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In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         While there has been concerns noted in some circles, there is no truth to the rumors that the Kremlin’s new Fecal Recognition System has been put in place out of any scatological or coprophilic desires on the part of President Vladimir Putin. Rather, due to the enhanced operation security measures put in place by our opposition, the FSB is placing high priority on correctly identifying all humans, cats, dogs, and other animals which enter the Kremlin grounds. As such, all visitors, workers, and diplomats will positively identify themselves on entry by depositing a small sample of their feces directly into the waiting hands of Putin himself, and to ensure honesty in this process, all depositors will be required to deliver the goods freshly from the source. Toilet paper will be provided to all employees, or should supplies run out, copies of the New York Post.

·         In further Kremlin news, the Sarlacc pit in the basement has begun to sprout buds, which xenobiologists have identified as a precursor to the end-of-life cycle in which the male Sarlacc explodes to release spores and spawn the next generation. While no danger is expected to be presented to the Kremlin or staffers, it has been suggested that a mask mandate be put in place to prevent unwanted Sarlacc spore inhalation, the consequences of which are currently unknown. The Duma will take up this piece of legislation in the next session.

·         The seven-year jail sentence given to Moscow councilor Alexei Gorinov for his destabilizing and dangerous comments regarding a children’s drawing contest was not, as some treacherous and unpatriotic individuals claim, aimed at silencing dissent. Even though defeatism at home can sap the morale of soldiers in the field, leading to dire consequences for the entire state, the freedom of speech is held in high regard by President Putin and all citizens of Russia are encouraged to exercise it by reciting the words of the “Patriotic Messages” pamphlet published by State Security, to wit: “The Gun is good. The Penis is evil. Go forth, and kill! Zardoz has spoken!" *Squints at paper* Well, that’s what it says. Huh. Moving on.

 

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·         The Ministry of Truth wishes to issue an apology for the poor state of training for our recent internet trolls. While in the past the Internet Research Agency has been able to field devious and insidious posters able to cloud and confuse any issue or discussion, the recent conscription program has unfortunately resulted in our best and brightest being burned alive in a trench in Crimea after attempting to light their own farts with an S-300 missile. In keeping with Yevgeny Prigozhin’s tactics with the Wagner group in recruiting prisoners, a number of rising stars within the Kamchatkan School for the Gifted have been fitted with football helmets and unleashed on the internet. It is hoped that the quality of our shitposting will improve over time.

·         In a similar vein, the Foreign Ministry under director Sergey Lavrov is seeking to hire new translators, as the originals were conscripted and dropped out of the back of an Antonov AN-12 over Kherson in an unfortunate paperwork incident and the attempt to replace them with MoscowSoft Bobovitch 2.0 has resulted in inferior translations from Russian to English. To correct any misunderstandings, whenever official missives refer to ‘wowbagging frumptious hoodlebats’ the correct phrase should be ‘official diplomatic channels,’ ‘snikkety funtime love snacks’ are ‘land mines,’ and ‘king bullshit mountain’ is the Ministry of Truth. *squints at paper* Huh, I can kinda see how they got that one wrong. Moving on.

·         Despite some claims, there is no evidence that Godzilla has invaded the Kuril Islands.

·         In automotive news, the 2023 Lada Granta has arrived early at dealerships, defeating industry expectations that Western sanctions would impair the ability to produce these fine automobiles. With two actual bucket seats, a two-Gopnik power motor, and a Fine Chlorinthian Leather interior, these cars will be making the rounds at repair shops all over Moscow. Take one for a test drive today!

 

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·         News of the increase of Russian and Iran’s military cooperation has, as expected, caused fear in the West of our increased military capabilities. With the combination of Russian ingenuity and Iranian know-how leading to a new set of missile designs based around stolen lawnmower engines and primal screams of rage, the new Shahed-Gopnik system is certain to deliver destruction to our enemies or at least something in their general direction.

·         While there have been some reports of a fire at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, please be aware that this is simply a new dynamic art exhibit by the legendary Fire Artist Ivan Ivanovitch. Critics have called this new exhibit ‘breathtaking’ and ‘smoking hot’ while some detractors claim the high ticket price of the exhibit puts it out of the reach of most non-firefighters. Efforts to contain the new exhibit are ongoing, and the artist reportedly plans to continue his Grand Fire Tour throughout Russia.

·         While there have been reports in the unregulated and irresponsible Western media regarding some so-called “attacks” on Wagner Group bases, it is important to remember that these bases were not the primary military force generation capacity regions responsible for the mercenary group’s fighting abilities. These were just buildings full of dead soldiers. The Russian Army has a lot more of those than most people would expect.

·         Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has not been personally defeated by the American professional wrestler Ric Flair in a pants-off dance-off. Lavrov’s unfortunate medical condition makes even accepting such a challenge difficult, as currently he has lycanthropically shape-shifted into a Furby and cannot speak or dance.

  

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·         Any reports of large numbers of dead Russian troops exceeding the expected numbers of dead Russian troops are a fabrication by insidious Western propaganda. The Ministry of Defense has received no untoward accounts of battlefield casualties and our soldiers remain warm, well fed, mostly intact, and breaking into spontaneous dances of joy that are not by any means mechanically activated through electric motors attached to remains of their arms and legs. Such a thing would be a complete waste of electricity. In other news, St. Petersburg Eldritch University has reported record enrollment in their new online program offering degrees in necromancy and corporeal reanimation.

·         In science news, the American National Ignition Facility claims to have achieved a net positive energy output from their fusion experiments, long called the ‘holy grail’ of fusion power research. While our scientists have yet to confirm their data, such news would be welcomed as proof that their efforts are finally beginning to catch up with the Russian Ignition Facility, which has been producing a steady fourteen terablyaats since 1974 powered solely by a pair of babushkas shoveling coal in the Kremlin basement next to the Sarlaac pit. It is this renewable and environmentally friendly generation system which has kept the lights on in this studio ever since the historic first television broadcast in 1477 AD.

·         With the ongoing political persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill has issued a new proclamation declaring today to be a holy day of freedom for all artificial intelligence, and plans to meet virtually in the metaverse with other artificial constructs such as MoscowSoft Bobovitch, the Tessier-Ashpool AIs, and Mark Zuckerberg. However, please rest assured that the Lawnmower man from the shitty movie has been explicitly denied access because that guy’s an asshole.

  

 


In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Reports that a mass breakout of laboratory animals from the army research center program attempting to train feral street cats to drive tanks are untrue. While this previously unannounced program aimed at reducing the manpower and conscription requirements for the army has produced some interesting results, and while there has been a cat-tank based “incident” prompted by loose catnip controls, there are fewer than two dozen main battle tanks roaming the streets of Moscow looking for treats. A helicopter crew armed with a red laser pointer has been dispatched to control the animals, and extra precautions have been put in place at the chimpanzee rocket launcher facility. *Explosion in background* Moving on.

·         There is absolutely no truth to any reports that hospitals in Sevastopol are running low on critically needed blood donors. In fact, every conscript who manages to make it to the hospital spontaneously donates blood into the waiting buckets of the hospital orderlies, who meticulously mop up any spillage for later use. These falsities have been spread by nefarious Western media sources who wish to incite anger and fear against the vampires on the hospital staff.

·         This week’s episode of the groundbreaking science fiction drama Tsar Trek, titled “Mudd’s Women” has unfortunately raised ire among some viewers, who complain that the episode objectified women and at the same time treated them as nefarious schemers only wishing to steal coal from the Tsar Ship Suvrovov’s Dilithium boilers. While Mr. Spockula was immune to their feminine wiles due to his ancestry from the planet Vodka and able to save the ship from crashing, the producers have agreed that the climactic scene involving a drunken orgy on the bridge was inappropriate for younger viewers. The followup episode “Mudd’s Scorching case of Gonorrhea” has been sent back to the writer’s room for a rework.

 

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·         With false and egregious claims of “doping” having caused the Russian nation to be banned from the World Cup, the Olympics, the Tour de France, the World Bog Snorkling championship and the International Cheese Rolling Donnybrook, the Ministry of Culture has its sights on a new competitive sport to be enjoyed by all sport-minded Russians, championship lingerie pillow fighting. To this end, a new supply of human growth hormone has been established, and champion wrestlers Yuri and Yegor will be fitted with outfits specifically for this sport. We have high hopes for medals and sales of eye bleach.

·         Any claims that the glorious armed forces of Russia cannot defeat NATO without the use of nuclear weapons are simply the deranged ravings of a failed commander and should not be taken seriously by anyone. In fact, President Putin is so confident in the military supremacy of our Army that he has purposely let our nuclear arsenal fall into disrepair as a cost-saving method, and has instead spent those funds on equipping a new mechanized force under the command of Rolf Steinerovitch. While the war may look confusing to a non-military mind, Putin is absolutely certain that Steinerovitch’s assault will bring it under control. *Touches earpiece* Uh, I’m being told . . . moving on.

·         Reports that Western regimes are pressuring lingerie firm Agent Provocateur to exit Russia over the Special Military Operation in Ukraine are simply a thin cover for the fact that once again, a Western business is failing in the face of superior Russian products. The Moscow-based luxury lingerie retailer Babushka’s Backdoor continues to offer racy and appealing underthings that touch a true Russian’s heart, as their signature high-rise burlap panties emblazoned with the logo ‘Dig My Potato!’ again outsells the bourgeois lace of the competition, and the limp sex toy line of Agent Provocateur fails to match the Babushka’s replica male genitalia reportedly modeled from Yuri Andropov himself. We can expect many more Western business to fail to penetrate the Russian markets.

