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[Link] Hundreds of Wagner Men Vanish From Putin’s Designated Exile
Read: 22/8/2023 www.thedailybeast.com
Wagner fighters are reportedly leaving Belarus in droves, just weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin had them exiled in the aftermath of their failed march on Moscow.
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[Link] The Russification of Ukrainian IP Registration
Read: 25/2/2023 www.kentik.com
Last summer we teamed up with the New York Times to analyze the re-routing of internet service to Kherson, a region in southern Ukraine that was, at the time, under Russian occupation.
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[Link] A Rare Look Inside Russia’s Massive ‘Satan’ Nuclear Missile
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
In April 2022, two months after Russia escalated its invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin test fired a RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a weapon the West calls the Satan 2.
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[Link] Families of drafted Russian soldiers accuse Putin of snubbing them
Read: 23/11/2022 www.theguardian.com
Two months after mobilising tens of thousands of Russian men, the Kremlin has said that Vladimir Putin will grant some of their mothers and wives an audience to quell fears over the mass call-up.
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[Link] Russia to Build Its Own Orbiting Space Station, Abandon ISS
Read: 27/7/2022 www.vice.com
Before he was removed as Russia’s space chief, Rogozin feuded with NASA astronauts, implied that Russia could crash the station into the United States, and shared a video that joked about the nation marooning an American astronaut in space.
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[Link] Shitposting Shiba Inu Accounts Chased a Russian Diplomat Offline
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
An unofficial army of cartoon Shiba Inu dogs is making life hard for people who post Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine online.
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[Link] Vladimir Putin Explains Why State Media Is Better Than Wikipedia
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
“Of course, objective, important, in-depth information that’s been gathered properly and skillfully…this is in great demand,” Putin said, according to a translation of the video by journalist Kevin Rothrock. “And that’s why you can’t just use Wikipedia.
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[Link] Israel says Putin apologised for foreign minister's Hitler remarks
Read: 6/5/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, said on Thursday that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had apologised for his foreign minister’s claims that Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins.
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[Link] Stop Saying the Tank Is Obsolete Just Because Russia Sucks at Using Them
Read: 19/4/2022 www.vice.com
Russia has lost almost 500 tanks in its invasion of Ukraine, according to independent battlefield researchers at the open source intelligence group Oryx. According to Ukraine, the number is closer to 700.
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[Link] A Piece of the True Cross May Have Sunk with Russia’s Warship
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
The Russian cruiser class warship Moskva now lies at the bottom of the Black Sea. It’s possible that the ship was carrying a piece of the True Cross—a priceless relic some Christians believe is a sliver of wood taken from the cross used to crucify Jesus Christ.
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[Link] Putin’s Former Judo Buddy Calls Him ‘Cowardly’ After the Russian Leader Lost His Black Belt
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
TOKYO — One of Japan’s most distinguished judo leaders has criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, calling out his “cowardly” acts and joining a chorus of condemnation from civil society worldwide.
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[Link] $35m chalets, $14,000 bottles of wine and $700 tips: Russians made this town rich. Now they have vanished
Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
Before the war against Ukraine started just over a month ago, the exclusive French ski resort of Courchevel was buzzing with wealthy Russians. They constituted 7 per cent of its tourist population, but in terms of the town's income, Russia's elite were a goldmine.
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[Link] Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces
Read: 6/4/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the operation in a press release where they called Hydra “the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace,” according to a Google translation of the announcement.
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[Link] Ukraine Accuses Russia of Using WhatsApp Bot Farm to Ask Military to Surrender
Read: 3/4/2022 www.vice.com
The message, according to the press release, said: “The outcome of events is predetermined! Be prudent and refuse to support nationalism and leaders of the country who discredited themselves and already fled the capital!!!”
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[Link] Ukraine accused of helicopter attack on oil depot inside Russia
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Russia has accused Ukraine of sending attack helicopters across the border to strike an oil storage facility in what would be the first raid on Russian soil since the outbreak of the war if confirmed.
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[Link] 'You're not being told the truth': Schwarzenegger speaks out, pleading to end Ukraine war
Read: 18/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has told the Russian people they were being fed misinformation about their country's assault on Ukraine and he appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the attack.
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[Link] How Russia Used the War in Ukraine to ‘Occupy’ Another Neighbouring Country
Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com
The Belarusian dictator’s complicity in letting his country be used by Russia to attack Ukraine has effectively turned Belarus into a Russian client state and amounts to an occupation, the country’s opposition says.
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[Link] 'Hooliganism': Russian court fines journalist after marathon grilling for three-second on-air protest
Read: 16/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
News editor Marina Ovsyannikova was ordered to pay 30,000 roubles ($390) for flouting protest legislation. It was not immediately clear if she could also face other, more serious charges. Her lawyer was not immediately reachable for comment.
