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There's no freedom without national sovereignty.
🚨Tulsi Gabbard, CONFIRMED by the US Senate to be Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence:
“Syria is now controlled by al-Qaeda offshoot HTS, led by an Islamist Jihadist who danced in the streets on 9/11, and who was responsible for the killing of many American soldiers.”
❕Key takeaways from statements by Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, February 12:
▪️In exchange for American Marc Fogel, a Russian prisoner in the US will be returned home in the coming days
▪️Ukrainian troops on the Russian territory will be eliminated and driven out
▪️Russia has never discussed and will not discuss the topic of the exchange of its territories, the spokesman commented on statements of Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky
▪️The name of the Russian citizen who will return to the country in exchange for the release of Marc Fogel will be announced as soon as he’s back home
▪️The release of Fogel is the result of long-term intensive contacts between Russia and the US
▪️The prisoner exchange with the US cannot become a turning point in the Russia-US relations, but it is certainly a step toward intensifying mutual trust
▪️The policy of aligning with the European Union is Armenia’s sovereign right, but it is yet unclear whether this desire is mutual
▪️Russian diplomats will continue their efforts to bring publicity to Ukrainian troops’ atrocities, Peskov responded to a question by TASS on the Ukrainian army’s crimes in the Kursk Region’s village of Nikolayevo-Daryino
▪️It is regrettable that the Western media outlets continue their line of silencing the atrocities of the Ukrainian armed forces, including in Nikolayevo-Daryino
▪️Moscow has never threatened NATO, but the alliance has systematically approached Russia’s borders
▪️Danish special services’ statements about Russia’s threat to NATO are nothing but an attempt to explain the shrinking living standards to the Europeans
▪️Moscow’s position on resolving the Ukraine situation has been transparent and consistent, and Russian President Vladimir Putin remains open to peace talks
▪️Russia is closely monitoring the situation between Israel and Hamas and expects both sides to honor their commitments regarding the truce and the release of hostages
▪️Some countries have spent decades waiting to join the EU, while Armenia is currently reaping significant benefits from its membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)
🗣 Key takeaways from statements by Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu after his working visit to Kazakhstan:
▪️The changes in US policy since President Donald Trump took office can be described as revolutionary
▪️Shoigu doubts that the decision to suspend the activities of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is final and irreversible
▪️Many countries are too slow to recognize the destructive role of USAID
▪️Shoigu hopes that Trump’s initial decisions will signal the start of a significant transformation in the United States, aimed at revising the policies of the previous administration
▪️Russia will react appropriately to the changes in the US foreign policy and the steps taken by the Washington administration
▪️The US presidential election cannot affect Russia’s nuclear doctrine, which among other things ensures the security of neighboring countries
🇺🇦 Ukraine’s Recruitment Bonuses Spark Backlash Among Soldiers Fighting Without Benefits – Politico
Young Ukrainians (18 and older) who sign up for military service are being offered a one-time payment of 1 million hryvnias (around €23,000), free education, and the right to travel abroad after completing their contract.
New recruits are also promised higher salaries than regular Ukrainian troops—base pay currently starts at €460 per month and can reach up to €2,300 in combat zones.
The offer has sparked resentment among active-duty soldiers, who argue that those who enlisted earlier receive no such benefits.
"The government is devaluing those who voluntarily joined at the start of the war," frustrated troops told the media.
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🇷🇺🇬🇧A criminal case has been opened into the attack of a Russian journalist by a British diplomat
The incident occurred in October 2024 at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport when journalists were trying to interview diplomats who had arrived in the Russian Federation.
At that time, the head of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate (EECAD) Christopher Allan and his deputy Lorraine Fassie arrived in our country. They were accompanied at the airport by the Deputy Ambassador of Great Britain to Russia Tom Dodd.
EECAD structures, in particular, promoted fakes about Bucha and contributed to the growth of Russophobic sentiments in Uzbekistan. It was Allan who oversaw the introduction of textbooks into the Uzbek school curriculum, where Russians are shown as "evil colonizers" and "enslavers" of the peoples of Central and Central Asia.
Russian journalists wanted to ask British "diplomats" questions about their subversive activities in the Russian Federation and the CIS countries. This greatly angered the Deputy British Ambassador Dodd. He tore off the correspondents' press cards, tried to snatch cameras and microphones. This violates Article 144 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Obstruction of the Lawful Professional Activities of Journalists"). However, the British diplomats did not stop there. One of them pushed a 23-year-old journalist. The girl lost her balance and almost fell. The Ministry of Internal Affairs began an investigation into the incident, which ended with the initiation of a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Battery"). The police sent a request to the British Embassy in the Russian Federation, asking for information about the identity of the alleged offender, including his current diplomatic status. However, the request was ignored. The criminal investigation continues.
