Kevin Rothrock

hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of @meduza_en, ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01

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2026-05-26 20:36:45 CEST

Excellent article by Olena Fetisova, who studied the Starobilsk college attack. She corroborates the victims' identity as students (their lives were well documented online), flags major problems with supposed evidence of a "drone unit" at the dorm (nothing even incidental in social media pics, likely fake viral images, dorm address confusion), notes Russian silence about fires at a nearby agro-industrial facility (suggests selective disclosure & unnamed legitimate military targets), and tackles the dehumanization of the victims: "The willingness to deny human dignity to residents of occupied territories is not patriotism." https://realgazeta.com.ua/studienti-buli-shcho-vidbuvaietsia-z-diskusiieiu-pro-udar-po-okupovanomu-starobilsku/

2026-05-26 19:45:11 CEST

Sergey Vlasov, a former deputy governor of Russia's Krasnodar region who was sentenced last December to 11 years for bribery, has gone missing (rumored to be KIA) in Ukraine's war zone. He enlisted with the army to get out of prison. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8690145

2026-05-19 07:30:56 CEST

On Tues, Ukrainian drones reached Russia's Yaroslavl region (roughly 155 miles northeast of Moscow), hitting an industrial facility and starting a fire, the governor reports. Ukrainian Telegram channels say an oil pumping station was targeted. Apparently, no one was injured. https://t.me/supernova_plus/52152

2026-05-16 01:19:48 CEST

This week, Deepstate reported that Ukrainian troops liberated Odradne, a village in the Kharkiv region, where Russian forces had been advancing toward Kupiansk. Overall, Sunday through Thursday, the map shows Russian forces across Ukraine gained roughly 5 km² (less than 2 sq miles).
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2026-05-11 19:52:30 CEST

Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Bureau is now moving against Andriy Yermak, Zelensky's former chief of staff, though it's unclear whether Yermak will be charged. This is reportedly connected to Mindich-gate (a large-scale bribery scandal in Ukraine's energy sector). https://t.me/stranaua/235377

2026-05-09 13:41:39 CEST

Pro-Kremlin Telegram channel Dva Majors claims that Latvia and Estonia are deliberately closing their eastern airspace to enable Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia. The channel cites published aviation notices (though NATO members routinely restrict border airspace). https://t.me/dva_majors/92666?single

2026-05-08 20:53:54 CEST

Zelensky has graciously signed a decree "permitting" Moscow to hold its Victory Day parade tomorrow, ordering Red Square's GPS coordinates removed from Ukraine's targeting for the day. The doc cites US requests as the reason that the square will be spared. https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/3742026-59389

2026-05-07 17:07:20 CEST

pretty wild that American farmers are suffering from a fertilizer shortage despite record levels of bullshit from the White House

2026-05-02 23:24:37 CEST

Another day, another even bolder reminder that the sun is setting on the American era. Beijing has banned 5 Chinese oil firms from complying with U.S. sanctions over alleged Iranian oil deals, slamming Washington's measures as an illegal extension of U.S. jurisdiction into Chinese soil. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8634288

2026-05-01 20:22:22 CEST

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Maybe the best one:
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2026-05-01 20:21:04 CEST

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@nprofile…j4f3 эй, начальник! ну, а к нам тра-ля-ля-ля-ля-ля

2026-05-01 20:16:20 CEST

A Madame Tussauds-style museum has opened in Moscow's Zaryadye Park, pairing historical figures (including artists persecuted by Soviet authorities) with a tableau venerating Russia's soldiers now fighting in Ukraine. The photos are, erm, interesting. https://www.zaryadyepark.ru/news/v-zaryade-otkrylsya-muzey-plasticheskikh-figur-istorial-kollektsiya
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2026-04-30 22:07:02 CEST

"Why should we all have to listen to this?" a racist woman asked on a bus in Moscow, shouting at and striking a fellow passenger who was speaking on the phone in her native Buryat language. "Go back to your own country!" the woman yelled. (Buryatia is part of Russia.) t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/49157
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2026-04-24 11:00:13 CEST

Poland's prime minister tells FT that he believes Russia "could' attack a NATO member within months, not years: "This is something really serious. I’m talking about short-term perspectives, rather months than years." https://www.ft.com/content/1a5a2502-a45a-40c1-af6f-b30ecc34bacb

2026-04-23 16:41:18 CEST

A senior culture official in the Kremlin and a close ally of domestic policy czar Sergey Kiriyenko publicly acknowledged that Russians are sick of all the state censorship and bans. Faridaily says this and United Russia's weak approval rating could mean an election-season reprieve. https://t.me/faridaily24/2002?single

