🇬🇷 Thousands protested in Greece against a new type of ID cards identity card to be introduced later this month. According to conspiracy theories the new IDs contain chips that will allow authorities to pinpoint location or even control their minds. PM Mitsotakis stated that they not contain "chips or cameras or listening devices."

Why did the NYT publish such a bizarre article, which normalised a mass murdering russian terrorist and invasion commander as a mere “critic of Putin’s war effort”? Meet its author, NYT reporter Ivan Nechepurenko, a russian national who still lives in russia. Ivan denies russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, promotes Kremlin narratives about a Ukrainian civil war that is the West’s fault, advocates that the West accept Crimea as russia, ‘expertly’ explained in 2015 that russia had no interest in Ukraine [beyond Crimea], ‘expertly’ dismissed the build up to the full scale war in early 2022 as a “reality show”, and very frequently retweets other prominent russian chauvinists with dodgy Kremlin connections and equally awful analysis about russia over the past decade. His timeline is exactly what you’d expect: @INechepurenko. This is who the NYT thinks is capable of explaining “Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and other former Soviet republics”. Not really a mystery why that article was so bad. I sometimes think people in my replies are too harsh on the NYT as a whole whenever they get something wrong, but this seriously reflects badly on the whole outfit. Ivan Nechepurenko is like a parody of a russian chauvinist. I genuinely thought it was a joke when I first heard that article was written by an Ivan in Moscow. What’s infuriating is that there are so many decent journalists across our region from the Baltics to Ukraine yet big international outlets just hire these dodgy Moscow correspondents who get everything significant about russia totally wrong. If you want decent journalism about russia and also our region from the Baltics to Ukraine then don’t hire people who can’t see past the russian imperial lens.

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