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Welcome to NinaByzantina, a Telegram channel dedicated to all things Byzantine Empire! If you are a history enthusiast, a lover of ancient civilizations, or just curious about the rich culture and history of the Byzantine Empire, then this channel is perfect for you. NinaByzantina is your go-to source for fascinating facts, stories, and discussions about one of the most influential empires in history. From the reign of Justinian I to the fall of Constantinople, we cover it all. Join our community of like-minded individuals who share a passion for uncovering the mysteries of the Byzantine Empire. Stay updated on the latest research, discoveries, and events related to Byzantine history. Whether you are a seasoned historian or a newcomer to the world of Byzantium, NinaByzantina has something for everyone. Don't miss out on the chance to delve into the captivating world of the Byzantine Empire with us! Join NinaByzantina today and let the journey begin.

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12 Feb, 13:16

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania after disconnecting from Russia’s power grid.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/02/12/electricity-prices-rise-in-estonia-after-cut-from-russian-power-grid

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12 Feb, 04:37

I am so excited to release my second conversation with Austria's former Foreign Minister, Karin Kneissl @karinkneisslofficial, on Wednesday, February 12th, at noon EST / 6 pm CET:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA61vuoFE4Q

✅ Can modern Europe be saved?
✅ Austrians are German-speaking Slavs
✅ What are the greatest problems facing Europe today?
✅ The ticking time 💣💣left by World War I in Europe and the Middle East
✅ The empires and nation-states of Europe and their impact on current international relations
✅ Are European nation-states artificial or authentic?
✅ What is life in Russia really like?
✅ You've heard about Angela Merkel's fear of Putin's dogs. Now you can learn about Karin Kneissl's dog Winston Churchill's adventures in diplomacy!

and much more!

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11 Feb, 23:40

NATO country Romania 🇷🇴 is introducing the Russian 🇷🇺 language in its military schools. Why? Are they planning to say, “I surrender” or “I’m cold, please sell me some affordable energy”? 😉

https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/social/limba-rusa-va-fi-predata-in-liceele-militare-din-romania-propunerea-facuta-de-ministerul-educatiei-si-mapn-3113777

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10 Feb, 19:25

-So you are not afraid if the Russian 🇷🇺 troops capture Pokrovsk?
-There are no Ukrainians here. All Russians.

Euronews accidentally shows the TRUTH about the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦!

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10 Feb, 07:25

Kosovo is Japan 🇷🇸🤌

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07 Feb, 20:06

How it started vs how it’s going.

Lukashenko’s 🇧🇾 psychic powers are out of control! 🤣

https://tvn24.pl/premium/warszawa-koniec-dochodzenia-w-sprawie-jana-malickiego-st8291253

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07 Feb, 04:35

Is the Russian Army’s “creeping advance” the same thing as Ukraine “not losing” by having its front move “in the wrong direction” (to paraphrase NATO’s Rutte)? 😂

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06 Feb, 23:47

“You don't know this, but when I was your age, we had everything: water, gas, and electricity...then, one day we got the European Union. 🇪🇺” 🤣

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05 Feb, 15:18

Instructions on how to join NATO and the EU. 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

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04 Feb, 01:46

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01 Feb, 00:25

One fascinating attribute of Georgia's 🇬🇪 Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze is the fact that, on the surface, his biography is that of a typical Euro-Atlantic NGO asset. He went to grad school in Dusseldorf, Germany, was a member of the Expert Committee for the Human Rights and Rule of Law Program for Soros's Open Society, and worked as a Regional Coordinator for the Public Education Project for USAID. On top of that, Kobakhidze was eagerly hopping along the EU ascension path until recently.

In this sense, Kobakhidze's biography is similar to that of his almost-predecessor Mikheil Saakashvili, famous for "leading" the color revolution in Georgia, getting into a brief war with Russia, no doubt with his higher-ups' blessing, and then bouncing around various appointments by the Euro-Atlantic elites, including being a governor of Odessa, Ukraine.