2026-04-19 18:06:46 CEST

Bulgaria's eurosceptic ex-president Rumen Radev, whose Progressive Bulgaria party is reportedly leading Sunday's snap parliamentary election, says he wants "practical relations with Russia based on mutual respect and equal treatment." https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bulgaria-votes-pro-russian-former-president-leads-polls-2026-04-19/

2026-04-17 14:42:12 CEST

Russia's FSB confirms that border agents can now order travelers to hand over and unlock mobile devices for inspection under a new law that makes it possible to jail noncompliant travelers for 15 days. The policy probably violates Russia's Constitution, but ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ https://t.me/tvrain/103565

2026-04-16 17:25:20 CEST

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@nprofile…ndxd I would just run those images from the Telegram post through an LLM and get OCR and translations.

2026-04-16 15:26:52 CEST

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@nprofile…ndxd https://eng.mil.ru/news/253f8696-2ef0-412e-a36f-46b258795356

2026-04-16 07:36:30 CEST

I'm not a Catholic, let alone a Christian, so I can't say for certain whether questioning the Pope's authority on theology is a strange thing for a Catholic to do, but it seems strange.
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2026-04-16 07:07:28 CEST

Disturbing stuff from Z‑blogger military pilot Alexei Zemtsov, who released a video saying “if you’re watching this, I’m already gone,” claiming he's killed himself in protest against charges of “discrediting the army.” He accuses his superiors of censorship and fabricating the case against him. https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/48542

2026-04-15 21:40:36 CEST

Russia's Defense Ministry posted a list of companies across Europe that are reportedly linked to the production of the drones Ukraine fires at Russia. According to Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Medvedev, these sites are "potential targets." https://t.me/mod_russia/62686
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2026-04-14 04:35:58 CEST

oof
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2026-04-13 17:52:00 CEST

lol, trump deleted his AI "i'm like chirst" slop. delete your presidency next, chump!

2026-04-08 00:36:35 CEST

the best TACO Tuesday yet
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2026-04-06 21:01:04 CEST

Remember that time all of Mastodon crashed for hours and hours, like Bluesky is crashing today? No? That's weird...

2026-04-06 19:59:01 CEST

This is precisely what Russia has said in Ukraine for the past several years, and it's roughly what NATO said in Serbia in 1999. Round and round, we go. Once the Europeans fully embrace remilitarization and begin throwing their weight around, I assume we'll get this talk from them, too, somewhere.
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2026-04-05 02:25:03 CEST

German males aged between 17 and 45 may need to seek approval for lengthy stays abroad, under military service changes that entered force on Jan 1. (Seems like a mostly forgettable regulation, albeit with potential for many yikes.) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3nr83xyvo

2026-04-04 01:02:42 CEST

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2026-04-04 00:36:41 CEST

This photo of Earth from a window in the Artemis II is simply awesome. I wish the world's leaders could get this humbling glimpse firsthand (just before they were all pushed out the airlock).
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2026-04-04 00:21:50 CEST

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@nprofile…2hrz hell yeah

2026-04-03 23:51:33 CEST

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2026-04-03 20:23:44 CEST

lol
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2026-04-03 19:28:03 CEST

oops
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2026-04-03 01:50:02 CEST

Always fun to get an email that starts "With the goal of ensuring a bright, stable, and sustainable future for Portland Public Schools" when the last email was about cutting classroom days and furloughing teachers amid gaping holes in the education budget.

2026-04-03 00:18:22 CEST

imagine someone who's never heard either of these names before (for example, me) seeing this breaking news
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2026-04-03 00:13:01 CEST

You see, that's what you have to do. You have to use your mind and come up with
some really great idea like that and you never have to work again!
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2026-04-02 20:29:48 CEST

this pos belongs behind bars
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2026-04-02 20:00:52 CEST

economy’s depressed not me, my spirit’s high as they can be

2026-04-02 17:54:53 CEST

Working more and more with Claude, in the moments when I'm sipping my tea while waiting for a particularly demanding request to process, I increasingly see myself as Paul Rudd from that Tim and Eric sketch where he very seriously generates animations of himself dancing, culminating in NSFW Tayne.
https://youtu.be/maAFcEU6atk?si=OsYpFTB6-buydN_2

2026-04-02 08:35:17 CEST

With the U.S. having openly returned to the business of regime change in the Middle East, I'm reminded of this exchange almost 20 years ago between Vova and Dubya.
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2026-04-02 08:27:32 CEST

Last month, the journalists at Bereg published two articles (a deep dive on the Yeltsin Center & a surprisingly candid interview w/ Ostorozhno, Novosti's EIC) that both shed lots of light on how qualified independence works inside Russia today. I wrote about them together. https://meduza.io/en/brief/2026/04/02/the-squeeze

2026-04-02 08:12:25 CEST

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@nprofile…9jyj Politics is inseparable from space races, but I still enjoy watching such spectacular scientific achievements and enjoy the spirit of collaboration that makes it possible.

