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Russian Foreign Minister was denied permission from Bulgaria, Montenegro and North Macedonia to fly through their airspace, thus aborting his trip to Serbia. Lavrov's hilarious reaction: "The unthinkable has happened, this was a deprivation of a sovereign state of the right to carry out foreign...

BTW - there are reports that Lt-General Berdnikov was killed the same day, and the immediate recognition of Kutuzov's death (whose body Ukrainians recovered) was to cover up for Berdnikov's death as well, since his body wasn't. Oh and Russian propaganda is desperate enough that they are now...

Sanctions - no inks to print anything on the packaging anymore. Result

Soon - no internal airline travel. Very reduced internal railroad traffic. No vehicles being produced in Russia. Tank production has stopped. No electronics smaller than 130nm can be produced domestically and anything more sophisticated cannot be imported. Most major software companies have...

Yeah this one was confirmed by Russians. Probably because Ukrainians have the body.

Hybrid is definitely a good interim solution and its market share is growing. I recently got a hybrid Rav4. At first I only got 34-35 out of it instead of the promised 40. Now am getting 40-42. But here is the interesting thing - you have to drive a certain way to get that 40, and the car...

Like? Do you mean some other kind of personal vehicle or are you hoping for some kind of mass transport solution? There has been lots of work done on the batteries for personal vehicles, and not much progress away from the lithium. And for mass transport solution to work, you will need a mass...

Yep. It's doing so great its GDP is going to contract 12% in 2022.

gwb - don't have to go far. Here is the director of the Russian space agency, a few years earlier, giving a Nazi salute (in the center of the pic). The sign says "Whites of all countries, unite".

So - bitcoin mining uses about 0.4% of the world's electricity?

"генерал Картаполов заявил, что страна почти перестала нести потери в военной операции, после того как поменяла тактику ведения боев. " General Kartapolov stated that Russia almost stopped having any losses in the "special military operation", after it changed its battle tactics.

There are many videos like this posted every day. Russians claim "almost no losses" - just straight out lying. See https://www.rbc.ru/politics/01/06/2022/62977ac69a7947469df25278 - you can google translate it right?

I agree. Both Putin and Lukashenko are counting on the West's "fatigue". They have somewhat of a foundation for that, since Western countries have a long tradition of betraying the people they used to support. I think this time it's different. A dog that bites someone once can be tolerated...

Oh he knows that Ukraine won't forget. He is counting on Putin eeking out some kind of "win".

Lukashenko plays the fool but is quite savvy. He is way too smart to attack Ukraine. Corrupt and autocratic to the core though.

Bitcoin mining difficulty is naturally adjusted every 2 weeks to make mining a barely profitable activity. It's like the invisible hand of the market.

Yes, it means "Russian GDP drop will be (by) 8.8% to 12.4%". It doesn't mean "Russian GDP growth drop will be...".

I really don't see how you can't understand simple English. Russian GDP is not "dropping to 12.4% growth". It is dropping BY 12.4%. That is, it is SHRINKING by 12.4%. It is becoming less. It is not growing. It is shrinking. If it was (let's say) 100, it will become 87.6. I really don't see how...

http://www.colombopage.com/archive_22A/Jun02_1654186234CH.php As I pointed out before, this is what is going to happen to the airplanes Russia stole from the leasing companies if they try to fly them abroad.

https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/hpe-shuts-down-russia-belarus-operations-over-ukraine-war That is going to hurt. Bad (good!). So much of Russian infrastructure, from banks to telecom to advanced medical equipment to power stations rely heavily on HPE.