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Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium, which hosted the World Cup final in 2018, is packed out for a pro-war rally on the anniversary of Russia’s Crimea annexation. Lots of reports of state employees being bussed in. They’re watching a video with Ukrainian flags being thrown to the ground

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Dmitry Guberniev is best known as Russia’s unbelievably positive, hyperactive TV biathlon commentator. Now here he is introducing the leader of a Donbas separatist battalion

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1504804154530799631/photo/1

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Seems every Russian pop star not already blacklisted for anti-war posts on Instagram is here. Oleg Gazmanov is leading the crowd in a singalong of a song about Russian army officers

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1504805297948397573/photo/1

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Chechens continue to lead the way among Russia’s forces in Ukraine of producing snazzy videos in which they don’t actually do anything