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What makes a ‘Jewish’ politician? 


The Los Angeles Police Department once planted rumors that City Council member Zev Yaroslavsky regularly paid prostitutes $300 for oral sex.

On the eve of his 1992 reelection campaign, Yaroslavsky, who came to politics as a leader of the movement to free Soviet Jews, easily disproved the allegations. He went on to help abolish the use of chokeholds, stop undercover surveillance of progressive groups and drive the chief of police from office.

“Compared to the KGB,” Yaroslavsky writes in his new memoir, “ the L.A.P.D. was a walk in the park.” 

There are politicians who happen to be Jewish, and there are Jewish politicians. Yaroslavsky, who stood at the center of Los Angeles politics for four decades, was the latter.

‘From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power’

As almost every page of his new memoir makes clear, Jewish history, issues and values drove him into politics and guided him through his career.

In Yaroslavsky’s book, Zev Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power, you surely learn a lot about local politics: the backroom deals that expanded the Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy, how Disney Hall finally got funded and the delicate  maneuvers to get a busway through a Jewish neighborhood — Yaroslavsky promised an Orthodox rabbi he’d install a Sabbath timer on a neighborhood crosswalk.

During his long career, first as City Council representative to a largely Jewish district, then as one of five county supervisors, Yaroslavsky was at the center of the crises that shaped the city: the Rodney King riots, the 1994 Northridge earthquake, LAPD corruption and brutality scandals and the ongoing homeless debacle.

But there’s another set of lessons embedded in this memoir, about what it looks like to animate one’s values and honor one’s heritage while engaged in the deeply transactional and often cynical day-to-day of politics.

‘Officers’ training’ for Jewish progressives

Yaroslavsky sources those values from his maternal grandfather, Shimon Soloveitchik, a yeshiva scholar-turned-Zionist firebrand, and his parents, who devoted themselves as leaders and educators in the Labor Zionist movement and created the Folk Shule, a progressive Hebrew school in Boyle Heights. There, Yaroslavsky writes, “We learned that life was not just about grades and textbooks. It was also about social justice, workers rights, civil and human rights.”

At HaBonim summer camp in the Santa Monica Mountains — where his cabin mate was former Forward editor J.J. Goldberg—Yaroslavsky immersed himself in debates on Judaism, current events and social justice.

“HaBonim, for all practical purposes,” he writes, “was an officers training academy for young Jewish activists in the latter half of the twentieth century.”

Fighting the KGB and LAPD

As a student at UCLA, Yaroslavky cut his activist teeth on the movement to free Soviet Jewry; many of his family members were still behind the Iron Curtain. When he organized a 1969 protest at the Los Angeles Coliseum against Soviet athletes, a leader of the local Jewish Federation told Yaroslavsky, “What you’re doing is counterproductive.” 

Yaroslavsky and his fellow demonstrators showed up with signs saying, “Let My People Go!” Their vigils and protests swelled to thousands of people.

It was Yaroslavky’s work helping to organize passage of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which tied Soviet-US trade to the freedom of Soviet Jews, that led Yaroslavsky to electoral politics. He launched his campaign for City Council soon after, standing with his remarkable late wife Barbara, a separate but equal force of nature, in front of Canter’s Deli on Fairfax Avenue.

Zev and Barbara Yaroslavsky at The Broad Stage in 2011. Photo by Ryan Miller/Getty Images

“I was an overweight 26-year-old candidate with two suits to his name who didn’t look like a winner under the most optimistic scenario,” he writes.

Yaroslavsky used the lessons he learned from fighting for Soviet Jews to navigate LA politics. The hardships his family suffered — including his own mother’s death when he was 10 years old — combined with his Jewish education prepared him for battle.

The spoils of that battle are quite a legacy: Yaroslavsky spearheaded measures that ensured more equitable school board representation, checked rampant commercial development and kept oil rigs forever out of Santa Monica Bay. He helped push out a retrograde police chief, instituted a ban on chokeholds and fought for the right of LA janitors to unionize.

He also helped push through projects that reflected the values he held dear: arts venues like Disney Hall, major transit corridors and thousands of acres of parkland in the Santa Monica Mountains.

None of these are obviously Jewish causes. In fact, Yaroslavsky’s book doesn’t mention any typical clichés about his support for Israel or the struggle against antisemitism.

In fact, you could say his accomplishments are those any progressive Democratic politician might have achieved, or at least aspired to. So what makes Yaroslavsky a Jewish politician?  

