Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

Den ryske oppositionspolitikern Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42, har förts till ett fängelsesjukhus, uppger hans fru Jevgenia Kara-Murza för meddelandetjänsten X. Kara-Murza avtjänar ett 25-årigt fängelsestraff. Kara-Murza, som har både ryskt och brittiskt pass, fängslades förra året efter att upprepade gånger ha kritiserat Rysslands krig i Ukraina och stött västerländska sanktioner mot Ryssland.
Enligt Jevgenia Kara-Murza lider hennes man av nervsymptom som har hängt med honom efter två förgiftningsförsök. Fru Kara-Murza har vid upprepade tillfällen uttryckt sin oro för sin makes hälsa.

120,000 dead and counting A new estimate from Meduza and Mediazona shows the rate of Russian military deaths in Ukraine is only growing

In the latest update to their list of confirmed Russian military deaths, Mediazona and BBC News Russian reported that at least 56,585 Russian soldiers have died fighting in Ukraine as of June 21. However, this list only includes soldiers whose deaths could be individually corroborated through open sources such as obituaries.

In a previous investigation, Meduza and Mediazona used inheritance case data to estimate Russia’s losses and determined that 75,000 Russian soldiers had died in Ukraine as of the end of 2023. But collecting and analyzing data from the National Probate Registry takes significant time and resources, and this means that our true mortality estimates come much less frequently than our colleagues’ updates to the list of confirmed deaths.

To address this problem, we’ve devised a new method for estimating Russia’s true military death toll at any given time with a reasonably high level of accuracy. These “flash estimates” will now accompany updates to Mediazona and BBC Russian’s confirmed deaths list as well as Meduza’s own reports on casualties. According to our latest calculations, as of the end of June, approximately 120,000 Russian servicemen have died in the war since 2022, but the real number could be as high as 140,000.

‘The language of ultimatums’ The Kremlin’s latest media guidelines for propagandists cover Putin’s ‘peace plan’ and the ‘multipolar world’

Following Vladimir Putin’s appearance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Astana earlier this week, the Kremlin has issued a new set of guidelines instructing Russian propagandists on how to spin the president’s comments on the prospect of peace talks with Ukraine. According to instructions obtained by Meduza, the Putin administration has advised Russian state media and pro-Kremlin publications to double down on claims that Moscow “isn’t refusing dialogue” and blame the lack of negotiations on Kyiv and, of course, the West. These latest guidelines also cover another one of Putin’s favorite talking points — the “multipolar world order.”

The authors of the new Constitution also propose creating a new tier of government at the lowest level. These “basic units of local self-government” tasked with managing “the common affairs” of small groups of neighbors will fall into two categories:

House Committees, which “manage the common affairs of residents of an apartment building,” and
Housing Association Committees, which “manage the common affairs (of owners or tenants) of neighboring private houses united on the basis of one settlement, or at the rate of one hundred houses per Housing Association.”

Putin: We can discuss forming a unified parliament with Belarus

I Ryssland kommer poststationer i avlägsna områden också att fungera som hälsostationer, rapporterar Moscow Times. Brevbärarna kommer att få utbildning så att de kan ställa diagnoser och enkla medicinska ingrepp. Enligt förvaltningen har modellen redan testats i flera regioner, men nu har man för avsikt att utvidga den till att omfatta hela Ryssland.
Enligt Alan Kozonov, biträdande direktör för den ryska posten, kan de besparingar som reformen ger upphov till användas för att höja lönerna för de anställda. Idén grundar sig dock främst på bristen på läkare i Ryssland. I våras sa Dumans vice talman Vjatjeslav Volodin att Ryssland skulle behöva 30 000 fler läkare.
Det råder brist på specialister, särskilt i avlägsna områden. En lösning har också varit att återinföra den sovjetiska modellen med att skicka läkarstudenter runt i landet så snart de tagit examen.

Tucker Carlson - Conspiracy Theorist Turned Propagandist

Moldova has expressed its readiness to supply electricity to Ukraine under the gas-for-electricity project by placing generating units on its territory using natural gas supplied by Ukraine for this exchange.

Thank you, Mrs President @sandumaiamd and Mr energy minister @VictorParlicov . I know you worked hard on this!

Turkish state-owned gas utility Botas has signed an agreement to deliver gas to Moldova, which has been breaking away from dependence on Russian pipeline supplies via Ukraine’s transmission network.

The deal comes as Moldova strives to implement a domestic gas market liberalisation programme and hand operational management of its gas transmission network to Romania’s Transgaz.

Moldova is currently supplied by monopoly importer and distributor Moldovagaz, where Russian gas giant Gazprom holds the controlling interest.