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Useful idiot, Tucker Carlson, has been creating some fine Russian propaganda in the last few days.

He went to the subway that Stalin built and was amazed by how fancy it was.

He went to Russian McDonald's and was mesmerized by... fries? I guess?

Then he went to a Russian grocery store and was stunned by how few rubles he had to fork over for food. Though he didn't seem to understand you need to factor in average local wages when determining how "inexpensive" something is.

And, my favorite, Tucker is fascinated by advanced Russian shopping cart technology.

"You just put in a coin and it gives it back when you're done! Why doesn't America have this?"

*whispers* "We do. You're just too rich to shop at fucking Aldi."

So... it seems Russia is great. Tucker gives it 5 stars. No notes.

Hey, let's check out the news this morning... just for funsies.

Oh.

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Moscow Auction House Sells a $1 Million Painting Stolen from a Ukrainian Museum

In Russia, Ukrainian artist Ivan Aivazovsky’s painting “Moonlit Night” has been put up for auction, according to Ukraine’s former Deputy Attorney General and Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Gyunduz Mamedov, who has reported the auction plans.

Russia’s looting and destruction of Ukrainian museums and cultural heritage sites have resulted in significant losses, with nearly 40 museums plundered and almost 700 heritage sites damaged or destroyed since the invasion began in February 2022, causing cultural losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros.

The first report that “Moonlit Night” will be the main lot of the auction, which will take place at the Moscow Auction House on 18 February, appeared on the Telegram channel by Russia’s state-funded news agency RIA Novosti, noting that the painting was estimated at 100 million rubles (approximately $1.09 million) before the sale.

‘In 2017, [Interpol], at the request of [Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Crimea], put the paintings on the international wanted list. Thus, Russia openly disregards [international law], as according to the 1970 UNESCO Convention, the export of cultural properties and transfer of ownership is prohibited,” Mamedov emphasized on X.

In 2014, during the early stages of Russia’s occupation of Crimea, Aivazovsky’s painting “Moonlit Night” was illegally transferred to the Simferopol Art Museum, along with 52 other artworks.

In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some of his works were destroyed in an airstrike on the Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol, and others were looted by Russian forces from Mariupol and Kherson museums, including “The Storm Subsides,” which was moved to the Central Taurida Museum in Simferopol, Crimea.

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Russian State Duma has passed a law, in both its second and final third readings, prohibiting the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where "gender transition" is permitted. The State Duma deputies have also unanimously passed a bill to ban the “promotion of refusal to have children.”

This was reported by Meduza and Media Zone respectively, citing the website of the lower house of parliament.

The bill on prohibiting adoption introduces amendments to the Family Code, aimed at "eliminating any possibility of Russian children being adopted by representatives of the LGBTQ+ community," according to its explanatory note. 

Deputies noted that this effectively imposes a ban on adoption by citizens of NATO countries, as the majority of these nations legally permit gender transition.

The amendments also modify the article on “promoting non-traditional sexual relationships and gender transition” (6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), with fines reaching up to 5 million rubles for legal entities. 

The concept of “LGBT propaganda” will now include the “promotion of a child-free lifestyle” if it involves “spreading information and/or engaging in public actions aimed at making the choice not to have children appear attractive, […] equating the social value of having children with not having them,” or “imposing the idea of rejecting parenthood.”

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin stated that this law’s critics exist only “abroad,” claiming they “want to do everything to see our country disappear.”

Russia’s parliament started working on the legislation to ban the promotion of a “child-free” lifestyle in September, as the country faces its lowest birth rate in 25 years.

[comeonamericawakeup]

"It's 2016 déjà vu all over again," said Chris Lehmann in The Nation. The Justice Department last week exposed a sweeping plot by Russia to influence the U.S. presidential election and undermine democracy. The DOJ said it had seized 32 internet sites, disguised as American news brands, peddling "Russian propaganda as straight news reports." One headline on a spoofed Washington Post site read "White House Miscalculated: Conflict With Ukraine Strengthens Russia." The Justice Department also charged a pair of Russian nationals--both employees of the state-run RT network - with covertly funneling $10 million to Nashville-based Tenet Media to produce Kremlin-friendly content. Most of that cash allegedly went to Tenet's stable of "hardcore MAGA" influencers, including You Tube stars Benny Johnson and Tim Pool. It's a reminder that Russian election interference on behalf of Donald Trump "was never a hoax," said Philip Bump in The Washington Post. But now, instead of St. Petersburg bot farms, Moscow has Americans doing its dirty work.

