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Aug 14 • 5 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
1/ A training centre in Tambov, Russia, has hung a banner showing a 'new Russian empire' comprising all of central and eastern Europe, a re-divided Germany, Finland, central Asia, Mongolia and Alaska, with the slogan "We will teach you to love the Motherland". ⬇️ Image
2/ The banner has been displayed at Tambov's Training Centre no. 266, which trains tractor, forklift and truck drivers. It shows the old Soviet Union plus the former Warsaw Pact countries, the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Finland, Mongolia and Alaska as part of a unified Russia.
3/ The map seems to be intended to be a mashup of the old USSR plus the old Russian empire, which included Alaska until 1867. However, it's quite unhistorical – Greece and the former Yugoslavia were never under Russian or Soviet rule.
4/ As the 'Horizontal Russia' Telegram channel notes, "Russian patriots are increasingly turning to ancient maps." In May, the head of the Constututional Court, Valery Zorkin, presented Putin with an old map claiming it had no Ukraine on it. /end
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Aug 15
1/ An exchange of fire in the occupied Ukrainian village of Urzuf, in which several Russian soldiers and bystanders were reportedly killed, is said to have been started by drunken Chechen soldiers fighting drunken convict soldiers.
2/ According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, which quotes an apparently leaked report, "drunken criminals of the Ministry of Defence, assigned to a military unit based in Chechnya, and an equally drunken military policeman confronted each other with weapons."
3/ It reports that the incident took place in the morning of 12 August at the Miami Club in Urzuf, near Mariupol. Image
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Aug 12
1/ A Russian holidaymaker who incautiously posted footage on social media of air defence missiles being fired over the Kerch Bridge appears to have been dragged off the beach in his shorts to film a public apology for his actions. ⬇️
2/ In the video, a man naming himself as Roman Sergeyevich apologises profusely for "filming the Special Military Operation", pledges his support for the war, and swears he won't do it again.
3/ According to the independent Russian news outlet Rise!, the man was made to apologise by 'activists'. They were likely members of a vigilante pro-Kremlin group which has been working to root out 'disloyalty' in the occupied Crimea.
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Aug 12
1/ Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has been denounced again in another memo to the Kremlin, reportedly written by the political strategist and Duma deputy Oleg Matveychev. It calls Solovyov and his colleague Margarita Simonyan "information structures of Prigozhin". ⬇️ Image
2/ The memo follows one leaked last month which denounced Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin and other "hurrah-patriots" as a threat to the Kremlin. Solovyov's TV show on the Russia-1 channel was denounced for hosting a nightly "gang rape of the authorities".
3/ The new memo, published by the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, is in much the same vein. It reiterates several of the same points as its predecessor, dismissing liberals, the left and 'hipsters' as possible threats. It calls the ultra-nationalist "patriots" assets of the West.
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Aug 11
1/ Injuried Russian marines near Tokmak in the occupied part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region were berated and beaten unconscious by their political officer when they asked for medical assistance. The incident was recorded and illustrates how Russia's political officers work. ⬇️ Image
2/ According to the ASTRA Telegram channel, the men – who are from the 2nd company of the 3rd reinforcement battalion of the 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade – took "heavy fire" near Robotyne before their company commander ordered them to withdraw. Image
3/ The men were presumably defending some of the extensive trench systems that the Russians have built in the area. They say that they were "without communication, drinking water and food," and there was no evacuation of the wounded or dead from the battlefield.
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Aug 11
1/ Russian soldiers say they were forced to crawl across minefields, taking huge casualties, because their commanders had falsely reported to their superiors that their objectives had already been captured. Those who refused to attack were shot in the legs by their commander. ⬇️ Image
2/ In an audio message published by the ASTRA Telegram channel, men from the Russian 15th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment complain that they were "forced to take the so-called 'Moustache', it's a forest belt. We are forced to go to the minefields with our chests."
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They say that they had to attack a Ukrainian "fortress" guarded by four machine guns and a mortar.
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Aug 10
1/ Parents of teenagers at Alabuga Polytechnic in Tatarstan say their children are being exploited to work long hours building Shahed kamikaze drones in dangerous conditions. Some parents are rescuing their children from the facility, despite facing large fines for doing so. ⬇️ Image
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