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[Link] Ukraine Canceled Crypto Airdrop Because Unethical Investors Wanted ‘Profit’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, crypto donations started to pour in from around the world as people rushed to help the country in its defense against a foreign aggressor.
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[Link] Australia’s Future Fund bans investment in Israeli defence contractor over cluster munitions allegations
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems has denied producing cluster munitions after two big investment funds banned investment in the company, saying it was involved with the weapons.
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[Link] First Popularized in the US, Russia Adopts 'Crisis Actor' Conspiracy Theory
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
The official Twitter account for the UK’s Russian embassy is accusing a pregnant Ukrainian woman, seen in photos of a maternity hospital blast in Mariupol on Wednesday, of being an actor placed in the scene by propagandists in support of Ukraine.
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[Link] Transparency Org Releases Alleged Leak of Russian Censorship Agency
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets has released what it says is 800GB of data from a section of Roskomnadzor, the Russian government body responsible for censorship in the country.
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[Link] Russian Agent Maria Butina Says Ukraine’s Jewish President Is ‘Reviving Fascism’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
In 2018, she was convicted in the U.S. for acting as an agent for Russia. Now she's backing Putin's war on Ukraine. Maria Butina's attempts to infiltrate the NRA and Republican political circles as a Russian agent got her an 18-month prison sentence in the United States.
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[Link] Huge Russian convoy outside Kyiv disperses after reports of food, fuel shortages
Read: 13/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Satellites have captured imagery of a convoy of Russian forces that had been slowly advancing towards the Ukraine capital having dispersed and redeployed into nearby locations.
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[Link] VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Russia's determination to control the minds of its citizens is proceeding full force. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor has forced Google to delist tens of thousands of new URLs that link to VPN resources providing access to 'banned' content.
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[Link] Lid blown off Conti ransomware gang after leaked internal files analyzed
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
It was a Ukrainian security specialist who apparently turned the tables on the notorious Russia-based Conti, and leaked the ransomware gang's source code, chat logs, and tons of other sensitive data about the gang's operations, tools, and costs.
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[Link] This Town in Ukraine Is Deserted, Except for the Man With a Pet Panther and Leopard
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
In the last two weeks, 40-year-old Girikumar Patil has settled into a new routine in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. Every morning at 8AM, when the curfew is lifted in his small town of Severodonetsk, he treks to neighbouring towns to buy five kilos of meat.
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[Link] How Ukraine is using a powerful weapon that is too difficult for Russians to detect
Read: 9/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine's allies have sent some 17,000 anti-tank weapons into the battlefield, in a bid to help fighters bog down the Russian offensive.
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[Link] Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins Explains Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War
Read: 9/3/2022 time.com
The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they’re seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what’s known as open-source intelligence (OSINT).
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[Link] 'Escape From Tarkov' Players Feel the Squeeze of the Ruble's Collapse
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
Russia’s currency, the ruble, has collapsed. It’s worth less than Roblox's in-game currency, robux. The economic collapse has also affected the video game Escape from Tarkov, which uses the ruble, euro, dollar, and bitcoin as in-game currencies and uses real world exchange rates within the game.
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[Link] ‘They were sent as cannon fodder’: Siberian governor confronted by relatives of Russian unit
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
A Russian governor in Siberia has been confronted by angry citizens, who blamed him for deploying a local riot police unit to Ukraine to become “cannon fodder”, a video clip circulating online on Monday showed.
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[Link] Russian soldiers accused of firing on civilian vehicles in Ukraine
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Russian soldiers have been accused of multiple instances of deadly fire on civilian vehicles across Ukraine.
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[Link] Facebook Github Repo Spammed with Messages Supporting Russia
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
The messages viewed by Motherboard are in English and Mandarin. “The Rakshasa people will surely kill the hypocritical European and American robbers! False liberty and democracy make me sick!” one message written in Mandarin reads. “I heard you support the Nazis” another reads.
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[Link] Ethereum Companies Suddenly Ban Users In Certain Countries
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
MetaMask is the most popular crypto wallet for Ethereum users, including NFT traders. It is owned by the same parent company as Infura, which is a centralized API that feeds MetaMask data from the Ethereum blockchain.
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[Link] People Are Worried About Russian Saboteurs at the Poland-Ukraine Border
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
PRZEMYŚL, Poland — For Vladimir, a Ukrainian taxicab driver who was recently ferrying foreign fighters and refugees to and from the Poland-Ukraine border, the threat of Russian saboteurs is real.
