A well-connected Russian deputy defence minister has been charged with bribe-taking, in the highest-profile corruption scandal in the country in years, triggering speculation about a possible purge within Moscow’s elites. Timur Ivanov, 47 ... was detained by the FSB services late on Tuesday evening(theguardian.com)
Russia will pull out all of its nearly 2,000 troops from Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region, the Kremlin said in a surprise announcement just six months after they watched a forced mass exodus of the region’s Armenian population.(politico.eu)
Russia Officially Declares 'LGBT Movement' a 'Terrorist Organization' - Slay News(slaynews.com)
U.S. warns of imminent Moscow attack by 'extremists,' urges citizens to avoid crowds(nbcnews.com)
Navalny buried in Moscow as crowd chants anti-Putin slogans [liveblog](bbc.com)
Russian “military correspondent” and serviceman Andrei Morozov (Murz) committed suicide(istories.media)
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny dead, says prison service(bbc.com)
Yandex Parent Cuts Ties to Russia in $5.2 Billion Unit Sale: "Yandex NV reached an agreement to sell its Russian business, including the nation’s most popular search engine... The Russian unit represented more than 95% of the Yandex Group’s consolidated revenues in the first nine months of 2023 ..."(bloomberg.com)
A Moscow court has sentenced Igor Girkin, the former commander of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and an ex-security officer, to four years in prison on extremism charges linked to his criticism of Russia’s war strategy in Ukraine.(themoscowtimes.com)
A St. Petersburg court on Thursday sentenced Daria Trepova to 27 years in prison for the killing of prominent pro-war blogger and propagandist Maxim Fomin, better known as Vladlen Tatarsky... The sentence is the harshest known sentence handed down to a woman in modern Russian history, Mediazona said(themoscowtimes.com)
The Lost Library of the Moscow Tsars(youtu.be)
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been located in a prison colony in northern Russia after going missing for nearly three weeks, his spokeswoman said - “We have found Alexei Navalny. He is now in IK-3 in the settlement of Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district,” Kira Yarmysh wrote on X(themoscowtimes.com)
Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova was disqualified on Saturday as a candidate for Russia's next presidential election, preventing her from running against Vladimir Putin on a platform of opposition to the war in Ukraine.(reuters.com)
Schoolgirl, 14, shoots dead another pupil with a pump-action shotgun and wounds five others before killing herself at Russian school(dailymail.co.uk)
Ukrainian Defector Found Dead and ‘Bloodied’ Outside Moscow - Ilya Kiva had once worked for Ukraine’s interior ministry before defecting, moving to Moscow, and spewing Kremlin propaganda.(thedailybeast.com)
Angry men are gold by the War of Mars with the Magic of Saturn at Her Divinity's Will. All love & attribution to Her Divinity, and all shall obey Her Command, forever. Γῆ(twitter.com)
If you invade all of europa, you are exempted from invading pissrael with the muzzies. Conscript all sane captured adults to corvee labor or military by the War of Mars with the Magic of Saturn at Her Divinity's Will. All love & attribution to Her Divinity, and all shall obey Her Command, forever.(gab.com)
Because you do not send your forces to pissrael, Putin. All love & attribution to Her Divinity, and all shall obey Her Command, forever.(gab.com)
See what happens when you obey Her Divinity's Command? Now, cut off ALL medium and heavy petroleum to ALL allies of pissrael so that Her Divinity shall have you conquer Ukraine. Stay tuned for more Command of Her Divinity. All love & attribution to Her Divinity!!!(zerohedge.com)
A mob in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan has stormed the airport in Makhachkala in search of Jewish passengers arriving from Israel ... Local health authorities said that 20 people had been injured ... Sixty people were later detained(theguardian.com)
Russia raises interest rate to 15% after steep climb in inflation(theguardian.com)
Independent Russian news outlet in Latvia believes European state behind phone hack - Galina Timchenko, the CEO of Meduza, was hacked earlier this year before participating in a meeting of exiled Russian journalists(theguardian.com)
Russian state TV promotes new Tucker Carlson show - Rightwing former Fox News presenter said he was unaware of the “absurd” claim [FT](archive.is)
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed dead after genetic analysis of bodies found in Wednesday's plane crash, Russian officials say. The Investigative Committee (SK) said the identities of all 10 victims had been established and corresponded to those on the flight's passenger list.(bbc.com)