"Americans should be informed of foreign efforts to mislead them,” said Noah Rothman in National Review. But it's not just Russia - "all of America's enemies" are doing it. Iran was behind the recent hack of Donald Trump's campaign, and it has backed news-like websites aimed at undermining U.S. support for Israel. China has meddled in local elections. Yet "it serves Democratic political objectives" to focus solely on Russia. Anyway, this scheme did not deliver much "bang for the ruble,” said J.D. Tuccille in Reason. The 2,000 videos on Tenet's now-shuttered YouTube channel clocked a mere 8,000 views each. And Pool, Johnson, and other contributors claim they were duped in the Tenet scheme, and that they were expressing views they'd always held. So Russia paid them "to say things they were already saying" to a small audience. Should we really be worried?

Yes, said Tom Nichols in The Atlantic, because this is likely "only the tip of the iceberg." The Justice Department noted that a Kremlin-linked propaganda outfit had identified some 2,800 online influencers as potential mouthpieces for Moscow.

We have a social media grifter class filled with easy targets for foreign recruitment, and "a big slice of the American public" that's eager to lap up "wild conspiracies" and tune out legitimate news. The Russians have "scads of money" to exploit this weakness in our democracy. "And plenty of Americans are despicable enough to take their cash."

THE WEEK September 20, 2024

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The European Union has extended sanctions against Russia until the end of the year, targeting various sectors including trade, finance, technology, and personal rights. The EU also reiterated its readiness to impose additional measures if deemed necessary.

Former Deputy Defense Minister of Bulgaria Yordan Bozhilov emphasized that sanctions are a key tool for the EU, the US, and their allies in pressuring Russia to halt the war in Ukraine and enter negotiations. He pointed out that the aim is to limit the movement of Russian businessmen and politicians, freeze assets, and reduce exports of specific goods. To date, Russia has faced 15 rounds of sanctions, which have already contributed to a significant decline in foreign investments, estimated at around 30%.

Bozhilov highlighted the negative effects on Russia's economy, including reduced oil revenues and a rapidly depreciating ruble. However, he noted that while these sanctions send a clear message from the EU in support of Ukraine, they are unlikely to directly end the conflict.

Regarding Bulgaria’s exports, Bozhilov reassured that the sanctions have not had a serious impact. He explained that while exports to Russia are declining each year, not all goods are restricted, and Bulgarian exports to the EU far surpass those to Russia. He pointed out that Bulgaria exports around 800 million worth of goods to Russia, compared to tens of billions to European Union countries. This shift in focus towards Europe has helped minimize the economic damage from sanctions.

[tomorrowusa]

Ho-hum. Another day, another unexplained death of a Russian businessman, current/former official, or dissident.

It's true that Igor Kotelnikov was on the sketchy side – he was in pretrial detention on a bribery charge. But he was 52 which is still below Russia's plummeting life expectancy. No cause of death was released by official sources.

Somebody up top may have been worried about Kotelnikov's upcoming testimony and decided to silence him once and for all. After falling out of windows, dying while in custody under mysterious circumstances seems to be a favored way for the dictatorship to get rid of people it doesn't want around.

A Russian businessman charged with bribing senior Defense Ministry officials on behalf of suppliers has died in pretrial detention, according to a member of the country's human rights council. Igor Kotelnikov, 52, died on July 8 after feeling unwell in the Moscow pretrial detention center, Yeva Merkacheva said. She did not give a cause of death but said he had been held in a part of the center that has tough conditions. "Rights defenders, examining the pretrial detention center, repeatedly noted that these cells are packed with people. [The cells] are small, hot in warm weather, cold in the winter. In addition, some detainees sit there all day," Merkacheva wrote in a column for the popular daily Moskovsky Komsomolets. She said that Kotelnikov's death was not the first in such cells and that other detainees have committed suicide. Kotelnikov allegedly operated as a middleman in the bribery scheme that rocked the ministry earlier this year, leading to the arrest of former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov and two other businessmen. Kotelnikov denied the charges.

The Russian defense establishment is notoriously corrupt. Kotelnikov probably knew a lot about the sleaze.

According to the Telegram channel CHEKA-OGPU, officials from the Federal Security Service (FSB) visited Kotelnikov in detention on several occasions to encourage him to finger Ivanov. The channel claimed that when Kotelnikov refused, the FSB officials began pressuring him and later moved him to a punishment cell. CHEKA-OGPU is reportedly close to Russia’s security services. According to the Telegram channel, prison doctors said Kotelnikov should not be held in a punishment cell due to chronic illness and had him sent back. However, prison officials, allegedly under FSB pressure, had him returned, CHEKA-OGPU said. Ivanov, who oversaw the military-industrial complex for the ministry, was arrested in April on charges of taking more than 1 billion rubles ($11.4 million) in bribes from contractors. Ivanov, whose family flaunted its wealth, has denied the charges.

