Fonseca. Ɖ līc trnd ǎt t hv qt an impresiv Ruśn cmponnt. W faund śelcumṗniz cnctd t Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z jūdofrendz, Boris n Arcādi Rotenberg, t ɖ oḷgarc Aliśer Ŭzmanov n ɖ wîf v ɖ Cremlin spocsmn Dmītri Pescov. Bt, most sgnificntli, w stumbld acrs Serge Roldūgin, a pṛfeśnl ćelist n godfaɖr v Pūtin’z eldist dōtr, hu hd a sntṛl rǒl in a netwrc v sīcrit ofśordīlz n vast lounz wrʈ $2bn, dscrîbd at ɖ tîm az ɖ ci t tresñ Pūtin’z hidn fortyn.

Ol ɖs hidn wlʈ matrd ẃn w publiśt ɖ Paṇmā Peprz in 2016, tū yirz aftr Ruśa hd anxt ɖ Crîmiyn pninsyla. Nǎ, aftr ɖ fl-scel inveźn v Ycren, it matrz mor ɖn evr. Lwmecrz in ɖ YC, ɖ YY, ɖ YS n Caṇda hv sañśnd Ruśn bancs, Ruśn cumṗniz n indivijlz clos t Pūtin. Ɖs includz Ruśn oḷgarcs, az wel az Pūtin’z frendz, s’portrz n admîrrz hu hv hlpt fsiḷtet hiz cleptocṛsi bî hîdñ hiz wlʈ in acǎnts undr ɖer ǒn nemz or jst ćampịnñ hiz cleptocṛsi fr ɖer ǒn ilisit inrićmnt. Indivijlz lîc ɖ ćelist Serge Roldūgin, ɖ Rotenberg bruɖrz n Ŭzmanov.

Nǎ, ɖ wstn wrld hz dsîdd ɖt ɖe wont Pūtin’z frendz t b sañśnd fr ɖ cleptocṛsi n harm ɖe hv fsiḷtetd n fṛm ẃć ɖe hv beṇfitd. Proṣktrz n invstgetrz az wel az speśl p’līs ynits r nǎ huntñ fr ɖ rićz v Pūtin’z frendz. Ɖe r sizñ yots, grǎndñ pleinz n conḟscetñ laviś vilaz. Yt ẃt ɖe wl fînd z probbli onli ɖ tip v ɖ îsbrg. T riyli hit Pūtin n hiz frendz ẃr it hrts, wn mst g t Switṣḷnd, t Paṇmā, Sîpṛs n ɖ Britiś Vrjin Îḷndz. Unforćṇtli, invstgetrz wl probbli nt gt mć hlp ɖr – az sīcṛsi z ẃt ɖoz cuntriz sel.

Icoṇmists lîc t cōl ɖm taxhêvnz or sīcṛsi jṛsdix́nz. Bt “blac houlz” wd b mor aproprịt fr ɖz plesz ẃr grīdi loyrz, tax advîzrz, cnsultnts n uɖr crŭcs hlp ɖ rić n pǎrfl t hîd or, az ɖe pt it, “fns” ɖer asets. Ɖz wilñ hlprz asist ɖ oḷgarcs t mc ɖer fortynz vaniś fṛm ɖ vy v lw inforsmnt.

Ẃn w rsivd ɖ līc ɖt bcem ɖ Paṇmā Peprz, w faund – apart fṛm Roldūgin – duznz v filʈi rić Ruśnz. Ẃn w rsivd ɖ Paṛdîs Peprz, anɖr ofśor deṭlīc, ɖ nemz v oḷgarcs Romān Abramović, Aliśer Ŭzmanov n Oleg Deripasca apird in ɖ deta, az dd Olga Śŭvalova, ɖ wîf v Ruśa’z frst depyti prîm̦inistr. Mor ɖn a yir ago w got hold v ɖ Suisse Sīcrits, yt anɖr līc, n ɖr wz ɖ sistr v Aliśer Ŭzmanov n a fortyn v abt 2bn Swis francs.

Sañśnz r a pǎrfl tūl in foṛn poḷsi. Sm īvn cōl ɖm a “tūl v modn wor”. W unḍstand ɖ îdīa t pt preśr on Pūtin’z inr srcl n Ruśa’z icoṇmi. Bt ẃ stop ɖr? Let’s adres ɖ probḷm n nt onli its simtmz. Let’s ćenj ɖ sistm so guvnmnts d nt hv t rlî on sañśnz t privnt Pūtin n uɖr cleptocṛsiz fṛm genñ mor pǎr.

Frst n fōrmost, sīcṛsi jṛsdix́nz ɖmslvz nīd t b tarġtd. It z nt inuf t g aftr ɖ proḟtirz v ɖz cuntriz, bt ɖ jṛsdix́nz ɖmslvz. F nesṣri, ɖ blac houlz ɖmslvz nīd t b sañśnd – t brñ ćenj nt onli t ɖ wor in Ycren, bt wrldwîd.

Ruśa’z oḷgarcs r nt ɖ onli wnz hu injô a lux̣́ri lîfstîl fînanst wɖ stoḷn muni. Cleptocṛsi n c’rupśn r far fṛm a ynīcli Ruśn fnominn.

Ʈnc Veṇzwela. Ʈnc Ćîna. Ʈnc Angola.

Adresñ ɖ sstemic cōzz v cleptocṛsi n c’rupśn wl inevitbli mīn tarġtñ bʈ ɖ līgl strucćrz n pṛfeśnlz in ɖ wst ɖt fsiḷtet cleptocṛsi: lwfrmz, cnsultnts n asetmanijrz in Zŭrih, Lundn n Ny Yorc hu reğlrli lend a hlpñ hand t clepṭcrats. Ɖe profit fṛm jṛsdix́nz lîc ɖ Cemn Îḷndz n Switṣḷnd – n yes, ɖ YS – ẃć stl ofr sīcṛsi on a grand scel. Ɖe profit fṛm jṛsdix́nz wɖt public reɉstriz v hu ǒnz riyl istet n cumṗniz.

Dfndrz v sīcṛsi clem ɖer rîts t priṿsi matr most. Bt let s fes ɖ facts: fnanśl sīcṛsi z ɖ enjin v globl c’rupśn n cleptocṛsi. It mcs it tù īzi fr c’rupt ilīts t plundr hol continnts, fr traficrz v drugz n ppl t lōndr ɖer muni, n it hlps t fînans brūtl worz. It hlps Pūtin n hiz frendz.

Forćṇtli, in lêt 2020, ɖ Ynîtd Stets guvnmnt fîṇli pást lejsleśn ɖt rqîrz a beṇfiśl-ǒnrśp reɉstri fr YS cumṗniz. Similr reɉstriz xist in duznz v cuntriz, bcz forsñ cumṗniz t rvil hu ultiṃtli beṇfits fṛm ɖm mcs it far mor dificlt fr clepṭcrats n ɖer croniz t hîd ɖer ilisit muni. Bt ɖ YS lejsleśn, ɖ Corpṛt Trnspaṛnsi Act, dz nt g far inuf. It forsz ɖ ultiṃt beṇfiśl ǒnrz t b rvild onli t ɖ oʈoṛtiz n onli undr srtn srcmstansz.

Bt nt t ɖ public. N ɖs z a hyj mstec.

Az loñ az w rlî on oʈoṛtiz n lw inforsmnt alon, clepṭcrats, ōṭcrats n Pūtin’z frendz wl hv an īzịr tîm ivedñ sañśnz n cntinywñ t hîd ɖer il-gotn genz. Ḿćl līgl asistns btwn naśnl lw-inforsmnt ejnsiz tecs yirz, n dz nt peṇtret ɖ ńmṛs leyrz v sīcṛsi yzd bî īṿlduwrz arnd ɖ glob. Jrṇlists n sivl ssayti grūps hv prūvn t b far mor ifctiv. Ɖe cn c’laḅret qcli n ifctivli acrs bordrz, ɖe cn wrc wɖ līct deta (smʈñ lw inforsmnt stl hz t lrn) n cnct it wɖ pubḷcli aveḷbl deta. Ny guvnmnt tascforsz set p lêt in ɖ de t ćes Pūtin’z croniz’ caś wl b inṣfiśnt. Guvnmnts śd opn p ɖ reɉstriz: cumṗnireɉstriz, śipreɉstriz, pleinreɉstriz, riyl-istet reɉstriz. Gv ɖ invstgtiv pǎr t ɖ ppl – n w bet: y wl nt b dis’pôntd.

Abv ol, let’s fîṇli gt rid v ɖoz blac houlz.

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Frederik Obermaier n Bastian Obermayer r invstgtiv jrṇlists wɖ ɖ Jrmn pepr Süddeutsche Zeitung. Ɖe iniśietd ɖ 2016 Paṇmā Peprz az wel az ɖ 2017 Paṛdîs Peprz reṿleśnz n ɖ 2022 Suisse Sīcrits. Obermaier z cofǎndr v ɖ Anti-C’rupśn Deṭc’lectiv (https://acdatacollective.org), Obermayer on ɖ bōrd v Fbidn Storiz (https://forbiddenstories.org).

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Wanted: Russian revolution to topple tyrant. Internal applicants welcome

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Russian president Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with award-winning young culture professionals via video conference in Moscow last Friday. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/AP
Ruśn prezidnt Vḷdīmir Pūtin atndz a mītñ wɖ aword-winñ yuñ culćrpṛfeśnlz via vidioconfrns in Mosco last Frîde. Foṭgraf: Miħîl Climntiev/AP

Wontd: Ruśn reṿluśn t topl tîrnt. Intrnl aplic̣nts welcm

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 26 March 2022)

Pūtin’z mrdṛs rên cn onli b endd frm wɖn. Wstn pǎrz mst nǎ d ol ɖe cn t incurij a cù

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Simon Tisdall

Sîmn Tizdl, Saṭde 26 Marć 2022

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Opnli acnolijd or nt, reźīmćenj in Mosco – mīnñ ɖ oṿʈro v Vḷdīmir Pūtin – mst b ɖ wstn dmocrsiz’ ultiṃt objctiv az ɖe hlp t ʈwort hiz conqest v Ycren. Psywñ impirịl fanṭsiz, a zar-lîc Pūtin hz gn tù far ɖs tîm. Nǎ h’z got t g. Rjntli rqîrd: a ny Ruśn reṿluśn t topl ɖ tîrnt, léd frm wɖn n asistd frm wɖt.

Ɖ îdīa v Pūtin rmenñ in pǎr, īvn f a Ycren setlmnt z ivnć̣li paćt tgɖr, z bʈ impracticl n obsin. Bî hiz inhymn ax́nz, Ruśa’z dictetr hz plest himslf bynd ɖ pel. H’z a menis t yṇvrsl ordr, an afrunt t comn dīsnsi. H simpli canot b trustd.

Dspt rzǎndñ inṭnaśnl condmneśn, ɖ daṃjñ impact v wstn sañśnz on Ruśa’z ppl, ɖ rzultñ ʈret t globl fūd n eṇji s’plîz, n dêli evidns ɖt hiz il-léd armd forsz r in dīp trubl, Pūtin apirz dtrmind t fît on, īvn t esc̣let. Last wīc’s dis’pôntñ Nato sumit wl hv dn litl t dswed him.

YS prezidnt Jo Bîdn wornz ɖs blînd fnaṭsizm cd brñ on a deʈstrugl, līdñ t Ruśn ys v cemicl, bạlojicl or īvn batlfīld ńclir wepnz. Ɖ Cremlin dz nt rūl it ǎt. Sć crūd blacmeil z no besis fr eni cnd v sen rleśnśp.

Wośñtn hz nǎ forṃli akzd Ruśa v worcrîmz, fr ẃć Pūtin berz cmand rsponsbiḷti, n vaud t brñ him t justis. Ɖ YN’z hîist cort hz ordrd him t stop. Bîdn dīmz him a “worcriminl” n a “pyr ʈug”. Hu, in ɖer harts, oṇstli dis’griz? Īvn hiz Ćînīz ćumz lc ascans.

