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Russia watcher supreme. @meduza.io English-language managing editor. Based in Portland, OR (USA). 📧 [email protected] / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock

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New profile of Sergey Novikov, another of these former “liberals” who sold out for an influential role inside the Kremlin. He’s been traveling with Kiriyenko for the last 20-odd years and now acts as Putin’s chief arts censor. https://meduza.io/feature/2024/07/08/ohotnik-na-ideologicheskih-vragov

Охотник на идеологических врагов Сергей Новиков — главный цензор российской культуры. Именно он отвечает за черные списки артистов и музыкантов — хотя в 1990-х был сторонником свободы слова. Как так вышло — расследование «Медузы» и «Важных историй» — Meduzameduza.io 27 января 2024-го — в восьмидесятую годовщину снятия блокады Ленинграда — хор Московской филармонии исполнял в концертном зале Чайковского «Реквием» Верди.

I think this is a good insight into Moscow’s approach in Ukraine (and elsewhere).

Theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk get six years in prison for “justifying terrorism” in their play about Russian women who married Muslim men and moved to Syria.

Russia’s FSB claims that Ukrainian intelligence tried to bribe/coerce a Russian pilot into hijacking a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber. The pilot says he was offered $3 million and Italian citizenship but also had his family threatened. https://t.me/rian_ru/252415

РИА Новостиt.me Украинская разведка хотела угнать российский самолет-носитель ядерного оружия, следует из видео, предоставленного ФСБ. От летчика ВКС РФ в Киеве хотели получить данные о российских боевых самолетах, в том числе бортовые номера, также угрожали ему и его родным, требуя поджечь боевую авиационную технику, сообщили в российской спецслужбе.

A new development in Russia’s digital underworld of leaked personal data: one of the aggregation services has compiled a (not totally accurate) list of emigres who supposedly fled Russia in the most recent big waves (the start of the invasion, mobilization, and the Prigozhin mutiny).

WURD radio station & host Andrea Lawful-Sanders have "mutually agreed" to immediately "part ways" after President Biden's aides helped draft questions she asked him in an interview, WURD announced Sunday. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ https://www.axios.com/2024/07/08/biden-interview-wurd-radio-host-resigns

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Biden's reelection campaign in one image

This photo is pure 2024.

The chorus of Western commentators who say constantly that Moscow is internationally isolated is somewhat undermined by Putin's good relationships and face-to-face meetings with two national leaders who represent a combined 2.8+ billion people.

Who needs SWIFT? economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/i... This Tuesday, Putin will host Narendra Modi at the Kremlin for a private dinner where they'll reportedly "devise mechanisms for the easy and quick transfer of money between the two countries," ...

India-Russia summit in Moscow to focus on payment system for tradeeconomictimes.indiatimes.com Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin are set to focus on enhancing financial transactions between India and Russia during their annual summit in Moscow. With Russia facing SWIFT r...

What happens when you try to click on a tass.ru link on Threads.

Researchers at the Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics have developed surveillance tech that uses WiFi to locate persons indoors within 20 feet. Their phones/smart-watches apparently don't even need to be on the WiFi network. nauka.tass.ru/nauka/212717...

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LOL, police in Nalchik have reportedly fined several parents for failing to honor the Russian flag during a recent event when the national anthem was played. The offenders apparently include the judo coach's wife and the head of the local RusHydro branch. t.me/news_sirena/...

Сиренаt.me За неправильное прослушивание гимна России оштрафовали родителей школьников в Нальчике На родителей девятиклассников составили протоколы о нарушении порядка использования Государственного гимна Росси...

😅 “They gave me the exact questions to ask,” Ingram, whose “The Earl Ingram Show” is broadcast statewide across 20 Wisconsin outlets, told The Associated Press. “There was no back and forth.”

Protesting the "unsportsmanlike selection principle that guided the International Olympic Committee when forming the list of eligible athletes," the Russian Wrestling Federation has announced that it is boycotting the Paris Games this summer. www.wrestrus.ru/news/18295

Официальное заявление ФСБР, Официальное заявление ФСБРwww.wrestrus.ru 5-11 августа в Париже (Франция) в рамках Олимпийских игр пройдет турнир по спортивной борьбе. Российские борцы в условиях санкционного давления, необоснованных ограничений, при тотальных и жесточайших...

At some point, when no one was looking, Disney turned zombies from flesh-eating monsters into the goth clique at high school.

Been living in Portland for a week now, and it hasn't rained once. I'm beginning to think it never will.

LOL, on orders from Russia’s GenPro, Vkontakte blocks popular account of “Z-poet Gennady Rakitin” that was actually Nazi poems translated by antiwar activists trying to show invasion supporters that their "patriotism" is simpatico with 1930s–40s Germany. t.me/sotaproject/...

SOTAt.me «ВКонтакте» по требованию Генпрокуратуры заблокировал страницу вымышленного z-поэта Геннадия Ракитина Напомним, на этой странице публиковались адаптированные переводы стихотворений поэтов нацистской ...

Marine Le Pen says a prime minister from her party, National Rally, would prohibit Kyiv from using French-supplied long-range weapons to strike inside Russia and would block President Macron’s "suggestions" of putting French boots on Ukrainian soil. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/05/e...

Marine Le Pen promises French far right will rein in aid to Ukraine, slams soccer star Mbappé | CNNedition.cnn.com As Ukraine bleeds territory to Russia, support from one of Kyiv’s strongest backers looks set to falter if the far right sweep to power in Sunday’s French parliamentary elections.

Wild BBC investigation describes how Russia-based websites create and disseminate fake stories designed to further Moscow’s geopolitical agenda (ie, anti-Zelensky, pro-Trump). Goons like former Marine John Mark Dougan and MAGA activist Jackson Hinkle help spread this crap. bbc.com/news/articles/c7…

Russian state TV aired a video this week of a soldier mercy-killing a wounded fellow serviceman during a drone attack. The host claimed the footage shows Ukrainian draftees “shot in the back” by bloodthirsty “neo-Nazis,” but… meduza.io/feature/2024/07/…

"I have a cognitive test every single day," Biden said when Stephanopoulos pressed him about taking a cognitive test. "Everything I do. Not only am I campaigning, I am running the world." ah, such a modest guy

I know we all hate Orban for shaking Putin’s demonic hand (and many reasons more), but it’s still a pretty desperate claim from Mykhailo Podolyak that Moscow is “literally begging” through Orban’s visits this week for a renewed ban on Ukrainian strikes inside Russia. t.me/M_Podolyak/262

Everyone saying that the British concession speeches are refreshing and absent in U.S. politics is clearly underestimating how eloquent the Democrats’ concession speeches will be in November.

Can someone please remind me what the web-based Bluesky client is that has a tweetdeck-like interface and built-in threading?

The U.S. Defense Dept has “indefinitely postponed” military exercises in Georgia and initiated a “comprehensive review” of Washington’s bilateral relations with Tbilisi amid all the bad blood boiling over “pressure” and “coup plotting” allegations. www.defense.gov/News/Release...

The State Duma’s Info Policy Committee dep chair praises Apple as “one of the few U.S. companies striving to comply w/ Russian legislation & hold a dialogue w/ the regulator.” Why? AppStore just blocked access to a bunch more VPNs for users inside Russia. www.kommersant.ru/doc/6807172