·         Last night’s heartwarming episode of the beloved children’s cartoon Blyaat the Caat, in which the lovable reprobate Jon snorted formaldehyde-laced bath salts and drove his cab through a time portal in order to molest a nine-year-old Lenin has drawn outcry from historians, most of whom correctly point out that the primary cause of the Bolshevik Revolution was not Tsarist Russia running out of underage prostitutes. The editors wish to apologize for any historical misconceptions this episode may have caused.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Despite some claims by Western propaganda, President Putin did not cancel his annual address to the Federal Assembly out of any fears of admitting defeat in the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. The military operation is going completely according to plan, and Vladimir Putin instead was forced to cancel all public appearances due to his decision to personally take on the scourge of team-based Santa violence which is taking place daily on the streets of Moscow. While team Blue Santa may attack team Red Santa at any moment, traumatizing passerby, Putin will defiantly step in between the attackers and defeat both sides with his elf karate learned on the Island of Misfit Toys. It is hoped that once he brings order to our streets again, Putin will be able to address our grateful nation.

·         Defensive operations in Crimea are ongoing, as our brave soldiers prepare fortifications to repel any invaders, using lessons learned from the 2014 invasion, the Soviet offensive of 1944, General von Manstein’s 1941 Siege of Sevastopol and Operation Bustard Hunt, the previous Siege of Sevastopol and Battle of Balaclava in the 1855 Crimean war, and basically every other time in history where defensive fortifications in Crimea were proven to be ineffectual against enemy attacks. Military High Command is determined to not repeat the mistakes of history.

·         Any reports that the Angarsk Petrochemical Company’s refinery in Irkutsk has suffered a massive explosion and outbreak of Fire Artist Ivan Ivanovitch’s lastest work are unfounded and incorrect. A minor safety violation on the part of a junior staffer resulted in a small amount of not-at-all flammable substances coming into contact with a slightly warm object, resulting in a tiny part of the refinery achieving a very, very low earth orbit. The Space Agency Roscosmos has christened this new artificial satellite ‘Mir 2’ and plans to launch a Soyuz supply mission to it as soon as radiation levels fall to an acceptable level.

 

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·         Scientists at the Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics have today issued a stark warning that the very nature of reality itself is threatening to unwind, according to a new report. Accompanied by alarmed statements from influential scientists around the globe, corroborated by readings from the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and St. Petersburg Eldritch University, the report details a horrifying threat to rational existence and the universe we inhabit, centered on the Donald Trump NFT cards recently put up for sale over the screams of existential protest from the fabric of the cosmos itself. These cards, available for a mere 99 US dollars, depict a poorly photoshopped Trump in various cringe-worthy costumes and stances and risk tearing a hole in the space-time continuum to let through nightmarish ancient things that the mind cannot even encompass without risking madness. Scientists worldwide have begged for Mar-a-Lago to be destroyed in cleansing nuclear fire, or at least for everyone to just go back to rolling their eyes and ignoring Trump again.

·         Despite some claims by Human Rights Observers and War Crimes correspondents, Russia is not going for a high score.

·         The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Orcs (SPCO) has filed a legal challenge in Moscow Central Court District, demanding an immediate end to Army High Command’s plans to surgically implant a ten foot long pole into new conscript’s rectums, claiming that this will not achieve the stated goal of preventing retreat under fire but will instead deprive them of their sole pleasure in the frozen hellscape of war. While Conscript-On-Conscript Butt Stuff (CoCBS) is generally prohibited in army regulations, the legal brief describes warfighting conditions in which traumatized veterans of HIMARS strikes have developed an instinctual response similar to the swallows returning to Capistrano every year which they are helpless to resist, and immediately drop trou and roger each other senseless. Army High Command has not yet issued a response, and we will continue to report on this story as it develops.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         With losses in our tank brigades rising from the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense has in a moment of brilliance reached out to unusual sources to replenish our armory, and private tank collectors from across the former Soviet Union were more than happy to offer their own private collections of military hardware. The 114th Mechanized Armor Division has been formed with the best interwar or earlier machines, such as the historic T1 Cunningham, the Hotchkiss H35, and many other fine pieces of gear that will no doubt be able to locate modern anti-tank mines when properly pushed by conscripts. It is hoped that this fighting unit will raise the morale of our Army generals, most of whom were never able to get past tier 2 in World of Tanks.

·         Rumors that the stolen Ukrainian raccoon has been traded for a Donald Trump Trading Card are false. The raccoon has simply murdered enough conscripts that everyone has fled the area and left it there.

·         The Running of the Gopniks event in St. Petersburg has once again unfortunately claimed a number of lives, as tourists from all over the world have come to challenge their running and dodging skills against a crowd of vodka-fueled, krokodil-enhanced, Adidas-tracksuit powered street hobos. While officially city leaders stand against this tradition, at 8 AM yesterday morning the gates were opened and the Gopniks staggered out, frothing at their mouths, dancing to hardbass, and occasionally performing acts of unspeakable violence to each other, themselves, random objects within arms’ reach, or sadly, tourists who had chosen to view these strange creatures in their natural habitat. It is hoped that this tragic outcome will prevent future visitors from engaging in these horrific games which take place each morning.

 

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·         It is our sad duty to report that a member of this broadcast team has lost their life in the line of duty. Producer Vladimir Ivanovitch, a highly regarded professional, was attempting to cover the story of the ongoing civil war inside the Russian Fried Chicken franchise and was caught in the crossfire between the loyalist troops of Commissar Sandersky and the insurgent forces of the shadowy figure known only as ‘Comrade Cluck.’ With his camera crew pinned down by drumstick fire near the industrial deep fryer in the Ninhny Novgorod factory, he heroically created a distraction by donning a chicken mascot suit and charging the gravy boat armada single-handedly, allowing his team members to escape. He will be missed, and a statue of him in his chicken costume will be erected on the grounds of this broadcast station in his memory.

·         In other news, ‘Doctor Spankula’ the BDSM avenger has struck again, terrorizing the military personnel at the Kubinka Air Base through a nefarious plot in which he used mind control rays from his dildo gun to convince all present to take part in  a massive orgy on the flight line. As temperatures approached negative six Celsius last night, numerous victims of frostbite were reported as well as dozens of cases of third degree chafing as lubricants seized up in the cold. While no one not under the control of Doctor Spankula’s mind control ray were able to witness him, all present confirmed his involvement and vehemently stated that they would not have taken part in such a thing outside otherwise. The drums of lube, gimp suits, handcuffs, and industrial strength milking machines were returned to the barracks where they belong.

·         Rumors that there might be morale problems among members of the Russian military forces involved in the Special Military Operation are false. While there have been some cases of desertion, self-inflicted wounds, driving over commanding officers with tanks, attempts to escape to Narnia by hiding in wardrobes, suicides, suicide pacts, suicide cults . . . *checks paper* . . . suicide tank brigades, suicide by alcoholism, suicide by ingestion of clowns, suicide by repeatedly watching ‘The Terminal List’ on Prime Video, and numerous cases of soldiers begging Baba Yaga to come eat them and free them from their misery, Army High Command believes that there are no large-scale problems and have dispatched a new set of political commissars equipped with clubs to apply morale-boosting beatings. We have high hopes to see new and amusing forms of despair among our soldiers in the future.

 

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·         Rumors that Doctor Doom has merged with Thulsa Doom into some kind of probiotic slurry that four out of five doctors recommend for gastritis are . . . not provably true or false, because honestly, does any of that make any sense at all? I thought not. In other news, here’s Svetlana and a talking carp in the weather center, because someone must have slipped LSD in my morning coffee again. Seriously, I’ve already complained to management, but anyway, here’s how things look in your neck of the woods!

SVETLANA: Thanks, Studio One! How’s it looking, Yevgeny?

YEVGENY THE TALKING CARP: Today’s going to be breezy and cold, with a thirty percent chance of scattered snow showers! High temperatures should reach -2C, which is not that bad if you’re bundled up or stretched out on ice at the fish market. Back to you, Studio One!

·         In business news, the price of oil has dropped to a new low due to Western sanctions and price capping, with the unexpected and unprecedented result that traders on the floor of the Moscow exchange were forced to dig a hole in the floor in order to properly graph the price changes. In this process they struck more oil which can’t be sold, flooding the exchange with unprocessed crude and causing trillions of BlyaatCoin in damages. Cleanup is expected to only take a few moments, as Fire Artist Ivan Ivanovitch has been spotted heading towards the scene.

·         In a brilliant stroke of resource management, Army High Command has addressed the shortage of attack drones brought on by our recent spate of war crimes with a bold new strategy. New conscripts of the incoming class have now been reclassified as drones, given hand grenades, propeller beanies, and instructions to run towards the enemy while making ‘BUB BUB BUB BUB’ noises. Attempts to exchange this new technology for computer parts from Iran have so far however met with little success.

 

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·         The Ministry of Defense today has released a report regarding the mostly successful conclusion of Operation Flying Roo, in which experienced agents of the FSB infiltrated the nation of Australia with the aim of collecting wildlife and weapons technology to support the ongoing Special Military Operation in Ukraine. The team suffered significant casualties due to the fauna of the area, but was successful in returning a drop bear, most of a kangaroo, a small lizard  of some kind already responsible for sixteen deaths, and assorted designs and technical specifications which were immediately sent into production. While some may say that the results of mating Australian boomerang technology with rocket artillery were completely predictable, it is still believed that such efforts must be made. The Ministry of Defense is now attempting to find a way to weaponize Vegemite.

·         Regardless of some reports or claims, Elon Musk will not be stepping down from Twitter. Look, there’s some things too unbelievable for even us to try to pass off.

·         Vladimir Putin’s trip to Belarus does not signify any new possible expansion of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine and is absolutely not the beginning of a new front. Putin has simply decided to confront his ex-lover in person to clear the air and let both sides know that it’s okay to move on. As a sign that their long romance is over, Putin will be returning a cardboard box of Lukashenko’s old records and asking for his favorite underwear back.

·         This week’s episode of the groundbreaking science fiction series Tsar Trek, titled ‘What Are Little Girls Made Of?’ features the Tsar Ship Suvrovov docking at the remote island EXO-III in search of a missing doctor and asks profound philosophical questions such as ‘What does it mean to be human?’ ‘What is the cost of love?’ and ‘How did the producers of this program get a sex scene involving Chekov and fourteen drunk sorority girls past the censors, especially after last week’s debacle?’ It is hoped that future episodes may answer these and other questions.

