RichVR
21750
The NY Post. Doubtful because: shitrag.
HumanTon
21751
As I’ve said before, these “Putin is deathly ill and could go any day now” rumors remind me of the death of Brezhnev back in the day …
… in that “Brezhnev is deathly ill and could go any day now” rumors started popping up in the press more than a decade before he actually died.
As the old Soviet joke goes:
“Every day you only read the first page of the newspaper. Why is it so?”
“Oh I just wait for an obituary.”
“But obituaries are printed on the last page.”
“The one I’m waiting for will be on the first one.”
Oh, I doubt he’s being treated with Western drugs to continue the war on Ukraine. What an absolutely stupid headline.
Strollen
21754
Is there a source that keeps track of falls from windows, suspicious suicides, food poisoning deaths etc. among the Russian elite? In the US, there is a couple of different sources that track mass shootings.
Grifman
21757
Merry Christmas from a dead city:
ShivaX
21758
I saw a lot of Russia experts talking about how Putin is publicly shifting the blame for Ukraine to the oligarchs and videos of RT and Putin saying as much. But I can’t access any of them because Twitter is breaking for me atm.
Strollen
21759
What? I don’t think so. I am pretty sure this would be an independent website or something.
Strollen
21760
Among the many things, I’ve learned about Ukraine is that Carol of the Bells was written by Ukranian composers. Looking at the ages of the musicians you have to wonder how many are still alive.
vyshka
21761
Reminds of the German that flew a Cessna to Moscow and landed at Red Square towards the end of the Cold War.
Shards
21763
“The little swallow” aka Carol of the Bells is probably my favourite festive song. Here’s a prewar example of Georgian choir singing it in Ukrainian (along with Georgian-British Katie Melua)
JD
21764
Today in ‘treacherous windows’:
Reports in Russian media said Mr Antov, 65, had fallen from a window at the hotel in the city of Rayagada on Sunday. Another member of his four-strong Russian group, Vladimir Budanov, died at the hotel on Friday.
Superintendent Vivekananda Sharma of Odisha police said Mr Budanov was found to have suffered a stroke while his friend “was depressed after his death and he too died”. The Russian consul in Kolkata, Alexei Idamkin, told the Tass news agency that police did not see a “criminal element in these tragic events”.
Reports in Russian media said Mr Antov, 65, had fallen from a window at the hotel in the city of Rayagada on Sunday. Another member of his four-strong Russian group, Vladimir Budanov, died at the hotel on Friday.
Superintendent Vivekananda Sharma of Odisha police said Mr Budanov was found to have suffered a stroke while his friend “was depressed after his death and he too died”. The Russian consul in Kolkata, Alexei Idamkin, told the Tass news agency that police did not see a “criminal element in these tragic events”.
Tourist guide Jitendra Singh told reporters that Mr Budanov may have “consumed a lot of alcohol as he had liquor bottles”.
NPR this morning also reported that the bodies had already been cremated, which is probably standard operating procedure in any case as clear cut as this one.
I mean, this is a simple case of orbital dynamics. In places like America, the natural forces of the universe pull people towards the floor:
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While on the opposite side of the planet in Australia, they are pulled towards the ceiling (hence the need for ground harnesses over there):
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And of course in locations that are ~halfway between the America and Australia, people will be pulled towards the side:
Making them much more vulnerable to falling out of windows if they are not careful.
Sorry, Stollen, that was supposed to be a joke. EVERYONE in Russia e eventually falls out a window, hence the census is the count.
schurem
21768
I like this bullshit and want to subscribe to your mailing list.
Wait. That’s the Sausage King of Moscow?
