:: Russia Invades Ukraine

Saturday 20 June 2026

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[ 1 . A ]


:: Raids in . . .

Penza region . [ Russia ]


Kamensk . Kamenka . Kuznetsk . Penza . Serdobsk


. raids on the streets
. roads blocked
. checkpoints


all over the city
. patrols are rounding up men
. grabbing men indiscriminately

. some men picked up from their homes
a cop shows ID
asks if the men live in the house

. load men onto a black minibus
. talk of plans to gather 700 people


in Penza
. Russia's National Guard . ( Deputy Commander ) . Volga Federal District

to discuss cooperation between
the Russian National Guard
regional authorities
law enforcement agencies


Russia's Ministry of Defense
claimed that this was "standard raids"
on people who had received Russian citizenship
but had not registered for military service


[ 1 . B ]

:: Volgograd Region

. mobilization exercise held
. training for:.

Southern Federal District's mobilization structures
officials from regions:
. Astrakhan
. Rostov
. Kalmykia
. Crimea
. Luhansk Peopls's Republic
. Donetsk People's Republic


[ 1 . C ]

:: Moscow

- Conscripts Detained -

* in the metro
* near their homes
* and on their way to work
* phones confiscated

taken to the

* police station
* district military enlistment office
* emergency police station on Yablochkova or Ugreshskaya


- Patrols -

Moscow and St. Petersburg metro

Moscow | Barrikadnaya

two police officers stopped young men
apparently 18 - 25 years old
at the metro exit to check their documents


Moscow | Komsomolsaya

at a transfer from the red line
six officers cornered a young man


Moscow | Novoslobodskaya . Mendeleevskaya metro station

young men are being stopped and asked for documents


-Kievskaya Circle Line

police standing
at the enterance to the escalator
pulling people out of the crowd


St. Petersburg | Technological Institute

Two police officers checked a young man's documents


St. Petersburg | Alexander Nevsky Square

Three police officers on duty at the station


:: Russia's Ministry of Defense

ads on VK . [ VKontakte ]

Construction jobs available!
First-day pay of up to 550,000 rubles
and monthly salary of up to 360,000 rubles


[ In the fine print . It states this is a contract with the Ministry of Defense ]


People who respond to these vacancies are persuaded
to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense.

Afterward, they are escorted to a recruiting station,
put through a medical examination, and signed a contract


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some pressure tactics used to force Russian conscripts to sign a military contract

. feed once a day . (breakfast)
. stand guard in body armor (3-4 days) without sitting down or to eat
. days without sleep

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Bratsk Medical College

medical and pharmaceutical departments

35 students expelled


most due to failing the first stage of the State Final Attestation


students were not shown their test results

Expelled male students have already been offered the option of
signing a contract with Russia's Ministry of Defense
and going to the Siberian Military District

Remaining expelled students were offered the option of
retraining for another six months, for money, and retaking the exams.
Price tag is 86,000 rubles per student


according to former students

the practice version of the state exam
sent to them by teachers could have contained errors
- there was no correct answer

"when we reported that there were errors in the tests,
we were told to study with the errors"

Assignments for this stage were prepared by the college and "were very poorly done."
and the students were required to correct the errors in these assignments for a year

"they gave us, the students, the tests to check and edit.
We had to take these tests for a year.
We had to find all the errors and send them in so they could be corrected"

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Tomsk Region [ Russia ]


Tomsk State University | website

(course):.

Free Drone Operator Training in Tomsk

location:. TSU . [ Tomsk State University ]

"participants who successfully complete the program
receive a certificate of completion from Tomsk State University"

men aged:. 18 - 60

women aged:. 18-35 . (with a secondary vocational education)

. training time:. 10 days
. followed by two months of practical training

:: Program has three tracks

. UAV Operator

. FPV Drone Technician

. FPV Drone Operator


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[ FPV = First Person View ]

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according to the website:.

