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Russia sees spike in Google searches for 'How to leave Russia'
Meduza ^ | September 20, 2022 | Mozhem Obyasnit

Posted on 09/22/2022 5:14:20 PM PDT by Widget Jr

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To: kiryandil
Even though it's accessible in Russia, Google usage is small in comparison to that of Russia's homegrown search engine Yandex.
Similar to Google, Yandex offers a ton of other services including cloud storage, email, music streaming, online payments, maps, news aggregation, and more.

CORRECT!

21 posted on 09/22/2022 6:06:09 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: wardaddy
but in reality Russian media and Internet is more open than our own I never thought I would live to say that it’s effing sad

It's bizarre that we're so totally controlled.

22 posted on 09/22/2022 6:15:44 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Widget Jr
Fifty ways to leave your Russia;

Just slip out the back, Jack

Make a new plan, Stan

Don’t need to be coy, Roy

Hope on the bus, Gus

Drop off the key, Lee…

23 posted on 09/22/2022 6:20:25 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Widget Jr

Yeah. These are all fake.

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/26566


24 posted on 09/22/2022 6:42:27 PM PDT by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: Widget Jr; All

🇺🇸 It was most often for real religious persecution reasons, or due to being Jewish, but I have (in person) personally helped dozens of Russian believers/non-ROC Christian’s, Jewish people, and other Russian friends and students get visa’s to the US (and Israel, as early on Russia didn’t allow for an Israeli Consulate), from the US Embassy in Moscow over the years.

In some cases, because they had been denied medical treatment due to continued participation with Unregistered Evangelical churches, and they or their children were very sick. In some cases it was life and death. Also helped get American MD’s into Russia, who would diagnose and try to treat many persecuted Christians and Jews, and that was through the 1990’s, 2000’s, and 2010’s.

In many cases, it was very hard, as while every Russian has a national passport, of course no Russian could/can travel internationally without a Russian issued International Passport (or for that matter visit or live in any city other than HoR without the passport being registered with local police, which they are charged for daily, and must state the purpose for the visit, where they are staying, and how long they will be there).

Multuple times I had to try and intervene with Russian authorities to get re-issued National and International Passports for Jewish people, and other penalized and persecuted Christians, just to be able to visit Moscow, so they could see Western medical doctors, or even work with the US Embassy.

In some cases our efforts failed.

There were several cases, but we once lost a beautiful little girl, who died due to mercury poisoning, as we couldn’t get treatment for her fast enough. I really really tried. Her parents had lost their healthcare due to being members of an Unregistered Baptist Church, which often met in a forest or chicken coup outside of Moscow. I had the true privilege of visiting that group.

In a more than year long effort to get their healthcare back, they stopped attending the Unregistered Baptist Church. But the authorities just wanted them gone, and just laughed at them while their little girl was clearly dying without help.

Getting National Passports was prerequisite to obtaining International Passports, and was nearly as hard as getting International Passports for US sponsored Russian orphans, so we could get them a visa. In many of those cases, we learned they had been taken from there parents while significantly younger, because their parents had been involved with unregistered Evangelical churches.

In efforts to obtain Russian International Passports for 17 to near 18 year old orphans, we had to establish fake birth dates and always pay bribes, as Russian vital record offices always refused to give us the entirely legal, but required information, or didn’t have any record of them.

My interaction with some of the Christian’s landed me in a Russian jail once, and I was in “diplomatic status”.

Russia and it’s subordinate CIS is full of truly beautiful people, living under a true defined leftist fascist government and economic architecture... 🇺🇸🎚


25 posted on 09/22/2022 6:42:48 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
Why don't you accept that there are people who object to Russia building up excuses to invade, and then invading another country?
26 posted on 09/22/2022 6:48:07 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni 🇺🇦 - Just say no to CCCP 2.0)
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To: wardaddy
In the 2014 Crimea referendum, the choices were “leave now” or “leave later”. “Stay in Ukraine” was not a option. No one other than Russia accepts their referendums in Crimea, Donbas, or Luhansk because they were so obviously rigged.
27 posted on 09/22/2022 6:50:16 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni 🇺🇦 - Just say no to CCCP 2.0)
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To: Widget Jr

28 posted on 09/22/2022 7:41:04 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Faking a google screenshot as if proves anything. Impressive. /s
29 posted on 09/22/2022 8:10:03 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni 🇺🇦 - Just say no to CCCP 2.0)
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To: Widget Jr

It’s a meme dude


30 posted on 09/22/2022 8:25:14 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Widget Jr

How difficult is it to spoof your country of origin to Google when conducting a search? 🤔

Anyone with a virtual private network has that ability.

