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This is Lyubov Sobol an ally to Alexis Navalny(Russian opposition leader) and an anti-corruption lawyer getting arrested today(Jan 23) for simply giving an interview to TV stations(Here)
update: fuel spill located 6-8 km in the Black sea away from the shore. Russian Information Agency Interfax confirmed plane indeed crashed. updates here: https://meduza.io/live/2016/12/25/poiski-propavshego-s-radarov-tu-154-onlayn (Russian source)
Oh god. And I learn about this on reddit. According to LE, 4 dead and 10 wounded. Also according to various accounts driver says that the bus started moving on its own and brakes didn't work, or told that he mixed up brake and throttle pedals (maybe it's both in succession).
Some pro-government political commentators and journalists in Russia have said that his family can get prison term for taking chemical warfare agent through national border - they've brought a bottle that has a nerve agent which poisoned Navalny.
Which is ironic considering that there's no investigation of any kind into Navalny's poisoning in Russia, and noone was gathering evidence.
Wow, this is so weird. She was apparently just forgotten about and everyone assumed the apartment was empty as people put stuff in front of the door over the years. This is crazy to me. It's just a bunch of strange circumstances that allowed for this.
I found an interesting article that goes into more detail about her and others.
This report is from 2016. In 2017, PornHub came to an agreement with the Russian Government to allow Russians access to the site once again by going through an age-verification program. Read more about it here.
Also, reports note that Russian Citizens were vehemently against the ban, and wanted to leave the country after it went through in 2016. Read about that here.
This happened in Moscow, here's a news article (in Russian). The guy was arrested and then released on bail until the trial. He faces up to 5 years in prison.
Let's go point by point: 1) Russia has a lot more than one, I uncovered one massive operation myself (1, 2 ), run by the Moscow city hall. It includes both traditional social media campaigns where hundreds of "volunteers" post pro-mayor messages on Twitter and Vkontakte, Russia's domestic social network, and a whole galaxy of identical, centrally managed news websites whose goal is to game the algorithms of the national news aggregator, Yandex. Many regional governments have smaller but similar operations.
2) The goal is to promote the government's causes, creating the illusion of widespread support, and to drown out the critics.
3) They are pervasive, but not terribly effective, just annoying. Most people are aware of them and have learned to ignore or ridicule the very obviously pro-government messages they are seeing on social media.
This picture is from a satyrical magazine called "Crocodile". The magazine was publishing holiday related cartoons every year since 30s and it's really interesting to see how the mood changes every decade.
As an example, this is the picture from 1940, description says That was hidden behind the paranja
1968, MARCHriarchy
1984, no name for the picture
Not just a guy. They arrested cardboard copies of the guy and tens of other single protesters who protested the arrest of the guy. Funny and sad.
Just want to specify it’s over 1000 arrests spanning across the whole country, so they probably won’t run out of cells...
Most arrests were in Moscow (over 572), then Saint Petersburg (over 180) and Chelyabinsk (164). In some cities, Inauguration Day protests were allowed so no one was arrested, but in many major Russian cities they were not allowed by the city authorities so anyone participating might get arrested.
My numbers are from 2 hours ago, probably already many more arrested by this point but I couldn’t find a more recent update from Meduza
17 confirmed dead. And the case was changed from terrorist attack to mass murder. Source
oh, it is definitely a HS prom, it's all over the news on Russian news sites.
Turns out, female genital mutilation is still completely legal in Russia. There was a bill to explicitly ban it, but it didn't get enough traction. Meanwhile, more than a thousand girls get mutilated every year. One clinic in Moscow even advertised the procedure on their website.
You really can't keep yourself safe from unjust persecution precisely because it's unjust (and unpredictable), but we've had to evacuate a few colleagues out of Russia because of police harassment. Standing your ground and not yielding to pressure sometimes helps too, especially if there is a major public campaign in your support. In June 2019, one of my colleagues had drugs planted on him by corrupt cops, but after a national outcry he was released and the cops are now behind bars. But unfortunately, it was more of a unique exception.
Best link I can find: https://meduza.io/galleries/2014/11/21/krokodil-v-gostyah-u-meduzy-ves-mir-protiv-nas
Scroll down to find the image: https://meduza.io/image/attachments/images/000/001/447/large/XYAt75xDd0kUneQMcx7VEw.jpg
Looks like it's from 1953. 65 years ago. Remarkably good quality image.
No, there she was looking at everyday life of people interned in mental institutions. Her action was dedicated to their problems.
