Lurkst Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 RIP https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12247271/Vice-president-Russian-bank-falls-death-Moscow-apartment-latest-mysterious-fatality.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 9 hours ago, Ray Patterson said: An internal power struggle in Russia? https://twitter.com/emopunkmedia/status/1555189217231249410 I don't think Igor Sushko is very reliable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 39 minutes ago, Lurkst said: RIP https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12247271/Vice-president-Russian-bank-falls-death-Moscow-apartment-latest-mysterious-fatality.html When will this madness end? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Pete Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 2 hours ago, Lurkst said: RIP https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12247271/Vice-president-Russian-bank-falls-death-Moscow-apartment-latest-mysterious-fatality.html This is worse than Bucha 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, ICTChris said: I don't think Igor Sushko is very reliable. Definitely in Michael MacKay and Anders Aslund sort of territory in letting heart rule head a little too often to be worth listening to. Tend to steer clear of Denys the former pilot on youtube for similar reasons. Worst of the lot though is Chuck Pfarrer the former Navy Seal and prolific creator of highly misleading graphics. Edited June 30, 2023 by LongTimeLurker 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Misleading graphics like some of the "advances" made by the Ukrainian army. A nice green bulge in a two colour map looks impressive but then you see it with the satellite overlay and they've advanced by a field and a half. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 6 hours ago, Lurkst said: RIP https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12247271/Vice-president-Russian-bank-falls-death-Moscow-apartment-latest-mysterious-fatality.html VP of a decent sized bank seems a pretty lofty role for a 28 y-o, let alone one who’s primary job seems to be Instagram pictures. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 5 hours ago, TxRover said: VP of a decent sized bank seems a pretty lofty role for a 28 y-o, let alone one who’s primary job seems to be Instagram pictures. Don't speak ill of the dead! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 20 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Don't speak ill of the dead! Did they refuse to refund your subscription to her Only Fans? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Salvo Montalbano Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 23 minutes ago, jagfox said: It must be close (if it hasn't happened yet) to the point where your average Josef Smozov starts thinking "isn't that the opposite of what they told us last week?" rather than just swallowing whatever bullshit they shovel towards them? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 10 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said: It must be close (if it hasn't happened yet) to the point where your average Josef Smozov starts thinking "isn't that the opposite of what they told us last week?" rather than just swallowing whatever bullshit they shovel towards them? Oh,I'm sure a lot of Russian people are perfectly aware. They will say things at the dining table they would not dream of saying at work or in a wider audience. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 52 minutes ago, jagfox said: Oh,I'm sure a lot of Russian people are perfectly aware. They will say things at the dining table they would not dream of saying at work or in a wider audience. Aye, the state is totalitarian now when it comes to the public expression of anti-war sentiment. Man jailed for 5 years in March for a comment in a private VKontakte hobby group. Another group member had grassed him: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/03/29/st-petersburg-man-given-5-years-for-comments-made-on-archeology-forum-a80654 This man put up posters advertising a phone number Russian conscripts can call to surrender to Ukrainian authorities. He was arrested, tortured then beaten to death by police earlier this month: https://russianlife.com/the-russia-file/he-warned-police-would-kill-him-he-is-dead/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 1 hour ago, Salvo Montalbano said: It must be close (if it hasn't happened yet) to the point where your average Josef Smozov starts thinking "isn't that the opposite of what they told us last week?" rather than just swallowing whatever bullshit they shovel towards them? Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 9 hours ago, FreedomFarter said: Aye, the state is totalitarian now when it comes to the public expression of anti-war sentiment. Man jailed for 5 years in March for a comment in a private VKontakte hobby group. Another group member had grassed him: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/03/29/st-petersburg-man-given-5-years-for-comments-made-on-archeology-forum-a80654 This man put up posters advertising a phone number Russian conscripts can call to surrender to Ukrainian authorities. He was arrested, tortured then beaten to death by police earlier this month: https://russianlife.com/the-russia-file/he-warned-police-would-kill-him-he-is-dead/ Prigozhin shot down six or seven Russian aircraft and he gets a holiday to Belarus. Nice. One thing I read about Russian opinion that was worth sharing was when the independent anti-Kremlin outlet Medusa surveyed their readers who support the war and asked why. The reasons are interesting. Bear in mind these are people reading an anti-Kremlin publication that is difficult to access and has taken a stance against the war and against war propaganda. https://meduza.io/amp/en/feature/2023/06/03/the-only-thing-worse-than-war-is-losing-one 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 11 hours ago, ICTChris said: Prigozhin shot down six or seven Russian aircraft and he gets a holiday to Belarus. Nice. One thing I read about Russian opinion that was worth sharing was when the independent anti-Kremlin outlet Medusa surveyed their readers who support the war and asked why. The reasons are interesting. Bear in mind these are people reading an anti-Kremlin publication that is difficult to access and has taken a stance against the war and against war propaganda. https://meduza.io/amp/en/feature/2023/06/03/the-only-thing-worse-than-war-is-losing-one I just read over that. Interesting that the consensus is pretty much we started so we'll finish. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 BBC feature on US political consultant, George Birnbaum, who they call a godfather of modern populism. He's credited for devising Viktor Orban's successful 2010 campaign strategy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66065550 It reminds me of his fellow US political consultant Paul Manafort, a key figure in Trump's 2016 campaign. Prior to Trump, Manafort had been instrumental in Victor Yanukovych's rise to power in Ukraine. As we now know, it was under Yanukovych that an ominous fault line in Ukrainian politics opened up: https://eurasianet.org/a-brief-history-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-yanukovych-era 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 Thread of English writings of the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, killed in the Russian missile attack on Kramatorsk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 NSFW - some Russians captured alive, one is not lucky as he has a grenade with him and the Ukrainian takes no chances. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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