Oh look! They suddenly care about the environment again! The massive environmental damage from the Nord Stream sabotage brand of maritime terrorism somehow slipped their mind though. Strange, huh?
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Nothing to see here. Just Catherine the Great Russifying herself through bloodletting! 😜
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Which Kremlinologist mood swing are you today: the “everyone adores me” braggart or the “everyone hates me” whiner? 😜
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This diaspora Russian 🤡 was a tad HORRIFIED not to find a “Putin must go” echo chamber in an emigre social media group where I lurk. 😂 This speaks VOLUMES.
“Wow, I definitely stopped by the wrong place. I fell for the group’s name [Russian Canada]. I’m a Russian speaker, live in Canada, and have Russian citizenship…What’s wrong with me then? You should change your group’s name or state in the group’s rules that this group is only for Russian Putin supporters. I would’ve kept walking. It seems that I landed amidst a clan of hyenas.”
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“Wow, I definitely stopped by the wrong place. I fell for the group’s name [Russian Canada]. I’m a Russian speaker, live in Canada, and have Russian citizenship…What’s wrong with me then? You should change your group’s name or state in the group’s rules that this group is only for Russian Putin supporters. I would’ve kept walking. It seems that I landed amidst a clan of hyenas.”
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Russian woman on social media: I’m exercising my right to vote by choosing Putin.
UK employer: You’re fired for a pro-war message! 🫠
I trust they’re being consistent and firing those “supporting war” starting with pro-Israel messages and those for every other country that’s at war now. 🤔
I also trust she sues the last pair of pants off them.
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UK employer: You’re fired for a pro-war message! 🫠
I trust they’re being consistent and firing those “supporting war” starting with pro-Israel messages and those for every other country that’s at war now. 🤔
I also trust she sues the last pair of pants off them.
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You may remember the story of a Russian fuel tanker, accompanied by a US ice breaker, aiding a desperate iced-in Alaskan town in 2012. But do you know about the dramatic Soviet rescue of over 2,000 ice-trapped belugas with classical music in 1985?
Read on.
In late 1984, thousands of beluga whales chased a key food source to shallower waters and got trapped in thick ice in the Bering Sea just outside of Chukotka, Russia (not too far from Alaska, US). With only a few ice holes left to breathe, as the temps dropped, the ice closed in. Without food or access to ice holes, the entire pod was facing a certain death. The local fishermen were the first to take note. These fishermen were initially excited about this but then realized the scale of this disaster. They tried to keep the belugas alive for weeks by crushing ice around them and feeding them fish. Despite their efforts, the mammals began to perish by the dozens.
Meanwhile, the Soviet authorities initiated a rescue mission by using the icebreaker Moskva led by Captain Kovalenko. The rescue mission came to be known as Operation Beluga (“Belukha” in Russian). Arriving in the area in early February, the ice was so thick that the Captain almost abandoned his mission. But seeing the scale of the tragedy, he persisted. At first, the icebreaker cut large pools to ensure that the belugas could continue breathing and eating.
But a big problem remained: how could the ship lure the whales to safety when they were terrified of a giant, 400-foot-long ship and its noisy propellers?
Then Moskva’s crew had a brilliant idea.
Music!
Thus, they began experimenting: Soviet pop music, classical, you name it.
Remarkably, the belugas proved to be fans of classical music and started to follow the ship. Other reports, however, mentioned their penchant for Soviet pop music instead. Be that as it may, the belugas moved slowly by following music. The Captain noted:
«Our tactic is this: We back up, then advance again into the ice, make a passage, and wait. We repeat this several times. The belugas start to ‘understand’ our intentions and follow the icebreaker. Thus, we move kilometer by kilometer.»
Slow and steady, all the remaining trapped belugas eventually made it to the open sea.
The estimates for the cost of this operation range from $150,000 to $200,000 in today’s money.
Sources: RBTH, Whale Scientists, Russia7, NYT.
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Read on.
In late 1984, thousands of beluga whales chased a key food source to shallower waters and got trapped in thick ice in the Bering Sea just outside of Chukotka, Russia (not too far from Alaska, US). With only a few ice holes left to breathe, as the temps dropped, the ice closed in. Without food or access to ice holes, the entire pod was facing a certain death. The local fishermen were the first to take note. These fishermen were initially excited about this but then realized the scale of this disaster. They tried to keep the belugas alive for weeks by crushing ice around them and feeding them fish. Despite their efforts, the mammals began to perish by the dozens.
Meanwhile, the Soviet authorities initiated a rescue mission by using the icebreaker Moskva led by Captain Kovalenko. The rescue mission came to be known as Operation Beluga (“Belukha” in Russian). Arriving in the area in early February, the ice was so thick that the Captain almost abandoned his mission. But seeing the scale of the tragedy, he persisted. At first, the icebreaker cut large pools to ensure that the belugas could continue breathing and eating.
But a big problem remained: how could the ship lure the whales to safety when they were terrified of a giant, 400-foot-long ship and its noisy propellers?
Then Moskva’s crew had a brilliant idea.
Music!
Thus, they began experimenting: Soviet pop music, classical, you name it.
Remarkably, the belugas proved to be fans of classical music and started to follow the ship. Other reports, however, mentioned their penchant for Soviet pop music instead. Be that as it may, the belugas moved slowly by following music. The Captain noted:
«Our tactic is this: We back up, then advance again into the ice, make a passage, and wait. We repeat this several times. The belugas start to ‘understand’ our intentions and follow the icebreaker. Thus, we move kilometer by kilometer.»
Slow and steady, all the remaining trapped belugas eventually made it to the open sea.
The estimates for the cost of this operation range from $150,000 to $200,000 in today’s money.
Sources: RBTH, Whale Scientists, Russia7, NYT.
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Now that we've had the time to process the joy (horror—for some ) of Putin's reelection in Russia, let's talk about it in 5 minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xucPATjOavg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xucPATjOavg
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PUTIN FOREVER? | The Winter Latina Show | Episode 8
Was the 2024 Russian presidential election real or a sham? What can we expect from Putin's fifth term?
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POV: When your babysitter is a Russian man, and you, the exhausted mom, are a ginormous bear.
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The luckiest man in Krasnogorsk 🇷🇺 was evidently late for the concert and didn’t get in since the terrorists were already there:
“Holy crap, they’re running around in there with machine guns!!”
The video is captioned with: “Oh my God, my curiosity almost killed me.”
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“Holy crap, they’re running around in there with machine guns!!”
The video is captioned with: “Oh my God, my curiosity almost killed me.”
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