To find out where the Russian-Iranian partnership is headed and what, if anything, changes in the Ukraine War with Tehran sending ballistic missiles to Moscow, The Naked Pravda spoke to expert Dr. Nicole Grajewski. meduza.io/en/episodes/20…

the Fox News election coverage ads during this Oregon - Oregon State game are spooky

For decades, I've been a zealot about reading digital text, but subscribing to the print editions of The Oregonian and Portland Tribune has really reminded me of the joys of holding a physical newspaper.

A law enforcement official identified the suspect as Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, of Hawaii. Routh was interviewed by the The New York Times in 2023 about Americans volunteering to aid Ukraine. Routh, who had no military experience, said he had traveled there after Russia’s 2022 invasion.

how did this guy not have a nafo dog in his avatar

[sound effect of fresh rubles landing in Snowden’s bank account]

Google Search’s enshittification has led me to test Bing as my daily driver for the foreseeable future. Anybody have any Bingy tips and tricks?

Curious.

Meta has banned Russia Today, days after the State Dept accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow’s spy agencies. “Rossiya Segodnya, RT, and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally." nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

Another development in the FBK vs. Nevzlin saga, which has captivated the Russian intelligentsia in exile but probably means virtually nothing to most outsiders: Team Navalny member Lyubov Sobol says Nevzlin provided funding to keep the Navalny Live YouTube channel afloat for two

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.”

Me sitting down to write about the latest Russian opposition infighting: [Into the Spiderverse narration voice] *okay, let’s do this one last time*

"A confidential Ukrainian estimate from earlier this year put the number of dead Ukrainian troops at 80,000 and the wounded at 400,000, according to people familiar with the matter. Western intelligence estimates of Russian casualties vary, with some putting the number of dead as

After six years of on-off working on it, this thing is finally finished and coming out in April!

Russian police issue arrest warrants for 5 Pussy Riot activists, including olga borisova and maria alyokhina, 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. zona.media/news/2024/09/1…

America’s artillery shell production increases are on schedule, but the Pentagon’s declining willingness to share its dwindling stockpiles of weapons and equipment has led to smaller aid packages for Ukraine in recent months. edition.cnn.com/2024/09/17/pol…

This is brutal. A Moscow court has upped the punishment for a local man who spoke to RFE/RL in a street survey in July 2022. A sentence of 5 years of compulsory labor has now become as many years in prison. All for mentioning Bucha to a reporter. zona.media/news/2024/09/1…

Some of Ukraine’s top army commanders (including former armed forces commander Gen. Valery Zaluzhny) told Zelensky not to order the Kursk invasion. Now his administration is busy defending the decision amid a potential collapse in Donetsk. politico.eu/article/kursk-…