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Energy, EU, Russia, the Caucasus and the world with POLITICO. Author ‘Ashes of our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh,’ out Jan 2025.

Mar 24, 2022, 7 tweets

Hackers have got hold of orders from Russia's most popular delivery service and plotted it out on a map.

Interestingly, hundreds of separate people have ordered food to near the Kremlin staff entrance. Many have ordered hundreds or thousands of dollars of takeout in 6 months.

If Putin's inner circle is chowing down on takeaways, their aides seem to be ordering it for them, with an absence of big names in the data.

For example, Andrei here, graduated from a prestigious Moscow university in 2014 - just the type to be getting a plum job meeting couriers

Likewise with the State Duma - Russia's national parliament - just around the corner...

Crikey. There's even a fair few to the Lubyanka building, formerly the headquarters of the KGB and now home to Putin's FSB security agency.

Also apparently home to Anton, who graduated with a master's degree in linguistics in 2019. Phone numbers and emails are included.

They say an army fights on its stomach and, while Russian troops in Ukraine were reportedly sent in with just three days worth of rations, the top brass seems to have spared little expense on ordering in.

Here's the Ministry of Defence, which has a scenic view over Gorky Park.

But it's not just Russian officials with their data splashed across the internet. The US embassy has plenty of diplomatic food dispatches for Lauras, Laurens, Josephs and Davids.

A friend who works in financial investigations writes: 'you don't have to use your real name on Yandex.'

But people do. Stupid people who should know better but don't think twice about plugging their details into a food delivery service.

Stupid people like me...

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