Putin's Russia

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JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 2:43 PM

'Video of the explosion in St. Petersburg that killed Russian military propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky. It can be seen how he brings the golden figurine of Vladlen. Then - the screen goes dark, an explosion is heard. (The bomb was allegedly inside of figurine)'

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1642947365798543361

'Tatarsky puts the bust back in the box, the listener asks a question about the destruction of bridges in Ukraine, and at that moment an'

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1642980223841861632

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SECOND

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 4:33 PM

Why would any self-respecting Russian want to leave Russia now that it is winning? So much winning:

Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections

by Max Seddon

Russia’s security services are confiscating the passports of senior officials and state company executives to prevent overseas travel, as paranoia over leaks and defections spreads through President Vladimir Putin’s regime.

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine still raging, security officers have tightened travel requirements within the state sector, demanding the surrender of travel documents from some prominent figures and former officials, said several people familiar with the matter.

The increased pressure reflects deep suspicion in the Kremlin and FSB, the KGB’s successor agency, about the loyalty of Russia’s civilian elite, many of whom privately oppose the war in Ukraine and are chafing over its impact on their lifestyles.

Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesperson, confirmed Russia had tightened the restrictions on foreign travel for some who work in “sensitive” areas. “There are stricter rules for this. In some places they are formalised and in some places they depend on a specific decision . . . about specific employees,” he told the Financial Times. “Since the start of the special military operation, more attention has been paid to this issue.”

Since Soviet times, Russian officials with access to mid-level state secrets have been required to leave their passports in a safe run by the “special department” embedded in their ministries and companies. But Russia’s security services rarely enforced the rules, according to former officials and executives.

This changed after the invasion of Crimea in 2014, when security services began warning against travel to countries such as the US or UK. After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year restrictions were applied much more broadly and depend heavily on the whims of individual security officers embedded in state institutions, the people said.

For this reason security measures differ across state institutions, with some asking even medium-level figures to refrain from foreign travel and others giving senior officials blanket permission to travel abroad within reason.

Executives at one major state industrial company are banned from travelling more than two hours’ drive from Moscow without official permission, one of the people said.

In other cases, FSB officers have asked former officials who previously had access to state secrets to surrender their passports, and even some who never had access, said people familiar with the matter.

Alexandra Prokopenko, a former Russian central bank official, said passport restrictions had now expanded beyond individuals with security clearance.

“Now they are coming to certain people and saying, ‘please hand in your red civilian passports, because you have access to sensitive information for the motherland, so we want to control your movements’,” she said.

Russia’s security services have almost total leeway to interpret the rules under revisions to laws on state secrets, espionage and treason, said Prokopenko. She quit the central bank after the invasion last year and is now a visiting fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations.

“Basically any information can be deemed secret, so the embedded FSB officers start telling you that you have sensitive information. What is it? Why is it secret and who decides that? Nobody knows,” Prokopenko said.

Peskov said the decisions “depend on the specific area of work” of both the company and the individual. “They may be more or less sensitive,” he said.

The Kremlin has also made some efforts to extend the informal ban to more officials. Following a series of public scandals over leaked footage of MPs holidaying in Dubai and Mexico, Russia’s lower house of parliament in January required lawmakers to notify superiors about overseas work trips.

At least seven regions have issued strong recommendations against foreign travel to local officials, according to Russian newsp

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SECOND

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:36 PM

Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse

War in Ukraine has aggravated a crisis that long predates the conflict

A DEMOGRAPHIC TRAGEDY is unfolding in Russia. Over the past three years the country has lost around 2m more people than it would ordinarily have done, as a result of war, disease and exodus. The life expectancy of Russian males aged 15 fell by almost five years, to the same level as in Haiti. The number of Russians born in April 2022 was no higher than it had been in the months of Hitler’s occupation. And because so many men of fighting age are dead or in exile, women now outnumber men by at least 10m.

War is not the sole—or even the main—cause of these troubles, but it has made them all worse. According to Western estimates, 175,000-250,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the past year (Russia’s figures are lower). Somewhere between 500,000 and 1m mostly young, educated people have evaded the meat-grinder by fleeing abroad. Even if Russia had no other demographic problems, losing so many in such a short time would be painful. As it is, the losses of war are placing more burdens on a shrinking, ailing population. Russia may be entering a doom loop of demographic decline.