"You pay nothing; the state covers all expenses"

Residents of not only the Tomsk region but also neighboring regions such as
Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, and Omsk, as well as Krasnoyarsk Krai, are invited to participate.
They are promised "transport assistance" to Tomsk,
a "comfortable hotel," and three meals a day

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Alabuga Special Economic Zone


[ 4 . A ]

:: "Young Leaders"

internships | for students :.
. third-year
. fourth-year
. master's


. Mari El
students will continue their work trip
promised a solid salary,
a reliable team and "invaluable experience"


[ 4 . B ]

Alabuga Special Economic Zone

Kyrgyz universities
. Talas State University

:: program:. "Alabuga Start"

Central Asian girls are recruited to assemble drones
young women offered study and work opportunities


[ 4 . C ]

Alabuga Special Economic Zone

:: Tatarstan

tied state support to strick KPIs . [ key performance indicators ]
. workers - now live in industrial parks

. housing and components
. assembly line integrated into a single site
. Ethylene-600
. in-house raw materal



[ 4 . D ]

Alabuga Special Economic Zone

:: Kirov University
. students recruited to assemble drones in their personal account

:: Vyatka State University
students
. personal account
. online learning plantform:. Moodle

ads promising:.
summer jobs to unmanned aerial vehicles for the military
150,000 rubles a month . employment . housing


[ 4 . E ]

Alabuga Special Economic Zone

:: Kazan

VK Fest 2026

. booth of the company that assembles Geranium attack drones generated the most excitement
. young people lined up to pilot KUKA industrial robots and experience VR simulations


:: Popular | Influencers

- Main Stage -

. Zivert
. FEDUK
. Dora
. (group) Sirotkin
. Tatyana Kurtukova
. Klava Koka
. Rishat Tukhvatullin


- Bloggers and Speakers -

. Dima Maslennikov
. Sergey Bezrukov
. Ian Topless
. Viki Show
. Vitya AK
. Kamilya Kharisova
. Anton Shastun
and others


- Tatar stage "Idel" -

. Hut Musician
. Marat Yarullin
. DJ Suleiman
. Gauga
. IL'Giz & Malsi Music
. (group) Breathe
. Defne
. Beku


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VK = VKontakte
a Russian Social network similar to Facebook

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Donetsk People's Republic . [ DPR }
. [ Russia Occupied Ukraine ]


BARS DNR . [ Russia paramilitary }

Russia military recruitment ad campaign
at
. hospitals
. public utility companies

Monday 15 June 2026

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The Kremlin
.. . at a meeting
Joint Military Operations Command
of attack aircraft members


- Vladimir Putin

[ Russia could produce heavy UAV's
similar to the Ukrainian Armed Forces 'Baba Yaga' drones
which are controlled by Starlink ]

"The work isn't just well-established;
it's proceeding at a good pace and at excellent quality.
I hope you'll feel it on the ground, so to speak, soon"


- Andrei Belousov
Russia Defense Minister

[ 20,000 drones with a payload of up to 40 kg
will be delivered to the SVO zone for cargo transportation }

"We will now fully meet the assault units' needs
- their goal is to provide man-portable electronic warfare systems,
the most effective ones proven in combat conditions,
both in terms of weight and frequency range"

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:: Russia's version of Starlink

Russia's national project

"Data Economy"

to create a Russian low-orbit broadband internet satellite constellation

to finance Russia's national project . [ by 2030 ]:.

Russia's federal budget:. 102.8 billion rubles
company's own funds:. 329 billion rubles


Bureau 1440
. [ Russian aerospace company ]

plans to launch 292 satellites into orbit by 2030, including backup satellites


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:: 23 March 2026

Bureau 114

[ developing Rassvet satellite broadband internet system ]

[ 16 communications satellites launched ]

"The launch of the first satellites of the target constellation
marks the transition from experiments to the creation of a communications service.
Ahead lie dozens of launches and hundreds of satellites of the Russian low-orbit constellation
for a communications service with global coverage"


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:: April 2026

"In my opinion, based on expert assessments,
this type of satellite communications
will appear in Russia in 2027,
most likely in 2028.

It will be primarily available to the commercial sector,
to B2B customers, and this is due to cost"

- Boris Glazkov
. Deputy Director
. General for Strategic Development - Roscosmos
[ Roscosmos = Russia's version of NASA ]


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:: June 2026

Bureau 114

[ current satellites ]

experimental satellites:. 6

Rassvet-1

Rassvet-2


* still operational
. from the March 2026 launch

15 of the 16 satellites


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:: 2025 June

location:. Nizhny Novgorod
conference:.

