15 seconds of shame

 

Marina Ovsyannikova holding a poster during a live broadcast on March 14

President Snow: How many people saw it?
Plutarch Heavensbee: Hard to say. There was a five second delay, but it happened fast.

Built to be shut down. But for how long?

Russia's economy has shut down till May - at least.

Our authorities claim they are resolved to completely eradicate the novel coronavirus disease thru quarantining the entire nation for 35 days.

Nobody is allowed to leave their home without a written permit except for food shopping - if they still has means, of course. Employers have been ordered to pay their idle workers but their suspended businesses are running out of money.

Will the shutdown really last five weeks as intended? Probably, not. Because, IMHO, the surreal twenty-four-hour curfew is unrelated to COVID-19.

Are Gravitational Waves Indeed Detectable?

Whereas LIGO experimenters are being hailed for their claiming to have observed the Einsteinian phenomenon by green-eyed eggheads worldwide, a handful of right-minded heretics still keeps itself occupied with the question in the title. Billions of light years away from a source generating them, their wavefronts must be considered planar, right? As those plane waves distort spacetime homogeneously and together with the tools, intended to capture them yet inherent in that very continuum, then how can they be detected?

Hyperborean Bypass to EU Refuge

While the Horde suffers losses storming Fortress Europe, the most inventive and frost-resistant asylum seekers have already discovered a secure and 100 percent reliable route to the E.U. - thru Russia's North. The would-be refugees enter Russia with tourist visas, and then arrive in the town of Nickel (located above the Arctic Circle), where - provided they can brave the elements - smugglers take them across the poorly policed Norwegian border for €500. Although Norway isn't a member of the Union, the country belongs to the Schengen area, so the undocumented newcomers may continue their journey passport-free to wherever they wish.
That's about to change, however, as the Norwegian authorities began sending the unwanteds back to Russia on January 20, 2016.

May Russia Kiss the Internet Goodbye on Aug. 31?

Amid tensions with the West, our lawmakers have passed a bill requiring foreign Internet companies (including e-commerce payment systems) to store all the personal data of their Russian users on computer servers within the country. Those having failed to meet the deadline of September 1, 2015, will be banned from doing business in Russia. Taking account of Russia's leaders' determination, this de facto unenforceable law may be implemented as scheduled. Meanwhile, the Kremlin already has more far-reaching plans to "make the Russian sector of the net independent" (citing Russia Today), i.e. to shut it down.

Meet Anna Duritskaya

Selfish and hypocritical, like any kept woman. She declined to attend the funeral, fleeing to her "ailing Mom" instead, and, of course, she "didn't see anything". How did she know her lover was dead? Did she check his pulse or, maybe, try to resuscitate him? Nope. Sorry, Boris, the bimbo has had you.

The Kremlin's Best-Kept Open Secrets

Shouldn't they censor out the indecently naked truth that might be traumatizing to their sensitive viewers?