Yet, when push came to shove, Kobakhidze didn't turn into Saakashvili (or Zelensky) but seemed to make the choice in favor of his country's and his people's authentic interests. Why he did so may be a combination of several factors: 1) the Euro-Atlantic elites, wearing the “civilized EU” mask, going too far in their meddling in Georgia’s domestic affairs and allegedly resorting to threats, sanctions, and even an attempted regime change—twice (!) last year; 2) the realities of the Ukrainian scenario playing out right in front of his eyes; 3) certain positive personality traits; 4) etc. He may have also used the aforementioned NGOs strictly for utilitarian reasons—because they would’ve made his resume look “good” rather than for strong ideological reasons.

I’ve been thinking of his case in tandem with that of Elvira Nabiullina, the head of the Bank of Russia, who was a Yale World Fellow back in the day, just like Project Navalny. I can only assume that certain expectations are placed on those prominent foreigners who participate in such initiatives. Yet, unlike Project Navalny’s work undermining his country and his people, she’s been maneuvering around Western sanctions quite successfully and evidently serving Russia. I suppose the cases of Kobakhidze and Nabiullina show the limits of Euro-Atlantic NGO training, much like the failure of the recent regime change attempts in Georgia demonstrates the limits of color revolutionary scenarios.

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31 Jan, 15:40

Whoa! Connect the dots! 😳 Slovakia’s 🇸🇰 Robert Fico banned the leader of the Georgian Legion 🇬🇪 from entering his country claiming that the militant is one of the prominent foreigners participating in the regime-change ops, err, protests, in his country.

The Georgian Legion enjoys its brutal reputation (real or imagined) of fighting Russians in Ukraine. During the protests in Georgia itself, which the country’s ruling party called an attempt at a color revolution, the Georgian Legion seemed to be a tad quiet. But here it is again, rearing its ugly head in another foreign country. It’s almost as if these mercs go wherever they’re paid to go.

Source https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/slovakis-bans-georgian-volunteer-9-others-entry-fico-ramps-up-coup-plot-2025-01-31/

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30 Jan, 04:03

Another day, another Russian 🇷🇺 and his bears. 🐻 WAIT…those AREN’T bears! 😳

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29 Jan, 20:45

They went from organizing the biggest, bloodiest heist in this country to becoming its most important statesmen. Check out my newest history storytime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVkD8lVOGw&t=3893s

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28 Jan, 19:25

Ukrainian Youth Prefers the Russian 🇷🇺Language to Ukrainian 🇺🇦

In an interview with the YouTube channel Politeka Online, Ukrainian political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko suggested that the Russian language is turning into the language of protest in Ukraine, with the youth preferring it to Ukrainian, especially in urban environments.

As a reminder, since 2019, i.e. since before the Russian special military operation, Ukraine has been operating according to a law that requires the exclusive use of the Ukrainian language in various parts of the public sphere.

Bondarenko also believes that the Russian language will regain its losses in Ukraine in a generation.

Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb0IuXr2OeU

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28 Jan, 19:09

The Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Moves On: Russian LNG 🇷🇺 Exports Heading Mainly To Europe Reach Record Highs

In yet another installment of "the gazillionth anti-Russia sanctions package is, like, totally working," Russia exported 33.6 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2024, which is a new record. The data comes from RBC and Kpler. Russia's last record was 32.9 million tons of LNG in 2022.

Much of this gas is heading to, you guessed it!, Europe with France 🇫🇷 (6.3 M tons), Spain 🇪🇸(4.8 M tons), Belgium 🇧🇪 (4.4 M tons), and the Netherlands 🇳🇱 (1.3 M tons) being at the top of the list.

The other 45% went to Asia with the biggest buyers being China 🇨🇳 (7 M tons) and another sanctions lover, Japan 🇯🇵 (5.7 M tons).

Meanwhile, the Financial Times is reporting that the German 🇩🇪demand for Russia's LNG "soars" through other European ports:

"Germany is still buying significant amounts of Russian liquefied natural gas via other EU countries despite Berlin turning away direct shipments of Russian fuel."

It turns out that no one really likes being cold or not having their industries running.

