That's some fine Soviet map making there. It's just a matter of time until the real world map shows 25% of the Russian Federation in the hands of China. Russia wants to impose fines for maps that don’t show occupied Crimea as Russian territory https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/16/7367774/
For being Russia's top "Aviation Scientist" he's not very good at flying when the report says he "fell from a great height". Top Russian aviation scientist dies after reportedly 'falling down several flights of stairs' at Moscow institute https://vt.co/news/world/top-russia...several-flights-of-stairs-at-moscow-institute
So now in Putin's New Soviet Union --- all you need to do is to post on unapproved social networks like Facebook and Instagram to be 'carrying out extremist activities'. You don't need to post anything controversial; merely posting anything makes you a subversive subject to lengthy prison terms. Brave fashion influencer, 18, faces six years in jail for 'extremist activity' just for using INSTAGRAM in Putin's Russia Veronika Loginova has 556k Instagram followers and posts no political content Prosecutors said she 'stands out too much' and attracts others to the platform Russian court banned Facebook and Instagram for 'extremist activities' in March Instagram is still accessed by Russian elites by using a VPN despite the ban https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rs-jail-extremist-activity-Putins-Russia.html A brave 18-year-old fashion influencer in Russia is facing six years in jail after her Instagram account was branded as 'extremist activity'. Veronika Loginova has 556,000 followers on the social media platform and is risking the jail sentence despite posting no political content. She was accused by the Kuntsevskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of 'extremism' by 'performing actions to attract users to social networks Facebook and Instagram'. In March a court in Russia banned Facebook and Instagram, claiming they were 'carrying out extremist activities'. The country also cracked down on protesters and news outlets following its invasion of Ukraine at the end of February. Loginova posted on Instagram in tears, saying: 'Any day prosecutors can come to your house. 'I never touched politics and now I face six years in jail…for running Instagram.' 'Good morning, you woke up in Russia. And while we don't speak about such things, I will still speak.' Two state prosecutors called at Loginova's home, claiming that her audience of over 1.1 million on Instagram and YouTube means she 'stands out too much'. The 18-year-old took to her Instagram account to question the assumptions: 'Really? Do I? An 18-year-old fashion blogger? 'An entrepreneur, creator of my own clothing brand that pays taxes to her own country? 'A person who writes posts about mental health support, and has never once touched on a political agenda on her blog? 'Yeah. There you go. You live, you make pretty pictures, you build a business, you help people, you don't touch anyone. 'But you live in Russia, and among a million bloggers, they come to you. What do I do now? Quit Instagram? Flee Russia? Sue? The successful beauty and fashion influencer began her accounts when she was just 15 and has built her following since. She vowed that she wouldn't be fazed by the threat. 'I am going to get to the bottom of it, and to cover it here,' she posted on Instagram. 'Thankfully, I have support in the form of people who understand that this is not normal. This is totally f****d up and I want as many people as possible to know about this story. 'So I am asking everyone who has a voice, everyone who has even one follower to share it, and to say this is NOT normal.' Russia has now created its own equivalent of the social media app - called 'Rossgram' - but Instagram is still popular among elites and can be accessed via a VPN. There is no record of the Kremlin Instagramers facing prosecution under Putin's draconian laws. Recently topless beach pictures of the Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu's daughter Ksenia, 31, were shared on the platform by her lover, sports blogger Alexey Stolyarov, 32. The Defence Minister's daughter Ksenia Shoigu also uses Instagram but keeps it in private mode. Olympic skater Tatiana Navka, 47, wife of Putin's high-profile spokesman Dmitry Peskov, is also an enthusiastic user of Instagram and has faced no threat of jail. (Article has many more pictures and video)
