Russia's future interviewed by @meduza.io "There’s this fear: if we leave, we’ll miss the moment when Russia becomes free. But if we don’t leave, they’ll close the iron curtain +we’ll never get out at all. To be or not to be — that’s the question we’re constantly asking." meduza.io/en/feature/2...

It's been four years since Putin launched Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukrane, a sobering milestone and a reminder of the war’s immense human cost. ● Today, I joined @joeblynam.bsky.social and Cormac Smith on @newstalkfm.bsky.social to reflect. 🎧 Interview: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/bre...

It's been four years since Putin launched Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukrane, a sobering milestone and a reminder of the war’s immense human cost. ● Today, I joined @joeblynam.bsky.social and Cormac Smith on @newstalkfm.bsky.social to reflect. 🎧 Interview: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/bre...

🎶U2 , Ed Sheeran and Taras Topolia released the music video for Yours Eternally, featuring soldiers of the Khartiia Brigade💙💛 U2 unveiled their new EP Days Of Ash as a response to people’s fight for freedom. Yours Eternally is directly connected to Ukraine and the war against russian aggression.

#OpEd A leaked memo suggests Moscow may rejoin the dollar settlement system despite years of trying to go its own way, writes Jason Corcoran.

My @themoscowtimes.com OpEd The Great Kremlin Climbdown: A leaked memo suggests Moscow may rejoin the dollar settlement system despite years of trying to go its own way www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/20/m...

Azerbaijan sentences Ruben #Vardanyan to 20 years in prison after a kangaroo trial in Baku. ● Vardanyan, who once counted Hollywood stars and members of the British royalty as friends, appears to have been abandoned by both the Armenian and Russian governments www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

What are today’s Russian papers reporting about the second anniversary of Alexei Navalny’s death & the joint statement by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany & The Netherlands that Mr Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin? Nothing. #ReadingRussia

Two years ago, #Navalny was murdered in a remote Arctic gulag by a cowardly regime. ● No one challenged Putin in 24 years like Navalny did, exposing corruption at the highest levels and offering hope for a democratic Russia.I wrote about the man I knew and his legacy m.independent.ie/world-news/e...

Proof - not that it was needed - that Putin's regime killed Alexey #Navalny.

I'm thrilled and proud that my book, Leaving Russia, will be published by @quartetbooks in April. 👉 Please find a short thread below about the book and how to pre-order a copy. More info on jasoncorcoranwrites.com

Poor old #Bitcoin! The EU has proposed banning all cryptocurrency transactions with Russia for EU countries, the FT reports, citing an internal agency document. www.ft.com/content/c225...

Telegram founder Pavel Durov acknowledges Russia's accelerated, escalated censorship of Telegram. A noteworthy statement, given that he's recently focused more on criticizing Western regulators.

Kremlin has begun blocking #Telegram, the widely used messaging app owned by Pavel Durov. ● Duma deputy Andrey Gurulyov claims that there's no other way to protect information and urges all Russians to endure and switch to the FSB’s own messenger, MAX.

Russia Central Bank cuts rates, yet cucumbers are up 43% - not annually, but in a month! ● Super insight from @bbcstever.bsky.social and a clear signal from Putin's war economy.

Whoever's dead is dead !" ● Russia's State Duma stated that there is no budgetary funding to rescue Samolet, the country's largest real estate developers. ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/06/k...

Za Zdarovye! Putin gives the keys to the Great Firewall of Russia to the FSB as vodka prices soar

Calling Denmark ‘irrelevant’ while it's literally holding pieces of your debt is like mocking Lego while standing barefoot on it.

Moscow has been hit by the biggest wave of restaurant and bar closures since the COVID-19 pandemic. ● According to Kremlin Telegram channel Baza, a staggering 423 establishments closed in the capital by the end of 2025, a record high since 2020.

Kremlin knows how to flatter Trump: "With Greenland, the US becomes the second largest country in the world after Russia, surpassing Canada in area

A grim and ominous warning for many dual Irish-Russian citizens I know who still travel there

Form a line: 'Poland began preparing demands for reparations from Russia for the Soviet invasion of 1939' ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/15/p...

Russia splurged one billion rubles trying to make a domestic Viagra and still couldn’t get it up. Source: Izvestia iz.ru/2024668/mila...

