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«All I can do is be plausible.» How a «Most» journalist befriended a psychological chatbot he created himself
Interest in AI companions in Russia is growing rapidly. In 2025, the number of users of such services doubled, and the average traffic quadrupled. Especially actively, people in the country communicate with virtual bots that help them cope with stress and anxiety. To understand how this works, science journalist and psychologist Denis Yakovlev created an understanding companion for himself using a neural network.
#ArtificialIntelligence #personalexperience #neuralnetworks #psychology #chatbots
To Speak Only the Truth. The Anti-War Song Collection «Chuzhie» Released
Dmitry Spirin, also known as Sid, famous among music lovers for his many years leading the band Tarakany!, has released a solo album «Chuzhie» made up of anti-war songs from underground bands. Spirin not only created cover versions of these songs, but also brought to light a whole layer of protest music inspired by the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
#antiwarmusic #WarinUkraine #DmitrySpirin #music #Naoko #Punk #protest #review #Russia #censorship #Emigration
Migrants: The End of Europe? Debunking Myths About Alien Crime and Terrorism Using Germany as an Example
In the previous text, we discussed that migrants in Europe are not «guests» at all. In Germany, where I (a migrant) live, 25-30% of all citizens have migrant roots. In this sense, Germany occupies in Europe the same place that America once did in the world. That is, a migrant is not a «wicked Chechen» who, in Lermontov's words, «crawls ashore, sharpening his dagger,» but an integral part of the German landscape. Now it is necessary to talk about the crime that migrants, according to the common opinion, bring with them (here, unfortunately, the common opinion is correct). And about the terrorism that is called «Islamic.»
#Analytics #AngelaMerkel #refugees #WarinUkraine #Germany #europe #WestandEast #migrants #aftertheUSSR #crime #Syria #Emigration
Who Really Committed Genocide Against the Soviet People — Hitler or Stalin?
In the place of the closed GULAG Museum in Moscow, a «Museum of the Genocide of the Soviet People» is being created. If we didn't know what a kingdom of crooked mirrors Russia is today, this could even be welcomed — after all, there really was genocide in the USSR. However, it was not at all the kind that the Russian authorities mean today.
#WorldWarII #genocide #Hitler #Twoleggedbelt #industrialization #historicalmemory #historicalmyths #collectivization #leftandright #propaganda #repressionsintheUSSR #Russia #Stalin #statistics #Trotsky #theeconomyisalmost #essay
Five Russian Army Strikes on Ukrainian Cities You Might Have Missed
Today marks exactly one year since the Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih. This indiscriminate attack with numerous civilian victims—just one of many of its kind—last spring shattered the fragile hopes that had emerged for a quick end to the war in Ukraine. On this somber anniversary, it's worth remembering: war is not about internet blockades, oil prices, or the ruble exchange rate. War is death every day. Including for those who neither participate in it nor can participate: women, children, and the elderly left behind the front lines.
#WarinUkraine #victimsofwar #violence #propaganda #Russia #statistics
«Anyone can consider themselves Pussy Riot.» Interview with Maria Alyokhina
«I have three criminal cases, and the court appointed me as the head of an extremist organization, even though I’m an anarchist and against hierarchies,» Maria Alyokhina says with a smile, describing how she is currently being persecuted by Russian authorities. In 2023, the Icelandic parliament granted her citizenship, allowing her to travel freely around the world with her show. Riot Days (idea and creative producer — Alexander Cheparukhin) has been performed about 500 times on all continents and has won numerous awards, including all the main prizes of the Edinburgh Festival. Before the new European tour, which starts today in Paris, we spoke with one of the most famous members of Pussy Riot about Russian protest art after their punk prayer.
#PussyRiot #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #interview #Iceland #MariaAlyokhina #music #Punk #protest #repressions #Russia #art #Emigration
«That’s like banning everyone with a big nose from driving a car»
Today is World Autism Awareness Day. It’s a good reason to talk about a new form of discrimination against people with this diagnosis in Russia: recently, they have been banned from driving cars. The updated list of medical contraindications for driving now includes autism spectrum disorders. We spoke with ASD experts about why this ban is absurd and harmful.
#autism #state #discrimination #medicine #society #psychiatry #autismdisorder #Russia
«To serve a criminal regime or not is a matter of conscience.» Alexey and Masha Moskalyov — on war, emigration, and moral choice
Last Saturday, the Paris resource center Espace Libertés Reforum Space hosted a presentation of Ksenia Kirillova’s poetry collection, illustrated by Masha Moskalyova, «A Hillock on Canvas.» This is the first release of the Most.Media publishing program, the first publication experience for the 16-year-old artist, and the first in-person meeting of all participants in the creative process. At the public talk, together with Masha’s father, Alexey Moskalyov, we discussed creativity in political emigration — as well as the circumstances that led all participants in this discussion into emigration: the war in Ukraine and the repression in Russia against its opponents. We are publishing an abridged transcript of our conversation for easier reading.
#recruitment #WarinUkraine #children #DianaandIrinaLoginov #discussion #dissidents #west #MashaandAlexeyMoskalyov #prose #repressions #Parents #Russia #SergeyEfron #resistance #specialservices #poems #Emigration
«Russia is recruiting not very smart, but highly charged youth within the European Union for its dark deeds»
Russian activists are not always safe even after emigrating. Persecution can continue beyond Russia’s borders—including at the hands of informal groups acting in line with Russian propaganda. This is what sex educator and LGBTQ+ activist Sasha Kazantseva faced in Lithuania: last summer, she began receiving threats, and people associated with a homophobic group targeting queer teens and activists came to her home. Since then, Kazantseva has been seeking a response from Lithuanian authorities so that such cases do not go unpunished. In an interview with «Most,» Sasha Kazantseva explains how this pressure works, why it’s not an isolated case, and what is happening to queer people from Russia—both inside the country and abroad.
