«Novaya Gazeta Europe» estimated United Russia’s result in the State Duma elections at about 34% without votes that the statistical method classifies as anomalous. The party’s official result, according to this analysis, is 57.8%.

#elections #TheStateDuma #UnitedRussia #Study #NovayaGazetaEvropa #SergeyShpilkin #statistics

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Sperm whales release bubbles to stay almost at the surface while sleeping, researchers from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland found. The study, published on July 23, 2026 in the Journal of Experimental Biology, explains how the animals maintain a vertical resting position.

#Animals #Study #Thescience #scientificdiscoveries #ocean

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At the beginning of July, historian Konstantin Pakhalyuk’s book «In Search of »Russian Antiquity«» was included in the longlist for the «Provetitel» prize. With the kind permission of the publisher Chișinău: The Historical Expertise, which republished the book after its de facto ban in Russia, we are publishing the chapter «State Memory Policy in the Conditions of the ‘Conservative Turn’ (2012 — early 2022)», which explains why cynical Russian politicians and bureaucrats needed events from long ago.

#Analytics #VladimirMedinsky #VladimirPutin #power #ideology #Study #Russianhistory #conservativeturn #rent #RussianMilitaryHistoricalSociety #SergeyNaryshkin

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In Soviet times, the Russian emigration was an important base for recruiting foreign agents, but after the collapse of the USSR, its numbers grew many times over – opening up inexhaustible opportunities for Russian intelligence services. The network of Russian influence agents and simple spy centers is visibly becoming denser

#agents #Analytics #antiRussiansanctions #VyacheslavNikonov #Gru #dictatorship #YevgenyPrimakov #Study #kgb #NataliaKardash #aftertheUSSR #legalfund #propaganda #Russianspecialservices #Rossotrudnichestvo #Russianworld #SVR #SergeyLavrov #compatriots #FSB

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