The long arc of his career combines idealism, ethical behavior — in four decades, not a whiff of  scandal — and service to the greater good, the community.

Yaroslavsky calls it the “Soloveitchik tradition.” But, really, it’s the Jewish one.  

That is to say, Yaroslasvky, who retired in 2014, left the city far better than he found it. God knows there’s still a lot left for a new generation of politicians to do. They have a fine example to follow.

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US sanctions group of people and firms from Iran, China and Hong Kong tied to Iran ballistic program


WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. said Tuesday it is sanctioning a group of people and firms from Iran, China and Hong Kong associated with the alleged development of Iran’s ballistic missile program.

The network of seven people and six firms “facilitated procurement of sensitive and critical parts and technology for key actors in Iran’s ballistic missile development,” including Iran’s defense ministry and its affiliated firms, according to the Treasury Department.

Among the sanctions targets are the China-based firm Zhejiang Qingji, which has allegedly sold centrifuges and other materials to an Iran-based firm affiliated with the nation’s defense ministry. Also designated for sanctions were several executives at Qingji and the Hong Kong-based Lingoe Process Engineering Limited, which Treasury said served as a front company for the Chinese firm.

Also named is Iran’s Defense Attaché in Beijing, Davoud Damghani, who is alleged to coordinate purchases from China for Iran end-users.

Among other things, the sanctions deny the people and firms access to any property or financial assets held in the U.S. and prevent U.S. companies and citizens from doing business with them.

The latest round of financial penalties comes as Iran recently claimed that it has created a hypersonic missile capable of traveling at 15 times the speed of sound, adding a new weapon to its arsenal as tensions remain high with the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran are also high amid months of antigovernment protests in Iran and Western anger at Iran’s export of attack drones to Russian forces fighting in Ukraine.

Brian E. Nelson, Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said the U.S. “will continue to target illicit transnational procurement networks that covertly support Iran’s ballistic missile production and other military programs.”

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Associated Press reporter Jon Gambrell in Abu Dhabi contributed to this report.


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Normandy marks D-Day’s 79th anniversary, honors WWII veterans


ON OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — An overwhelming sound of gunfire and men’s screams. That’s how World War II veteran Marie Scott described D-Day as ceremonies were to honor those who fought for freedom in the largest naval, air and land operation in history.

On Tuesday, the whistling sound of the wind accompanied many reenactors who came at dawn on Omaha Beach to mark the 79th anniversary of the assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control. Some brought a bunch of flowers, others waved American flags.

Scott lived it all through her ears. She was just 17 when she was posted as communication operator in Portsmouth, Britain. Her job was to pass on messages between men on the ground and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and senior officers who were supervising the operation.

“I was in the war. I could hear gunfire, machine guns, bombing aircraft, men screaming, shouting, men giving orders,” she recalled.

“After a few moments of horror, I realised what was happening … and I thought, well, you know, there’s no time for horror. You’ve got a job to do. So get on with it. Which is what I did.”

Now about to turn 97, Scott said D-Day was a “pivotal point” in her life.

“As a noncombatant, I was still in the war and I realized the enormity of war. People were dying in that moment.”

On Tuesday, a ceremony was to be held at the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach, which is home to the graves of 9,386 United States soldiers, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing are inscribed 1,557 names some of them who have since been recovered and identified.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen. Mark Milley were to take part in the commemoration alongside WWII veterans.

An international ceremony was later scheduled at the nearby British Normandy Memorial in the presence of officials from Germany and the nine principal Allied nations: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway and the U.S. French Minister of Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu and British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace were expected to attend.

Many visitors came to the American Cemetery ahead of Tuesday’s ceremonies to pay tribute to those who sacrificed their lives.

Jean-Philippe Bertrand, a visitor from the French southern city of Marseille, walked through the countless lines of white crosses Monday. “It’s unimaginable to do such a sacrifice for my freedom, for my son’s freedom,” he said.

“You hear about it on the news and you see the pictures. But once you’re here and you see the reality and the sacrifice that has been made for our beautiful country — I wanted to make the trip once in my life to thank all these people to whom we owe so much,” he added.

German professor Andreas Fuchs, who is teaching French in Berlin, brought students ages 10 to 12 to Normandy via an exchange program.

“It’s very important for children to have a moment in their lives to understand the liberation of Europe. And to know what peace has been for 80 years,” he said.

