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NUMB3RS (Wages of War)

Illustration by Danny Berkovskii for Mediazona. Source: New Tab Aided by a team of volunteers, journalists at Mediazona and the BBC’s Russian Service have identified 41,731 Russian soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine using open sources. This number includes employees of the Wagner mercenary group, but it does not include those who fought on Russia’s side in military units fielded by the…

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Em Uyaya'am (Things I Saw, Read and Watched This Week)

Asilomar State Beach, 21 July 2023. Photo by the Russian Reader Who is Girkin? Igor Girkin (Strelkov) is an ethno-fascist FSB officer and the warlord who prepared the ground and then launched the war in Donbas in 2014. He stated that without him, “there wouldn’t be any war”. He is also responsible for ordering the execution of numerous civilians, for which he still face justice. He was…

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今年俄國經濟成長將超車德國　制裁失敗了

傅畢尼 (Federico Fubini) ，義大利《晚郵報》特約編輯普羅科彭科 (Alexandra Prokopenko)， 俄羅斯央行前顧問， 柏林「東歐及國際研究中心」研究員，卡內基國際和平基金會非常駐學者 根據國際貨幣基金 (IMF) 最新預測，今年俄羅斯的經濟成長速度將超車德國、英國，而與法國、義大利並駕齊驅。在俄國全面入侵烏克蘭後，七國集團主導維持並強化對普丁政權的嚴厲國際制裁；但在歷經一年多的制裁之後，俄羅斯的經濟卻與其中四國比肩，甚至有過之而無不及。 這與說好的計畫不符。去年春天，當普丁滿心希望迅速取勝時，西方領導人認為可以用經濟和金融武器壓垮俄羅斯。2022年4月初，時任義大利總理的德拉吉 (Mario Draghi)…

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Whiskey, You're the Devil

A .7-liter bottle of Ladoga’s Carrygreen “Irish whiskey” will set you back 1,285 rubles (approx. 17 euros) if you order it online. Amid the departure of a number of foreign brands, Ladoga Group is the first in Petersburg to launch the production of Irish whiskey under its own brand. The products will be produced at the plant in Petersburg from Irish grain and malt distillates aged in oak…

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