Edward Slavsquat

Bill Gates is forking over $50 million to China for the development of "innovative therapies for infectious diseases". "It's been a long time since I was in China—four years. The world looked very different then," Gates said in a speech delivered at the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI) in Beijing. [Global Times]

For those who thought our report about Russia's Davos was too harsh, here's how conservative, pro-Putin, pro-SMO Russian outlet Katyusha.org described this event: SPIEF 2023 is safe from missile attacks, because it is a gathering of Russia's top traitors (and international space lizards), who are working tirelessly to make everything awful, "under the slogans of sustainable development". [Katyusha.org]

SPIEF 2023 will be four days of highly sustainable, digital, carbon-conscious, multipolar, de-dollarized, BRICS-led, PCR-tested, 3D-furry gene therapy. A few lucky attendees might even get to play tonsil hockey with balding, dumpling-shaped businessmen. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/pcr-tests-gene-therapy-and-juicy

Russia's Chamber of Commerce published an op-ed by the CEO of a firm that is spearheading "carbon reporting" in Russia. The author writes: "Today, the climate agenda and carbon neutrality remain among the most discussed topics at all levels. Both individuals and entire territories feel the consequences of weather anomalies and natural disasters caused by climate change ... The most unwise and short-sighted thing, in my opinion, is to ignore the ongoing changes and try to stay away from the climate agenda. Legislators are giving businesses time to adapt to the new reality." [tpprf.ru]

Finally, all of your pressing Russia-related questions—answered! You are welcome. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/your-russia-related-questions-have

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The Prosecutor General's Office has asked the FSB for info on the WHO's endless shenanigans?! Hey, it's a start... https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/the-russians-vs-the-who-good-news

There are a number of (fairly unambiguous) indicators, which can be used to make an evidence-based assessment of Moscow’s stance on the creation of a global vax pass. SPOILER ALERT: It doesn't look too good, friends. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/will-moscow-join-the-whos-digital

Military Review (Voyennoye obozreniye), Russia’s most popular national security news portal (edited by patriotic pro-military hardliners), has published a scathing op-ed blaming the country’s “demographic catastrophe” on thirty years of neoliberal “optimization”: “Russia over the past three decades has become a dying region of the planet … Liberal reforms have led to the ‘optimization’ of Russia: thousands of villages died out, villages, towns and small towns were depopulated, and big cities became even larger … We have adopted the Western model: a society of consumption and essentially self-destruction … [our] exploitative oligarchs [and] liberal pro-Western bureaucracy act in the interests of the masters of the West.”

When Westerners decry the scary “6th columnists” in Russia, or have aneurisms when it’s pointed out that patriotic Russians are saying things about their own country that are strictly haram in Western “pro-Russia” alternative media, what they’re claiming—as far as I can tell—is this: Independent-minded Russians don’t get to have a say in how their own country is talked about and understood in the West. That job is strictly reserved for Westerners, who often have no idea what they’re talking about. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/everyone-i-dont-agree-with-is-a-6th

Four years ago, on a sunny May afternoon in central Moscow, I found myself talking about video games with Russia’s top-rated chess player while buzzed on samogon. But it was the series of events leading up to this unusual encounter that made it so memorable. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/discussing-video-games-with-russias

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