That is quite a move... Usually... What comes next is...

Autocratic regimes are forced to distract the local audience from their daily misery, from the realization that their own government is the cause. So Putin constantly needs news on evil neighbours threatening Russia. But what comes next?

[EDIT to add:] There are those who expect dramatic changes in Russian policy after the presidential elections. Putin still maintains this façade of democracy. If the regime then wanted to decide on a general mobilization of all Russians, including in Moscow and Petersburg, which has so far been avoided, the easiest way for those affected would be to flee across the very long border along uninhabited wilderness to Finland. There are only simple fences that only stop livestock and wild animals. So the Finns have to close their borders beforehand and build hundreds of kilometers of high fences.

PooTin's media is getting more delusional by the hour.

Propaganda is one thing. But who are Putin's television shows supposed to influence? The Russians or the West? What do Russians think about such adventurous nonsense of joining Portugal, Hawaii or Alaska to the Russian Empire? This kind of grotesque, ludicrous propaganda is new. Is it propaganda? What is it?

I know a few Russians. Some of the consume the news from Russia with absolute delight, while others just laugh hysterically at said news.
However both camps are united on the view that the news (as delivered by the Russian media) is intended to influence the populace first, then the rest of the world, and that there are some really whacky thoughts coming out of it.
As for Alaska - both groups believe that America got an absolute bargain, and until there was oil they couldn't have given a monkeys about it. (And the really well informed suggest Japan might have a legitimate claim on it as they did "capture" a bit of it some years ago.)
Portugal - isn't that in the sea somewhere off Alaska, next to Hawaii?

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I also know a few Russians and Russia Germans at work, in the team. Some have lived here for thirty years, others have only arrived few years ago. I understand Russian to a certain extent (6 years at school). All of them here speak German and English much better than I speak Russian. But I and others avoid such topics. It's a discomfort you try to avoid... You don't want to know whether he/she is a Putin believer (some Russia Germans are), a Russian patriot or watches Russian TV at home. Likewise, one does not want to touch the trauma... the realization that one's own nation is a violent, imperialist, now fascist, ... a disturbed one. They are obviously here because they don't want to live there. We don't want to judge or teach them. Don't mention the war! That's probably wrong.

Russians don't seem to know their own history, or rather they don't want to know the complete story, only selective parts of it from which to piece together a heroic narrative of a unique, superior Russian civilization, just as Putin does. This then serves as the source of national pride. Hah... Alaska... the Tsars understood early on that overseas colonies and their protection required sea power that they never had.

It doesn't end well when an entire people denies reality and goes into distopia. Scary prospects.

Actually, I can't believe that any Russian doesn't rate this nonsense on Russian TV as such.

Actually, I can't believe that any Russian doesn't rate this nonsense on Russian TV as such.

repeat a lie 10,000 times ...

Actually, I can't believe that any Russian doesn't rate this nonsense on Russian TV as such.

When the only source of "news" many Russians have easy access to is that provided by the state it is all they know, and all they have ever known.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Putin is desperate for new news?

Or just scapegoating his frustrations??...


Jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny faces new charges
wrote:

... Navalny, 47, is serving more than 30 years in prison after being found guilty of crimes including extremism – charges that his supporters characterise as politically motivated. In comments passed to his associates, Navalny said he had been charged under article 214 of Russia’s penal code, which covers crimes of vandalism.

“I don’t even know whether to describe my latest news as sad, funny or absurd,” he wrote in comments on social media on Friday via his team. “I have no idea what article 214 is, and there’s nowhere to look. You’ll know before I do.”

He said the charges were part of the Kremlin’s desire to “initiate a new criminal case against me every three months”. “Never before has a convict in solitary confinement for more than a year had such a rich social and political life,” he joked...

Stay safe folks?
Martin

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Until the last century, it was enough in Russia to banish critics and opposition figures into exile in Siberia. They had to live thousands of kilometers from Moscow until the Tsar might change his mind. They couldn't board a train or leave the oblast because they didn't have the necessary travel documents. In the modern world there are cars, a highway to Vladivostok, airlines, private jets, smartphones, a variety of contacts abroad and a lot of money. That's why Navalny is in prison. As long as Putin or one of his KGB siloviki runs Russia, he will stay there until his death.

Well that answers that question.

Would-be challenger Duntsova barred from running against Putin in Russia's 2024 presidential election.

Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova has been barred from running against President Vladimir Putin in an election next March because of alleged mistakes in her application to register as a candidate....

...alleged mistakes in her application to register as a candidate....

In box marked "Name", did not provide correct answer "Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin", therefore application is invalidated. :^p

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But could she wind up like this poor fellow if she protests PooTin's decision?

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny located at Siberian penal colony two weeks after disappearance.

But she's not going away.

Would-be Putin challenger Yekaterina Duntsova loses appeal to run in Russia's 2024 presidential election.

.....After losing her appeal, Ms Duntsova said she would start working on the creation of her own political party which would stand for "peace, freedom and democracy"......

PooTin is making sure that he's the only name on ballots for the upcoming farce.

Associate of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sentenced to nine years' prison for 'extremism'.

It seems that PooTin hasn't finished cleaning house yet.

Two dozen of Putin’s ‘friends’ have died mysteriously since the war began, and while the rate is slowing, Vladimir Yegorov’s death suggests a sinister change.

Yet another Russian takes a leap of faith.

Russia's suspicious death count ticks higher as pro-Putin politician falls from a third-story window.

PooTin's people are becoming irate as the heat keeps going out and they want him to do something about it (like yesterday).

Freezing Russians plea for help from Vladimir Putin as heating fail leaves them 'fighting for survival'.

On the same day the temperature reached -21 degrees Celsius outside, Kazimir Belev's heating stopped working.

It's been patchy in the past, but this time, things are different.

It's not just his apartment or his building that's affected.

"It turned out that the problem is much bigger than in previous cases," the 31-year-old said.

"Two large districts of the city with a population of over a million people were left without heating."

Kazimir lives in Novosibirsk, in southern Russia.

But if the growing chorus of complaints on social media is anything to go by, infrastructure issues are affecting almost every corner of the country.

As temperatures plunge, Russia's aging patchwork of central heating systems is a major concern.

In some cases, entire cities rely on one Soviet-era boiler plant to stay warm......

PooTin is changing his war criminals in the African "coup belt".

Russia's Africa Corps marches in to replace Wagner group in the continent's coup belt.

And just poor people for that of Ukraine and next keep a hand of it for only following.

Just only too bad and here feeling compassion with all the people that could be suffering.

Only just a dictator at hand and next it also becomes an excuse for rather purporting.

PooTin is changing his war criminals in the African "coup belt".

Russia's Africa Corps marches in to replace Wagner group in the continent's coup belt.

A giant powder keg is prepared there for Putin to light it up. For what? What can we expect? Civil wars? Ethnic conflicts? Or an extensive wave of refugees towards Europe, much larger than anything that has occurred since 2015? One thing is already certain: When it starts it will come as a complete surprise to the leaders of the larger EU states, France included.

Will PooTin now declare war on Mongolia after being corrected about his claimed Russian history in Sucker's interview.

Our Empire Was Bigger Than Yours, Mongol Leader Taunts PooTin.