The first day of the st. petersburg international economic forum, the kremlin’s main image showcase for foreigners, began with a massive mobile internet outage in Saint Petersburg. Residents cannot open websites, apps do not work, and even resources from so-called white lists function unstably. With each passing hour, more and more complaints about internet interruptions…
russia is deliberately restricting access to humanities and social sciences education while expanding benefits for those who go to war against Ukraine. The authorities have cut 47,000 paid university places in “non-priority” fields such as law, economics, psychology, and management. At the same time, tuition fees have increased by an average of 10–30%. In parallel,…
A court in Kazakhstan has authorized the enforcement of a $1.4 billion recovery from russian gazprom in favor of National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine, based on an international arbitration ruling. ▫️ This is the first public decision by a court in another country that gives the green light to the forced recovery of…
russia is scaling up the recruitment of female students into UAV units. While this practice was previously recorded mainly in TOT, it has now expanded to educational institutions across russia. ▫️Recruitment is carried out directly within universities and colleges — through SMS campaigns, notices on screens, and personal conversations after lectures. There are also cases…
Residents of russia’s largest cities are massively complaining about a lack of connectivity, the inaccessibility of even censored sites from the “white lists”, problems with online services, including banking ones, and even the inability to send SMS messages. russian authorities traditionally explain these restrictions as “security purposes” and preparations for celebratory events, including the parade…
⚡️ vladimir putin has changed the leadership of “rossotrudnichestvo,” a key russian structure for projecting influence abroad. Instead of yevgeny primakov, the agency will now be headed by Igor Chaika — the son of russia’s former prosecutor general, known for corruption scandals and sanctions over interference in Moldova’s internal affairs. ▫️ This personnel shift continues…
russia systematically militarizes children in temporarily occupied territories to involve them in the war against Ukraine and to instill complete loyalty to the kremlin. In particular, in Kherson region, the enemy has launched a campaign to prepare high school students for service in the russian army through the organization “warrior sports and military-patriotic education center”,…
In moscow, recruitment of foreign participants for an internship in theatrical arts has been announced. Students of theater and film schools and young actors from BRICS+ countries are invited to participate. Officially, the project is presented as a cultural and educational initiative. However, in practice, such programs are part of russia’s state policy to promote…
In Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, a russian language course for local journalists has been launched. It is organized through the “russian house” — an institution that promotes russian propaganda and interests abroad under the guise of cultural exchange. ▫️ The program involves 25 representatives of Mongolian media — correspondents from TV and radio companies,…
russia has launched a propaganda campaign aimed at involving teenagers in the production of Shahed drones. ▫️ The Alabuga Polytechnic College in Tatarstan, which trains specialists for the production of strike UAVs, has released a series of promotional videos. In these videos, teenagers proudly state that they assemble combat drones, describing it as “an important…
Not only so-called veterans of the “self-defense forces”, but also priests of russian orthodox church are involved in war propaganda among russian children. In the sverdlovsk region, in a Sunday school of one of the churches, children were given lessons with the participation of russian counterintelligence military personnel. In addition to propaganda narratives, children were…
The Government of Kazakhstan has announced that three thermal power plants (TPPs) in Kokshetau, Semey, and Ust-Kamenogorsk will be constructed in cooperation with Chinese partners rather than with russian companies, as previously planned. ▫️ In 2024, russia and Kazakhstan signed an intergovernmental agreement on the joint construction of the three TPPs with a russian contractor….
