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Russia: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:53https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGlknA-R4kw
In today’s Russian papers: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners, new local governors, new data shows financial situation worsens for ¾ of large Russian industrial companies.
The joke at the end is about old lifts.
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Russia: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:53https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGlknA-R4kw
In today’s Russian papers: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners, new local governors, new data shows financial situation worsens for ¾ of large Russian industrial companies.
The joke at the end is about old lifts.
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Russia: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:53https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGlknA-R4kw
In today’s Russian papers: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners, new local governors, new data shows financial situation worsens for ¾ of large Russian industrial companies.
The joke at the end is about old lifts.
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Russia: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:53https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGlknA-R4kw
In today’s Russian papers: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners, new local governors, new data shows financial situation worsens for ¾ of large Russian industrial companies.
The joke at the end is about old lifts.
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Russia: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:53https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGlknA-R4kw
In today’s Russian papers: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners, new local governors, new data shows financial situation worsens for ¾ of large Russian industrial companies.
The joke at the end is about old lifts.
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"Powerful missiles" & "Downgraded Growth Forecasts" in today's Russian papers
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
05:26https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gtV0d8R6zw
In today’s Russian papers:
• “The world's most powerful missile”;• Russia downgrades economic growth forecast;
• Russians turn to cash due to mobile internet shutdowns & “rumours” regarding bank deposits.
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"Powerful missiles" & "Downgraded Growth Forecasts" in today's Russian papers
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
05:26https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gtV0d8R6zw
In today’s Russian papers:
• “The world's most powerful missile”;• Russia downgrades economic growth forecast;
• Russians turn to cash due to mobile internet shutdowns & “rumours” regarding bank deposits.
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"Powerful missiles" & "Downgraded Growth Forecasts" in today's Russian papers
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
05:26https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gtV0d8R6zw
In today’s Russian papers:
• “The world's most powerful missile”;• Russia downgrades economic growth forecast;
• Russians turn to cash due to mobile internet shutdowns & “rumours” regarding bank deposits.
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"Powerful missiles" & "Downgraded Growth Forecasts" in today's Russian papers
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
05:26https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gtV0d8R6zw
In today’s Russian papers:
• “The world's most powerful missile”;• Russia downgrades economic growth forecast;
• Russians turn to cash due to mobile internet shutdowns & “rumours” regarding bank deposits.
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"Powerful missiles" & "Downgraded Growth Forecasts" in today's Russian papers
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
05:26https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gtV0d8R6zw
In today’s Russian papers:
• “The world's most powerful missile”;• Russia downgrades economic growth forecast;
• Russians turn to cash due to mobile internet shutdowns & “rumours” regarding bank deposits.
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Putin hints Ukraine war "is coming to an end." Do today's Russian papers agree?
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
05:39https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSib-IPQww
On Saturday Vladimir Putin seemed to suggest the war in Ukraine was “coming to an end.”
Today one Russia paper claims that “trying to interpret what he meant is like fortune-telling.”
And will there, or won’t there, be talks with Europe...?
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"Something rather unusual is happening in Russia." My BBC radio dispatch.
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
10:22https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9su3iLw9hU
Reporting from Moscow, the dispatch from last weekend for BBC Radio's From Our Own Correspondent.
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From the state of Russian roads to prices in the shops: more Russian jokes
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
01:46https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRWUO6AR5d8
The latest selection of jokes from Russian newspapers.
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What I saw on Red Square on Victory Day 2026
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
02:01https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c73wAdcfWY
"Military hardware wasn't on the square, but on a screen." What was seen at the 2026 Victory Day parade on Red Square.
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Russian parade warning, economic worries: I read today's Russian papers
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
02:33https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf877FNX3cI
In this morning’s Russian newspapers: Moscow warns Kyiv not to target the Red Square parade; problems with Russian bonds, with “almost 25% of the bond market at risk of default”; and what a newspaper joke section is saying about the state of the Russian economy.
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What Russian newspapers do (and do not) joke about
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
01:19https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neM__tJ3u98
Judging by what I read in Russian newspapers, jokes about economic problems & internet restrictions are permitted.
Can’t see any jokes about the president.
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Russia steps up VPN crackdown
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:48https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j30f8nKx9po
In today’s Russian papers: Russia’s Digital Development Minister pledges to “fulfil the task of reducing VPN use” in Russia. One option: “the introduction of civil liability for VPN use".
Plus, the Victory Day parade on Red Square to be scaled-back.
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Stalin rehabilitated, Nato 'fragmented': what today's Russian papers are saying
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:46https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_rIwYt-aVY
In today’s Russian papers: Stalin rehabilitated, Soviet jeans remembered, Nato “fragmented” and Moscow wondering “will Nato’s foundation stone, the Article 5 principle of collective security, work?”
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Reading Vladimir Putin.
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:01https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvPKHMAGrY
What should we read into Vladimir Putin’s latest comments to lawmakers that “fixating on prohibitions…is counterproductive”?
Plus, today’s Russian papers report “Investment crisis becoming difficult to mask” and “Big pessimism of small business” in Russia.
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The diary entry I didn't write on April 26 1986
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
01:10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgCl_NLp1ew
Forty years ago today, on the day of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the accident didn't feature in the headlines.
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Inside Putin’s Russia: ‘We’re cut off from the outside world’ | BBC News
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
15:38https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gawdIcdY00
In Putin’s Russia, authorities are increasing repressions on society, including bans on protests and restrictions on how people access the internet.
They declare the ultimate goal: a “sovereign internet” for a “sovereign Russia”.
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Russian paper calls Donald Trump a "lame duck in a political quagmire of his own making."
