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What is happening with the Internet in Russia

22 May 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/ad44V40bBXXU4227 Control is called the norm when restrictions are called freedom. "The Internet will return to normal when there is no need for security measures." "Now there is a situation wher...

Degradation Formula: An Investigation into where Russian Engineers Disappear to

20 May 2026 16 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/af3pUyB-pn09SbYL Moscow, April 2026. The text is based on reports by RAS academician Robert Nigmatulin, economists Abel Aganbegyan and Andrey Klepach, as well as open data from Rosstat, the Bank...

An economy on the rocks: how Russia lost 30 years and what to do

17 May 2026 4 minute read 4 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/af21RSIefiV4hqKS "Even an enemy wouldn't do that!" An economy in ruins: why we have become a country of couriers and how to break this circle. This publication is based on an analysis of data from 2026, repor...

Digital Exodus: How Russia is Losing its IT Future

17 May 2026 11 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/afzsWFF-On7b0KGV "The Last Byte: Chronicles of the Digital Exodus." A one-way ticket for IT. May 2026 was the month when Moscow finally turned into the ruins of a digital empire. Not the ruins o...

Russians are preparing for the worst, because they no longer expect the best.

16 May 2026 5 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/ad_f_IUyT2yYFG66 The future is not determined solely by poll numbers. It is created by our actions here and now. According to surveys from the CSP "Platforma" + "OnIn", "Map of Faith and Hope",...

Two voices in the void: Nigmatulin and Bonya on the crisis in Russia

16 May 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aeC_eAJQnG44gA36 Two voices, one alarm. We have reached a situation where the Kremlin publicly reacts to Victoria Boni's appeal, but does not comment on Dmitry Muratov's speeches or Robert Nigma...

One-way ticket: why the Russian IT business stopped "tolerating" and began evacuation

12 May 2026 9 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/afzT2cORJlFGmx-G "Finished off in a month." Why are even those who held out until the last, taking IT teams away from Russia with their families? May 2026. I just talked to a team leader I know from the Mosco...

Awakening The Dragon

12 May 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

The saying attributed to Napoleon, "Do not awaken the Chinese dragon, for when it awakens it will shake the world," has for some time been complemented by the question, "How can the dragon be calmed when it awakens?" The Western world is undecided be...

"Yes, turn off this VPN already": how they pretend in Russia that they don't forbid anything

8 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/aeKBzlYsh1cFV3dH Operators and marketplaces began to strangle VPN users. Users of Russian services are increasingly facing restrictions when using VPNs. So, when you launch the MTS application, a notificatio...

Why don't they lower the price for bad Internet in Russia, even though it often doesn't work?

8 May 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/aeNzeQ9cm0ccnSZQ Bad Internet in Russia: when it is possible to achieve recalculation, and when not. Why don't you get a discount when you slow down or turn off the Internet? There is a lot of contradictory a...