The Real Russia. Today. Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Source: Meduza
Feature stories
📝 The Kremlin’s written instructions to propagandists tell a story of desperation, failure, and frictions with the media (7-min read)
🚓 Russia’s FSB arrests suspects in the Crimean Bridge explosion. Ukraine calls the whole thing ’nonsense.’ (4-min read)
👨🏫 Russia's schools are hemorrhaging teachers as they flee mobilization (7-min read)
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Other recent news
- 🪖 Russia’s ‘irrecoverable losses’ in Ukraine: more than 90,000 troops dead, disabled, or AWOL
- 🪖 Two Russian conscripts die during training in Sverdlovsk region
- 🪖 Russian authorities reportedly conscripting refugees from Mariupol
- 🪖 Russian journalist says he was signed up as a volunteer for the war without his knowledge
- 🗣️ Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says mobilization has not entered ‘second wave’
- 🗣️ This is no second draft round — ‘we’re just topping up’ the army, regional officials say
- ⛽ Putin speaks of Nord Stream explosions at Russian Energy Week — hinting at guilty parties
- 💥 Eight people arrested in connection with Crimea bridge explosion
- 🇬🇪 Georgia says it had no part in Crimean Bridge explosion
- 🛂 Czechia will ban entry for Russians with tourist visas from October 25
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