Sounds more like a state sponsored virtual disinformation campaign than a legitimate organic occurrence.


31 posted on 09/22/2022 8:25:29 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: Jane Long

Google...right.

If I searched for current crime stories a few months ago the news stories of the ambush shootings of officers by thugs were rerouted by Google algorithms to “unarmed black teen shot by police” and other similar stories. Many pages down to the genuine ones of officer killed by thugs.


32 posted on 09/22/2022 8:34:34 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger
If I searched for current crime stories a few months

Oddly* enough, YouTube bombards me with crime stories from around the country. A search for your crime story on YT might provide better results than Google. A search for local news sources are best.

* I do not log in to YouTube, I can’t subscribe , follow or comment but they provide plenty of the content I look for.

33 posted on 09/22/2022 9:08:34 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Widget Jr

I could not get on Aeroflot’s website at all last night. Tried several times, spaced 30+ minutes apart. Same thing tonight, but I also have something going on, on my end, I think, as any webpage I stay on for long freezes, even low data pages like FR. Just lost a long reply to someone. (So I’m posting this quick!)


34 posted on 09/22/2022 10:33:32 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: All; BenLurkin

Russian Vehicles Flock To Georgian Border Following Partial Military Mobilization
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-georgia-border-checkpoint/32046424.html

Government Offices in Russia Set on Fire With Molotov Cocktails—Report
https://www.newsweek.com/government-military-offices-fire-molotov-cocktails-russia-1745395

Belarusians On Mobilization In Russia: We Face Collapse Of Military Machine, Burning Military Enlistment Offices 3
21.09.2022,
https://charter97.org/en/news/2022/9/21/516646/

Saboteurs burn recruitment offices in Russia after Putin announcement
2022-09-22
https://www.elrisala.com/2022/09/22/saboteurs-burn-recruitment-offices-in-russia-after-putin-announcement/

Russian Media Warns Anyone Who Protests Will Be Drafted Into the Military
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-warns-protesters-will-drafted-military-1744983


35 posted on 09/22/2022 10:47:29 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion, )
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To: wardaddy; Widget Jr

36 posted on 09/22/2022 10:48:46 PM PDT by Pelham (World War III is entering on cat's feet. )
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To: All; Right_Wing_Madman; Widget Jr

Thank you for posting your Anti-invasion of Ukraine articles rather than more Putin pals old ‘mad-man’ liberal support.

PUTIN could stop this INVASION any time.

He won’t.

Putin just keeps letting those dead bodies pile up. It’s not like he cares about the Ukraine population, Russian population or even his own military!

I appreciate your your source material. Again thanks


37 posted on 09/22/2022 11:03:43 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion, )
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To: Widget Jr

That’s a bald faced lie just the media trying to destroy western civilization and you now laud their veracity

That is the bright shining lie

Freepers loving the media only because it fits their Soviet bogeyman narrative


38 posted on 09/22/2022 11:36:35 PM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic)
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To: csvset

Google and Youtube use the same basic algorithm. Search for one subject will get you more results on the same subject most likely more radical. Google/youtube are marketing engines first, gotta sell those ads.


39 posted on 09/22/2022 11:44:17 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't rush to your death.)
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To: wardaddy

#38. I’m just doing my part to destroy your faith in all the second rate news sites and blogs which accept what the Russian MOD, Russian Pravda, and TASS say at face value.


40 posted on 09/22/2022 11:50:34 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni 🇺🇦 - Just say no to CCCP 2.0)
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