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Jeffrey Schaeffer, Nicolas Garriga and Thomas Padilla contributed to the story.


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ON OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — An overwhelming sound of gunfire and men’s screams. That’s how World War II veteran Marie Scott described D-Day as ceremonies were to honor those who fought for freedom in the largest naval, air and land operation in history.

On Tuesday, the whistling sound of the wind accompanied many reenactors who came at dawn on Omaha Beach to mark the 79th anniversary of the assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control. Some brought a bunch of flowers, others waved American flags.

Scott lived it all through her ears. She was just 17 when she was posted as communication operator in Portsmouth, Britain. Her job was to pass on messages between men on the ground and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and senior officers who were supervising the operation.

“I was in the war. I could hear gunfire, machine guns, bombing aircraft, men screaming, shouting, men giving orders,” she recalled.

“After a few moments of horror, I realised what was happening … and I thought, well, you know, there’s no time for horror. You’ve got a job to do. So get on with it. Which is what I did.”

Now about to turn 97, Scott said D-Day was a “pivotal point” in her life.

“As a noncombatant, I was still in the war and I realized the enormity of war. People were dying in that moment.”

On Tuesday, a ceremony was to be held at the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach, which is home to the graves of 9,386 United States soldiers, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing are inscribed 1,557 names some of them who have since been recovered and identified.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen. Mark Milley were to take part in the commemoration alongside WWII veterans.

An international ceremony was later scheduled at the nearby British Normandy Memorial in the presence of officials from Germany and the nine principal Allied nations: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway and the U.S. French Minister of Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu and British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace were expected to attend.

Many visitors came to the American Cemetery ahead of Tuesday’s ceremonies to pay tribute to those who sacrificed their lives.

Jean-Philippe Bertrand, a visitor from the French southern city of Marseille, walked through the countless lines of white crosses Monday. “It’s unimaginable to do such a sacrifice for my freedom, for my son’s freedom,” he said.

“You hear about it on the news and you see the pictures. But once you’re here and you see the reality and the sacrifice that has been made for our beautiful country — I wanted to make the trip once in my life to thank all these people to whom we owe so much,” he added.

German professor Andreas Fuchs, who is teaching French in Berlin, brought students ages 10 to 12 to Normandy via an exchange program.

“It’s very important for children to have a moment in their lives to understand the liberation of Europe. And to know what peace has been for 80 years,” he said.

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Jeffrey Schaeffer, Nicolas Garriga and Thomas Padilla contributed to the story.


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PGA Tour, European Tour and LIV announce merger


2023-06-06T15:29:17Z

The PGA Tour, European Tour and rival Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit announced a landmark agreement on Tuesday to merge and form a commercial entity to unify golf, bringing an end to a what had been a bitter split in the sport.

Additionally, the three organizations said in a joint news release that they will work cooperatively to allow a process for any LIV Golf players to reapply for PGA Tour and DP World Tour membership following the 2023 season.

“After two years of disruption and distraction, this is a historic day for the game we all know and love,” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a joint news release.

No details were given as to how the agreement will impact the current competitive golf landscape, including eligibility for this year’s Ryder Cup, though the parties did say they will work in the coming months to finalise terms of the merger.

The LIV Golf series is bankrolled by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund and critics have accused it of being a vehicle for the country to attempt to improve its reputation in the face of criticism of its human rights record.

The announcement of the merger includes an agreement to end all pending litigation between the participating parties.

Additionally, the Public Investment Fund will make a capital investment into the new entity to facilitate its growth and success.

“Today is a very exciting day for this special game and the people it touches around the world,” said PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan. “We are proud to partner with the PGA Tour to leverage PIF’s unparalleled success and track record of unlocking value and bringing innovation and global best practices to business and sectors worldwide.”

The rival LIV Golf circuit, which features 54-hole events with no cuts instead of the traditional 72-hole format, launched in 2022 and lured big-name players away from the rival circuits with staggering sums of prize money for every golfer.

The PIF will initially be the exclusive investor in the new entity and the board of directors will include Al-Rumayyan as Chairman and the PGA Tour’s Monahan as CEO.

The deal could well attract serious antitrust scrutiny. The PGA Tour had sought to fend off competition from LIV by barring PGA Tour players from participating in LIV tournaments.

The Justice Department successfully blocked a merger of two U.S. book publishers last year on the grounds that it would hurt author incomes.

