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📩 A man threatened the girlfriend of the FBI director (!) from an anonymous iCloud email account — and was convinced he would never be found.

The Hide My Email feature from paid iCloud+ did not help: Apple disclosed who was behind the address upon request, and the man confessed to everything.

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🇮🇷 Iran after the U.S. strikes. The country is coming to its senses without the ayatollahs.

A ground operation in Iran would be suicide.

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FIFA World Prize.

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🇯🇵 Japan’s current vice minister of the environment, Chisato Morishita, appeared in a revealing advertisement for Metroid: Zero Mission on the Game Boy Advance back in 2004.

It turns out that in the 2000s, the official was thinking about anything but ecology and was leading a rather colorful life. At the time, she worked as a model, took part in provocative shoots, appeared at street races, and showed up on various television programs. 📺

A true candidate of the people.

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US congressmen presented State Duma deputies with socks with Trump’s image,” Delyagin, a member of the Russian delegation.

The gifts also included a personal token from Anna Paulina Luna.

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🛒 Miratorg products are being sold off in stores at massive discounts. Videos circulating online show display shelves where all kinds of meat are being snapped up — while the brand’s products are left untouched.

Buyers are convinced the boycott is working. Many believe the agricultural holding may have been involved in the mass culling of livestock in the regions, and they are continuing to cancel the company.

[⚠️ Context — Miratorg is one of Russia’s largest meat producers and a highly visible consumer brand, so any online boycott aimed at it quickly becomes nationally legible. The backlash comes amid protests over mass livestock culls in Siberia, where farmers accused local authorities of destroying animals under disease-control measures and some critics alleged that large agribusiness interests were being protected at the expense of smallholders.
⚠️ Why it matters — In Russia, consumer anger rarely turns into organized brand pressure unless it taps a bigger feeling of injustice. That is why this story travels: it is not just about meat on a shelf, but about whether ordinary farmers and buyers believe the system protects big players first.]

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🇷🇺 Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has said there is currently no need to announce a new wave of mobilization. According to him, “contract soldiers are entirely sufficient” to carry out combat tasks. The wording is concise, confident, and — importantly — almost echoes the rhetoric of the summer and early autumn of 2022. The key phrase worth noting is: “at the present moment.”

Back then, just eight days before the decree on partial mobilization was issued on September 21, 2022, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was saying virtually the same thing: “There is no talk of mobilization in Russia.” Even earlier, in March 2022, Vladimir Putin had publicly assured the country that there would be no mobilization. The Defense Ministry and regional authorities repeated the same line: volunteers and contract soldiers were being recruited, the situation was under control, and the front was fully staffed. The official message sounded uniform throughout: “no mobilization is being planned,” “contract troops are coping,” “no additional measures are required.”

📌 History showed how that ended. On September 21, 2022, the country heard the exact opposite. Partial mobilization became a reality, even though just a week earlier it had been ruled out at the highest level. The gap between words and reality turned out to be less than ten days.

Today’s statement by Medvedev fits the same pattern. The emphasis on contract troops is not new. In 2022, they were also presented as the main solution: “volunteers and contract soldiers will cover all needs.” People were promised there would be no coercive measures. Those promises did not hold. Now the rhetoric is nearly identical again: the flow of contract recruits is supposedly stable, the economy can bear it, and therefore “there is no need for a new wave.”

⚠️ Analysts and military bloggers have repeatedly pointed out that statements like these usually serve two purposes. First, they calm society and prevent panic ahead of potentially unpopular decisions. Second, they buy the authorities time for quiet preparation — while contract recruitment continues in parallel with assessments of real battlefield losses and manpower needs. When the numbers stop adding up, the rhetoric tends to change suddenly and in unison across all channels.

Of course, no direct parallel can be drawn too neatly: 2022 was the beginning of large-scale combat, and today’s situation is different. But the communication template is the same. The same stress on contract troops. The same insistence that everything is under control. The same denial that mobilization is necessary. And the same telling feature: such statements tend to appear precisely when closed-door reports are likely already discussing contingency options in case of a manpower shortfall.

For now, there are no grounds to claim that a new mobilization is inevitable. But there are grounds to remember one thing: when senior officials begin publicly and insistently repeating that “there will be no mobilization,” that does not always mean there truly will not be one. The lesson of 2022 is that sometimes less than a week passes between “there is no need” and “the decree has been signed.”

The question is not whether the events of September 2022 will repeat themselves exactly. The question is how ready society and the elites are to once again believe the formula that “contract troops are coping, everything is under control.” For now, Medvedev’s rhetoric is precisely that — almost word for word. And that means the real thing to watch is not the language, but what is happening behind the scenes.

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