Fr az loñ az h holdz pǎr, Pūtin wl pǒz a ptnṣ́li xistnśl ʈret t ɖ s’krti v Yrp n ɖ wîdr wrld. Hiz cntmt fr hymn lîf, rîts, inṭnaśnl lw n ɖ YN ćartr dsqoḷfî him frm eni fyćr līdrśp rǒl. Fr hu cn dǎt ɖ Ycren wor wd hōlt f h wr unsītd? Ɖr wl b no pīs ẃl Pūtin’z arnd. H’z unfit. H’z an ǎtlw. H’z a secnd Baśar al-Asad. H mst fōl.

Lojicli, practicli n moṛli spīcñ, ɖ YS n its alîz hv no oltrṇtiv bt t activli sīc hiz oṿʈro. Ɖe canot d’recli inṭvin in Ruśa. Bt ɖe cn n śd mc it plen t Ruśa’z ilīts n wîdr public ɖt Pūtin z a lạbiḷti, a dedweit n a denjr, prîmrli t ɖm – n ɖt ɖ wst wl bac ɖm f ɖe muv agnst him. Ppl ofn se reṿluśn wl nvr hapn. Bt ɖe sd ɖt abt Nicolae Ceaușescu, Erich Honecker, Hosni Mbarac, Frdinand Marcos, Anastasio Somoza, ɖ Śa v Iran – n Zar Nicḷs II. So mbi ɖ’r roñ abt Pūtin tù.

Ɖr’z gd rīzn t b’liv ol ɖoz biłner oḷgarcs, stetinḍstri bosz, sic̣fantic Dūma poḷtiśnz, brêdd jenrlz n Oblomov-lîc byṛcrats hu hv dn wel undr Pūtin r hvñ secnd ʈts nǎ az sañśnz bît, asets frīz, forn travl hōlts, hǎzz n yots r sizd, n ɖ rūbl craśz.

Its guṿnñclas hz mć t lūz az Ruśa hrtlz intu rseśn n îṣleśn – n it’s śowñ. Bîpást Cremlin insîdrz n FSB spūcs r rportidli siɖñ wɖ angr. Pūtin’z bumḅlñ dfnsministr, Srge Śôgu, n armi ćīf v staf hv dis’pird frm vy. A sīńr envô, Aṇtoli Ćbîs, jumt śip last wīc. Mnẃl, Ycren rports 1917-stîl dzrśnz bî Ruśa’z dmoṛlîzd fruntlîn trūps.

Az fr ɖ loñ-suḟrñ, mć-bambuzld Ruśn ppl, no amǎnt v reźīmpropganda cn hîd ɖer ny dêli riaḷti v fūdkz, rîzñ prîsz, medicl śorṭjz n clozd bancs. Ʈǎzndz hv demnstretd agnst ɖ inveźn, brevñ p’līsbrūtaḷti. Ʈǎzndz mor yuñ pṛfeśnlz – Ruśa’z fyćr – r muvñ abrōd az parnôd Pūtin relz agnst a treṭrs “fifʈ coḷm”.

Ɖ longr ɖ wor, ɖ hayr ɖ caźltiz n costs, ɖ mor public angr me b d’rectd at Pūtin. Ɖ wst śd incris ɖ preśr n fsiḷtet hiz deṃliśn ʈru tîtr, dīpr sañśnz (includñ, crūṣ́li, on eṇji xports), ofnsiv militri ed t Cyīv n xpandd brōdcast n sośl mīdia inḟmeśncampenz insd Ruśa.

Eni fyćr līdr sīmz most lîcli t cm frm wɖn ɖ Cremlin aṗreṭs. A trnziśnl figr cd imrj in mć ɖ sem we az dd Pūtin himslf in ɖ dayñ dez v Boris Yeltsin’z prezidnsi. At ɖ uɖr end v ɖ opziśnspectrm, ɖ olwz dfaynt Alexe Nvalni z a potnt raliyñfors.

Ɖ toṗlñ v Pūtin me pruv a loñ-trm asṗreśn or cd hapn vri qcli. Historicli, ćenj in Ruśa ofn ocŕz abrupli. Ɖ hop wd b fr a subsiqnt muv t fri, deṃcratic ilex́nz. Yt ẃt hapnz ultiṃtli dpndz on Ruśnz ɖmslvz.

T max̣mîz ɖ ćansz v s’xes, ɖ wstn pǎrz śd cnsidr ol ovrt n covrt meʈ̇dz v incuṛjñ ny līdrśp, includñ p’liticl insntivz, s’krtigaṛntìz n phps īvn a “muni bac” scīm fr rpntnt oḷgarcs. F apilz t prínsipl d nt wrc, apilz t slf-inṭrest me.

YY n Nato membrz mst agri, tù, ɖt Pūtin z nt smwn ɖe cn evr d biznis wɖ agn. Let’s hop Frans n Jrṃni gt ɖ mesij. Liz Trus, Britn’z foṛn secrtri, z cnsrnd ɖe me let Pūtin of ɖ hc bî oḟrñ a rvîzd, Minsc-tîp compṛmîz ovr ɖ Ycreńnz’ hedz, similr t ɖer feld Crîmīa iniṣ́tiv.

Mnẃl, bacslîdñ, fns-sitñ, ostnsbli pro-wstn guvnmnts in Izrel, India, Trci, Sǎdi Arebia n ɖ YAE ɖt rfyz t sañśn Ruśa, mst b frmli rmîndd hu ɖer riyl frendz r – n hǎ ɖer inṭrests r bst srvd.

It’s nt bî sucñ p t a worcriminl. It’s nt bî raśṇlîzñ or miṇmîzñ an unpṛvoct wor v agreśn agnst a soṿrin dmocrsi. It’s bî dwñ ol ɖe cn t hlp Ruśnz n ɖer frendz in ɖ wst brñ Pūtin’z mrdṛs rên t an end. Az Bolṣ́vic reṿluśnriz wns craid, so mst Ruśa’z ppl crî agn: “Pīs! Land! Bred!”

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In Ñspel │ The Guardian view on disinformation: truth is a casualty of Russia’s war

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Vladimir Putin’s regime ‘claimed that a heavily pregnant, visibly injured woman photographed leaving the bombed maternity ward in Mariupol was an actor’. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z reźīm ‘clemd ɖt a heṿli pregnnt, viẓbli injrd wmn foṭgraft līvñ ɖ bomd mtrṇtiword in Mariupol wz an actr’. Foṭgraf: Evgeni Maloletka/AP

Ɖ Gardịn vy on disinḟmeśn: truʈ z a caźlti v Ruśa’z wor

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on Tuesday 22 March 2022)

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Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z mśīṇri z wel-hond, bt snsrśp at hom n ɖ pṛmośn v laiz abrōd hv srjd sins ɖ inveźn

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Tyzde 22 Marć 2022

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Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z reźīm hunts dǎn ɖ truʈ n seḷbrets laiz. It ʈretnz t jel ɖoz hu dscrîb oṇstli ẃt z haṗnñ in Ycren – a wor. It breznli dnîz dokmntd atacs upn sviłnz. It cncocts clemz ɖt ɖ YS n Ycren plot t spred paʈ̇jnz yzñ mîgretri brdz. It akzz uɖrz v its ǒn sinz: noun fr its wilñnis t fec ivnts, it clemd ɖt a heṿli pregnnt, viẓbli injrd wmn foṭgraft līvñ ɖ bomd mtrṇtiword in Mariupol wz an actr.

Ɖoz iṃjz, n hr stori, wr capćrd bî a ftogṛfr n a rportr fṛm ɖ Asośietd Pres. Ɖ absns v inḟmeśn in a bloced hz tū golz, notd ɖ rportr, Msćislav Ćernov: ceos, az ppl panic, bt olso impyṇti. “Wɖ no inḟmeśn cmñ ǎt v a siti, no picćrz v dmoliśt bildñz n dayñ ćildṛn, ɖ Ruśn forsz cd d ẃtvr ɖe wontd.” Ćernov hz rvild ɖt Ycreńn soljrz hd risct ɖer livz t xtract him n hiz colīg fṛm ɖ siti bcz Ruśnz wr huntñ fr ɖm – hopñ t fors ɖm t rtract ɖer wrc on camra n se ɖt evrʈñ ɖe hd filmd wz a lai.

Ruśa hz loñ sòt t criet its ǒn riaḷti, bʈ bî dnayñ ɖ truʈ n bî invntñ a ny stori. Bt at hom its rpreśn hz dṛmaticli xpandd sins ɖ inveźn. Fes-bc n Insṭgram hv bn bánd, n Twitr bloct; axes t foṛn nyzmīdia rstrictd. Ɖ intṛdux́n v a lw ɖt puniśz spredñ “fec nyz” wɖ p t 15 yirz in prizn promtd jrṇlists t fli ɖ cuntri; indipndnt ǎtlets includñ ɖ Medūza websait n rediosteśn Eħa Moscvi wr bloct or śut dǎn. Mnẃl, stetmīdia pumps ǎt laiz. Ɖt mni v Ruśa’z dnaylz n akześnz r dmonstṛbli untru, dīpli uncnvinsñ or plenli lūdicṛs me nt matr. Ɖ gol z t cnfyz, nt cnvins.

Ruśn disinḟmeśn peṇtretd ǎr ssayti loñ ago: wrcñ t pṛmot Doṇld Trump’s campenz in ɖ 2016 n 2020 preẓdnśl ilex́nz; meḍlñ in ɖ Brexit reḟrendm. In sm cesz ɖ em hz nt bn t frɖr a ptiklr cōz, bt t fostr dviźn, sć az bî ampḷfayñ stroñli pro- n anti-vaxīn meṣjz. N bynd d’rect involvmnt, Ruśn meḍlñ hz cntribytd t a p’liticl stîl – most obvịsli, ɖt v Mr Trump – ẃć trīts truʈ n fact az dspnṣbl n ireḷvnt.

Ɖ ćaḷnjz r growñ az tecnoḷji dveḷps. Last wīc, a dīpfec srfist: a śort clip pportñ t śo Volodimir Zelenski telñ Ycreńn soljrz t le dǎn ɖer armz. Ɖo crūdli x’ktd, it pônts twdz ɖ ny perilz ahd. Bt súnlait rmenz a pǎrfl disinfctnt. Ɖ YS, Ycren n ɖ YC hv bgun “prībuncñ”: wornñ ẃn ɖe antiṣpet ɖt Ruśa wl lōnć “fōls flag” oṗreśnz, n rvilñ ɖt a hox vidiocōl hd bn md t ɖ dfnșecṛtri, Ben Wolis, bfr ɖ hoxrz rlist it. Disinḟmeśncampenz mst b fŭli invstgetd n xpozd – smʈñ ɖ YC sigṇli feld t d in ɖ ces v ɖ Brexit reḟrendm, az ɖ intelijns n s’kṛti cmiti’z rport on Ruśn inflụns notd. Ɖs me olso mīn inśurñ ɖt técfrmz arcîv, nt simpli dlit, disinḟmeśn, t enśur it cn b trest bac.

Bt s’portñ ɖoz hu gt it rît z az importnt az holdñ bad actrz acǎntbl. Abv ol, w mst seḷbret ɖ curij v ɖoz hu spīc ɖ truʈ, b ɖe Ycreńnz on ɖ fruntlîn laic ɖ AP tīm, or Ruśnz laic Marīna Ovsianīcova, hu dsruptd Ćanl Wn’z mn nyzbrōdcast, n ɖ staf v nyzpepr Novaia Gazeta. Az Ćernov, ɖ AP rportr, obzrvd: “I hv nvr, evr flt ɖt brecñ ɖ sîḷns wz so importnt.”

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shows her strength, and a sliver of ice-cold anger

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‘She wasn’t going to emote for the hell of it. She wasn’t a performing seal’ … Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks alongside her husband, Richard Ratcliffe. Photograph: Reuters
‘Ś wz’nt gwñ t imot fr ɖ hel v it. Ś wz’nt a pformñsìl’ … Nazanīn Zagāri-Ratclif spīcs alñsd hr huzbnd, Rićd Ratclif. Foṭgraf: Rôtrz

Nazanīn Zagāri-Ratclif śoz hr streñʈ, n a slivr v îs-cold angr

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 21 March 2022)

Fr six yirz ś wz a sîḷnt figr, bt hr vôs wz fîṇli hŕd at a Wsminstr presconfṛns

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It wz standñrūm onli in ɖ Mcmiḷn rūm v Portculis Hǎs. Ɖ frst presconfṛns t b gvn bî Nazanīn Zagāri-Ratclif sins hr rlis fṛm dtnśn in Iran wz nt smʈñ t b míst. Fr six yirz, Nazanīn hd bn a sîḷnt figr in a cntinywñ p’liticl drama. Nǎ w wr t gt a vôs t pt t a nem n foṭgraf. Ś wz t b īvn mor impresiv ɖn eni v s hd imajind.

Frst, ɖo, it wz Tylip Sdīc, Nazanīn n hr huzbnd’z locl MP, hu tc sntrstej. Hvñ peid tribyt t hr cnstitẏnts, ś cut t ɖ ćes. Gvn it hd tecn ɖ rīpemnt v an acnolijd dét t s’kr Nazanīn’z rlis, ẃt hd tecn ɖ YC guvnmnt so loñ? N ẃ hd w dtend ʈri Ireńnz hu hd cm t Lundn in 2013 t ngośiet ɖ trmz v ɖ rīpemnt? Śrli ɖt hd onli incurijd Iran t ʈnc tecñ hosṭjz wz ɖ onli we t gt its muni bac.

Nazanīn’z huzbnd, Rićd Ratclif, jst sǎndd plizd t b tecñ a bacsīt at last. Ɖ six yirz sīm t hv tecn a harśr fizicl tol on him ɖn ɖe hv on hiz wîf. H’z ejd notisbli. Hiz her’z greyr n ʈinr, hiz fes mor lînd n hiz wîf joct abt him hvñ pt on weit aftr a hungrstrîc. Mnẃl, Nazanīn lcs litl ćenjd fṛm ɖ greni iṃjz v hr arest at Terān erport in 2016. Hr scarz r ol on ɖ insd n r nt on ɖ tebl fr public cnsumśn.

“It’s nîs t b rtîrñ fṛm campenñ,” h sd, holdñ on t hiz wîf’s hand. Fr hiz ǒn s’port, rɖr ɖn hrz. Tablôd ptreylz v Nazanīn az sm pǎrlis victim còt p in a stori v globl realpolitik hv pruvd wel wîd v ɖ marc. Ś’z a stroñ, pǎrfl indipndnt wmn. Smwn hu nz hr ǒn mînd n livz lîf on hr ǒn trmz. Y cn mes wɖ hr, bt y c’nt brec hr.

Rićd wnt on t se h hd spent mć v ɖ past six yirz in a stet v wêtñ. Nǎ h wz gwñ t hv t gt yst t biyñ. H endd bî seyñ h wz in ō v hiz wîf. Az wr w ol.

Nazanīn – drest in ɖ yelo n blu v Ycren – bgan bî ʈancñ hr faṃli, bʈ in ɖ YC n Iran, bfr gwñ on t se ɖt hr frīdm wd nvr b totl untl uɖr dītenīz – sć az Morad Tābaz, huz eldist dōtr, Roxan, wz olso at ɖ presr – wr olso rlist. Dspt hvñ promist t rlis Morad on frlo, ɖ Ireńnz hd olrdi pt him bac in prizn. Wn prsn’z ilīgl dtnśn dmiṇśz s ol. It wz an xpreśn v hymaṇti n slflisnis.

Ɖen ś let rip. A vri cntrold fyri. Îsi, olmst stīli. W hd bn wornd Nazanīn wd’nt b mcñ eni ovrtli p’liticl rmarcs n ɖt eni sć stetmnts wd b left t Rićd n Sdīc. Onli nwn apird t hv tld Nazanīn. Ś wz’nt gwñ t setl fr enʈñ cozi n hart-wormñ. It wz’nt hr job t mc ɖ rest v ɖ cuntri fīl betr abt itslf.

So ẃl ś luvd hr huzbnd t bits, ś cd’nt g alñ wɖ hiz xpreśnz v ʈancs t ɖ guvnmnt. Hǎ mni foṛn secṛtriz hd it tecn t gt hr hom? It hd tecn fîv ẃn it śd hv bn jst ɖ wn. Ś śd hv bn hom six yirz ago. Hr dōtr hd bn tū ẃn ś wz dtend. Nǎ ś wz nirli et. Nwn cd gv hr bac ɖ yirz ɖt hd bn lost.

Bt ɖt wz az mć az Nazanīn wz priperd t let ɖ mīdia si v hr tru fīlñz. Ɖ rest wz fr hr n hr faṃli alon. Ś wz’nt gwñ t imot fr ɖ hel v it. Ś wz’nt a pformñsìl. Ś wz a wmn wɖ hr integṛti n saṇti t mnten. Nazanīn hd spent six yirz pracṭsñ hǎ t compartmnṭlîz hr imośnz n ś wz’nt abt t stop nǎ. So ś dclînd t ansr hǎ ś hd cǒpt in hr darcist aurz. Or ẃt hr tru fīlñz fr hr captrz hd bn.

Instd, ś pleid it stret. Ɖr hd bn tîmz v dsper. Mni tîmz ś hd bn léd t ʈnc hr rlis wz iminnt onli t b let dǎn. So ś hd lrnt nt t trust enwn or enʈñ. It wz onli ẃn ś wz on ɖ plein ǎt v Iran ɖt ś alaud hrslf t b’liv ś wd b riynîtd wɖ hr faṃli.

N no, ś wz nt gwñ t let hrslf hold a gruj. Ś śd nvr hv bn dtend bt ś cd’nt let ɖt dstrô hr eḟts t rībild a faṃlilîf. T injô ɖ litl ʈñz, lîc bruśñ hr dōtr Gabriela’z her. “I hv traid t līv ɖ blac houl in mî hart on ɖ plein,” ś sd.

Az fr Boris Jonsn, huz cerlis wrdz hd md hr sićueśn incmpaṛbli wrs, ś hd nvr gvn him ɖ saṭsfax́n v letñ him si hǎ mć damij h hd dn. Ś hd noun ś wz pǎrlis in prizn so gev litl ʈt t poḷtics. N ẃn ś onli hd 40 minits wɖ Gabriela, ś wontd t spend ɖ tîm on cuḷrñ n rīdñ storiz. Nt gvñ in t hr cntmt fr smwn hu nvr riyli gev hr a secnd ʈt. Nt mni cd śo sć gres undr fîr.

Wɖ ɖt, ɖ presconfṛns endd n Nazanīn, Rićd n Gabriela md ɖer we ǎt ɖ rūm. Aftr livñ ǎt v a sūtces fr ɖ bst part v a wīc, ɖe wr fîṇli gwñ hom tgɖr fr ɖ frst tîm in yirz. T gt t nǒ ć uɖr proprli wns mor.

Mnẃl, bac at ɖ foṛn aferz s’lect cmiti, Filip Bartn, prṃnnt secṛtri at ɖ Foṛn Ofis, wz biyñ qsćnd abt ɖ dscrepnsi btwn hiz tstiṃni n ɖt v a ẃislblowr hu hd sd ɖt ɖ prîm̦inistr hd prîoṛtîzd ɖ ivakeśn v Pén Farɖñ n Hiz Pets fṛm Afgaṇstan ovr Afgan intrpritrz. Nazanīn mt rūḟli hv cncludd ɖt ś wd hv bn betr of biyñ a coc̣pu. Ɖt we ś mt hv còt ɖ Suspect’s atnśn n bn hom yirz ago.

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In Ñspel │ The Guardian view on geopolitics and the Premier League: time for a divorce

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‘The fate of Chelsea is now subject to a bidding war.’ Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian
‘Ɖ fet v Ćlsi z nǎ subjict t a bidñwor.’ Foṭgraf: Tom Jncinz/Ɖ Gardịn

Đ Gardịn vy on jiopoḷtics n ɖ Premịr Līg: tîm fr a dvors

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Observer on Sunday 20 March 2022)

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Ɖ guvnmnt mst swiftli implimnt ɖ Crǎć-rvy rec̣mndeśnz n intṛdys an indipndnt reğletr fr ftbōl

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Fṛm ɖ fyćr v ɖ globl icoṇmi t eṇjis’kṛti n dfnșpendñ, ɖ śoc v Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z wor in Ycren z pṛvocñ a diziyñ rīʈnc v poḷsi prîoṛtiz n asumśnz. Ɖ Raman Abramović-rletd crîsis at Ćlsi FC mt sīm a mînr subplot ẃn tectonic plets v sć magṇtyd r śiftñ. Bt ftbōl’z globl rīć n modn jioṗliticl dmnśnz mc it mć mor ɖn ɖt. Ɖ prḟcli tîmd specṭcl v last wīc’s fixćr btwn sañśnd Ćlsi n Nycasl Ynîtd – ǒnd bî Rīad’z soṿrin-wlʈ fund – marct a moṛl nedir fr ɖ gem, cmñ wn de aftr Sǎdi Arebia x’ktd 81 ppl. It wz olso śemñ fr ɖs cuntri. In ftbōl, tù, a paṛdîmśift z nīdd.

Ɖ tūlz t ifct ɖs – or at līst start ɖ job nǎ – r wɖn ɖ guvnmnt’s grasp. Last Epril, six līdñ clubz atmtd t jôn ɖ rvîld Yṛpiyn Sūṗlīg project; ɖ horr v ɖer ǒn s’portrz demnstretd an unḍlayñ ǎtrej amñ fanz at ɖ d’rex́n ɖ sport hz tecn. Ɖ guvnmnt set p ɖ fan-léd Crǎć rvy on ftbōl guvnns. (Az ɖ rvypanl dliḅretd on ẃr ɖ gem hd lost its we, ɖ Premịr Līg wevd ʈru ɖ tecovr v Nycasl bî ɖ fund, ćerd bî ɖ crǎnprins, Mhamid bin Salman.)

Publiśt in Nvmbr, ɖ rvy cōlz fr ɖ istabliśmnt v an indipndnt reğletr v ɖ gem. Ɖ indipndnt reğletr fr Ñgliś ftbōl (IRÑF) wd b ebl t xamin ny ptnśl ǒnrz acordñ t verịs crîtiria, includñ an “integṛti tst”; ɖ jujmnt wd b wn v ẃɖr pṛspctiv bayrz wd b “sūṭbl custodịnz v vîtl cḿṇti asets”. Tresi Crǎć, ɖ Cnsrṿtiv MP hu z ćer v ɖ rvypanl, b’livz ɖt hd an integṛti tst bn in ples at ɖ tîm v ɖ Nycasl tecovr, betr “stres tstñ” wd hv tecn ples.

Ɖ Premịr Līg hz rzistd ɖ pṛpozl (wn club d’rectr dnǎnst it az “Mǎizm”). Bt oḷgarcs, oʈoṛterịn stets n – in ɖ ces v ɖ Glezr faṃli at Manćestr Ynîtd – asetstriprz, hv run rñz rnd ɖ līg’z ǒn “fit n propr” tst fr ǒnrśp. Ɖs wz orijiṇli dzînd t wīd ǎt smōl-tîm frōdstrz n śarḷtnz at lowr-līg levl, bt hz mirli oṗretd az a figlīf v rspctbiḷti ẃl ɖ gem ćenjd bynd recgniśn. Ɖ xtrordnri influx v wlʈ hz bn emoṛli trītd az a būn fr evrwn luci inuf t b asośietd wɖ ɖ rićist līg in ɖ wrld.

