AverageUlyanovFan [any]
Peace advocates have expressed concerns that weapons transfers from the West will draw out Russia’s war while enriching arms-makers.
That’s… that’s literally the point.
Russia’s Central Bank says that 39% of its foreign currency reserves is now either gold or Yuan.
Wait, wasn’t it higher before?
Also the Central Bank has rolled back the ban on selling currency to individuals on 8th and it seems that the ruble exchange rate has been growing back up, albeit not catastrophically.
Here’s the law on Verkhovnaya Rada website: https://itd.rada.gov.ua/billInfo/Bills/Card/39391. First attached document is for the bill itself (though it’s a PDF in Ukrainian) and it does say that those liable for military service, as well as people on a bunch of leadership roles must return within 15 days, and next that they have to return within 15 days after the bill becomes law — it’s not yet. The sentence proposed for offense is 5 to 10 years.
In Russian-speaking infosphere Roskomnadzor has attacked several western-liberal media outlets, accusing of, apart from fake news about shootings/bombings, calling the special military operation “war”. Some people dunk on it by calling it a not-war, or by substituting war for it in all other contexts, e.g. talking about a start of World Special Operation 3 :19::84: . However, you can see that this is the official stance and so official channels, many Putin stans and some simply cautious outlets have complied.
“Officials need to save democracy. It’s okay for them to go more fascist tho”. Did I read that right?