max seddon ✓
@maxseddon · joined 06 Aug 2011
moscow bureau chief @FT. in soviet russia, news reports you: max.seddon@ft.com
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@maxseddon The cause of higher American diesel prices is supply chain disruptions across the Middle East due to Trump's own mad war. The situation is amplified by the situation in Russia as the IEA said. This is Trump deflecting and fiddling while Rome burns.
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@maxseddon My aunt would be my uncle if she had balls...
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@maxseddon There's a high probability he just made it up. If not, it will probably hold for a couple of days, as usual
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Trump says Russia and Ukraine have agreed an energy ceasefire.
No confirmation yet from Kyiv or Moscow. Would be a major de-escalation in Putin's invasion – and potentially a gift to Trump ahead of the midterms, if oil prices go down as a result. https://t.co/cPzul48QzR
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Ukraine is seeking approval to use Starlink-equipped drones against ballistic missile launchers up to 200km inside Russia as Kyiv faces a severe shortage of air-defence interceptors, @ChristopherJM reports:
https://t.co/IIpHbrcM8T
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Ukrainian drone strikes aren’t putting Russians off their beach vacation, @nastyastognei reports.
“Drones are flying all over the country. But people are so tired of living through this nightmare that they just don’t care. They want a change of scenery.” https://t.co/KxeFR5HDoT
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@maxseddon @ak_mack HO-LY SHIT! And the FBI director headed to Moscow to meet with FSB. I’m sure this is all fine though. Nothing to see here. Not like they’re designing the bunker using Russian plans or anything @HouseDemocrats
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New from me and @ak_mack: Rodney Mims Cook Jr, Trump’s ballroom commissioner was given a diplomatic passport and extensive briefings before Russia’s flagship economic forum, where he met Kremlin officials and was assigned a diplomatic security detail.
https://t.co/UHPet6H3fD
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@maxseddon Great story, thanks! Reading this it's both utterly bizarre Ommic wasn't flooded with contracts for Ukrainian EW, but the owner was hand delivering chips to a Russian agent to keep his company afloat. Granted, it was his old sanction-busting customer, but still
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This story, by @xtophercook and me, is a rare look into the inner workings of a Russian technology smuggling operation. And it shows the daunting game of whack-a-mole western governments have to play to stop the chips flowing:
https://t.co/4oULhWV7hl
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France shut down Ommic this year and sold off its assets to a US chipmaker.
But Istok — and Ermakov — are still active. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Istok has produced novel equipment for the Russian military – and used branches of the Ermakov network to source supplies. https
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Sugrue’s book was not widely read. Only half a dozen readers listed its Russian translation on Bookmate, an online reading app popular in Russia. The only one who finished it was a reader using the handle “Monar4”: Maxim Ermakov. https://t.co/D5Mm31vucA
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Within months, Sugrue was released after paying a fine for a customs labelling violation. In his memoir, Sugrue said he was able to demonstrate that he had sought to check the device did not need an export licence, while the buyer was also a civilian agency, not a military one. h
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Irishmen Denis and Eoin Sugrue started exploring the Russian microtechnology market in the 1980s. The Cold War was over, but certain items could not be freely sent into Russia under export controls. Denis Sugrue learned that first-hand in 2005, when the FBI arrested him. https:/
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The KGB had an entire division, “Line X,” dedicated to stealing western technology.
When the first shoots of capitalism sprung up in the 1980s, avenues opened for Soviet enterprises to buy it on the open market — and for western businessmen to sell it to Moscow. https://t.co/Kk1
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Russia can’t make advanced chips on the level of the west and Asia’s. “It would be simply too expensive to produce it domestically and it would be militarily inconceivable to go without it,” says @crmiller1.
Instead, the Kremlin’s intelligence services smuggle them into Russia.
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The man pictured, Maxim Ermakov, has been sanctioned by the US and UK governments in the past fortnight as part of a major crackdown on the networks that Moscow’s intelligence services use to procure advanced western technology for president Vladimir Putin’s war machine. https://
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Today, Ommic has closed and Rocchi is awaiting trial in France, having been indicted in March. He denies charges of sending secrets to a foreign power that could harm the national interest, exporting dual-use goods to Russia, and submitting false documents. https://t.co/6YUxDbrpm
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After Putin annexed Crimea in 2014, Ermakov had to cover his tracks to avoid sanctions and export controls.
But Rocchi knew who he was dealing with. In 2015, he wrote a letter that referred to Fly Bridge, a front company Ermakov set up, as “our official partner in Moscow”. https
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Rocchi knew his ultimate customer was NPP Istok, which makes electronic warfare systems for the Russian military. Specialist microchips like Ommic’s high-performance gallium nitride and gallium arsenide-integrated circuit boards are vital to defense manufacturers like Istok. http
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Marc Rocchi’s qcompany Ommic desperately needed Maxim’s business to stay afloat. A few months earlier Rocchi had flown to Greece to hand-deliver Maxim 230 microchips — €45,000 worth. Maxim had, at one point, offered Rocchi “cash and women” for more, though he declined. https://t.
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As their yacht bobbed on the Mediterranean, the microchip executive snapped a picture of his Russian partner asleep on the deck.
He only knew the Russian by his first name, Maxim. But he knew Maxim was using a shadowy network to get the chips for the Russian defense industry. ht
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Dibandingkan akun berukuran sama
8 postingan dari 90 hari terakhir, dibandingkan dengan rentang 100K–1M pengikut. tampil jauh melampaui audiensnya sendiri, dan audiens itu merespons.
Median tayangan7 582akun ini5 983median untuk 100K–1M
Jangkauan, %2.16%akun ini1.49%median untuk 100K–1M
Interaksi, %1.21%akun ini0.93%median untuk 100K–1M
| Metrik | Akun ini | Median untuk 100K–1M | Rasio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median tayangan per postingan | 7 582 | 5 983 | 1.27× |
| Jangkauan (tayangan ÷ pengikut) | 2.16% | 1.49% | 1.45× |
| Tingkat interaksi | 1.21% | 0.93% | 1.30× |
Akun lain pada rentang ini → Bandingkan dengan akun lain → Bagaimana tolok ukur ini disusun →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.22%12 Nov
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0.39%18 Aug
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes77.9%8 102 in total
Reposts12.8%1 330 in total
Replies1.9%200 in total
Quotes0.8%81 in total
Bookmarks6.6%683 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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