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27 Jan, 20:25

Remember the expression “Pavlov’s dog”? Well, Kiev 🇺🇦 authorities just removed a monument to the Russian Nobel Prize-winning scientist Ivan Pavlov who studied behavior and conditioning. Guess the socio-political conditioning that Ukraine has been undergoing since 2014 hits too close to home!

https://kp.ua/life/a704637-v-kieve-snesli-pamjatnik-ivanu-pavlovu-vozle-aleksandrijskoj-bolnitsy?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0S5_t4UjTUpRnz7xOq1yHGEK3Ox5IrDCl7js91TW_zdra9RxQC-Gxs8_8_aem_OnU3gho8B7aQfR55I7mOBA

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27 Jan, 07:20

Imagine walking into a bookstore overflowing with *different* books by Zelensky. 💀 Would you collect them all? 😅

I assumed the photo was edited. Turns out, these are all his books, or rather, published speeches called e.g. “The Fifth Month of the War” or “The Tenth Month of the War.” And let’s not forget a HISTORY OF NATO book next to them! A true house of horrors!

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27 Jan, 06:10

Is it just me, or does this fluffy dog make you want to vote for Lukashenko STAT 🇧🇾 ? 😜

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21 Jan, 01:01

The EU 🇪🇺 has specific laws that are supposed to respect minorities, but it tolerates this type of attitude in the Baltics: if Russians speak their own language in public areas, they should be stripped of citizenship and deported with their families. Ahh, brings back those WWII vibes.

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20 Jan, 21:23

Melania updated Shapoklyak’s outfit from the timeless Soviet classic Cheburashka and made it cool. Slavic women!

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20 Jan, 05:12

This unusual, childlike decorative house looks like something out of a Russian fairytale. But it was actually created by a blacksmith, Sergey Kirillov, during the Soviet period (1954-1967). It's located in the village of Kunara in the Urals outside of Yekaterinburg.

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19 Jan, 08:17

"Oh cover your pale legs"

This is the most famous one-line poem from Russia's Silver Age by the late 19th-early 20th-century Symbolist literary figure Valery Bryusov.

But, perhaps, the meaning is a bit more scandalous and could also be translated as:

"Oh close your pale legs"

However, when the poem was published, the readers were more interested in knowing why the poem only had one sentence rather than whose legs should be covered (or closed).

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19 Jan, 07:19

Children’s chess ♟️ lessons in the Soviet Union.

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18 Jan, 21:21

The Baltics: how it started vs how it’s going. 😂

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17 Jan, 19:52

If there’s anything the Baltics excel at — it’s consistently overestimating their importance. 🤣

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17 Jan, 19:34

France 🇫🇷 is alleged to have run secret drills where its soldiers are deployed in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Let me guess, are its only survivors those who deserted or surrendered? 🤪

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17 Jan, 04:56

Is this before or after the Ukraine takeover?

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16 Jan, 03:49

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15 Jan, 18:59

Was the USSR a traditionalist society?

Join us on X and YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/live/Rx-QUdaDTnQ?si=HCxQMVTw9qRntFMf

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14 Jan, 22:14

Why do Russians 🇷🇺 celebrate the old New Year?

On YouTube shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/IqALzsCDzD0?si=TANYIWZ3Bg3G8JA3

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13 Jan, 19:22

Typical member of the Russian 🇷🇺 National Guard (also doubling as the goodest* boy, now retired).

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13 Jan, 19:11

The first issue of a regular Russian-language newspaper Vedomosti came out on this day, January 13, in 1703.

The newspaper was released upon the order of Peter the Great. In fact, the Russian leader took part in putting together this publication. The first issue was called “Information on military and other affairs worthy of knowledge and memory” and covered Russia and its neighbors.

“Vedomosti” is an old way to say “knowledge.”

📷 Modern illustration

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11 Jan, 07:13

Putting lipstick 💄 on a pig 🐷: 2018 vs 2025.

