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Russian Radio Host Pressures Putin to Change View of Nuclear Weapons Putin

Russian Radio Host Pressures Putin to Change View of Nuclear Weapons

A prominent Russian television and radio host called nuclear war "inevitable" while discussing Russia's conflict in Ukraine before suggesting that Moscow use its nuclear weapons to give an "ultimatum" to Ukraine's allies. Vladimir Solovyov, a well-known broadcaster and staunch supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, called on Moscow to directly…
bubmag
May 10, 2023
Putin’s ‘one-tank’ military parade was an embarrassment for Russia, analysts say Putin

Putin’s ‘one-tank’ military parade was an embarrassment for Russia, analysts say

A Soviet T-34 tank, the only tank on display in Russia's Victory Day parade on May 9, 2023, rolls through Red Square. Contributor | Getty Images News | Getty Images Russia's scaled-down Victory Day military parade showed not only Moscow's insecurities over possible Ukrainian attacks but also highlighted the country's…
bubmag
May 10, 2023
The army we don’t see: The private soldiers who fight in America’s name Putin

The army we don’t see: The private soldiers who fight in America’s name

The way mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private army have been waging a significant part of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has been well covered in the American media, not least of all because his firm, the Wagner Group, draws most of its men from Russia's prison system. Wagner offers "freedom" from Putin's…
bubmag
May 10, 2023
Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising Putin

Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising

Confidential computing will become the standard for all tasks rather than a specialized feature used for certain sensitive workloads, and Mark Russinovich, Microsoft's Azure CTO, has hailed it as "the future of advertising." Russinovich spelled out his viewpoint in a missive this week relating his participation in this year's Open…
bubmag
May 10, 2023
Art Is Now a Crime in Russia Putin

Art Is Now a Crime in Russia

On May 5th, a Moscow court placed two women, the thirty-eight-year-old Zhenya Berkovich and the forty-three-year-old Svetlana Petriychuk, under arrest for an initial term of two months. About a year earlier, I was startled to realize that Berkovich was still in Russia. Most of my extended circle had left in…
bubmag
May 10, 2023