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I read the serious discussions about ‘who eavesdropped on Ushakov and Dmitriev’ and can’t help but chuckle to myself.
All these deliberations about whether it was the NSA or GCHQ are based on the assumption that Ushakov had to use a secure means of communication. Had to… because why exactly?
Because politicians are renowned for their unwavering commitment to adhering to rules, including #OPSEC? But they are not.
Let us recall the US and European leaders who, in #Ukraine Kyiv in 2013, happily chatted on the phone and were recorded (‘Nuland–Pyatt call’).
Shortly afterwards, Sergei Glazyev from the #Russia presidential administration did the same and was recorded… by the new SBU (‘Glazyev tapes’, much less well-known but much more devastating).
In summary, if one can generalise the concept of high-level politics in #infosec matters, it is that those in power do not apply the rules to themselves and do not learn from their mistakes precisely because they are in power.
In short, Hanlon’s razor applies.
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I’m looking for a little help about dealing with the seemingly mass attack of Russian bots. What's the best way of handling this?
I report this Russian propaganda as 'Something Else' and bookmark a post, so that I can later see if the account is still running, then I block the account. I also leave the checkbox on, for the server itself to receive my report
Many accounts are not suspended
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Spam #Propaganda #ActivityPub #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #EU
Here’s what we’re reading today:
After Russia’s 2022 invasion of #Ukraine, satellite images revealed unusual activity at a former Cold #War #bioweapons site near #Moscow.
Satellite images showed renovations and new buildings, possibly high-containment bio-labs.
#Russia denies this.
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"Syria, Russia, and Turkiye Ties"
It turns out Turkiye has a lot to do with the uprising in Syria against Assad and Russian forces.
Here is an update on the Syrian uprising and effects on Russia.
Apart from the gloom and regret that "Wagner" and Prigozhin are no longer around, Russians say...
#AureFreePress #News #Breaking #BreakingNews #Russia #Syria #Turkiye #headline #press
#Russia #Россия #LGBTQ
Under new extremism laws, LGBTQ Russians must fight to survive
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/05/04/under-new-extremism-laws-lgbtq-russians-must-fight-to-survive/
⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show messaging platform Discord has been restricted on multiple internet providers in #Russia; the measure comes as telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor announces that the service is in violation of Russian laws relating to "terrorist and extremist" content
Russian President Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping talks begin in Kazan.
Putin stated that relations between Russia and China are a model of how relations between countries should be built, cooperation is equal and non-opportunisti.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #China #BRICS #Breaking #BreakingNews
#Russia Internet shutdown allow lists:
in russia, mobile internet is heavily restricted. in some regions, access to non-whitelisted resources is blocked entirely; in others, the speed is throttled to an unusable 14 kb/s (sometimes even lower), or in the worst cases, a complete blackout where even whitelisted resources become unreachable.
Sample from domain entries:
rutube.ruqueuev4.vk.comapi.vk.rucollections.yandex.rur0.mradx.net
🧵 Is Tulsi Gabbard’s appointment as the Director of National Intelligence good or bad news for Ukraine?
You decide. Here are few things she’s said about Ukraine in the past.
The other option? Don’t attack #Iran. Idiots.
#Trump Removes #Sanctions on #Russia to Help #Oil Flow Amid Iran #War
The #US on Thursday temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil that is currently at sea, allowing it to be shipped to buyers around the world as the Trump admin scrambles to contain #energy #prices that have been soaring because of the war in Iran.
#TrumpsWar #law #WarPowers #geopolitics #Ukraine #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/politics/trump-russia-oil-sanctions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
🇷🇺 Explosions near #Russia's Vladivostok damaged a gas pipeline and destroyed a water pipeline that supplied military facilities in the area, an unnamed intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent on July 5.
One of my favourite stories about the literary life in Russia twenty years ago. And about the weight the literati had in people's consciousness (no, not anymore, not in the land of Z).
I remember this story from time to time.
The original Russian post (with more stories about “the tour”): https://un-tal-lukas.livejournal.com/1373089.html
![Near Moskovsky Train Station [in Nizhny Novgorod] we fell into the clutches of a police patrol. [poet Evgeny] Lesin, staggering with a bottle in his hand, for some reason rubbed them the wrong way.
“Let’s see your papers,” the chief thug said with an ugly grin.
“You’re an asshole, a piece of shit, and a bitch,” Lesin replied, as usual [, quoting a well-known Russian explicit poem about the toughness of poet's life].
“Well, well,” the chief thug smiled even more coldly as he examined our passports. “Moscow and Petersburg, is it? And what’s the purpose of your visit?”
“On tour!” I blurted out.
“Oh, is that so!” the man brightened up completely. “And who exactly are you, then?”
“He’s a poet, and I’m — his manager,” my subconscious answered for me.
The faces of our tormentors fell and grew bored. The passports were handed back, the tickets too, and they stopped beating Lesin over the head with a truncheon.
“Sorry for the trouble,” the chief thug snapped a salute. “Do come again!”
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Olga Lukas. Gorky and Kids. Post from 20.02.06](/proxy/post_attachment/959774/64b8199189.png "Near Moskovsky Train Station [in Nizhny Novgorod] we fell into the clutches of a police patrol. [poet Evgeny] Lesin, staggering with a bottle in his hand, for some reason rubbed them the wrong way.