2026-04-02 03:52:48 CEST

Unusual presser today from Putin, who publicly warned Pashinyan about Armenia's EU rapprochement and called for unnamed jailed pro-Russian candidates (i.e. Samvel Karapetyan) to be freed before elections. Airing it all in front of cameras — not Putin's typical M.O. https://www.agents.media/putin-pod-kamery-predupredil-pashinyana-o-posledstviyah-sblizheniya-armenii-s-es-i-prizvaldopustit-do-vyborov-teh-kto-sidit-v-tyurme/

2026-04-02 01:56:03 CEST

Used Claude to modify a favorite Pebble watchface, so it now cycles through upcoming "events" that are automatically generated by a project I set up to monitor the Russian news. Vibecoding is fun, y'all.
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2026-04-02 00:52:02 CEST

nice to watch launch footage of astronauts instead of weapons for a change
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2026-04-01 20:55:59 CEST

With the Trump administration's talk of leaving NATO, I wonder how George Carlin would have adapted his bit on "pulling out" and U.S. military-manhood-crisis jargon... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjRQwvnjpPw#t=5m48s

2026-04-01 20:20:32 CEST

"Trump threatened to stop weapons for Ukraine unless Europe joined Hormuz coalition," says FT. Whatever the Orange Man's bluster, rerouting Kyiv's PURL supplies to replenish U.S. stockpiles expended against Iran seems inevitable. The empire is hollow, folks. Deal with it. https://www.ft.com/content/d304071a-ca97-4b3b-be93-ff880a6645c3

2026-03-31 23:01:03 CEST

huh?
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2026-03-31 21:15:11 CEST

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@nprofile…2849 i also assume that the people who can seamlessly work from home are more likely to be replaced by AI in the next few years, so it all works out, commute-wise

2026-03-31 20:51:36 CEST

coronavịṛạṇus?
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2026-03-31 19:37:42 CEST

It appears that reports of a Ukrainian military advisor killed in the UAE are fake. In the wartime propaganda game, there are strong, competing interests to present Ukrainian military know-how as either comically useless for the Gulf states or infinitely fruitful.
https://x.com/Shtirlitz53/status/2038981186391863746
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2026-03-31 07:07:56 CEST

Telegram is warning Russians that they could soon lose the ability to buy Premium access (no explicit mention of state censorship here), and they're offering Russian users a two-year subscription for a flat $25 rate. Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all this to blow over?
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2026-03-31 04:40:28 CEST

just vibecoded this decade-old pebble watch app to work with the new MLB api. what a time to be alive!!
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2026-03-31 02:09:15 CEST

it's important not to check social media before making frivolous purchases, otherwise you'll just think: i don't need this; i need canned beans, candles, and a chemical toilet.

2026-03-30 22:49:20 CEST

I've wondered about this from a non-security POV too. We in the West have a much poorer grasp of domestic goings-on in Russia today than pre-2022. Maybe this is an opportunity for emigre media to regain relevance, if they can crack the RU firewall and maintain the public pulse?
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2026-03-30 12:49:18 CEST

Following reports that Ukrainian drones violated Finnish airspace and crashed inside Finland, Zelensky tweets this, claiming that he and Stubb remain simpatico. https://yle.fi/a/74-20217938
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2026-03-30 11:49:20 CEST

Beginning April 1, Russian iPhone users may lose the ability to top up their Apple ID balances via mobile accounts, disabling a common way to pay for VPNs. There's some mixed reporting here; state agencies call it a merely temporary measure to pressure Apple to restore Russian apps to the App Store. https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/30/03/2026/69c913a59a7947e96157b311?from=newsfeed

2026-03-30 09:01:36 CEST

Dmitry Klyuev, the alleged mastermind behind the $230M tax fraud uncovered by Sergey Magnitsky, will face trial today in Paris (in absentia) on sweeping money laundering charges. (The fraud scheme also funneled millions of dollars to Russian Senator Dmitry Savelyev.) https://istories.media/news/2026/03/30/v-parizhe-nachinaetsya-sud-protiv-predpolagaemogo-organizatora-skhemi-po-delu-magnitskogo/

2026-03-29 21:33:19 CEST

americans rediscovering trains
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2026-03-28 20:53:57 CET

Driving home from a week down in the Bay Area, and just passed a massive No Kings rally in Newport, Oregon, which is not a big town at all. Impressive.

