Scott Rose
@rprose.bsky.social
News product at Bloomberg. Before that, was in Moscow for 15 years with @bloomberg.com & @themoscowtimes.com. Mostly Russia news & chess. Views are mine
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
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My piece on the dramatic changes inside Russian schools since 2022, with weapons training in the classroom and a push from kindergarten to prepare soldiers for future conflicts. “They are preparing kids ideologically & psychologically for war,” said @irgarner.bsky.social www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Putin Is Turning Eighth-Grade Classrooms Into Army Training Grounds
A vast militarization of the education system is gathering pace in Russian classrooms, where students are trained to handle weapons by active soldiers.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My piece on the dramatic changes inside Russian schools since 2022, with weapons training in the classroom and a push from kindergarten to prepare soldiers for future conflicts. “They are preparing kids ideologically & psychologically for war,” said @irgarner.bsky.social www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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The Bell (en.thebell.io), the leading independent media covering Russia's economy, has joined Substack!
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Inside the Russian Economy | Substack
The Bell is the leading independent media covering the Russian economy. Founded in 2017 by a team of experienced editors, The Bell's experts write two newsletters each week with analysis of the most i...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Bell (en.thebell.io), the leading independent media covering Russia's economy, has joined Substack!
We will be publishing, for a limited period of time, our English-language newsletters in full.
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was anyone else even trying to coin words and phrases in Shakespeare's time... seems like dude was pretty much racking up points unopposed. just scoopin em off the ground. beast with two backs. anybody could've thought of that
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
was anyone else even trying to coin words and phrases in Shakespeare's time... seems like dude was pretty much racking up points unopposed. just scoopin em off the ground. beast with two backs. anybody could've thought of that
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‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
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the main concern is that with my genetic data the government can make a tiny clone of me that they can torture to get even more of my data
March 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
the main concern is that with my genetic data the government can make a tiny clone of me that they can torture to get even more of my data
James Bond dies in all the new movies now. It's OK. Everyone said it's fine
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
James Bond dies in all the new movies now. It's OK. Everyone said it's fine
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Researchers at Google DeepMind used our free puzzle database and reinforcement learning to train a model to generate creative chess puzzles.
➡️ Read more on this by Tom Zahavy from the DeepMind discovery team: lichess.org/@/tomas135/b...
➡️ Read more on this by Tom Zahavy from the DeepMind discovery team: lichess.org/@/tomas135/b...
AI-Generated Chess Puzzles
A new research by the Discovery team at @GoogleDeepMind using RL and generative models to discover creative chess puzzles
lichess.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Researchers at Google DeepMind used our free puzzle database and reinforcement learning to train a model to generate creative chess puzzles.
➡️ Read more on this by Tom Zahavy from the DeepMind discovery team: lichess.org/@/tomas135/b...
➡️ Read more on this by Tom Zahavy from the DeepMind discovery team: lichess.org/@/tomas135/b...
I quit Twitter just about a year ago, and one of the last things I posted about there was a live stream where Kramnik and Naroditsky spoke at length on Levitov's Russian-language channel. Kramnik more or less agreed to drop it, and then almost immediately went back on his word.
So, yeah. Finally.
So, yeah. Finally.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has formally submitted a complaint to the FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) naming former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik as the respondent.
The referral follows concern in the chess community about repeated public allegations
The referral follows concern in the chess community about repeated public allegations
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I quit Twitter just about a year ago, and one of the last things I posted about there was a live stream where Kramnik and Naroditsky spoke at length on Levitov's Russian-language channel. Kramnik more or less agreed to drop it, and then almost immediately went back on his word.
So, yeah. Finally.
So, yeah. Finally.
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The individual detailed in Russian media as a Bellingcat reporter has never worked for us in any capacity and we do not know who they are.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The individual detailed in Russian media as a Bellingcat reporter has never worked for us in any capacity and we do not know who they are.
