Edward Slavsquat

The Russian economy: Swipe left or right? (Part I: import substitution) https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russias-economic-sovereignty-status

Your correspondent reached out to an acquaintance who grudgingly works for an organization that receives generous grants from benevolent western states and charitable foundations. “Khvicha” kindly agreed to give us a candid assessment of the situation here in Cringey Casablanca. (Our source’s identity is safe because 1/3 of Tbilisi is on an NGO payroll. Everyone else is either a Russian IT specialist or a scooter driver who delivers food to aforementioned computer nerds.) https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/georgian-maidan-an-unwilling-foreign

Edward's weekly Russia news roundup & open thread. Come spam the comments section 🤝https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/were-all-war-criminals-now-open-thread

Nearly three years after the start of the Virus Scam in Russia, the chief physician of St. Petersburg Infectious Diseases Hospital has revealed that COVID patients at his hospital are "elderly people over 80 years old," and "among all their health problems, the coronavirus is in fifth or tenth place." 🙃NEW SCAM URGENTLY NEEDED [source: RBK]

What the heck is happening in Georgia? Edward files the first (of many?) on-the-ground reports. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/georgian-maidan-fake-it-till-you

Help us understand? https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/why-do-people-think-putin-dislikes

The implication here seems to be that a leaky lab murdered lots and lots of people, and not the last three years of organized culling under the guise of “public health.” That's a hard sell. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russia-and-the-lab-leak-theory

MOSCOW, March 2, 2023 - RIA Novosti. It is too early to talk about the end of the coronavirus pandemic, the virus has repeatedly demonstrated its insidiousness, so all forces remain at the maximum level of high alert, Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.🍾🥂

"My bet is that in 1-2 years the anti-vaxx hysteria will die down again, and that the majority of those who now say 'never! never! over my dead body!' will quietly get vaxxed, and the few who won’t will have a self-inflicted and rather shitty life which, of course, is their right!" — The Saker 🤔https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/the-essential-saker

What a mess. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/by-killing-each-other-we-became-more

Russians are smitten with insuppressible joy; soon they will have the privilege—nyet, honor!—of identifying themselves digitally. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/digital-ids-what-russians-crave

We must reemphasize that digital identity cards are outrageously safe and convenient; they will never replace paper IDs, ever, and they will never be used to usher in a soul-crushing digital Pan-poop-ticon. 🙃https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russia-to-introduce-digital-identity