There's an interesting companion piece as well: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/01/20/here-s-how-the-sex-trainers-who-claimed-to-have-russiagate-dirt-on-oleg-deripaska-went-from-a-thai-jail-to-a-russian-jail
It was literally the counter-balance responsible for every single concession and ounce of progress mustered in the west for the working class for its duration. As soon as the USSR started slipping, the western oligarchs were able to start slowly removing those concessions and moving back along the trajectory of fascism they were always pursuing. Records show how the wealth of the ruling class and income inequality were steadily decreasing since the 1920s, only to explode in the west during the economic crises and subsequent collapse of the USSR.
Russia has begun purging journalists who have been investigating this already.
Expect a few more journalists to disappear or be murdered as a result. Cracking work again by bellingcat. Spot on time and time again. They are really frightening the Russian embassy twitter accounts who slander them.
This is huge - Yandex has 33% of search engine market share in Ukraine, there are 13m users of Vkontakte and 9.5m users of 'Odnoklassniki'. Russian antiviruses are blocked - Kaspersky Lab and Dr.Web. Assets of 'Yandex.Ukraine' are blocked. Ukraine also prohibited several Russian media and TV channels, including Rossiya Segodnya, RBC, VGTRK, TNT and several others. The ban includes blocking of assets, ban on transactions and broadcasting.
Here is the full list of blocked entities - http://www.president.gov.ua/storage/j-files-storage/00/40/30/6f76b8df9d0716da74bb4ae6a900d483_1494864914.pdf (in Ukrainian). It's funny that they left UTM codes in URLs in official document - http://imgur.com/a/0aEJC
Top-10 websites in Ukraine (4 of them - Russian, blocked today): https://meduza.io/image/attachments/images/002/141/231/large/DW_RBWGLUYV4_2xmj0t4cw.jpg
Thanks for opening this can of worms. Solidarity from Russia.
Gulag jokes are extremely bad and dumb and reinforce this sub's most disgusting tankies: the ones that unironically refute even government sources, the ones that unironically support lysenkoism because of their Communist struggle in Washington State DSA, the ones that ignore realities and history of gulags to justify their bloodlust.
No fucking shit some revolutionary struggle going to require violence. I'd prefer it not to happen to multitudes of regular people on a rate of thousands of arrests per day, though. If you believe otherwise, then you just think that you will be the executioner.
It's kinda surreal. RT is involved in vaccination campaign here in Russia, attacking anti-vaxers and promoting Sputnik vaccine, while at the same time these anti-vaxers translate foreign RT articles and share them among themselves.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/11/11/the-two-faces-of-rt-s-coronavirus-propaganda
Here's real footage US Apache helicopter attacking Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Apparently Putin tried to pass it off to Olivier Stone as Russia's work in Syria.
The Russians are not framing this as a terrorist attack. The kid who shot the place up was a student and took his own life. I don't speak Russian but Google Translate will help. https://meduza.io/news/2018/10/17/student-zastrelil-17-chelovek-v-kerchenskom-kolledzhe-sk-bolshe-ne-schitaet-eto-napadenie-teraktom
From the top of my head:
- Spanish air traffic controller
- SU-25 shooting MH17 from behind (Russian Ministry of Defense)
- The Ukrainians wanted to shoot Putin’s plane
- BUK belonging to Ukraine
- It was an Israeli missile (RT)
- A bomb was planted by the CIA
There is a lot more, but I’m on mobile now — I also can’t link to RT.
Here's what we know about "Putin Critic" Voronenkov:
> State Duma deputy from the Communist Party in 2011-2016
> pushed bill on limiting foreigners in the Russian media, which changed ownership of Russia’s Forbes
> In 2015, Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation accused Voronenkov of embezzlement, as his official salary could hardly allow him to buy five apartments, five cars, and a summer residence.
> In 2014, the Investigation Committee, suspecting Voronenkov of being guilty of corporate raid, could not get the deputy deprived of parliamentary immunity despite its efforts.
> In the early 2000s, Voronenkov was investigated on accusations of bribery.
> entrepreneur Anna Atkin accused him of being involved in the murder of her business partner Andrei Burlakov.
Then there was another investigation and Voronenkov fled to Ukraine.
