IS RUSSIA AN EVIL EMPIRE YES OR NO

I find those alleged Russian agents' choice in street fashion 1000% unsurprising in every way

i like how one is in all black and one is in all blue

Putin jokes Russia will "definitely" intervene in the 2020 US elections pic.twitter.com/wY51XTpboQ

— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 2, 2019

meh what's the big deal?

just a little surrealism for your wednesday

maybe i'm alone in thinking things like this are intensely surreal

Putin would be good at Cheat

lol

The Russian Federation is possibly evil, but is it an "empire"?

I don't speak Russian and this doesn't have subtitles and I don't know how to get subtitles for it but the translated original tweet pretty much says it all:

Неделю назад, перед публикацией видео об отравителях из ФСБ, я сел за телефон и начал звонить своим убийцам. С одним из них я говорил 45 минут. Теперь мы знаем очень многое:https://t.co/cEi8rbgxO4

— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) December 21, 2020

"A week ago, before publishing a video about the FSB poisoners, I sat down at the phone and started calling my killers. I spoke with one of them for 45 minutes. Now we know a lot"

OK, translation and story apparently here:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/21/if-it-hadnt-been-for-the-prompt-work-of-the-medics-fsb-officer-inadvertently-confesses-murder-plot-to-navalny/

this is just astounding

I can't begin to imagine goig through this and then returning to the country, as he plans

what kind of numbskull is this guy to answer these questions on an unsecured line? It can only be that the virus/fever impaired his judgment that he actually went along with this...just incredible

Amused by the protracted Tomsk/Omsk confusion at the beginning

WATCH: 8 Russian diplomats and their families used a hand-car to cross the border from North Korea to return home as rail service between the 2 countries was suspended due to the pandemic pic.twitter.com/NJlxFHQpJ6

— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) February 26, 2021

damn i was hoping it was going to be one of those ones with the pumping arm

lol yeah that would have been perfect

it's actually even worse that they don't even get the pumping arm!

this is a classic 'what's on your ipod?' situation

Some story this.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/belarus-put-on-notice-of-sanctions-over-hijack-of-ryanair-flight

See also https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=7990150&boardid=40&threadid=100650

I represented Belarus in the Model United Nations summit in Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2005. AMA.

(xp) Oh right, somehow failed to notice that thread.