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. . . . . Russia's Invasion of Ukraine


Friday 29 August 2025

(1)

RuTube . [ Russia's version of Youtube ] . owned by:. Gazprom media
laid off 270 employees out of 300
Those laid off employees given only two months salery
according to the project: IT Workers' Trade Union
due to merging of two services:
Yappy short vertical video app and Premier online cinema
announced in June 2025 | platform to start operating in 2026
according to:. Alexander Zharov . [ CEO | Gazprom media ]
The Kremlin is promoting: VK video

employee to Frank Media:.
We were told were being laid off by mutual agreement
and would be paid two months salaries,
since Rutube would not operate in it current form.
The HR [ Human Resources ] department added that the company [ RuTube ]
did not have the money to maintain such a staff

[ Note ]
now filled with empty chairs, RuTube offices occupies three floors
on Leningradsky Prospekt in the Alkon business center

(2)

Penza . [ Russia ] street loud speakers used to advertise
Russia's so-called new national messenger:. MAX
[ Placed on the same block where a warning to not film drone strikes ]
Overheard over the loud speakers:.
MAX is a Russian messenger for millions of people across the country.
Call for free in high quality, comunicate conveniently and safely

[ Note ]
MAX messenger transfers all the user data to Russia's FSB . [ Federal Security Services ]
The Kremlin blocked Russians from making calls in Telegram
MAX a manadatory app on all new Russian smart phones starting in September 2025. (3)

Students from North Korea will train with Russia specialists to search for uranium
In a program of professional development: training of geologists in solid minerals
Russia's Irkutsk National Research Technical University and Rosgeologia
North Koreans students in the program will visit
Russia's largest state corportation searching for uranium - Urangeologorazvedka


Wednesday 27 August 2025

Warns manufacterer PJSC Yakovlev
14 Russian aircraft have fuselage design flaws
Sukhoi Supejet 100 . [ SSJ-100 ] . serial numbers 95104 to 95117
operated by:. Russiya .. Azimuth .. Yamal .. and others
body of aircraft stringers not secured in various places like cockpit and passenger door


2025 August 22 Friday

[ Nizhny Novgorod region ] . Sarov . [ closed city ]
Vladimir Putin spoke with ...
Sarov enterprises employees
. [ atomic bomb first production occurred in Sarov ]

[ Nizhny Novgorod region ] . Sarov . [ closed city ]
notable sites:.
* Federal Nuclear Center
* Moscow State University (branch)
* National Center for Physics and Mathematics

Burevestnik cruise missle . (nuclear propulsion system)
used with a nuclear power plant

*Russia's goal to put into service:. 2025
Vladimir Putin secretly checked on testing of:.

[ launcher ]:. ground based . solid fuel booster
[ engine ]:. air from atmosphere heated by nuclear reactor exchanger

[ test sites | Russia's nuclear weapons ]:.
Novaya Zemlya . archipelago . [ Rogachevo airbase ]
research base | nuclear weapons

Severodvinsk . [ Nyonoksa ]
Kapustin Yar