From what I can find, he's being charged with “calling for terrorist activities or justifying the use of terrorism via the Internet” and “organizing riots”
So I would guess he's being fucked by the current Russian regime.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/06/26/i-was-a-celebrity-in-jail
>On June 19, 42-year-old flight simulation developer Oleg Tishchenko was sentenced in the United States. In 2011, he had purchased instruction manuals for the American F-16 fighter jet model on eBay. Five years later, the U.S. government brought criminal charges, and in early 2019, Tishchenko was extradited after he flew to Georgia for a dance festival. The game developer, who was tried in Utah, could have faced more than 10 years in prison for conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, violating the Arms Export Control Act, and smuggling. However, some of the charges against him were dropped, and the court counted the year he had spent in jail since his capture in Georgia toward his one-year sentence. Following Tishchenko’s immediate release, he was deported to Russia, where we asked him about the charges he faced and his life behind bars in the U.S. and Georgia.
We did, actually. None of the four government agencies involved in making the decision to designate Meduza a "foreign agent" could or bothered to produce any admissible evidence of Meduza's supposed foreign funding. The judge even chided them for it — but the designation remained because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> If murdering your children was a religion.
That's Pussy Riot group by the way. They called it "Policeman enters the game". They protest tortures that are happening during the world cup in Russia. Source in Russian
> This is an outrageous decision
Moreover, they've been tricked by a Kremlin propagandist:
Navalny's 2007 video (where he calls for deportation of illegal immigrants) is provocative, but it's not a hate speech.
More context: The Evolution of Alexey Navalny’s Nationalism
By the official declaration (link in Russian) from the Russian Truckers Association, local associations and trade unions they demand:
Abolishing or fundamental reconstruction of new truck tracking system (expensive device they were forced to buy)
Abolishing of new trucking tax (added on top of existing road taxes and fuel excise)
Change or unrealistic work time regulations
Resignation of the government, vote of non-confidence for the president
Establishing order on truck weight control stations (places of routine bribery and extortion)
Transparency in fuel excise
On the last week 6 heads of logistics companies met with PM Medvedev and after the talk the government decided to increase the PLATON tax by 25% next month instead of by 100% as was planned previously. The truckers associations were not satisfied with that, the people who talked with Medvedev are not widely known and didn't have legitimacy to represent them, the previously planned strike started today. They declare this protest to be without a planned end. Truckers say the big logistics company will not participate but they only provide 30% of all transportation. A short video.
Well that, and also Russia has invested tens of billions of dollars into Venezuela and risks potentially losing out on recovering that monet.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/01/24/what-does-russia-stand-to-lose-in-venezuela
Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, has stated that Russian law prohibits any state entities but the federal government from selling or buying arms abroad.
> “I don’t know what this announcement was about, but such actions would violate Russian law,” Peskov said.
— link
So this is just some attention whoring chechen.
> You can look all over the Russian language news if you want, you'd think it didn't happen.
I think you mean Russia-based news organizations.
It's a banner at the top of Meduza's front page and there are several articles about it on the Russian language version (it's on the English version front page, but is much less prominent)
If you don't know, Meduza is a Riga-based Russian language aggregator that also produces its own content. It was formed from about 20-30 journalists who left Lenta.ru when Lenta's editor-in-chief was fired, ostensibly to make room for a more Kremlin-friendly one.
Confirmed so far: 1)91 ppl on the plane including the military band, journos 2)Crashed into the sea - oil spill found, landing gear found 1km away from the shore, personal items found 3)crashed while climbing after takeoff 4) probable cause: mechanical fault per Interfax and https://meduza.io/live/2016/12/25/poiski-propavshego-s-radarov-tu-154-onlayn
And it is just a coincidence that RossAtom has decided now to clean area around "Mayak" facility which is said to be the source of radioactive clould from consiquences of accident which happened in 1957 Just a coincidence -nothing too look at.
Is there at least fuckign something about what russians don't lie?
You will laugh but today Russian court unironically made a decision to ban some animes in Russia:
Well, he was. He was “detained” to “have a talk”.
Source: https://meduza.io/news/2019/07/18/na-krasnoy-ploschadi-zaderzhali-aktivista-s-pustym-plakatom
It’s common in Russia to arrest people practicing their constitutional rights. According to our constitution, picketing is allowed anywhere, but in the real world you either get a policeman in civilian clothes placed near you (so you get arrested for uncoordinated rallying) or you just get arrested without any reason.
Source: I am Russian
If there's a silver-lining to this, is that now this guy and his work will get a lot of exposure that would have otherwise remained unknown for many people.
Here is the English version of the paper he works for.
Oh, I didn't think about this before.
There were some things that I read previously on Meduza "meduza.io". Just now I found that there is Meduza in English https://meduza.io/en. Well, I don't read it regularly so cannot like 100% vouch for it (and I don't know how similar Russian and English versions are). At least on the Russian version I can find "uncomfortable" topics (which I cannot find on "regular media").
