Notices by Nick in Moldova (brit_in_moldova@mastodon.social)

A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly 4,000 miles away. The missile didn’t even make it 4,000 feet.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/the-missile-meant-to-strike-fear-in-russias-enemies-fails-once-again/

A pretty little church on the village of Nimoreni, near #Chisinau, #Moldova

Lenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat.

Seems about right

Not my quote:

A Russian friend once told me a saying that his friend in security services once told him: “If one hundred protesters come out we arrest them. If one thousand protesters come out we disperse them. If one million protesters come out we join them.”

On Russophobia.

Russia bombed a children's cancer hospital.
Russia committed the Bucha massacre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre

A phobia is defined as an irrational fear.

There is nothing irrational about fearing or hating Russia.

Therefore Russophobia is not a real thing.

I've not kept up with the news recently...

Did someone telephone Donald Trump while he was doing the ironing?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/us-ukraine-support-putin-defeat/675953/

The West Must Defeat Russia
Putin hasn’t given up his plans. He thinks Ukraine’s allies will lose interest.

By Anne Applebaum