There is no electricity in Moscow and Russians are not happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwWXCsCe-hM

 

Retort to Putin for ‘messing around’ by demanding Moscow talks

The Ukrainian foreign minister, Andriy Sybiga, hit out at Vladimir Putin after the Russian president said peace talks with Volodymr Zelenskyy should take place in Moscow. Sybiga said at least seven countries were ready to host a meeting: Austria, the Vatican, Switzerland, Turkey and three Gulf States. “These are serious proposals, and President Zelenskyy is ready for such a meeting at any time,” Sybiga said. “Putin continues to mess around with everyone by making knowingly unacceptable proposals.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/04/ukraine-war-briefing-kyiv-offers-retort-to-putin-for-messing-around-by-demanding-moscow-talks

 

Moscow airports close as Ukrainian drones target city for second night

Flights temporarily halted as mayor says at least 19 drones approached and apartment building reportedly hit…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/ukraine-drones-raid-moscow

 

Russia Responds To Trump's Claim He Threatened To Hit Moscow | HuffPost UK Politics

It does not look like the two are singing from the same hymn sheet...

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/russia-responds-to-trumps-claim-he-threatened-to-hit-moscow_uk_67163ad3e4b0b4263c8af7a9

Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Moscow Tools (FULL SPECIAL) | The Daily show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwLFOM3rgq8

Don’t buy Moscow’s shameless campaign tying Biden to its terrorist attack | The Hill

The tragic terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow killed over 140 and left dozens more with serious injuries. Despite ISIS-K claiming responsibility, as well as warnings from both the U.S. and Iran of potential terrorist actions on Russian soil, Moscow continues to point the finger at others. Some Russian officials have stated that the U.S. did not provide specific enough intelligence concerning the anticipated attack; others have said the intelligence was never transmitted in the first place. 

Others have suggested that the United States and the broader West are somehow responsible…

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4617540-dont-buy-moscows-shameless-campaign-tying-biden-to-its-terrorist-attack/

Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Anne Applebaum Of The Atlantic (Al Franken podcast)

• We begin our wide-ranging conversation by discussing the attack on a Moscow concert hall last week. 
• What are the implications of that violence? 
• And who is behind it? 
• Then delve into the US’s failure to fund the Ukrainian effort and the resulting loss of life. 
• Will we help them? 
• Or will Republicans continue to enable Putin? 
• Anne also lays out the dangers of a second Trump term. 
• With autocracy on the rise around the world, what would it look like here in America?

Interview: 

https://www.alfranken.com/listen/pulitzer-prize-winning-historian-anne-applebaum-of-the-atlantic

Rocked by Deadly Terror Attack, Kremlin Amps Up Disinformation Machine - The New York Times

The bloody terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow had barely subsided before Russia launched a disinformation campaign suggesting that Ukraine and the West were somehow behind it, pushing a version of events molded to fit the Kremlin war narrative and downplay a significant security failure. 

 President Vladimir V. Putin has hinted several times that Kyiv and Washington played a part, and the latest to join the chorus was Aleksandr Bortnikov, the director of the Federal Security Service, the top security agency in Russia. On Tuesday he said, without offering any evidence, that the assault "was prepared by both radical Islamists themselves and, naturally, facilitated by Western special services."…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/world/europe/russia-terror-attack-ukraine.html

Ukraine Drone Attacks Shut Down Moscow's Airports Again

For the third time in just over a week, Moscow has shut down major airports as a result of Ukrainian drone strikeson the Russian capital...

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russia-war-drone-strikes-shut-down-moscow-airports-again-2023-8

How Moscow drone attack helps ‘shatter the myth’ of Putin’s war

"Why the hell do you let these drones fly to Moscow?" the Russian mercenary leader said in an audio message posted to his Telegram channel. "You were sent to defend this country, you are the Ministry of Defense."

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4027038-how-moscow-drone-attack-helps-shatter-the-myth-of-putins-war/

Communists turn out for protest in Moscow - The Washington Post

The communists had their turn Saturday at protesting the upcoming city elections with a rally at which they attacked both Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party and its liberal opposition. The gathering was heavy on flags and banners whipping in the rain and chill wind, but turnout was only about 4,000, less than a tenth of last week’s big opposition demonstration. Nonetheless, it kept the series of weekly protests over the striking of candidates from the city ballot going for the sixth straight Saturday.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/communists-turn-out-for-protest-in-moscow/2019/08/17/3786ce82-c0ef-11e9-a8b0-7ed8a0d5dc5d_story.html

Why an unbuilt Moscow Trump tower caught Mueller's attention - Reuters

An intriguing area of focus in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Kremlin's role in the 2016 U.S. election is a proposed Moscow real estate deal that Donald Trump pursued while running for president despite denying at the time any links to Russia. ....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-tower-explainer/why-an-unbuilt-moscow-trump-tower-caught-muellers-attention-idUSKCN1QZ159

Trump Tower Moscow was a much larger deal—and potential crime—than anyone has realized - Daily Kos

Despite Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump's multiple claims that there was no "Trump Tower Moscow" deal, it appears that not only was there a deal, but there were extensive plans in place to make it the largest building in all of Europe based on a new set of documents and emails recently released by BuzzFeed News. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1828956

Five things to know about the Trump Tower Moscow proposal - The Hill

Discussions within the Trump Organization during the 2016 presidential campaign about a proposal to build a real estate development in Moscow are a key component of the events being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller...
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/423958-five-things-to-know-about-the-trump-tower-moscow-proposal

Week 15: A Hard Rain Falls on Trump Tower -- POLITICO

The scandal's floodwaters rise with news of an aborted Moscow project during the campaign. ...
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/02/trump-tower-moscow-scandal-swamp-diary-215571?cid=apn

Rachel Maddow Show 8 28 17Collusion or corruption? Debate over new Trump...

The New York Times has uncovered an email from a Trump associate that boasted a Moscow business deal would "get Trump elected."....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1mxgVY49DM

Trump Organization sought business help from Putin while Trump praised him on campaign trail -- ThinkProgress.org

On Monday afternoon, the Washington Post broke news that amid Donald Trump's presidential campaign, one of the Trump Organization's top executives emailed Vladimir Putin's personal spokesman "to ask for help advancing a stalled Trump Tower development project in Moscow."
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-organization-sought-business-help-from-putin-while-trump-praised-him-on-campaign-trail-ccae538cbaa6/

Trump Praises Putin Instead of Critiquing Cuts to U.S. Embassy Staff - The New York Times

President Trump offered gratitude rather than outrage on Thursday for Russia’s decision to force the United States Embassy in Moscow to slash its personnel by 755 people, despite bipartisan condemnation from other American leaders who protested the Cold War-style move.

President Vladimir V. Putin last month ordered the seizure of two American diplomatic properties and directed the American Embassy staff in Russia be cut by more than half in retaliation for sanctions imposed by Congress because of Russia’s meddling in last year’s presidential election in the United States.

“I want to thank him because we’re trying to cut down on payroll, and as far as I’m concerned, I’m very thankful that he let go of a large number of people, because now we have a smaller payroll,” Mr. Trump told reporters...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/world/europe/putin-trump-embassy-russia.html?_r=1