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St. Petersburg police reportedly arrest thousands of migrants, pressure them into signing Russian army contracts — Meduza
St. Petersburg police arrested at least 3,000 migrants on December 31 and January 1, reports local outlet Fontanka. Novaya Gazeta Europe writes that the number was “much higher” and that men, women, and children were detained. The men were reportedly taken to police stations, while women and...
St. Petersburg police reportedly arrest thousands of migrants, pressure them into signing Russian army contracts
7:21 pm, January 2, 2024
Source: Meduza
St. Petersburg police arrested at least 3,000 migrants on December 31 and January 1, reports local outlet Fontanka. Novaya Gazeta Europe writes that the number was “much higher” and that men, women, and children were detained. The men were reportedly taken to police stations, while women and children were taken to a special detention center. Police cordoned off areas where they conducted raids and arrested people both on the streets and in apartments, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe.
On January 1, military enlistment officers came to many of the detainees and offered them the option of enlisting in the Russian army as “volunteers,” reports Novaya Gazeta Europe. Officers threatened to deport the men’s families if they did not comply. Those without Russian citizenship were offered expedited naturalization if they joined the army. According to Novaya Gazeta Europe’s information, at least 1,500 people agreed to sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry. This number has not been confirmed.
The joint press service of the St. Petersburg courts reported that 31 people were charged with migration law violations. Two of those charged were released, two were fined, and 27 were deported.
In recent months, Russian authorities have been actively offering migrants from Central Asian countries expedited citizenship in return for signing a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry. Additionally, police have been arresting migrants with Russian citizenship during raids and taking them to military enlistment offices.
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I wonder whether this claim is true, false, or half true:
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Russia Behind Bars head says prison heating being turned off to force inmates to go to war. Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service denies this. — Meduza
Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has denied “information circulating on the Internet” about heating shutdowns in Russian prisons. “All penal institutions are operating regularly, adhering to the legally prescribed temperature norms,” stated the FSIN’s press service.
Russia Behind Bars head says prison heating being turned off to force inmates to go to war. Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service denies this.
8:15 pm, January 14, 2024
Source: Meduza
Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has denied “information circulating on the Internet” about heating shutdowns in Russian prisons. “All penal institutions are operating regularly, adhering to the legally prescribed temperature norms,” stated the FSIN’s press service.
On Saturday, Olga Romanova, the head of Russia Behind Bars, said that authorities were turning off the heating in prisons in sub-zero temperatures to make conditions “so unbearable” that inmates would agree to go fight in Ukraine.
Romanova said that prisoners, along with ethnic minorities and new Russian citizens, elicit little sympathy from fellow Russians. “As long as these three groups are fighting and dying in Ukraine, Putin can create the illusion of normalcy for the rest,” she added.
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Here is a somewhat interesting article from the anti-Russian Meduza site, dealing with the Bashkir nationalist movement. As enemies of Russia have lately been lacking good news, they have put their hopes on this slight rioting in Bashkortostan, caused by the arrest of the local nationalist activist leader.
So this is what the nationalism of these largely culturally assimilated "Volga Muslims" looks like - I notice that they do not have that much sense of Islamic solidarity, since Muslim immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia are included in their enemies list!
In any case, this is just the sort of material that Western intelligence services would try to work upon (like in Iran they have encouraged Kurdish nationalism, etc.):
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So this is what the nationalism of these largely culturally assimilated "Volga Muslims" looks like - I notice that they do not have that much sense of Islamic solidarity, since Muslim immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia are included in their enemies list!
In any case, this is just the sort of material that Western intelligence services would try to work upon (like in Iran they have encouraged Kurdish nationalism, etc.):
‘Freedom for Fail Alsynov!’ Why a Bashkir activist’s prosecution was enough to spark major protests in 2024’s Russia — Meduza
This past week, Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan was the site of some of the largest protests the country has seen since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But while the ongoing war is an important part of the context of all of Russia’s social unrest these days, it wasn’t the...
