#Moscow 2016

[sandytrish008]

There are 5 days left until the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and to celebrate I drew my favorite mascots from different Olympics and Paralympics, in ascending order:

Misha - Moscow 1980

Hodori - Seoul 1988

Cobi - Barcelona 1992

Powder, copper, Coal and Otto - Salt Lake City 2002

Miga, Quatchi, Sumi and Mukmuk - Vancouver 2010

Vinicius&Tom - Rio 2016

[semioticapocalypse]

Dima Zverev. Escalator at Delovoy Center station. Moscow. February 2016

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[fr8traingraffitihunting]

[wardrobeoftime]

War & Peace (2016) + Costumes

Natasha Rostova’s yellow & blue dress in Episode 03 & 06.

// requested by @victorious-victorias

[grayghostofthenorth]

Russia. World Dog Show in Moscow. World Dog Show 2016. Russian Greyhound. Charity commemorative issue. Number block with a non-postal (commemorative) stamp with the plot “Autumn Hunting”

[sunskate]

Laurence Fournier-Beaudry & Nikolaj Soerensen FD at 2016 Rostelecom Cup

[lifewithaview]

Hooten & the Lady (2016) Moscow

Ep6

Alex goes to Moscow to aid Hooten in his search for a lost Fabergé egg and confronts her arch-enemy from University, who now works for a black market collector. Hooten meets his master thief mentor who sends the pair on a perilous journey.

*The song playing on the radio when Alex arrives in Moscow is New York band gogol bordello 'start wearing purple'

[qqueenofhades]

Russia is already spreading disinformation in advance of the 2024 election, using fake online accounts and bots to damage President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats, according to former U.S. officials and cyber experts.  The dissemination of attacks on Biden is part of a continuing effort by Moscow to undercut American military aid to Ukraine and U.S. support for and solidarity with NATO, experts said. [....] The type of pro-Russia online propaganda campaigns that thrived on Twitter and Facebook ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election is now routine on every major social media platform, though it’s rare for individual accounts to go as viral now as they once did.

[creature-wizard]

Why americans always think is the russians intervening and not their own country ? Like you know the cia is known to intervene in elections across the world right.

Also the main social medias are all own by right wing billionaires like elon musk.

But nahh it must be the evil russians!

Because Russian bots are a real thing, maybe?????????????? Because Russia pushed Jill Stein to split the vote???????????? Because we know damn good and well that the Russian government does, in fact, do this shit?

[fr8traingraffitihunting]

[wardrobeoftime]

War & Peace (2016) + Costumes

Natasha Rostova’s yellow, blue & pink dress in Episode 01.

// requested by @victorious-victorias

[alexa-santi-author]

Today I learned that some people are still unaware that Russia supported Jill Stein in 2016 and think it would be okay to vote for her instead of the Democrats.

Don't be a sucker.

[zvaigzdelasas]

[NYTimes is Private US Media]

On Saturday, Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the governing Georgian Dream party, who built his fortune in banking, metals and real estate in Russia, said that the people of South Ossetia, which broke away from Georgia in the 1990s and expanded with Russian support in 2008, should receive an apology for the war that eventually broke out.

His comments at a rally in Gori, a town that was briefly occupied by Russian forces in 2008, were quickly condemned by pro-Western activists and the opposition. They also highlighted how Georgia’s relationship with the West has deteriorated over the past months.

On Monday, the United States announced that it had imposed sanctions against two Georgian officials and two activists associated with a pro-Russian political group that it said were involved in violent suppression of protests this year.[...]

In a statement, Mikheil Saakashvili, who was Georgia’s president at the time of the 2008 war [and Governor of the Odesa Oblast in Ukraine from May 2015 until November 2016, before being stripped of Ukrainian Citizenship], called Mr. Ivanishvili’s statement “an unprecedented betrayal” and “an insult to the memory of the heroes who sacrificed for our country.”

“He asked Georgians to apologize for the invader,” said Mr. Saakashvili, who is serving a six-year sentence in Georgia on charges related to abuse of power that he says were politically motivated.[...]

In 2009, an independent fact-finding mission set up by the European Union found that the war was initiated by “a sustained Georgian artillery attack” that was not “justifiable under international law” but that “much of the Russian military action went far beyond the reasonable limits of defense.” The report also accused all sides, including separatist formations, of violating international humanitarian law.[...]

Mr. Ivanishvili, who entered Georgian politics in the early 2010s, promised a “Nuremberg trial” against members of the United National Movement, a pro-Western party that was in power during the 2008 war, after parliamentary elections next month.

After the elections, he said, “all the perpetrators of the destruction of the Georgian-Ossetian brotherhood and coexistence will receive the strictest legal response.” He called the opposition “criminals” and “traitors” who “in 2008 burned our Ossetian sisters and brothers in flames.”

“We will definitely find strength in ourselves to apologize,” said Mr. Ivanishvili, who is officially an honorary chairman of the governing party, but who is widely believed to be its shadow leader.[...]

In May, defying large-scale protests, the Georgian government passed a law that aims to limit the influence of pro-Western nongovernmental groups and media outlets in the country.

16 Sep 24