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Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
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just another day at work welding various weapons to The Machine. we're all pretty curious what we're building it for. they said they might turn it on soon
June 26, 2024 at 3:23 PM
just another day at work welding various weapons to The Machine. we're all pretty curious what we're building it for. they said they might turn it on soon
approximate breakdown of accounts I've blocked on bluesky
-racism/hatred - (2%)
-crypto/spam - (1%)
-arguing with jokes - (2%)
-mangled AI-generated images of chess sets - (95%)
-racism/hatred - (2%)
-crypto/spam - (1%)
-arguing with jokes - (2%)
-mangled AI-generated images of chess sets - (95%)
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
approximate breakdown of accounts I've blocked on bluesky
-racism/hatred - (2%)
-crypto/spam - (1%)
-arguing with jokes - (2%)
-mangled AI-generated images of chess sets - (95%)
-racism/hatred - (2%)
-crypto/spam - (1%)
-arguing with jokes - (2%)
-mangled AI-generated images of chess sets - (95%)
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I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
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Heart-warming story of the day on.ft.com/47Kk7dz
How this 31-year-old made $250mn in 30 months
[FREE TO READ] Christopher Eppinger kept trading Russian oil when sanctions meant others stopped
on.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Heart-warming story of the day on.ft.com/47Kk7dz
The new Chessbase is jumping from version 18 to version '26. Release notes are like, new, opening report, you can prepare for your opponents, and something something club players too
counting on you @anishgiri.bsky.social
counting on you @anishgiri.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The new Chessbase is jumping from version 18 to version '26. Release notes are like, new, opening report, you can prepare for your opponents, and something something club players too
counting on you @anishgiri.bsky.social
counting on you @anishgiri.bsky.social
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In a first-of-its-kind trial in Ukraine, Russian soldier Dmitri Kurashov was convicted by a court of executing Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Hodniuk as he surrendered on the battlefield and sentenced to life imprisonment.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
🚨NEW @financialtimes.com investigation reveals evidence that Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs are likely part of a systematic policy. And we uncover the identity of a Russian soldier likely involved in filming and carrying out the mass execution of 6 POWs.
📽️WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
📽️WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
'Film me!’: Russia's executions of Ukrainian POWs points to a policy | FT Film
YouTube video by Financial Times
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In a first-of-its-kind trial in Ukraine, Russian soldier Dmitri Kurashov was convicted by a court of executing Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Hodniuk as he surrendered on the battlefield and sentenced to life imprisonment.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
there were a lot of good sandwich jokes but this one, while the bread was still fresh, remains my favorite
bsky.app/profile/frov...
bsky.app/profile/frov...
ME: i’ll have a foot long turkey sub
SANDWICH ARTIST: for here or to throw
SANDWICH ARTIST: for here or to throw
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
there were a lot of good sandwich jokes but this one, while the bread was still fresh, remains my favorite
bsky.app/profile/frov...
bsky.app/profile/frov...
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Oh just get the calipers out, this is taking forever
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Oh just get the calipers out, this is taking forever
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If only @nytimes.com was all Chris Chivers and Finbarr O’Reillys. Extremely brave, professional and possessing exceptional clarity and insight. I can’t believe they did this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...
A Harrowing Escape From the Drone-Infested Hellscape of Ukraine’s Front Lines
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If only @nytimes.com was all Chris Chivers and Finbarr O’Reillys. Extremely brave, professional and possessing exceptional clarity and insight. I can’t believe they did this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...
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🧵Today is the 10th anniversary of one of Washington’s most persistent unsolved mysteries: the death of Mikhail Lesin. A former Putin media minister who built the Russia Today, Lesin’s body was found in the Dupont Circle Hotel on Nov. 5, 2015.
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🧵Today is the 10th anniversary of one of Washington’s most persistent unsolved mysteries: the death of Mikhail Lesin. A former Putin media minister who built the Russia Today, Lesin’s body was found in the Dupont Circle Hotel on Nov. 5, 2015.
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We're still gathering applications for this job, if you haven't seen it and are interested.
Our VI team does a very wide range of work -- it's not all just conflict reporting (though we do plenty of that). A handful of recent stories for an idea of our range of coverage:
Our VI team does a very wide range of work -- it's not all just conflict reporting (though we do plenty of that). A handful of recent stories for an idea of our range of coverage:
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We're still gathering applications for this job, if you haven't seen it and are interested.
Our VI team does a very wide range of work -- it's not all just conflict reporting (though we do plenty of that). A handful of recent stories for an idea of our range of coverage:
Our VI team does a very wide range of work -- it's not all just conflict reporting (though we do plenty of that). A handful of recent stories for an idea of our range of coverage: