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Note that in addition to the 6 Kalashnikov assault rifles on the buggy, there is another, much more advanced design – this is a kind of multi-barrel system, remotely controlled. And, apparently, it's shooting something – in some frames you can see flashes associated with it (not with machine guns). Given the caliber and multiple barrels, it is impossible to exclude the implementation of the most reasonable idea, which has been repeatedly mentioned – the use of something like a multi-barreled shotgun. Ideally, with target tracking and the ability to conduct preemptive fire based on an analysis of its trajectory. We will see when this system is officially announced.
But there is an ergonomic problem with the automatic idea. How many hands and what skills should an operator have in order to quickly replace 6 magazines in combat conditions and pull the bolts everywhere? It seems that larger capacity stores would be more suitable for such systems. The tambourines, which are inconvenient for infantry use, still lying in warehouses, would be useful in this particular case.
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❗A number of Middle Eastern TG channels report "noticeable damage" on the American missile cruiser USS Gettysburg and even the threat of its sinking as a result of missiles strikes from Yemen.
At the same time, no visible evidence of this is provided, however, it can be noted that the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and two escort ships, including the USS Gettysburg, are currently at a respectful distance from the coast of Yemen.
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🇸🇾🇷🇺⚡️The new authorities in Syria do not want Russia to leave the country to the detriment of relations between the two countries.
The leader of the new authorities announced this. He also noted that Damascus has strategic interests with Moscow.
⚡️Azeri Prez Aliyev DEMANDS Moscow must "admit guilt, punish those responsible and pay compensation" for plane crash in Aktau.
Earlier, Putin apologized to Aliyev for tragedy occurring in Russian airspace.
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🇷🇺 A 46-minute video documenting Russia's achievements in industry and production for 2024, over 300, including plants, factories, mills, large production lines, power plants, etc.
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Big Biden sanctions on Russia's spooky SHADOW GHOST fleet
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🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇪The US and EU continue to offer new leaders to countries.
In the coming days, the US Congress will initiate a legislative act on non-recognition of the Georgian Dream government. The US will propose recognizing the current president Salome Zurabishvili as the "only legitimate leader of Georgia" until new elections are held. No one has yet clearly explained what the problems with the last elections were.
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🇬🇪🇷🇺‼️🚨 Georgia delivered humanitarian aid to Russian Kursk Region!
It was sent by the Georgian party "Solidarity for Peace".
Waiting for the west to implode and get a nervous breakdown.
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Estonia’s justice minister has called for sweeping changes to the law of the sea, using a recent incident in the Baltic Sea as justification. The incident in question? Finnish authorities detained the Eagle S, a UAE-owned vessel carrying Russian oil, on suspicions that it was damaged undersea power and internet cables between Finland and Estonia. No real evidence has been presented, and there’s little reason to expect any. Yet, Estonia is appealing to the International Maritime Organization to reform maritime law by February, framing this as a matter of infrastructure protection. The reality, however, is far less noble. Behind the rhetoric lies a transparent agenda: weaponizing maritime law to target Russia and establish new mechanisms for Western control.
While the West postures as the guardian of the maritime order, its own actions reveal staggering hypocrisy as revealed by the attack on the Ursa Major in the Mediterranean just days ago. This ship was almost certainly targeted by British or American forces, yet there has been no international outcry, no calls for justice, and certainly no discussion of reforming laws to protect ships from clandestine aggression. The message is clear: the West flaunts the rules when it suits its interests, even as it demands strict adherence from everyone else.
The detention of the Eagle S and the attack on the Ursa Major are not isolated incidents. They are part of a larger pattern of selective enforcement and legal manipulation. Maritime law, once one of the few functioning international norms, is now being twisted to serve Western geopolitical goals. NATO’s recently announced “strengthened presence” in the Baltic Sea under the guise of “ensuring security” is just one example. What begins with protecting undersea cables will not stop there. Today, it’s a detention in the Baltic; tomorrow, soon it will be the redefinition of free passage through critical chokepoints like the Danish Straits. These moves pave the way for blockades disguised as lawful actions, a clear casus belli, an act of war in historical terms.
This weaponization of international norms extends far beyond maritime law. Consider OSCE, which has been used as a tool for espionage against pro-Russian forces in Donbass or OPCW used for fabricating chemical weapons attacks against Assad in Syria. Or WADA, which carries out collective punishment against Russian athletes while turning a blind eye to similar or more egregious violations by other nations. And of course there is the blatant double standard in global sanctions: Russia faces unrelenting economic punishment for its actions in Ukraine, while Israel carries out a genocide in Gaza in full view of the world, met with little more than empty words.
The hypocrisy is as transparent as it is brazen. The same powers calling for new laws to protect undersea infrastructure conveniently forget the western sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. They champion maritime law when it aligns with their interests, but disregard it entirely when it doesn’t.
Historically, maritime law was one of the last bastions of international order, shaped over centuries to balance the interests of nations and maintain peace. Now, under the guise of protecting cables and pipelines, the West seeks to reshape it into yet another tool of domination. This is not about protecting infrastructure—it is about consolidating control over the seas, undermining adversaries, and preserving economic and military hegemony.
