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War in Ukraine: Anti-war opinions can cost Russians their jobs (Ben Tobias / BBC News)
Soon after signing the letter, Ms Dolinina received a call from her boss. She should remove her name immediately, or resign. If she refused to do either, she would be fired, she was told. Moskino did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment.
“I felt like it doesn’t matter any more. I don’t know how I would work anyway if they didn’t ask me to resign. After this special operation started I don’t feel any motivation to do anything that’s not connected to it,” she said.
She resigned without a fuss, she said, because she was worried that her employers would otherwise find a pretext to fire her, which would cause her more problems in the future.
‘The Trojan Horse Affair’ Works Best When Studying Itself (Sarah Larson / The New Yorker)
There’s a moment deep into “The Trojan Horse Affair,” Serial Productions’ latest investigative podcast series, when the co-hosts, Brian Reed and Hamza Syed, present us with a sharp detail about narratives and suspicion. They’re looking at a government report with Tahir Alam, a former administrator at Birmingham, U.K., secondary schools, who found himself at the center of the affair—a 2014 scandal that dominated headlines, was dramatically politicized by the then Education Secretary, Michael Gove, and changed public policy. On one page of the report, there’s a diagram of a clip-art man, representing Alam, who has “lines emanating from him in all directions, like a web,” connecting him to icons of schools, cultural institutions, and other educators with Pakistani names. Presented this way, it looks like the workings of a sinister plot. But the diagram actually illustrates things that Alam is proud of: distinguished affiliations with the Birmingham City Council, the Muslim Council of Britain, and so on. “It is taken from my C.V.,” he says. When a counterterrorism official puts your credentials into a spider diagram, Reed observes, “it just has a whole different vibe.”
Watch as Rep. Berg takes down #KYGA22‘s cruel 15-week abortion ban (Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates – East)
Kentucky is worth fighting for, and legislators like @karenforky are crucial in that fight. Watch as Rep. Berg takes down #KYGA22's cruel 15-week abortion ban, then tell your legislator to keep #BansOffOurBodies: https://t.co/5GsqyBxGcJ pic.twitter.com/0uV6UsWIKA
— Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates – East (@PPAAEast) March 16, 2022
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