Some more Soviet style purging... Top Russian manager found dead in 'suspicious suicide' amid fears of Kremlin purge Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, was found with a gunshot would on the balcony of his Moscow home just weeks after posting seemingly happy holiday pictures on social media https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/another-top-russian-manager-found-28115255 Another top Russian manager has been found dead in a “ suicide ” that is seen as suspicious. Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, an executive with the Digital Logistics arm of Russian Railways, was found with a gunshot wound on the balcony of his Moscow home. p:nth-of-type(2)","sizes":[[8,8]],"hideOnSensitiveArticle":true,"relativePos":"after","additionalClass":"in-article","name":"div-gpt-ad-vip-slot","type":"VIP","bidders":{"ozone":"1420432300"}}" data-gpt-placeholder="" data-response-start="4626" data-type="gpt" style="display: block;"> Recently he has posted seemingly happy holiday pictures and an investigation is formally underway into his death even though the initial version is that he took his own life. He was found in the morning on the balcony of his Kolomenskaya Embankment apartment. News outlet ‘We Can Explain’ today called him latest member of a Russian ‘suicide club’ of senior managers and executives who have died since around the start of the war in Ukraine. These prominent people were quickly seen by the authorities as having taken their own lives, but in all cases there are said to be grounds for doubt over the cause of death. Pchelnikov boasted about being "the most experienced PR manager in Russian Railways company”. “It is known that just a month ago, he was on vacation and willingly posted photos from his holiday on social media,” reported ‘We Can Explain’. “What could have pushed the man to a desperate act is unknown.” On 1 September, oil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, fell to his death from the sixth floor window of a Moscow hospital. One report says the chairman of Lukoil - Russia ’s second largest oil company - was “beaten” before he was “thrown out of a window”, however this is not confirmed officially. His company had voiced opposition to the war in Ukraine. Strangely, Putin arrived at the elite Central Clinical Hospital very soon after Maganov’s body was found to pay his last respects to final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who had died at the hospital. In July, Yuri Voronov, 61, head of a transport and logistics company for a Gazprom-linked company, was found dead in his swimming pool, with a leading friend who is a top criminologist warning of foul play. Two more deaths of Gazprom-linked executives were reported in elite homes near St Petersburg amid suspicions that apparent suicides may have been murders. Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom financial and security official at deputy general director level, was discovered by his lover the day after war started in Ukraine in February. His neck was in a noose in his £500,000 home . Yet reports say he had been badly beaten shortly before he “took his own life”, leading to speculation he was under intense pressure. In the same elite Leninsky gated housing development in Leningrad region three weeks earlier, Leonid Shulman,, 60, head of transport at Gazprom Invest, was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a pool of blood on his bathroom floor. Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, also linked to Kremlin-friendly energy giant Lukoil where he was a top manager, was found dead in May after “taking advice from shamans”. One theory is that Subbotin - who also owned a shipping company - was poisoned by toad venom triggering a heart attack. In April, wealthy Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official, appeared to have taken his own life after killing his wife Yelena, 47, and daughter, 13. He had high level links to leading Russian financial institution Gazprombank. Friends have disputed reports that he was jealous after his wife admitted she was pregnant by their driver. There are claims he had access to the financial secrets of the Kremlin elite. Several days later multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found hanged in Spain, after evidently killing with an axe his wife Natalia, 53, and their teenage daughter, Maria. He was a former deputy chairman of Novatek, a company also closely linked to the Kremlin. There have also been questions over the death of Putin’s point man for developing Russia’s vast Arctic resources who “fell overboard” to his death from a boat sailing off the country’s Pacific coast. Ivan Pechorin, 39, had recently attended a major conference hosted by the Kremlin warmonger in Vladivostok. The high-flyer was managing director of Putin’s Far East and Arctic Development Corporation. And in another case a mobile phone multi-millionaire and his wife were found stabbed to death in another case that has raised questions.
pity ... and how many of these cockroaches are still left? russia runs out of everything at the moment - when do they finally run out of oligarchs and stuff?
Russia has plenty of oligarchs to toss out of windows. Putin just appoints a new oligarch to take their position and steals the wealth of the deceased predecessor.
The FSB is getting too lazy to even throw the oligarchs' bodies off the balconies anymore. Russian executive’s body found on his balcony in latest ‘suspicious’ death https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/30/russ...-balcony-in-latest-mysterious-death-17480096/
Welcome to the new Soviet Union... Miss Crimea fined for singing patriotic Ukrainian song Olga Valeyeva and friend, who was jailed, found guilty of ‘discrediting’ Russian army by singing Chervona Kalyn https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/miss-crimea-fined-for-singing-patriotic-ukrainian-song