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10 Jan, 19:08

The battle of Ukraine 🇺🇦 against Mordor (Russia 🇷🇺). I understand hostile memes, but this is a serious painting in a book with footnotes and everything. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤣 Note how the artist depicted the Z symbol as a swastika, yet it’s Ukraine’s troops that have displayed every possible iteration of various Third Reich symbols in patches, tattoos, etc.

Why does the artist use Tolkien? Because using local Ukrainian mythology and folklore would remind everyone that it’s shared with Russia!

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10 Jan, 01:12

Is this Ukrainian 🇺🇦 patriot getting ready to immigrate to Russia 🇷🇺 like hundreds of thousands of other Ukrainian citizens and pass the tattoo check? 😜

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09 Jan, 18:58

Me: It’s a nice day on the Internet.

The Internet: 💀

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08 Jan, 10:40

Why did the Americans nearly obliterate this small Japanese city in World War II?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jCXeXntkuE

My newest history video is coming at noon EST / 6 pm CET. It was so fun to use a bit of my own footage for once.

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07 Jan, 04:13

Let’s check in with the grandmaster’s prediction. 😂 Stick to chess, Gary.

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07 Jan, 00:12

Russia illegally annexes, whereas Israel has pure and beautiful annexation dreams. And don’t you confuse the two! 😜

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06 Jan, 21:19

Putin celebrated the old-calendar Christmas ☦️ at the Church of St. George the Victorious on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow 🇷🇺. This church is dedicated to the victory in WWII, hence its focus on a military saint. Symbolic!

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04 Jan, 05:45

I hate the media.

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03 Jan, 21:08

“Former” Al Qaeda leader dressed nicely in a Western suit for Annalena 360, but her clothes look like they’ve been chewed up by an alligator. Did Russia steal the chips in your iron for its missiles, Annalena? Are you going for that Zelensky kind of chic?

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03 Jan, 19:33

How it started vs how it’s going.

Ban the academic papers that challenge the wisdom of sanctioning Russia, says famous Western think-tank economist. 🤭

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01 Jan, 18:05

Georgia’s 🇬🇪 refusal to fight Russia 🇷🇺 is the key reason for the regime change attempt in that country.

In an interview with the media in late December 2024, Georgia’s PM Kobakhidze stated:

“The main cause of the challenges that our state, in particular Bidzina Ivanishvili, faced is that we did not enter the war [against Russia] in February 2022 and did not open a ‘second front.’ After that, the main challenges began."

This is not the first time he made this point.

Kobakhidze also blamed the self-described Euro-Atlanticist party United National Movement, founded by the ex-President Saakashvili, and smaller satellite parties (now—the National movement) for essentially acting as foreign agents of Western governments, the “party of war,” pressuring Georgia to become another Ukraine. 🇺🇦

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30 Dec, 20:19

Actor Rob Schneider: “Zelensky is obviously a coke head.”

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29 Dec, 19:49

Since Georgia’s 🇬🇪 new President Mikheil Kavelashvili was officially inaugurated today, she-just-won’t-leave ̶Q̶u̶e̶e̶n̶ ex-President Salome moved out of the palace after all. Guess going back to France where she’s from is better than joining her pal Saakashvili! 🤣 Hopefully, this is the end of Georgia’s “Maidan.”

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27 Dec, 18:55

What’s the first thing you think when you see this NYT headline?

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27 Dec, 03:05

Wow!!!❣️KRONSTADT, St. Petersburg 🇷🇺 featuring a Christmas tree and a laser show at the Anchor Square focusing on the Naval Cathedral of St. Nicholas. This is an early 20th-century church built in a neo-Byzantine style.

🎥 galina281121

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27 Dec, 02:36

The powerful Baltic tiger 🐯 strikes again! Estonia 🇪🇪 will not deal with the new Syrian “government” unless Syria 🇸🇾 removes Russians 🇷🇺 from its territory. 🤣 Maybe it’s time for the tiger to finally look in the mirror and recognize itself for the yappy chihuahua that it is?

https://news.err.ee/1609560634/estonia-has-no-plans-to-extend-international-protection-of-syrian-citizens

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27 Dec, 01:02

You’ve already seen some early videos of the hypocrite Zelensky defending the Russian language in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Now check out the other hypocrites like Ukraine’s previous President Poroshenko (who escalated the war on the people of Donbass) and the Orange Revolution Princess Yulia Tymoshenko also claiming to support the Russian language—their OWN language—in Ukraine. All they had to do was actually defend those rights to prevent much of what happened.

