Kevin Rothrock

hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of @meduza_en, podcaster. Based in Portland, OR (USA). email: kevin@meduza.io

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2024-10-24 03:52:02

ребята, что означает фраза “муравью хуй приделать”?

2024-10-22 14:17:31

The latest BBC Russia podcast is about Navalny's new autobiography and features Max Seddon speaking a level of fluent Russian that I couldn't obtain after 1,000 years of immersion. Good stuff. https://buff.ly/40fS0Ro

2024-10-09 15:49:06

Is it a West Coast / East Coast thing to say “caught in traffic” vs. “caught in a traffic jam”? I grew up in California, and adding the word “jam” has always sounded strange to me, but it seems more common among my eastern-afflicted acquaintances.

2024-09-19 03:54:52

Unsurprising but no less amusing: Russian news and talk TV totally ignored Wednesday’s deadly shootout at the Wildberries office in Moscow. The print media covered it but redacted all mention of Ramzan Kadyrov’s role in the Bakalchuks’ messy divorce.
https://t.me/theinsider/32100
Imagine if Jeff Bezos was getting divorced and his wife brought armed thugs to the Amazon HQ: they start bashing through glass walls with sledgehammers, gunfire erupts, two people are killed, and two cops are injured. Imagine that happens and not a word on TV. Welcome to Russia.

2024-09-17 22:40:35

Russian police issue arrest warrants for 5 Pussy Riot activists, presumably concerning the group’s fundraising efforts for the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, which was hit in a Russian missile strike on July 8. https://zona.media/news/2024/09/17/riot_days

2024-09-17 03:38:50

When my kids inevitably ask me what it was like for the Russian intelligentsia who didn’t flee Tsarist tyranny, I will say, “It’s like how journalists are still on 𝕏 even though it’s run by a conspiracy theorist who’s also the world’s richest man.”

2024-09-14 07:50:32

"милая, приятная, в моих глазах девочка". ребята, как сказать на русском языке creepy old man. фу противно
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2024-08-29 13:06:59

По ее словам, когда Дуров перестал поддерживать ее и детей финансово, их уровень жизни снизился. «Когда мы первый раз летели экономклассом, дети [которые раньше летали только на частных самолетах] спросили, „откуда здесь взялись другие люди“», — рассказала она.
🥲

2024-08-24 06:50:40

This week’s Naked Pravda episode is now available. I had the chance to talk to Sarkis Darbinyan (RKS Global) and Philipp Dietrich (German Council on Foreign Relations) about the science behind Russia throttling YouTube and trying again to block Telegram. https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2024/08/24/the-science-of-russian-internet-censorship-and-surveillance

2024-08-19 19:02:02

Are you a foreigner fleeing the West’s “destructive neoliberal ideological frameworks that contradict traditional values”? If so, Putin’s new executive order is just for you. Russia’s president has ordered simplified residence permits for you brave souls. http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/document/0001202408190001?index=1

2024-08-16 04:27:33

👀
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2024-08-15 16:42:06

22-year-old Artem Dobrodumsky is apparently one of the 1st Russian conscripts (maybe *the* 1st) whose death has been confirmed in combat in the Kursk region. It's a new stage of the war for Russians where their youngest, least trained men are dying. https://161.ru/text/incidents/2024/08/15/73963037/

2024-08-14 13:56:03

A promising appraisal: Washington is “still seeking to determine the significance of Russia’s move & didn’t say how many troops the U.S. assesses Russia is shifting,” but the Kursk incursion is apparently forcing some redeployments from occupied Ukraine. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/russia-withdraws-some-forces-from-ukraine-in-response-to-kursk-invasion-c0a11eee?mod=hp_lead_pos1

2024-08-13 20:28:47

Lithuanian Defense Minister Laurynas Kasciunas told Zelensky today that Moscow is redeploying troops from Kaliningrad to the Kursk region, effectively “demilitarizing” the Russian exclave. He thanked the Ukrainians on behalf of the Lithuanian people. https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-ministr-lytva-kalininhrad-kursk/33077477.html

