Digital/analog crossover

Собянин хочет отправить на войну в Украине мигрантов. Мэр Москвы объявил об открытии пункта набора иностранцев на военную службу в миграционном центре «Сахарово». theins.ru/news/255232

first dizzy with success, now it's wreckers and double-dealers. who will be the first to uncover a plot?

Russia:

For the first time in 30 years, Russians are heading to Tajikistan rather than the other way around – and it's provoking a range of reactions in the country's capital, including spite over racism in Russia. opendemocracy.net/en/odr/tajikis…

Saving my colleagues lots of email anguish:

Hans Magnus Enzensberger on Jürgen Habermas on Germany’s encounter with American culture nytimes.com/1985/11/17/boo…

fixed it. - Bom vídeo. 👍

yangi o’zbekiston

In 1924, #Uzbekistan started a trend in Soviet sculpture that spread like wildfire dzen.ru/media/mlozha/l… The 'Lenin-on-Wheels' pattern combined symbolism (Lenin vs the wheels of history) with mobility. Unfortunately, the Tashkent edifice did not survive the earthquake of 1966.

"‘I didn’t see a single communist in blue overalls,’ Walter Benjamin wrote of his trip to Moscow in 1926, ‘but I did see some guys who could fit in any George Grosz album.’"

A work of genius, this.

30 years ago, Bruce Grant published In the Soviet House of Culture, a pioneering study on the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island. The Eurasian Knot (@euraknot.bsky.social) revisits the work with Bruce, the history of the Nivkhi, and what his study tells us about indigeneity in Russia today. patreon.com/posts/nivkhi-o…

German media studies explaining the Russian Central Bank rate hike

а вот что прислали мне в ватсап. как мне передали, эти голосовые рассылаются по рабочим коллективам состоящим преимущественно из таджиков. что тут можно сказать. ужас блять