"Hands off the letter Z" as in "Do not criticize the Special Military Operation" (it's against the law in Russia to call it a war). May her sortir forever be windowless.
Just a small update on the state of the Serbian (a)political lunatic asylum. It's March Madness, you know.
https://serbianism.com/2026/03/21/serbian-ides-of-march/
This isn't a banality, but a legit grievance about the AI Ponzi scheme. The same way you'd expect your gardening tools to function properly, so you can enjoy your hobby, you'd expect the AI snake oil to deliver proper fan-translations if it had worked as advertised. But it doesn't.
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/03/it-does-not-save-time-or-offer-anything-of-value-translator-hilltop-isnt-a-fan-of-ai
"It Does Not Save Time Or Offer Anything Of Value" - Translator Hilltop Isn't A Fan Of AI
"The quality will be bad, but who cares, right?"
3/ Ivashov and his cohorts, with ties close to both GRU and the whole Dugin-Karaganov quasi-intellectual flying circus, are rather formidable people who cannot dislodge Putin's rule, but the Kremlin can't touch them either.
2/ Less than a month before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the chairman of the All-Russian Officers’ Assembly, Mr. Ivashov, published an appeal on his organization’s website on Jan. 31 to “the President and Citizens of the Russian Federation” asking for Putin's resignation. No, he did NOT suffer an immediate attack of the lethal windows. ⬇️
1/ This Ilya Remeslo business is a big nothingburger. It doesn't show cracks in the Kremlin rule or anything. There's always been hardline nationalist critics of the siloviki. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you retired General-Colonel Leonid Ivashov. ⬇️
https://www.saratoga-foundation.org/p/we-are-in-trouble-general-ivashov
"We are in Trouble": General Ivashov Sounds the Alarm on Russia's Decline Under Putin
By Paul Goble
3/ Not to mention the case of Miladin Kovačević, who escaped the US with the help of Serbian diplomats, after being convicted for beating up a college student there. Afterwards, he was tried in Serbia for a violent crime committed here. Great job right there, Serbia.
https://balkaninsight.com/2012/11/27/serb-sentenced-of-beating-american-set-free/bi/all-balkan-countries/
Serb Sentenced For Beating American Freed
Miladin Kovacevic, a former college basketball player charged with beating an American student into a coma, was freed under a new amnesty law.
2/ Back in the day, it also provided financial aid to people indicted for war crimes in the ICTY, and to their families. How discriminatory - we should have provided free cash for armed robbers and drug dealers as well. ⬇️
https://balkaninsight.com/2013/12/23/how-ex-yugoslav-states-funded-war-crimes-defendants/btj/
How Ex-Yugoslav States Funded War Crimes Defendants
Former Yugoslav countries have spent almost 40 million euro of public money supporting war crimes suspects on trial at the Hague Tribunal, a BIRN investigation has revealed.
1/ Serbia proves yet again that it doesn't have a reputation it can be ruined: Serbian Government approves financial aid for those facing “trumped-up trials” in Kosovo, because according to the dominant local ideology, every Serb with legal troubles outside Serbia is a "victim of persecution". ⬇️
https://n1info.rs/english/news/serbian-government-approves-financial-aid-for-those-facing-trumped-up-trials-in-kosovo/
Serbian Government approves financial aid for those facing “trumped-up trials” in Kosovo
The Serbian government decided to provide a one-time financial aid payment of 300,000 dinars (1 euro – 117 dinars) to individuals detained in Kosovo who are fac
