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Hearing-impaired Russian woman killed after hearing aid mistaken for espionage device (novayagazeta.eu)

submitted 1 week ago by Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23429977

A court in Russia’s second city St. Petersburg has placed a military cadet in pretrial detention after he allegedly murdered a hearing-impaired woman whose hearing aid he mistook for espionage equipment, local news outlet 78.Ru reported on Tuesday.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240925122516/https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/09/25/hearing-impaired-russian-woman-killed-after-hearing-aid-mistaken-for-espionage-device-en-news

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

reminds me of this funny story of when the soviets made asses of the us govt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This is fascinating, thanks for the link

[–] Streetlights@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Credit where credit is due, that device was sublime in it's ingenuity. It took the CIA almost 20 years to build their own!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Easy_Chair