In Russia, the unspoken rule used to be that you could speak more or less freely, (you wouldn't even be cancelled like in the US) but you had to keep away from politics.
Strelkov's arrest seems to have broken this unspoken rule. Now we are in uncharted territory. What are we allowed to say or not say anymore? What is the line that we cannot cross? No one knows.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has made sure to involve the oligarchs in the war effort so they can make a buck or two:
How Russian Billionaires Provide Mercenaries to the Russian Army
Oleg Deripaska, Leonid Mikhelson, Gennady Timchenko, and other businessmen recruit volunteers for the war on salaries. In the meantime, their businesses, which is involved in this — Rusal, Novatek, PIK, Mospromstroy — successfully avoid sanctions
"Strelkov—who demanded Prigozhin’s arrest after Wagner’s “March on Moscow”—is behind bars for classified reasons, while Prigozhin is a free man, and is even allowed to hang out with powerful Africans in St. Petersburg, even after his private army shot Russian pilots out of the sky."
Is that like asking why a government ruled by mobsters despise and fear patriots.🤔
Perhaps, gangsters are terrified by those who can't be compromised and refuse to accept political corruption.
Maybe, that's why Strelkov is incarcerated just like those who were setup on 1/6 by the FBI and are still rotting in jail. They like "all" other political prisoners are held captive because they pose a threat to the status quo.
"The law demands proof of user identification before they can use Russian online platforms. Foreign email systems such as Gmail and Apple are set to be banned, paving the way for stringent measures expected to be rolled out by Christmas this year. ...
The new first-of-its-kind law mandates hosting companies to positively identify potential customers using state-approved procedures. The companies also bear considerable responsibility for content hosted on their platforms. Besides, hosting companies can only conduct their operations with explicit state permission, ..."
What happens to all the commentators on .ru sites? Or the forums, boards with 100% anons e.g. russian 2ch/4chan equivalent: https://2ch.hk/
Not knowing Russian, I can only go by their description, but what's not clear is if it is limited only to internet services or hosting providers in Russia or if it also places the same government ID demands on foreign providers--at least those not banned--and if the same ID demands apply to foreign users of Russian online services--I suppose it might have to since there's no way to know a user's origin until they provide real world IDs.
p.s. little known fact that some US states have already passed (and others have proposed) the same laws for digital/online-government IDs for online services (under the guise of age-verification) and likewise several US bills are underway at the federal level mandating the same exact government IDs for public online communications (and worse like breaking encryption or backdoors for encrypted messaging)
Yes, it looks and feels like Communism. But but, they said that when Berlin wall fell communism went away as well!? Because Communism got tired of raping and killing as Communism and wanted to rape and kill as a Democracy?
Most commentators on other Russia related western blogs think that Russia is going to save the world. NOBODY IS GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD.
USA is the most destructive, degenerate, evil, insane country in the history of the world. It is is run by SUPER-PSYCHOPATHS. Russia is merely a mafia country run by corrupt thugs.
Russia controls its citizens by telling them what to do. USA controls its citizens by telling them what they are. Much more sophisticated.
You can apparently criticize the Russian government as long as you also lead an armed insurgency against it, but not otherwise. Because you are then deemed weak?!!
As I see on russian telegram channels - everything Russia does in Ukraine is a masterclass 4D chess played by Putin. If You write something contradictory to this cult, You are banned and called a traitor. So does Strielkov - he will be prosecuted for "treason" and banned (put into jail).
This is going to wake up many nationalists in the west and inside Russia. Putin is bending over for African warlords and pandering to Africa, and wants to use them against the evil white western colonialist nazi's. Its getting really funny now and close to clown world. Meanwhile true patriots and Strelkov get put into the Gulag, no diffrence they do in the west, its just a diffrent flavour. I cant see this war lasting much longer. If Russian patriots at the front keep hearing about this crap Putin pulls off i doubt their morale will last long.
Perhaps the film "Chekist" (1992) should be remembered, especially since Strelkov is a supporter of Imperial Russia from a patriotic structure. Such as he were eliminated by Lenin's "Cheka", a squad of sadistic killer-executioners, who were not ethnically Russian. The Chekists and Lenin passionately hated the Russians and Imperial Russia, and exterminated as many Russian patriots and intellectuals as quickly as possible. Lenin was brought in from the outside and financed by the globalist structures of the time, do we see any continuity, can this also be subsumed under "classified reasons"?
How someone who doesn't have a credit card, doesn't use cripto, and basicly lives a 19th century life in terms of finantial technology, can subscribe, have access to subscriber only post's/comments or help the blog/cause?
When Spanish current Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez began using the Falcon (Spain's equivalent of Air Force 1) for travelling to attend personal events and some busybody media began making impertinent questions, he classified that information because it involved "state secrets".
Nothing new under the sky. Politicians are corrupt by definition and they whore out and degrade their countries' institutions for their convenience.
I hope you heard the expression: Был бы человек, а статья найдется, Riley. In this sense, nothing new about Mother Russia. It's the natural way of life.
In Russia, the unspoken rule used to be that you could speak more or less freely, (you wouldn't even be cancelled like in the US) but you had to keep away from politics.
