#Russia “patriotic” Telegram channels started a mass-scale campaign distributing alleged screenshots from darknet with advertisements to sell children from #Ukraine for paedophiles and as forced donors of human organs.
Both narratives have been pushed for years in #Russia but it seems to be one of the first such major campaigns targeted abroad, as I have received these screenshots from a contact in Russia and at the same time found it e.g. on Arabic Facebook[^1].
It’s not that paedophile rings do not operate in #Ukraine, they do and they are being busted by Ukrainian police even at war time.[^2] In Russia paedophile rings have reached to the level of regional Duma, where two councillors were arrested in Astrakhan in 2019 for “for sexually abusing, raping, and filming children”.[^3] and EU specialised police departments have been busting paedophile rings on regular basis.[^4]
The current Russian campaign however is not about busting any of these rings, assuming these announcements are genuine as they could be trivially faked. It’s about continued dehumanising Ukrainians in order to make mass-scale war-crimes acceptable or even welcome for Russian audience. Russian media routinely use dehumanising language, speaking of “filth”, “pest”, “worms”, playing on the lowest emotions and presenting itself as the only morally solid party, entitled to “purge” these. If that sounds familiar to Third Reich narratives used to instigate hate against Jews, it’s because both echoed earlier Soviet propaganda used against “bourgeois”, “kulaks” (including Jews) alike.
[^3]: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/02/06/78-separate-incidents
[^4]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57735317
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It will be interesting to see if they get anything like $5 million (or anything at all).
The intellectual property is outdated, there is no production facility within Russia and one assumes that sanctions would impede the import of manufacturing equipment. 🤨
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I’ve also checked their closest competitor Elbrus and since they released Elbrus-8SV benchmark demonstrated it can “fairly” run 10 years old games but too old for anything newer. They also lost a bid with Sberbank due to failed specifications. Then they announced a new Elbrus-16C which generated some hype, start of manufacturing was declared on October 2021… and that’s the last time they published any news.
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It will be interesting to see if they get anything like $5 million (or anything at all).
The intellectual property is outdated, there is no production facility within Russia and one assumes that sanctions would impede the import of manufacturing equipment. 🤨
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I’m also pretty confident they moved as many assets out of the company when they realised it’s not going to work. In terms of IP, it’s an ARM design so I’m not sure how much own know-how they had to add outside of the licensed designs.
#Russia CPU vendor Baikal declared bankruptcy, assets to be auctioned and estimated worth only $5m
> The technology being auctioned is outdated, to say the least. The Baikal-M1 processor, for instance, is based on eight outdated Arm Cortex-A57 cores operating at 1.50 GHz and outfitted with an 8MB L3 cache that is accompanied by an eight-cluster Arm Mali-T628 GPU with two display pipelines. TSMC made the SoC on its 28nm fabrication process. Meanwhile, Baikal's 48-core Baikal-S SoC for servers has never entered mass production. Since both processors are now obsolete, Baikal's assets have been valued at 484 million rubles ($5 million). The auction is scheduled for September 26, 2023.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/russian-c...
How little has indeed changed in #Russia way of public debate since the #USSR times! Here’s a short fragment from a 1950 speech[^1] by Olga Lepeshinskaya[^2, a less known colleague of Trofim Lysenko. Lepeshinskaya also fought with mainstream genetics (the expletive of that time was “idealism”), but also pushed her own theory of routine emergence of living cells from simple inorganic matter. That accusation of “anti-patriotic criticism” could be just as well taken from today’s rants between Solovyov, Girkin and Tatarsky:
These idealists resort to anti-patriotic criticism of the works of materialist-dialecticians, to the Straussian method of criticism. Some of them, in order to spread their idealistic, anti-patriotic ideas and to discredit Soviet science, considering themselves monopolists in science, not only propagate Virchow’s doctrine in their works and textbooks, but also use the tribune of scientific societies and even the press that has fallen under their influence (“Medical Worker”).
