As Russian President Vladimir Putin performs poorly in Ukraine, he will employ every possible tactic to distract the West. This time, Russia, with Serbia’s help, is provoking chaos in Europe’s soft underbelly the Balkans.
Will there be nuclear war? Will Russia win the Ukraine offensive? Will my son survive?
As the Kremlin presses ahead with its military intervention in the pro-Western country, more and more Russians are turning to astrologers.
In Russia’s second city of Saint Petersburg, bespectacled Elena Korolyova receives clients in her apartment, where two cats prowl between piles of books.
“People want to know what will become of Russia, cut off from the rest of world,” the 63-year-old said.
Astrologers, psychics and mediums have for years been popular in Russia, and particularly turbulent years have seen demand for their services increase.
As the country reels
From claiming there’s a Nazi regime in Kyiv, to hiding the number of Russian fatalities and media censorship – Moscow is channeling the rabid ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ in its propaganda blitz, and refuses to use the word ‘war’
Russian hackers appear to have found a new way to get their hands on inside information to profit on stock trades. Rather than hack the actual companies, they allegedly targeted two firms with which thousands of public companies use to make electronic filings for market-moving information, prosecutors say.