2024-08-13 08:03:21

Russia’s Supreme Court is poised to offer defendants the same get-out-of-jail card already granted to convicts and suspects sent to fight Ukraine. A defendant's case would be suspended upon enlistment and closed upon aging out, receipt of medal, health reasons, or the end of the war. https://t.me/dimsmirnov175/77282

2024-08-13 03:27:52

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2024-08-12 17:13:08

7 hours ahead of his X interview with Musk, it seems Trump has returned (again, perhaps for good) to the social network that helped make him a politician.
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2024-08-12 14:12:03

Google is completely deactivating AdSense for users in Russia. (It’s been limiting the service there since March 2002.) The move will especially affect small websites and YouTube channels that struggle to find and negotiate with advertisers directly. https://www.cnews.ru/news/top/2024-08-12_google_tretiruet_rossijskih

2024-08-12 13:23:06

“Russia has shifted troops from the Kharkiv front” to defend against Ukraine’s Kursk incursion, “but so far it has moved far fewer from the vital Donbas front,” reports The Economist. https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/08/11/ukraines-shock-raid-deep-inside-russia-rages-on

2024-08-12 03:34:59

Среди 10 мировых спортивных лидеров всё кроме Китая враги России

2024-08-10 07:41:29

Apti Alaudinov, the commander of Chechnya's "Akhmat" Special Forces, says Ukraine's incursion force in the Kursk region comprises thousands of soldiers. He claims that many foreigners (he singles out French and Polish) are fighting with the UAF, which couldn't pull off such an operation without NATO's orchestration, he says. https://t.me/dimsmirnov175/77079

2024-08-09 19:44:05

Whether he fears the political or economic consequences more, it’s honestly remarkable that Putin hasn’t ordered another round of mass mobilization, given that Russia is now technically, literally under invasion.

2024-08-09 14:27:21

Z-bloggers have carved out for themselves an interesting space in Russian society. Like community activists who are permitted to protest against “non-political” problems with public utilities, etc., “war correspondents” have established their right to call for heads to roll when the army makes patently bad decisions. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/09/pro-invasion-bloggers-demand-consequences-after-alleged-himars-strike-destroys-russian-convoy-more-than-20-miles-from-ukrainian-border

2024-08-08 23:13:12

most honest analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian War i’ve seen yet
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2024-08-08 18:17:13

👀 ЭХО FM: Илья Яшин пообещал не конфликтовать с другими оппозиционерами

2024-08-08 15:12:01

Please, please, it’s too much winning! We can’t take it anymore!
Russian border guards filmed surrendering to Ukrainian military
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2024-08-08 05:40:22

Dimon Medvedev, Dep Chairman of Russia’s National Security Council and two-cent Zhirinovsky stand-in, says the incursion into Kursk means Russia’s ground invasion must extend to the farthest reaches of the “Ukrainian Reich.” “Let those English bastards know it, too!” he says. Uh, okay. https://t.me/medvedev_telegram/522

2024-08-06 14:55:09

It seems more and more Telegram posts now refuse to open as web versions, and it’s necessary to view them in the app, which is a clunkier, lousier experience when you’re trying to work with lots of tabs on a desktop computer. Thumbs down.

2024-08-05 21:39:21

Politico is less timid about naming names than the AP.
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2024-08-05 14:13:28

Russian propagandists have released footage of Evan Gershkovich’s arrest in Yekaterinburg on March 29, 2023, showing that his source brought classified documents against Evan’s request in a sting operation.
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2024-08-05 03:30:00

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2024-08-03 19:37:16

Don't need to speak Italian to appreciate the juxtaposition here. Very well done front page.
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2024-08-03 04:10:00

Here is an excerpt from Ilya Yashin’s very passionate remarks earlier today in Germany about the decision to include him (against his will) in the big prisoner swap with Russia. I’ve added English-language subtitles.
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2024-08-02 07:27:35

This man is a complete and utter embarrassment.
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2024-08-01 21:05:07

To my colleagues who spend so much time reporting on Russian dissidents while simultaneously worrying that nobody is actually listening, today's prisoner swap is proof that your audience is real. And it's proof that you're doing excellent work. Keep it up.