Ɖ unpresdntd trmôl v ɖ last fortnît śd streñʈn ɖ guvnmnt’s rzolv t folo p on Mz Crǎć’z rec̣mndeśnz. Ɖe śd b in ɖ nxt Qīn’z spīć, n a sṗsific hymn-rîts dmnśn śd b incorṗretd intu ɖ IRÑF’s rǒl. Lejsleśn t intṛdys a reğletr wd hlp t enśur ɖ cnd v pṛtx́n aproprịt t ćeriśt naśnl insttyśnz. Poḷtiśnz ofn tōc abt ftbōlrz’ rsponsbiḷti t b rǒlmodlz; ẃt abt ɖ clubz ɖmslvz? Uɖr Crǎć meźrz – sć az a fanz’ goldn śer gvñ a vīto ovr matrz vîtl t ɖ îdntti v a club, includñ ɖ stedịm’z lceśn n tīmculrz – wd bgin t rstor a deṃcratic baḷns btwn ɖ arisṭcrats hu run clubz n ɖ srfs hu fil ɖm.

Ɖ fet v Ćlsi z nǎ subjict t a bidñwor. Bt ol ɖ foc̣s hz bn on ɖ wlʈ v ɖ verịs corpṛt enttiz n hejfundz involvd rɖr ɖn ẃt z bst fr ɖ fanz n ɖ wîdr gem. Ol bt a fy hundṛd Ćlsi s’portrz wr xcludd on Saṭde fṛm atndñ a clasic Ñgliś ftbōl oceźn – ɖ FA Cup qortrfînl at Midlzbra – bcz ɖer sañśnd club z fr ɖ tîm biyñ unebl t sel ticits. Ɖ ultiṃt ǎtcm v ɖ dīpli uneḍfayñ episod ɖt bgan ẃn Mr Abramović bòt ɖ club in 2003 mst b a moṛl rīcaḷbreśn in ɖ guvnns v ɖ gem.

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In Ñspel │ The Observer view on Russia’s crimes against humanity in Ukraine

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A pregnant woman is carried on a stretcher as she is evacuated from a maternity hospital in Mariupol, south-eastern Ukraine, following a Russia army bombardment on 9 March, 2022. Photograph: EyePress News/REX/Shutterstock
A pregnnt wmn z carid on a strećr az ś z ivaketd fṛm a mtrṇtihospitl in Mariupol, sǎʈ-īstn Ycren, folowñ a Ruśa armibombardmnt on 9 Marć, 2022. Foṭgraf: ÎPress Nyz/REX/Śuṭstoc

Ɖ Obzrvr vy on Ruśa’z crîmz agnst hymaṇti in Ycren

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Observer on Sunday 13 March 2022)

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Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z reźīm wl b hld t acǎnt fr ɖ atroṣtiz it z mȉting ǎt t dfnslis sviłnz

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Ɖ  wor in Ycren hz entrd its ʈrd wīc, yt stl Ruśa’z wns vōntd armd forsz r struġlñ t cntrol mć v ɖ cuntri. Ɖz blunḍrñ érz t ɖ Red Armi r sd t b tîṭnñ ɖer grip on Cyīv, bt ɖ ǎtcm rmenz dīpli unsrtn. Ɖ ōra v invinsbiḷti ɖt wns inveḷpt Ruśa’z militri z dstroid. Its repyteśn lîz in ruinz amd ɖ rubl v inveźn. Fṛstreśn ovr ɖ slo pes v advans hz léd t a ćenj in tactics. Instd v d’recli ingejñ ɖ rzistns, ɖ Ruśnz hv bsijd mejr sitiz n tecn t loñ-renj śelñ n bomñ bî artiḷri, misîlz n erstrîcs. Prezidnt Volodimir Zelensci sz mor Ycreńn sviłnz ɖn soljrz r biyñ cild az a rzult.

Ɖs cawdli, reclis poḷsi hz inevitbli léd t atroṣtiz, sć az last wīc’s līʈl atac on a mtrṇtihospitl in Mariupol. Ɖt vîl act n ɖ ofn rpitd, dlibṛt, indiscrimiṇt tarġtñ v sviłn eriaz n ɖ hymaṇterịn coṛdorz s’pozidli pṛtctd bî locl sīsfîrz slf-evidntli consttyt worcrîmz n crîmz agnst hymaṇti.

Cmpǎndñ its ofns, Ruśa hz rzortd t ɖ ys in ŕbn eriaz v mas-caźlti wepnz sć az clustrḿniśnz, ẃć scatr hundṛdz v smōl, dleid-ax́n bomlits. Ɖ YC’z Miṇstri v Dfns alejz Ruśa z olso fîrñ ʈrmobaric rocits, noun az vakmbomz, ẃć suc oxijn fṛm ɖ er (n ppl’z luñz) t jeṇret an xploźn.

Ɖs barbaric aproć t fîtñ, prīvịsli sìn in Ćećnia n Siria’z sivl wor, n Ruśa’z unpṛvoct wor v agreśn brīć inṭnaśnl lw az coḍfaid in 1949 bî ɖ Jnīva Cnvnśnz n ɖ YN ćartr, n upheld, in ʈiyri, bî ɖ YN s’kṛticaunsl n ɖ inṭnaśnl cort v justis in Ɖ Hêg.

It z vîṭli importnt, az wz ɖ ces in Siria n bfr ɖt in Boznia, ɖt ɖ YN, wstn guvnmnts n hymn-rîts grūps gaɖr evidns n recordz v Ruśn ax́nz in ordr ɖt p’liticl līdrz wɖ “cmand rsponsbiḷti” n soljrz on ɖ grǎnd me b hld t acǎnt. Proṣktrz at ɖ inṭnaśnl criminl cort hv olrdi bgun ɖs proses.

Mni v ɖ orġnîześnl n l’jisticl dificltiz fesñ ɖ invedrz r v ɖer ǒn mcñ. Contṛdictñ Prezidnt Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z dnaylz, Mosco nǎ admits inixpirịnst, il-trênd conscripts hv bn ʈroun intu batl. Ʈǎzndz hv daid. Ɖs z anɖr crîm – cmitd bî Pūtin agnst hiz ǒn ppl. Yt it z ɖ vałnt, unixpctidli ifctiv rzistns mǎntd bî Ycren’z armd forsz n sviłn voḷntirz ɖt hz cōzd ɖ bigist probḷmz fr Ruśn trūps. Ɖe wr tld bî Cremlin proṗgandists ɖe wd b welcmd az liḅretrz. Ɖ oṗzit z haṗnñ. Pūtin’z big lî, ɖt Ycreńnz lac frīdm, z xplodd. Instd, ɖe r fîtñ t b fri v him.

Pūtin’z fṛstreśn n impeśns nǎ apir t b tecñ an īvn mor sinistr trn. Wstn ofiślz wornd last wīc ɖt, jujñ bî its prīvịs ax́nz in Siria n rīsnt intelijns, Ruśa cd sn rzort t ilīgl ys v noncnvnśnl wepnz – mīnñ cemicl, bạlojicl or lo-yīld, tacticl ńclir wepnz – t brec Ycren’z rzistns.

Cemicl wepnz, noṭbli ɖ sarin nrv ejnt n clōrīngas, dlivrd bî rocits or dropt az bomz, wr rpitidli yzd agnst Sirịn sviłnz. In Gūtā, ǎtsd Dmasc̣s, az mni az 1,700 ppl daid in sarin atacs in 2013. Ɖ Sirịn n Ruśn guvnmnts dnaid rsponsbiḷti n dscrîbd ɖ atroṣti az an opziśn “fōls flag” oṗreśn t dscredit ɖm.

YS n Britiś ofiślz fir hisṭri me b rpitñ itslf folowñ fabṛcetd clemz bî ɖ Cremlin, irisponsbli rpitd bî Ćîna, ɖt ɖ YS z sīcṛtli oṗretñ bîowepnz l’boṛtriz in Ycren. Ruśa z nǎ sjstñ eni rlis, dlibṛt or axdntl, v cemicl or bạlojicl ejnts jrñ ɖ fîtñ wd ɖus b America’z fōlt.

Ɖ fir z ɖt ɖ conṿlutd lîz at ɖ hart v ɖs lêtist “fōls flag” oṗreśn r intndd t obskr ɖ iminnt ys v bánd cemicl or bạlojicl wepnz bî Ruśa itslf. Ɖ teṛbl inɉriz t victimz asd, sć wepnz hv prūvn cpaṣti t terrîz intîr popyleśnz. Ɖs z ɖer tru valy t a mas-cilr sć az Pūtin, despṛt t privel bî eni mīnz.

Hvr dludd or crezd h me b, Pūtin mst b md t unḍstand hǎ un’xptbl eni sć esc̣leśn wd b. Poṣbli h rcōlz Barac Obama’z l’mntbl fełr in 2013, aftr ɖ Gūtā atac, t impoz ɖ “inorṃs consiqnsz” h hd ʈretnd f hiz “red lîn” opozñ cemicl-wepnz ys wz crost. Poṣbli Pūtin ʈncs ɖ wst wl botl it agn.

Boris Jonsn n Jo Bîdn evidntli rmembr ɖ “red lîn” fiasco, tù. Ẃl xpresñ grev cnsrn, Britn n ɖ YS hv rfyzd t se xacli ẃt ax́n, f eni, ɖe mt tec. Ɖt’s snṣbl, fr nǎ. W mst hop ɖt Pūtin z biyñ tld in no unsrtn trmz, ʈru dipḷmatic bacćanlz n phps bî Frans’z prezidnt, Emmanuel Macron, hu stl tōcs t him, ɖt h gz dǎn ɖs paʈ at hiz utmost peṛl.

It’s plen ɖt worcrîmz, crîmz agnst hymaṇti n jeṇsîd r biyñ cmitd dêli bî Ruśa. Ol ɖoz rsponsbl śd unḍstand ɖe wl b hld t acǎnt, hvr loñ it tecs. Ɖr wl b justis fr Ycren.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Is Priti Patel vicious or stupid? It’s a fine line for Ukrainian refugees

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Priti Patel ‘couldn’t quite get her head around the fact that nearly every Tory backbencher had gone soft on refugees’. Photograph: Michael Mayhew/Allstar
Priti Ptél ‘cd’nt qt gt hr hed arnd ɖ fact ɖt nirli evri Tori bacbnćr hd gn soft on refyjīz’. Foṭgraf: Mîcl Mêhy/Olstar

Z Priti Ptél viśs or stypid? It’s a fîn lîn fr Ycreńn refyjīz

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 10 March 2022)

Ɖ homsecṛtri’s mix v incompitns n cruwlti hz cm t ɖ fōr in ɖs wor

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John Crace

Jon Crês, Ʈrzde 10 Marć 2022

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Y  cn onli imajin ɖ compṛmat ɖt Priti Ptél mst hv on ɖ prîm̦inistr. Az inṭnaśnl-dveḷpmnt secṛtri in T’rīza Me’z guvnmnt, ś hd bn sact fr gwñ rog wɖ hr ǒn foṛn poḷsi. Hr flît bac t ɖ YC fṛm Ceńa hd bn tráct evri bit az closli az ɖoz md bî Ruśn oligarcs tde. Ɖt wd hv bn ɖ end v ɖer c’rir fr most poḷtiśnz. Bt nt Priti Vecnt. Ẃn Boris Jonsn bcem prîm̦inistr, h pṛmotd hr t homsecṛtri.

