Today one Russian paper claims “Russia’s military has been given political blank cheque to carry out full demilitarisation & deindustrialisation of Ukraine.” But nothing in the papers from Irkutsk, where there have been reports of a potentially “dangerous infection.” #ReadingRussia

Oct 5, 2026 · 8:31 AM UTC

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You are disingenuous and a liar. Russia has said what it will take in order to for negotiations to be taken serious. These points have been made clear. Tell the truth, Steve. If you need help, see every peace negotiation since 2014.
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Why would they agree to a ceasefire and allow Ukraine to regroup and rearm without a peace negotiation? Angela Merkel let that cat out of the fucking bag a long time ago.
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To try and see things from the Russians’ point of view: if they are looking for a solution that is in Russia’s best interests, wouldn’t that not consist of getting rid of Mr Putin?
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Why would the state run Russian media lie about airborne plague? They never lie about anything 🤣
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The same should happen if mass murderer Putin resorts to nuclear weapons. Set them off at his door
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Replying to @BBCSteveR @MalcolmNance
What?!? You can’t have peace until there is a cease fire.
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Is there really a problem in the East with laboratory leak?
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Replying to @BBCSteveR @ChrisO_wiki
Irkutsk? Any near miss especially by a nuclear terrorist state should have nukes raining on Russia from all nuclear powers on Earth So near miss life extinction events never happen again instead the World powers do nothing the WHO nowhere just like COVID incredible
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I give Ukraine full support in total destruction of Moscow.
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In other words Russia prints what matters? Amazing. If Russia were thugs they wouldn’t let you live in Moscow for the last 20 years.
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Plague, what plague?
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Genocidal intent.
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Hey, on another note re 🇷🇺, do you have any more word as to what's going on with this?? .
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
Oct 4
BREAKING: 5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak. The 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died yesterday after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while handling samples. A mask mandate has now been introduced at the huge aluminum plant in Irkutsk. Some U.S. politicians are now calling for commercial air travel to and from Russia to be stopped until the situation is clarified. This first symptoms of pneumonic plague typically start about 4 to 7 days after exposure. 200 people are under observation.
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They are not winning.
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So they are admitting to genocide by intent . Evil barbaric nation who must be stopped
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Its all ovrr social media now! No moke without fire!
🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 MR BLUE 🇬🇧 🇺🇦@djmth1010
Oct 5
Would you like to see this piece of shit look like this soon.
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#ReadingRussia is always fascinating. Another layer is what can be reconstructed from #Russia’s own corporate, regulatory and procurement records. We’ve been using those traces to investigate the people and companies behind Russian military technology — including, most recently, the Kurier combat UGV: x.com/InformNapalm/status/21…
InformNapalm
@InformNapalm
Oct 5
Russia is already airdropping its Kurier combat UGV from Il-76 aircraft. But who stands behind the electronics linked to its developers? InformNapalm traced dozens of declarations, Chinese companies, product models, a contract and an invoice — with the paper trail leading to Shenzhen. informnapalm.org/en/nrtk-kur… #OSINT #Russia #China
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Replying to @BBCSteveR
Thank you for today's report! Interesting to see what develops in Irkutz.
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Please let us know when the first jokes about unknown infection appear, if they ever do. That's when I'll be very concerned. And thanks for reading & translating the jokes.
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Yet they let you stay ???
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Be careful Steve. We don't want to see you suffering from this russian plague.
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"Political blank cheque" could be considered Moscow ordering the military to ignore all laws of war. Such an order would, in itself, be a war crime.
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Replying to @BBCSteveR @IKostenas
Loved the irony of the Russian dolls stage right
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Today one Russian paper claims “Russia’s military has been given political blank cheque to carry out full demilitarisation & deindustrialisation of Ukraine.” After nearly five years of warfare? What a charade.
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Any news on the plague?
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Deindustrialisation (no quotation marks) in a full swing Demilitarization doesn't even need memes
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Local online outlets are covering it. IrCity reporters checked Irkutsk City Hospitals No. 1, 3, 9 and 10 on 5 Oct and found no quarantine in place.
EXFIL | Live
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Oct 5
IrCity reporters checked Irkutsk city hospitals No. 1, 3, 9 and 10 on 5 Oct and found no quarantine at any of them, contradicting earlier reports that No. 1, 3 and 10 had closed. IrCity says mask requests there are for seasonal flu. Source: IrCity t.me/ircity_ru/59772
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Replying to @BBCSteveR
You full of propaganda. Nothing about you tells people that you are have independent news line. Russia there’s you- we are happy to talk about STOPING the war not simpl size fire to give Ukraine time for recover! So what is your problem? You happy with war to continue!
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Pneumonic Plague.
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Replying to @VaxisPraxis @TravelGov
Ayy bratan, over in Irkutsk some pneumonic plague shit hit hard, one dude already gone, hospitals locked, quarantine mode on. Yankee embassy watchin close but can't do jack for you outside Moscow. Level 4 do-not-travel still up, if you in Russia bounce ASAP. Planning a trip? Forget it, risk of gettin snatched plus all the security mess. Cyka stay the fuck out.
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Replying to @BBCSteveR
1. Journalism in the West has been replaced by hired narratives and that reporters report the narrative that they are hired to tell. It is a new form of vanity press in which interest groups hire a propaganda service to market their agenda.
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Громкие политические заголовки приковывают к себе внимание, однако истории о том, что происходит на местах, могут быть не менее важными. Стоит выйти за рамки общенациональной повестки и посмотреть, о чем на самом деле сообщают местные СМИ.
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Интересно, как по-разному выглядит эта история в зависимости от того, где о ней читаешь. Громкие политические заголовки из Москвы — это одно, а вот события в таких местах, как Иркутск, могут остаться незамеченными.
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Brits being the insouciant people they are do not well serve their independence and their country’s sovereignty. Their insouciance makes them easily led by the many rings in their noses to act in the interest of others instead of in their own interest, just as they
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Replying to @BBCSteveR
The timing of this in my feed in connection with my YouTube mini player que is unreal.
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Its all over social media now!
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
Oct 4
BREAKING: 5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak. The 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died yesterday after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while handling samples. A mask mandate has now been introduced at the huge aluminum plant in Irkutsk. Some U.S. politicians are now calling for commercial air travel to and from Russia to be stopped until the situation is clarified. This first symptoms of pneumonic plague typically start about 4 to 7 days after exposure. 200 people are under observation.
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