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1/ An accident involving an Airbus A320 landing with locked main gear brakes at Irkutsk on 2 November reportedly had an unusual cause: the pilot's bag got hooked on the brake contr...
1/ Non-Russians in Chelyabinsk are being given mobilisation orders, despite partial mobilisation supposedly having ended and despite not having Russian passports or even residence...
1/ The report highlighted below by @shashj is well worth reading (link at the bottom of this thread). But I just wanted to pick up on a point it makes about systemic lying in the R...
1/ The wife of Colonel Vadim Boyko, the Deputy Head of the Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School (TOVVMU) in Vladivostok, has condemned widespread failures by the Russian army for hi...
1/ Mobilised prisoners from Russian penal colonies, fighting with Wagner. The leader says: "I am personally proud of what I have achieved. It's an unforgettable feeling when you c...
1/ Glaring contrasts between the living conditions enjoyed by Ruslan Kadyrov's Chechen troops βΒ who reportedly live in hotels βΒ and the terrible conditions of ordinary Russian sold...
1/ This video sheds a new light on Yevgeny Prigozhin's plan to create a 'cock division' for recruited prisoners who have been serially raped. If the speaker is telling the truth, i...
1/ A Zambian student was recruited from a Russian prison to serve in the Wagner mercenary group and died "a hero" after storming Ukrainian trenches, according to Wagner head Yevgen...
1/ Russian women have set up a "private knitting company" called the Night Witches to address a severe shortage of underpants on the front line. A shortage of fabric has led to the...
The Financial Times has more details of the problems advertisers are having currently with Twitter. Again, it's principally functional, not political. (See my earlier thread linked...
How an AI responded to a prompt to "Write a script of a farcical conversation between Sergei Shoigu and Vladimir Putin in which Shoigu tries to come up with increasingly absurd and...
1/ Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's former Deputy Prime Minister for Defence and Space Industry, is taking heavy criticism from Russian milbloggers for posing in an occupied region of Ukra...