Ɖen cem ɖ inqîri ɖt faund Ptél gilti v brecñ ɖ miṇstirịl cod fr bŭliyñ staf. Ɖt agn śd hv bn inuf fr instnt dsmisl. Instd Ɖ Suspect ordrd colīgz t pṛtct “Ɖ Pritstr” at ol costs. N so ś svîvd; t bumbl on wɖ hr caṛcṭristic mix v incompitns n viśsnis. No mor so ɖn jrñ ɖ cuṛnt wor in Ycren.

Ẃl most uɖr guvnmnt dpartmnts hv upt ɖer gem ovr ɖ past wīcs, ɖ Hom Ofis hz bn a naśnl imbaṛsmnt. Ẃl uɖr Yṛpiyn cuntriz hv opnd ɖer bordrz t welcm refyjīz, ɖ YC wnt ǎt v its we t mc it olmst imposbl fr eni Ycreńnz t rīć ɖs cuntri: fṛm nt dsclozñ ẃr most v ɖ vīẓapḷceśn sntrz wr sićuetd t mcñ śr ɖoz ɖt wr advtîzd wr clozd. Cy hundṛdz v refyjīz biyñ snt on pôntlis jrniz fṛm Calais t Lille t Paris. N bac.

Nn v ɖs hz gn dǎn wel wɖ MPz on îɖr sîd v ɖ hǎs. On Munde, Vecnt hd manijd t gv ɖ Comnz ɖ roñ inḟmeśn abt ẃć vīẓapḷceśn sntrz wr opn n ẃr ɖe wr – wn heẓtets t se ś laid, az ś’z jenyinli stypid inuf nt t b acrs ɖ fînr dītelz v ẃt hr dpartmnt z p t.

Ɖ folowñ de, ś hd gn awol jrñ an rjnt qsćn abt ɖ Hom Ofis’z mshanḍlñ v ɖ refyjīcrîsis n let a jūńr iṃgreśnministr tec ɖ hit instd. Nt ɖt Cevin Fostr sīmd t mînd. H wnt on Twitr t se ɖt refyjīz cd olwz tec advantij v ɖ sīẓnl-agṛculćṛl-wrcrz scīm. Bcz picñ frūt wd hlp tec ɖer mînd of ɖ wor.

On Ʈrzde, Ptél dd boɖr t cm t ɖ Comnz in prsn t ansr yt anɖr rjnt qsćn on refyjīz. Partli bcz ś nīdd t ri’śur Tori MPz ɖt ś hd at līst sm îdīa ẃt wz gwñ on; partli bcz ɖs tîm ś acć̣li hd smʈñ ny t se.

Ɖo ś dd lc iniṣ́li a bit bwildrd. Ś wz undr ɖ impreśn – az most v s hd bn – ɖt hr sol rǒl wz t win fevr wɖ ɖ Tori rît bî biyñ bīstli t foṛnrz; smʈñ at ẃć ś xelz. Vecnt cd’nt qt gt hr hed arnd ɖ fact ɖt ol v a sudn evri Tori bac-bnćr – wɖ ɖ xpśn v Edẉd Li n Dańl Kawczynski – hd gn soft on refyjīz.

Bt Ptél gaɖrd hrslf n plaud on wɖ ɖ script. T mc ʈñz īzịr, refyjīz wɖ Ycreńn pasports n faṃli in ɖ YC wd nǎ b alaud t aplî fr ɖer vīzaz onlîn. Qt hǎ ɖs wd wrc fr refyjīz huz pasports wr lost or misñ in ɖ ceos v wor, ś dd’nt se. Nr hǎ ppl wɖt deṭroumñ on ɖer fonz wd manij t uplod ɖer vīẓapḷceśnz. Īvn asymñ ɖe cd stl manij t ćarj ɖer fonz.

In eni ces, nn v ɖs cd start untl nxt Tyzde az ɖ Hom Ofis nīdd t enśur ol nesṣri s’kṛtimeźrz wr in ples. Ɖo, gvn ɖt ɖ Ruśnz hd bn planñ ɖ inveźn fr munʈs, y’d hv ʈt ɖe hd ol ɖ spîz ɖe wontd in ples in ɖ YC wɖt trayñ t pas a fy of az Ycreńn refyjīz.

Ɖs wz a start, sd Ivét Cūpr, ɖ śado homsecṛtri. Bt ẃ hd it tecn yt anɖr rjnt qsćn t śem Ptél intu ax́n at ɖ dspaćbox? N ẃ wz ɖr stl no clir hymaṇterịn paʈwe fr refyjīz wɖt imīɉt faṃli in ɖ YC? Fr rīznz bst noun t hrslf, Cūpr wnt alñ wɖ ɖ s’kṛtireṭric. Olmst az f Lebr wz teṛfaid v biyñ sìn t b wìc on iṃgreśn. Īvn ɖo evri uɖr cuntri in Yṛp wz tecñ unliṃtd numbrz v refyjīz wɖt vīzaz. N īvn ɖo ɖ mjoṛti v ppl in ɖ YC r in fevr v ɖs cuntri dwñ ɖ sem. Lebr’z rspons z t b a bit nîsr ɖn ɖ Tōriz, bt nt tù mć.

Vecnt, hvr, wz a modl v inḍgneśn. Contrri t apiṛnsz, ś hd’nt bn dragd t ɖ Comnz. Ś hd bn gagñ t b asct. It’s jst ɖt ś wz a litl śî n dd’nt wont t apir tù pśi. Ptél: ɖ modl v moḍsti. N ɖ Tōriz hd a “wrld-bìtñ” record on refyjīz. Ɖs wn agn. No matr hǎ ofn ś n Boris rpit it, it dz’nt mc it tru. Ɖ YC me scor wel in ɖ naro band v “rīsetld refyjīz”, bt on refyjīz in jenṛl, w’r hoplis. In pṛporśn t popyleśnsîz, w bérli mc ɖ top 20 v ɖ most welcmñ Yṛpiyn cuntriz.

Ɖen cem ɖ momnt ɖt – tmprṛli at līst – sîḷnst ɖ intîr ćembr. Ɖ vīzaz n ɖ byrocṛsi wr acć̣li dwñ ɖ refyjīz a fevr, Ptél cntinyd. Bcz f w hd an opn-bordr poḷsi n let in az mni az wontd t cm, ɖen w’d hv a Windruś sićueśn ẃr ppl cd’nt pruv ɖe hd līv t rmen.

Ɖs wz Vecnt at îɖr hr most viśs or hr most stypid. Bcz it wz’nt ɖ lac v peprwrc ɖt wz ɖ probḷm fr ɖ Windruś jeṇreśn; it wz ɖ hostîl invîrnmnt ɖt sòt t dport ppl hu wr līġli intîtld t b hir – ɖ lac v fl peprwrc wz jst a mīnz t ɖt end. A hostîl-invîrnmnt poḷsi dremt p bî T’rīza Me in 2012 n sleviśli psyd bî Ptél a deced lêtr.

Most MPz wr in a fgivñ mūd, ɖo. Redi t cngrać̣let Ptél on hr bebisteps twdz hymaṇti, rɖr ɖn t casṭget hr fr ɖ ol tù obvịs śortcumñz in hr planz. Ɖr agn, ɖr wz evri ćans ɖt ɖ hom secṛtri wd b bac in ɖ Comnz t xplen anɖr poḷsi dzastr in ɖ cmñ wīcs. Tîm wz on ɖer sîd. F nt on ɖ sîd v ɖoz fliyñ ɖ wor.

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Fṛm Đ Obzrvr │ Disinformation and fake accounts were used against the west for years – now the Kremlin is under attack

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A crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, waiting to hear Volodymyr Zelenskiy make a speech via video last week. Photograph: Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock
A crǎd in Tḅlisi, Jorja, wêtñ t hír Volodimir Zelensci mc a spīć via vidio last wīc. Foṭgraf: Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Sopa Iṃjz/Rex/Śuṭstoc

Sośl mīdia trn on Pūćin, ɖ past mastr

(Transcription of an article published in the Observer on Sunday 6 March 2022)

Disinḟmeśn n fec acǎnts wr yzd agnst ɖ wst fr yirz – nǎ ɖ Cremlin z undr atac

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Carole Cadwalladr

Caṛl Cadwoḷdr, Súnde, 6 Marć 2022

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Wn v ɖ wîldist aspects v ɖ frst Gret Inḟmeśnwor z nt jst ɖt y cn folo Ruśa’z inveźn v Ycren in riyl tîm, minit bî minit n step bî step, bt y cn olso jôn in.

Bcz in 2022, inḟmeśn z pǎr. N wn v ɖ mni hyj unixpctd jioṗliticl śifts v ɖ last wīc z ɖt ɖs pǎr hz bn rtrnd t ɖ ppl.

In Ruśa on Frîde, Vlajīmir Pūćin, a man hu z nǎ scerd v hiz ǒn śado, tc ɖ xtrordnri step v atmtñ t ǎtlw inḟmeśn. H bánd Fes-bc. H śut dǎn Twitr. H pást a ny lw ɖt dclerz jrṇlizm a criminl ofns: eni jrṇlist faund t hv publiśt “fec nyz” on ɖ wor in Ycren nǎ fesz p t 15 yirz in prizn.

It z, lîc so mni ʈñz in ɖ last wīc, increḍbl, unpresdntd, hoṛfayñ – bt mor importntli it’s olso despṛt n absrd. Bcz in 2022 y c’nt ban inḟmeśn. It’s lîc trayñ t ban oxijn. It’s ɖ cnd v muv ɖt wn v hiz gre-fest Sovịt prīdisesrz mt hv md. It’s az modn n p-t-det az a tîpraitr. Onli a fūl wd mc pridix́nz rît nǎ, bt hir’z wn enwe: it pruvz ɖt Pūćin, ɖ fǎndñfaɖr v ẃt’s cm t b noun az “inḟmeśnwor”, jst lost ɖ inḟmeśnwor.

Enʈñ cn n me hapn. Bt hvñ doṃnetd ɖ darc arts v disinḟmeśn fr ɖ last et yirz, ɖ Cremlin’z invinsbl masṭri v ɖ inḟmeśnspes hz bn xpozd az a śam, a fix́n, anɖr lî. Pūćin hz pt on ɖ iqivḷnt v a per v belbotmz n z dad-dansñ acrs ɖ inṭnet. Mnẃl Ycreńn prezidnt Volodimir Zelensci z’nt jst cmandñ hiz armd forsz: h’z cmandñ TicToc, Insṭgram, Twitr, Teḷgram. H’z simlteńsli aveḷbl acrs ol sośl-mīdia platformz – hîbrid worfér’z frst hîbrid līdr.

F ɖs sǎndz lîc wiśfl ʈncñ, it z. Ruśa’z wor on jrṇlizm n jrṇlists, lîc its wor on Ycren, z unspīcbli ćilñ. Bt it’s olso lîc woćñ Stalin tec on ɖ TicToc cidz. Mnẃl, Zelensci hz nt jst pt ǎt a cōl fr foṛn fîtrz – enwn priperd t gt on a tren n pic p a gun – h’z olso biyñ asistd bî a crac sqod v armćer intelijns ofisrz. Bcz wn v ɖ most rmarcbl aspects v ɖ wor so far z hǎ enwn wɖ a smartfon cn ple a rǒl in ɖ xtrordnri Ycreńn rzistns. “Osint” rsrćrz – opn sors intelijns gaɖrrz – r mʈodicli scǎrñ ɖ inṭnet fr ɖ lêtist fotoz n vidioz cmñ ǎt v Ycren n veṛfayñ n jioḷcetñ ɖm in riyl tîm.

Evri tanc z biyñ logd. Evri truc n evri trūpmuvmnt z tráct, rejistrd n add t opn-sors maps n deṭbesz. Ɖs z a cuntri v 44 miłn ppl rcordñ evri twić ɖer Ruśn invedrz mc. It’s a fîrhǒz v riyl-tîm inḟmeśn ɖt, wɖ ɖ hlp v ɖs voḷntir armi, z biyñ trnd intu riyl-tîm militri straṭji.