"Digital Industry of Industrial Russia"


- Dmitry Bakanov
. head | Roscosmos . [ Russia's version of NASA ]

the key area will be the development of a
satellite communications and Earth observation system

"Within the framework of the 'Communications and Earth Observation' section,
it is planned to form a low-orbit satellite group by launching 886 Rassvet broadband internet spacecraft"

In addition, within the framework of this project,
it is planned to launch another 114 satellites into orbit
for remote sensing of the Earth.

A separate segment of the national project
is devoted to the - development of unmanned technologies

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102 specialized satellites
will be sent into space
to control drones

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Belarus

Russia launches Shahed drones en route through Belarus

:: 5 new drone bases near Belarus


. Bryansk region

. Oryol region
[ according to Russian media - largest drone complex - in the world ]
village of Tsymbulova

. Smolensk region

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Images of Russia's Past and Future:
How Historical Appeals Influence Current Policy


Experts point out that victory in the war remains a
"system-forming event in Russian history"

report by:.
Minchenko Consulting | communications holding
head:. Yevgeny Minchenko


in Russia
films and series released
2025 - 2026

69 releases dedicated to historical events
. (33 films and series :: The Great Patriotic War . (WW2)
. (5 films :: Catherine II)
. (4 films :: Peter I)

. (5 films and series :: pre-revolutionary, post-war periods and 1990s)
(2000s and perestroika generated almost equal interest )

"the growing demand for nostalgia for the 1990s"
and
"the emergence of a segment of viewers already nostalgic for the 2000s"

"The 'nostalgic' nature of this content is also confirmed
by the toning down of the most harsh and negative moments in cinema"


:: absent films and series dedicated to:.

"may partially explain the absence of these emperors from the list of the most popular Russian rulers in surveys"

Nicholas I
(who appears only "in conjunction with the Decembrists")

Alexander II

Alexander III

in Russia
films and series released

2014 - 2026
27 films | series
. dedicated to 18 Russian rulers

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Alabuga Special Economic Zone
. summer work


[ has 23 air defense towers ]


Mordovia . [ Russia ]

150 students for the summer
to assemble drones for Russia against Ukraine

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St. Petersburg International Economic Forum
. plenary session
. moderator:. Tina Kandelaki . [ propagandist]
. hosted by:. VEB.RF . (state owned corporation)


. Alabuga Polytechnic College
. Elvira Fomina . college's director

(announced)
students could earn up to 500,000 rubles per month assembling drones


. moderator:. Tina Kandelaki . [ propagandist]
(after announcement of the student's salaries)

"Normal! Maybe you have some contacts.
How can I get in touch with you?
Commercial break
Who should I call?
There's still time,
call Alabuga Polytechnic,
You can get it done by September!"


:: Russian pro-war bloggers
+
War correspondents

reposted Elvira Fomina's statement
along with a fragment from the broadcast
within an hour of the plenary session conclusion

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Youth Day festival in Russia
. 27 June 2026
. Krasnoyarsk
. Vladivostok


Krasnoyarsk Krai regional youth policy agency announced
guests of the Youth Day festival in Krasnoyarsk
will only be able to obtain tickets
through the Max [ Russia State Messenger app ] chatbot


in Krasnoyarsk .. .

gates will be installed at the square
where the Youth Day concert will be held,
and ticket holders will be checked at the entrance

Tickets can only be obtained through Max chatbot
If a person does not use Max,
they will not be able to attend the concert

Krasnoyarsk Krai regional youth policy agency
these are federal regulations
that will apply to other regions of Russia

:: Russia Iphone App Store
(removed from the App store - due to sanctions)
Saturday, 6 June 2026
Max stopped working for some IPhone users in Russia
- app requires an update
- updates no longer available
once app was removed from the App store

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Rostov Region . [ Russia ]


:: Russian propaganda warnings
of the dangers of the internet and Telegram

. Chaltyr village
. Posters hung . School No. 11
. in addition to rural administations in the Rostov region

:: Slogans

Slowdown = Safety

Fast Doesn't Mean Better


commissioned by the regional government
. ideological propaganda campaign videos
. created by neural networks [ artificial intelligence ]

. generated characters complan about internet connection outages
. voiceover convinces them that the outages are being implemented for their own good
. schoolchildren are warned about participating in rallies . [ protests ]
(equating online or street activity as a security threat)


Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media
. regional
. (previously acknowledged)
mobile internet service in the region is intentionally slowed down at night
due to an alleged "life threatening threat"

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St. Petersburg International Economic Forum


[ session ]:

Cyberfraud: Who Pays the Bills?