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27 Dec, 00:23

To wrap up 2024, we did a massive episode covering the death of democracy in the West (in regard to Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Georgia), what happened in Syria (focusing on the US, Russia, Turkey, and Israel), and the strange link between the failed South Korean coup and Ukraine as a bonus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke21LwcGHm0

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24 Dec, 21:43

We will discuss several aspects of the relationship between China 🇨🇳 and Russia 🇷🇺 on Carl Zha's channel today at 7 pm EST. Tune in!

https://www.youtube.com/live/uBijQDk7d1Q

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23 Dec, 22:41

What do you think about this recent (supposedly) ad in Ukraine 🇺🇦:

“The most important thing that we have is Coca-Cola”

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23 Dec, 22:33

Five years of fighting Putin—or an addiction?

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23 Dec, 21:24

🤣 🤣 German state media recommends a “sustainable” Christmas with the least CO2. Europe just can’t have nice things!

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23 Dec, 00:35

EU anarcho-tyranny be like…

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22 Dec, 22:03

This must’ve been one of the biggest disappointments in Zelensky’s life. 😌

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21 Dec, 21:50

First, they tried to ban him, so he invaded their most precious space in retaliation: Gen Z social media!

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21 Dec, 21:10

The rules-based order sanctioning Russian energy be like. 😜

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21 Dec, 20:07

🤣 🤣 Georgia’s 🇬🇪 pro-regime change protesters bring out the big guns: FASHION INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES! If they ask nicely, maybe Ursula von der Leyen would allow them to sew her pant suits!

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21 Dec, 00:20

Today, the iconic Italian 🇮🇹 stage director Giancarlo del Monaco received Russian 🇷🇺 citizenship. In the fall, he directed Verdi's Rigoletto at the Bolshoi.

In an interview with the Russian media, Giancarlo del Monaco stated:

“I am the kind of director who has already been everywhere. [...] But the opportunity to work in Moscow, at the Bolshoi, at one of the key theaters in the world, is not only a great honor for me but also a very special personal situation, and one of the high points of my destiny.”

He then explained that his father, the operatic tenor Mario Del Monaco, experienced "one the most striking successes in his life" in Carmen at the Bolshoi.

I guess he really liked being in Russia, huh?

22 other individuals from Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, the US, and Germany received Russian citizenship today as well.

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20 Dec, 22:57

Just what Ukraine 🇺🇦 needs to win the war: GENDER ADVISORS! From Canada 🇨🇦, where else?

The main body of the overall Canadian report features the word “gender” 19 times. 🫠

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/departmental-results-report/2023-24-index/results-core-resp/operations.html

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19 Dec, 19:48

They sanctioned Russia’s Gazprombank last month and are already providing payment exemptions. Clown world! 🤡

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19 Dec, 17:28

I apologize in advance. 😃

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19 Dec, 17:22

French-standard 🇫🇷 training in Ukraine 🇺🇦 😜

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19 Dec, 16:52

Latvia’s 🇱🇻 Minister of Foreign Affairs gets a dose of reality. 🤣 Here, she complains that her local hired driver ONLY speaks RUSSIAN. 🇷🇺 Guess what country he’s from? UKRAINE!!! 🇺🇦 Ohh? Is your servant the WRONG kind of Ukrainian? 🤣

Such a perfect microcosm of the Baltic support for the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian refugees, the linguistic realities of Ukraine debunking Western propaganda, and Western xenophobia.

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19 Dec, 16:39

🤣 🤣 🤣

“Today was a fucking nightmare…A guy sits next to me, 31 years old, based on his manner of speaking, I ask him:

-Are you Ukrainian? 🇺🇦
-Yes, I’m from Melitopol. Been here for 8 years.