2024-08-01 20:22:41

for some reason, when I picture the homecoming conference in Berlin for the prisoners freed from Russia, all I can think of is a giant table of seafood and that scene from the end of Cast Away
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2024-08-01 13:58:54

The Russian Defense Ministry’s TV network is airing footage from an Ankara airport where (part of?) today’s prisoner exchange is apparently taking place.
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2024-08-01 13:28:48

The Insider (ie Christo Grozev) has the full list of today’s exchanged prisoners:
https://theins.ru/en/news/273542
Freed from Russia:
✹ Evan Gershkovich
✹ Vladimir Kara-Murza
✹ Lilia Chanysheva
✹ Ilya Yashin
✹ Ksenia Fadeeva
✹ Andrei Pivovarov
✹ Paul Whelan
✹ Alsu Kurmasheva
✹ Oleg Orlov
✹ Sasha Skocilenko
✹ Dieter Voronin
✹ Kevin Lick
✹ Rico Krieger
✹ Patrick Schöbel
✹ Herman Moyzhes
✹ Vadim Ostanin

2024-08-01 13:14:22

CBS News has removed several details from its report on today’s prisoner swap with Russia, deleting specifics it reported about the number of Russians involved and some of their names. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-russia-prisoner-swap-frees-americans-evan-gershkovich-paul-whelan/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240801124658/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-russia-prisoner-swap-frees-americans-evan-gershkovich-paul-whelan/
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2024-08-01 12:45:29

Wow! A senior Biden admin official has confirmed that Russian-American radio journalist Alsu Kurmasheva is part of today’s prisoner swap! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-russia-prisoner-swap-frees-americans-evan-gershkovich-paul-whelan/

2024-08-01 12:37:27

CNN says Gershkovich, Whelan, and company “are expected to be in U.S. custody soon.” https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/01/politics/russia-us-prisoner-swap/index.html

2024-08-01 09:27:50

Unverified: Citing “OSINT USA,” the Telegram channel Ateo Breaking claims that Evan Gershkovich has been freed and is already en route to NYC. Pro-Kremlin political analyst Sergei Markov also claims the swap has already happened. https://t.me/Ateobreaking/124775 https://t.me/logikamarkova/13199

2024-08-01 05:27:17

An aircraft with the tail number RA-61727, an Antonov-148 operated by Russia’s Special Flight Squadron, is about to land in Kaliningrad. A plane with the same tail number has been used in past prisoner exchanges, including in Dec 2022 for Viktor Bout and Britney Griner. https://t.me/agentstvonews/6751
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2024-08-01 05:03:40

Fox News reports that WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich is set to return to the United States as part of a prisoner exchange. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6359716766112

2024-07-30 13:52:37

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@npub1kc8…j65c I have no love for people with obscene wealth, but I agree that his message here seems perfectly benign. I haven’t done it myself, but donating sperm (or eggs, or organs) is probably something we need more of, not less. Helping people who want kids to have kids is a good thing, in my view.

2024-07-30 13:03:57

Russian lawmakers have adopted the 2nd reading of legislation to ban the sale of energy drinks to minors. The draft law would also empower regional officials to ban its sale at public events. Alexey Stakhanov didn’t need Red Bull, kids! https://t.me/rian_ru/255168

2024-07-29 21:31:39

Telegram founder Pavel Durov begins this post with a strange announcement that he is the biological father of more than 100 children, but he then says he is “open-sourcing” his DNA to help the kids find each other, and he ends with a message to all men, calling for more sperm donation to help struggling families. https://t.me/durov/339

2024-07-29 17:34:44

Anybody out there paying for Perplexity AI Pro? Worth it?