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[Link] Ukraine and Russia end second round of peace talks in regret, as reports dispute port city's fall
Read: 3/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine says that a second round of ceasefire talks with Russia had not yielded the results Kyiv hoped for, but the sides had discussed humanitarian corridors and agreed to speak again. Both sides said they wanted a possible ceasefire for evacuating civilians through humanitarian corridors.
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[Link] Morrison government asks Facebook, Twitter and Google to block Russian state media ‘disinformation’
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has asked Facebook, Twitter, Google and other digital platforms to block content generated by Russian state media to curb “disinformation in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine”.
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[Link] Russian Cybersecurity Giant Kaspersky Tries to Maintain Neutrality During Ukraine War
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
The statement encapsulates the company’s position since Russia invaded Ukraine six days ago—that of attempted neutrality in a war where silence or fence sitting is implicitly siding with the Russian forces.
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[Link] Georgia Blocked Hundreds of Foreign Fighters from Joining the Defence of Ukraine
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
The commander of a Georgian-led contingent of foreign fighters in Ukraine has condemned the government in Tbilisi as “slaves of Putin” after it blocked a charter flight transporting foreign volunteers to Ukraine.
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[Link] Russian talkshows dismiss ‘fake’ reports of military losses
Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Russian state television talkshows are describing videos of missiles striking Ukrainian cities and reports of Russian soldiers killed in action as “fakes”, as the country’s media try to account for photos and video emerging from Ukraine that contradict official reports of the invasion.
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[Link] Ukraine declares state of emergency as fears of Russian invasion grow
Read: 23/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine has introduced a nationwide state of emergency in which special restrictions will apply in order to keep the country calm and protect its economy amid fears of a Russian invasion, a senior Ukrainian security official says.
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[Link] Sweden returns to cold war tactics to battle fake news
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
A top official from Sweden’s new “psychological defence” agency said the country had decided to bring back the cold war-era government body amid fears over Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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[Link] Iran nuclear talks pulled back from brink as Tehran shifts stance
Read: 9/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal have been hauled back from the brink of collapse as Tehran revised its stance after pressure from Russia and China and clear warnings that the EU and the US were preparing to walk away.
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[Link] Two shot dead in Moscow by man reportedly told by security guard to put on a face mask
Read: 8/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Four other people were wounded in the incident on Tuesday. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said a suspect had been detained.
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[Link] Trump’s ‘fact-free’ approach caused briefing challenges, CIA report says
Read: 30/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump’s “fact-free” approach to the presidency created unprecedented challenges for intelligence officials responsible for briefing him, according to a newly released account from the CIA.
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[Link] Russian Anti-Satellite Weapon Test Draws Widespread Condemnation
Read: 17/11/2021 hackaday.com
On the morning of November 15, a Russian missile destroyed a satellite in orbit above Earth.
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[Link] Police investigate people taking partially nude photos near Russian landmarks
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police have launched a wave of investigations against young people, mainly women, in recent weeks for taking partially nude or sexually suggestive photographs next to Russian landmarks.
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[Link] Ukraine Doxes Russian Government Hackers’ Phone Calls
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ukraine’s Security Service published the conversations on its official YouTube channel on Thursday.
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[Link] Analyst Who Reported Trump’s ‘Pee Tape’ Rumor Was Just Arrested
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On Thursday, Danchenko was taken into custody in Virginia for allegedly lying to the FBI, according to an unsealed indictment filed in federal court.
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[Link] Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.
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[Link] ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact
Read: 4/11/2021 www.defenseone.com
The United States’ “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing pact is a World War II relic that needs updating to better keep tabs on China, the chairman of a key house subcommittee on intelligence told Defense One. Arizona Democrat Rep.
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[Link] Afghanistan’s neighbours gather in Tehran to discuss its future
Read: 4/11/2021 www.aljazeera.com
Iran says the main goal of the event is to emphasise the call for the formation of an ‘inclusive’ government in Afghanistan.
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[Link] Man Shot Dead In Hail of Gunfire Over Crypto Mining Rigs, Police Say
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
On October 20, a man opened fire on people attempting to steal his cryptocurrency mining equipment in the Abkhazia region bordering Russia. According to police, the man killed one of his own friends while fending off the attackers and is now in custody.
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[Link] Vladimir Putin Is Worried About ‘Cancel Culture’
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
Watching Putin warn about the dangers of cancel culture of progressive intolerance while throwing his biggest critic in jail is just a more absurd version of what’s become routine in the U.S.
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[Link] Trump demands Pulitzer board rescind awards for Russia interference reporting
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump has again demanded the Pulitzer prize board rescind the prize for national reporting awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018, for exposing Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow.
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[Link] Wayback Machine’s 485 billion web pages blocked by Russian government order
Read: 5/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The Internet Archive—including its Wayback Machine, which currently stores 485 billion snapshots of the world's web pages at different dates—is inaccessible for some users in Russia, as a post on the Global Voices site explains.
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[Link] CEO of Major Anti-Piracy Company Arrested in Russia For High Treason
Read: 29/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Cybersecurity company Group-IB, which for several years has investigated hundreds of pirate sites and their connections to organized crime, is currently in the midst of a huge scandal in Russia.
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[Link] U.S. Copyright Holders Want Russia to Criminally Prosecute Pirate sites
Read: 28/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Russia has implemented a wide variety of anti-piracy laws and procedures in recent years. Thousands of copyright-infringing sites have been blocked and even app stores and search engines have to take action.
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[Link] China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem
Read: 26/9/2021 foreignpolicy.com
Why do great powers fight great wars? The conventional answer is a story of rising challengers and declining hegemons. An ascendant power, which chafes at the rules of the existing order, gains ground on an established power—the country that made those rules.
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[Link] Teenager shoots dead six people, wounds several at Russia's Perm university
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The gunman, who was identified as a student at the university, was initially reported to have been killed in the aftermath but Russian authorities later said that was not the case and added he was being treated in hospital.
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[Link] Massive Adult Site ‘Rule34’ Prepares Legal Action to Fight Bogus Homepage Delisting
Read: 11/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Huge adult site 'Rule34' is preparing legal action to have its homepage restored to Google's indexes. The site's operator says that he believes he's been targeted with one or more bogus takedown demands.
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[Link] Step 1: Do a Google search. Ransomware hacker goes rogue, leaks gang's plan.
Read: 26/8/2021 www.nbcnews.com
Someone claiming to work with one of the most notorious ransomware gangs says they’re fed up with how extortion money is divvied up and has leaked a host of the gang's files on a hacker forum.
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[Link] ‘Psychological violence’: Alexei Navalny says he is forced to watch eight hours of state TV a day
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has given his first interview from prison, comparing it to a Chinese labor camp and saying he is forced to watch eight hours of state television a day.
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[Link] Taliban have captured more than 100 military helicopters, Russia says
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Taliban have captured more than 100 Russian-made helicopters in various states of operability, the head of a Russian state arms exporter has said, but will be largely unable to use them with little access to maintenance crews and spare parts.
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[Link] Republic of Guria
Read: 18/8/2021 en.wikipedia.org
The Republic of Guria or the Gurian Peasant Republic was an insurrection that took place in the western Georgian province Guria (then part of the Imperial Russia) prior to and during the Russian Revolution of 1905.
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[Link] Pussy Riot Members Are on House Arrest and Can't Even Get Groceries
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
Nadya Tolokonnikova, founder of Russian punk rock group and performance collective Pussy Riot, speaks with gracefully articulated rage.
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[Link] Sci-Hub Pledges Open Source & AI Alongside Crypto Donation Drive
Read: 9/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has launched a donation drive to ensure the operations and development of the popular academic research platform.
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[Link] Russian gay family in controversial ad flee to Spain after threats
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
A lesbian couple and their family, who were featured in an advert for a Russian supermarket chain that led to a national scandal have fled the country after facing online abuse and death threats.
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[Link] Copyright Holders: Automatically Deleting Pirated Content From Search Isn’t Enough
Read: 3/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A draft bill before Russia's State Duma will allow all copyright holders to have links to pirated content automatically removed from search engines within six hours.
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[Link] Meet FitGirl, The Repack ‘Queen’ Of Pirated Games
Read: 1/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Repacked games are in high demand on pirate sites as they save considerable bandwidth. One of the leading names in this niche is FitGirl. In recent years, the Russian-born repacker transformed from a home archivist into the best-known releaser on the Internet.
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[Link] International Space Station stabilizes after just-docked Russian module suddenly fires thrusters
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
The International Space Station tilted 45 degrees today after Nauka, a just-docked Russian module, suddenly and unexpectedly fired its thrusters. The launch of Nauka, also known as the Multipurpose Laboratory Module, did not go smoothly.
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[Link] The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot
Read: 28/7/2021 www.bbc.com
A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them.
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[Link] Most wanted: The top 5 online crime gangs running ransomware
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
An independent news and commentary website produced by academics and journalists.
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[Link] Jailed for waving flowers in the street or holding tea parties: Life in the newly totalitarian state of Belarus
Read: 2/6/2021 www.telegraph.co.uk
Last month alone, 370 Belarusians were sentenced to administrative arrest, serving combined 6,107 days in custody, according to the rights group Viasna which lists 321 people as prisoners of consciousness.
[Link] Meet the Russian patriots making their presence felt in Australia
Read: 15/2/2021 www.abc.net.au
Vladimir Putin wants to reclaim Russia's former glory, and he expects the support of Russians across the globe, wherever they may live.