Final draft of my book is off to the publisher! 🎉 📖 The seeds for this story were planted in 2015 but it wasn’t until 2023, when my Mum got sick again, that I finally started. She always said 'Jason you have a book in you.' I doubted it but I'm proud to have proved her right. jasoncorcoranwrites.com

Moscow’s main Sheremetyevo Airport is experiencing a total transport lockdown due to severe weather and drone attacks, ASTRA reports. ● On the morning of January 10, the airport announced that it was closing to all incoming flights.

Trump calls it a goldmine. Exxon calls it uninvestable: One of them can read a balance sheet.

Ukraine's leader Zelensky braces his country for more Russian hellfire tonight as the Kremlin seeks to lash out after humiliation in Venezuela and having their shadow oil tankers confiscated

Plot twists worthy of Tom Clancy! ● During the pursuit, the #Marinara changed jurisdiction and re-registered under the Russian flag. However, U.S. authorities say the captain was ordered to stop before the flag change, so the operation can't be considered an attack on Russia.

Russia is "outraged" after the U.S. seized the Russian-flagged shadow oil tanker Marinera. ● The Kremlin says it’s “abnormal.” Apparently, rules matter again, comrades.

Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska warned of risks to Russia's budget if Venezuelan oil fields come under US control ● The Kremlin is already selling hugely discounted oil at a loss to China and India. #OOTT ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/03/d...

"They could kidnap Putin, too." ● Russian nationalist Z-war correspondents called the US operation against Maduro a "model special military operation" as opposed to Ukraine invasion. ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/03/t...

Putin, the arsonist, has strong opinions about fire safety.

Operation 'Let's not talk about Epstein this year.'

Chechen tyrant Ramzan Kadyrov was urgently hospitalized ahead of a State Council meeting with Putin in Moscow. He has not appeared in public for a week. Source: @novayagazeta_en novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...

More incoherent presidential brain mush that leads to a big nothing

🚨 Russia's energy majors have begun selling their oil at a loss due to record discounts for China and India: @reuters.com ● If your flagship industry loses money on every barrel, the collapse isn’t coming -- it’s underway. ru.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/30/r...

Meanwhile in planet Russia, residents of Valdai did not notice the arrival and destruction of nearly a hundred Ukrainian drones near Putin's residence. ru.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/30/z...

Happy New Year comrades ! Putin's State Duma has urged Moscow residents to prepare for internet outages on New Year's Eve due to #drone attacks ru.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/29/v...

Yakutia in Russia's Far East has nearly run out of heating coal due to crippling debt and a lack of funds, according to local government. ● It's currently minus 42 Celsius in Yakutia today !! ru.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/26/v... ru.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/26/v...

Tass reports ex-Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Sadovenko has died suddenly in Moscow at the tender age of 57. ● Was it natural causes or part of the biggest purge of Russia's defense and security organs since the Stalin era ?

"Patience has run out." ● Big businesses across Russia have announced the onset of the worst industrial crisis since the 1990s, according to data cited by Kremlin newspaper Kommersant ru.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/25/t...

"Sanctions are eating away at the economy." ● For the first time since the war began, thousands of cafes, restaurants, and sushi bars in Russia have begun closing, according to data cited by Kremlin media Kommersant ru.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/24/v...

Fascinating that Putin’s key adviser Dmitry #Kozak was reportedly dead set against the war - he was born in Ukraine. Kirill Dmitriev, too, though there’s little sign, he had any qualms about the invasion of his birthplace.

I’m old enough to remember when Andrei Kozlov, reformist deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank, was gunned down in 2006 for cracking down on dirty banks. ● Now, the same institution headed by Elvira Nabiullina is enrolling its own bureaucrats in automatic-weapons training jasoncorcoranwrites.com/blog

I’m old enough to remember when Andrei Kozlov, reformist deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank, was gunned down in 2006 for cracking down on dirty banks. ● Now, the same institution headed by Elvira Nabiullina is enrolling its own bureaucrats in automatic-weapons training jasoncorcoranwrites.com/blog

Maria #Kalesnikava, brave hero of Belarus opposition, freed at last after more than 5 years !

Agent Krasnov just sends them back to the place that broke them

Iron Curtain 2.0: Russia is looking at banning incoming phone calls from "unfriendly" countries. ● Putin announced at a meeting with members of the Human Rights Council as ordinary Russians cope with a ban on Whastapp, Facetime and other foreign messagers www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/12/09/p...

#StormBram has rendered Malahide estuary impassible from the village this evening. ● It looks like several cars and vans are stranded and already partially sumberged on the route to the Yacht Club.

Gasoline in Russia has become 8% more expensive than in the US, according to a report in the pro-Kremlin newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta #OOTT www.ng.ru/economics/20...