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Russian is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 11, 2023 and November 05, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Soviet / Russian universities”; “Russian prospects in Ukraine better under Trump”. It most often appears alongside Democrats, Trump, Ukraine.

Metadata

• Category: Concepts
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: August 11, 2023
• Last seen: November 05, 2024

Appears In

• Highlights From The Comments On Putin
• Mantic Monday: Judgment Day

Related Pages

• • Democrats (2 shared issues)
• • Trump (2 shared issues)
• • Ukraine (2 shared issues)
• • 1993 Russian constitutional crisis (1 shared issues)
• • 2011 parliamentary election (1 shared issues)
• • 2011-2014 protests (1 shared issues)
• • 11 was an inside job (1 shared issues)
• • Aaron Peskin (1 shared issues)
• • Aksenenko (1 shared issues)
• • Alexei (1 shared issues)
• • Alexey Navalny (1 shared issues)
• • Alistair Young (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://akarlin.substack.com/p/regathering-of-the-russian-lands?utm_source=url
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/classifieds-thread-62022/comment/6906697?s=w
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-216/comment/5641247?s=w
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-216/comment/5641444?s=w
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-216/comment/5642315?s=w
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-216/comment/5643253?s=w
• • https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/07/01/there-is-no-ukraine-fact-checking-the-kremlins-version-of-ukrainian-history/
• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Putin

August 11, 2023 · Original source

1. The most likely reason why Putin was accepted to the university, in my opinion, is because he was quite decent in sports (his official biography says he twice won city competitions during his university studies), and Soviet / Russian universities sometimes admit and keep mediocre students who are good in sports to score some cookie points with the higher authorities (saw that during my studies myself). For what I know from my dad, who did his university studies in USSR in 70's as well, KGB used to approach students in their second or third year of studies, and they usually tried to enlist the most mediocre ones (which kinda fits Putin's description), so I think it's most likely he was enlisted to KGB while studying.

I'm reluctant to play the person instead the ball, but Masha Gessen isn't a brilliant choice for a biographer of Putin. The Gessen siblings come from a particular milieu of Russian expatriates in New York, strategically fostered by the nickel magnate Mikhail Prokhorov. He was a m

Perhaps Philip Short's or Steven Lee Myers's books might have been the better choice, a little more detached from Russian inside baseball. (Or perhaps inside basketball; there's a Nets joke in there somewhere)

Mantic Monday: Judgment Day

November 05, 2024 · Original source

Russian prospects in Ukraine better under Trump (75%) than Harris (40%)

Backlinks

• Concepts: R
• Highlights From The Comments On Putin
• Mantic Monday: Judgment Day