Since people are trying to live as if the war is nonexistent and the government does not talk about any losses or problems associated with the war, all negative consequences of the war are either normalized or pushed into the realm of “personal problems” that are not discussed with anyone...
According to Caucasian Knot, as of March 2025, 233 men from Chechnya, 121 from Ingushetia, 104 from Karachay-Cherkessia, and 112 from Kalmykia have been killed in the special military operation. Again, we can multiply this figure by ten for the sake of statistical rigor, but we still g...
Courts Deliver Trump a Series of Losses Trump faced an uphill battle in court this week, seeing setbacks on policies ranging from immigration to DEI programs. Cecelia Smith-SchoenwalderApril 25, 2025 Lunch Break: A Party and a Funeral The media and political elite will be busy...
Courts Deliver Trump a Series of Losses Trump faced an uphill battle in court this week, seeing setbacks on policies ranging from immigration to DEI programs. Cecelia Smith-SchoenwalderApril 25, 2025 Lunch Break: A Party and a Funeral The media and political elite will be...
The losses of the Russian Post from sending unaccounted for and unpaid written correspondence, the so-called "gray mail," amount to several billion rubles a year. A significant part of this volume falls on fake franking prints. During the year, more than 700 new high-performance franking mac...
Published March 4 A woman was left shocked after a stranger pointed out she was the doppelgänger of a 1909 painting. Riley Madison Ladner, 22, had never heard of “At the Dressing Table” a painting by Russian artist Zinaida Serebriakov.But someone messaged her on TikTok and told her ab...
November 24, 2024 Politics Russia’s old economy is gone, and its wartime transformation has the military primed for a resurgence, former State Dept. official warns BYJason Ma March 2, 2025 Politics The great Russian butter robbery—and what it reveals about Putin’s wartime...
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In the first two years of the war, 2022 and 2023, Russian losses followed a wave-like pattern: heavy fighting with high casualties alternated with periods of relative calm. In 2023, for example, most casualties occurred between January and March, when Russian forces attempted to capture the ci...
As the war drags on and Russia’s battlefield losses mount, authorities are forced to balance different ideals of femininity in their propaganda messaging, Rossman said. “They are constantly having to create different female archetypes for different audiences,” she said. Source: Angelina Trefil...