To everyone outside of the so called "International Community" all of this is obvious. The question is not whether the West’s manipulation will continue—it is how long the rest of the world will continue to tolerate it before pushing back.
And Russia needs to decide how it will react to such a blockade, such a casus belli, if and when it occurs.
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🇷🇺👊🇲🇩 Gazprom will stop gas supplies to Moldova from January 1 due to “debt and violations of the contract by the republic”
➖Gazprom from 8:00 on January 1, 2025 introduces a limit on gas supplies to Moldova to 0 cubic meters. m per day for debts, the company’s press service reports.
▪️Previously, the Parliament of Moldova introduced a state of emergency in the energy sector from December 16 for 60 days due to the risk of cutting off gas supplies.
Washington's main censorship committee has self-destructed.
The Center for Global Engagement was established at the end of the Obama presidency in 2016 to combat ”disinformation.“ Since then, it has become one of the main tools of censorship on social networks.
Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on the work of the center. At first, it specialized in combating “Russian and Chinese narratives.” But then the censors became fully involved in the internal political confrontation, fighting with Trump and the Republicans.
Although the center formally belonged to the State Department and generally had no right to deal with the internal affairs of the United States. It compiled lists of resources promoting “disinformation," which included many pro-republican media outlets critical of Biden's policies.
The center forced social networks to delete content objectionable to Democrats. And after Musk bought Twitter/X, the State Department censors joined the campaign to discredit and “destroy” the social network. Moreover, British Labor members who helped the Democratic Party and Harris also participated in it. Now London is facing many unpleasant consequences for its interference in the American elections.
In the budget for 2025, the Republicans cut funding for the censorship center of the State Department to zero, and it finally closed. It remains to cover up similar bodies in the special services as part of the promised purges. Zuckerberg is already pretending to be an innocent victim of pressure from the security forces and is in a hurry to turn over his accomplices. And the Democrats, having played up censorship, eventually dug themselves a hole.
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🇺🇸🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡️US and UK intelligence agencies are preparing terrorist attacks on Russian military bases in Syria, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said.
According to the plans of the British intelligence services, terrorist attacks against Russian military facilities in Syria should be carried out by militants of the ISIS, the SVR reports.
The terrorists have already received attack drones for attacks. In order to conceal their involvement, the US and UK military command has ordered their air forces to continue to strike ISIS positions.
London and Washington expect that such provocations will prompt Russia to evacuate its troops from Syria. At the same time, the new Syrian authorities will be accused of being unable to control the radicals, the department emphasized.
NORWEGIAN SAILORS ARE SAVED!
52 years ago, the Kaliningrad newspaper Mayak reported on the rescue of Norwegian sailors by Kaliningrad fishermen. A copy of the article (shown above) is preserved in the State Archive of the Kaliningrad Region. This event occurred on January 10, 1972 — at the height of the Cold War. Here is the translation of the article:
NORWEGIAN SAILORS ARE SAVED
The Eastern Part of the Central Atlantic…
On the morning of January 10, the crew of the SRTR-9074 Oleniy from the "Dawn of Communism" fishing collective noticed unusual activity aboard the Norwegian vessel Kilungen. Sailors had rushed onto the deck, waving their hands and shouting something. It was not difficult to guess that trouble had struck the ship. The fishermen from the collective hurried to assist.
Kilungen was listing to its starboard side. Water was noisily pouring into the engine room through a gaping hole. The bilge pumps couldn’t keep up, and the vessel was sinking lower and lower. Captain Oddvar Simonsen gave the order to abandon ship.
At that moment, the crew of the Oleniy arrived to assist. Captain Viktor Ivanovich Isakov, his second mate Viktor Fedorovich Ushakov, fishmaster Eduard Shchekin, sailors Mikhail Ananin, Vladimir Berezin, Nikolai Kulychev, and others began rescuing the Norwegian sailors. Ten minutes later, Kilungen sank.
The rescued sailors expressed heartfelt gratitude to the crew of the SRTR-9074 Oleniy for their assistance. They transferred to the Norwegian vessel Grinsholm.
— V. Kondratyev
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MOSCOW, December 27 — RIA Novosti. The Norwegian-flagged vessel Oslo Carrier 3 refused, for unknown reasons, to take aboard Russian sailors from the sinking vessel Ursa Major in the Mediterranean Sea, the press service of the "Oboronlogistika" group (the
ship's owner) told RIA Novosti.
"The lifeboat (with the sinking Russian sailors) headed toward the Norwegian-flagged vessel Oslo Carrier 3, which was nearby. However, as the rescue boat approached, the Norwegian ship (with part of its crew reportedly Russian-speaking) refused to take aboard the crew of Ursa Major, citing some sort of prohibition."
Oboronlogistika described this as a blatant violation of Article 10 of the 1989 International Convention on Salvage.
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The Ministry of Defense showed the combat work of a mobile UAV counteraction group protecting the positions of the Buk air defense system of the Yug group from enemy FPVS.