Also "Rain" cooperates with BBC (there is "BBC Russian Service"). But I don't know if there is "BBC Russian Service" in English.
I will add if find something else.
Well, tbh, Simonyan is not a journalist, she is propagandist, she has a reputation of being against free speech and journalism. Many of journalists working on RT do it for money, though Im not quite sure about Simonyan, she is fucked in the head. In Russia, if you are jounalist, you dont have many choices. Go work for government propaganda, get a safe( and sometimes quite big) paycheck or try to work for the remnants of independent media(which mostly operate in internet nowadays), be constantly afraid of government continous crackdown, harassment and intimidation, even having a criminal case opened if your reporting touched some important figure.
It's interesting (and not really surprising) that RT and specifically Margarita Simonyan support and actively participate the campaign against the independent news in Russia who are currently being designated foreign agents or undesirable organisation.
This is by the way the report that got the journalist (Ivan Gulonov) locked up:
Ok, so this guy who just randomly appears to be a "pro-russian" rebel officer who, quote from /u/TangoJager "Due to his looks and "cool attitude" [is] like the marketing face of the rebels, encouraging people to join their army", is by total coincidence
- smoking a cigarette
- during an interview
- while ~~one~~ a ukrainian shelling strikes right near his position
- while he literally doesn't even blink (selling point for me that he knows what happens)
- while everyone else runs into the building
- only to come out of it (after only one shell? WTF? Do they know the danger is over?)
- to pick up a shrapnel which landed just right beside him while no other shrapnels did hit anything else around him
This screams staged all over. Especially since it was made by the guys who created the hilarious masterpiece "US APMY"
Edit: In the video, multiple explosions are heard, not one as i first thought from the gif. But please note that in this video, actually two people are totally calm: The guy filmed, and the guy filming. Not even he runs away like all his collegues.
Oh Cmon white pride doesn't automatically mean she's a neonazi. Why I'll just google this girl and see what's up...aaaand it looks like she's a neonazi...But hey maybe she was just saying hi near some graffiti. Let's just keep scrolling...and that's the SS skull and Celtic Cross
Among Russian liberals (something like 10-15% of the population), she's considered the best candidate for President. There was recently an article on Meduza (a Russian independent media outlet) titled "Good President, Bad Candidate," in which the author attempts to make sense of why Hillary isn't doing as well against Bernie.
He summarizes by saying,
>Clinton has many strengths — perseverance, unyieldingness and four years of experience in the highest public office. But all of these are good qualities for a president, and not a presidential candidate.
From what I can tell, Ukrainians seem to think the same thing.
Additionally, there's an article on thequestion.ru, where they ask journalists / notable figures what a Clinton presidency would mean for Russia.
One journalist responded with the following (which answers what Russian nationalists / Putin supporters would think):
>Nothing will change. Except that they'll change the family names on the bumperstickers that say, "Obama is a schmo."
Which is to say that the average Russian will hate Hillary just as much as they hate Obama, and instead of saying super racist shit about Obama, they'll say super sexist shit about Hillary.
- US's FARA and Russian "foreign agent" law are similar in that they both have "foreign agent" in their name, but that's about it. A typical Russian "foreign agent" in the US is a K Street lobbyist or a NYC law firm retained by the Russian government or an oligarch for major $$$. In Russia, it's a young woman whose life and career are now ruined because she has to include the "foreign agent" legal disclaimer on top of her every social media food, including Instagram pics of her food, her Tinder profile and job applications — for this. In the US, one has to register themselves with the DoJ. In Russia, you only find out about it when your name appears on the Justice Ministry's website. It usually happens late on Friday nights, we call them "doom Fridays." There's no way to know when and if that happens to you or to prevent it. I could go on, but you get the picture.
Detailed article by meduza.io (in Russian). Long story short, it was a popular regional station in Tomsk, it operated since 1991, won record amount of TEFI television awards among Russian regional channels, and it had no financial problems. Then in 2014 the channel was just turned off air for 1.5 months (!) because of mysterious "technical problems". Then Roskomdanzor warned the channel for being off air for more than 1 month. Then in November Roskomdanzor at first prolonged it license to broadcast to 2025, and then in a few weeks revoked it, claiming it was a mistake. 3000 persons protested against shutting down of the channel (huge number for Tomsk), but fruitlessly. Aaaaannd it's gone, the channel is dead.
Context: Navalny called a member of the FSB poison team posing as one of his superiors, and duped him into divulging that a follow-up FSB job included washing Navalny's seized underpants of possible traces of the Novichok poison that was used in the assassination attempt.