Strelkov's arrest seems to have broken this unspoken rule. Now we are in uncharted territory. What are we allowed to say or not say anymore? What is the line that we cannot cross? No one knows.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has made sure to involve the oligarchs in the war effort so they can make a buck or two:
How Russian Billionaires Provide Mercenaries to the Russian Army
Oleg Deripaska, Leonid Mikhelson, Gennady Timchenko, and other businessmen recruit volunteers for the war on salaries. In the meantime, their businesses, which is involved in this — Rusal, Novatek, PIK, Mospromstroy — successfully avoid sanctions
https://istories.media/en/stories/2023/08/01/billionaires-mercenaries/
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
"Strelkov—who demanded Prigozhin’s arrest after Wagner’s “March on Moscow”—is behind bars for classified reasons, while Prigozhin is a free man, and is even allowed to hang out with powerful Africans in St. Petersburg, even after his private army shot Russian pilots out of the sky."
Is that like asking why a government ruled by mobsters despise and fear patriots.🤔
Perhaps, gangsters are terrified by those who can't be compromised and refuse to accept political corruption.
Maybe, that's why Strelkov is incarcerated just like those who were setup on 1/6 by the FBI and are still rotting in jail. They like "all" other political prisoners are held captive because they pose a threat to the status quo.
(OT but Russia digital ID related) Riley, have you seen this? Federal Law No. 406-FZ
https://reclaimthenet.org/putins-latest-law-criminalizes-online-anonymity
Putin’s Latest Law Criminalizes Online Anonymity, Mandates Identity Checks For Platform Use
bill in Russian: https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/Russia-Federal-Law-No-230731.pdf
"The law demands proof of user identification before they can use Russian online platforms. Foreign email systems such as Gmail and Apple are set to be banned, paving the way for stringent measures expected to be rolled out by Christmas this year. ...
The new first-of-its-kind law mandates hosting companies to positively identify potential customers using state-approved procedures. The companies also bear considerable responsibility for content hosted on their platforms. Besides, hosting companies can only conduct their operations with explicit state permission, ..."
What happens to all the commentators on .ru sites? Or the forums, boards with 100% anons e.g. russian 2ch/4chan equivalent: https://2ch.hk/
Not knowing Russian, I can only go by their description, but what's not clear is if it is limited only to internet services or hosting providers in Russia or if it also places the same government ID demands on foreign providers--at least those not banned--and if the same ID demands apply to foreign users of Russian online services--I suppose it might have to since there's no way to know a user's origin until they provide real world IDs.
p.s. little known fact that some US states have already passed (and others have proposed) the same laws for digital/online-government IDs for online services (under the guise of age-verification) and likewise several US bills are underway at the federal level mandating the same exact government IDs for public online communications (and worse like breaking encryption or backdoors for encrypted messaging)
Invaluable insights from Boris Kagarlitsky who, consequently, finds himself in FSB custody as well. . .
https://open.substack.com/pub/russiandissent/p/idiots-no-longer-useful?r=1sn81w&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Yes, it looks and feels like Communism. But but, they said that when Berlin wall fell communism went away as well!? Because Communism got tired of raping and killing as Communism and wanted to rape and kill as a Democracy?
Indeed.
Most commentators on other Russia related western blogs think that Russia is going to save the world. NOBODY IS GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD.
USA is the most destructive, degenerate, evil, insane country in the history of the world. It is is run by SUPER-PSYCHOPATHS. Russia is merely a mafia country run by corrupt thugs.
Russia controls its citizens by telling them what to do. USA controls its citizens by telling them what they are. Much more sophisticated.
You can apparently criticize the Russian government as long as you also lead an armed insurgency against it, but not otherwise. Because you are then deemed weak?!!
As I see on russian telegram channels - everything Russia does in Ukraine is a masterclass 4D chess played by Putin. If You write something contradictory to this cult, You are banned and called a traitor. So does Strielkov - he will be prosecuted for "treason" and banned (put into jail).
This is going to wake up many nationalists in the west and inside Russia. Putin is bending over for African warlords and pandering to Africa, and wants to use them against the evil white western colonialist nazi's. Its getting really funny now and close to clown world. Meanwhile true patriots and Strelkov get put into the Gulag, no diffrence they do in the west, its just a diffrent flavour. I cant see this war lasting much longer. If Russian patriots at the front keep hearing about this crap Putin pulls off i doubt their morale will last long.
Perhaps the film "Chekist" (1992) should be remembered, especially since Strelkov is a supporter of Imperial Russia from a patriotic structure. Such as he were eliminated by Lenin's "Cheka", a squad of sadistic killer-executioners, who were not ethnically Russian. The Chekists and Lenin passionately hated the Russians and Imperial Russia, and exterminated as many Russian patriots and intellectuals as quickly as possible. Lenin was brought in from the outside and financed by the globalist structures of the time, do we see any continuity, can this also be subsumed under "classified reasons"?
I guess we cannot handle the truth...
How someone who doesn't have a credit card, doesn't use cripto, and basicly lives a 19th century life in terms of finantial technology, can subscribe, have access to subscriber only post's/comments or help the blog/cause?
The same applies to Rolo's blog.
Great job, thank you both.
I'm here for the music in the end (h)(h) but seriouslt, thank you Edward, both for the reports and the good musical taste !!
When Spanish current Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez began using the Falcon (Spain's equivalent of Air Force 1) for travelling to attend personal events and some busybody media began making impertinent questions, he classified that information because it involved "state secrets".
Nothing new under the sky. Politicians are corrupt by definition and they whore out and degrade their countries' institutions for their convenience.
I hope you heard the expression: Был бы человек, а статья найдется, Riley. In this sense, nothing new about Mother Russia. It's the natural way of life.