A reminder that this régime is admired by many Republicans in the US who are hoping for a Putin victory in Ukraine – despite the endemic incompetence and corruption in Russia's military. Russia is their model for how to run a country.

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OTD in Music History: Legendary composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) makes his first public appearance as a concert pianist, at the “Moscow Electrical Exhibition” in 1892. Among other things, he performed his own “Morceaux de Fantaisie” (Op. 3) -- a then-four-part piano suite which included one of the most famous pieces he would ever compose, the “Prelude in c#.” Rachmaninoff was paid 50 rubles for this appearance. That doesn't mean much to us today... so as a point of comparison, we can note that he was paid only *40* rubles (which was still approximately two months’ worth of wages for a common factory worker in Russia at that time) by a music publisher in exchange for the *copyright* to the entire “Morceaux de Fantaisie” set. Of course, had Rachmaninoff merely held onto the copyright in the Prelude in c# *alone*, it would have made him a fortune down the line… Rachmaninoff originally conceived of the “Morceaux” as a set of four pieces, but he ended up adding a fifth piece after reading an interview which Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) granted to a Russian newspaper critic a few weeks after his debut public concert, in which he cited Rachmaninoff as one of the most outstanding young musicians in Russia. Rachmaninoff idolized Tchaikovsky, and was thrilled by this praise. As he later recounted: "I immediately sat down at the piano and composed a fifth piece (the ‘Serenade’) on the spot." Rachmaninov premiered this five-piece version of the suite at a subsequent concert appearance in December 1892, and two months later he also gave Tchaikovsky one of the first copies of the newly-published score to the set. (Tchaikovsky loved it.) PICTURED: A c. 1900 real photo postcard, showing a young Rachmaninoff as he would have appeared at the beginning of his international concert career.

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Who wants to bet that Margo kept Segei's ruble tips for the rest of her life. Folded up in her bag or wallet. Kept with other valuable items.

She accidentally spends one during her time in Russia and is distraught.

Or maybe the Soviet currency changes and this old note isn't accepted. And Margo's so relieved to get it handed back.

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RUSSIA, CHINA AND BRICS PREPARE MASSIVE BLOW TO US DOLLAR DOMINANCE WITH LATEST CURRENCY MOVES

The BRICS trade organization, with the backing of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, is preparing a major blow to U.S. dollar dominance in the global economy with an expanded payments system for trade between nations that will not be pegged to the U.S. dollar, according to reports in the Russian media.

The report, published in Russian news outlet Ria Novosti, stated that a new decentralized, blockchain-based international payment system, known as BRICS Pay, will make it possible to bypass Western sanctions while boosting the economic influence of BRICS, BRICS member states, as well as developing countries that trade with BRICS nations, while accelerating efforts to create a new international trade currency.

The United States sees these developments as a direct threat the U.S. dollar and its status as the World's reserve currency, according to the news outlet, with one of the main goals of the BRICS organization being the avoidance of International dependency on the U.S. dollar for trade outside the Western sphere of influence.

Already, 95% of trade between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China is conducted in Yuan and Rubles.

This kind of trade, conducted outside the U.S. dollar, "increases solvency and economic resilience to uncertainties and external shocks," says Shen Yi, the Chief of the BRICS Research Center at the Development Research Institute of Fudon University, as quoted by Ria Novosti.

“Objectively speaking, the diversified development of the international monetary and payment systems is consistent with the changing trends in the distribution of power and the general direction of evolution of the global system,” Yi noted in an interview with the Russian news outlet.

The news agency says the next step in this development is "our own system of international payments."

Recently, Russian Presidential Assistant, Yuri Ushakov, announced the intention of the BRICS commonwealth to create a payment system using a blockchain-based digital currency, with the purpose of developing a modern, effective payment service (BRICS Pay) intended to make international payments between countries "convenient, cost-effective, and most importantly, free from political influence."

"We need to completely move away from the peg [of international trade] to the dollar and Western instruments like [the] SWIFT [payments system]." Ushakov added.

Experts point to a BRICS payment system as a method of avoiding the sanctions of the United States and its Western allies, emphasizing that BRICS countries, and countries trading with BRICS member-states, will be able to perform mutual payments while avoiding the U.S. dollar, weakening the currency's role as the backbone of international payments and the world reserve currency.

