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Forecast: In three years, there will be no internet left in Russia
When the state promises to leave everything necessary for life, it almost always means that the «extra» will disappear. Russia is officially moving to a filtered communication regime: mobile internet is increasingly jammed regionally, and the window to the outside is narrowed to a «white list» of approved services — banks, marketplaces, loyal social networks, and government portals. At the same time, citizens are being forced to use the state messenger MAX — a «patriotic» replacement for WhatsApp/Telegram, built without end-to-end encryption and with direct access for law enforcement agencies. This is not a set of disparate measures but a coherent architecture of digital isolation. And it is already in operation.
Financial dispute instead of a rise in patriotism? How the Battle of Kulikovo looks 645 years later
Analyzing five key myths surrounding a real event from the 14th century
#GoldenHorde #historicalmyth #Taxation #patriotism #Russia #MiddleAges #finance
Eternal Life Near Zero
Two autocrats – and Chairman Xi – talked last week in Beijing about the perception of age (at 70, still boys) and eternal life, which will soon become possible thanks to organ transplants; in any case, living to 150 is not a problem at all. However, in the Russian case, the Constitution will have to be changed once again so that the presidential terms of the current head of state are not limited to 2036 but extend much further in time. But that is definitely not a problem.
#autocracy #future #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #gerontocracy #state #dictatorship #longevity #lifeinRussia #conformism #society #XiJinping #Utopia #futurology #essay
The war has won. Why Putin decided to «ground» the economy
Last week, during the Eastern Economic Forum, acknowledged problems with the slowdown of the Russian economy but added that victory over inflation is more important – supposedly, it's better for the people. However, the issue is not the welfare of the citizens. The continuation of the war requires increased spending on it. And here, strict monetary policy is unavoidable. This will result in the labor of the majority of Russian citizens becoming cheaper.
#Analytics #VladimirPutin #militaryKeynesianism #WarinUkraine #GermanGref #state #monetarypolicy #lifeinRussia #society #Economy #ElviraNabiullina
«Teacher Handed Me Straight to the FSB»
Masha Moskalyova is a girl whose fate shocked even those familiar with political repression. After the 12-year-old drew an anti-war picture at school, she endured several FSB interrogations, searches, psychological pressure, long months in a shelter, separation from her father—who was imprisoned for a couple of anti-war posts on social media—and, finally, forced emigration. We spoke with Masha about what she went through and how her life is now.
#WarinUkraine #state #interview #personalexperience #society #protests #repressions #parentsandchildren #Russia #familyandschool #Emigration
On the Notes of Xi. The Largest Military Parade in Chinas History Took Place in Beijing
China used the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II to showcase high-tech weaponry and assert its claims to global leadership
#VladimirPutin #weapons #East #WorldWarII #DonaldTrump #west #China #odd #Russia #XiJinping #USA #technology
Torture — a gamble with fate. How in Russia torture was banned and then reinstated again
Centuries changed, but the old pattern remained. It was not so much dangerous criminals who ended up with the executioners, but rather random people and disgraced members of the elite.
#1937 #state #dictatorship #Empire #History #worldwideisolation #monarchy #society #executionersandvictims #PetertheGreat #Putin #torture #repressions #Russia #MiddleAges #theUSSR #Stalin
Reflections on the Threshold of the Digital Collective Farm
The law establishing the national messenger was signed by Putin at the end of June 2025. Since yesterday, it has been fully operational in Moscow and three other regions: schoolchildren and first-year university students are required to switch to Max.
#state #dictatorship #theInternet #China #instantmessengers #Moscow #society #Orwell #Putin #Russia #freedom #Stalin #censorship #digitalsurveillance
From a shaken Kremlin to the walls of immobile China. Is the Moscow-Beijing rapprochement dangerous for Europe?
From a rational point of view, China should be interested in preserving Europe as that part of the Western world that does not claim a global role but remains one of its economic centers. For Beijing, it would be preferable to deal not with one, represented by the USA, but with two versions of the West. If these considerations are valid, Chairman Xi is unlikely to advise President Putin to attack Estonia and promise him his support—in fact, it can be assumed that the China factor will contribute to containing the Russian threat to Europe rather than strengthening it.
#Analytics #Brussels #Washington #war #weapons #diplomacy #europe #China #odd #Macron #Moscow #Beijing #Putin #Russia #USA #Taiwan #Trump #Ukraine #espionage
Why Rosneft Is Holding Secret Talks with Exxon Mobil – and What India Has to Do with It
Rosneft has made significant investments in India and does not want to lose them. ExxonMobil has invested just as heavily in Sakhalin-1 and is equally unwilling to lose its stake. India has stakes in Sakhalin-1 and also earns good profits from Rosneft’s investments in the country, and it too is reluctant to lose all this. The only ones spoiling the situation are two people: Trump, who wants to end the war by any means, and Putin, who does not want to stop it. And who better than Sechin to try to solve this puzzle?