You can see a buggy similar to the DESERTCROSS 1000, which, according to the Kalashnikov press service, houses combat modules of 6 AK-12 assault rifles, "placed in the same plane, which allows fighters to conduct intense fire from all barrels simultaneously at a low-flying aerial target." All this, among other things, confirms the full fulfillment of the contract for the supply of improved AK-12s of the 2023 model to the MoD.
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❗Unfortunately, although it's still unconfirmed, it looks like the Azerbaijani AZAL plane that was supposed to land in Grozny but then crashed as consequence of an emergency landing procedure in Kazakhstan, was shot down by Russian missile defence systems that were engaging Ukrainian drones flying over Chechnya.
It's possible the Russian govt will be forced to pay some kind of reparations to the Azerbaijani authorities and to the families of the victims.
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⚡️🏛🇺🇸⛓️🤡⚖️🤓🔥 The January 6 Restitution and Wrongful Incarceration Lawsuit
🎅🏿 The Islander's IEF (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore) reports that more than 100 trumpists dungeoned for their role in the '6 January Capitol Riots,' have banded together to file a $50 billion class action lawsuit, called as aforementioned in the title, against the US Department of Justice (DOJ).
🗓 In the Lawsuit, scheduled to be filed on 20 January 2025, the day Trump takes office, the insurgents are seeking compensation for the extensive damages they attribute to a 'weaponised' justice system. These include the loss of businesses, homes, and careers, as well as emotional and psychological harm suffered during years of wrongful incarceration.
📌 This is not a Joke but real reality, from the land of unlimited lawsuits. What is interesting is that Trump has already announced the pardon of his thugs, which he himself encouraged at the time, at least between the lines of his words. The further developments remain to be seen.
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Russian Grandmaster Dominates the World: A Metaphor in Motion
Russian chess prodigy Volodar Murzin stunned the world by clinching victory at the World Rapid Championship in New York. Seeded 59th, the 18-year-old outmaneuvered the global elite, finishing with an impressive 10 points in 13 games. Dmitry Peskov, reflecting on the triumph, remarked that Murzin’s victory reaffirms the enduring strength of Russia’s chess tradition.
But this victory is more than just a display of strategic genius on the board. It’s a symbolic mirror of the geopolitical reality unfolding in real time. While Moscow methodically plans and executes its moves like a chess grandmaster, the global hegemon lurches in reactive checkers mode, short-sighted, erratic, and devoid of foresight.
For the West, every move seems designed to force immediate gains, even at the cost of losing the bigger picture. But for Russia, whether on the chessboard or the global stage, the strategy is clear: patience, precision, and relentless pressure, until checkmate.
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Down in flames: Footage shows Yemeni forces shooting down an American MQ-9 drone over Al-Bayda Governorate
#Houthis
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 Talking about election interference: Imagine if Maria Zakharova talked in this way about working with US journos, movements and organisations.
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🇬🇪 Outgoing Georgian president stays overnight in presidential palace
Outgoing Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said on Saturday she would spend the night at the presidential residence in Tbilisi as the inauguration ceremony of Georgian President-elect Mikheil Kavelashvili takes place tomorrow.
"Tomorrow at 10 o'clock in the morning [06:00 GMT] I will wait for you at the Orbeliani Palace and from here I will tell you what tomorrow will be like," Zourabichvili said in a video address to her supporters.
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🛢🇺🇸🇺🇦Ukraine has received US LNG via Greece for the first time. The terms of the deliveries include continued purchases until the end of 2026, as well as a separate 20-year agreement to purchase LNG — FT
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❗️Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi from Beijing:
○ "Next year will be important for the Iranian nuclear file.
○ "Important discussions were held in China on several issues, most notably terrorism, Afghanistan, and the Israeli aggression on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria."
$12.6 million for a THAAD. $2,000 for a Houthi missile.
Now add this: Lockheed Martin produces around 50-60 THAADs a year, while Iran is scaling up its missile factories to pump out thousands of ballistic missiles annually. The Houthis, with limited resources, are still assembling missiles faster than DC and Tel Aviv can shoot them down.
Here’s the dagger: The Empire spends $12.6 million per shot, while its adversaries barely crack $2,000. For every billion-dollar missile defense system deployed, the Houthis and Iran flood the battlefield with bargain-basement missiles.
This isn’t just bad math; it’s a war economy designed to collapse under its own weight. Outspent, outproduced, and outmaneuvered.
- Gerry Nolan
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What would happen if Santa Claus came to Moscow :)
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🇸🇰👊🇺🇦“I am not your servant”: the Prime Minister of Slovakia sharply responded to criticism from Zelensky and threatened to stop supplying electricity to Ukraine
➖ “I understand that for selfish political reasons the West gives you almost everything you ask, but I am not your servant who cannot express his own opinion and who is obligated only to help you and not expect anything from you,” said the Slovakian prime minister
▪️O also added that he would assess the gas situation after January 1 and consider the possibility of retaliatory measures against Ukraine.
➖“If necessary, we will stop the supply of electricity, which Ukraine urgently needs during a blackout,” Fico said.
🇬🇪🇺🇸 The U.S. has officially imposed sanctions on Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili today over alleged ties to Russia, Secretary Blinken announced.
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