#bigtalk #homophobia #discrimination #europe #interview #LGBT #Lithuania #violence #police #repressions #SashaKazantseva #And #ultraright #Emigration
Migrants: The End of Europe? Debunking Myths About the Influx of Newcomers Using Germany as an Example
Today's Germany is a country of migrants. In some ways, even more so than the USA. From politics to culture, it has long relied on people with a migration background.
#Analytics #refugees #EastandWest #Germany #europe #Italy #xenophobia #culturalcode #Merkel #migrants #Myths #unificationofGermany #policy #rightandleft #Syria #Turkey #Emigration
«I talk to ChatGPT every day, and for the first time in many years, life doesn’t feel so unbearable»
The surge of interest in artificial intelligence in Russia is happening against a backdrop of intense stress: people barely had time to recover from the pandemic before new problems arose—war and the state’s brazen intrusion into private life. At the same time, psychological help remains expensive: from 2,000 rubles per session in the provinces and several times more in the capital. There are still few qualified specialists, and in small towns and villages, often none at all.
#GPTChat #OpenAI #Analytics #business #lifeinRussia #ArtificialIntelligence #Research #Thescience #psychology #servicesector #chatbots
«If you can’t resist the state, at least don’t accept it as normal.» Why the film about propaganda in Russian schools won an Oscar
Critics accuse the creators of the documentary «Mr. Nobody vs. Putin» of exaggerating the scale of brainwashing in Russian schools for a Western audience. But researcher Dmitry Tsibiryov (project «Not the Norm») knows: in reality, the situation is now much worse than shown in the film.
#VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #children #discussion #documentaryfilm #lifeinRussia #Oscar #PavelTalankin #propaganda #family #resistance #school
«Their job is to motivate the new slave.» Why people join network marketing in 2026
Multi-level marketing has been known in Russia since the early 1990s, when major international players like Herbalife entered the market. In the early 2000s, local equivalents emerged. The Novosibirsk-based NL stands out from competitors due to its significant reputation: some employees say they encountered aggression and manipulation, while others say this is the only company where they found understanding and a source of income. To understand this phenomenon, a Most journalist tried to infiltrate the NL sellers’ community.
#herbalife #business #women #lifeinRussia #personalexperience #Multilevelmarketing #Regions #Siberia #LaborandCapital #financialpyramids #Ethics
Silence of the Veterinarians. Mass Slaughter of Livestock in Russia Without Explanation
For the second week, Siberian farmers have been protesting against the destruction of animals on their farms. Despite public outrage, the slaughter continues and is now spreading to other regions. Slaughter teams arrive with the police, officials read out orders about a «dangerous disease» — but never say which one, and run away from farmers. Conspiracy theories are multiplying across the country.
#veterinarycontrol #state #animaldisease #conspiracytheories #associations #cattle #Miratorg #protests #Russia #Agriculture #scandal #Farmers
Why Europe Still Sees Russia Through the Eyes of Marquis de Custine
After traveling through Russia in 1839, the French aristocrat Astolphe de Custine wrote a book that still shapes Western politicians’ views of the country. But beyond criticism of Russian customs, it also contains an unexpected political theory.
#19thcentury #AstolphedeCustine #bestseller #Decembrists #dissidents #europe #WestandEast #foreignersinRussia #historicalmemory #conservatism #finance #PyotrChaadaev #politicaltheory #Poland #rightandleft #revolution #reforms #RussianEmpire #France #civilization
«People go to these amateurs, but the problem remains.» How Russia experienced a boom in private psychologists
Former choreographers, accountants, and fitness trainers, after express psychology courses, record polished videos and take on children and adults as clients. Their clients either become disillusioned with psychology or end up with psychiatrists with worsened problems. The State Duma has been unable to pass a law regulating private psychologists for 12 years.
#business #TheStateDuma #law #health #incompetence #psychology #Russia #market #tendencies #services #privatepsychologists
«We can still resist this divide.» Noize MC, Naoko and other political artists on life and creativity in exile
Borders between Russia and Europe are closing, and censorship is intensifying — how can bridges be built between those who left and those who stayed? Musicians, artists, activists, and journalists who left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine discussed this in Vilnius. We publish their conversation.
#WarinUkraine #EastandWest #discussion #europe #Lithuania #Naoko #repressions #RussianantiwarAMY #SashaKazantseva #freedom #Emigration
«Siberianization» or Sinicization? Where Russia’s Turn to the East Will Lead
«Siberianization» reflects the Russian authorities’ anti-European course, in which they have chosen complete economic dependence on China instead of cooperation with the West. Meanwhile, in China, there have long been dreams of reclaiming Siberian territories, which are considered there to have been unjustly ceded to the Russian Empire.
#WarinUkraine #EastandWest #upasashe #FarEast #China #microelectronics #industry #Putin #revanchism #Russia #Siberia #Economy
«I understand that Ukrainians may not want to watch this film right now.» Interview with the author of «Russian Winter»
The documentary «Russian Winter,» filmed with clear sympathy for political émigrés from Russia, was screened at the Berlin Film Festival during days when residents of Ukrainian cities were suffering from the cold under Russian bombardment. But Austrian director Patrick Chiha did not change the title.
#antiwaremigrationfromRussia #berlinale #WarinUkraine #lifeinexile #interview #movie #criticism #festivals #Emigration
Are Blue-Collar Jobs More Practical Than White-Collar? Why the Number of University Applicants in Russia Is Falling
The sharp drop in university admissions last year is easy to explain by government policy, where «loyalty is valued over intelligence.» But the reasons for the crisis in higher education run much deeper.
#state #discussion #lifeinRussia #career #acrisis #education #society #aftertheUSSR #universities