Croppy is getting cryptic messages back from inside the old iron curtain. He’s also send some weird messages too…
Who are this lot tsg? The story is unclear.
There was a fight at a graveyard
That much was clear mate. Sketchy on the details of who these jokers are. Football related?
Domestic abuse laws eased in mother Russia.
Another victory for progress.
Norwegian experts found a whale with a harness that could be a Russian weapon
Putin is one hell of a WUM.
Meanwhile on his southern belly China is challenging for influence and will displace Russia
I see an Irish citizen, Paul Whelan, has been jailed in Russia for espionage …
Shooting at a uni in Perm this morning. Here’s footage of people getting tfo
Very interesting article I came across whilst looking for info on Russias current farmable land and its geographical positioning.
This snippet from it rings a little familiar….
In 2010, when wildfires and drought conspired to ruin Russia’s grain harvests, Putin banned the exporting of wheat in order to protect his own people, then watched as global wheat prices tripled. The world reeled in response. From Pakistan to Indonesia, poverty increased. High prices rocked delicate political balances in Syria, Morocco and Egypt, where about 40 percent of daily caloric intake is from bread. The shortages poured fuel on Arab Spring uprisings, which eventually pushed millions of migrants toward Europe, with destabilizing effect — a bonus for Russian interests. And much of this turmoil began with wheat. As Michael Werz, a senior fellow for climate migration and security at the Center for American Progress, says, “There’s a reason people demonstrated with baguettes in Cairo.”