To be fair, if Putin could actually retire with the certainty that a mob wouldn’t one day kick in his dacha door and sodomize him with a bayonet, he might actually step down instead of ruling for life.
To be fair, if Putin could actually retire with the certainty that a mob wouldn’t one day kick in his dacha door and sodomize him with a bayonet, he might actually step down instead of ruling for life.
BBC/Mediazona release their latest numbers on Russian KIAs. Important, valuable reporting, but I’ll note that Western observers seem to pay way more attention to Russia’s KIAs than Ukraine’s, even though Kyiv’s manpower shortage appears to be the more crucial element in the war.
Sobering comments from @eugene_rumer: “Ukraine has no good options, even with the latest aid package. Many military analysts have already come to that conclusion privately but are unwilling to voice that sentiment […]. The latest $61 billion U.S. aid package is almost certainly…
lol, Russian regulators have banned the “I/We = Sergey Furgal movement” as extremism/terrorism. The Khabarovsk governor’s arrest in 2020 triggered protests, but they were hardly an organized movement. The slogan (lifted from the Ivan Golunov protests) is now illegal, too.…
Mediazona reports that the Russian police have escalated their repressions against the “undesirable” independent media. Prosecutions for reposting, working for, and granting interviews to outlets like Meduza are rising. (Repeat offenses become felonies.) zona.media/article/2024/0…
Wow, this is a thoroughly horrifying story: two Russian soldiers (one of whom is a previously convicted murderer) have been arrested in the occupied Kherson region on charges of killing 4–7 people, including several local civilians. zona.media/news/2024/04/2…
Interesting (albeit infuriating) read from Nikolay Silaev and Fyodor Lukyanov. Typical Russian rhetoric rejects the idea that Kyiv has any agency in potential peace talks, but Silaev says Ukraine actually has a hand on the steering wheel.
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Except he then…
Team Navalny and Russia’s liberal vipers aren’t the only ones with 1990s privatizations on the brain: Putin spoke at an entrepreneurs’ forum today and assured them that he’s not out to rewrite the Yeltsin era, though he will act for “national security.” thebell.io/putin-nazval-u…
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