steinrokkan posted:

Why would FSB want to kill Kadyrov, though. He is an important state asset. Anyway, I'm afraid the sources reporting the supposed poisoning are dubious at best

Herstory Begins Now posted:

you know if there's a more recent version of that chart (that one is from may 22)? I'd be really curious to see what it looks like at this point after a conscription wave and the mobilization wave

the site it is from appears to be more or less defunct

quote:

Description
Map uses figures for identified dead Russian soldiers reported by BBC News Russia and Mediazona, based on finding their obituaries or other announcements about their deaths. There are currently about 15000 identified soldiers. Black and red means higher losses per population in a region, blue and green means lower losses. This is only a fraction of the total losses, but they should be representative because the identification is distributed randomly. I.e., it is unlikely that men from Moscow are less likely to have an obituary than men from Altai.

Here is a similar map for 9th September 2022: link
And for 10th May 2022: link

Observations
Moscow continues to be by far the lowest contributor, pushing even further ahead of other areas. It has only 98 casualties, even though proportionally it should have had about 1400. The highest casualties are for the Tuvan Republic, which also happens to have consistently the highest homicide rates in Russia. The likelihood for a Tuvan to die in the war is about 70 times higher than for a Muscovite. This is probably because proportionally, many more Tuvans serve in the army because they see it as a "social lift".

Another comparison is that if we take the top 20 regions by casualty rate, they would have 13m population and 2996 identified deaths, compared to Moscow's 12.5m and 98 deaths.

There is a correlation with income, although some poor regions like Ingushetia have a low rate. Oil-rich regions have a lower rate, but still not as low as Moscow despite being technically slightly richer (so HDI is probably the better predictor).

Largest contributors to casualties per capita:

Tuva Republic 52.91
Buryatia 46.00
Nenets Autonomous Okrug 38.17
Magadan Oblast 37.74
Zabaykalsky Krai 30.57

Lowest contributors to casualties per capita:

Moscow 0.78
Saint Petersburg 2.44
Tyumen Oblast 3.42
Moscow Oblast 3.60
Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra 5.87

Highest overall contributors:
Krasnodar Krai 617
Sverdlovsk Oblast 568
Chelyabinsk Oblast 477
Bashkortostan 473
Buryatia 452

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

There’s something going on here because I see the same kind of bad faith arguments from Latin American authoritarians (they’re always trying to attack us, we’re the victims, etc etc) and their cronies on Twitter. It’s like they learn it from somewhere, or maybe all narcissists react the same way and spread it

Umberto Eco posted:

7. To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.

Tai posted:

Don't engage

Extra row of tits posted:

So I’ve been absent from the thread for ages, what happened to that huge build up of tanks and planes that was on the news? Wasn’t there a huge Russian push about to happen?

Alchenar posted:

Twitter asking the real questions today:

https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines/status/1632884769347231745

Neddy Seagoon posted:

It's not for them, it's to discourage all the commoners getting ideas that maybe Russia isn't the best place to live right now. "Russia isn't perfect, but everywhere else is WORSE! So stay in Russia!"

HonorableTB posted:

Jeez i thought I a lot in this thread and I checked out the top posters and zone has almost 20 more posts than me

For content: yes I know it's Russia Today but I really want to believe someone horsejacked kadyrov lmao

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1633509539986415616

Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

Thanks this is very interesting. Do you, or anyone itt, know why some of the old east block countries (Slovenia, Slovakia, Czechia for instance) are so low?

Power Khan posted:

More trench horror

https://twitter.com/justartsndstuff/status/1635128375353442304

CommieGIR posted:

I think Xi is gonna play both sides of the fence here, I suspect he doesn't really want to align with a broken and slowly ground down Russia and see's a chance to gain from this.

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1635304303442407425
We are winning so hard we chopped down trees in Moscow to accommodate air defense units that are sorely needed elsewhere on the front.

HonorableTB posted:

This is a pro-Ukrainian account though, that's a really bad take I wouldn't have expected from EuromaidanPR

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1635964124365479943
aLL rUsSiA wAnTs iS pEaCe.

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1635956444372582402

I'm trying very hard to not roll my eyes completely back into my head here.

Toxic Mental posted:

Looks like it just sprayed fuel on it? Meh

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

The last couple of seconds appears to be footage FROM the attacking aircraft; was that added on after the fact?

You can also clearly see the prop damage just before it switches to what appears to be the added footage.

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

mobby_6kl posted:

Yet more footage is leaking out

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1636350203396608001
drat all the squirrels are gone apparently so people switched to turnips

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1637798673835864067
This is some creepy rear end poo poo, lmao

zone posted:

Given the sort of rumblings among ultranationalists such as Girkin these days I think the home team (specifically the FSB, whose mouthpiece Girkin is) have begun running out of patience with Putler's follies.

Tarquinn posted:

Yeah, look at Putin’s right shoe.

poverty goat posted:

have any of these antiques actually showed up at the front or are they just being used as artillery until their barrels give out or whatever?

poverty goat posted:

right but the last crop of antiques we were laughing about, did they ever see use as tanks? there was speculation they were just using them as artillery

Alan Smithee posted:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1638500119925456901?s=20

plz, arms for the poor

Karate Bastard posted:

They will all drive over mines anyway.

shadow puppet of a posted:

Russia trying to destabilize Ukraine’s future economy with an unmanageable surplus of rubble and weapons grade scrap metal.

Do they genuinely not have any ultra top secret Cold War research lab prototype doom weapons they can unlock to save a little face? Like a tank that transforms into a giant fist or funky shaped plane that generates concussive shockwaves? Or did all that stuff get handed over to the mob for yacht money?

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1638900907411644416
The perfidious anglo-saxons strike again.

Alan Smithee posted:

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1639002459044446211?t=5Kjv4YaEVinQhanVB9cruA&s=19

healthcare plz