Today in his remarks to the court that could hand him a prison sentence, Navalny said:
"We all remember Alexander the Liberator [Alexander II] and Yaroslav the Wise [Yaroslav I]. Well, now we’ll have Vladimir the Underpants Poisoner."
Im pretty sure that at that point ISIS will claim about anything just to get in news feed. I mean cmon Surgut is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, hell they only got KFC just few years ago.
Edit: russian police says that it less likely to be terrorist attack russian sauce https://meduza.io/feature/2017/08/19/v-surgute-prestupnik-s-mulyazhom-poyasa-smertnika-ranil-nozhom-sem-chelovek-glavnoe
oh boy, daily shitpost about Ukraine, from our beloved Russian bot r/goodpoll. Keep it up, man.
But be careful around the mops, Russian ФСИН really likes to use them against prisoners for some reason :)
There's no example provided on what her exact words were. If it was something like.
''Men are stupid and we would be better off with only women'''is harsh, but muh free speech counts in this case for me.
''Kill all men and we should start now'', that is pretty big incitement territory.
Mostly muh freespeech people show up because some people like to interpret criticism or general dislike as incitement. Mostly this is a grey area remark.
This case is most likely a bogus one made the the authorities to serve as an example where there is a breach against free speech, but I can't check it.
Also they already persecuted a man for mysoginist comments before as someone poster earlier, just above your comment. So it isn't out of reality to see this case on the opposite spectrum :
GRRM talking about D&D (22. august 2017) https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/08/22/fantasy-needs-magic
>They are independent. They can do whatever they want. I don’t have any power… any contractual right to [stop them]. I consult with them. I talk to them on a regular basis. Of course, years ago, we had a series of very long meetings, where I told them some of the big twists and turns and huge events that were coming in the last few books. So they’ve been touching [on] some of these, and doing some of the reveals, but they have also been departing in various ways.
I saw a small bit of that podcast live (someone had linked it back then, I don't even know the name of the podcast) and he was really basically reproducing a bunch of alt-right talking points (and I remember the podcast host sounded like a real psycho, whoever he was).
The one thing that I remember clearly though was something that caused him and PeanutButterGamer to fight on twitter. Jon was saying how he doesn't like refugees coming to the US (no reason given IIRC) and that they should either find somewhere else to go or stay in their own countries (you know, as if it was a goddamn choice with Russia constantly dropping bombs on their heads).
Oh yeah and he just decided to tweet a bunch of things saying feminism is terrible and so on. "Coincidentally" (according to him) during the Women's March. And he was pretty ignorant about the movement as well, acting like men weren't allowed in the protests and such (which is ridiculously false).
Jontron was never the smartest guy and, since he has been attacked by actual crazy SJWs in the past and he has some pretty extreme right friends, it was just a matter of time until he got roped into the whole alt-right thing. The only reason Ethan hasn't fallen into that hole is probably because a) he's a bit older and a little bit more mature and b) Hila is a bit more of a sane person and probably grounds him somewhat, like when she called him out on the manspreading video to be explicit that "feminism isn't bad, it's those crazy people who call themselves feminists that are".
Why? To prevent any potential future separatism movement. Xinjiang is vast and full of resources. (And it's also very important for the Road and Belt initiative.)
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How? Brutally. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/10/01/an-internment-camp-for-10-million-uyghurs
Ukrainian police arrested Chewbacca for having no documents and illegal parking. What other proof do you need?
ps. Wakeup sheeple!
Russian influence goes past Russian state owned media. They have people who will deliberately join online discussions posing as Americans spreading rumors and derailing discussions. They also have armies of twitter bots. And Russia owns a lot of conspiracy, anti-American, liberal, etc websites.
Here is a partial list of some Kremlin sites: https://toinformistoinfluence.com/2015/11/15/russian-news-and-russian-proxy-news-sites/
And here is a paper on Russian social influence: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2237.html
And here is an interview with someone who worked at the Russian troll factory: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/10/15/an-ex-st-petersburg-troll-speaks-out
This is a great article about the different messages which RT/Russia Today is broadcasting in various target markets. It's Russian state propaganda, which tries to weaken western countries. Unfortunately for Russia, it's biting them in the butt because Russian anti-vaxxers are drinking up the disinformation from RT Germany and other markets.
I can't get inside of his mind to know what he really think or feels, but he surely does throwing a wrench or two whenever he has an occasion. Regarding vaccine conspiracy theories, that's what Russia Today does, but based on what I know about them, they're not really doing it on Putin's orders — rather just farming for clicks.
