Starker on 22/1/2023 at 13:03
Meanwhile, in Russia, 19-year-old terrorists are not letting Russia wage war in peace:
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/19/arkhangelsk-student-war-critic-arrested/)
Soon after the explosion on the Crimean Bridge in October, a 19-year-old Russian student, Olesya Krivtsova, posted an Instagram story criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine.
Her fellow students at Northern Federal University, in the northern city of Arkhangelsk, took a screenshot of the Instagram story as well as of Krivtsova's antiwar comments shared in a small chatroom on the Telegram messaging app and reported her to the authorities.
Three months later, Russian officials deemed that sufficient to add Krivtsova to a list of terrorists and extremists, on par with the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and to charge her with discrediting the Russian army under laws adopted last March to stifle public criticism of the war.
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Similar things are happening in Moscow where the brave Z-police caught a 15-year-old in the act of placing a flower in front of a statue:
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https://twitter.com/k_sonin/status/1616619160779325441)
Starker on 5/2/2023 at 01:09
Remember Igor Mangushev, the Russian neo-Nazi who paraded around on stage with what he claimed was a skull of an Ukrainian soldier? Apparently, Ukrainian climate has not been good for his health, for he seems to have come down with a case of a pistol bullet finding its way into his skull from behind at a 45-degree downward angle. This hasn't been officially confirmed, but there are some bloody pictures of him on a hospital bed and he has stopped updating his Telegram channel. As rumors go, this happened at a Russian checkpoint not anywhere near the front.
Pyrian on 5/2/2023 at 01:20
Yeeeeah that sounds like an execution.
demagogue on 5/2/2023 at 02:05
Can't very well have an proper authoritarian state unless the main targets of your purges are your closest ideological allies.
Starker on 5/2/2023 at 07:56
Well, who knowns who he came in conflict with, but, to draw some comparisons, when the recent head of Russia's space agency and one time deputy prime minister Rogozin was hit by Ukrainian artillery as he was partying in Donetsk, apparently his location was relayed to Ukrainians by his rivals. Chaos is a ladder, after all.
Starker on 20/2/2023 at 13:15
Signs of trouble for the Wagner mercenary group:
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1627623132528779264)
Apparently, they've also been cut off from their prisoner recruit supply, with the Russian MOD taking them for themselves. Might have something to do with Prigozhin having been pretty popular lately in Russia. Some say even, too popular.
Starker on 20/2/2023 at 13:53
Perun has really outdone himself this time -- a slideshow presentation that's part an assessment of Russia's strategic goals and part a history lesson:
[video=youtube;94bqk8cB9iQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bqk8cB9iQ[/video]
serg_kundel on 20/2/2023 at 15:25
Today (February 20) is aniversary of the bloody events, that happened during 2nd Maidan (Revolution of Dignity or Euro-maidan) in 2014:
clashes in Kyiv between protesters and Berkut special riot police resulted in the deaths of 108 protesters and 13 police officers, and the wounding of many others.
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https://babylon13.org.ua/?lang=en) #BABYLON'13 (video documentary project, that was created during these events) provided their documental video about the chronology of the Revolution of Dignity from the inside. Video already contain English subtitles.
Stronger than arms:
[video=youtube;fYak6B8aLJ0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYak6B8aLJ0[/video]