Among the more popular players who made the move to LIV Golf are Hall of Fame golfer Phil Mickelson, former world number one Dustin Johnson, reigning PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka and 2022 British Open winner Cameron Smith.

“Awesome day today,” tweeted Mickelson, whose public image took a hit in February 2022 when the author of an unauthorised biography on him released excerpts from the book in which he called the Saudis “scary” but said he was willing to look past their human rights records to gain leverage with the PGA Tour.

Some PGA Tour players took to Twitter to express their surprise having not been informed of the agreement before its announcement.

“I love finding out morning news on Twitter,” wrote two-times major champion Collin Morikawa.

Canadian world number 67 Mackenzie Hughes wrote: “Nothing like finding out through Twitter that we’re merging with a tour that we said we’d never do that with.”

Former President Donald Trump, who owns three courses that are part of LIV Golf’s 14-event schedule in 2023, celebrated the deal in a Truth social post using all caps.

“Great news from Liv Golf. A big, beautiful, and glamorous deal for the wonderful world of golf. Congrats to all!!!”

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Jun 3, 2023; Dublin, Ohio, USA; The Callaway ball of Jon Rahm is seen at the first tee during the third round of the Memorial Tournament golf tournament at the Muirfield Village Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports

May 27, 2023; Potomac Falls, Virginia, USA; A view of the eighteenth green during the second round of LIV Golf Washington, D.C. golf tournament at Trump National. /Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo



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Blinken set to travel to China for talks in coming weeks -US official


2023-06-06T15:32:51Z

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies during a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 16, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to travel to China for talks in the coming weeks, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, amid simmering tensions months after he canceled a planned trip over a suspected Chinese spy balloon.

The official did not elaborate on timing.

The State Department did not confirm any plans. “We have no travel for the Secretary to announce; as we’ve said previously the visit to the People’s Republic of China will be rescheduled when conditions allow,” deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said.

Bloomberg News first reported the planned visit.

The top U.S. diplomat canceled a visit to Beijing earlier this year fter a suspected high-altitude Chinese spy balloon traversed the United States before being shot down by the U.S. military.

Ties between the world’s two largest economies are strained over issues ranging from Taiwan and China’s human rights record to military activity in the South China Sea.


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‘Sorry, I forgot to write that we will not hire Jews’: Lawyers’ antisemitic emails revealed


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Two prominent LA lawyers resign after making offensive comments about Jews: The attorneys, who recently launched their own firm with four California offices and eight more nationwide, stepped down on Monday after the Forward reported on internal emails revealing that they cultivated a culture of bigotry and disparagement. Among the revelations: they refused to hire someone because they are Jewish, mocked an opposing lawyer for being Sabbath observant, and used the term “Jew” as a verb to describe getting a lower price on hotel rooms or office space. Read the story ➤

Why did top federation leaders sponsor a conference promoting Israeli settlements? Jewish Federations of North America and UJA-Federation of New York were among the sponsors of a conference that opened with a speech from Meir Porush, an Israeli government minister who has said that the Women of the Wall should be “thrown to the dogs” and compared Reform Jews to pigs. In addition to the federation groups, notable sponsors included several Israeli government ministries, the Orthodox Union, Nefesh B’Nefesh and El Al airlines. Read the story ➤

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The cast of ‘Some Like It Hot.’ (Marc J Franklinear)

The very Jewish song that got cut from Some Like it Hot: The musical, based on the 1959 film and set in Prohibition-era Chicago, is the most nominated production at this year’s Tony Awards, set for Sunday night. And it almost contained a number called “The Uptown Yiddishe Blues.” In an interview, composer Marc Shaiman said he was sad to lose the song about the musical kinship between Black and Jewish music. He even shared a demo of the track with us. Read the story and listen to the song ➤

First-person | My dad stormed Normandy on D-Day — and relived the fight against Nazis every night: Today is the 79th anniversary of that largest seaborne invasion in history, so we’re sharing an essay our Beth Harpaz wrote about her father’s experience. “It might sound strange to modern parents who fret about exposing their kids to stories about war and other terrible things, but I loved hearing my father’s battle tales,” she writes. “I was in his thrall every night as I pushed my green peas into my mashed potatoes while hearing him describe taking out a nest of German machine guns or hunting down Nazis in the dark.” Read the essay ➤

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The Princeton University campus. (iStock)