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:28https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq_I9a0K03E
One of today's Russian newspapers suggests that Donald Trump “remains an important foreign policy resource for Moscow. But the value of this resource has gone down & will continue to fall, as the Midterms get closer.”
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Russian press slams internet restrictions and decision to ban a street protest
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
07:37https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs4HMRUrH_w
One Russian paper criticises the authorities over internet restrictions and for poor communication with citizens: “[It] causes the population to feel we are not respected, that strange games are being played with us”
Plus, a bizarre interview with Lenin's “spirit”
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Who are the Kremlin's friends in the West?
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:22https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT2verPnNng
One Russian paper today claims “Life has become four times more joyous.”
Another reports the country’s economic reserves are “largely exhausted.” Plus: “a new drop in the approval rating of the [Russian] authorities.”
And who are the Kremlin’s friends in the West? #ErrolMusk? #RumenRadev?
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In Russia, Botox booming. But economic situation "worse than forecast," Russian papers warn
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:55https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIZEhXGbDKE
Today’s Russian papers report on Russia’s economic problems: “Managed cooling has turned into accelerating decline”; “economic situation worse than forecast”; “in a few months the IT industry may be in ruins.”
But Botox foot injections are booming.
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"Rabble rousers" & "Dried-up Brussels sprouts": Russian press reacts to Orbán's defeat
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:13https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4g5sX6KS1g
Russia’s government paper: “What went against Orbán was his unprecedentedly long time in office...16 years in a row, 20 in total.
The fatigue factor, growing tired of the same people is psychologically understandable.”
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How are Russian newspapers reacting to Viktor Orbán's defeat?
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:55https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aujgg0jJ2kk
Here’s a look at what this morning’s Russian papers are saying about the Hungarian election and the defeat of Viktor Orbán.
Plus, reports of “layoffs, production cuts” in Russia.
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"Forecasts of a deeper, more protracted recession in Russia": Russian paper
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:37https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1QrFKVjITk
In today’s papers: latest data “rules out stabilisation or economic growth [in Russia]…forecasts of a deeper & more protracted recession”
Plus, Russian kindergartens to teach “traditional values” via games.
And watch to the end for a Russian joke that’s a real puzzle...
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Russian paper: "Only the feverish mind of the US president can consider this a triumphant victory"
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
02:58https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gNYzNw_LPg
Donald Trump may have declared ‘total and complete victory’ after a ceasefire with Iran.
But today’s Russian newspapers don’t agree. One writes: “Only the feverish mind of the American president himself can consider this a triumphant victory.”
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"Warnings of a [Russian] economic crisis grow louder" - Russian newspaper headline
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:30https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irejvBNju34
Despite high oil prices boosting export revenues, these are some of the headlines in today’s Russian papers: “Warnings of an economic crisis [in Russia] grow louder” and “A reduction in purchases by Russians is ringing alarm bells for the economy.”
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Russian paper: "People believe less and less what Trump says."
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:15https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsxSkfE25SA
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Russian newspaper admits that Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil facilities having consequences
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:25https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctfrtfo0rIM
Today one Russian paper concedes that Ukrainian drone attacks “…on [Russian] oil refining facilities did not pass without trace…the government had to freeze petrol exports until July 1.
Euphoria over extra revenues from high oil prices is unjustified.” -
A newspaper headline the Kremlin will love
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:11https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tp_Qz103WU
A Russian headline the Kremlin will love: “Trump declares he’s ready to pull America out of Nato.”
Another paper today concedes “US law limits [Trump’s] ability to take a unilateral decision” on this, but suggests he can still “cause a lot of problems for the Alliance
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Russians warned not to meet with British diplomats
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:29https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8k07myOT7s
In today’s Russian newspapers: Russians warned not to meet with British diplomats. Plus, the “list of violations for which foreigners can be expelled from Russia” is set to expand & include ‘abusing freedom of the press.’
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"Once launched, the machine of persecution and punishment can't stop…” - Russian newspaper
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:09https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDt0x0ev5TY
Another critical editorial today in Nezavisimaya Gazeta: “The scope for prohibition [in Russia] becomes almost unlimited. Once launched, the machine of persecution and punishment cannot stop…”
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Russian newspaper slams internet blackouts & growing restrictions inside Russia
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
05:59https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yl55Uf5QuM
One paper today has an editorial slamming internet blackouts and restrictions in Russia: “Where is the cut-off point, the line in our personal & collective experience we’re not prepared to cross, where we would say no, we can’t live without this, we don’t want to?"
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"Russia needs a military alliance" says Russian paper
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:03https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jClWRnSic
An opinion piece in Moskovsky #Komsomolets calls for Russia to form a military alliance.
Remembering the Warsaw Pact, the writer claims that Moscow was “restoring constitutional order in #Hungary in 1956 & in #Czechoslovakia in 1968,” a sign of how Russia in 2026 is reinterpreting history.
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How four years of war on Ukraine have changed Russia
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:04https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE1I2eOC1fk
“For Russia, the consequences of its war on Ukraine are now harder to ignore.”
Steve drives 350km from Moscow to see how the war is changing Russia.
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"Russian industry is somewhere between stagnation and decline,” says Russian paper.
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:06https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yZRsVFyoDA
In today’s Russian papers: the new icebreaker #Stalingrad, 14-year-olds can now be prosecuted for sabotage & “Russia’s industry is somewhere between stagnation and decline.”
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"Russian industry is somewhere between stagnation and decline,” says Russian paper.
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:06https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yZRsVFyoDA
In today’s Russian papers: the new icebreaker #Stalingrad, 14-year-olds can now be prosecuted for sabotage & “Russia’s industry is somewhere between stagnation and decline.”