#Exxon #Analytics #VladimirPutin #DonaldTrump #IgorSechin #India #NarendraModi #NarendraMori #oil #Russia #sanctions #USA
Why Fyodor Bondarchuk Talks with Woody Allen
The Woody Allen case, who participated online in a certain Moscow film week and gave a video interview to Fyodor Bondarchuk, once again raised the question of moral and immoral behavior during a military and humanitarian catastrophe, about detachment from events and involvement in them, about toxicity—or, on the contrary, the necessity of cultural and interpersonal contacts.
#America #WarinUkraine #East #WoodyAllen #ironcurtain #west #Insulation #movie #Putin #Russia #Stalin #Trump #FyodorBondarchuk
«Now They Are Classic Political Prisoners»
Yesterday, the human rights project «No to Gulag» reported, citing its sources, about the deportation of several dozen Russians from the USA to Russia via Cairo, among whom were political asylum seekers. Anna Shumova, an activist of the American nonprofit organization Russian Seattle for Freedom, is aware of the stories of several passengers on this flight. We spoke with her.
#America #state #deportation #immigrationzone #interview #society #politicalconclusions #Putin #repressions #Russia #Trump
«She sank». Twenty-five years after the sinking of the Kursk submarine, Russian society has forgotten this catastrophe
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the tragedy of the nuclear submarine cruiser K-141 Kursk in the Barents Sea passed unnoticed. No memorial ceremonies, solemn speeches, monument unveilings, or film premieres. On the anniversary of the explosion on the Kursk (August 12), if one believes his official website, the head of state only spoke by phone with Kim Jong Un and held a meeting on economic issues. The censored segment of Runet got away with a few concise publications, and some authors described what happened in August 2000 as an «accident».
#Berezovsky #Beslan #WarinUkraine #state #money #west #historicalmemory #catastrophe #NTV #society #ort #Pavlovsky #politicaltechnologies #aftertheUSSR #Putin #Russia #Kursk
«France Does Not Need Truth. It Needs Hope»
Already as president, de Gaulle liked to say that he was the only politician defending France's interests because he was criticized by both the left and the right. There is some truth to this.
#20thcentury #WorldWarII #elections #democracy #europe #west #historicalmyth #History #conservatism #republic #resistance #France #CharlesdeGaulle
«I think it will only get worse.» Mikhail Krutikhin on the situation in Russia’s fuel market
August is always a tense month for the fuel market in Russia. Some refineries go into scheduled maintenance, farmers buy fuel for the harvest, and ordinary citizens head to their summer homes. But this year, fuel is not just rising in price – it’s disappearing across the country. Queues, coupons, limits on sales per person… What’s going on, and what do Ukrainian drones have to do with it? We discussed this with oil and gas analyst Mikhail Krutikhin, partner at the information and consulting agency «RusEnergy.»
#petrol #WarinUkraine #IgorSechin #interview #acrisis #MikhailKrutikhin #oil #Rosneft #Russia
Russia without sanctions: is it possible to start fresh
Let’s imagine for a moment that by some magical means Russia managed to get all sanctions lifted without exception, annexed all the territories Putin talks about, reduced the military budget, and began living as if nothing had happened. This is exactly what a huge number of people living in Russia dream of.
#1990s #Analytics #business #WarinUkraine #state #Donbass #west #greencrossing #investments #foreignersinRussia #China #oil #parallelimport #forecast #Russia #sanctions #rawmaterialseconomy #technology #LaborandCapital #coal
Fruits of the Ministry of Education
We, Soviet children, were incredibly lucky. We went through patriotic education with books by Vasily Bykov and Boris Vasilyev, Samuil Marshak and Lev Kvitko. And our early youth was not overshadowed by works of Vladimir Medinsky, Oleg Roy, and unknown authors included in the «List of Patriotic Works Created by Contemporary Writers and Recommended for Extracurricular Reading» published last week by the Ministry of Education.
#shaman #AgniaBarto #VladimirMedinsky #VladimirPutin #children #dictatorship #ideology #literature #MinistryofEducation #OlegGazmanov #OlegRoy #aftertheUSSR #propaganda #Russia #SergeiMikhalkov #Stalinism #school
What the State Department Is Now Silent About
The Trump administration is revising its approach to human rights assessments, excluding mentions of abuses in countries it does not wish to criticize excessively from its annual reports. Thus, in Russia, persecution of LGBT people and violence against women are no longer mandatory topics for coverage.
#StateDepartment #homereceipt #DonaldTrump #women #LGBT #MarkRubio #humanrights #rightturn #Russia #USA
The Root Cause of the War, or Power Instead of Law
The main condition for achieving peace in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin constantly names is the «elimination of the root causes of the crisis.» «Root causes» is a very broad, even philosophical term. But without delving into Aristotle's metaphysics, who introduced this term, the root cause of the war is not Ukraine's politics, but the imperial evolution of post-Soviet Russia.
#Analytics #AnatolySobchak #BelovezhAccords #VladimirPutin #gkchp #dictatorship #Empire #NATO #aftertheUSSR #collapseoftheUSSR #Russia #sovereignty #Ukraine #federation
Met after the meeting to prepare yet another meeting
Ukraine — despite all the difficulties and the undeniable overall war fatigue — does not at all look like a side on the brink of collapse that must agree to peace at any cost.
#WarinUkraine #diplomacy #EuropeanUnion #Zelensky #Macron #Putin #USA #Trump