On Munde, I ćerd a panl wɖ Elịt Higinz, fǎndr v ɖ onlîn invstgtiv orġnîześn Belñcat, hu hz paynird so mni v ɖz opn-sors tecnīcs n huz tīm hz bn rsponsbl fr mni v its most astǎndñ fìts – îdnṭfayñ Srge Scripal’z pôẓnrz, t nem jst wn. Ẃt dstnḡśz ɖs wor, Higinz sz, z ɖt it’s ɖ frst tîm ɖ Osint cḿṇti hz moḅlîzd in riyl tîm.

“It hapnd in Siria,” h sd. “Bt it tc tîm.” N in ɖt tîmlag, lîz, disinḟmeśn, cnfyźn doṃnetd. Ɖs tîm arnd, h sd, ɖ disinḟmeśn jst hz’nt hd ɖ ćans t tec rūt – a rzult nt jst v ɖs gret sviłn inḟmeśn armi bt v YS intelijns tù. It tc ɖ unpresdntd step v rlisñ its fîndñz t ɖ wrld ahd v ɖ inveźn. It informd s ɖt ɖr wd b fec nyz abt fec bomz, n ẃn ɖr wr, w woćt ɖm biyñ dbunct in riyl tîm.

Ɖ wrld z teṛbl n darc, n so mć v ɖs z on s: it’s ɖ c’rupśn v ǎr guvnmnts wɖ ɖer ofśor strucćrz n oligarc-frendli lîbļwz ɖt z rsponsbl fr so mć v ɖs. Ɖt n ɖ insaṇti v alawñ Silicn Vali mnoṗliz t p’līs ɖ platformz ɖt pṛvîdd Pūćin wɖ hiz atacsrfis. Ol ɖs hz cm bac t bît Nato on its ars, n ɖr r trūli teṛfayñ posbiḷtiz ahd. Bt nt sins 2010 n ɖ Aṛb sprñ hz it flt so aktli lîc tecnoḷji cd b ɖ ppl’z frend.

It’s olso ẃ w mst, mst, mst cōl ǎt ɖ funḍmntl untruʈ ɖt unḍpinz ɖs, ɖ Cremlin’z wor on truʈ. Ruśa dd nt inved Ycren last wīc. It invedd Ycren in 2014. N it’s nt jst at wor wɖ Ycren. It’s at wor wɖ s tù. In Febrri 2014 it lōnćt a jônt militri asōlt on Ycren n ɖ wst.

W dd’nt nǒ it ɖen. Bt w d nǎ. Bcz ɖ frst stej in Pūćin’z inveźn v Ycren wz an atac on inḟmeśn. H dstortd riaḷti, injctñ ɖ toxin v fec nyz – a militri straṭji ɖt h dploid agnst s at ɖ xact sem momnt acrs ɖ xact sem platformz.

W ń ɖs bcz it’s leid ǎt in f’renzic n xōstiv dītel in ẃt me b wn v ɖ most misunḍstd dokmnts v modn tîmz: ɖ Mueller rport. W jst feld t unḍstand ẃt it mnt.

Bt nǎ w cn n mst unḍstand, bcz ɖ crtn hz bn liftd. Pūćin hz bn at wor wɖ s fr ɖ last et yirz. A man w riylîzd last wīc z ɖ Wiẓd v Oz. H’z a man hîdñ bhnd a crtn, a veil v lîz. A man hîdñ bhnd a crtn wɖ a staś v ńclir worhedz.

W fîṇli hv ɖ lît w nīd t si him fr hu h z, t unḍstand ɖ wor h hz bn wejñ agnst s in plen sît, edd bî hiz qizlñ wstn alîz – Fox Nyz n ol ɖ ćocḷt soljrz v “ɖ wor on wouc”. It jst me b tù lêt.

Ɖr hz’nt bn sć a starc n yṇvrsl momnt v moṛl claṛti fr 82 yirz. Ɖs z lîz vrss truʈ. It’s darcnis vrss lît. It’s Stalin vrss ɖ TicToc cidz.

Bt Stalin hz ɖ ńcs. H hz ɖ ʈrmobaric wepnz. H hz ɖ mīnz n motveśn t flatn nt jst Cyīv bt ɖ rest v s tù. N ẃt hapnz nxt z enbdi’z ges.

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Fṛm Đ Obzrvr │ Brazilian politician’s sexist remarks about Ukraine refugees spark outrage

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São Paulo congressman Arthur do Val made the remarks during a purportedly humanitarian mission to Ukraine. Photograph: Fabricio Bomjardim/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
São Paulo congresmn Arthur do Val md ɖ rmarcs jrñ a pportidli hymaṇterịn miśn t Ycren. Foṭgraf: Fabrício Bomjardim/Zuma Pres Wîr/Rex/Śuṭstoc

Bṛziłn poḷtiśn’z sxist rmarcs abt Ycren refyjīz sparc ǎtrej

(Transcription of an article published in the Observer on Sunday 6 March 2022)

Arthur do Val hŕd in līct ōdiomeṣjz cōlñ wimin fliyñ wor ‘īzi bcz ɖ’r pur’

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Tom Phillips

Tom Filips in Rio de Janeiro, Súnde, 6 Marć 2022

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A  prominnt membr v ɖ Bṛziłn rît z fesñ cōlz t rzîn aftr h wz xpozd in līct ōdiomeṣjz mcñ a s’xeśn v caḷs n msoɉnistic rmarcs abt Ycreńn refyjīz jrñ a pportidli hymaṇterịn miśn t ɖ rīsntli invedd cuntri.

Arthur do Val, a São Paulo congresmn n formr s’portr v Bṛzil’z rîtwñ prezidnt, Jair Bolsonaro, md a ʈri-de trip t ɖ rījn last wīc, s’pozidli t rêz awernis v ɖ hymn cost v Vlajīmir Pūćin’z atac.

On Ʈrzde Do Val, 35, twītd a foṭgraf v himslf srǎndd bî crets v molotov cocteilz in ɖ bordr siti v Ŭźhorod. Hiz traṿlñpartnr, ɖ rîtwñ acṭvist Renan Santos, sd ɖe hd dnetd ʈǎzndz v dolrz, hlpt refyjīz cros ɖ bordr n “filmd ɖ riaḷti v a cuntri at wor.”

Do Val’z trip hd ɖ blesñ v Sergio Moro, ɖ cnsrṿtiv xjuj n ministr hu hops t ćalinj Bolsonaro n hiz left-wñ rîvl Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Octobr’z preẓdnśl ilex́n. “It’s olwz cmnḍbl ẃn w pt ǎr wrdz intu practis,” Moro twītd.

Sć ostnsbli nobl objctivz wr śatrd on Frîde, hvr, ẃn ɖ Bṛziłn mīdia publiśt ōdiomeṣjz in ẃć Do Val spouc in hîli ofnsiv trmz abt Ycreńn refyjīz – mor ɖn 1.3 miłn v hūm hv fled oṿsìz sins Vlajīmir Pūćin’z 24 Febrri inveźn.

In wn rcordñ, ɖ poḷtiśn sz: “I’v jst crost ɖ bordr on ft btwn Ycren n Sḷvacia. Bro, I swer t y … I’v nvr sìn enʈñ lîc it in trmz v bytifl grlz. Ɖ refyjī k … it’s lîc 200 mītrz loñ or mor v jst totl godesz … It’s sm increḍbl śit … Ɖ k ǎtsd Bṛzil’z bst nîtclub … dz’nt cm clos t ɖ refyjī k hir.”

In a secnd xrpt Do Val sz: “Let m tel y, ɖ’r īzi bcz ɖ’r pur.”

In a ʈrd h mcs obsin rmarcs abt fīmel s’kṛti ofiślz at ɖ Ycren/Sḷvacia bordr, bfr adñ: “Jst unḅlivbl, dyd. Az sn az ɖs wor’z ovr, I’m cmñ bac.”

Ɖ coments sparct rvulśn, wɖ mor ɖn 40,000 ppl sînñ an onlîn ptiśn dmandñ Do Val’z xpulśn fṛm São Paulo’z 94-sīt parḷmnt.

Fabiana Tronenko, ɖ wîf v Ycren’z formr ambasdr t Bṛzil, publiśt a tirfl Twitr vidio in ẃć ś cōld ɖ poḷtiśn a śemlis cretin. “Śo sm rspct, y punc … Y’v no îdīa ẃt ɖ Ycreńn ppl r gwñ ʈru.”

Ycren’z chargé d’affaires in Bṛzil, Anatoli Tcać, cōld ɖ rmarcs un’xptbl.

Do Val, hu rtrnd t Bṛzil on Saṭde t dscuvr h hd lost ci alîz n hiz grlfrend, apoḷjîzd n sòt t jusṭfî hiz wrdz. Aftr ʈri dez “wɖt drincñ wōtr or hvñ a śǎr” h clemd h hd bcm “oṿixîtd”. “Mî mînd wz rêsñ. I tōct nonsns,” h sd, abandnñ planz t run fr São Paulo’z guṿnrśp.

Critics wr unimprest, cōlñ hiz bhevyr tipicl v Bṛzil’z śoṿnist n tstosṭron-ćarjd hard-rît.

“Hǎ nōzietñ,” twītd Gleisi Hoffmann, ɖ prezidnt v Bṛzil’z Wrcrz’ parti. “Ɖs z ɖ cnd v prsn hu ilectd Bolsonaro! H mst b stript v pǎr.”

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: This bloody invasion is turning the march of history into a sprint – and it’s not going Putin’s way

Ñspel, From the Guardian, , ,
‘Already, Ukrainians’ collective defiance and bravery in the face of a terrifying menace is the material of myth.’ Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers prepare sandbags for barricades in Kyiv on Thursday. Photograph: Europa Press News/Europa Press/Getty Images
‘Olrdi, Ycreńnz’ c’lectiv dfayns n breṿri in ɖ fes v a teṛfayñ menis z ɖ mtirịl v miʈ.’ Ycreńn soljrz n voḷntirz priper sandbagz fr baṛceds in Cyīv on Ʈrzde. Foṭgraf: Yropa Pres Nyz/Yropa Pres/Geti Iṃjz

Ɖs bludi inveźn z trnñ ɖ marć v hisṭri intu a sprint – n it’s nt gwñ Pūćin’z we

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on Frîde 4 Marć 2022)

Ɖ last fy dez hv sìld Ycren’z ples in ɖ globl imaɉneśn – n fr Ruśa, ɖt’s a big probḷm

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Jonathan Freedland

Joṇʈn Frīdḷnd, Frîde 4 Marć 2022

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Hisṭri hz brocn intu a sprint. Ćenjz ɖt wr imajind t b ɖ wrc v jeṇreśnz, or īvn snć̣riz, hv hapnd in dez. Jioṗliticl śifts huz impact wl indyr fr decedz hv cm in aurz. Ol worz r axelṛnts, bt Vlajīmir Pūćin’z inveźn v Ycren z ri-mcñ ɖ wrld bfr ǎr vri îz.

Start wɖ naśnl îdntti. Ɖ we neśnz si ɖmslvz, n r sìn bî uɖrz, z mnt t b ɖ stuf v īvluśn: slo n grajl, ɖ leyrz add in incrimnts. N yt Ruśa’z brūtl atmt t swolo p its nebr hz ćenjd smʈñ pṛfǎnd in litl mor ɖn a wīc.

