And if Airbnb wanted to really have itself some good PR, they would add the interest they earn on money withheld that can’t be presently accessed by those users.
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In The Guardian article prompted by Cresky’s tweet Airbnb is quoted encouraging people to do “no stay” bookings. The also confirm there are no Aorbnb service charges for bookings in Ukraine.
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Perhaps he’s in a state of denial & thinks this will end quickly. Also the (edit: Russian propaganda) reason for the invasion being shared in Russia is to keep the USA from stealing valuable natural resources from the Ukrainian people.
Btw To try to cull the protests inside of Russia, Putin had Facebook & Twitter access cut to the people.
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I’ll send you one. Just give a sign. Btw it will contain at least one can of spam 
and 1 jar of peanut butter. Perfect shelf stable foods.
Of course the incredibly high Salty deliciousness of the Spam may be a bit off-putting. Fried yum.
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Spam is a favorite meat in Hawaii. They even have Spam burgers! I remember a flight attendant going to visit her family in Hawaii and she had two suitcases, one filled with Spam cans and the other with cereal boxes.
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Please do send your future guest as much info as seems possible and things about Russia too. BBC removed staff from Moscow and CNN just pulled out of Russia so it will be getting harder to for people there or us to hear anything reasonably up to date or (unbiased by RT) from there.
This effort is def gone viral, up to 2million$, and being covered by many news orgs. Thank you everyone! I wish those hosts there in Ukraine will up their rates! Kharkiv is one place in direst straits right now.
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What are you talking about? This makes no sense but sounds like Russian propaganda.
Yes they have, but despite efforts to block it, the BBC is still available to many in Russia, including a Russian language version.
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It is the Russian propaganda being told to the Russian people.
It turns out that – for now – Russian travellers can still fly out of the country to Armenia, and that is exactly what my guest did when, as soon as Russia passed a new law making it illegal to protest, the police came to his door to “gather evidence” on his “illegal” anti-war picketing.
So this family – with two young daughters – have fled the Russian government under threat of arrest (and conscription into the Army) and are now political refugees in a small country just south of Ukraine.
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That is great news! We are glad he got away as soon as he could! I’m quite surprised the Russian authorities didn’t bag him. Maybe he heard from the neighbors they were trying to do just that.
It’s great news that he’s not in jail and his daughters are not in a state-run Russian group home [shudder], but not great news that he’s left behind his home and his small-business auto-mechanic shop and his extended family.
I’d call it a draw!
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Ah, the dilemma of figuring out when to leave. Here in the US I sometimes think about if I would have to flee because of my criticism of our right wing government and that I’m gay. It seems ludicrous to compare the USA with a brutal dictatorship like Putin’s or Xi’s. But I’m a student of how fast Germany turned from relatively progressive Republic to murderous Nazi regime. So it’s not unprecedented. If I can’t trust my fellow Americans to wear a mask and get a vaccine, I can’t trust my fellow Americans.
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We had that dilemma post Brexit vote, didn’t take us long to decide to go.
I took even less time deciding when to leave Istanbul post attempted coup in 2016, if measured, it would likely have been nano seconds 
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Bitcoin for Oloroso?
Hahaha, sure. Postage, packaging and customs duty would sadly make it not very economic to send.
However, I’m sure this lot have a store near you:
Ok, I pay €3.60 per litre, but $17 for a 70cl seems not a bad price.
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