2025: Russia is 39% more corrupt than Ukraine.
In 2024 Ukraine became 2.86% less corrupt, while Russia maintained the same level of corruption.
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Russia is 38% more corrupt than Ukraine.
Ukraine is as corrupt as Brazil, Algeria, and Serbia
Russia is as corrupt as Guinea, Kyrgyzstan, and Uganda
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Roskomnadzor (Russia’s communications regulator) says Russia has blocked or deleted around 138,000 web resources since the invasion began. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, FaceTime, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Pinterest, Wireguard, IPSec, IKEv2, and Roblox are censored in Russia.
In the last year ᵣussia has suffered 455,730 casualties to capture 5000 square km. That's 91 casualties per square km. At this rate ᵣussia needs 44,014,622 casualties and 115 years to capture the rest of Ukraine.
No russian law prohibits possessing any kind of pornography, including child pornography. russian law only prohibits production, advertisement, distribution, and storage with intent to distribute.
RU reports confirm AFU estimates. Leaked Russian documents from the Ministry of Finance from 26 Aug 2022 reported 48,759 deceased RF soldiers. (DPR + LPR losses not counted.) AFU reported 46,250 Russian casualties on the same date.
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A leaked letter from the Russian Finance Ministry says that as of 28.8., 361.4 billion rubles have been paid to the families of the deceased
For each fallen soldier,it's 7.4 million rubles
‼️ In total,this gives 48,759 confirmed dead
Missing and DPR + LLR soldiers are not counted
Russia is "winning" if Russian lives have no value. Russia has "won" 268.01 km² since December 2022 costing 379,840 casualties. At this pace total Russian victory would take 152 years, costing 701,379,518 Russian casualties.
23 Feb 1942: Hemingway acknowledged "a debt to the Red Army that can never be repaid" to justify Western Lend-Lease sending the "arms, money, and provisions it needs" to help the Allies beat the Nazis. We owe Ukraine the same debt and support today.
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@RusMission_EU Margarita Simonyan agrees with Peskov. Putin "won" an election with no serious opponent. An election with no serious choice is merely a costly bureaucracy proclaiming a predetermined outcome.
1/24 In this SALO we will look at Russia’s Crimea strategy. We will talk about the Tuzla incident, history and Russia’s psyops operations in gaining influence in the region. Thanks to reddituser politicalcanvas in helping me on this one.
Russian law 354.1 § 3 prohibits "information expressing obvious disrespect to society about the days of military glory". It's a crime to say Stalin was as much of an aggressor as Hitler, or the USSR and Nazi Germany were co-responsible for starting WWII.
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The 23 August 1939 Soviet/German aggression pact and its secret protocol dividing the conquered territories of Eastern Europe was Stalin's idea. Molotov and Ribbentrop signed the pact in the Kremlin in front of Stalin under a picture of Lenin.
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Stalin's first offer was an alliance with France & Britain against Hitler. But Stalin demanded control of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and the Turkish Straits. The Allies refused, so Stalin offered Hitler the same deal.
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Adjusted for purchasing parity (PPP) the average Russian lives as well as Greece or Bulgaria and 33% worse than Mississippi.
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Russia is physically large but economically unproductive. Russia would be the 5th largest EU member or 4th largest US state by GDP.
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22 Sept 2013: Two months before Maidan, Russia threatened to start a war with Ukraine if Yanukovych continued pursuing European integration. Not NATO. Not a "CIA coup". Not "Nazis". Sergei Glazyev also described how Russia would start the war.
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9 yrs ago today I wrote this story from Yalta about Ru official Sergei Glazyev threatening Ukraine if it signed EU trade agreement.
"This isn't blackmail, but if you don't do what we want we'll destroy you" pretty much sums up Russian policy ever since. https://t.co/G75MtlatlZ
March 2023:
5.5% of the world's population lives in countries where the government supports Russia < 15.2% supports Ukraine with supplies or sanctions on Russia.
33.3% supports or leans Russia < 35.9% supports or leans Ukrainian.
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March 2022:
3.9% of the world's population lives in countries where the government supports Russia < 16.1% actively supports Ukraine with supplies or sanctions on Russia.
31.5% supports or leans Russia < 36.4% supports or leans Ukrainian.
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