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tonakeUpdate, sorry for uh. Taking so long. Nothing feels real, still.
IMPORTANT STUFF: PayPal no longer works in Russia, so I can't accept money through Ko-fi. :c If you'd like to support me financially, it's probably best to wait for now; I'm still looking into ways to leave the country and if I do, I should be more able to receive money.
News in the country: well, everything is going to shit, it feels like 90% of foreign companies have broken off ties (can't blame them, either, but this does mean more unemployment). Analysts also predict a default in April, which... yeah. Fun time. As my coworker jokes, time to dig out the recipes for nettle soup, pea cutlets and dandelion salad.
Not funny news: more and more people are getting arrested/fined/prosecuted for antiwar protests (or anything that even remotely can be qualified as a protest, negative sentiment about the war or the army). They've fined a priest for holding a pro-peace sermon and praying for the safety of Ukrainian people. Also, people who are detained in Moscow (mostly girls in their early 20s) have been beaten/downright tortured (drowning)/threatened with rape by the police after detention. There's one specific station that was particularly brutal, but disdain and verbal abuse from the police happened in other stations, too. It's vile.
There are rumours that Russia might be fully isolated from worldwide Internet, but that's just rumours for now. They're based on the existence of documents sent to some government bodies, but those are supposedly not about disconnecting Russia, they're about ways to keep those government sites from cyberattacks and stuff. Right now it doesn't seem likely, so... I'm safe from that for now. But just in case I got the phone numbers of some American/European friends that I can call or text if it comes to that (hopefully, it will work).
I fucking forgot what else I was going to say. The days are just full of extreme worry/anxiety, placid pools of brain shutting down and ignoring everything for a while, more anxiety, despair, fear. I would like to skip ahead on this episode of history to the point where things are calmer.
IMPORTANT STUFF: PayPal no longer works in Russia, so I can't accept money through Ko-fi. :c If you'd like to support me financially, it's probably best to wait for now; I'm still looking into ways to leave the country and if I do, I should be more able to receive money.
News in the country: well, everything is going to shit, it feels like 90% of foreign companies have broken off ties (can't blame them, either, but this does mean more unemployment). Analysts also predict a default in April, which... yeah. Fun time. As my coworker jokes, time to dig out the recipes for nettle soup, pea cutlets and dandelion salad.
Not funny news: more and more people are getting arrested/fined/prosecuted for antiwar protests (or anything that even remotely can be qualified as a protest, negative sentiment about the war or the army). They've fined a priest for holding a pro-peace sermon and praying for the safety of Ukrainian people. Also, people who are detained in Moscow (mostly girls in their early 20s) have been beaten/downright tortured (drowning)/threatened with rape by the police after detention. There's one specific station that was particularly brutal, but disdain and verbal abuse from the police happened in other stations, too. It's vile.
There are rumours that Russia might be fully isolated from worldwide Internet, but that's just rumours for now. They're based on the existence of documents sent to some government bodies, but those are supposedly not about disconnecting Russia, they're about ways to keep those government sites from cyberattacks and stuff. Right now it doesn't seem likely, so... I'm safe from that for now. But just in case I got the phone numbers of some American/European friends that I can call or text if it comes to that (hopefully, it will work).
I fucking forgot what else I was going to say. The days are just full of extreme worry/anxiety, placid pools of brain shutting down and ignoring everything for a while, more anxiety, despair, fear. I would like to skip ahead on this episode of history to the point where things are calmer.
