Inside the Deranged Plot to Smuggle Cocaine With an Armed Soviet-Era Submarine
Over coffee, the agents told Fainberg that they knew about his adventures in the former Soviet Union, including smuggling helicopters into South America. They’d been investigating him for three years.
Washington Times9mon
Inside the Kremlin's vast AI surveillance of dissidents
Revelations about the Kremlin’s use of the technology come as the European Union prepares to implement bloc-wide rules that ban AI applications involving emotion recognition, “scraping” of ...
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Russians are freezing as Soviet-era infrastructure in the country crumbles —and Moscow keeps spending on war
The brutal conditions are made worse because Russia's infrastructure is poorly maintained, with many of its facilitates dating from the Soviet era ... the Kremlin will likely need to introduce ...
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The Inside Story of How t.A.T.u. Captured the World's Attention: ‘Rockin' the Kremlin' Book Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from the newly published book Rockin' the Kremlin: My Incredible True ... still a very intolerant society, despite the Soviet Union being long gone.
The Soviet Holiday Classic Even Kremlin Skeptics Can’t Stop Watching
The Irony of Fate” is a turn-of-the-year TV tradition that endures even in households that are now wary of Russian culture.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty27d
Inside A Secret, Expanding Russian Lab Site With A Bioweapons Legacy
Russian state media footage of a January 2024 inspection by then-Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu offers a rare glimpse inside the restricted ... modernizing Soviet-era biological warfare ...
Wall Street Journal18d
Russia Taps Soviet-Era Stockpiles as Armored-Vehicle Supply Dwindles
KYIV, Ukraine—When the director of Russia’s largest film studio met President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin last month ... armored vehicles from the Soviet era as props for decades.
The Economist28d
The unholy alliance of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin
A Soviet delegation to a gathering of the World ... their moral compasses point towards the Kremlin rather than Christ’s teachings. In 2016 Vsevolod Chaplin, formerly a senior member in the ...
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Babushka Z: The woman who became a Russian propaganda icon
The Kremlin propaganda machine got to work. Within days, her image - a throwback to a stereotypical peasant woman of the Soviet era in her orthodox headscarf, felt boots and thick skirt - started ...
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Russia maintains recognition of Palestine’s independence since Soviet era — Kremlin
Russia, being an successor of the USSR, recognizes the independence of Palestine, and views the decision of a number of countries to do the same as such, Kremlin ... the Soviet Union era," the ...
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Russia's worker shortage is so bad the economy is leaning on the Soviet-era practice of using prison labor, think tank says
"The Kremlin has sought to integrate prison labor ... The practice dates back to the Soviet era's "Gulag" system, where convicts were assigned to work in the riskiest and most "lucrative" sectors ...