"A year ago, in January 2025,
police officers shut down the "God's Eye"
[ Russian ] data mining service.
The information on the servers was wiped,
leaving behind information about the
trading of personal data for the month of January.
Nearly a million different types of personal data were sold"


"In preparation for an attack,
people buy all the data about a person cheaply:
which banks they have accounts with,
what phone numbers they have,
who they've flown with and where,
when they traveled,
what marketpalces they use,
and where the nearest pickup point is"

- Andrei Khrapov



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- Evgeny Antipv
. creator | programmer
God's Eye . [ Russian data mining service ] . (2020 - February 2025)


For reconnaissance, law enforcement officials actively use these services
"God's Eye's" provided police officers with free access to its databases


- other data mining services used by Russia's police officers -


* Himera . once connected 3,000 police departments to its databases


- data from leaked databases is used by Russia's intelligence agencies -

services:.
Sherlock

"Search System for Categories of Special Importance" (PSKOV)

[ Russian analogue of Palantir . American data analytics system . for the presidential administration ]

. Ministry of Defense

. Russian National Guard


"One of the creators of Himera confirmed to me
that the bot administration did provide such access [ to police departments ] .
To do this, they asked to send a scan of a letter
with an offical seal to the anonymous email of the project.
In total, according to him, about 3,000 police departments were connected in this way.
At the end of 2024, all police officers were deliberately disconnected from unlimited access to Himera.
The project team was taken out of Russia"

- Andrei Zakharov
. investigative journalist


November 2024


Vladimir Putin | signed a law
article 271.1
introduced into Russia's Criminal Code

"illegal use, transfer, collection or storage of computer information containing personal data"
(maximum penalty of 10 years in prison)

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. [ St. Petersburg, Russia ]


St. Petersburg Unversity


14 May 2026
number 6618/1

- Vladimir Starostenko
Vice Rector . Digital Transformation and Information Security


instructed the
Head of the Human Resources Department to
"ensure the inclusion of Order No. 9026/1
dated July 7, 2025 (as amended)
in the list of documents required for review upon hiring"


"On the implementation of a multifunctional information exchange service":

"The Max messenger shall be designated as an internal corporate messenger
to be used by all students and employees of St. Petersburg University
for online communication and information exchange"

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St. Petersburg, Russia


- Vladimir Litvinenko
Rector
St. Petersburg Mining University


:: offered in:. Fall 2026 | school year
- Zakhar Prilepin . [ Russian propagandist ]
position of:. Vice Rector . St. Petersburg Mining University
to oversee:. "ideological an educational work" at the university


Zakhar Prilepin accepted the Vice Rector offer

known for the book:.
"The Highest Honor Is to Wear a Russian Uniform"


[ 2025 ]
in a speech

- Zakhar Prilepin
. [ Russian propagandist ]

said:. St. Petersburg Mining University

"the most important center of resistance to Western dominance"


[ previously ] - Zakhar Prilepin
. [ Russian propagandist ]



(launched):. master's programs
(at):. Moscow State University

"Strategic Communications, Information, and Hybrid Warfare"


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(at):. Moscow State University (lecture):.

devoted to how
"cognitive warfare has absorbed information warfare as a component,
with technologies that altar human consciousness coming to the forefront"

- Vitaly Grigoriev
. Associate Professor
. Engineering (PhD)
. KGB Higher School | employee . academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences



previously:.

Vitaly Grigoriev :.
has had students take his tests on:

.* Dulles plan
(theory tells how the United States wanted to achieve the moral decay of the USSR during the Cold War)

According to this strategy,
it is necessary to direct material power
primarily to the fooling and deceiving of people,
to place the main emphasis on youth,
on its corruption.

