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— Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (@DCSAgov) June 10, 2024
Day: June 10, 2024
Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke as Catherine the Great and Potemkin in the Sky series. Right, Russian troops guard the Kakhovka hydroelectric station by the vital dam
ALAMY
In the most macabre and symbolic act of the war so far, Russian special forces last month secretly entered the cathedral crypt in the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson and removed the dusty bones of an 18th-century Russian prince.
Grigory Potemkin was the lover, favourite and chief adviser of Catherine the Great: soldier, statesman, highly cultured anglophile, a priapic, gambling, church-going libertine and visionary described by one contemporary as “an inconceivable mixture of grandeur and pettiness, laziness and activity, bravery and timidity, ambition and insouciance”.
Above all, Potemkin was an indefatigable empire-builder. In the 1770s, he persuaded the empress to expand Russian rule into what is now southern Ukraine. Kherson was founded by royal decree in 1778 on the high bank of the Dnipro
The Potemkin Strategy of Vladimir Putin:
He tried to justify the “annexation” of the legally Ukrainian lands because “Catherine the Great and Potemkin built the towns here”. Good reason.😃
The World does not need the Putin’s Potemkin Russia. And the Russians themselves do not… pic.twitter.com/k8uWPULcUS— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024
The Potemkin Strategy of Vladimir Putin:
He tried to justify the “annexation” of the legally Ukrainian lands because “Catherine the Great and Potemkin built the towns here”. Good reason.😃
The World does not need the Putin’s Potemkin Russia. And the Russians themselves do not… pic.twitter.com/k8uWPULcUS— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024
Wow. What a horrible decision by USA Basketball. Petty, sad, and short sighted. Would be must watch TV. WNBA finally has opportunity for attention, but says no thanks. My guess is an Olympic player will be “hurt” and they will add Caitlin. Too much pressure not to. https://t.co/KrtVY3jgAN
— William Evanina (@BillEvanina) June 10, 2024
“One S-400 anti-aircraft missile unit was hit near Dzhankoi, and two more S-300 anti-aircraft missile units were attacked near occupied Chornomorske and Yevpatoria.” https://t.co/LZiLV95eVV
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) June 10, 2024
EU elections, a thesis: The far-right mostly surged in countries where the far-right has never ruled. In countries that have already been damaged by populism – Poland, Hungary, Greece – the center right did better. (UK fits this story too, except center-left benefits).
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) June 10, 2024
Narendra Modi has been sworn in for a historic third term as Prime Minister of India
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 10, 2024