"35/ The Russians were particularly angry at the Ukrainians for depicting them as violent, brutal ‘orcs’. So they took out their frustrations on a Ukrainian prisoner of war by cutting off his fingers and genitals. "
I don’t even.
That’s how you end up with this:
Today is the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, by the way.
There’s a time-proven way to distinguish between dissidents fleeing the country and Bentley-driving tourists: if the EU border guard sees a Russian passport, ask if the person is seeking asylum. If the answer is “yes” then take their passport and process them as refugees; if “no” turn them back.
Or: let them in, investigate the source of their wealth after the car is parked and start seizing assets.
wow
going to find that.
To be fair, that yacht was sold to repay debt to a bank that went unpaid after sanctions. Basically a repossession. Mark Urban/Newsnight report from last night, here.
I suspect JP Morgan has a better class of repo man. They call them courts. 
(And the actual court repo men have better suits than this, too.)
I’m not surprised surprised; but I am a bit amazed at the sheer magnitude of the missing white woman syndrome around Darya Dugina.
Even by conservative estimates lose a few tens of thousands of troops in the course of grinding a much larger group of civilians into rubble; eh, have some fevered ranting about historical destiny.
One blond media personality blows up in a not-even-conclusively-linked incident and suddenly it’s move over ‘children of the Donbas’; the previously muddled cause has elevated a not terribly notable political commentator and general fascist skulker into the angelic pure martyr of the war.