2024-07-25 22:13:13

Folks, a tech question: If I’m paying for a 960 mbps plan on Quantum Fiber, but I’m getting only this on my desktop (with only two other devices connected to the Wi-Fi network), I should downgrade to the 500 plan, right?
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2024-07-25 14:35:53

Video game distributors in Russia are nearing a new rating system that will give regulators more power to restrict products from the unfriendly West, but the industry’s real interest is money, of course: new hurdles will benefit the biggest distributors. https://meduza.io/feature/2024/07/22/rossiyskie-vlasti-vtoroy-god-dumayut-kak-vzyat-pod-kontrol-rynok-videoigr-da-i-ego-tozhe

2024-07-25 06:14:04

Not hard to imagine parts of Netanyahu’s address to Congress today as a speech by another leader currently at war.
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2024-07-24 20:21:45

Story by Lilia Yapparova paints a grim picture of Russian military service in Donetsk, where the local commanders treat new arrivals like “meat” and extort literally crippled men of the big payouts meant to incentivize them to fight in the first place. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/07/24/this-is-a-one-way-ticket

2024-07-24 05:28:52

Vladislav Bakalchuk is apparently competing for a crown as the most pathetic ex-husband ever, running to Chechnya’s dictator for public support while his multi-billionaire future ex-wife finalizes a Putin-approved merger to expand Wildberries even further. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/07/24/chechnya-s-leader-says-a-retail-merger-approved-by-putin-is-a-hostile-takeover-executed-by-devils-how-a-family-feud-over-the-future-of-wildberries-became-a-public-scandal

2024-07-23 03:11:34

good grief
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2024-07-21 21:03:05

guys, i think we’ve entered U.S. political territory that’s uncharted even by The Simpsons. wild times ahead, for sure.

2024-07-21 20:19:56

so, how bout that next debate, eh?

2024-07-20 18:01:30

Joe Biden's 1997 accidental prophecy on conflicts with NATO driving Russia into the arms of China and Iran. https://www.c-span.org/video/?86974-1/nato-expansion
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2024-07-20 17:10:08

😬 Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky spoke over the phone late this week amid mounting concern in Kyiv that a second Trump administration would spell the end of American support in Ukraine’s fight against Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/us/politics/trump-zelensky-call-ukraine.html

2024-07-20 06:07:07

The Russian authorities are reportedly planning to try again at a national bloggers’ registry. The threshold will likely be 10,000 subscribers, registration will entail disclosing your identity to Roskomnadzor, and noncompliance will get you blocked. https://www.interfax.ru/russia/971495

2024-07-20 04:54:10

"Losing in a landslide": WSJ says new Dem research shows Biden losing Electoral College by huge margin. In the model, Biden loses not only all swing states, but also falls behind or drops even in New Hampshire, Minnesota, New Mexico, Virginia, and Maine. https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/top-democrats-prepare-for-campaign-without-biden-b57946a8

2024-07-19 22:20:03

Russia’s airports are reportedly running like clockwork today. The tech ministry credits the stability to years of import-substituting as much foreign software as possible. (It helps that CrowdStrike systems are virtually absent in the country.) https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/07/20/russian-tech-ministry-credits-import-substituted-software-with-sparing-county-from-friday-s-crowdstrike-meltdown

2024-07-19 08:22:00

A good reminder that Trump and his millions of voters don’t give a shit about the “Putin’s puppet” epithets and actually think having their own strong-man leader is cool.
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2024-07-17 16:45:31

