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Wagner
Pro-Russian “Z-blogger,” Anastasia Kashevarova, posted an account of the incident that backfired on the soldiers who thought they were doing the right thing.
Jan. 22
Russia
Russian news site says Britain’s favorite dish has come under threat from a Kremlin plan to rip up the sixty-year-old agreement that allows the UK to fish in Russia’s Arctic waters.
Jan. 20
Russia
Five people were injured in Novosibirsk as hot steam spurted in Russia’s latest utility system failure - a nationwide crisis that has left thousands to freeze in subzero temperatures.
Jan. 18
Legal
The Russian proto-celebrities who bared nearly all in December’s “Almost Naked Party” in Moscow’s Mutabor nightclub who thought their problems had gone away were sadly (for them) wrong.
Jan. 17
Russia
The incident took place in a town northwest of Moscow. Though heating was partially restored this morning, it has sparked much debate among locals on government negligence and priorities.
Jan. 17
Propaganda
The IT Army of Ukraine, a loose community of voluntary tech developers, claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against Qwerty, one of Moscow’s main internet providers.
Jan. 16
Moscow
The SBU said a woman who helped organize the sham referendum in eastern Ukraine has been sent to prison after attempting to collect social security payments for refugees in Kyiv.
Jan. 12
Russia
The Mutabor club has been deemed to have breached “sanitary and epidemiological requirements” after a host of people attended a party last month wearing very little.
Jan. 10
Russia
Authorities are attempting to shift blame away from the Kremlin, after protests threatened to embarrass President Putin ahead of elections later this year.
Jan. 10
Moscow
A Ukrainian hacker group likely affiliated with Ukraine’s intelligence destroyed the servers of a Moscow-based internet provider and warned of another bigger attack in the coming days.
Jan. 9
Russia
Nikolai Vasilyev, whose rap name is VACIO, had attended a “nearly-naked” party where he had worn a sock over his penis.
Jan. 8
Russia
Authorities have tried to quell protests with one resident lamenting that he “wished they’d brought back the heating as fast as they dispatched the cops.”
Jan. 8
Russia
As temperatures plummeted in Moscow’s coldest night since the onset of winter, a fire at a transformer substation left residents without heat or power.
Jan. 4
War in Ukraine
While Russians, like most of Europe, gathered together in the city centers to celebrate the arrival of 2024, Russia’s police took the opportunity to detain thousands of migrant workers.
Jan. 3
Putin
Russia attacked Kyiv with 10 Kinzhal missiles on Jan. 2, which once again showed them to be an effective but hardly the “invincible” weapon system Putin’s propaganda claimed.
Jan. 2
Russia
Footage showing Russian VIPs in lingerie and raunchy costumes led to the arrest of a rapper for wearing nothing but a strategically-placed sock, and calls for boycotts and investigations.
Dec. 28, 2023
The defensive measures deployed to protect Russia’s illegally erected link to Crimea continue to increase as fears of imminent Ukrainian attack grow in Moscow’s mind.
Sep. 29