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Russia mulls joining cryptocurrency scheme
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I love the smell of ponzi in the morning

Tsar Putin is mulling over allowing cryptocurrency to be used for international payments.

Russian mobile operators start flogging cheap and older communications tech
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Avoiding inflation


Russia's biggest mobile operator MTS has started selling discounted and used smartphones, offering Russian consumers cheaper alternatives as inflation bites and Western brands suspend shipments.

Russia looks to China to replace Intel and AMD
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Match the Chinese tires on our military trucks


Tsar Putin has decided he does not need Intel and AMD when he can use Chinese chips which are just as fast and reliable as those decadent western chips, which are probably made by homosexuals.

Google goes bankrupt
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Thursday, 19 May 2022 11:48

Google goes bankrupt


At least in Russia


Google is going to file for bankruptcy in Russia, although to be fair was only after Tsar Putin seized the company’s bank account and did a “special operation” on its funds.

Russian fighter pilots bring their own GPS devices
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Inbuilt navigation systems are so bad

Russian fighter pilots are so fed up with the GPS devices that come with their super expensive jets that there are bringing their own to work and sticking them to the plane dashboards.

Siemens pulled out of Russia
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Friday, 13 May 2022 12:36

Siemens pulled out of Russia


$630 million leaks from its bottom line

After 170 years, Siemens will quit the Russian market due to the war in Ukraine, it said, and taken a 600 million euro ($630 million) hit to its business during the second quarter.

Ukrainian hacktivists hit Putin where it really hurts
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Cut off Russian vodka supply

Ukrainian hacktivists have disrupted alcohol shipments in Russia after committing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against a critical online portal.

Russian troop looting backfires due to high tech
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These were not Kelly’s Heroes

Russian troops who decided to use the war to make themselves rich found themselves caught out by more modern security equipment.

Russian hackers attacking European wind farms
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That is a nice alternative to Russian gas, it would be a pity if anything happened to it 

While Russia is cutting off the gas supply to Bulgaria and Poland over their support to Ukraine, it appears that its hackers are trying to stop a move to green energy.

Putin makes Zuckerberg and Roslansky disappear
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See, Tsar Putin was goodie all the time

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky are among the latest US citizens to be added to the Russian sanctions list.