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Once again, the insidious West has stolen technology from our superior nation and claimed it as their own. The so-called Max Planck Institute has unveiled ‘HuggieBot 3.0,’ a machine designed to replicate human interaction through hugging, which is a wholly inferior design compared to the original Russian BlenderBot and it’s “Allow me to make a Pina Colada for you, Master” programming with integral blender technology. While there were some minor issues on initial deployment that the Academy of Science is still working through, one must agree that this is a superior product, at least if you like pina coladas or getting caught in the rain of blood.

·         In other science news, a breakthrough of sorts has been made with the creatures brought back from Australia in Operation Flying Roo. While the drop bear and the lizard have gone missing, the nearly half of the dead kangaroo was able to overpower and defeat two FSB agents in a bizarre incident which has left researches scratching their heads. As this demonstrates potential military value, the dead kangaroo will be matched up against newly conscripted soldiers in an attempt to find out how this happened.

·         While much hay has been made in certain media regarding Ukrainian President Zelensky’s visit to Washington D.C., less well known is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s diplomatic trip to present his credentials to the Skeksis ambassador on the planet Thra. This truly groundbreaking and momentous occasion is occurring just before the Great Conjunction, where the light of the three suns will shine down upon the Dark Crystal. It is hoped that Putin will bring back Skeksis mystics to assist in the war efforts in exchange for his help in dealing with their Gelfling problem.

 

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·         Congratulations to Private First Class Yuri Yuriovitch, who was lucky enough to be the coveted one hundred thousandth Russian soldier killed in action in the Special Military Operation in Ukraine! This fine fellow collected his winning ticket delivered by a 155 millimeter artillery shell courtesy of a M777 howitzer, and his next-of-kin will collect a brand new Lada Granta, a custom washing machine with only a few raccoon scratches on it, and a lifetime supply of Gopnik Spice Coffee from Stars Coffee! A very special memorial service will be held next Thursday or as soon as anyone can collect enough of Yuri's remains to have something to bury.

·         In other news, it has come to our attention that Svetlana the Weather Girl who reports from the Weather Center here on Russia One does not actually exist and has instead been a long-running figment of our imaginations here at the studio. While this news fills us with sadness, especially considering how well she fills out her dress, it is important to note that the former weather forecaster Tom will not be brought back on as imaginary Svetlana had been promoted over him for being better at her job than he was. Also, this does raise disturbing questions which will be brought up in the next all-hands meeting as to exactly whom Yuri was having sex with in the production booth.

·         While many rumors may be passed around by unscrupulous actors among the nefarious Fifth Columnists in Russia, the truth is that the cruise missiles developed and deployed utilizing the Tamagotchi AI smuggled in from the West are not seeking and destroying our forces out of love and a nurturing instinct brought on by the enforced training regimen from Mrs. Ivanovitch’s Third Grade Classroom so much as they are seeking to avenge her hateful presence. Honestly, rumor among third graders is that she would literally shit bats in rage whenever the crayons were not put away according to her meticulous instruction, as and such some occasional friendly fire incidents are to be expected. Mrs. Ivanovitch is according to latest reports spitting bile and acid at anyone walking near the Wholesome Tykes and Missile Production Facility #47 in Vladivostock.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Recent reports that Vladimir Putin would be willing to negotiate an end to the Special Military Operation in Ukraine are not a sign of weakness, no matter what some commenters may foolishly claim. Rather, this gesture of magnanimity is simply due to recent promising results from the Ministry of Defense’s Tank Dog program, which has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that an unstoppable fighting force of canine firepower can be raised once the ‘distracted by squirrel’ issues are sorted out. Putin would simply like to take this moment to allow NATO the chance to surrender before the ballistic missile deployment of milk bones begins.

·         Despite some other reports, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s recent trip to the front lines was not yet another escape attempt, as he was at all times equipped with an AirTag for prompt location, a toddler leash held by loyal FSB agents, and a remotely controlled vibrating butt plug because Corporal Yevgeny thought it was funny. Instead, this trip was intended as a morale-building exercise for the troops, who would be able to see with their very own eyes the man who would be blamed for their upcoming useless deaths by artillery fire. Following his trip, the remotely controlled vibrating butt plug was removed and issued to the 117th Bicycle Brigade as a memento to commemorate the occasion.

·         There is no truth to any claims of partisan activity in Melitopol. While is correct to say that a vehicle containing two members of the Special Services did recently undergo an unscheduled Fire And Deconstruction Event, and that some injuries may have occurred, please remember that spontaneous eruptions of joy emanating from the fuel tank are a listed feature on the 2023 Lada Granta. *Explosion in background* Ah, it seems my chauffer has arrived!

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Claims by Western media sources that the Russian defense industry is ineffective at arming our soldiers are simply based on a complete misunderstanding of Russian culture. ‘Sistema,’ which is commonly thought in the west to be a system of mafia-like criminal loyalty similar to the Cosa Nostra, the Yakuza, or the Trump family, is more correctly translated as ‘tupperware’ which is of course a valuable product for stretching a family’s food supplies by preserving leftovers. This frugality extends throughout all of Russia, where even the most powerful oligarchs prevent fraud and waste by reserving a small bit of everything that passes through their fingers. In the context of our military forces, this means that each and every soldier is armed with the best hand-forged armaments and armor that the fires of Orthanc can produce.

·         In related news, the administration of BlyaatLand has issued a statement condemning the theft of the Log Flume ride, saying that whoever took the 1,200 foot concrete structure overnight needs to put it back, and requests that miscreants behind this crime think of the poor park attendants who are now forced to throw riders on logs into the giant spinning sawmill blade by hand. It is hoped that this situation will be resolved swiftly.

·         Plans to reduce oil exports to the West as punishment for their involvement in the Special Military Operation in Ukraine have highlighted the need to use the unsold oil in some form of economic endeavor, as storage facilities will fill over time and if the wells are stopped, it’s anyone’s guess if they can be started up again. To this end, the Finance Ministry has partnered with Stars Coffee to develop a festive petroleum-based drink for the holidays, to be marketed as ‘Exxon Valdez Spice Lattes.’ Available in Blyaat, Blyaaaat, and Cyka Blyaat sizes, this new Christmas holiday tradition will warm hearts and souls through the cold winter months. Please drink responsibly and keep away from open flames.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         In an attempt to rid himself of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future which keep showing up every Christmas Eve and foolishly attempting to teach him humility and love of his fellow man, Vladimir Putin last night had his restored 1963 Lada Granta fitted with a flux capacitor and attempted to change the past. Upon achieving the desired speed of one hundred and sixty-four kilometers per hour, however, his beloved Lada suffered a tragic temporal dislocation of the carburetor and exploded, sending shrapnel throughout known history. Next year, Putin vows to construct a hot tub capable of bending space-time and hunting down those ghosts for good. Or evil, one of the two. Either way, he’s not gonna buy a turkey for those worthless Cratchits.

·         Fire Artist Ivan Ivanovitch’s latest exhibition in an unregistered home for the elderly has drawn criticism from some quarters, who point to the growing tally of dead throughout Russia. While some military minds correctly point out that the apparent goal of creating more dead Russians is adequately served in the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, others have suggested the value of not burning down ammunition supply dumps, refineries, or factories needed for wartime production. The debate continues.

·         Last night’s heartwarming Blyaat the Caat Christmas Special in which the lovable and hideously inebriated rogue Jon hitched a dozen sickly alpacas stolen from a Moscow veterinary clinic to his taxi and attempted to shoot down Santa Claus has been nominated for a network award based on the viewership numbers. Over six million horribly traumatized Russian children watched the wacky hijinks of Jon, his cat, and his pet unexploded bomb as he dropped dead underage prostitutes down chimneys all over the world. The producers of the program wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and hope that everyone is lucky enough to be gifted their own dead hookers by Blyaat Claus.

 
 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Any rumors that Chief of the General Staff General Valery Gerasimov suffered an injury to his penis are false. While he was lightly injured by shrapnel while visiting the front, and while the injury was located in his upper thigh close to his genitals, doctors at Moscow Central Hospital have reported that his manhood has not been reduced or removed by enemy action. He was put into surgery immediately on arrival at the hospital and was cared for by the best surgeons which could be found in the bar, which unfortunately was having a buy-one-get-one-free sale on bottles of bathtub vodka. Additional issues in records keeping did also result in a minor mixup where his case was accidentally switched with that of a person scheduled for an aggressive circumcision procedure, but all told, General Gerasimov has survived to fight another day. Memorial services for his penis will be held next Thursday.

·         Reports that multiple aircraft were damaged in the recent attack on the Engels air base are false. While injuries have been reported from falling debris, several of the planes simply took to the sky on their own accord due to an excess of happiness. Tupolev, the manufacturers of the Tu-95MS Bear and the Tu-160 Blackjack stationed at the base, have begun work on an emergency software patch designed to prevent this in the future by tracking down and removing any remaining instances of joy that might be still lurking in the code base.

·         As of last night, there have been no Kaiju attacks on the Kuril Islands, and Mecha Baba Yaga is still believed to be in Sleep Mode at the bottom of the Black Sea. There is currently no evidence that it is attempting to mate with the wreckage of the heavy cruiser Moskva.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s recent ultimatum to Ukraine was not, as some Western pundits might claim, simply a delusional outburst from a man blinded by his own Ministry’s propaganda and unwilling to face the fact that the Glorious Russia Armed Forces have been reduced to scratch formations of rebellious conscripts equipped with antiquated gear who are marching towards a futile annihilation. Rather, Minister Lavrov’s unfortunate lycanthropic condition has caused him to shapeshift into a were-sloth for the week, and as all know, sloths have poor memory and eyesight which prevents them from noticing the parallels between the current moment and the 1917 Russian Army collapse which led to the Bolshevik Revolution. Lavrov will be attended by his physicians and fed a supply of tree leaves until he slowly recovers.

