From "Sketches of Russian Women's History" (1871):
In Cossack stanitsas (villages) one can see naked men dancing in the street, surrounded by a crowd of women, girls and children. One Cossack woman drank herself to the skin: wishing to collect money for vodka, she burnt her membrum and went naked through the village to collect donations for the burnt place; everyone was delighted by this joke and the Cossack woman was not left without vodka.
Lenta.ru: The USSR's nuclear weapons appeared by God's Providence in the cloister of Seraphim of Sarov. This was stated by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'.
A Wagner group mercenaries received an offer to fight for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, one of them told EANews.ru [it's a local news agency from the Ural region of Russia] on the terms of anonymity. According to them, wagners were offered a salary of 650,000 rub (roughly 6,700 usd) per month.
@russia@israel it would be really nice if it turns out to be a hoax, but most of the previous leaks from the Wagner's mercenaries were later confirmed, as far as I can tell, so... we'll see
His essay for @aeonmag is currently in my reading list:
Praying in shoes "The Sunni movement of Salafism was born at the beginning of the 20th century, with the goal of modelling life on the 7th" (by Aaron Rock-Singer):