Opinion | What campus life is really like at a ‘hotbed of antisemitism’: Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, the Jewish chaplain at Princeton University, says anti-Israel protests and far-right speakers often generate headlines, but they’re not the biggest issues facing his students. And those students are frustrated by “those at both ends of the political spectrum” who attack each other publicly, he writes. “This turns a campus conversation into a cable news-ready battle. It misrepresents the positive lived experiences of other Jewish students.” Read his essay ➤

 

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WHAT ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY

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Ukraine’s Azov Regiment has drawn controversy due to its far-right roots. (Getty)

🇺🇦  Ukraine has worked for years to contain a fringe far-right movement whose members wear symbols steeped in Nazi history. But some Ukrainian soldiers sporting Nazi iconography are fueling Russian propaganda that this is a war against Nazis. (New York Times

 

✝️  Speaking of the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis dispatched a cardinal to Kyiv on Monday to help broker a peace. (Religion News Service)

 

🎒  Oklahoma approved the country’s first religious charter school – it is online, and Roman Catholic– setting up a new church-state battle. (New York Times)

 

📞  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi spoke on the phone this morning to discuss a joint investigation into this weekend’s border incident where three Israeli soldiers were killed by an Egyptian officer. (Haaretz)

 

🕍  More Americans are choosing in-person prayer services over virtual ones, according to a new Pew Research survey. Jews are the least likely to Zoom in, with 19% saying they worship online at least once a month, compared to 58% of Black Protestants, 47% of evangelicals and 24% of Catholics. (Religion News Service)

 

🎶  London’s mayor and several local rabbis have tried to stop concerts tonight and tomorrow night in the city by Rogers Waters, who wore an SS-style uniform and compared Anne Frank to a slain Palestinian-American journalist at a show last month in Berlin. (Evening Standard)

 

🎸  In other concert news, Guns N’ Roses performed for three hours to a sold-out crowd of 60,000 Monday night in Tel Aviv. (Times of Israel)

 

💔  And one more piece of music news: Taylor Swift is reportedly no longer dating rocker Matty Healy, who was accused of performing a Nazi salute on stage and posting a list of famous Jews in Hollywood to his Instagram page. (Entertainment Tonight)

What else we’re reading ➤  Israel declassifies file on Nazi who enlisted in the IDF and spied for Egypt … Anti-hate mural showcasing Jewish diversity goes up in L.A. … Way before Barbie got the Hollywood treatment, she was ‘born’ with Jewish roots.

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‘Sex and the City’ featured the interfaith wedding of Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) and Harry Goldenblatt (Evan Handler). (HBO)

On this day in history (1998): Sex and the City debuted on HBO. Writing for the Forward on the show’s 20th anniversary, Jenny Singer remarked that it “launched a thousand self-administered orgasms and was hailed as watershed women’s programming.” But it treated “Jews about as well as Thomas Aquinas, the 13th century philosopher who wrote that Jews, despite their being criminals, should still be allowed basic necessities.” The new season of the series’ reboot premieres June 22.

 

It’s also the birthday of Harvey Fierstein, the Tony Award-winning writer and performer.

And in honor of National Applesauce Cake Day, check out this recipe from cookbook author Julia Turshen.

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In case you missed it: In the series finale of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Midge finally got her shot — well, kind of stole it — to do a set on the popular Gordon Ford Show, sending her career into the stratosphere. Watch her famous four minutes.

 

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Thanks to PJ Grisar, Tani Levitt and Talya Zax for contributing to today’s newsletter. You can reach the “Forwarding” team at editorial@forward.com.

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Damn Dams – For Ukrainians, Devastation Caused by Destruction of Dams Should Be No Surprise


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It will take time for the damage resulting from the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam to be assessed, but Ukraine’s history of such catastrophes shows it will be massive.


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Michael Novakhov retweeted: “Спецоперация свернула уже совсем не туда. Русские воюют с русскими и предлагают обменяться друг с другом русскими пленными, которых взяли в бою с русскими военными” svoboda.org/a/russkie-protiv…


Michael Novakhov retweeted:

“Спецоперация свернула уже совсем не туда. Русские воюют с русскими и предлагают обменяться друг с другом русскими пленными, которых взяли в бою с русскими военными”

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Michael Novakhov retweeted: Художник Богдан Зиза, обливший мэрию Евпатории синей и желтой красками, получил 15 лет svoboda.org/a/oblivshiy-meri…


Michael Novakhov retweeted:

Художник Богдан Зиза, обливший мэрию Евпатории синей и желтой красками, получил 15 лет

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