2026-03-23 02:50:05 CET

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@nprofile…9v8r Your border with Belarus ain't so pretty.

2026-03-23 01:20:12 CET

Unclear which union, the States or the European, is more in shambles these days: EU limits the flow of confidential material to Hungary, and leaders are meeting in smaller groups, as Tusk warns of suspicions Orbán’s govt is sharing information with Russia.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-hungary-leak-russia-peter-szijjarto/

2026-03-22 19:08:40 CET

Nearly a year. Wow. https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2026/03/how-many-hours-is-your-child-in-school-it-depends-on-your-zip-code.html
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2026-03-22 17:23:25 CET

SNL-UK off to a great start, earning an immediate repost from Orange Man. (Is this really a live audience? I haven't heard laughter that sounds this canned since the 80s.)
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2026-03-22 01:06:01 CET

he seems to be losing it faster and faster
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2026-03-21 19:33:24 CET

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@nprofile…76fu admittedly that was more about political violence, but the basic decorum double standard is pretty outrageous

2026-03-21 19:19:15 CET

we should all remember this sentiment when a certain orange POS finally croaks and rids us all of his existence
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2026-03-21 18:44:32 CET

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2026-03-21 16:28:35 CET

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@nprofile…uxmp those are micro comedies at best

2026-03-21 07:21:18 CET

Retired French Brigadier General Olivier Kempf very briefly summarizes the odds stacked against Kyiv as the war drags on and concludes that "it is possible, at this point, to assert that Ukraine will not win." https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/conflict-resolution-olivier-kempf-kyiv-ukraine-russia/
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2026-03-21 06:45:56 CET

excellent
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2026-03-21 01:52:51 CET

"micro dramas"
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2026-03-20 23:04:55 CET

holy shit, NYT, the Chuck Norris meme is so simple — not just extreme hyperbole but crucially CAUSAL INVERSION — and you FUCKED IT UP. a pox on your headline editor's house, i say.
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2026-03-20 21:27:25 CET

oho
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2026-03-20 21:00:15 CET

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@nprofile…h6sh https://youtu.be/M_ub7bF6EME?si=UBdDjh67ZRXR6GL9

2026-03-20 20:58:49 CET

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@nprofile…h6sh god bless em

2026-03-20 18:59:31 CET

Folks, yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a very bad day. A total disaster. They say it is a date that will live in infamy. Nobody has ever seen infamy like this. Our incredible military suffered badly. Very terrible, what they did to our ships. Many beautiful, very important American ships were lost.

2026-03-20 18:19:37 CET

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The Kremlin's key point man on U.S. diplomacy has denied this Politico report.
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2026-03-20 18:03:10 CET

only a matter of time before the republican party needs a dedicated line in its platform to privatizing the overcrowded u.s. prisons wing that handles all the kidnapped foreign leaders
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2026-03-20 17:35:17 CET

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my two cents: if Trump were really a "Russian asset," he would have proposed the quid pro quo himself. but in reality, he's just a tinpot American chauvinist whose locker-room brain has identified fellow strongmen as his towelsnapping cohort

2026-03-20 17:19:41 CET

Generations from now, Russians will celebrate the late Putin regime's Nixonian feat of Russo-American rapprochement and how he split the Yankees from their European junior allies, weakening the hostile transatlantics and hastening the West's decline...
https://www.politico.eu/article/putin-offers-stop-intel-iran-condition-us-cuts-off-ukraine/
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2026-03-20 16:58:40 CET

folks, if you've got a buddy shot with bibi, try your best to outlast him, so he doesnt post it immediately after you go
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2026-03-20 07:04:23 CET

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@nprofile…m0gg for repayment you'll have to settle for the collapse of Pax Americana

2026-03-20 07:01:56 CET

every news story about AI replacing white collar labor is basically the opposite of that awful scene from Primary Colors where Travolta's Clinton character tells a bunch of factory workers that they're obsolete if they don't learn to utilize their brains behind a desk somewhere

