https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.

  • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    or look at their tattoos and emblems --- I just cycled through the Reuters article linked in the OP body and picture 2/6 is of an azovite National Corps and picture 3/6 are UNA-UNSO nazis, whose members fought in every post-collapse struggle where they could shoot Russians and even fought alongside Salafi-jihadist and Al-Qaeda groups in Chechnya, and whose founding and most prominent members were real pieces of work

    none of this is of course mentioned in the captions.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Hey Wikipedia, how's it going?

      Occupation: political activist

      Chechen War veteran on the side of the Mujahideen

      jesus-christ