Qohen Leth

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@KermlinRussia Коммунизм вполне себе рассматривает

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In May, I fixed two outdated RSS addresses in this script used to count publications and added another. In total, 190 politically motivated sentences were handed down in 306 days.

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@MrPushisty Бригада по уничтожению ненависти не ожидала, что обнаружит столько асбеста...

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Political sentences in Russia
#Russia #dictatorship
September 25, 2025 - May 08, 2026.
Days with political sentences: 98.
Reports of political sentences: 133.
On average, 1 political sentence is issued every 1.7 days.

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Sky over Valencia
(warning! Image was generated with AI)

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@kur1gohan Definitely!

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@GlobalNews_24 пардон, газеты - XVII век

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@GlobalNews_24 Печатный станок - XV век, газеты - VII век. Не XIX век.

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По сообщениям из непроверенных источников экипаж Артемиды-2 получил первые снимки секретной базы нацистов (а также рептилоидов) на обратной стороне Луны. Фотографии настолько шокирующие, что я не могу их опубликовать.

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Political sentences in Russia
Политически мотивированные приговоры в России
#Russia #dictatorship
Observation period: September 25, 2025 - March 25, 2026.
Days with reports of political sentences: 83.
Reports of political sentences: 112.

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Political sentences in Russia
Политически мотивированные приговоры в России
#Russia #dictatorship
Observation period: September 25, 2025 - February 25, 2026.
Number of days with reports of political sentences: 74.
Number of reports of political sentences: 99.

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News publications about political sentences in Russia from September 25, 2025, to January 26, 2026 (number per day)

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Updated

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#Russia #dictatorship
I don't know why
But for some reason, I made a script that tracks Russian-language news articles about politically motivated convictions (In Russia).
Again, it's not the number of convictions, it's the number of reports.

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The puzzle text is a Caesar cipher with a fixed shift of –7 (letters moved back seven places in the alphabet) but with a few small, random ±1 letter errors. It's as if the author combined the Caesar cipher and Learning With Errors (LWE) (as a joke).

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Cicada 6601 https://t.co/b8LmPPdzNf

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So, the statement on the page was encoded by the Caesar cipher -7. However, there are probably deliberate errors in the text.

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#Cicada6601
Investigation continues.
The most probable coordinates of the photo from the first version of the riddle page are the following:
31.01320862334222, 121.3099404432192

https://t.co/b8LmPPdzNf

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#Cicada6601
Investigation continues.
A search through the Internet Archive revealed that the mysterious page existed in at least four versions. There were three different pictures and two text riddles.
https://t.co/b8LmPPdzNf

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Then, on March 4, 2024, the image changed to the one that will open in the current version, but the text was still the same. This text and image combination existed until at least May 21, 2024.

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The same photograph was repeated on the September 28, 2023, and October 23, 2023, versions of the page. The text was also the same. On January 20, 2024, the image changed to a drawing of a cicada, familiar to us all from the Cicada 3301 riddle.

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An image search yielded some matches to Shanghai during the Republican period.
In the foreground of the photograph, a manhole cover is visible, bearing the date 1998. It's most likely a film studio set. It's possible that this is a Shanghai film studio.

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The first saved version, dated September 23, 2023, features a different image and encrypted text. However, the cipher is the same. The sepia-toned photograph shows a cityscape typical of the first half of the 20th century. Chinese characters are recognizable on a door sign.