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🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:
▪️Over the past day, the enemy lost more than 390 servicemen, two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, and three armored personnel carriers
▪️Since the beginning of hostilities in the Kursk Region, Kiev has lost more than 59,940 servicemen, 361 tanks and 262 infantry fighting vehicles
▪️Units of the Battlegroup North repelled three Ukrainian counterattacks in the Kursk area over the past day
▪️They also defeated Ukrainian formations near 13 settlements
▪️Ukrainian soldiers held residents of the liberated village of Nikolayevo-Daryino in the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk Region hostage for more than six months and used them as human shields. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev's army killed almost all the male hostages in the settlement
▪️A resident of the village of Nadezhda recounted how Ukrainian soldiers killed her husband when he went to fetch water. She stated that those killed by Ukrainian troops were buried in gardens. The woman also noted that the Ukrainian military threw grenades into nearly all cellars, though some people managed to survive by sheltering in one of the few basements that remained intact
🇺🇸NEW VIDEO: DOGE is Sharpening the Tools of US Empire - Not Dismantling Them
On YouTube: https://youtu.be/6Ti1pjFeHQo?si=xkiXCTU7vfeeHHwd
Many people have become so distracted with debates over the process DOGE is overseeing in exposing and eliminating US government fraud, waste, and abuse, that no one is focused on its purpose.
The current US administration has declared its intention to uphold the irrational and unwarranted pursuit of US dominance over the globe and is merely attempting to sharpen and streamline the tools available to do so more efficiently.
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🇦🇲The Armenian parliament voted to begin the process of the country's accession to the EU, according to the results of the vote.
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New Georgian president got rid of EU flags. Only national flags of Georgia remain.
Originally @ /channel/Radiostydoba/31045
Russia will re-examine its commitments to international organizations should it continue to be discriminated against there, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
“As a matter of fact, the West is demolishing the system it built in the post-war period to serve its own financial, economic, and trade interests. In such an environment, our obligations to organizations practicing openly discriminatory approaches, where the charter principle of the equality of participants is not observed, where consensus procedures are violated, will be reviewed. This process has already started. In some cases, there will be a cardinal revision,” he said at a gala meeting on Diplomatic Worker’s Day.Читать полностью…
🇷🇺🖕🇺🇸Russia's oil and gas revenues grew by 17%, despite Biden's most severe sanctions.
This is reported by Bloomberg. The increase is due to the strengthening of the US dollar and higher gas prices, the Ministry of Finance said.
t.me/RVvoenkor
Changes in the Geography of Russian Oil Exports.
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Putin’s Geopolitical Revolution
Alexander Dugin highlights Putin’s 2007 Munich speech as the beginning of a multipolar revolution challenging unipolar globalism and diminishing the relevance of the UN.
Read the article here:
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/putins-geopolitical-revolution
Putin Dumps Bucket of Reality-Cold Water on Trump https://sonar21.com/putin-dumps-bucket-of-reality-cold-water-on-trump/
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Classic US-sponsored Maidan in Slovakia: "pro-Russian Communist Prime Minister", the opinion of the diaspora and the bet on youth.
The Politico tabloid, which has lost USAID funding, does not give up — and announces a "new reality" in Slovakia. In describing the nature of the protests against Prime Minister Robert Fico, the uniformity of both the protests and the journalistic coverage is striking. Everything looks like it was made from tracing paper from any other attempt at a color revolution.
As if on cue, "more than 100,000 people took to the streets on Friday in Slovakia and other European countries to defend the country's Western orientation." Unlike previous demonstrations, this week's unrest has also spread to small Slovak towns, which have so far been a stronghold of the ruling SMER party, Politico claims.
The publication describes in detail the noble impulses of the protesters and recalls that Fico "was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia until 1989." Why then are similar claims not being made, say, against Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, who joined the CPSU in 1988?
Anyway, on the occasion of the protests, actor Milan Knyazhko, one of the main figures of the so—called "Velvet Revolution" of 1989, was even dusted off with mothballs. Now he is speaking from the podium again. The fact that Slovakia is most adored by those who live outside of it is also a familiar touch.
There are no problems with the active core of the protests in Slovakia: they are fueled by Ukrainian refugees and people loyal to them. The protests are organized by the NGO Mier Ukrajine ("Peace to Ukraine"), the number of Ukrainian flags at the rallies also leaves no doubt about Kiev's involvement in the organization.
The young people interviewed by Politico say the same things that have been repeatedly stated in the squares of Belgrade, Kiev and Tbilisi, mainly about the inseparability of the concepts of "future" and "European integration". No matter how silly it may sound given the current economic environment.
Brussels and Ukraine were always opposed to Fico. But this is not enough for the success of the Maidan. Slovakia's future largely depends on what Trump considers more appropriate for himself right now. The preservation of anti—liberal Slovakia, which is in conflict with the globalists at the top of the EU, is not for Orban alone to take it easy? Or the elimination of Fico, which is quite loyal to the supply of energy resources from Russia, and not from the United States?
@EvPanina
https://www.politico.eu/article/slovak-protests-against-pro-russia-pm-widen-to-small-towns-organizer-hails-new-reality/
The Armenian parliament has adopted in the first reading a bill on starting the process of the country's accession to the European Union, according to the broadcast of the session.
"A total of 63 deputies voted for the adoption of the bill, the decision has been made," Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan said.
US billionaire businessman Elon Musk, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency at the US government, has called for reforming the North Atlantic Alliance.