“Let’s see your papers,” the chief thug said with an ugly grin.
“You’re an asshole, a piece of shit, and a bitch,” Lesin replied, as usual [, quoting a well-known Russian explicit poem about the toughness of poet's life].
“Well, well,” the chief thug smiled even more coldly as he examined our passports. “Moscow and Petersburg, is it? And what’s the purpose of your visit?”
“On tour!” I blurted out.
“Oh, is that so!” the man brightened up completely. “And who exactly are you, then?”
“He’s a poet, and I’m — his manager,” my subconscious answered for me.
The faces of our tormentors fell and grew bored. The passports were handed back, the tickets too, and they stopped beating Lesin over the head with a truncheon.
“Sorry for the trouble,” the chief thug snapped a salute. “Do come again!”
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Olga Lukas. Gorky and Kids. Post from 20.02.06")
An #Orban transformation of the #EU would put #Europe under the thumb of the criminal Putin regime
https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/114593989406765859
hanse_mina@mastodon.social - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban championed Polish nationalist presidential candidate Karol #Nawrocki at the CPAC Hungary conference on Thursday and announced a "patriotic plan" that he said should "transform" the European Union.
Viktor Orbán has turned Hungary into a Trojan horse inside the European Union. And the problem is - our current rules allow this to keep happening 🤯
Orbán’s foreign minister was calling Moscow during breaks in EU meetings to give his Russian counterpart “live updates” on what we were discussing.
Think about that for a second.
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The International Congress of Mathematicians (#ICM) decided not to meet in #Russia in 2022, for a list of reasons including Russa's "war of aggression in #Ukraine and the potential dangers…in regards to freedom of political expression and the safety of #LGBTQ participants." Now some ICM members have launched a petition asking it not to meet in the US in 2026, for a list of reasons including US aggression in #Gaza, #Greenland, #Iran, and #Venezuela, and "serious concern that academics (or anyone) traveling to the US may be denied entry."
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHJhc8X83b8oL6rH2KDX0I730eraum5I8_IlWY23F82mHuag/viewform?fbzx=7063048079651794343
Holy shit
In #Russia's #war against #Ukraine, Russia has lost 221,206 soldiers, confirmed. The actual number could be closer to ~350,000 
That is more then the total US combat related deaths in World War 2..
⛔️🇦🇿Putin never held accountable for MH17 by Hague downs another civilian airliner: Azerbaijani plane crashes in Kazakhstan due to Russian missile - Euronews (PHOTOS and more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-emergencies/3942161-azerbaijani-plane-crashes-in-kazakhstan-due-to-russian-missile-euronews.html #Ukraine #OSCE #UN #Mastodon #UnitedNations #PACE #Hague #ICC #ICJ #PACE #CoE #Azerbaijan #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Kazakhstan #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #Russia #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
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🇫🇷 🙏 Good morning #thursday 3rd post today Refurbed old meme #macron 😅 😂 🤣 😭 happy 73rd #eurovision #lgbtq #introduction #uk #USA #russia #iran Everybody is laughting at 🇫🇷 #france not #germany 😤 😡
Refurbed old meme from 2020 😇
@EUCommission @middle-east-news-AlJazeera @middle-east-news-AlJazeera
Good evening II last one of the day, my last brain cell need a british serie to cool down 🙏
#boycott #france #women #metoo try to convince your husbands to choose another destination this summer #thursday ? th post today ? #eurovision #lgbtq #introduction #uk #USA #russia #iran #france #gaza #palestine . Take Care.
@EUCommission
下图，一个措辞准确的新闻。
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克里姆林宫似乎对特朗普的疯狂推动有点不解，尤其是，它显然还没有准备好卷入这场动荡的漩涡。面对特朗普的猴儿急，它要求一点时间来做准备，但它似乎并不知道该如何“准备”才能避免它害怕的事情发生。
这里的细微差别在于，特朗普没有那么多的时间，他需要紧急推销他想要的议程，因为欧洲人也被惊呆了，还不知道如何应对这种压力，他们正试图组织起来，制定应对措施。
因此特朗普需要“盟友”，或者更准确地说，需要他向欧洲释放的下属/手套，迫使欧洲处理“次要问题”，将资源浪费到手套身上而不是特朗普本人身上。
特朗普愿意向他“最好的朋友”大普妞儿许诺天上的星星做项链，只为了让俄成为对付欧洲的鱼雷。
但要做到这一点，特朗普需要释放克里姆林宫的资源，而这些资源完全被与乌克兰的冲突所*占据。这才是特朗普需要不惜一切代价实现紧急停火的原因 —— 丫从来没有关心过乌克兰人，这点上切勿误会 ——这样克里姆林宫才能重新整合资源，开始威胁欧洲本身。
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#俄罗斯 #乌克兰 #特朗普 #WIII #欧洲 #Russia #Ukraine #Trump #WIII #Europe
#Romania’s #FarRight candidate, championed by #JDVance & #ElonMusk, detained by police
Romanian prosecutors have opened a #criminal investigation into #CălinGeorgescu, the far-right, Pro-#Russia populist who surged from almost nowhere to win the first round of the country’s cancelled presidential election last year.
#RussianPropaganda #ElectionInterference #geopolitics #law
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/26/romanian-prosecutors-launch-investigation-into-far-right-politician-calin-georgescu