Rusija - zemlja cuda

[djura.net]

Razgovor sa obicnim ljudima u manjem ruskom gradu 

 

But teacher Mikhail doesn't feel that Donald Trump has any strategy for securing peace.

"Unfortunately, Trump hasn't got any plan," believes Mikhail. "He is an improviser. He doesn't know what he's going to do. My sympathies are with him. I'm glad he won. But speaking about this episode, we're all in the dark. And Trump is in the dark himself."

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgd0vdg34qo

[Dragan]

Russia extends permission for producers to export gasoline until Aug 31

 

[Dragan]

Russians ignore Putin's call for more babies as population declines

Russia’s population is declining at its quickest pace since the Covid-19 pandemic, even after President Vladimir Putin declared that a demographic turnaround is the country’s most important priority. 

Russia recorded the lowest number of births last year in a quarter of a century, while the number of deaths increased for the first time since the height of the pandemic in 2021.

 

In 2024, 1.22 million people, or 3.4 per cent fewer than in 2023, were born — the lowest level since 1999 — while deaths increased by 3.3 per cent to 1.82 million, according to the Federal Statistics Service, known as Rosstat. The pace of the population decline accelerated by roughly 20 per cent compared to 2023, due in part to the Kremlin’s three-year-old war on Ukraine.

 

U glavnom regionu uglja Rusije, zbog sankcija, počeli su da zatvaraju rudnike i prestali da isplaćuju plate rudarima

 

 

[Dragan]

 

 

 

Russian airlines lost 58 aircraft in one year due to sanctions and accidents

 

[Dragan]

Russian Urals crude oil price falls by about 40% year on year

 

Russian Urals traded at $51.05 per barrel in January-April period, down from $84.68 per barrel in same period last year

 

[Hamilton]

PUMPAAAJ!

[djura.net]

bbc

 

A hairdresser from St Petersburg has been given a jail term of five years and two months on a charge of spreading fake news about the Russian army.

Anna Alexandrova denied posting eight anti-war messages on social media, insisting the case was motivated by a squabble over land with a neighbour.

Her neighbour told the BBC that she had complained to prosecutors after Alexandrova had sent her daughter pictures of the war in Ukraine.

Discrediting the armed forces and intentionally spreading fake news about the military became a crime in Russia within weeks of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

[Dragan]

The children of Severomorsk are told that neighbouring Nordic countries support Nazism

 

In a heinous case of history falsification and propaganda, an exhibition for school kids compares Ukraine with Nazi Germany and describes the EU and Nordic countries as supporters of Nazism.

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Edited 18 hours ago by Dragan

[Dragan]

Vatnik Soup

 

Vatnik Soup is a Twitter thread series where I introduce pro-Russian actors and propagandists from around the world (“vatniks”), be they so-called “independent journalists”, politicians, military personnel or just regular grifters looking to get some easy money.

The series also has introductions and deeper insights on how online propaganda and disinformation works and is spread. For example, I’ll talk about troll farms, social media manipulation and Russia’s online information operations.

I feel like it is important to introduce these bad actors along with the strategies they employ in the information space. Only this way we can pursue the one thing that’s usually referred to as the first victim of the war: truth.