Ẃn Pūćin set ǎt hiz ces fr wor, h restd it on ɖ clem ɖt Ycren hd no tṛdiśn v “jenyin stethd”. Ɖt wz gros, bt it btreid a preɉdis ɖt Pūćin dd nt invnt. Loñ bfr ɖ Ruśn eʈnonaśṇlizm v tde, Ycren wz trītd az smʈñ les ɖn a neśn. In ɖ 20ʈ snć̣ri, it wz còt btwn ɖ ttaḷterịnizmz v ɖ ej, sqizd n bludid bî bʈ Natsizm n Bolṣ́vizm. Īvn in p’lît, wstn cumṗni, ɖ vy ɖt it wz mirli a rījn v smẃr els psistd: it livd on, unconśsli phps, in ɖoz hu cōld it “ɖ Ycren”.

Ɖt endd a wīc ago. Ycreńnz hv aqîrd a ny ples in ɖ globl imaɉneśn, az ɖ imbodimnt v ɖ spirit v naśnl indipndns. Olrdi ɖer c’lectiv dfayns n breṿri in ɖ fes v a teṛfayñ menis z ɖ mtirịl v miʈ – baledansrz grabñ rîflz, deṭsayntists digñ trenćz – ɖt wl b wovn intu a naśnl stori Ycreńnz wl tel ɖmslvz fr snć̣riz. Īvn ẃn, fr ɖ rest v ɖ wrld, ɖt fedz intu hisṭri, wn fact wl b left: ɖ unśec̣bl cnvix́n ɖt Ycren z a neśn, a hoļi “jenyin” wn. Cǎnt ɖt az jst ɖ frst v mni wez in ẃć Pūćin’z miśn hz olrdi dfitd itslf.

Sm v ɖ uɖrz r hoļi unixpctd. Az rīsntli az a fortnît ago, ćeisnd bî its past, Jrṃni’z setld pziśn wz ɖt it wd ple no part in a wor in Yṛp. Nǎ, hêlñ a “trnñpônt in ɖ hisṭri v ǎr continnt,” Jrṃni’z ćanslr z sndñ misîlz n antitanc wepnz t hlp Ycren, n masivli incrisñ Brlin’z dfnșpendñ. Ɖr wz a tîm ẃn ɖ prospect v a riarmd Jrṃni wd hv snt tremrz ʈru Yṛp n bynd. Bt ɖs wīc ɖ bstselñ Izreli historịn Yuval Noa Harari cōld Jrmn līdrśp in ɖ cuṛnt fît agnst Ruśn agreśn “ɖ bst atonmnt” fr Natsi crîmz. Ɖs wz no tîm t b ńtṛl or t ste on ɖ sîdlînz, Harari sd: “Ẃt w nīd fṛm Jrṃni z t stand tōl n līd.”

Brlin’z brec fṛm nirli et decedz v postwar rstrent z phps ɖ most concrīt xampl v a fnominn viẓbl ʈrt Yṛp n acrs ɖ Atlantic. Aftr mni yirz spent contmpletñ its ǒn dclîn n dce, ɖ wst hz rīdiscuvrd smʈñ lîc prîd n prṗs. Fr ol its mni flwz n wel-dokmntd felñz, it hz bn rmîndd ɖt its brand v frīdm n dmocṛsi z prefṛbl t ɖ oltrṇtiv: ɖ tiṛni n opreśn mȉtd ǎt bî Pūćin, ẃɖr in ɖ form v bomz renñ dǎn on Ycreńn sviłnz or gagz acrs ɖ mǎɖz n blîndfoldz acrs ɖ îz v Ruśn sitiznz. Ovr ɖ last 10 dez, ɖoz hu ʈt Nato wz a cold wor anacṛnizm hv bn gvn a rfreśrcors in ẃ it wz invntd n ẃ it wz nesṣri: t pṛtct fri neśnz fṛm a mîti agresr.

Ɖ sem gz fr ɖ Yṛpiyn Yńn. Brítnz, ispeṣ́li, cem t asośiet ɖ YY wɖ tred at bst, petifogñ byrocṛsi at wrst. Ẃn ɖ YY wún ɖ Nobel pīsprîz in 2012, mni scraćt ɖer hedz wɖ incomprihnśn. Wel, ɖr’z no xks fr baflmnt nǎ. Pūćin hz jogd ǎr meṃriz ɖt ɖ YY wz fǎndd ǎt v ɖ cnvix́n ɖt ɖ onli fyćr fr a continnt ɖt hd bn at ɖ sntr v tū wrldworz in 30 yirz wz t cm tgɖr: t śer sovṛnti rɖr ɖn t cil fr it. Ɖ sît v a cāci-clad Volodimir Zelensci sînñ Ycren’z rqst t jôn ɖ YY, īvn az Ruśn forsz aproćt, demnstretd agn ɖt fr Yṛpiynz, ɖ YY hz olwz bn abt sefti n pīs. Hǎ śemñ t ʈnc v ɖ Yrosceptics hu pritndd ɖ YY wz sm cnd v foṛn okpayr, rfŕñ t it az ɖ “YYSSR”. Hǎ śemñ t ʈnc ɖt ɖ Britiś contṛbyśn t ɖs nobl postwar îdiyl wz t abandn it.

Īvn ɖ we w ʈnc v hisṭri hz ćenjd ovr ɖz last fy dez. Loñ dsdend hz bn eni anaḷsis ɖt plesz tù mć weit on ɖ rǒl v indivijlz: in ples v ɖ “gret-man ʈiyri” v hisṭri, scolrz wr mnt t foc̣s on ɖ dīpr, imprsnl forsz, ɖ tectonic śifts ɖt md ɖ ax́nz v ɖs or ɖt hymn biyñ v secnḍri importns. N yt, most nǎ agri ɖt “Ruśa” hz no brnñ aṗtît t sīz Ycren; fy ordnri Ruśnz r ićñ t brñ hel n hartec t ɖer nebrz nxt dor. Ɖs wor z instd ɖ ẃim v wn, poṣbli crezd, man. Fr ol ɖ aurz spent n ñc spild aṇlîzñ ɖ jiopoḷtics v Ruśa n its rījn, ẃt it cmz dǎn t z Pūćin’z yrnñ fr pǎr n fr a ples in hisṭri, t b rmembrd alñsd Pītr ɖ Gret. Bcz v wn indivijl n hiz strenj sîc̣lojicl nīd, a miłn ppl r olrdi refyjīz n hol sitiz r smolḍrñ ruinz.

Standñ agnst him z a man hu hz inspîrd hiz neśn n wún adṃreśn arnd ɖ wrld. Phps Ycren wd hv hld ǎt no matr hu srvd az its prezidnt. Mbi ɖ wrld’z simṗʈiz wd hv bn arǎzd īvn wɖt a mastr cḿṇcetr in Cyīv, hu in a siriz v śort, plen-spocn spīćz hz artikletd a funḍmntl prínsipl: ɖt ol neśnz hv ɖ rît t dfîn hu ɖe r n dtrmin ɖer ǒn desṭni.

Phps. Bt ɖ prezns v Zelensci, hiz rfyzl t sev hiz ǒn scin or pt himslf frst – “I nīd aḿniśn, nt a rîd” – hz nt onli galvnîzd hiz ǒn ppl. It hz gvn a moṛl claṛti t ɖs momnt. In an unhirǒic ej, h hz bcm a globl hiro n, wɖ Pūćin apaṛntli īgr t ple hiz part az a cartūniśli īvl viḷn, ɖt hz lent ɖs conflict a simpliṣti ɖt wl īẓli b dsmist az simplistic, bt hz gret pǎr ol ɖ sem.

Nn v ɖs z eni cumḟt t ɖ faṃliz in besmnts, fr ɖ ćildṛn wɖt faɖrz. It dz’nt hlp ɖm f hisṭri hz pict p its tmpo. Lîc ol victimz v wor, ɖe wont nʈñ mor ɖn fr hisṭri t līv ɖm alon – n let ɖm liv.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: The new statesmanlike Boris quickly gives way to the old self-centred one at PMQs

Ñspel, From the Guardian, , , , ,
‘It’s not for me to comment on individual cases,’ said the Suspect. Er… hello? Why the hell not? Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/AP
‘It’s nt fr m t coment on indivijl cesz,’ sd ɖ Suspect. ’r… hlo? Ẃ ɖ hel nt? Foṭgraf: YC Parḷmnt/Jesica Teilr/AP

Ɖ ny stetsmnlîc Boris qcli gvz we t ɖ old slf-sntrd wn at PMQz

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 2 Marć 2022)

Ɖ Suspect dojd dificlt qsćnz abt oligarcs, ɖen lost hiz tmpr. Nt ol Ruśn muni wz drti muni, h śǎtd

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John Crace

Jon Crês, Wnzde 2 Marć 2022

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Ɖ  prîm̦inistr’z parḷmntri prîṿt secṛtriz wr ol dect ǎt in blu n yelo. Az wr T’rīza Me n sevṛl SNP MPz. Ɖe cd ol hv cm stret fṛm a Rayner cnvnśn. Elsẃr in ɖ ćembr, MPz setld fr rɖr mor sobr blu n yelo ribnz. Bt ɖ sntimnt wz xacli ɖ sem.

Ɖs wz a Hǎs v Comnz ynîtd in its s’port fr Ycren. Ẃn ɖ Spīcr anǎnst ɖt ɖ Ycreńn ambasdr, Vadim Pristîco, wz in ɖ gaḷri, ɖ hǎs rouz az wn t gv him a pṛloñd n hart-flt standñ oveśn. It wz az muvñ az it wz unpresdntd. Ɖo NHS wrcrz mt pônt ǎt ɖt clapñ smtmz cmz ćīp fṛm poḷtiśnz.

Fr ɖ last wīc or so, Boris Jonsn hz gvn tuf spīćz n gn on trips t ɖ Yṛpiyn mênland t xpres soḷdaṛti. Ol v ẃć hz pleid wel wɖ a hom ōdịns. Ɖ Ruśn inveźn hz nt bn a conflict on ẃć it hz bn dificlt t pic sîdz. Betr stl, ol v hiz dmestic probḷmz sīm t hv mltd awe. Fr ɖ tîm biyñ at līst. Ẃl ppl r dayñ in a cruwl wor, it sīmz olmst tù trivịl t mnśn ɖt ɖ prîm̦inistr cd’nt b boɖrd t folo hiz ǒn Covid rūlz.

Bt at prîm̦inistr’z qsćnz ɖ masc bgan t crac. Ɖ Suspect wz no longr biyñ asct t jst Tōc ɖ Tōc. H wz olso biyñ asct t Wōc ɖ Wōc. N h jst cd’nt d it. Ɖs z’nt a līdr lîcli t folo ɖ Tîwan prezidnt’s xampl v gvñ wn munʈ v hiz saḷri t Ycreńn hymaṇterịn cōzz. Wel, nt unls h cd gt Lord Brǎnlo t cof p agn on hiz bhaf. Dir, dir Devid. Wn mor tîm, old ćap.

Bac cem ɖ blustr n ɖ śiftinis. Ɖ tugñ on hiz Todlrz R S hercut. Ɖ ćîldiś ǎtbrsts v narssistic rej ɖt h c’nt cntrol ẃn ćalinjd. Enʈñ ɖt z nt on hiz trmz canot b toḷretd. Cm ɖ end v PMQz ɖ ny, nt intîrli cnvinsñ, stetsmnlîc Boris wz bginñ t lc vri mć lîc ɖ old slf-sntrd Boris.

Cir Starmr bgan bî riiṭretñ ɖt Lebr wr ynîtd wɖ ɖ guvnmnt agnst Ruśn agreśn. Jst so ɖr wz no rūm fr cnfyźn. H dd’nt wont Jonsn t gt ɖ roñ end v ɖ stic. Ẃt h riyli wontd t nǒ wz ẃ ɖ YC wz lagñ so far bhnd ɖ YS n ɖ YY in impozñ sañśnz on Ruśn oligarcs. Hǎ abt Roman Abramović? H wz on a Hom Ofis list az a prsn v inṭrest n z nǎ in ɖ proses v trayñ t sel Ćlsi. Ẃ nt g aftr him bfr h tc ɖ muni n ran?