The report also adds that a decentralized cryptocurrency payment system based on blockchain technology would be far more difficult to track, helping countries to avoid secondary sanctions while trading with nation-states under economic assault by the West like the Russian Federation.

Furthermore, a BRICS payment system will become a direct competitor to the Western-dominated and controlled SWIFT payment scheme, strengthening multipolarity in global finance and undermining the dictats of the United States and the European Union, while increasing the financial and political heft of the BRICS organization and its members.

According to Yaroslav Ostrovsky, a specialist in the strategic research department at Total Research, “If this project is implemented, its participants will switch to their own currencies in international payments, without the dollar and SWIFT terminals. At the same time, it is planned that countries outside the bloc will also be able to use the new system. The synergistic effect from such interaction will strengthen the position of BRICS in the global economic system."

Setting up such a payment system will take time, with financial experts suggesting it could take upwards of a year for debugging and implementing the payment scheme, while some experts say the system could become the basis for a future, single, BRICS supranational currency, and perhaps even a direct challenger the U.S. dollar's position as the world's reserve currency.

The new payment system, as well as any future BRICS currency, are a part of a process for which BRICS aims to become a global organization, trade union, and international financial association in direct competition with the Western-dominated international trade system, based on the U.S. dollar, that is currently wielded as a weapon against the adversaries of the West through its sanctions regime and it's control over International institutions.

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Back in October it was estimated at 178 million rubles The head of the Ministry of Eastern Development Alexey Chekunkov at the exhibition-forum “Russia” at VDNKh spoke about the increase in the base cost of the Baikal aircraft. As the official noted, the price will exceed 200 million rubles.  [caption id="attachment_84363" align="aligncenter" width="780"] aircraft[/caption] The base price of the light-engine aircraft “Baikal” will exceed 200 million rubles Alexey Chekunkov explained: I think that taking into account leasing payments, its total cost will be slightly higher than 200 million, however, by lengthening the leasing period, the efficiency for Aurora is maintained. Chekunkov emphasized that the cost depends on the configuration of the aircraft. Let us note that this is not the first “rise in price” of Baikal. Initially, it was expected that the aircraft would cost about 120 million rubles, but in October 2023, the Russian Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, Yuri Trutnev, announced that the estimated price had increased to 178 million rubles.  The light multi-purpose LMS-901 “Baikal” should become a replacement for the Soviet An-2. The nine-seater aircraft can reach a cruising speed of 300 km/h and fly over distances of up to 3 thousand km, and with a payload weighing 2 tons - 1.5 thousand km. The first Baikal aircraft are planned to be produced in 2025. 

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Profiting from war: Yanukovych's son lucrative coal exports from occupied Ukrainian territories

An offshore scheme is allegedly allowing anthracite sales to bypass taxes, with the son of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych reportedly at the helm.

According to Russian outlet Important Stories, Oleksandr Yanukovych is profiting substantially by exporting coal from occupied areas of Ukraine to Turkey.

The outlet notes that Energorresurs, a company based in Rostov-on-Don, has shipped nearly half a million tonnes of coal abroad over the past two years. Coal deliveries are primarily made to an offshore company in Turkey at low prices, enabling savings on duties while allowing the offshore firm to sell the coal anywhere at any price. Shipments pass through the Uspenskaya railway station in Russia's Krasnodar region, where thousands of coal wagons sometimes wait, marked as Russian coal despite originating from Ukrainian territories like Donetsk and Luhansk.

The journalists analyzed customs data of Russian coal exports, discovering Energorresurs' role in exporting almost half a million tonnes of coal from Russia in 2023 and 2024. The company's coal sources include enterprises from the Donbas region like Trading House Don Coal, RTC East Coal, Comsomol Donbassa mine, Zhdanovskaya mine, and Impex-Don among others.

Officially owned by Aleksey Ivanov, who has worked with various legal entities connected to Oleksandr Yanukovych since 2016, Energorresurs is managed by Pavel Zemlyakov, known as Pavel DFSC in some phone directories—in reference to the Donbas Financial and Settlement Center, historically linked to Yanukovych.

In 2023, the company secured a $7 million loan at 1% interest from Sl Holdings Limited, a Cyprus-registered enterprise formerly owned by Eduard Slynko, an ex-CEO of Yanukovych Jr.'s holding, Mako. The present owner, Daria Lavrinets, maintains ties to the Yanukovych family through multiple businesses.

Energorresurs sources coal from various Donbas suppliers and transports it to Turkey using rail and maritime routes, selling it to Energy Union in the British Virgin Islands at low prices (averaging 5,700 rubles per tonne in 2024). This strategy minimizes export duties, giving Energy Union flexibility in future sales.