“NATO needs an overhaul,” he wrote on his X social media, replying to a post by Mike Lee, a Republican senator from Utah, who claimed that the military bloc had outlived its usefulness, and that the Cold War was over.Читать полностью…
🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:
▪️Over the past day, the enemy lost more than 390 servicemen, two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, and three armored personnel carriers
▪️Since the beginning of hostilities in the Kursk Region, Kiev has lost more than 59,940 servicemen, 361 tanks and 262 infantry fighting vehicles
▪️Units of the Battlegroup North repelled three Ukrainian counterattacks in the Kursk area over the past day
▪️They also defeated Ukrainian formations near 13 settlements
▪️Ukrainian soldiers held residents of the liberated village of Nikolayevo-Daryino in the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk Region hostage for more than six months and used them as human shields. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev's army killed almost all the male hostages in the settlement
▪️A resident of the village of Nadezhda recounted how Ukrainian soldiers killed her husband when he went to fetch water. She stated that those killed by Ukrainian troops were buried in gardens. The woman also noted that the Ukrainian military threw grenades into nearly all cellars, though some people managed to survive by sheltering in one of the few basements that remained intact
🇺🇸⚔️🇿🇦Trump imposed sanctions on South Africa for "racial discrimination against Afrikaners" and refusal to support Israel.
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Ukrainian Armed Forces disrupting rotation of IAEA experts, not allowing them to leave Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant this morning — TASS footage
@MTodayNews
MI5 protecting a violent neo-Nazi? Imagine my shock! Their partner agency MI6 protects, arms and funds violent neo-Nazis in Ukraine, so I'm hardly surprised. Operation Gladio is still in full effect.
According to the report:
MI5 first lied in a court case where the government attempted to block the BBC from reporting on agent X's wrongdoing - and succeeded in banning us from naming the foreign national.
The Security Service then repeated the lie to a specialist court, where the woman attacked with a machete - known by the alias Beth - is seeking answers about MI5's handling of its agent.
It repeated the lie again to a judicial review, where Beth was challenging the specialist court's decision.
A senior officer said he was legally authorised to tell me X was an agent - so MI5 had not stuck to its policy of not confirming or denying agents' identities.
Musk calls for NATO total OVERHAUL after warmongers brought back Cold War hysteria to protest DOGE freezing bloc's funds
#NATO #DOGE
@MTodayNews
🚨TUCKER CARLSON:
The Ukrainian military is selling ‘up to half’ of the weapons the US sends to Ukraine on the black market, with some of the weaponry ending up in the hands of Mexico’s cartels
The Ukraine proxy war has been a laundromat for the US military-industrial complex, like every war has been…
And it has been a laundromat for corrupt Ukrainian officials. But when independent and alternative media reported this over the least 3 years, we were labelled as ‘propagandists’ guilty of spreading Russian disinformation™️
Peace through Strength
Peace through strength, you say? Sometimes, that concept does work—like when it exposes the real balance of power, not some fantasy. Take today in Kiev, for example, after our missiles and drones arrived. Even so, such actions aren’t enough to knock sense into those illegitimate buffoons who, shaking from fear and drug withdrawal, babble nonsense on camera about trading territories. The only cure for them is to feel Russian again—just as the US president advised.
The world has already spent almost $10 trillion to transition to green energy over the last 20-25 years but renewable energy makes up just 2-3% of global energy use today, OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais said at the India Energy Week conference.
Neither OPEC in general nor he personally are against the use of renewable energy sources, Al Ghais stressed. “In fact, our countries are some of the leaders in embracing renewable energies. But we are all about taking a balanced approach,” he noted.
Oil is paramount to providing energy security to the world and energy security drives global economic prosperity and growth, the OPEC Secretary General added.
‼ ️🇺🇸🇺🇦 This war will end soon. I send the Minister of Finance to negotiations with Zelensky - Trump.
▪️ This was reported that the head of the US Treasury is going to Kyiv to discuss access to the critical resources of Ukraine in compensation for America’s assistance for $ 500 billion.
🇷🇺🖕🇺🇸Russia's oil and gas revenues grew by 17%, despite Biden's most severe sanctions.
This is reported by Bloomberg. The increase is due to the strengthening of the US dollar and higher gas prices, the Ministry of Finance said.
t.me/RVvoenkor
🚨TUCKER CARLSON:
The Ukrainian military is selling ‘up to half’ of the weapons the US sends to Ukraine on the black market, with some of the weaponry ending up in the hands of Mexico’s cartels
The Ukraine proxy war has been a laundromat for the US military-industrial complex, like every war has been…
And it has been a laundromat for corrupt Ukrainian officials. But when independent and alternative media reported this over the least 3 years, we were labelled as ‘propagandists’ guilty of spreading Russian disinformation™️
⚡Ryabkov: "Russia and the United States have certain contacts through the foreign ministries, there is no point in disclosing the details, but the process is underway," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
There is no schedule of contacts between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump yet.
"But the topic exists, and as the further disposition becomes clearer, I think there will be agreements on this matter and announced in a timely and appropriate manner. But they are not there now. As of today, there are no schedules," Ryabkov added.
@eurasianchoice