Everything should implant and hammer into the human consciousness
the cult of sex, violence, sadism, betrayal - all kinds of immorality


.* racial weapons


.* spiritual warfare

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Pskov Region . [ Russia ]

Schoolchildren will be introduced to modern Russian military equipment

New life safety textbooks purchased by Pskov Education Department
promotion of military service and the war in Ukraine
- textbook highlights :.

Russian troops participation in the
. "reunification of Crimea with Russia"

. "liberation of Syria from terrorists"

. "special military operation" in Ukraine

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Kabardina-Balkaria Republic . [ Russia ]


:: Russian Military Patriotic Training Camps
. for schoolchildren and college students
. trained by Russian veterans of the War against Ukraine


:: Schoolchildren and students to be instilled with:.

. courage and patriotism
. drone control skills . [ basic of ]
. emergency response
. first aid .[ administrating ]
. navigate the terrain . [ learning how to ]
. participation in patriotic games
. theoretical foundations of military affairs . [ learning the ]



The Ministry of Youth Affairs - Kabardina-Balkaria Republic . [ Russia ]

"More than a thousand schoolchildren
and students of secondary vocational education"
are already participating in the camps

in total, they plan to attract more than 5,000 people
"primarily in a school-based format"


- Kazbek Kokov
. head :: Kabardina-Balkaria Republic . [ Russia ]

support the camp activities

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Recruiting for Russia's War in Ukraine

a whole network of private agents operates in Russia
often these are police officers
each recruit receives a bonus of 150,000 rubles . [ $1,900 U.S dollars ]


- Roman Tetyushkin
. age 40
. Russian soldier | capture by Ukraine
(resident of)
. Tatarshchino village
. Rasskazovsky District
. Tambov Region


according to the soldier:.

He was forced to sign a military contract with the (Russian) army
because of an outstanding criminal record

He never passed a medical examination

all his documents were prepared by an "agent"

at the frontlines .. .

He witnessed commanders "zeroing" . [ deliberate killing of their own soldiers ]

for various violations,
as well as sending them on assault missions
from which they never return

"The entire command is shameless
They don't treat us like people
They handcuff their own to trees at night,
so they can kill him with 'Baba Yaga' . [ Ukrainian drone ]
or 'birds' . [ drones ]

"Now many disapprove of everything Putin has done.
I don't know about victory;
everyone is waiting for this to somehow stop"

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Russia's state owned enterprises in

. Donetsk People's Republic . [ DPR ]

. Luhansk People's Republic . [ LPR ]


Yasinovataya Machine Building Plant
HR [ Human Resources ] department
is discussing lists of reserved positions for workers
collecting documents for employee reservations
They're cooperating with the military registration and enlistment office

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Donetsk . [ Russia occupied Ukraine ]


Russian propagandists | discussed

how to protect against Hornet drones [ used by Ukraine ]
by disguising Russian military vehicles as civilian vehicles

* [ Delo 22 :: pro-Russia ]

"The enemy's pressure on Novorossiya's transport arteries is increasing.
A comprehensive response to the emerging threat has not been developed.
However, some believe it makes sense to disguise fuel tankers,
both civilian and (especially) military, as standard trucks.
This is a reactive solution and, far from a solution,
will certainly blur the enemies priorities"


When a subscriber asked whether the Ukrainian Armed Forces
would burn all the trucks in that case,
the channel administrator replied
that the drone would select a target randomly:


"If the enemy runs out of battery and does not find a priority target,
a target is chosen randomly based on considerations of maximizing damage"


* [ Hammer of the Witches :: Pro-Russia ]

"They'll knock out all the civilian trucks and semi-trailers... Thanks a bunch"


* [ infantry | Donetsk Infantry :: Pro-Russia ]

"Now, in the deep rear, any target is achievable.
For now, this has led to the urgent need
to switch from military vehicles, pickup trucks, and SUV's
to inconspicuous transport"


* [ Combat Reserve :: Pro-Russia ]

order from the Russian military requiring:.

"repainting vehicles in colors
that do not reveal their affiliation with
Russian Ministry of Defense
and applying patterns and advertising emblems
of various civilian organizations to the awning, doors, and sides"


[ Combat Reserve ] replies:.

"F***ing asses.
How do you repaint a Ural truck in civilian colors?"