This past week, Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan was the site of some of the largest protests the country has seen since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But while the ongoing war is an important part of the context of all of Russia’s social unrest these days, it wasn’t the reason for this demonstration. Instead, the protesters were demanding freedom for Fail Alsynov, one of the leaders of the Bashkir nationalist movement and a prominent local activist. While Alsynov has done his best in recent years not to give the authorities any easy excuses to prosecute him, his political bedfellows have become increasingly critical of the Kremlin since February 2022. Late last year, Bashkortostan’s leaders took advantage of a phrase Alsynov used at an environmental protest to finally charge him with a felony, and this week, he was sentenced to four years in prison.
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Fail Alsynov in the courtroom. January 17, 2024. SOTA / AFP / Scanpix / LETA
Alsynov was born in Yuldybaevo, a small village in Bashkortostan’s Zilairsky District. After graduating from Bashkir State University with a history degree, he joined a nationalist organization called Kuk Bure (“Sky Wolf” in Bashkir), where he was elected vice chairman just a few years later.
As Alsynov’s associate Ruslan Gabbasov writes in his book Notes of a Bashkir Nationalist, Kuk Bure sought out young Bashkir men who weren’t afraid to “get their hands dirty” in fights with Russian nationalists or people from Russia’s North Caucasian republics. At the same time, Kuk Bure engaged in political activism, organizing rallies in support of the Bashkir language and in defense of natural sites considered sacred by many Bashkirs. It was at these protests, Gabbasov writes, that Alsynov became a respected figure in Bashkir society.
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In the spring of 2023, Bashkortostan’s Baymak District, where Alsynov would later be sentenced to four years in prison, saw two major protests against proposed gold mining projects. At the second one, in which several thousand people gathered in the village of Temyasovo, Alsynov joined them from the regional capital of Ufa and, as one of the most prominent activists in attendance, addressed the crowd.
Bashkirs, Alsynov told the protesters, no longer had their own land, their own language, or their own president. “Our boys,” he added, are “dying” rather than defending their own land. Alsynov blamed these problems on “outsiders” who he said were “taking our land”: Armenians, Russians, Tatars, and kara khalyk, a phrase that literally means “black people” but that Alsynov said he was using to refer to “unskilled laborers.” (The independent Russian outlet Agentstvo has reported that the term carries a meaning close to “common people” or “simple folk” in modern Bashkir.)
“This is our land!” Alsynov told his fellow demonstrators. “We’re not going anywhere! Armenians will go back to their country, Russians will go to Ryazan, Tatars will go to Tatarstan, kara khalyk will go back to their homes. We, [however], have nowhere to go — our home is here.”
In October 2023, the Bashkortostan prosecutor’s office charged Alsynov with “inciting ethnic hatred” for his speech in Temyasovo; linguists who “analyzed” the activist’s words concluded that the term “kara khalyk” amounted to hate speech and that Alsynov had been referring to Central Asian migrants. The case against Alsynov came in response to a request from Governor Radiy Khabirov himself.
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In the 2010s, Bashkir nationalist activists kept their demands relatively moderate, never directly advocating for Bashkortostan’s secession from Russia and aiming their criticism at the local authorities, not the federal ones. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine had a radicalizing effect on their rhetoric, however. The movement strongly condemned Moscow’s actions and called on Bashkirs not to take part in the war. Because he remained in Russia, Fail Alsynov himself did his best not to speak publicly about the war, but his associate Ruslan Gabbasov, as well as all of the Telegram channels associated with the Bashkir nationalists, began writing regularly about how the war in Ukraine is “not our war.”
Russia’s losses in the war, which have included at least hundreds of people from Bashkortostan, spurred the Bashkir nationalist movement to become even more outwardly critical of the authorities. Its members began speaking openly about the need to secede from Russia, advising Bashkirs to mentally prepare for a war of independence.
Fail Alsynov, though doing his best to tread carefully, didn’t stop his political activity. He kept traveling regularly to community meetings on environmental issues and continued to be seen by his fellow Bashkirs as a leader of the nationalist movement.
