"I might have been stupid & naive, but that doesn't make a person a criminal. [...] I acted wrongly. I ask you to distinguish a wrong action from criminal intent," Kamleva told the court. She said she'd just lost her job when the friend in Belarus asked for money, & she didn't think it through. https://press.lv/post/ya-mogla-byt-glupoj-i-naivnoj-kamleva-vystupila-s-poslednim-slovom-v-sude-posle-chego-byl-vynesen-prigovor
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A court in Riga has sentenced a woman to *6 years* in prison for donating €43 to help buy drone-jamming equipment for Russian troops in Ukraine. The transfer was reportedly made through a friend in Belarus. The conviction is for "financing aggressors in an armed conflict." https://rus.delfi.lv/57863/criminal/120137557/za-43-evro-dlya-rossiyskoy-armii-zhitelnicu-rezekne-prigovorili-k-shesti-godam-tyurmy
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The right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) says it will join Sahra Wagenknecht's left-wing BSW party in a motion calling for an end to German military aid to Ukraine. (It will be debated next week in Saxony-Anhalt, but can't alter German federal policy.) https://www.reuters.com/world/germanys-afd-calls-end-support-ukraine-2026-10-07
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One of the many unfortunate consequences of Trump's pathological urge to talk nice about dictators like Vladimir Putin is that, even when the Donald reasonably downplays the plague panic about Irkutsk, the partisan fumes huffed by the U.S. media compel reporters to treat it as Reason to Be Afraid.
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uh, "fear" is not the word I would use, AP news
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Around 90% of the 84 shelters approved for use in the Moscow region’s Dmitrov district have no toilets, seating, or compliant sewage systems. Sixty-four also lack fire-suppression systems. All 84 are nevertheless listed as "meeting requirements." https://t.me/ostorozhno_moskva/36502
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Latvia's foreign minister moves to expel journalist & pundit Leonid Ragozin based on "information received today from the competent authorities." It appears to be retaliation for Ragozin's political commentary — in other words, a crackdown on free speech. https://www.politico.eu/article/latvia-moves-expel-russian-journalist-leonid-ragozin/
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The FSB wants to expand premium state-paid travel for its top brass. Under a draft order, top officials would get first class even for vacations, while generals would fly business class and some colonels would get “comfort” class. Must be nice. https://t.me/agentstvonews/17600
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Putin has submitted a bill to ratify a deal letting Russia and six other ex-Soviet states exchange debt-enforcement data. For Russian émigrés in those countries, unpaid debts could expose their address, workplace, income, and assets to Russian authorities. https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/5131-9
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St. Petersburg is pulling military recruitment ads as it prepares to cut one-time contract payments from 4.5M to about 1.5M rubles for recruits outside Russia’s Northern Group of Forces. Drone troops will reportedly get 3.9M rubles. https://t.me/rotondamedia/9362
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All employees quarantined after the death of Darya Shipilova — a 28-year-old researcher at an Irkutsk anti-plague institute — are healthy and have been released, a colleague told Dozhd. (Shipilova's cause of death remains unconfirmed.) https://tvrain.tv/news/kollegi-pogibshej-dari-shipilovoj-ne-verjat-chto-ona-razbirala-probirku-s-chumoj-576883/
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A horrifying portrait of modern warfare in occupied Oleshky, where bombs threaten from above and below, and hunger worsens by the day. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/world/europe/oleshky-ukraine-russia-war-food.html
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RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/117395405099123827
I did this with the photos the hospital tried to sell me of my firstborn son. $85 for two glossies? I think not!
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kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026
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grok, is this true
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Tenacious D broke up over a less offensive joke
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Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the "Luhansk People's Republic, says Ukrainian drones struck civilian vehicles across the region, killing 4 people & wounding 3. He also says a hospital in Lysychansk was hit and then struck again as firefighters responded. https://t.me/regnum_na/89853
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Five people, including two Red Cross workers, were injured when Russian forces struck a Dnipro bridge in Zaporizhzhia, local officials said. In Kramatorsk, a separate Russian attack killed a woman in an apartment building. https://t.me/tvrain/112092
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The Guardian found that fuel from South Korean ports is reaching Russia aboard Western-sanctioned tankers, raising questions about Seoul’s backing for Ukraine amid public fallout over the POW scandal. A rather key detail buried in the report: the shipments don't "appear" to violate South Korean law. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/06/oil-tankers-south-korea-russia-ukraine-war
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Journalist Pyotr Ivanov finds that Russia’s draft summons registry may pull data people submit for unrelated government services. A random Kursk address he entered while requesting a certificate was later recorded by the draft board as his actual residence. https://t.me/sotaproject/119530
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the latest Alastair Reynolds book has a revived Yuri Gagarin as the main character ... as a private eye ... aboard an interstellar generation ship ... it's a murder mystery
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i regret to inform you that you have already succumbed to Russian plague. please report to the pearly gates, where you will be assigned a new Slavic name, including patronymic. thank you for your внимание to this вопрос!
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Amid all the panic about the BLACK DEATH COMING FROM RUSSIA FOR YOU IN YOUR SLEEP TONIGHT, here's a cool paper from "Nature," published in June, about how humanity's earliest plague outbreak was found in the teeth of Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers who died 5,500 yrs ago. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10540-5
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i dunno about you, but i take strange, possibly unhealthy pleasure in swearing angrily at LLMs
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Russia’s nuclear chief says Ukrainian drones struck 2 facilities at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant overnight, killing a driver delivering food to staff. He said a lab and radioactive waste processing site were hit, but there was no threat to nuclear safety. Kyiv hasn't commented. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-ukraine-hit-two-facilities-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-2026-10-05/
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Some Russian military recruiters now buy lists of potential recruits from marketing firms. Verstka found firms charging roughly 1,600–2,800 rubles per contact, with names sourced from enlistment sites, microfinance customers, and debtor rolls. https://verstka.media/v-rossii-poyavilsya-rynok-personalnyh-dannyh-potenczialnyh-kontraktnikov
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watching disinfo warriors debunk Grok screenshots with ChatGPT screenshots has got to be a new ring of Hell