>"As underscored by Mediazona correspondent Alexander Borodikhin, it’s still unclear whether or not this ban applies to the anime series as such or just the content posted on “jut.su.” That said, he warns that Russia’s censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, could interpret the court ruling as a “ban on the content in general” (in other words, on the anime series themselves)."
As reported by Meduza. Basically this will be interpreted however Roscomnadzor likes. They may go after any service distributing it in Russia if they're looking for a reason to block it
>The Judge brings up Concord Catering, saying the gov't alleges an association with Concord Mgmt.
>Attorney for Concord Mgmt:
>The gov't has "indicted the proverbial ham sandwich." "That company didn't exist as a legal entity during the time period alleged by the gov't."
Yevgeny Prigozhin's Concord Catering has been in business since 1996 according to the WSJ.
Apparently Prigozhin never filed the paperwork to have Concord Catering properly incorporated/registered as a 'legal entity' until February 27, 2018.
So, Concord Catering was in business at the time it was indicted. It just wasn't incorporated/registered it as a 'legal entity', whatever that means in Russia. So to take those facts and spin it to say it wasn't in existence is just a ridiculous, bald-faced lie.
Óbazmeg, ez a clickbait netovábbja!
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> Oroszország vezető Covid-kutatója
A SputnikV kutatóit a study szerzői között kell keresni (vannak jópáran, az utolsó MSc hallgató is fel van tüntetve). Én nem látom Kaganskij-t, de biztos vak vagyok.
Kaganskij az egyik legnevesebb biológusuk volt, kurva nagy veszteség, de a Coviddal ne mossuk már össze.
Kiesése előtt megkéselték, a feltételezett elkövetőt már őrizetbe is vették.
Actually, it's not the religion, it's laws and goverment position. There is literally nothing that can stop homophobic individuals (link in Russian about an online stalker who looks for gays in social networks and, well, makes them more famous. Dozens of people lost their jobs, some (like lesbian students) faced other difficulties). Any protest against that can be qualified as 'homosexuality propaganda', that's actually punishable by Russian laws.
Literally anybody can ruin lives of gays here, and religious position or opinion of majority doesn't actually matter. Situation in Chechnya is way worse, though.
Russia:
Democratic Coalition (a coalition of several liberal parties not represented in the Duma) was barred from all local parliamentary elections because their collected signatures were found unsatisfactory by the election committees; the reasons given were ridiculous. Parliamentary parties don't have to collect signatures. Partial source (en)
https://isitblockedinrussia.com/?host=https%3A%2F%2Fapollopushserver.xyz%2Fapi%2Factive_products
The IP (range) of your (Digital Ocean) server appears to be blocked in Russia/UAE.
This is a confirmed disinformation campaign by the Russian government:
The Russian government charged this guy with handing over secrets to the American government. He's been in prison, and yet, somehow, has been busy writing cliched notes on FaceBook from his jail cell, originally put up in August, but only noticed now.
The Russian government wants to spread the disinformation that this guy was an American agent who hacked Hillary's and the DNC's emails as a "false flag" to make poor Russia look bad.
Please beware. They did the same with MH17. Don't fall for the Kremlin's /r/ActiveMeasures campaign.
Full disclosure: I mod the above stripclub.
With all atrocious Kadyrov's policies it's not as simple to fix everything as removing him. Apparently even Chechen refugees in Berlin try to compete with Kadyrov's faithful and righteous image, hunt for Chechens that try to integrate in European culture and beat them up, and even their relatives try to smuggle them back to Chechnya to kill them there.
Here we go: Putin announced he will not expel any diplomats.
Edit: forgot link. Translation is exactly what I said: Putin says he will not do it.
Как в большинстве привили Сан-Марино тут же резко упало общее количество случаев и смертей
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/san-marino/
https://meduza.io/feature/2021/04/03/kazhetsya-san-marino-stanet-odnoy-iz-pervyh-stran-v-mire-i-pervoy-v-evrope-kotoraya-polnostyu-vaktsiniruetsya-i-vse-blagodarya-sputniku-v
It's not "new info". It's about completely new act of vandalism by her with a group of people. And she facing "probation" - I don't know how to translate it correctly, but she will not go to prison until she made another crime in next 2 years. You can find a lot of sources in russian: - https://ovdinfo.org/express-news/2021/04/29/prokuratura-zaprosila-ogranichenie-svobody-dlya-figurantov-dela-budki - https://meduza.io/feature/2021/05/01/vy-ne-mozhete-zapretit-molodost-i-vy-nikogda-ne-zapretite-svobodu
Just remember "restriction of freedom" is a kind of bail, not a jail.