2026-03-20 06:44:13 CET

The Republicans have managed to combine Russia's aggressive, poorly planned war-of-choice model with Ukraine's hopeless pay-us-reparations demands. It truly is a grand old party.
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2026-03-20 00:22:14 CET

jeeeeeeez
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2026-03-19 22:40:37 CET

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Video here. This is from a speech in 2023 where Bibi favorably cited American historian Will Durant.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/258/008/911/786/289/original/34acf43faa85b063.mp4

2026-03-19 22:11:43 CET

Spoken like a man who knows his most devoted Christian supporters are only on his team because they expect him to hasten Armageddon.
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2026-03-19 20:54:46 CET

man, what an update to the Ilya Remeslo story. Less than 48 hours after the pro-Kremlin activist suddenly denounced Putin, he's reportedly been admitted to a psychiatric hospital known for treating patients showing "psychotic symptoms." In recent interviews, Remeslo has appeared perfectly healthy. https://t.me/bazabazon/44792

2026-03-19 08:28:40 CET

Forbes Russia says Russia's Internet censor is running out of resources in its attempt to block Telegram, randomly lifting Russia's bans on access to services like WhatsApp and YouTube. The "technical counter‑threat tools" installed at telecoms just ain't enough.
https://www.forbes.ru/tekhnologii/557481-obhod-na-server-roskomnadzoru-stanovitsa-tazelee-blokirovat-internet-resursy

2026-03-19 07:40:42 CET

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov makes it official: trilateral peace talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the USA are suspended (apparently indefinitely) thanks to the Iran War. I suspect Moscow and Kyiv are secretly relieved to be done with the charade. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8515368?tg

2026-03-19 07:27:59 CET

Jackson Lears reviews Edward Luce's Zbigniew Brzezinski biography, offering a portrait quite remote from what Luce apparently intended. Lears clearly has many axes to grind, but it's still interesting to read about Zbig's hawkish anti-Soviet influence, esp on Carter. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n04/jackson-lears/globaloney

2026-03-19 06:41:33 CET

Took me a month to get around to reading this, but here Der Spiegel reports that the CIA had very early knowledge of Ukraine's secret op to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, and officials even hinted US support before Washington tried to stop the whole thing.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pipeline-explosion-in-the-baltic-sea-how-early-did-the-cia-know-about-the-nord-stream-attack-a-3191daf5-bb02-4395-b08b-3cb7acce557b
We're still a long way from Seymour Hersh's claim that the Americans and Norwegians carried out the bombing themselves, but his fantastical tale nevertheless seems less inaccurate than the early-days suspicion that Russia bombed its own pipeline.

2026-03-19 05:47:13 CET

Ahead of this Sept's parliamentary "contests" in Russia, federal lawmakers have begun their customary let's-rewrite-the-rules pre-election step. Curiously, one change includes delivering blank ballots to precincts later, apparently to make security easier amid police shortages. https://t.me/faridaily24/1948

2026-03-18 17:30:17 CET

Pretty remarkable post yesterday from Ilya Remeslo, the "civic activist" lawyer who's devoted so much time over the years to promoting the pro-Kremlin agenda (especially vs Navalny). Yesterday, he publicly denounced Putin, condemning him as an out-of-touch dictator who launched an unnecessary, bloody war. https://t.me/ilya_remeslaw/11121

2026-03-18 16:54:00 CET

My all-time favorite lineup of U.S. allies.
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2026-03-18 14:13:37 CET

An incredibly candid interview with Ostorozhno Novosti news channel editor-in-chief Sergei Titov. He offers a more behind-the-curtain peek at Telegram newsroom work than I recall ever seeing. I wonder how his boss, Ksenia Sobchak, feels about this interview...
https://bereg.io/feature/2026/03/18/proydet-let-pyat-let-i-dlya-kogo-to-mah-budet-vsey-realnostyu
Some things he covers: how throttling is forcing Russians to Max, how laws banning advertising revenue on Telegram/Meta are the real "news channel" killers, why he thinks it's an opportunity for émigré media, how émigré got stuck doing investigative work over breaking news (grants pressure), how "louder" émigrés' support for Ukrainian troops undermines the whole community's legitimacy back home, how Sobchak and his colleagues "decided" to repatriate the channel in 2022, and a lot, lot more.

2026-03-18 04:34:18 CET

Very funny to see Venezuela beat the USA at America's own national pastime after Trump's cocaine blast of confidence from the Maduro kidnapping apparently deluded him into thinking a war against Iran was a good idea. The karma gods love baseball!

2026-03-18 04:30:23 CET

lol, classic
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