Timothy Snyder: The Coming Power Struggle in Russia

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Timothy Snyder is a political scientist at Yale who has written incisive books about fascism. In this essay, he describes a scenario that will bring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to an end.

He does not believe that Putin will deploy nuclear weapons. He believes that the humiliating retreat of Russian soldiers on the battlefield will produce power struggles in Russia. The mercenaries that Putin has relied on from Chechnya and the Wagner Group (a neo-fascist militia) are unlikely to put their best troops at risk when the Russian military is retreating. The consequences will not be favorable for Putin.

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Iranian protest crackdown targets ethnic minorities · Global Voices

On September 30, the regime unleashed a devastating attack against the Iranian-Baloch community in the city of Zahedan, in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province.

According to Amnesty International, the attack left as many as 82 protestors dead, including children, in what could be the bloodiest day of protests since the death of Mahsa Zhina Amini on Septeber 16. Since the attack, at least 16 other Baloch were killed in separate incidents.

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Spaziergänge durch raschelndes Herbstlaub

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Spaziergänge durch raschelndes Herbstlaub erinnern mich an die schönen Zeiten meiner Kindheit in Oberbayern. Man konnte während der Spaziergänge mit den Füßen das bunte Laub aufwirbeln, das bereits den Boden des Waldes bedeckte. Wenn das Laub dann wieder zu Boden fiel, raschelten die vertrockneten Blätter, das fanden wir als Kinder herrlich. Deshalb mache ich gerne bei dem wöchentlichen Fotoprojekt 2022, „Der Herbst“III von Roland mit einem Foto von fallenden Blättern mit.

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