Before 2022, coal from Energorresurs reached Bulgaria, Estonia, Czechia, and Romania. Following the Ukraine war's outbreak, nearly all coal shipments were redirected to Turkey.

Between 2021 and 2023, Energorresurs generated 3.5 billion rubles ($35 million) in revenue through low transfer pricing, reportedly aided by its close connection to Oleksandr Yanukovych.

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Looking at the bigger picture, we’re approaching the three-year mark since the invasion of Ukraine, and Russia’s economy is still searching for solid ground. Import substitution isn’t working; China’s only buying our basic commodities at big discounts while keeping their market closed to other Russian products, and we’re not seeing any meaningful investment or technology transfer from China or other Global South countries. What’s particularly telling is what you hear at economic forums these days—it’s just endless requests for state support. Businesses keep saying they can’t survive without subsidies, that they lack technology, investment, skilled workers, and profitability. It really makes you wonder what’s left. The inflation problem really shows how Western sanctions are biting. The Central Bank points to what they call an “output gap” – basically, manufacturers can’t keep up with demand because they lack investment, technology, and workers due to the war. This forces the Bank to raise interest rates, hurting businesses even more since most sectors simply can’t operate profitably at these rates. It’s a downward spiral that helps explain why both the markets and the ruble are struggling.

Russian Vice President of the Free Russia Foundation and ally to the late Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Milov. In this December 2024 interview with Euromaidan Press, Milov exposed the economic struggles Russia has brought upon itself as a result of invading Ukraine. I assumed that the Russian economy was weakened, but holding out due to trade support from China and Third World countries. But Milov says otherwise. Note also the struggles of Russian businesses; in 2022, up to 1 million Russians, many of them highly skilled, left the country following Putin's invasion of Ukraine. And businesses in Russia are feeling the loss to this day.

Read the full article here: Putin must end Ukraine war by 2025 or face economic collapse, warns ex-energy chief

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In an apparent attempt to boost birth rates, Russian lawmakers are considering a bill to ban “childfree propaganda,” and many private clinics across the country have “voluntarily” stopped performing abortions. However, experts interviewed by Holod agree that these measures are more symbolic and politically motivated than effective in raising birth rates.

Banning “childfree propaganda” won’t make a difference, says Aby Shukyurov, explaining that research shows childlessness in Russia is often due to personal circumstances, not ideology. Alexey Raksha echoed this, calling the ban purely ideological, with no real demographic impact.

Shukyurov also pointed to other measures, like reviving the Soviet-era “Mother Heroine” award for women with 10 or more children, “Conception Day" in the Ulyanovsk region, and requiring both a doctor’s and priest’s approval for an abortion in the Belgorod region, as equally ineffective. “On one hand, these measures seem almost laughable, but on the other, they’re clearly damaging because they make women’s lives harder,” he said.

There’s also talk of reintroducing a “childlessness tax,” similar to the one from Soviet times. “It’s just another way for the government to collect more money,” Shukyurov commented. “People who don’t plan to have children aren’t going to change their minds because the government charges them 2,000 rubles [$21].”

Abortion bans and restrictions are another common talking point for Russian officials. However, with the spread of contraception, abortions are already less common in Russia, says Dmitry Zakotyansky. And history, he adds, clearly shows that these measures won’t stop people from ending unwanted pregnancies. When abortions were banned during Stalin’s era, maternal mortality skyrocketed — pregnancy-related deaths rose by 76 percent in the first year, and maternal mortality doubled within five years. After abortion was legalized in 1955, those numbers returned to previous levels.

Now, Zakotyansky notes, generations of Russian women have grown up with the right to abortion, and taking that away won’t be easy. And even though these rights are slowly being chipped away, “it’s clear this won’t improve the birth rate,” he argued.

Since the start of the full-scale war against Ukraine, anti-feminist rhetoric has become increasingly common in Russia. Lawmakers have called for a “legal ban” on feminism, claimed the “fight for equality is relegated to the archives” and said young women should “give birth, give birth, and then give birth again.” The Russian Orthodox Church has also weighed in, with programs on the religious Spas TV channel arguing that women who become pregnant from rape should give birth, while priests lament that the world is in a “difficult period in history” where women are “demanding equal rights with men.”

The Russian government has now officially incorporated patriarchal “family values” into its strategy to boost birth rates. However, Zakotyansky warns that this approach could backfire. He argues that modern women are more likely to forgo having children if they can’t balance family life with their careers, fearing it will hold them back professionally.

Russia is putting pressure on women to boost the birth rate — but demographers say the main problem is too many people dying