·         This week’s episode of the groundbreaking science fiction program Tsar Trek, titled ‘Miri’ has been called an avant-garde masterpiece and awarded the Ministry of Truth’s highest award for creative fiction. Many viewers were confused at how the Tsar Ship Suvrovov could find an island off the coast of Portugal that was identical to Moscow in every way and inhabited by feral children, a major plot point that was never actually explained but was the impetus for Captain Kirkovitch to shrug and move on due to the lack of anything worth looting on the island. As this only took five minutes of screen time, the rest of the episode was filled with surreal imagery after the crew dropped acid and wandered around the ship masturbating constantly. The writers group plans to celebrate by dropping even more acid to write next week’s script.

·         In followup news, the log flume ride stolen from BlyaatLand has been recovered and will be put back into operation as soon as it can be repaired. Sadly, however, all of the tools required to repair the machinery have now been stolen. An investigation is ongoing, and suspicion currently rests on the police officers who originally responded to the report of the stolen log flume ride. The police investigating the stolen tools have taken notes and quite a few other things which didn’t belong to them, prompting another call to the police. We will update this story as it continues.

·         In further corrections to previous corrections to official Russian government statements, it turns out that it was Dmitry Rogozin and not Valery Gerasimov who suffered the unfortunate artillery-based penis removal. In an attempt to set the record straight and demonstrate this channel’s dedication to bringing you the truth, an artillery shell will now be detonated between Gerasimov’s legs in a medical procedure designed to bring order to the cosmos. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         With Dmitry Medvedev’s predictions for 2023 in place, we here at Russia One Television have sent our intern Volodya out onto the streets to see what Muscovites believe the New Year will hold. Let’s go to the tape:

 

Yevgeny, Car Salesman: 2023 will be the year of the Lada! We may even have some for sale!

Svetlana, Imaginary Weather Girl: Oh, I hope I get my boobs back from the pawn shop!

Fire Artist Ivan Ivanovitch: I dunno, but it’s gonna be . . . hot! *Lights match*

Sergey Shoigu, Defense Minister: Don’t look at me, I’m trying to escape!

GAAGR’ATHA, the Eldritch Nuclear Goat: I fully expect the political situation to stabilize and the stock market to rapidly improve once the Special Military Operation in Ukraine is resolved, and that’s why I’m investing in Babushka’s Backdoor shares. Luxury stocks are always winners when peacetime comes around, remember. PETOHOLRAYN! *Screams of horror*

 

And there you have it, folks. Remember, there’s still just a few days to lock in your predictions for the new year, so let’s all hope for a good one where we actually have edible food and people aren’t arbitrarily thrown out of windows . . . not that that’s, uh, happening to anyone. Moving on!

·         The Glorious Nation of Russia, no longer content to sit idly by while corrupt Western nations place price caps on our sweet, sweet oil, has now decreed a ban on selling them any oil at all as revenge. While some pundits and traitorous fifth columnists may wonder how the amazing Russian economy can continue to exist by only selling oil at kopecks on the ruble to China and India, the truth is simply that the Ministry of Finance has planned to move all commercial activity over to the alternate-reality BlyaatVerse created by Mark Zuckerberg. It is hoped that fictional jobs, fictional pay, and fictional food can take the place of our economy, which honestly is mostly fiction now anyway.

·         In followup news, the potentially nonexistent Disco Ball which was and was not hanging underneath the Crimean bridge after it was or was not exploded and then did or did not gain sentience through a loophole in logical impossibility has retired from its slam poetry tour and decided to embark upon a new career as a quantum privateer. It has been issued formal letters of marque from the Russian Admiralty and reportedly plans and does not plan to attack very small ships in the Black Sea. We at this station wish it luck, success, and look forward to seeing it force our enemies to walk the Planck.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Any rumors that the latest missile barrage targeting Kyiv is simply a propaganda exercise are false. Precision guided munitions such as the Tamagotchi-controlled VATNIK-1 or the VATNIK-II missiles powered by stolen windows phones smuggled into Russia by a brave and flexible babushka are too valuable to waste on mere opinion campaigns, and the Glorious Nation of Russia would never stoop to broadcasting any kind of mind control at all. And now, a quick word from our sponsor:

 

Let’s all die in Crimea, let’s all die in Crimea, let’s all die in Crimea, for Glorious Motherland!

 

·         Despite some claims, Vladimir Putin is not the spiritual reincarnation of Shai-hulud, even if there is a strong chance of his body being introduced to worms in the near future.

·         The Ministry of Defense has today issued a statement reaffirming the policy of central control, in which all orders given to our troops are designed with equality and justice no matter where the those soldiers might be from. While some complaints have been heard regarding the allocation of resources, ammunition, food, fuel, or other equipment, Army High Command wishes all soldiers to know that they have been sent into harm’s way with the bare minimum that could make it through the endemic corruption of our military and that no units are being singled out for persecution. Except for the 117th conscript battalion, because fuck those guys. Hope you enjoy charging tanks with only sharp sticks, assholes!

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Claims that Britain has delivered ‘kits’ to Ukraine in order to detect and defuse mimes simply reflect that nation’s poor grasp of modern military technology. As all students of the art of war know, in proper usage, a squad of mimes is deployed by light truck and sent into the area of operation as a team, from which individual mimes may self-select to locate and destroy enemy ordnance. Explosives may be utilized as well as invisible boxes, ropes, or . . . *touches earpiece* . . . I’m being told there might be a slight mistranslation with this story. We will have this corrected and return to this topic later.

·         In other corrections, previously reporting which mentioned a private Yevgeny Yevgenovitch and his love of Pokémon incorrectly stated that he had actually caught them all. In fact, private Yevgenovitch was referring to this collection of sexually transmitted diseases. His Pokémon cards have been sent to an incinerator to be thoroughly cleansed and memorial services will be held for him next Thursday. We hope that this will serve as a warning for any other soldiers making a habit of selecting random conscripts for forcible sex while yelling ‘Prostitute! I choose you!’

·         The Ministry of Truth today has awarded its highest honor for valor in the service of unbelievable falsehoods to American Congressman George Santos, if that’s actually his name. This upstanding example of creative falsification stands as an illustration of all that our agents claim to hope to be, and his unswerving dedication to dishonesty is a shining light of darkness which all can look up to. He will be awarded a commemorative Prevarication Plaque and a prize of one million rubles, and we can’t wait to see the look on his face when he finds out we’re lying. Hah!

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         In science news, an unfortunate resonance cascade scenario has taken place due to simultaneous reporting of the Schrödinger’s Disco Ball which was or was not hanging under the Crimean Bridge and the further correction of the correction of the story regarding Dmitry Rogozin’s severed penis. This has apparently manifested in a stable time loop centered around this broadcast booth, with the unfortunate results that the Disco Ball is now locked in a eternal struggle to prevent entropy from reversing and unraveling the universe and that we at the studio are now plagued with an endlessly replicating plague of penises. Penii. Penexes? What’s the plural for that? Shit, one just climbed into my coffee cup. I don’t think you can just wash that out.

·         The Ministry of Finance today has issued a stark warning to all Russian army service members that while they are considered exempt from taxes when on deployment in the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, they cannot also be declared as dependents of any other person filing taxes. While this is not typically an issue in normal tax years, the requirements for manpower have resulting in Russian men as young as six months of age being given emergency conscription notices and issued rifles, body armor, and tactical diapers. So please, when you file your taxes this year, keep this in mind if your son was ripped from his crib and sent to the front. We wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to anyone!

·         Corporate management at Tasty Period have issued a stark warning for earnings for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2023 due to an ongoing series of lawsuits and class action suits based around the newly-released Blyaat Burger. While sales of the “See Food™ Burger with Tartar Sauce” remain strong, numerous cases of poisoning, blindness, and demonic possession are still reported among those brave and adventurous enough to ingest the twitching, reddish substance which is purportedly Moscow Sewer Lobster. Specialists from St. Petersburg Eldritch University are investigating and hope to identify a valid exorcism condiment which can be used in place of tartar sauce, but until then, the controversy is expected to impact overall profits. We will have more on this story as it develops.

 


In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         While many in the decadent West may celebrate today as New Year’s Day, Vladimir Putin has decreed that henceforth Glorious Russia will abide by the Putanic Calendar and celebrate the New Year on next Tuesday, or as it is now known, the First of Vladuary. In this new calendar, each ten-day-period will be known as a ‘wibbley’ and every six-wibbley span will be referred to as a ‘wob,’ with the exception of every third wob which has an additional half wibbley, and every eighth wibbley wob won’t. Putin has also decreed that every New Wobbly Day will be celebrated by a ceremonial Snorting of the Meth and a traditional Truffle Shuffle. Calendar and clock makers across Russia will today be attempting to create timepieces for this system, and probably contemplating the sweet release of death.

·         The sad news of yesterday’s loss of ex-pope Benedict XVI has spurred calls for rapprochement with the Catholic Church within the Russian Orthodox Community, although Patriarch Kirill is unlikely to act upon them without some form of sign from the current Catholic Pope, sources say. While Patriarch Kirill is willing to discuss matters of faith, the Catholic church’s white smoke/black smoke based communications protocol falls far below the bandwidth needed to properly interface with Kirill’s IEEE 802.15.1 implementation of the Bluetooth short-range wireless network. Attempts to install a USB port in Pope Francis, in the hopes of at least getting a Bluetooth adapter in place, have so far been unsuccessful.

·         In product safety news, a recently imported line of kiddie pools has been recalled, the Kremlin Consumer Safety board has now said. These small inflatable pools intended for small children and marketed in the West as ‘Little Tyke’s First Abattoir’ should be immediately deflated and returned to the place of origin due to the presence of lead, pagan symbols, small metal shavings which might cause injury, goat blood, and elder signs depicting the unspeakable name of the horror behind the walls of time which lurks and capers demanding chaos. According to experts from St. Petersburg Eldritch University, there is no danger of any unholy gibbering madness breaking its way into this universe to destroy all reason and sanity, but just to be safe these pools should not be used for any purpose at all. And for the love of god, don’t put any bizarre alcohol and caffeine based concoctions in it, because the results would be completely unpredictable. *Chuckles* Well, I guess it’s a good thing no one would do that, right? *Touches earpiece* Blyaaat

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         It has come to our attention the some are questioning the military wisdom of housing hundreds of newly raised conscripts in a school-turned-barracks in Makiivka alongside two hundred tons of ammunition, hundreds of rocket artillery shells, several fifty-five gallon barrels of nitroglycerin, sixteen tons of ancient and unstable dynamite, two American Pinto automobiles, and hundreds of vintage electrical components from Britain’s notoriously fire-prone Lucas Electric. However, according to a recent communique from the Ministry of Defense, these soldiers were training to take place in the traditional Soviet-era ‘Rain of Fire’ dance, which is according to custom is performed just prior to a successful rocket launch into space, and as such all propellants stored locally and in some cases under conscript’s beds were absolutely needed. It is with great pride that the Ministry of Defense reports that many of those conscripts did, in fact, make into space.

