Sergey Boyarsky, chairman of the State Duma’s Committee on Information Policy, says Russia won't/shouldn't block Telegram until "all channels" have migrated to Russia's state-backed super-app Max. Kinda surreal to see this discussed so openly, but the times have changed (in Russia and beyond).

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📱Telegram в России не заблокируют до тех пор, пока все каналы не переедут в Мах, поск...

Euroclear has unfrozen more than $600 million belonging to the Eurasian Development Bank, previously blocked under EU sanctions. The reported terms: the funds must be used domestically inside Kazakhstan and will remain under Euroclear’s oversight.

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Euroclear разблокировал более $600 млн средств ЕАБР

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A real CNN field report from Finland (“Santa’s hometown”) explains how fewer Russians hunting Finland's wolves (many are likely to have “Russian DNA”!!) is helping to wipe out Finland's reindeer herds, ie How Putin Killed Christmas.

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Things at CBS News under Bari Weiss are going exactly as you'd expect.

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’

Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting from Sunday’s edition of the show.

Always interesting to read about Russia’s rumored, hypothetical scorched-space weapons, but once again the sourcing is an anon "intel finding" that experts can't square with reality. I guess even a remote chance that it's real, however, is worth worrying about.

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Starlink in the crosshairs: How Russia could attack Elon Musk's conquering of space

NATO-nation intelligence services believe Russia is developing a weapon to target Starlink satellites.

Every time somebody claims a bygone-era artist for one nationality, my mind turns to these cartoons.

bit of an edgy tweet here for Dmitirev, given all the Trump bootlicking

Watching The Blue Brothers with the kids (my millionth viewing, their dozenth), and I'm struck as always by the insane quality of the stunt work and car chases. And then the movie went and featured some of the best musical performances in cinema history.

It's odd that technological advances have homogenized so much global language, but spacefaring nations generally can't agree on what to call the "nauts" who fly up inside tin cans to float around and orbit the planet.