tolkien fans are insufferable because you'll agree to watch the movies with them and then seven hours in they'll say "omg my favourite character is about to appear!" and it's a fucking siege weapon
first axiom of Eastern European politics: you can learn infinitely more about the modern dynamics of Eastern European politics by learning a few things about the interwar period than you can by studying the entirety of the cold war
during the live broadcast of one of the propagandist russian channels, its employee came out with a poster with an ukrainian flag on it (the poster says: «stop the war! they are lying to you!» [meaning the state channel, which is on air right now]). she has already been detained and taken to the police department.