Но здесь похоже в контексте, типа объяснение того, почему фильм будет не популярен в Америке. Или может это вообще настолько ирония, что тут закон По срабатывает. А может это реальное мнение человека, хотя автор русский, а для нашей культуры это пиздец странная позиция, поэтому я думаю что вряд ли.
Most of the commenters below have their facts wrong. Gorbachev lives in Moscow and doesn't leave the country that often. In the 1990s he continued his political career and even took part in the 1996 Presidential elections, meanwhile touring worldwide with his lectures (that's probably where that "doesn't even show up in Russia" bs came from). In the 2000s he founded a few charitable foundations, but they have slowly decayed with time. Now he's as non-public as it gets: those "is he still alive" comments are a great sign of that. He lives in his secluded countryhouse supposedly witing memoirs. You can read a whole longread about his current life here.
And yes, he's controversial. People who hate the USSR thank him for going easy on the people and for basically destoying the Communist government system. People who are nostalgic for the USSR and think that its collapse was a tragicl disaster, naturally, despise Gorbachev.
Es gibt einen krassen Unterschied zwischen den demokratisch und republikanisch regierten USA, das sind fast schon zwei verschiedene Länder.
Aber Russland ist nochmal ne Stufe krasser. Die USA, selbst unter Trump, bombardieren keine Flüchtlingslager. Russland hingegen tut das, und bombardiert außerdem noch wöchentlich Schulen und Krankenhäuser.
Als die USA ein Krankenhaus bombardiert hatten, war journalistisch die Hölle los. Russland bombardiert innerhalb eines Jahres 95 Schulen und 53 Krankenhäuser, und niemanden interessiert es. Zwischen 2011 und 2019 waren es ganze 583 Attacken auf Krankenhäuser alleine.
Sogar unter Trump trennen die USA und Russland noch Welten, so schlimm ist Russland.
Lolwut. We just had a bill accepted by State Duma in first reading which should oblige VPN providers to work under rules of our government by threat of being blocked. Basically it's "either you block our stuff for russian users or our ISPs will block the whole your service in our country". What help do you want from us? ¯\(°_o)/¯
And now (16:00 MSK, 13:00 GMT) SPb subway/metro is closed altogether, after reports of the second explosive device, found unexploded on Ploschad Vosstania station. https://meduza.io/live/2017/04/03/vzryv-v-peterburgskom-metro-hronika?wtf=590803
according to this article, Russia has more ventilators than hospital employees can serve https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/03/21/the-ventilator-problem
So, there is some context about asbestos in Russia.
The restrictions are lighter and asbestos is still legally mined and used in construction. There is a lot of controversy around this - people do not fancy dying from cancer, so demand is in decline. This has been going on for years. As a response and an attempt to promote some types of asbestos materials as safe, there were marketing campaigns and some biased research - basically the whole old tobacco lobby, but for asbestos.
The 'branding' is simply one of many attempts to promote asbestos in Russia. They already produced promotional videos with 'experts', ridiculous (often political) comics, songs etc. The whole 'West is lying about asbestos to take your jobs and sell you expensive crap' is a continuing theme for them.
As for including American 'celebrities' in Russian commercials - it is somewhat common. I have seen car stickers with insults to Barack Obama, bars that reference TV shows or characters and a lot of puns of various quality.
Here is a good article about asbestos in Russia (in Russian): https://meduza.io/feature/2018/06/20/asbest-vyzyvaet-rak-v-rossii-ego-vse-ravno-dobyvayut-i-ispolzuyut-v-stroitelstve
Russia's Supreme Court recently rejected to recognize that there's a war in Syria just to refuse an asylum request of 10 (!) Syrians.
https://meduza.io/en/news/2018/06/27/russia-s-supreme-court-says-the-war-in-syria-isn-t-a-war
Generally the Russian government is very pro-science, unless it's historians digging too deeply into uncomfortable subjects like Stalin's purges.
Good job not mentioning the earlier offense, the guardian, all those extra 10seconds were too hard, right?
here let me do your job for you
In 2010, Timoshenko was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for plotting to blow up the walls of the Novgorod Kremlin in Veliky Novgorod.
This is funny, because there are almost always reports of some corrupt politician/teacher/physician getting caught by the police or strike forces or whatever. And the usual reaction to such news is as follows: "He didn't bribe those in power with enough money for them to cover for him". It's just a nice way of creating this vision of active fight against corruption while protecting those who steal tax payers' money by millions(here's a nice article on one of the shittiest cases of this).
Initially I wanted to do a full transcipt but since police did not have anything to say video goes like this:
Boy is screaming "Help!"