“‘The call was even worse than the debate,’ one of the participants told me. ‘He was rambling; he’d start an answer then lose his train of thought, then would just say ‘whatever.’ He really couldn’t complete an answer. I lost a ton of respect for him.’ A second participant in the call confirmed this characterization.” https://puck.news/biden-saturday-zoom-call-with-house-democrats-goes-off-the-rails/

2024-07-17 06:32:49

Russia’s Federal Statistics Service hiding mortality data used to triangulate KIAs in Ukraine is a good reminder that the invasion’s true cost is a big political liability for the Kremlin, despite the confidence officials show when cameras are rolling. https://t.me/RakshaDemography/3412

2024-07-15 19:59:27

Whoever wins in November, tens of millions of Americans are going to vote for a presidential ticket that features a senator who said, “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine, one way or another.” Food for thought, y’all.

2024-07-14 17:50:29

pretty good
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2024-07-13 22:09:48

Bernie has had enough: "Mr. Biden may not be the ideal candidate, but he will be the candidate and should be the candidate. And with an effective campaign that speaks to the needs of working families, he will not only defeat Mr. Trump but beat him badly. It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/opinion/joe-biden-president.html

2024-07-12 21:17:21

Is it wise to buy a used 2020 Macbook Air with an M1 chip, or is that going the way of the dinosaurs too soon to justify the attempt at cost-saving?

2024-07-12 17:36:56

“Some major Democratic donors have told the largest pro-Biden super PAC, Future Forward, that pledges worth roughly $90 million are now on hold if President Biden remains atop the ticket,” reports NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/12/us/biden-trump-election#biden-donors-money

2024-07-12 15:36:56

𝕏 is being threatened with hefty fines by the EU over a series of transparency issues, including allowing people to buy “checkmarks” once reserved for verified users. (IMO, it was never this, and the whole thing should have been converted into an open-system allowing anyone to confirm their identities to the public.) https://www.ft.com/content/9419e3b1-60ab-4bcb-a1ea-30cca911667a

2024-07-12 07:36:54

well, this image was inevitable
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2024-07-12 05:36:29

The Kremlin prides itself on being master trolls, but only someone with a terrible sense of humor could pursue this: Russia’s Prosecutor General is ordering bookstores to stop selling a novel about a zombie apocalypse spread by an infected mouse that escapes a lab making an everlasting life serum for Putin. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ddk9FhRo6zMDN7b8zUwGWgF6RW4LhQjeuVWc7B77dajE7dcPM3BaqsdAaWMTTNpql&id=1329192159

2024-07-11 05:55:47

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will reportedly travel to Mar-a-Lago to visit Donald Trump after leaving this week’s NATO summit in Washington without even asking Biden for a meeting. Orban will apparently pitch his “peace mission” to Trump. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/nato-viktor-orban-peace-mission-trump

2024-07-11 00:58:10

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@npub16w5…dxft lol are you high

2024-07-10 23:44:56

❗ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is privately signaling to donors that he's open to a Democratic presidential ticket that isn't led by President Biden, Axios has learned. https://www.axios.com/2024/07/10/schumer-biden-dump-donors-2024-election

2024-07-10 21:54:14

Good news about jailed oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza: his lawyers were finally allowed to visit him in the hospital today. The bad news: he’s still suffering from a chronic nervous system illness that should bar him from being incarcerated at all. https://www.facebook.com/vadim.prokhorov.12/posts/pfbid0owET9FwgNanXj3UwTsbrgY2coHa4P3LhX3zZoErN3RDpUrkHGE7kjW3NVnWb9BgGl

2024-07-10 20:21:50

For a brief while yesterday, 𝕏 warned its users against reading Bellingcat’s new investigation, which presents evidence that a Russian missile hit the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv. Elon Musk (you remember him) has previously trashed Bellingcat, an investigative news outlet, as a “psyop.”
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2024-07-10 15:53:41

Clooney has had enough: "It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe 'big F-ing deal' Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/opinion/joe-biden-democratic-nominee.html

2024-07-09 16:08:21

Despite being an Influencer (™) on Twitter/X with 129k followers, I regularly get more engagement on Mastodon and Bluesky, where I get far less spam and coordinated trolling. Social media, you used to be so simple.

