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Russian officials in Crimea say that overnight Ukrainian drone strikes have "practically destroyed" painter Franz Roubaud's "The Siege of Sevastopol" panorama masterpiece. The same artwork was damaged in 1942 by German and Romanian troops. ria.ru/20260610/raz...
Russia's Digital Development Ministry warns that overly broad enforcement of "undesirable orgs" & foreign-agent laws could remove up to 15% of public & academic library collections and up to 70% in municipal libraries, according to an industry report compiled with publishers & booksellers.
whoa, man [pauses for deep bong hit] totally
not sure who needs to hear this, but the new floating "AI Assistant" button on Kommersant's homepage SUCKS
This kind of thing must terrify Russian policymakers: a decorated Ukraine war veteran publicly criticizing local officials (this was in Primorsky Krai), calling attention to their incompetence & corruption, leading an aide to exacerbate the situation by suggesting a fistfight (he would have lost).
More Russian spy satellite intrigue. Clearly, the repercussions of attacking or even disabling the craft that feed precious intel to Kyiv are so great that Moscow hasn't yet resorted to it, but I wonder how close we are or will be. Somebody's going to do this, some day. meduza.io/en/cards/fou...
(I assume that Russia's pro-govt crowd will lean into the idea that Ukraine finished what the Nazis started.)