“It’s nt fr m t coment on indivijl cesz,” sd ɖ Suspect. ’r … hlo? Ẃ ɖ hel nt? Śrli it’s prisîsli ẃt a prîm̦inistr z ɖr fr, t tōc truʈ t muni. F h c’nt, ɖen hu cn? Ɖr agn, Jonsn z on record ɖt h fîndz it ‘inixplicbl’ ɖt oligarcs r’nt dwñ mor – enʈñ – t cndem ɖ wor. Ɖ rest v s mirli fînd ɖer sîḷns t b intîrli on brand.

Ɖ Lebr līdr muvd on. Ẃt abt ɖ tū Wsminstr flats v Igor Śūvolov, Vladīmir Pūćin’z formr depyti prîm̦inistr? W hd onli got t fînd ǎt h ǒnd ɖ proṗti ʈru a pôznd Ruśn disidnt. Ẃć bròt him on t hiz nxt qsćn. Ẃ wz ɖ guvnmnt cicñ its hìlz ovr ɖ ic̣nomic-crîmz bil? It sīmd t b gwñ ǎt v its we t mc it īzịr fr drti muni t b tecn ǎt v ɖ cuntri bî gvñ evri clepṭcrat an 18-munʈ hedstart.

Jonsn hd no ansr uɖr ɖn t tōc abt cutñ of ɖ Swift pemntșistm n banñ Eroflot. Ẃć wz bsd ɖ pônt az nwn hd eni probḷm wɖ him hvñ dn ɖt. “W’r līdñ Yṛp,” h mumbld. Xpt w’r nt. At a tîm ẃn w’r lcñ fr hiroz – n hu betr fits ɖ bil ɖn Volodimir Zelensci? – ɖ YC guvnmnt lcs az f it z runñ scerd.

F ɖ Suspect wontd t pruv mni ppl’z sspiśnz ɖt ɖ Tori parti z in hóc t Ruśn muni, h cd’nt hv md a betr job v it. At ɖ vri līst h md it lc az f h wz’nt ɖt boɖrd abt Lundn’z steṭs az ɖ wrld’z lōndṛmat. Or abt ɖ xtnt v Ruśn inflụns in Britiś poḷtics.

Ɖs wz a pônt Lebr’z Bil Esṭsn md ẃn h invîtd Jonsn t dnet ɖ £2m ɖ Tōriz hv rsivd fṛm Lubov Ćernūcin, ɖ wîf v Ruśa’z formr depyti ministr v fînans, t ɖ Ycreńn wor eḟt. Jst t clir ɖ er n t śo ɖt ɖ Cnsrṿtivz hd nʈñ t hîd. Nǎ Boris lost hiz tmpr. Nt ol Ruśn muni wz drti muni, h śǎtd. Qt rît. Ɖo mbi Ćernūcin’z lincs t ɖ Ruśn stet mt hv rezd sm îbrǎz. Ɖen mbi ɖ Suspect b’livz ɖt evri oligarc md ɖer muni ʈru hard wrc or pleyñ ɖ loṭri.

Wɖ ol Tōriz, apart fṛm Bob Sīli, stirñ clir v dificlt qsćnz abt oligarcs n sañśnz, ɖ seśn driftd t a cloz wɖ Jon Pénroz wunḍrñ ẃt hd hapnd t Brexit. Rmembr ɖt? Jonsn wevd hiz armz n sd w’d b siyñ sm beṇfits jst az sn az Jecb Rīz-Mog hd got rnd t îdnṭfayñ eni. Jst d’nt hold yr breʈ. Mnẃl in ɖ gaḷri, Pristîco wz añśsli ćecñ hiz fon. Woćñ Britiś poḷtiśnz tred wrdz hd a liṃtd apil ẃn hiz cuntriṃn wr fîtñ fr Ycren strīt bî strīt.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: The solace for young Russians like me is that Putin is also digging his own grave in Ukraine

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‘It is painfully clear to us that this war is absolutely pointless.’ Russians protest in Moscow against the war in Ukraine. Photograph: Kommersant Photo Agency/REX/Shutterstock
‘It z penḟli clir t s ɖt ɖs wor z abṣlutli pôntlis.’ Ruśnz pṛtst in Mosco agnst ɖ wor in Ycren. Foṭgraf: Comersant Foto Ejnsi/REX/Śuṭstoc

Ɖ solis fr yuñ Ruśnz lîc m z ɖt Pūćin z olso digñ hiz ǒn grev in Ycren

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 1 March 2022)

Ẃn sañśnz bît n hard tîmz hit ɖ cuntri, ppl wl lūz ɖer fir. Ɖen Pūćin wl b finiśt

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Srge Faldin, Tyzde 1 Marć 2022

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Ɖ  rīzn y d’nt si a reṿluśn haṗnñ in Mosco z nt ɖt ppl d’nt cer abt ẃt’s haṗnñ in Ycren. On ɖ contrri, mî sośl-mīdia fīd z fild wɖ posts fṛm Ruśnz opozñ ɖ wor. “Ẃt hapnd?” ɖe se. “Hǎ dd w gt t ɖs? Ɖs z madnis!”

Ppl r seyñ ɖe fīl gilti abt biyñ Ruśn. Ppl r brnñ ɖer pasports on camra. “Hel,” I postd: “I am Ruśn, bt Pūćin z nt mî prezidnt.”

Bt ɖr r far fywr ppl acć̣li ǎt pṛtstñ. Y hv t unḍstand ɖt ordnri ppl in Ruśa r scerd ǎt v ɖer mîndz. On ɖ frst de v ɖ conflict, olmst 1,000 pṛtstrz wr jeld acrs Ruśa fr wōcñ ǎtsd wɖ az litl az a pìs v pepr ɖt sd: “I d’nt wont wor.” Acordñ t ɖ indipndnt mīdia sors OVD-info, in ɖ frst for dez v ɖ wor mor ɖn 5,200 ppl wr arestd.

Mî frend spent tîm in jel fr wōcñ dǎn ɖ sem strīt az ɖ pṛtstrz. A pṛfesr v sośioḷji, Grigori Yūdin, wz arestd in ɖ sntr v Mosco n rportidli bìtn p in ɖ bac v an ǎtozac (p’līsbus).

Ɖr r nǎ mor p’līstīmz ɖn I cn cǎnt – wɖ ny nemz sć az Rosgvardia (Ruśa’z intrnl militri fors) – n ɖe r ruʈlis. Ɖz forsz wr crietd sevṛl yirz ago sṗsificli t wondr ɖ strīts v Mosco (n uɖr sitiz) n privnt enʈñ “sspiśs” fṛm haṗnñ.

It dz’nt matr ẃɖr y’r an 18-yir-old cid or a pregnnt midl-ejd wmn, ɖ’l bìt y p, pt y in a wagn n tec y in fr qsć̣nñ. Ẃn y hv a formr CGB ejnt in ćarj, y hv a cuntri ɖt fuñśnz az an inorṃs jel.

It z penḟli clir t s ɖt ɖs wor z abṣlutli pôntlis. Pūćin z yzñ fōls hisṭrilésnz, l’mntñ ɖ fōl v ɖ Sovịt Yńn, n mcñ clemz abt Nato advansñ its forsz simpli t jusṭfî hiz ǒn madnis. I b’liv ɖt ɖ tru ansr t ɖ qsćn ppl asc on sośl mīdia – “hǎ dd w gt t ɖs?” – z ɖt Pūćin z insen.

I d’nt nǒ ẃn or ẃ ɖs hapnd. Mbi it’s hiz ej. Mbi hiz îṣleśn jrñ ɖ pandemic cōzd him t qsćn hiz leġsi. I cd b’liv enʈñ nǎ.

Ẃn mî wîf, hu z Ycreńn, n I wouc p last Ʈrzde in ǎr Dbî hotelrūm, ǎr hol wrld hd trnd upsîd-dǎn. W trnd on Pūćin’z teḷvîzd adres abt ɖ militri oṗreśn. Twenti minits lêtr, w trnd it of. W wr scerd bî ɖ vegnis v hiz rport. Ẃt wz a “speśl militri oṗreśn”? Wz ɖs riyli a decḷreśn v ɖ ʈrd wrldwor? W wr dsgustd bî ɖ ʈiatricl pformns v a prezidnt w hd nvr ćozn. W wr īvn mor dsgustd bî ɖ ʈt ɖt most ppl in Ruśa wd b’liv him.

Ɖr’z a hyj dvîd v opińnz btwn ɖ “Ny Ruśnz” – mî jeṇreśn, ppl born in ɖ 1990z, hu nvr livd in Sovịt tîmz – n ɖ oldr jeṇreśn. Nt wn v mî frendz bac hom b’livz ɖt Pūćin wz’nt planñ ɖs wor fr sm tîm. Ɖ oldr Ruśnz r féd lîz bî TV n uɖr mīdia t cnvins ɖm ɖt ẃt Pūćin z dwñ z jusṭfaybl.

Ɖ big probḷm z ɖt ɖr z no chiṛnt îdioḷji in Ruśa. Ɖr z no śerd we v intrpṛtñ ɖ wrld. Instd, ɖ simplistic îdīa ɖt hz bcm prevḷnt z a stori v “s vs ɖm”. It’s xtrimli īzi t sel n it gts vots. Ɖt’s ɖ ajnda ɖt Pūćin hz bn pśñ fr ɖ past deced or so.

H sz ɖt Ycren z an eṇmi ɖt z historicli part v Ruśa bt sold itslf t Nato, or ɖt evrwn in ɖ wrld z ɖ YS’z pupit.

Ɖz îdīaz r so cntejs. Ẃn y trî t rīzn wɖ an aṿrij prsn in Ruśa, ɖe mt se smʈñ lîc: “Ɖ TV z rît n y’r roñ. Olso – y’re probbli an ejnt v ɖ CIA.” Mni ppl liv in evr-preznt fir n it’s īzịr fr ɖm t b’liv ẃt ɖ’r tld. Standñ ǎtsd ɖ crǎd cn cost y yr frīdm.

Nn v mî yungr Ruśn frendz arnd ɖ glob r s’prîzd. W’r so yst t fīlñ dis’pôntd n imbaṛst bî ǎr guvnmnt ɖt w bérli fīl śem eni mor. Lîc ćildṛn v abysiv peṛnts, aftr so mni yirz w fget ẃt’s norml n ẃt’s nt. W simpli sai, śec ǎr hedz, n se: “Wel, ẃt dd y xpct?” Ɖ “globl Ruśnz”, az w cōl ǎrslvz, loñ ago gev p on ɖ prospect v hvñ a cuntri n guvnmnt w’d b prǎd v.

I c’nt hlp bt b rmîndd v ɖ Sovịt wor wɖ Afgaṇstan: 15,000 Ruśn deʈs. Nîn yirz v combat. Mî muɖr tld m storiz v hr formr clasmets, ppl ś acć̣li ń, arîvñ bac in cofinz. It wz a toṭli pôntlis indevr ɖt cost Leonid Breźńev ɖ intîr icoṇmi n hlpt cntribyt t ɖ Sovịt Yńn’z c’laps.

Pūćin, hu z so cīn on hisṭri, z uņowñli digñ hiz ǒn grev. Wɖ Ruśa cut of fṛm Swift n fesñ sañśnz fṛm ɖ YY, ɖ YS, n ɖ YC, it’l tec onli a fy yirz bfr it runz intu xtrimli hard tîmz. N ẃn it dz, ppl wl nt b afreid eni mor. F hisṭri tīćz s enʈñ, it’s ɖt ppl – īvn wnz az stubn n peśnt az ɖ Ruśnz – wl nt toḷret a lac v fūd. Ẃn ɖ muni runz ǎt, so wl Pūćin’z cloc.

N w – ɖ ny jeṇreśn v Ruśnz – wl b wêtñ.

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