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Yoshkar-Ola, Russia is mentioned there. I'm from Yoshkar-Ola. This kind of scam business exists here at least since the early 2000s. We were once called the cap
by kgeist 2y ago
Yoshkar-Ola, Russia is mentioned there. I'm from Yoshkar-Ola. This kind of scam business exists here at least since the early 2000s. We were once called the capital of such scam business in Russia. I didn't know it's still a thing. One of my acquaintances worked there in around 2005-2007. It was mostly students renting an appartment, rows of PCs. He left right before they were raided by police. Some British individual reported to our authorities and law enforcement acted on it. Never heard about them ever since, before this article.
It's kinda sad that we're associated mostly with Prigozhin in the West (the first thing the OP remembered), although we have other interesting stuff, for example we have probably the last remaining, still practiced pagan religion in Europe: https://hwpi.harvard.edu/pluralismarchive/news/europes-last-pagans-worship-marii-el-grove https://hwpi.harvard.edu/pluralismarchive/news/europes-last-...
- thaumasiotes 2y agoI recently encountered a YouTube video talking about a related industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYup8chgkwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYup8chgkwM It seems to be a similar idea, but with the scamming hidden in less-obviously-illegal places.
- H8crilA 2y ago[flagged]
- kgeist 2y agoPrigozhin visited one of our prisons once; that’s the only violence there is. The paganism is not Slavic, it's Uralic. Local indigenous people are related to the Finns.
- bufferoverflow 2y ago"Prigozhin visited one of our prisons once; that’s the only violence there is". No, it's not.
- sat0ri 2y agoHate to be pedantic, but it's definitely not slavic paganism. Finno-Ugric, maybe.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoAs far as I know, known sources for Slavic paganism are terrible, so finding extant practitioners would be a huge deal.
- dullcrisp 2y agoBit rude but okay
- dang 2y agoNationalistic flamewars are not allowed on Hacker News. No more of this, please, regardless of which nation you have a problem with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mgfist 2y ago> It's kinda sad that we're associated mostly with Prigozhin in the West Unfortunately, Pringles had such a hilarious (in a dark way) last few years that it makes it very hard to compete with.
- shatsky 2y agoYoshkar-Ola itself is a forgery, just google for its photos and name of that embankment street (no offence, just kidding, I even kinda like it, hope they didn't destroy some valuable authentic architecture to build it).
- orbital-decay 2y agoI've happened to visit the city on a few occasions since 2000, before and after. They didn't destroy anything valuable (I think) as it was pretty generic before, but that fake embankment is bizarrely out of place indeed. They even have a bootleg Neuschwanstein castle, which is kind of ironic, considering that the original is also closer to being a forgery than to some authentic medieval castle.
- inemesitaffia 2y agoWasn't Pringles right hand man pagan?