Stepmother is asking why they are taking the boy in.
Policeman is asking the woman to stay away and do not interfere.
And it goes like this for 4 minutes.
Later we will know that police arrested him for begging on the streets. (Yeah, with his stepmother sitting on the bench, reading book) What's more enraging to me is that this little actor is actually studying theatrical art, as father said. To recide "Hamlet" to strangers was just his excercise. Next day the police dept. apologised to parents and promised an investigation.
Sure, it's from Meduza, a Russian news web site:
Translation:
Passengers of the Swift train that runs between Lower Novgorod and Moscow have found an unusual sign that points to an emergency exit. Along with Cyrillic characters, it also sports a Braille text for the blind and sight-impared.
However, the problem is that the Braille text is smooth - according to the author of the photograph, it is printed on "plain paper".
It should also be noted that the sign says "Salida de emergencia" - "emergency exit" in Spanish. It could be explained by the fact that the Swift trains are adapted project of the Spanish Talgo train.
From this report (it was published when she was still arrested):
"The spy", Svetlana, lives in an apartment with her husband Anatoli and her older sister Natalya and 7 kids. Her older sister used to be married to Anatoli and 3 of the kids were born by her. While Svetlana was arrested, Natalya (who didn't have a birth in years) is breastfeeding Svetlana's newborn. Her husband is unemployed most of the time. There are no toys in the apartment and very minimal furniture.
Even outside of the treason charge, what the fuck?
You guys are not gonna believe this, but the same Meduza outlet is now reporting that Babchenko is alive and the attempt on him was a Ukrainian Security Service operation. he's currently having a presser in Kiev.
https://meduza.io/en/news/2018/05/30/russian-journalist-arkady-babchenko-is-alive
There was a recent high-profile case where a Chechen official took a 17 year old as a second wife and basically nothing came out of it, aside from some outrage in liberal media.
https://meduza.io/feature/2015/05/17/ot-dvoezhenstva-k-rannim-brakam
So, if you're Muslim, you'll probably be fine. Just make sure you have connections with local Muslims.
You think Zuckeberg wants to be be grilled by AOC about how Facebook isn't doing enough to ban "extremists"? I very much doubt it. Did Apple want to give the NSA a backdoor? The record shows that they were't too thrilled with the idea. You think Google and Apple want to censor their platforms for the sake of China and Russia? Who do you think is compelling half of US based hosting providers to block requests from users in Cuba and Crimea (two places at the top of the US sanctions list)?
It's not like big tech cares either way but the main push isn't coming from them.
Here are the opinions of four lawyers saying it is valid evidence worth further study (please don’t poison the lawyers or the journalist who wrote the article): https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/21/indirect-confessions
Upgrade when
>potentially pushes Ukraine into the same boat as Russia, possibly uniting them against a common enemy
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Ukraine and Russia have been at war since 2014, when Russia invaded Crimea and the Donbas. In trying to take back its former colony, Russia has killed over 14,000 people so far, engaged in terrorism in major Ukrainian cities, kidnapped Ukrainian kids on false pretenses, and imposed economic blockades. Nothing that happens in US politics will unite Russia and Ukraine, but this move by Guiliani can definitely alienate Ukraine, which is arguably the United States' best ally against Russia.
To put things into context, Putin's government considers itself to be in a two-front war. One goal is retake former colonies, and the other goal is to undermine the "liberal West" (which stands in the way of Russia asserting itself) as much as possible. In that context, Westerners who try to partner with Russia are acting against their own countries' interests.
It's wrestling. Go around the world and you'll see other countries doing the same shtick (usually with the USA being the heel). Why? Because wrestling is a primarily visual medium that relies heavily on base emotions. People around the world (not just America) love their country and they love to cheer for it. Heels hating and bashing on their country gets them emotionally invested in seeing the heel's downfall. Criticizing the chants or viewing them as "cringe" means you're getting mad at people for liking their country and buying into a wrestling angle.
I wonder how much fear or lack of trust to pollsters influence self selection of Russians willing to answer on political questions. There is no way to guess what opinions they have but from 10% up to 50% of Russians refuse to participate in polls depending on topic. I failed to find proper numbers to compare how often people refuse on different topics and in different countries, most numbers are about phone interviews and include people unavailable or thinking a pollster is a salesman (which must not be a problem with in person polling), while most polls done by WTSIOM or Levada are done in person either at respondents' apartments or using van based polling stations.
well it will hurt their tourism , russians have a good reason to blow up turkmen rebels and in the end it's not a good for their reputation
defenitely damage control, but it might be too late