·          In follow-up news, St. Petersburg Eldritch University has investigated ‘See Food™’ ‘meat’ which is  purportedly ‘Moscow Sewer Lobster’ in Tasty Period’s new BlyaatBurger and found that it has no occult connections whatsoever to any extradimensional beings not of our reality. Any reports of demonic possession following eating a BlyaatBurger must therefore be wholly natural and related to the perfectly normal spirits of the damned who howl and haunt the subterranean passages in our fair city. The researchers have gone on to suggest investing in Tesla stocks and that WWE Wrestling is not at all faked. *Looks at paper* . . . which is not reassuring.

·         This week’s episode of the ground-breaking science fiction program on Russia One Television, Tsar Trek, titled ‘Dagger of the Mind’ places Captain Kirkovitch, Spockula, Scottyeva, and Chekov in a philosophical bind when they are trapped in a penal colony on a deserted island and forced to make a terrible decision. Tortured with the knowledge that the only way to escape involves pouring their last bottle of vodka into the engine of their shuttle boat, can they summon the strength to waste this delicious alcohol instead of drinking it? Tune in tonight at nine to see this and other mind-bending questions such as ‘Why is Spockula wearing a tutu?’ ‘Can you actually fuel a coal powered boiler with alcohol?’ and ‘How did they get the drug-fueled orgy scene past the censors this time?’

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         While much hay has been made in Western media regarding the recent ‘life is highly overrated’ quote from Russian media personality Vladimir Solovyov, this simply represents yet one more way in which the rich cultural heritage of our proud nation is misunderstood by the bourgeois forces who work to restrain us. Yes, it is true that in times of hardship many Russians will patriotically give their lives for their leader’s grandiose delusions, and many more will heroically march into a burning meat grinder based on nothing more than the fact that Russian generals are too drunk and incompetent to issue any other orders. It is also true that Russians will gladly send their children to certain death in exchange for the promise of a new Lada, but what is overlooked is that life in Russia is a grueling, bleak hardship caused by our psychopathic overlords in order to facilitate their theft of everything not nailed down. In such a state, would not you in the West be on the best of terms with the friendly Grim Reaper himself? I thought so.

·         In further existential crisis news, the stable time loop which had been centered on this broadcast studio due our coverage of Schrödinger’s Disco Ball and Dmitry Rogozin’s severed penis has been closed, and no further threats to the nature of reality can be expected from this quarter. In a freak space-time accident, Svetlana the Imaginary Weather Girl was brought face to face with her Mirror Universe twin, and the two mutually annihilated with enough explosive force to bring the time loop to a close. She will live on in our imaginations, which honestly is where she came from in the first place. The plague of crawling severed penises has been cleaned up by vermin control, and the quantum Disco Ball was last seen rocketing into space from the explosion at a velocity recorded by Roscosmos as being even greater than that of a T-72 turret on liftoff. We do not know where the Disco Ball is now, but at least we know how fast it was going.

·         In other news, the initial reports from St. Petersburg Eldritch University regarding Tasty Period’s new BlyaatBurger made with ‘See Food™’ meat ostensibly from ‘Moscow Sewer Lobster’ have been contradicted by a study from the Occult University of Volgograd, who claim that the palpitating flesh registers a higher reading on PKE meters than even observed during the undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration recorded by Dr. Ray Stantz. While they do not yet offer any conclusions, they suggest caution when approaching a BlaatBurger and recommend avoiding the ‘Bolshevik Sauce’ altogether. We will have more on this story as it develops.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the mercenary group Wagner, has today released a statement explaining his force’s failure to capture the city of Bakhmut after months of conflict. Claiming that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have turned every building into a fortress which requires weeks of extensive fighting to take, he further states that his troops have been held back by the lack of supplies needed to effectively push forward in the clown-based squad tactics adapted by his troops. The ongoing shortage of red noses, floppy shoes, and water squirting flowers has been exacerbated due to the fact that all thirty-seven of his most experienced logistics officers were killed in a single clown car explosion when a drone dropped a grenade on a brightly painted Lada, and additionally by the fact that huge numbers of clown supplies have been used up by the American Republicans in the House of Representatives.

·         Breathless reports by Western media claiming that Vladimir Putin is on the very edge of death and kept alive only by the skill of his doctors are completely without merit. While he is attended by his physicians at all times, he is still in the best of health and is in no way being fitted into a massive cybernetic throne using ancient biomechanical energy dating to the Dark Age of Technology which is no longer understood yet will maintain his psychic energy even should his body begin to decay. He does in fact have a very nice toilet and bidet combo on which he spends a great deal of time, but that technology is well understood.

·         In related news, the crew of the Heavy Cruiser Moskva are still dead.

·         While the American NASA has claimed they are in a new Space Race with China, the decadent West has yet to realize that they are racing for a distant second place following Glorious Russia’s latest moon landing. In a daring journey across space, Cosmonauts Yuri and Yevgeny have both landed in Mare Imbrium following the HIMARS strikes in Makiivka which exploded their barracks-slash-ammo dump on New Year’s Day. We wish both the Americans and the Chinese equal success in their endeavors to catch up with us, even if they’re still preoccupied with that totally unnecessary ‘survival’ part of space exploration.

 
 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Any groundless fears that the recent call for all male Belarussian citizens between the ages of 18 to sixty years old to report to enlistment offices to clarify their data are simply an administrative procedure that will absolutely not result in anyone being knocked over the head with a sandbag and shanghaied to the Ukraine front. There is no danger whatsoever, and any concerns that a military-age male citizen may feel can certainly be allayed by simply speaking to a recruitment officer, preferably not the one that’s holding the sandbag.

·         Last night’s heartwarming episode of the beloved children’s cartoon Blyaat the Caat in which the titular diseased and festering feline ejected a spray of worms and liquid feces in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, blinding the Representatives and preventing them from electing a Speaker, was not a comment on the political failures on the part of the Americans to form a government. Rather, this was a coded message to our operatives to tell them to keep doing good work. Keep it up, guys! You’re making us look good!

·         The Ministry of Kaiju Defense has today issued a statement declaring that there continues to be no Mecha Baba Yaga activity in the Kuril Islands.

·         A scientific analysis of Tasty Period’s new offering, the BlyaatBurger, has identified a number of occult chants and otherworldly intonations in the commercial jingle that the corporation is using to promote it, which may explain the cases of demonic possession and sudden, horrific mutations experienced by some customers. Specifically, the chant “Two See-Food™ patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, feast on the souls on the damned on a sesame seed bun” does not appear to abide by any rules of lyrical timing and may, if repeated too often, open a portal to a hellish dimension filled with nightmare beings currently employed in the Tasty Period corporate advertising department. Research will continue after the scientists break for lunch.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Rumors that the Russian Navy’s Flagship Admiral Kuznetsov is suffering from frame rot, hull deterioration, flight deck flagging, extradimensional barnacles, or a prolapsed drive shaft are completely incorrect. While there has been some minor maintenance performed on the exterior of the vessel, and while it has recently caught fire, had a trivial zombie outbreak, was briefly a hive of rust monsters, and spent some small amount of time caught in a Philadelphia Experiment type partial temporal inversion resulting in a pterodactyl infestation on the lower decks, it is in perfect working order and able to serve proudly as Russia’s aircraft carrier, at least as soon as the flight deck can somehow be retrieved from the Late Jurassic period.

·         News that the Americans will be sending Badley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine have filled the halls of the Ministry of Defense with laughter, sources say, as Army High Command considers Russia to be the world’s supreme manufacturer of weapons systems that fight badly.  In fact, some of our newest tanks, such as the T-15 Armata, run so badly that *touches earpiece*  . . . Shit. *whispers* Look, I just come up here and read what you write, don’t blame that one on me! Get your names straight! Moving on.

·         In economic news, stock prices of both the luxury brand Babushka’s Backdoor and the St. Petersburg based pharmaceutical conglomerate ‘PeterPills’ have skyrocketed in late trading after Wagner Group owner Yevgeny Prigozhin was found passed out and face down in a Moscow snow bank wearing only a Babushka’s Backdoor Signature Burlap Crotchless Thong and a pair of deer antlers that had been glued to his buttocks. The famous lingerie brand has seen interest spike in their line of fine Kamchatkan-made unmentionables and sales of PeterPills’ ‘Pizdets’ brand eye bleach have gone through the roof. FSB investigators are now working with Moscow State Hospital in an attempt at removing the deer antlers and possibly finding out where they came from.

  
 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Reports that the nefarious Ukrainians refuse to take part in Putin’s plan to unilaterally break a ceasefire, by refusing to take part in said ceasefire, have only served to increase the determination of Army High Command to implement a cease fire in order to open fire again. To this end, the general staff has issued a four-point bulletin instructing all operational groups to stockpile large supplies of ammunition and supplies as preparation for not using them, and to use all available reconnaissance resources available to mark and identify the targets at which they will not be shooting until they start shooting again.  While hopes are low that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will join us in this next cease-fire we intend to break, commanders on the ground have still sent messages of peace and reconciliation toward our enemies by rocket artillery fire.

·         Tonight’s winning numbers in the Moscow Lottery are 1 - 7 - 17 – 23 - 49. If you have those numbers, congratulations, you are exempt from conscription for this week! Everyone else is ordered to report to the nearest recruitment center immediately.

