Updates from July, 2026

  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness 12:21 pm on July 12, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    Russian Woman Says She Borrowed Friend’s Disabled Child to Skip Gas Station Queue

    A Russian woman has gone viral after posting a video in which she claims she borrowed a friend’s child with a disability to avoid waiting in line at a gas station.

    In the video, she says they brought the child’s disability certificate, allowing them to use a priority fuel pump reserved for people with disabilities and special-service vehicles.

    “That feeling when you need to fill up your car, so you bring along a friend’s child with a disability. We took the disability certificate, and now we’re going to get fuel without waiting in line. Life hack.”

    She later explains that staff directed them to a dedicated reserve pump, where they were able to refuel without joining the regular queue.

     
  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness 9:50 am on July 12, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    Russia’s Ministry of Education says a child’s desire to eat gummy candy shaped like worms is “not appropriate.”

    The statement appears in methodological recommendations sent by the ministry to Russian regions.

    The document says that candy shaped like worms, blood or feces can influence children’s food choices through advertising and foreign online content, including Halloween-themed videos.

    Source: Life.ru, citing a Ministry of Education letter obtained by TASS

     
  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness 7:49 pm on July 11, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    This is what gas-station lines have come to… allegedly.
    A man rides a unicycle while remotely driving a toy car that tows his dog in a wheeled chair.
    The clip is being shared online as a joke about Russia’s fuel shortages and long queues at gas stations.

     
  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness 1:48 pm on July 11, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    Authorities in the Russian city of Orenburg have praised municipal workers from Africa, saying they outperform local employees.

    Mayor Albert Yumadilov said the workers are willing to take on difficult and dirty jobs and even work on Sundays.

    He also complained that hiring workers from North Korea would be too expensive, saying they wanted nearly 170,000 rubles a month — about $2,200 for street-cleaning jobs, roughly three times more than the city was prepared to pay.

     
  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness 12:32 pm on July 11, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    Selling Homemade Gasoline.

    An AI-generated meme poking fun at Russia’s fuel shortages.

    Putin recently supported the idea of expanding a network of small local oil refineries, arguing they could supply remote regions and be harder to disrupt than major plants.

    The meme takes that idea literally: a villager selling “homemade” AI-92, AI-95, AI-98, and AI-100 gas in glass jars by the roadside.

     
  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness 10:33 am on July 11, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    An Irkutsk retiree has reportedly turned his home into a vodka museum.

    He began collecting unusual vodka bottles in 1975, and his collection has now grown to 2,875 bottles.

    The bottles are arranged by name and theme. Among the more unusual examples are Playboy vodka, Japanese vodka, sea-themed vodka, oat vodka, and cucumber vodka.

    The collection fills cabinets, walls, windowsills, and even the bathroom, but the retiree is still searching for new additions.

    Source: Gazeta.ru

     
  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness 6:34 pm on July 10, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    Parents in Russia are reportedly leaving their kids to hold places in line at gas stations as fuel shortages linked to Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries continue.

     
  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness 6:22 pm on July 10, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    Russians are reportedly turning to psychics to solve the fuel crisis.

    For a fee, they promise to reduce gas consumption, magically turn AI-92 into AI-100, “attract gasoline,” sell $196 protective amulets, search cars for “energy needles” for $118, or cast two-week fuel spells for $209.

    Fuel shortages linked to Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries have reportedly fueled demand for such services.

     
  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness 1:09 pm on July 8, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    A Moscow woman has given birth to her 16th child.

    The newborn is the family’s ninth son. The parents are also raising seven daughters.

    The baby was born at Bauman City Clinical Hospital No. 29, weighing about 9.3 pounds and measuring roughly 22 inches.

    Both the mother and child are reportedly doing well.

    Source: Moscow City News Agency

     
  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness 7:53 am on July 8, 2026 Permalink | | Reply
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    “Spiral of Gopnik Swagger,” 2022
    Art by Daniil Kudryashov

     
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