“Iran events show that Russia can’t rely on any diplomatic agreements with the US”
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zTknh9Fbjg
In today’s Russian papers: “Iran events show that Russia can’t rely on any diplomatic agreements with the US.”
Plus, criticism of Hungary’s leaders in 1956 uprising: “You mustn’t cross red lines. A red line was you mustn’t threaten USSR geo-political interests.”
"Iran's got Trump by the throat" declares Russian newspaper
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIsk6xRrjwE
How is the Iran war seen from Moscow?
One Russian paper today: “Trump wanted to strangle Tehran, but he’s tightened the noose around his own neck.”
Plus, reaction in the Russian press to Mr Nobody Against Putin winning an Oscar [spoiler alert: there isn’t much.]
“He comes to believe in his own genius, takes decision in narrow circle…the blitzkrieg didn’t work.”
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWCK7OJwG1Y
Writing about Donald Trump, one paper says the US president has "made a mistake as old as the world. It's a feature of personalistic regimes. He comes to believe in his own genius. Those around him say only what he wants to hear."
Moscow's mobile internet blackout sends sales of walkie-talkies, pagers & paper maps spiralling
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkiWWVEMtFY
Russian newspapers report the consequences of Moscow’s week-long mobile internet blackout
“Sales of walkie-talkies are up 27%, sales of pagers up 73%, sales of road atlases up 170%”
Meanwhile, high oil prices mean that Russia’s “revenues are growing”
Russian schools introduce obligatory history exams, education based on "Love for the Motherland"
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
03:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_icDJ7OIYE
“Love for the Motherland.”
New obligatory history exams.
Messenger MAX in schools.
The Russian authorities’ approach to young people, as seen in today’s Russian newspapers.
In Russia, who's criticising Donald Trump...and who isn't?
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JufS3RdhlHU
One of today's Russian papers writes that Donald Trump “needs help extricating himself from the poisoned political web spun from his arrogance & recklessness. Putin’s political trump cards have multiplied due to the miscalculations of his US counterpart”
Russian paper on Donald Trump: "The 'peace president' has lost his mind."
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
05:01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfnpDCmBmgA
Vladimir #Putin isn’t criticising Donald #Trump over the Iran war. But one Russian paper: “The ‘peace president’ has lost his mind.”
Another article hopes “the spirit of #Anchorage, like a genie put back in the bottle, will be thrown to the bottom of Persian Gulf.”
Russian newspaper refers to "“the machine of persecution & punishment” in today's Russia
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
07:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXl6qtXEpoY
This week one Russian newspaper described “the machine of persecution & punishment” in Russia. “Everything that a few months ago was not just legal, but natural, is being criminalised.”
Plus, the state of the Russian economy.
"Russia needs a military alliance" says Russian paper
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jClWRnSic
An opinion piece in Moskovsky #Komsomolets calls for Russia to form a military alliance.
Remembering the Warsaw Pact, the writer claims that Moscow was “restoring constitutional order in #Hungary in 1956 & in #Czechoslovakia in 1968,” a sign of how Russia in 2026 is reinterpreting history.
How four years of war on Ukraine have changed Russia
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE1I2eOC1fk
“For Russia, the consequences of its war on Ukraine are now harder to ignore.”
Steve drives 350km from Moscow to see how the war is changing Russia.
Marvin the Martian 🇺🇦