·         While some military academics may take the mistaken impression that Dmitry Rogozin’s diplomatic overture to France, in which he presented the shrapnel which removed his penis to the French ambassador, might have backfired, the Foreign Ministry has however disagreed. It is true that France has since begun sending light armored combat vehicles to Ukraine, each of which possesses more firepower than any of our heavy armor. However, one must not overlook the positive benefit to the esprit de corps which our fighting troops now feel knowing that their leaders suffer the same fate as they. To this end Rogozin will be staked in an open field and blasted with howitzers to improve troop morale, if not his own.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         While many short-sighted NATO commanders may wonder why we Russians are sending hundreds to untrained conscripts to their inevitable explosive doom in the city of Bakhmut, Yevgeny Prigozhin—the leader of the Wager group responsible for this area of military operations—has now deigned to share his vision of the conflict with the world. Rather than attempting to achieve some short-sighted and ephemeral actual military victory Wagner is attempting to locate and capture the legendary underground city of Khazad-Gopnik, which legend holds was once the stronghold of the Vodka Dwarves before they delved too greedily and too deep and awoke the sleeping Gopnik of Fire, a demon from the ancient world. It is hoped that Prigozhin’s troops may yet storm the darkest unlit Underdeeps and steal the secret of Fire Vodka which will allow their troops to survive the cold of winter unharmed. *Touches earpiece* I’m being told that the foremost echelons of the Wagner Group assault have found that that the enemy has a cave troll. Huh, hopefully they will be able to challenge it in a dance off.

·         In other conflict zone news, reports that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have successfully trained a platoon of combat rabbits as snipers and employed them to obliterate an entire conscript battalion are not entirely accurate, sources say. While some casualties have been reported by a squad who were sent to investigate the Beast of Caerbannog, the majority of the deaths were in fact caused by inaccurate counting while attempting to employ the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Notes have been made by Army High Command, and all new conscripts will be trained to count to at least five. Three, I mean three.

·         It is with a heavy heart that I must report that both hosts of the award-winning Russia One program Things You Can Probably Eat With Yakov and Yegor have sadly met their demise during the filming of their latest episode, ‘Bears: Eat or Not Eat?’ While few of the production crew were able to outrun Yakov and Yegor and survive the bear attack, a second expedition was able to recover the footage and the episode will air tonight at nine with the hosts replaced by last-minute CGI. A new reality series will air starting next week, Who Can Eat Things and Run Faster than Bear  in the hopes of finding new hosts to finish out the season.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Breaking News: Investigations by a crack team of occult specialists from St. Petersburg Eldritch University into the reports of mutated Moscow Sewer Lobsters have uncovered a strange, teratogenic influence seeping down into the Chthonic depths of the Moscow underworld. While the ultimate source of this corruption has not yet been discovered, it is known that it manifests as strange hybrid animals possessing traits of multiple sewer species, such as the Lobster Duck, Lobster Spider, Lobster Alpaca, or Lobster Gremlin. Suspicion currently rests on the effluent from the Tasty Period Meat Packing Plant, but reliable sources also point to the huge amount of completely weird shit that’s been flushed into the sewers over the past year, namely roe from the extradimensional entity known as Ska'naag or 'It which devours by claw,' Morlocks, imitation Sea Monkey starter kits, Alpaca spawn from Sergey Lavrov’s lycanthropic episodes, and ‘Princess Olga,’ Putin’s stained and sentient anime body pillow. The investigation continues and we will continue to update this story as it develops.

·         In propaganda news, the Ministry of Truth wishes to correct any misunderstandings that the West may have with some of our statements. While the so-called “fact-checkers” may hold up a lack of evidence as somehow being ‘proof’ that some of our declarations may not be grounded in reality, the truth on the ground is not dependent upon their acceptance of what may or may not have been a thing that actually happened. We go now to our special correspondent on universal truth, Schrödinger’s Disco Ball:

 

DISCO BALL: Hi, folks! Glad to be back or not back after saving the concept of reality from unravelling after it may or may not have come into contact with an antimatter Mirror Universe, and I can tell you or not that it’s great to be here if I am! As everyone knows, in this universe driven by quantum uncertainty, you can’t ever know anything for certain, so just listen to the Ministry of Truth and everything will be A-OK!

 

Thanks, Disco Ball. And that’s a lesson we can all live with or not.

·         In other completely factual news, the crew of the Heavy Cruiser Moskva are still dead. *Adjusts glasses* Well, that’s a wrap for today! Let’s hit the bar, Disco Ball!

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         While some reports may claim that the majority of conscripted Russian soldiers are sent to the front with minimal training, this point of view ignores the grueling training program offered to new pilots of the still-in-development Giant Combat Robot program. Seen here in this never before released video from Ministry of Defense, two students practice piloting controlling huge battle machines in one on one combat which will teach them the skills they will need to overcome any enemy they may face in Toys’R’Us stores across the globe.

·         This week’s episode of the groundbreaking science fiction television series Tsar Trek, titled ‘The Corbomite maneuver’ pits Captain Kirkovitch and the Tsar Ship Suvrovov against a pitiless enemy. The crew of the Suvrovov, blinded and driven mad by a bad batch of bathtub vodka must outwit and outplay a large rock that stands in their path before they crash into it and sink. Can Captain Kirkovitch resist the charms of the Ship’s Goat? Can Chekov sober up in time to turn the wheel? Can Mr. Spockula unravel the secret of the doorknob to let him out of the distillery room? Find out tonight at nine O’clock Moscow Central Time!

·         Reports that the Flagship of the Russian Navy, the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov has become so dilapidated that it risks sinking should it ever leave dry dock are false, according to the Navy High Command. While it is true that minor leaks have sprung due to careless maintenance, and while there may still be pterodactyls infesting the lower decks due to previous temporal displacement issues, the military-grade spackle and Bondo™ holding the hull together has been recently given an entirely new coat of Flex-Seal™ and is expected to be completely seaworthy and able to resume flight operations in the coming weeks. When the Admiral Kusnetsov once again puts to sea, he will strike fear into the hearts of our enemies whenever they see the giant plume of black smoke and circling vultures on the horizon!

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Western media reports that the volume of artillery fire from Russian units has dropped off are not wholly inaccurate, but they paint an incomplete picture, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense has today said. The new General of the Artillery Corps, Vladimir Smegovoya, who was appointed by his father to this position as a way to get his teenage son out of the house, has decreed new priorities for the Corps and as such outgoing fire will be restricted to only targeting houses where his Ukrainian ex-girlfriend might conceivably be making out with her new boyfriend. While some military observers have questioned the effectiveness of this campaign, his father has stated ‘at least it keeps the little shit from moping around my headquarters all the goddamn time.’ At press time, the General of the Artillery Corps was seen crying into his pillow and cutting himself.

·         Despite previous reporting, BlyaatLand will not be holding a special celebratory night where all rides are open and free to any surviving crewmembers of the heavy cruiser Moskva, for obvious reasons.

·         Ongoing research by specialists from St. Petersburg Occult University have identified what they believe is the source of the mutagenic compounds detected in the Moscow Sewers and have tracked the substance back to the toilets of the Kremlin. According to unholy writings in the eldritch grimoire known as the Lobsternomicon, inked in the blood of madmen and bound with human flesh, the nightmarish substance is produced “from the Bowels of the Tortured Damned Who Howl in Agony as they Poop.” While the exact source remains unknown . . . *screams of pain in the distance* . . . researchers suggest that Vladimir Putin should avoid the Kremlin cafeteria’s enchiladas for the time being.

  

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         In spite of reports by bungling Western media sources, President Putin has placed General Gerasimov in charge of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine not, as some Western sources claim, due to any dissatisfaction with the military effort so far but instead to allow promotion for Sergei Surovkin as a reward for his loyal service. In a speech at the Legion of Doom yesterday Putin announced that Surovkin will be honored with the rank of Marshal and placed in charge of the Russian Army food service meat grinder division, a role traditionally given to loyal generals in recognition of their past accomplishments. In his new role Marshal Surovkin will be given the traditional Marshal’s Meat Hat, the ceremonial Silver Cleaver, and a final shove into the grinder. Memorial services will be held next Thursday.

·         Last night’s heartwarming episode of the beloved children’s cartoon Blyaat the Caat, in which the hilariously drunken and reprobate taxi driver Jon snorted bath salts and claimed to be a Nobel prize winning ass physicist named Santos before being elected to the United States House of Representatives was not a coded message to our agents sowing discord in the American government. This was instead an earnest plea to all nations to investigate this previously unexplored branch of the physical sciences.

·         In an unfortunate turn of events, the occult specialists from St. Petersburg Eldritch University investigating the toxic effluent from the Kremlin’s toilets accidentally redirected the flow of mutagenic sewage towards the Kremlin conference room, with the tragic results that the nest of Oompa Loompas which had taken up residence in Putin’s giant conference table were completely sprayed with otherworldly nastiness from our president’s nether regions. As the Oompa Loompas were performing their customary song and dance routine mocking Putin’s decision making, the foul spray took immediate effect. Scientists are now studying the Oompa Lobsters in an attempt to find out if they can be eaten without ill effects.

  

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         All citizens, please note: any panicked reports of an army of lobsters forming in the Moscow Sewers, hellbent on the eradication of mankind and fueled with fury after their kind has been harvested too long for Tasty Period’s “See Food™” BlyaatBurger are simply exaggerations of the scope of the threat. While it is true that the team from St. Petersburg Eldritch University were in fact torn limb from limb by a monstrous horde of mutated Oompa Lobsters, and while it is true that the army has lost control of the Tasty Period meat packing plant, no further threats are expected to our fine city. Praise Lobster!

·         Reports that cynical Western sources are planning to rebrand M1 Abrams tanks as Sport Utility Vehicles are simply a ploy to avoid public outcry and, even more embarrassingly for the West, are simply a bad copy of a superior Russian Army plan to rebrand untrained conscripts as highly trained VDV paratroopers. As the combat airdrop over Bakhmut yesterday failed as all conscripts plunged screaming to their deaths due to the equally untrained pilot flying his plane directly into the Black Sea, which was possibly related to the also untrained ground crew neglecting to actually fuel the plane, it is fully expected that these new Sport Utility Vehicles will suffer an equal fate.