Original:
Эти идеалисты прибегают к антипатриотической критике работ материалистов-диалектиков, к страховскому методу критики. Некоторые из них для распространения своих идеалистических, антипатриотических идей и для дискредитации советской науки, считая себя монополистами в науке, не только пропагандируют учение Вирхова в своих трудах, учебниках, но и пользуются трибуной научных обществ и даже попавшей под их влияние печати («Медицинский работник»).
[^1]: http://www.bioparadigma.spb.ru/lepeshiskaya2.htm
[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Lepeshinskaya_(biologist)#Claims
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The contradiction is unavoidable as long as we resort to the reductionist dychotomy of “left vs right” - I very much recommend reading the 1920’s NSDAP 25 points program, as it’s a bit of an eye opener - it’s equally composed of both nationalist and socialist postulates. As result, it’s not that “sometimes the far-right is profoundly anti-capitalist” which sounds like a paradox, it’s simply that the very concept of “far right” today is completely misguided and used primarily in tribal sense rather than to describe a complex, multi-variate political phenomena that we deal with today.
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"The Insider" reports that #Russia forces have "retreated from a number of heights in the Volodyne area due to the risk of encirclement from Staromayorske".
As they refersl to Russian "War Gonzo", this report needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. Volodyne (47.69221, 36.73243) is 8 km SW from Staromayorske and 6 km from the nearest active combat zone per DeepState, but #Ukraine advances in this direction would be great news.
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That’s from the “impact of missing input validation on service availability” department 🤷
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That’s from the “impact of missing input validation on service availability” department 🤷
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For now, there’s no evidence nor official confirmation these were Ukrainian drones. Anyone can buy such drones 😉
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As for emissions, there are a few critical indicators that you need to account when reading such articles:
Life-cycle CO2 intensity which includes emissions per unit of energy (kWh) over the plant’s whole life, from construction, operations and decommissioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emissions_of_energy_sources
For global metrics, the IPCC 2014 data is used. For EU, UNECE 2020 data is much more up to date.
For #nuclear, the CO2 intensity is on average 12 gCO2eq/kWh per IPCC 2014 but only 5.1 gCO2eq/kWh per UNECE 2020, because their study measured only the plants operating in EU which are relatively new and were built to higher environmental standards.
Note that the concept of life-cycle emissions was introduced specifically in order to capture everything, so for example also emissions from production of the concrete for construction. Which is one reason why hydro power is surprisingly high - during operations phase hydro does not emit any CO2, but it requires very large amounts of concrete to build, and these emissions are “paid off” during its whole life-time.
The same applies for wind power, which requires a lot of concrete and steel. Wind has relatively high emissions in construction phase, but then the energy output is relatively small and life-time is relatively short, so the denominator of the formula is smaller, so the total emission intensity is higher than nuclear.
Now this is even more interesting, the HS article[^1] seems to contain the most details on #Rusich Petrovsky detention so far:
Voislav Torden was granted a residence permit to Finland on the basis of his wife’s studies, according to his legal adviser, even though he is suspected of terrorist offences in Ukraine. He is on the EU sanctions list under the name Jan Petrovski.
This explains how the entered #Finland in the first place - he just had a new identity, likely legally obtained in #Russia by means of changing his legal name.
According to media reports, the Rusich group was involved in fighting in Luhansk and Donetsk. The legal counsel of Voislav Torden, the Rusich leader arrested in Finland, claims that Torden has only been involved in “political activities” in Ukraine.
This excuse from his legal counsel is of course utter bullshit and there’s plenty of of evidence of Petrovsky participation as a combatant of the #Russia armed forces in #Ukraine. But here’s a trap as well: if they admit any “activities” in Ukraine, then it in the first place it implies he admits illegal crossing of Ukraine’s border.
Now this part is rather incredible and I’m sure his savage colleagues in #Russia are facepalming when they read this tear jerking story on how their neo-Nazi friend “wanted his children to obtain Nordic education”:
The man’s family wanted to move to Finland. They seemed to be able to do so this summer, when his Russian wife was accepted as a student at a Finnish university of applied sciences. According to Malgina, the legal adviser, the residence permit had been granted to the whole family for at least a year on the basis of the wife’s right to study. “He [Torden] wanted a Nordic education for his children. At the same time, he wanted to be close to Russia,” says Malgina.
