I appreciate that by and large the West these days is looking at Soviet history through the distorted far right lens of East European ethnonationalism nurtured by former nazi collaborators, but when I see an LGBT activist feeling nostalgic about prices in Soviet canteens

Those who foment conflicts are always a tiny but extremely manipulative elite minority

This reaction / threat, just like the continued dispute between Georgian Dream and the United States, is clearly about much more than the recently adopted law on “transparency” / “foreign influence”.

Russians asked which countries are most hostile to Russia (Levada poll)

US - 76%
UK - 51%
Germany - 49%
Ukraine - 38%
Poland - 37%

Kremlin’s narrative that the war is not really with Ukraine sells well.

Putin raises the price of peace for Ukraine. He demands full territory of the four regions Russia formally annexed in 2022 - in addition to neutrality, de-militarisation and de-nazification as well as the lifting of all sanctions against Russia. He says this would end rather than

A good thread on “Finlandisation” - an extremely successful policy which the war-mongering industry was up in arms against when applied to Ukraine.

I’ll buy another one

A fascinating thread

Russia really wants West to see they're doing a tac nuke exercise. After several exercise videos they put the head of the 12 GUMO in front of a Belarusian Su-25 (possibly at Lida air base) loaded with what is said to be 'training nuclear ammunition.' rutube.ru/video/3b65130e…

This is an appalling decision

The Kremlin-chosen voice of Putin’s war, Russian singer Shaman, seems to have been copied from the performer of Tomorrow Belongs to Me in the Cabaret. Now when he starts singing Mikhalkov’s anthem, nazi vibes go strong.

Macron’s decision to hold early elections is a good opportunity to brush up your Russian: сгорел сарай, гори и хата.

I wish I could understand all this jeering at Russia switching to yuan from dollar and euro. I mean this huge country was all yours in every respect. If you are losing it to China as you claim, it’s only because you are idiots.

Is that what a German minister said?

Our colleagues have studied 400 criminal cases in Russia committed by called 'heroes of war' (ie invasion). Turns out these ex-soldiers (many are former convicts recruited to the war from prisons) have already injured more than 230 ppl, 126 of them died military-killers.sirena.news