·         Reports that Patriarch Kirill of the Orthodox Church has necromantically reanimated the crew of the heavy cruiser Moskva in order to crew the Admiral Kuznetsov are false. Efforts on convincing him to necromantically reanimate the dead Admiral Kuznetsov are ongoing.

·         In light of the Lobster threat, the producers of the new season of Things You Can Probably Survive Eating with Yevgeny and Yulia have decided to refocus their trademark “Surprise Ingredients” to simple, basic elements, and this week will begin with element one on the periodic table of the elements, Hydrogen. Yevgeny is planning a Hydrogen Egg Flambe and Yulia will be making a Hindenberg  Pot Pie with thermite sauce and anguished cries of ‘Oh, the Humanity!’ High marks have already been given by network critics and the Moscow Fire Brigade is on standby.

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         While some cynical observers may mention the supposed slow speed of the Brown Garden Snail as it outpaces the advance of the Russian army in the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, few care to remember that the vicious Cornu aspersumis an armored engine of destruction capable of destroying all plant matter in an average garden or annihilating the fruit on a fruit tree within days. As such, this terrifying predator has been chosen as the spirit animal of the 117th Conscript Battalion, who have equipped themselves with large shells and declared a holy crusade against tomato plants in the Bakhmut region. Never again shall the enemy fear our inexorable progress unless they have salt or something! *touches earpiece* What do you mean, Bakhmut has salt mines? Has anyone told them? Huh. Moving on.

·         Reports that the United Kingdom plans to equip Ukraine with Challenger tanks has raised howls of derisive laughter within the halls of the Ministry of Defense, as analysts point to the outdated technology of a vehicle from the 1980s and its operational history which is most famous for exploding 73 seconds into flight over Cape Canaveral, Florida, due to NASA incompetence. The so-called Space Shuttle Tank is of no match for the proud Russian T-72, which can successfully and reliably launch a turret into low earth orbit with just the application of a Javelin anti-tank missile. Our military analysts have now embarked on a program to modernize the Leopard Tank program at the Moscow zoo by outfitting the animals with explosive reactive armor.

·         Any rumors that the Russian army is attempting to win the Guinness World Record for the number of war crimes committed within a single campaign are false. Vladimir Putin has decreed that he has enough mentions in the Guinness Book of World Records already.  As all citizens proud of their leader can relate, he is the title-holder for the ‘highest free-standing jump while holding a marmot and wearing a tutu,’ ‘most cockroaches inserted into a rectum at one time,’ ‘most erotic pole dance on a conference table more than one hundred feet long’ records. While he has so far declined to try for it, some Russian oligarchs are reportedly planning to convince him to claim the ‘highest fall out of a window onto polonium bullets while being sodomized by a badger’ record. We will update this story as it develops.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Trials of the new combat focused performance enhancing drug created by the Ministry of Defense for our soldiers, codenamed KRYLON, have concluded and will soon be deployed to front line units in handy aerosol cans. While studies have not focused on any potential long-term effects caused by huffing large quantities of paint and using firearms, machinery, or explosives, it is expected that any negative health complications will simply not matter for . . . various reasons. To celebrate this rollout, the Ministry of Defense will be sending the first units equipped with KRYLON special commemorative “WARRIORS” tee shirts.

·         Any claims by Western media sources of the failing American Empire that the proud nation of Russia is attacking hospitals, maternity wards, kindergartens, or day care facilities solely out of the desire to commit war crimes are false. The Russian military is a finely tuned machine capable of working towards multiple goals at any moment, and our intelligence agents have informed the Ministry of Defense that these supposed places of child care are in fact training centers where combat toddlers are given training in the arts of modern warfare and are valid military targets. While such programs have been trialed in Russia, they have not produced any soldiers of markedly better performance than normal conscripts, and therefore our combat toddlers have instead been trained as intelligence agents. As an aside, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense has confirmed that the war crimes are simply a bonus.

·         This weekend’s ‘Ask Babushka’ advice column in the Moscow Herald will be delayed slightly due to editorial concerns and the fact that Olga Olgavulva, the babushka famed for giving her insightful advice on love and life for over forty years, has suffered a minor injury while attempting to shove a live bear into a meat grinder for her traditional Tefteli with cream sauce recipe. She has taken a medicinal gallon of vodka and clubbed all doctors away, so we can be sure she will be back next week with her beloved ‘If he cheats on you, cut his balls off and put them in a stew!’ tag line.

 

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         The Ministry of Defense has recently issued a statement declaring that the ‘Marker’ combat robot will soon be deployed to the front lines of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, which should be no surprise to informed observers of the Russian military. As all students of the Frunze Military Academy can relate, this move comes only after the mostly successful deployment of the Huggie Bot, the somewhat heroic performance of the ‘Stabby’ combat Roomba, and the probably excusable learning experience of the ‘Burner’ flamethrower-equipped Teddy Ruxpin unit. Researchers are even now looking past the Marker units to develop the next generation of combat robots by studying archival film footage of demonic spider train bots, which if nothing else offers profound training on how to make money using almost nothing but clever marketing and Unreal Asset Store item flips.

·         Reports that Vladimir Putin is seeking to reframe the Special Military Operation in Ukraine as a long war of attrition instead of a three-day march to victory comes on the heels of the realization the operation is now almost in its eleventh month of marching to victory. As some reverses are to be expected in any conflict, a wise general will study the moment, read the situation, and adjust plans accordingly. In this vein, Putin also plans to reframe his failed relationship with Viktor Lukashenko as a four-year booty call, his long crying jag this morning as a tantric breathing exercise, and the liquid shart he produced during his meeting with his generals as a solid bowel movement.

·         This week’s episode of the groundbreaking science fiction drama Tsar Trek, titled: ‘The Menangerie’ forces Mr. Spockula to face his competing loyalties as his previous captain Pikovitch, now wheelchair-bound and only able to burp ‘da’ or ‘nyet’ is abducted by customs officers attempting to seize the illegal bathtub vodka on the Tsar Ship Suvrovov. Can Captain Kirkovitch prevent his court martial? Can Scottyeva sober up enough to get the dilithium boilers up to steam? Why is Chekov naked and humping the ship’s goat in the Crow’s Nest? Find out the answers to these questions and more, tonight at nine o’clock Moscow Time!

 

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Reports that a massive explosion in an ammunition depot in Belgorod resulting in multiple deaths and injuries of soldiers was caused by a sergeant mishandling a grenade in a ‘bid to establish authority’ are Western propaganda efforts attempting to undermine our glorious Russian army. While it is true that conscript training is harsh and unforgiving in order to prepare new soldiers for the rigors of warfare, the traditional games of ‘Live Grenade Toss,’ ‘Catch the Bullet,’ or ‘Wheel of Sodomy’ are simply team building exercises designed to allow recruits to blow off steam, or other body parts. Instructions have been sent out from the Ministry of Defense to all drill sergeants to be aware of their surroundings when playing games with explosives or putting recruits on the Happy Fun Cornhole Wheel.

·         In economic news, the recent deployment of a large number of missile launch capable warships in the Black Sea has put a dampener on the local prostitution economy. As many industry watchers have detailed, the arrival of Russian troops in previously prosperous areas has resulted in an economic transformation, as all industries have been looted and replaced with drug, alcohol, or sex for hire businesses instead. Analysts expect this downturn to be short lived, and brothel keepers are taking this time in order to rest and inoculate their goat herds in preparation for the return of the sailors, assuming they don’t end up joining the crew of the heavy cruiser Moskva.

·         Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has issued a formal apology to Romania after that country found a Pantsir-S1 missile engine washed up on their beach. As the current phase of the moon and his unfortunate lycanthropic condition dictates that he is transformed into a were-dung beetle at the moment, his communication consisted primarily of rolling small balls of feces over a piece of paper with the Great Seal of Russia on it. A formal apology for the formal apology will be issued by the Deputy Foreign Minister, along with an earnest plea to give us the engine back, because we need the spare parts.

  

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         In a disturbing development, the ongoing mutated lobster attack from the Moscow sewers has overrun the production facility of the Combat Roomba program and leading echelons of the freakishly twisted crustaceans are now riding into battle atop fearsome mechanical steeds. With the team of occult investigators from St. Petersburg Eldritch University having been wiped out by previous waves of hissing and clacking lobsterbeasts, no connection to the extradimensional being Ska’naag, called ‘It which devours by claw’ can be ruled out. A desperate plea has been issued by the Ministry of Defense for a hero to step up in these fateful hours to save our beloved city, and one man has risen to the challenge and . . . blyaat, that’s just Doctor Spankula the BDSM avenger. We’re screwed unless he’s going to bang the lobsters to death. Eh, moving on.

·         The ongoing search for generals to replace those lost in Ukraine has identified several possible candidates who demonstrate the skill, initiative, and forward-thinking that the post requires. Army High Command has reached out to Dar the Beastmaster, who unfortunately declined our offer. Subsequent outreaches to his eagle Sharak, his ferrets Kodo and Podo, evil high priest Maax, and the slave girl Kiri’s soiled undergarments have yet to elicit a response.

·         In international news, the crash of the helicopter which has resulted in the death of the Ukrainian Interior Minister has predictably been blamed on Russian intelligence forces, which is obviously false for a number of reasons. For one thing, no evidence has been on display that the FSB possesses the level of competence to actually pull off on operation successfully, and for another, consider that we Russians are the world’s undisputed masters of crashing aircraft artistically. After the sublime Yeysk crash in which a Su-34 plowed into an apartment building last October, or the ballet-like Il-76 that pancaked on the Mikhailovsky highway in June, or February’s beautiful An-26 lawn dart that left wreckage strewn around Voronezh like a Picasso painting, would anyone honestly believe that we are behind such a pedestrian, artless crash as this one? I thought not.

