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Russia, Ukraine, the UN and NATO

Submitted by wendy davis on Thu, 02/24/2022 - 5:52pm

(Some recent developments; I dunno what all’s been covered here..)

Earlier via tass news, and this fukkery may have been just bridge too far):

MOSCOW, February 23. /TASS/. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres made several statements on the situation in eastern Ukraine that are not compatible with his status, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, opening talks with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen on Wednesday.

"To our great regret, the UN Secretary General whom you are representing turned out to be susceptible to pressure by the West and recently made several statements incompatible with his status and his authority under the UN Charter," he said.

c99 Web Host Maintenance

Submitted by JtC on Thu, 02/24/2022 - 8:47am

I received this several days ago. The intermittent outages this morning are probably related to this maintenance. As far as I know Putin has nothing to do with it.

Hi [name redacted],

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During this maintenance window, there will be approximately 15 minutes of downtime while work is performed.
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