2024-07-09 15:15:44

A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant for Yulia Navalnaya on charges of participating in an “extremist association,” presumably referring to her work with her late husband’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.

2024-07-09 07:18:32

Georgia's accession to the EU has been suspended, along with 30 million euros in planned defense aid, says Paweł Herczyński, the EU's ambassador to Georgia. https://www.ekhokavkaza.com/a/33027506.html

2024-07-08 20:52:02

New investigation profiles 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

2024-07-08 17:25:09

I think this is a good insight into Moscow’s approach in Ukraine (and elsewhere).
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2024-07-07 00:27:53

😅
“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.”
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2024-07-06 14:31:10

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. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/05/europe/france-le-pen-ukraine-mbappe-intl-cmd/index.html

2024-07-06 06:29:57

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. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72ver6172do

2024-07-05 08:00:05

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. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6807172

2024-07-05 07:20:12

Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russia’s official govt newspaper, publishes an essay by lawyer Ilya Rusyaev where he says the verdict against the Nevzorovs should be a model for outlawing more “extremist families” and various “small social groups.” Truly demented. https://rg.ru/2024/07/03/reg-szfo/iurist-rusiaev-konfiskovannyj-penthaus-nevzorova-s-cherepami-budet-slozhno-prodat.html

2024-07-05 05:07:19

oh man, “lol” doesn’t quite capture it
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2024-06-29 02:45:38

Rest in peace, Martin Mull. Your performance as Colonel Mustard cracks me up every time.
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2024-06-28 17:19:49

goddamn, Onion
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/112/695/390/172/102/280/original/4cf48c97edb22376.jpg

2024-06-28 07:03:03

My Google News feed looks like the algorithm asked itself "How to replace Biden before the convention?" and then convulsed out 90 op-eds.

2024-06-28 00:32:10

Foreigners wondering what Americans are doing during tonight's universe-deciding, all-important presidential debate: here you go.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/112/691/427/868/165/307/original/b20b8f177c849da1.jpg

2024-06-22 17:45:39

guys, should we tell him?
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2024-06-21 11:27:19

Leaving New Haven today after almost 14 years in Connecticut. My family and I will spend the next two weeks cruising the great American hinterlands, inching westward to our new home in Portland, Oregon. 🌹

2024-06-16 15:11:01

Photojournalist Nikita Tsitsagi has been killed, reportedly in a Ukrainian drone strike, while working on a story at a monastery in occupied Donetsk. Last year, he won a Redkollegia journalism prize for his work on the shelling of a town outside Belgorod. https://zona.media/news/2024/06/16/nikolskoe
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2024-06-16 04:18:52

Happy Father's Day, y'all!
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/112/624/371/440/126/299/original/18feec945fa4f64c.mp4

2024-06-15 13:03:39

In March 2022, Slack started disabling access for Russian companies the USG directly sanctions. Now Slack says it's cutting off all services to all users in Russia, in compliance with the latest expanded U.S. sanctions. https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/15/06/2024/666d56d69a79476a66342dc1

2024-06-14 12:27:06

An ex-defense worker faces 8 years in prison for "disrupting Russia’s critical information infrastructure." When he quit his job in 2022, he wiped his computer, deleting calculations necessary for the production of cruise missiles. Oops. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6763287

2024-06-14 12:12:11

At the heart of the row between Pashinyan and Lukashenko: Between 2018 and 2022, Belarus delivered advanced weapons to Armenia’s arch enemy, Azerbaijan, even though Minsk and Yerevan are supposedly allies in a Russian-led international defense pact, according to leaked documents seen by POLITICO.
https://www.politico.eu/article/leaked-documents-reveal-belarus-armed-azerbaijan-against-ally-armenia