The roots of Russia’s crisis go back 30 years. The country reached peak population in 1994, with 149m people. The total has since zig-zagged downwards. It was 145m in 2021 (that figure, from the UN, excludes the 2.4m people of Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014 and incorporated into its national accounts). According to UN projections, the total could be just 120m in 50 years, if current patterns persist. That would make Russia the 15th-most-populous country in the world, down from sixth in 1995. According to Alexei Raksha, an independent demographer who used to work for the state statistics service, if you look just at peacetime years, the number of births registered in April 2022 was the lowest since the 18th century. April was a particularly cruel month, but it was a revealing glimpse of a chronic problem.

Population decline is not unique to Russia: most post-communist states have seen dips, though not like this. Their declines have been slow but also manageable. Russia’s population in recent decades has seen a precipitous slump, then a partial recovery (thanks to a period of high immigration from parts of the ex-Soviet Union and more generous child allowances after 2007), followed by a renewed fall.

According to the state statistics agency, in 2020 and 2021 combined the country’s population declined by 1.3m; deaths outstripped births by 1.7m. (The UN also shows a fall, but it is shallower.) The decline was largest among ethnic Russians, whose number, the census of 2021 said, fell by 5.4m in 2010-21. Their share of the population fell from 78% to 72%. So much for Mr Putin’s boast to be expanding the Russki mir (Russian world).

All this began before the war and reflects Russia’s appalling covid pandemic. The official death toll from the disease was 388,091, which would be relatively low; but The Economist estimates total excess deaths in 2020-23 at between 1.2m and 1.6m. That would be comparable to the number in China and the United States, which have much larger populations. Russia may have had the largest covid death toll in the world after India, and the highest mortality rate of all, with 850-1,100 deaths per 100,000 people.

If you add pandemic mortality to the casualties of war and the flight from mobilisation, Russia lost between 1.9m and 2.8m people in 2020-23 on top of its normal demographic deterioration. That would be even worse than during the disastrous early 2000s, when the population was falling by roughly half a million a year.

What might that mean for Russia’s future? Demography is not always destiny; and Russia did for a while begin to reverse its decline in the mid-2010s. The impact of population change is often complex, as Russia’s military mobilisation shows. The decline in the number of ethnic Russians of call-up age (which is being raised from 18-27 to 21-30) wil

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JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, April 7, 2023 2:14 PM

Truth, gossip, some half truth or propaganda?

Defecting Putin protection officer reveals how paranoid Russian leader 'stays in his bunker' to avoid assassination attempts, never uses a mobile phone or the internet and is 'mortally afraid' of Covid

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936739/Putin-protection-off
icer-DEFECTS-labels-Kremlin-despot-war-criminal.html

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JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, May 4, 2023 2:08 AM

Two drones hit Kremlin or Drones shot down at Kremlin...conflicting stories.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, June 24, 2023 3:51 PM

Kremlin Ordering Arrest Of Wagner Chief Prigozhin

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/kremlin-orders-arrest-of-wagner-chie
f-prigozhin-after-call-for-rebellion-against-russian-defense-chief-shoigu-511d79b1

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THG

Saturday, June 24, 2023 4:26 PM

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Kremlin Ordering Arrest Of Wagner Chief Prigozhin

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f-prigozhin-after-call-for-rebellion-against-russian-defense-chief-shoigu-511d79b1]

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Burning they say like the Great Fire of London or the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
BTW, Moscow is not "burning".

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Honk Honk!

You must believe the 'news' of course it is burning, just its even bigger than your Great Fire of London but they are using smokeless carbon neutral burns and Trump-Pissgate is censoring and joining up with Kim Jong Rocketman to take over the world with Alt Reich Christian KKK


and it burns and BLM Antifa and the Anti-Assad jihadi were Peaceful Protests

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Mostly Peace not acting like Marxist Jihadi - Burning Looting Murder

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As an American this is a shame I have to rely on another country for the truth about the events in my own borders yet it’s refused. Thank you guys

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$1–2 billion in insured damages in the United States

https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b0
6a-66f9db4cea9c.html

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