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#Russia Internet shutdown allow lists: in russia, mobile internet is heavily restricted. in some regions, access to non-whitelisted resources is blocked entirely; in others, the speed is throttled to an unusable 14 kb/s (sometimes even lower), or in the worst cases, a complete blackout where even whitelisted resources become unreachable. Sample from domain entries: rutube.ru queuev4.vk.com api.vk.ru collections.yandex.ru r0.mradx.net

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GitHub - hxehex/russia-mobile-internet-whitelist: a list of domains and ips that stay live in russia when the mobile internet gets "restricted"

a list of domains and ips that stay live in russia when the mobile internet gets "restricted" - GitHub - hxehex/russia-mobile-internet-w...

Trump the Socialist: We’re bringing down drug price by 1000%, 1200%, 1300%, 1400%. A drug that sells for $10 in London is costing $130 in New York. We are bringing it down to $20. You can do your own math. But it’s 2000%, 3000% Yes, I’m being picky. Yes, I know how US drugs market operates. I’m just a bit bored with all this US neoliberal bullshit patronising everyone around about benefits of “free-market” when it’s all based on protectionism, subsidies and - not infrequently - simple cronyism.

#Ukraine Zelensky statement from 20 December captures the essence of the problem we are now seeing with US: Peace is better than war, but not at any cost, because we have already paid a high price. What matters for us is a just, durable peace – one that cannot be violated by another whim of Putin or any other Putin-like figure. It is extremely important to have strong security guarantees in place to prevent even the thought or the physical ability to come back to us with aggression. I do not see the Budapest Memorandum as an agreement; I see it as nothing more than a piece of paper, because our territories were occupied, and so many people were killed. And this agreement did not protect us. I do not consider it strong or effective. Therefore, for me, an agreement is not just about signing a document. One must know the details: what will happen if the Russians come with aggression and launch another war. How will the Americans and Europeans respond? How will our partners respond? What deterrence package will Ukraine have? What will be present on Ukrainian territory? How will our army be equipped? How strong will it be, and what reserves will we have? What can we count on? What sanctions package will be imposed simultaneously on the aggressor? An agreement must be just and effective for Ukraine. As a reminder, in 1994 USA, UK and Russia offered Ukraine security assurances for giving up nuclear weapons. China and France added their assurances on top of that. When you hear people like Vance today saying “it’s not our war” after his country gave these assurances back then, this completely undermines credibility of any guarantees he’s going to give today. And on top of that there’s of course Russia, who groomed everyone else into honestly believing that firstly, you shouldn’t expect any compliance with any agreements with Russia, and secondly, that some mythical “no inch to the East” anecdote has more weight than official, signed, mutual treaties registered with UN. But in this aspect, Russia is also paying a heavy price for their sloppy and short-minded tactics because if not that, they would likely have a favourable deal with Ukraine already in 2022. This time I don’t think anyone will fall for Russia’s “assurances” again, if they won’t be reinforced with literal concrete and rockets.

One #Poland pro-Russian moron Tomasz Sommer started a whole flashmob on social media when he posted what he believed was another “material” argument against helping #Ukraine So now every Poles will pay for Ukraine an extra 18 złotys. Are you happy? This triggered a whole wave of shares from less and more public people kept in a tone similar to one below (by some Krzysztof Sowa): I am smiling broadly because PLN 18 is the minimum price to ensure that: -Olsztyn is not liberated like Bahmut -Gdańsk does not become another Mariupol -No rockets fall on Sopot -My hometown of Milanówek and Józefów do not become another Bucha -Warsaw remains safe Just FYI, 18 PLN is 4.28 EUR. What Sommer likely meant is the recent Polish contribution to the PURL initiative ($100m) which he divided by number of Poles (roughly 38m) to come with this ridiculously cheap price. Of course, Polish support for Ukraine is much broader than just PURL but it was a new topic which was immediately amplified by few but loud pro-Russian parties.

And here’s an interesting news… from TASS, official #Russia news agency. This year’s ‘direct line’ with #Putin was watched by 16.3 million viewers. Sounds plenty, eh? According to Mediascope, which measured the viewership, this is actually record low, representing only 11.9% of the potential audience. In other words, 88% of Putin’s potential viewers chose not to watch his brilliant, off-topic remarks filled with grunts and coughs. And you can’t blame them - when you hear the same bullshit for 20 years - and I mean it, he’s using the same words and catchprases - what’s even the point? Source:

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Почти 90% россиян отказались смотреть «прямую линию» Путина Прямую трансляцию п�...

Since the beginning of the year, the number of payment defaults in tenders announced by state-owned companies (!) has almost tripled in #Russia. While in 2024 there were 1.5 billion roubles worth of enforcement requests, this year the figure has already reached 4.03 billion. It is mainly state-owned companies that are in arrears with payments to subcontractors, causing a whole cascade of arrears further down the line. Source:

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«Ситуация очень серьезная». В России зафиксировали рост неплатежей госкомпаний...