The Russian state television is using AI for a promotional clip advertising the parliamentary elections this weekend. Alexander Nevsky, Fyodor Ushakov, Alexander Suvorov, Mikhail Kutuzov, and Georgy Zhukov appear, along with participants in the ongoing war against Ukraine. To make everything clear. (translated)
The historian of Russian cuisine Pavel Syutkin has been sentenced to 6 years for a post about the massacre in Bucha. "It should be understood that every honest writer, journalist, or historian in Russia must always be ready for prison. Well, today this role has fallen to me," said the historian. (translated)
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The new documentary film by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Sharon, which reveals in detail the systems behind the mass and deliberate killing of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel during operations supposedly only against Hamas, received 25 minutes of applause at the festival in Venice. (translated)
Cover of "The New Yorker" magazine in memory of the September 11, 2001 attacks. (translated)
A monument has been erected in Yakutsk for the participants in the war against Ukraine at the site of the demolished memorial dedicated to the Poles exiled to Siberia by the Russian Empire in the 19th century for their participation in national liberation movements. (translated)
Protopriest Andrey Kordochkin explains how the new book by Russian Patriarch Kirill, "The War. Beyond Visible Causes and Consequences," justifying the "holy war" against Ukraine, contradicts the fundamental principles of Christianity. (translated)
During World War I, the Russian Empire carried out excessive mobilization of about 15.5 million people, which sharply increased the burden on the economy and logistics, ultimately leading to a social crisis and the February Revolution. (translated)
Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichhevsky, and Vladimir Usov were posthumously declared Heroes of the Soviet Union. They died defending the White House in Moscow during the coup attempt in August 1991. They were killed by Sergey Surovikin, now a Hero of Russia. (translated)
Explosion at a munitions factory near Rome, owned by the Franco-German giant KNDS, a major supplier of weapon systems and munitions for Ukraine. Days after the explosion in Belica. Probably a coincidence. (translated)
On July 30, 1937, the so-called "special troikas of the NKVD" began operating in the USSR. They existed for less than a year and a half, but sent over 1.7 million people to the GULAG and execution. In 2013, the documents were supposed to be declassified, but they were not. Here is what July 30 means for Russia. (translated)
Everyone has already heard Putin's words: "What will we do if the special military operation ends?". He claims that someone asked him this question, but it is clear that he is asking it himself. And they look at this joker without blinking, the little soldiers with chests adorned with medals, and the very trembling Patrushev himself. (translated)
Will Putin leave on July 19, 2026? Every popular prediction (and this one was made in 2007 in the application of the newspaper "Kommersant," titled "Power") has the potential to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. In this case, it's a boon for the Russian elite. (translated)
According to Forbes, 209,000 companies closed in Russia during the first four months of 2026. Foreign loans are banned (even China refuses). The real income of most families is 60-70 thousand rubles, consumption is shrinking. Is this an economic collapse? What else could it be called? (translated)
Trump: "One of the things I discussed [with Putin] was: 'Where would you like to meet?' And he replied: 'Ideally in Moscow.' I said: 'We will not meet in Moscow.'... And would you go to Moscow?" Zelensky: "It will be difficult. There are too many Ukrainian drones there." (translated)
The head of the Russian Investigative Committee has proposed that passports be issued at the age of 12. There would be at least three benefits for the state: arrest for "discrediting the army," mobilization, and marriage, respectively legal children. (translated)
Trump: "G7 was once G8. They should have kept G8. If they had done that, there probably wouldn't be a war between Russia and Ukraine." I know what such a position is called, but I will remain silent. (translated)
Carlo Ginzburg, the author of "The Cheese and the Worms," one of the historians who inspired us over the past decades, has passed away at 87. (translated)
Since the text is in Bulgarian, here is the translation: "Already from the first days after he took office, Russian propagandists began spreading the rumor about 'drug addict Zelensky.' Now Armenia is not playing to the Russian tune - and look, according to them, Pashinyan has also become a drug addict. Pashinyan, who was recently received as an honored guest in the Kremlin." (translated)
This is what a regular post on the official government profile of a democracy looks like now. With a video created using artificial intelligence, the president boasts that he has removed from air and "thrown in the bin" a comedian who made jokes about him. (translated)
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