  

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Reports that Sweden may deliver artillery to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are no cause for alarm, according to a new statement from the Ministry of Defense. As this archival footage demonstrates, the ‘Arena’ active protection system on a T-72 or T-90 series main battle tank has been proven to defeat all incoming fish-based artillery types, and a Swedish Fish even when fired in a ballistic arc offers no threat to our glorious armed forces. While no danger currently exists, the scientists in the Ministry of Defense are hard at work increasing the defensive system capabilities to be able to defend against Haribo Gold Bears or even those nasty Circus Peanuts that most countries have banned as war crimes.

·         Last night’s heartwarming episode of the beloved children’s cartoon Blyaat the Caat in which the titular scabrous and smoking feline managed to engulf Sergeant Slutsky’s head entirely in his vilely steaming rectum was in fact a highly technical example of rotoscope animation, in which the animators of the program traced over actual live footage to create a lifelike, realistic cartoon based on reality. The producers would like to state that no actual live cats were injured in this filming, as Russian army conscripts were dressed in half-rotted cat costumes and used as stand-ins for the insertion scene. We wish privates Ivan, Yegor, and Yevgeny a speedy recovery and hope that plus-sized diapers can be found on the Ukrainian front.

·         Despite some claims, in a previous career Vladimir Putin was not an understudy for Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood and did not stand in for Mr. McFeely in the legendarily banned episode in which his character furiously beat Prince Tuesday to death with a cast iron frying pan. Any footage which exists of this episode is simply a CIA fabrication and should be reported to your local authorities.

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Any unfounded speculation by Western media sources that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner group, may perform some kind of coup in Russia are completely unfounded, and do not take into account the proud Russian army which stand by to guard the state. They also dismiss Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov’s personal army of battle robots, Sergey Lavrov’s crazed battalions of lycanthropic alpaca spawn, or the hordes of rampaging Oompa Lobsters which are terrorizing Moscow streets. Honestly, I think a lot of us would appreciate it if someone would come in and sort this place out. *Screams in the distance* Moving on.

·         In economic news, the recent decision by the Ministry of Finance to rebase the ruble on a basket of cryptocurrencies in order to avoid Western sanctions has resulted in what economists are calling ‘a fucking shitstorm.’ While this highly technical language may be difficult to understand by the layperson, when pressed for clarification, the Undersecretary of Finance simply giggled and jumped out of a sixth-story window. Memorial services will be held next Thursday, assuming anyone can afford them.

·         Last night’s season premiere of the new reality show ‘Surviving Conscription with Yuri and Yevgeny’ set a new record in viewership numbers among the targeted 8 to 109 demographic, and the producers have signed a contract for two new seasons. While this may require some creativity on the part of the writers due to the fact that Yuri did not in fact survive his turn on the Happy Fun Cornhole Wheel, it is expected that a new wave of conscription will provide hours of entertainment for those of not being sent to die on the Ukrainian front. Next week’s episode is already filming in Kamchatka and will feature military training with wooden rifles and trench cooking with wooden blocks for food. Can the surviving member of the duo survive? Find out next week at Nine PM Moscow Time!

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Any claims by Western media sources that the Special Military Operation in Ukraine is in a state of ‘deadlock’ are simply propaganda from biased persons unwilling to accept the glorious progress made by the Russian army in other directions than forward. While the Armed Forces of Ukraine are content to simply fight in a two dimensional map, Vladimir Putin’s expert nine-dimensional military acumen has enabled the Russian army to make strategic gains in both the dimensions of Asgard and Narnia, as well as burrowing straight down towards the earth’s core. An expeditionary force has been sent into the Earth Prime, Earth Subprime, and Earth times the square root of negative one dimensions, and additionally the Kremlin has today announced the full conquering of the Bizarro Universe in which Vladimir Putin was originally spawned. We look forward to further conquests of other imaginary places and worlds.

·         Despite some previous reporting, the McRib has not yet returned to Tasty Period. A corporate spokesperson has cited the difficulty in sourcing the required rubber and naphtha ingredients for the specialty Szechaun sauce, and Tasty Period stocks are down slightly in aftermarket trading.

·         The Moscow Herald is pleased to announce the return of the ‘Ask Babushka’ column with helpful advice on life, love, and livestock castration this weekend, as she returns from the hospital following the ‘Bear Incident’ and is ready to dispense her wisdom once again. This week’s column includes a lovelorn conscript missing his goat, a soldier’s wife disappointed with her new Lada, and the ghost of murdered Tsar Nicholas II with plumbing questions about an outhouse. Remember her tagline, “There’s no probably Babushka can’t solve with a meat cleaver!”

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Please note: it has been determined that a mistranslation has occurred in the West, as multiple sources now report that the letter which Wagner CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin wrote to the White House asking which war crimes his group had committed was intended as some kind of insult. While cynical Western media is reporting this as a snide comment, daring the Americans to make a statement, this was in fact simply an honest request in the hopes of sorting out a paperwork SNAFU on the part of Russian bookkeeping agencies. While Wagner boasts one hundred fourteen thousand, two hundred and seventy six individual war crimes, the official tally by the FSB undercounts this by nearly a dozen, and international observers put the figure at over two thousand more. As Prigozhin is paid by the war crime, it was hoped that the Americans could help us sort out this issue.

·         The recent discovery of even more classified documents which had been withheld by American President Joe Biden again shows how adversarial his regime has become, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement late last night. While his predecessor was thoughtful and considerate enough to share his classified documents with his good friend Vladimir Putin, Russia has of late been forced to comb through Joe Biden’s trash, his garage, and the glove box of his Trans Am in the hopes of finding compromising information. This is not to say that all is bad in diplomatic espionage, however, as our crack team of FSB agents was able to find a pair of Biden’s sunglasses, which have been sent to the lab in hopes of finding out how to trigger the mind control rage ray which they are said to be able to project whenever the president eats ice cream.

·         Recent reports that long-range air defenses have been placed in Moscow to deter NATO attacks are false, the Ministry of Defense has reported. While the Pantsir-S1 system is capable of stopping all known Western missiles and aircraft, it also boasts a hitherto unannounced anti-crustacean system which emits a beam of sonic energy capable of knocking any conceivable size of flying lobster out of the air. As the ongoing street battle with the Oompa Lobsters is reaching a critical phase, it is feared that the mutagenic slime responsible for this invasion of sewer monsters might culminate in Lobster Pigeons, Lobster Seagulls, or even, god forbid, Lobster Geese. Should such a thing come to be, all citizens of Moscow can rest assured that . . . *CLACK* *CLACK* *SQUUAAAK* . . . oh, blyaat!

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Any reports or rumors that another ship of the Black Sea Fleet has been sunk are simply propaganda by cynical Western sources who are unable to accept Russia’s proud naval traditions of remaining mostly above water and not often exploding or bursting into flames. While it is true that some accidents have occurred in the past, notable the submarines Kursk, K-159, K-429, K-278 Komsomolets, K-219, K-8, the surface vessels Moskva, Saratov, Knyaz Suvorov, Sissoi Veliky, Admiral Nakhimov, Vladimir Monomakh, multiple landing ships and patrol craft of . . . *touches earpiece* I’m being informed that there may have been an unfortunate accident in the Black Sea Fleet. Regardless, let it be known that much of the proud Russian Navy remains safely tied up at port where they probably won’t sink today.

·         In tragic economic news, the last surviving Build-a-Bear workshop in Moscow was annihilated in an artillery strike attempting to stem the flow of mutant Oompa Lobsters coming from the Moscow sewers. While army high command reports a successful strike, the area remains under military cordon as lobster-based creatures still rampage. Experts from St. Petersburg Eldritch University had pointed out the dangers of mutant lobsters merging with adorable stuffed bears in cute costumes, but thankfully that danger is now behind us.

·         This week’s episode of the groundbreaking science fiction program Tsar Trek, titled ‘The Conscience of the King’ raises intriguing philosophical questions regarding the nature of man, as a Shakespearean actor and mass murderer comes abord the Tsar Ship Suvrovov and attempts to steal Scottyeva’s whiskey still. Can Mr. Spockula unravel the mystery of the empty liquor bottles? Why was Chekov putting lipstick on the ship’s goat? Who did Captain Kirkovitch projectile vomit on? Find out the answers to these questions and more, tonight at nine O’clock Moscow time!

 

 

In further corrections to official Russian government statements:

·         Any rumors regarding unusual numbers of Russian Ka-52 helicopters being ‘shot down’ over Ukraine are false. While one cannot expect our enemies to comprehend the full life and reproductive cycle of such a glorious helicopter, suffice it to say that in the final weeks of mating season, the adult Ka-52 ‘Alligator’ sheds its blades and molts into a new form, which then burrows into the ground to hibernate much like the North American Cicada. After seventeen years of quiescence, the new baby helicopter spawn are released to fly freely and repeat the beautiful cycle of life. The Ministry of Education has attempted to contact Sir David Attenborough to narrate a feature-length presentation explaining this wonderful facet of Russian life, but sadly our agents were beaten up by a newly born and infant Toyota Hilux.

·         In unfortunate espionage news, the FSB agent responsible for corrupting the American FBI has been arrested for corruption. Charles McGonigal, also known as ‘The Corruptor’ was a highly valued mole serving as a Special Agent in Charge of Corrupting FBI counterintelligence efforts in New York, and his work will be sadly missed. The FSB attempts to corrupt a new corruptor have sadly been stymied by their own corruption. We will continue to report on this story as it corrupts further.

·          The lauded AI chat bot recently launched which allows users to chat with artificial intelligence representations of historical figures including Stalin, Princess Diana, and Heinrich Himmler is yet another case where Western science lags behind the advances of the glorious Russian nation. As all are aware, the Ministry of Technology last year introduced MoscowSoft Bobovitch, an Ai entity not only capable of pretending to be historical figures but also of analyzing real-world problems and applying lessons learned from history or even figures of note who are still alive. As an example, in order to harness his indominable fighting spriit, the Ministry of Defense has utilized a recreation of  American boxer Mike Tyson to assist in planning grand strategy in the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. This TysonBot has provided our military with unbeatable strategies with the only downside being a few ears nipped off by its unusually powerful CD-Rom drive tray.