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This is one of the most highbrow-intellectual arguments I have seen from the Russian patriotic camp so far (I am not much impressed by Alexander Dugin's gibberish); and it is not even a particularly weird viewpoint, for Immanuel Kant did indeed play a major part in building up the "post-Christian" secular humanist worldview of today's decadent, apostate Western civilization. Gary North observed:
http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/pdf/unholy_spirits.pdf
Friedrich Nietzsche also made it very clear how much he despised Kantian thought:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19322/19322-h/19322-h.htm
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http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/pdf/unholy_spirits.pdf
Friedrich Nietzsche also made it very clear how much he despised Kantian thought:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19322/19322-h/19322-h.htm
Governor of Russia’s Kaliningrad says German philosopher Immanuel Kant ‘directly tied’ to war in Ukraine — Meduza
Anton Alikhanov, the governor of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad, said Monday that the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who spent his entire life in the region, has a “direct connection” to the war in Ukraine, according to the local outlet RuGrad.
Governor of Russia’s Kaliningrad says German philosopher Immanuel Kant ‘directly tied’ to war in Ukraine
1:23 pm, February 12, 2024
Source: Meduza
Anton Alikhanov, the governor of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad, said Monday that the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who spent his entire life in the region, has a “direct connection” to the war in Ukraine, according to the local outlet RuGrad.
Speaking at a conference in the town of Svetlogorsk, Alikhanov said it’s impossible to discuss “profound ideas” in Kaliningrad without mentioning Kant. “I want to show that Immanuel Kant, who was born here nearly 300 years ago, has an almost direct relationship to the global chaos ... that we are facing now. Moreover, he has a direct connection to the military conflict in Ukraine,” the governor said.
According to Alikhanov, it was German philosophy, whose “godlessness and lack of higher values” began with Kant, that created the “sociocultural situation” that led, among other things, to the First World War.
Today, in 2024, we’re bold enough to assert that not only did the First World War begin with the work of Kant, but so did the current conflict in Ukraine. Here in Kaliningrad, we dare to propose—although we’re actually almost certain of it—that it was precisely in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and his Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals ... that the ethical, value-based foundations of the current conflict were established.
The governor went on to call Kant one of the “spiritual creators of the modern West,” saying that the “Western bloc, which was shaped by the U.S. in its own image,” is an “empire of lies.” Kant, he said, is referred to as the “father of almost everything” in the West, including freedom, the idea of the rule of law, liberalism, rationalism, and “even the idea of the European Union.”
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A Tale Of Two Dead Prisoners
I think I should say two words about the death of that non-entity called Alexei Navalny. A miserable, corrupt shill of the West, Navalny was one of those useful idiots the West pumps up beyond meas…
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A Tale Of Two Dead Prisoners
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I think I should say two words about the death of that non-entity called Alexei Navalny.
A miserable, corrupt shill of the West, Navalny was one of those useful idiots the West pumps up beyond measure to push their atheist, perverted, globalist agenda. Besides his conviction for corruption, a close associate of his, who was caught on video asking from the West 10/20 million dollar a year to pave the way for a Colour Revolution in Russia, really says it all about these traitors and grifters. Imagine what would be done to a US citizen trying to pump millions of dollars from foreign powers to influence politics in the United States.
This little, forgotten, insignificant shill carried the support of, I don’t know, perhaps 2% of the Russian population. He was forgotten is some far away jail. He was, literally, finished. Mind, he had never been a “menace” to anyone even in his heyday. But when he died, he was done.
The idea that Putin would, weeks before an election, take down this non-entity, which was an absolute non-menace to him, is on a level of stupidity that defies imagination.
Still, the Western media have jumped on the bandwagon, and now Putin has been, by the “democratic” West were “freedoms” are valued, already convicted in a trial by propaganda. It truly beggars belief.
Now, yours truly observes the world around him with a degree of attention that fully escapes your typical Evening Standard reader. He notices that Putin had entered, very recently, hundreds of millions of Western households, showing a degree of intelligence and education few Western politicians can hope to match. Most of all, these hundreds of millions of households have seen a human being, a man with his own human characteristics, perhaps long-winded to a fault, but certainly not the monster that has been constantly proposed to them. Ouch! I think the West will have to do something about that!
Plus, there is this pesky affair of the complete loss of face the West is staring at in THE Ukraine. The fall of Avdeevka must have come to a shock to millions to useful idiots in the West, as reality now starts imposing itself on them with the simple efficacy of a punch in the nose. Suddenly, Putin is a human being and a winner at the same time. Ouch, number two! Quick, let’s find a propaganda talking point that all media in the West will endless repeat, because all the faggots and dyke in their ranks hate Putin like the devil hates the holy water!
