There's a Russian radio station that has been broadcasting without interruption for nearly half a century, and nobody officially says why. It's called UVB-76, but it's popularly known as „The Buzzer" - because around the clock it puts out a monotonous buzzing signal. From time to time, however, the silence is broken by short coded messages, and those are exactly what have fueled theories for decades.

On June 24, the station aired two such messages. At 9:11 Moscow time, the word „Amilovkus" appeared, and five minutes later, at 9:16, a second message with the word „Rđanje". The transmissions were logged by a Telegram channel that tracks the station's activity around the clock.

What do the codes mean? Nobody knows for sure. Over the years, all kinds of theories have piled up - that the station serves military intelligence communication, that it's part of a system for triggering a nuclear response, even fantastical guesses about alien communication. There's no official explanation, and that's exactly what feeds the mystery.

At a time when Russia and the West have been at their lowest point for years, every signal like this from Moscow takes on a weight it may not even deserve. Maybe it's a routine check, maybe an ordinary military drill - but when they tell you nothing, the imagination fills in the gaps on its own. And in geopolitics, silence sometimes scares more than words.