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@dangillmor @Flipboard @mike Lost me at "Russia-Ukraine Crisis." Can't take seriously, and especially trust content curation choices of someone who calls the Russian invasion of Ukraine a "crisis," as if it "just happened" and not a planned and deliberate decision of one country to invade and erase another.

Federating magazines is a great idea. I'll have to wait for someone other than Flipboard to try it. Someone who recognizes Ukraine's right to exist, and cares about compensating writers too.

@angdraug @dangillmor @Flipboard Dmitry, are you saying that Euronews and/or Flipboard does not recognize Ukraine’s right to exist? As far as Flipboard is concerned I can tell you that we have always viewed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a monstrous and abhorrent act of unlawful and evil aggression. Accordingly we’ve worked hard to curate reporting from many sources around the world who are giving people a raw look at what has been happening there.

As far as this Euronews magazine is concerned, it looks like they started curating this magazine well before the invasion occurred and they’ve posted more than 1.600 stories since then. Their reporting seems very fact based and clearly they believe this is both a horrendous and unjustified invasion as well as a global crisis that gets at the very foundation of modern civilization. Take a look at the stories in their magazine and let me know if you disagree.

@mike Thank you for responding, and for your unambiguous position on Ukraine.

I know Euronews very well. I grew up in Belarus, and after Lukashenka regime shuttered independent press in early 2000s, Euronews was one of the handful of major news organizations that provided coverage of events in my old country.

Unfortunately their coverage was selective and biased to favor Russia then, same with their coverage of Ukraine now. Yes, even fact-based reporting can be skewed.

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@angdraug @dangillmor @Flipboard Well that's a shame to hear and given your local knowledge I think this is valuable feedback. I am CCing my team here @NewsDesk and I have already removed this link from my Medium post while we look into this more.

In the meantime, here is a link to the magazine Flipboard's curation team has been curating about Russia's invasion of Ukraine that you may find useful: @ukraine-thenewsdesk

This magazine includes posts from a variety of US and other sources including the Kiev Post, The Moscow Times and the YouTuber Denys Davydov. Let me know what you think of these or if you have suggestions for additional sources you trust on Ukraine that we should be curating.

Thanks for your post on this.

@mike After a cursory glance, @ukraine-thenewsdesk indeed looks more useful. The sources you mentioned look good. I also recommend @timkmak and pravda.com.ua/eng.