As timely as a Swiss clock, this pumped-up non-entity dies. Yours truly thinks that one of two has happened.
The first and most probable hypothesis is that he just died of I’ll health. He had not been healthy for a while. These things happen. I am no friend of conspiracy theories and will say that this is the most likely event: West is looking for ways to demonise Putin, Navalny dies, everybody jumps of the “Putin killed him” train.
The second and, if you ask me, less probable but still possible hypothesis is that some Western secret service (like the CIA or MI 6) killed him. Now entirely spent, Navalny was useless to the West. But dead, he suddenly becomes a great asset. His very fetching wife (heavens, is there *one* woman in Russia who isn’t beautiful?) will now be promoted to front-woman of the “movement”, and we will have her pumped up no end as the courageous wife fighting against oppression, & Co. Courageous wife seemed fairly unfazed by the death of her husband, by the way.
My husband has died. Let’s get some microphone to promote my brand.
I will not end this little post without mentioning an American citizen and journalist who was arrested and mistreated in an Ukrainian jail until, sadly, he died of medical neglect. This is American citizen had been arrested for simply having a YouTube channel expressing his opinion about the SMO. The American Government could have had him freed with ONE phone call, and they let him die in jail.
That the same Government that betrayed Gonzalo Lira has the sheer chutzpah of pronouncing remote guilty sentences for murder truly is a sign of the decline of US institutions at every level.
Navalnya's saccharine and fawning treatment by western governments prove the central allegations against Navalny were true - he was a traitor and stooge of hostile foreign powers.
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Here is a sad, grubby little story: a "Strelkovite" nationalist reporter ended up in the logical terminus of blackpilling, doomerist despair - suicide:
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A pro-Russian writer comments on the event:
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Russian war blogger reportedly dies by suicide after saying 16,000 Russian troops lost in battle for Avdiivka — Meduza
According to several Russian pro-war Telegram channels, Russian war blogger Andrey Morozov has died by suicide in occupied Ukraine. Shortly before his death, Morozov published a post saying that the Russian army suffered significant losses in the battle for Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine. Meduza...
A pro-Russian writer comments on the event:
Avdeevka Denouement: Russian Momentum Turning Point
A lot of revealing things have come to light in the continuing coverage of the Avdeevka denouement. For the first time, the U.S. mouthpiece was forced to acknowledge Russia is having success: This was followed by a series of MSM articles that blew the lid on some of the true losses incurred by...
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These Russian neo-Nazis who have volunteered to fight on the Ukrainian side must be real desperados - ruthless men who have burned all their bridges and thus have nothing left to lose (or so they think).
In Western countries they might have been school-shooter (or synagogue-shooter) types, but as Russia is a tougher society than the West, their angry social rejects, their Glenn Miller types, can actually make somewhat efficient fighters - with little help from the CIA intelligence network, which also helped to turn the angry social rejects of Islamic world into ISIS fighters.
In Western countries they might have been school-shooter (or synagogue-shooter) types, but as Russia is a tougher society than the West, their angry social rejects, their Glenn Miller types, can actually make somewhat efficient fighters - with little help from the CIA intelligence network, which also helped to turn the angry social rejects of Islamic world into ISIS fighters.
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Here is an Uke supporter (apparently he is an Ukrainian living in Estonia) who possesses exceptionally high amount of intellectual honesty, and thus can see some glimpses of how grim Ukraine's prospects are.
For whatever may happen in the battlefield, even if we assume that Ukraine will not collapse militarily, on the economic front Russia's upper hand over Ukraine is getting bigger and bigger - having once been among the most developed parts of the Soviet Union, Ukraine will become more and more hapless, depopulated backwater that is entirely dependent on Western charity, while the Russian economy, which is becoming more and more tied to China and other Asian countries, will keep growing:
For whatever may happen in the battlefield, even if we assume that Ukraine will not collapse militarily, on the economic front Russia's upper hand over Ukraine is getting bigger and bigger - having once been among the most developed parts of the Soviet Union, Ukraine will become more and more hapless, depopulated backwater that is entirely dependent on Western charity, while the Russian economy, which is becoming more and more tied to China and other Asian countries, will keep growing: