Meduza

Someone will, of course, do well out of this.

Meduza reports that one of the firms selling mobile data centers to nervous Russian companies has a deputy director whose father is the first deputy director of the FSB.

Now, the standard way for a cloud company to protect its customers from a data center going offline is redundancy, spreading the work across several sites.

As the tech side Zeno Spectrum points out, Yandex's own documentation explains how to do this properly.

When Cyberscoop asked RT for comment, its deputy editor-in-chief, Anna Belkina, said that she was more than happy to tend her farm, her daca, which is made up mostly of tomatoes and strawberries.

Her boss, editor-in-chief Margarita Simonian, had a harder time when the drones hit Yandex.

According to Meduza, she complained on Telegram that she kept being asked to prove she wasn't a robot.

I'm not a robot," she wrote, which is exactly what a robot would probably say.

Victory, interesting, over what? Uh, Governor Kobzeff lifts the quarantines and announces the case closed.

He now describes her illness as community-acquired pneumonia, says she had been vaccinated, and adds, as Meduza reported, "It was a test, but we handled it well." Interesting.

A test of what? Rospotrebnadzor says nearly 5,000 laboratory tests found nothing dangerous.

Interesting why you'd do so many if, uh, really there was no problem in the first place.

The Defence Ministry denied any radiation release, while the local city administration reported a spike.

Doctors at the Arkhangelsk Regional Hospital were not told their patients were radioactive and worked without protective gear.

According to the Moscow Times and Meduza, they were pressed to sign non-disclosure agreements and one doctor was later found to have caesium-137 in his muscle tissue.

Several Russian radiation monitoring stations went silent shortly after the blast.

Los centros de datos de las regiones de Vladimir, Ryazán y Kaluga están dados y seg--.

El medio Meduza, con sede en Letonia.

Las interrupciones impactaron al servicio de pagos Yandex Pay, así como las aplicaciones de taxi Yandex Go y Yandex Pro.

Data centers in the regions of Vlad, Mir, Ryazán and Kaluga are in da-- and seg--.

And Latvia-based media outlet Meduza.

The outages impacted the Yandex Pay payment service, as well as, as well as the Yandex Go and Yandex Pro taxi apps.

Los centros de datos de las regiones de Vladimir, Ryazán y Kaluga están dados y seg--.

El medio Meduza, con sede en Letonia.

The initiative highlights a growing European security dilemma: how to respond to threats attributed to the Russian state while distinguishing government actions from the rights and circumstances of individual Russian travelers.

For further information, see Yle, European Council, Deutsche Welle, and Meduza.

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Iceland's Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir has pledged to strengthen cooperation with Europe despite voters rejecting renewed European Union membership negotiations in August.

security.

Meduza reports that the authorities said they had prevented potentially dangerous activity by the group.

No criminal charges have been announced.

This was a security expulsion, fast, clean and final.

Zvinchuk is under EU sanctions, which Montenegro normally mirrors.

He crossed the border anyway.

Meduza reports that Zvinchuk himself put his successful entry down to a border guard's incompetence.

Ukrainian outlet UkraNews reports that he boasted on Instagram about making it in despite the sanctions.

It also housed something more valuable.

According to Meduza, citing the science outlet T- invariant, Sasovo is home to two of Yandex's three supercomputers, the machines it use, it uses to train its neural networks.

One of them, uh, Chervonakis, is the company's most powerful.

Yandex has said nothing about their condition.

The mirror strategy.

Well, why does all of this matter? In September, Russia started hitting Ukrainian data centers.

The Kremlin's line, as per Meduza, was that these buildings process intelligence for Ukraine's army.

The Record counts at least six Ukrainian data centers damaged in late September alone.

CNN checklist mask and mystery.

Medusa's English feature the same week on the quarantine and the deleted reports.

Newsweek's piece on the three inconsistencies.

The exposure stories do not fit.

What a choice.

Go hungry or risk becoming bear food? Nikolai Maltsev, head of Krasnoyarsk's hunting oversight agency, told Meduza, this is an unusual situation when this kind of behaviour, bears acting erratically, is being recorded simultaneously across many territories.

One of the jokes doing the rounds on Russian social media is this, someone asks which idiot wished the whole country back into the 16th century and the reply comes straight back, Well, you shouldn't have disturbed the holy relics.

And that's our next story.

In August, during restoration work in the Arkhangelsk Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, the Russian Orthodox Church announced the second finding of the remains of Dmitry Donskoy, the 14th century prince.

who beat the horde at Kulikova in 1380.

As Meduza pointed out, his burial place had never been a secret.

But, of course, a miracle was needed.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Schuster he would do his best to block any attempt to lift sanctions on Russia before the war ends.

Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya told Meduza that lifting sanctions in exchange for prisoners would only encourage authorities in Russia and Belarus to take more hostages because they can always arrest more people while the West loses its leverage.

This should be obvious to Trump and it should also be obvious to the so-called Russian opposition but I fear it will be obvious to neither or else they will simply choose to turn the other way.

Tonight on Silicon Curtain, the 20-month chronology that put us here.

Simon Schuster's reporting on 29 September 2026 describes the proposal in a great deal of operational detail.

John Cole, Trump's special envoy for Eastern Europe, a Washington lawyer who has, across 2025 and 2026, become the principal American negotiator with Russia-aligned regimes, approached the president several months ago with a proposal modelled on the Belarus playbook he's been running since early 2025.

This was cross-confirmed across Reuters, AP, Meduza and the Wikipedia-aggregated 2025-2026 Belarus chronology.

September 2025, 52 Belarusian political prisoners released.