Aside from its objective absurdity, Russian “patriots” frequently demonstrate this bipolar inconsistency: on one hand you believe in “Great Russia” which is superior in all aspect over “decaying Europe”, but at the same time you see the decay of Russian education or healthcare with your own eyes. But the tradition of “dialectical thinking” inherited from the Soviet system somehow helps them to hold both ideas in their heads and see no contradiction.
Now some more details on how Petrovsky was even allowed to enter Finland:
Torden’s family moved from St Petersburg to Finland on 19 July, when she and her three children crossed the Finnish border at Vaalimaa in a car, without any problems, according to Malgina. Before his wife’s studies were to being and the family settled in Finland, they wanted to meet their family in France. They stayed in a hotel, from where they continued their journey to Helsinki-Vantaa airport, says Malgina. The following day, on 20 July, police arrested Torden in the passenger lounge of Helsinki Airport on suspicion of immigration offences. Initially, there was no talk of terrorism. Malgina says she wondered why Torden was kept in detention in Mäntsälä for five weeks, when in similar cases the turnaround usually takes a couple of days.
But this is the best part, which explains why Petrovsky felt so safe under his new identity:
Last year, Torden had visited Finland on a tourist visa without any problems, according to the lawyer.
There’s also an usual argument from the defense about threat to his life in Ukraine to prevent his extradition:
The legal adviser is trying to prevent Torden’s extradition from Finland to Ukraine. “He would certainly not be allowed to enter a Ukrainian courtroom alive. His life is in danger,” Malgina claims. According to the legal counsel, Torden has been involved in “political activities” in Ukraine in 2014 but denies having committed terrorist acts or fought there.
But the Finnish journalists aren’t too keen to buy this nonsense, because Petrovsky was quite generously talking about his war adventures in Ukraine and the article refers to a number of interviews he gave in Russia, rather explicitly boasting about their battles with Ukrainian forces and “finishing off” wounded soldiers, which I linked before.
#Rusich Yan Petrovsky intends to apply for asylum in #Finland, report Finnish media. Petrovsky entered the country under name of Voislav Torden, the article doesn’t clarify if this is new Petrovsky’s legal name in #Russia or nom de guerre used in a fake passport, but it adds that Petrovsky/Torden had a “re-entry ban into Finland”.
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Fully agreed. Long ago I perceived him as a whistleblower. His revelations on Iraq - and silence on Syria - made me a bit skeptical. His outright promotions of MH17 fakes was eye opening…
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A rather obscure #Russia channel has published one of the most detailed UAV videos of the former Kakhovka dam, including inside ruins of the engine building. Later he also published two still frames from a CCTV video of the explosion on 5-6 June 2023 and promised to publish full video "soon". The video looks as if it was taken from the left bank (Russia controlled).
https://agora.echelon.pl/media/c8d85a58c8f100387192a4ebfbd63700b473c2ee33109a6ae959a7278e353d96.mp4
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Thanks, on second reading I got that point. Void promises are worse than no promises.
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А вот это не русофобия?
https://birdity.club/objects/e843fd95-aa60-4e48-9c4a-6f5a5388ac8e
А тебя ещё и посадить за дискрединацию ;)
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100% agree, Vrbětice was an obvious kinetic action of GRU against a military object on EU and NATO ground. Reaction? None. Years later they expelled some diplomats, that was like an invitation to come and invade Ukraine full-scale…
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A masz konto na LinkedIn? Bo tam idzie większość rekrutacji do IT. Wykształcenie formalne ma szczątkowe znaczenie, nawet w Polsce, kluczowe jest doświadczenie, więc w Twoim przypadku 13 lat wygląda bardzo dobrze. Samo Gentoo jest niszowe ale jako programista C/C++ z doświadczeniem w Linuksie, SQL i Pythonem powinieneś coś podłapać fajnego.
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“General SVR” is published by Valeriy Solovey:
https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/02/16/svidetel-generala-svr