I’m so happy to open my mouth and chat with him when he:

-Thank God, it [Melitopol] is already in Russia. 🇷🇺 I’ve been waiting for this.

Curtain drop.

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19 Dec, 15:07

“Border shift” is a good term. I’m going to use it from now on. 😜

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19 Dec, 13:48

We sat down with the Middle East expert and author Robert Fantina to understand the current events in Syria, Palestine, and beyond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IVVVJ57cr0&t=3158s

✅ Middle East during the Cold War
✅ International law vs. hegemonic power
✅ What's happening in Syria?
✅ Understanding Israel's behavior in the region
✅ The development of the U.S.-Israeli relationship
✅ Palestinian history and human rights

and more!

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17 Dec, 03:21

Good news, everyone! Ukraine 🇺🇦 will colonize the moon and build a moon 🌙 base by 2062. The first stage is to be completed by 2030! Assuming the graphic is real, I envy their optimism!

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15 Dec, 22:59

I thought, surely, this WILD photo of Zelensky 🇺🇦 going into full DICTATOR-GOD mode in the holy monastery of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra was a FAKE, but NO. It’s on the President’s site.

https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vdyachnij-usim-kapelanam-yaki-razom-iz-zahisnikami-na-peredo-94857

🤦🏻‍♀️

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01 Dec, 10:17

We've got another dictatorial mini-Zelensky on our hands! 🤣 First, Zelensky cancels elections in Ukraine 🇺🇦 and stays on as President indefinitely. Now Georgia's 🇬🇪French-born President, French ex-diplomat, and ex-NATO staffer Salome Zourabichvili decided to stay past her presidential term because the newly reelected Georgian leadership put its EU talks on hold in light of Europe's alleged threats. These are the people who incessantly lecture us about democracy! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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30 Nov, 00:06

According to a YouGov UK poll (April 2024), Brits 🇬🇧 consider Russia 🇷🇺 the biggest threat to world peace followed by China 🇨🇳. No wonder there’s such a strong push toward social media censorship and even criminalization of certain types of posting in the UK: gotta keep your population propagandized as hell!

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29 Nov, 20:57

What are your thoughts about this opinion regarding the Georgian protests🇬🇪:

“What’s happening in Georgia 🇬🇪 is more likely not to be an attempt at a coup d'etat, but rather an attempt to spend some budget money.

These are the [opposition] ‘grant-eaters’.

The authorities are working competently. Yesterday there were 36 victims [of the clashes] and all of them are strictly from the security forces [rather than the protesters]. And a ‘Maidan’ always needs corpses, ‘dead heroes’ killed by the "bloody regime." When the authorities do not want to be ‘bloody,’ unidentified snipers from the CIA and MI6 help them.

But when there is no opportunity for snipers and provocateurs to carry out their work, then all that’s left to do is to spend [foreign] grant budget money.”

- An opinion by the Russian pundit Nikolai

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29 Nov, 00:41

Canadian 🇨🇦 authorities charged journalist Duncan Kinney with vandalizing a war memorial. Located in Edmonton, this is no ordinary memorial, but one that honors 🇺🇦 the Ukrainian veterans of the SS “Galicia Division” which fought for Nazi Germany.

The very existence of this memorial and others like it honoring Canada’s official enemies during WWII raises a lot of questions that the Canadian government refuses to address. And, it is in line with Trudeau’s recent refusal to release the names of Nazis that were welcomed in Canada after WWII, or applauding a WWII Ukrainian Nazi in the parliament.

https://www.readthemaple.com/police-treat-nazi-monument-as-war-memorial-in-alleged-vandalism-case/

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28 Nov, 20:48

Did this 🇨🇦 Canadian soldier suddenly die in Belgium 🇧🇪 earlier this week, or in Ukraine 🇺🇦, since his job was training the Ukrainian Army? Curious!

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28 Nov, 20:46

Ukrainian 🇺🇦 military expert thinks Russia 🇷🇺 won’t strike Kiev with Oreshnik, but the reason may surprise you!

He argues that the Chinese 🇨🇳 embassy next to the parliament will save Kiev! And would you really call the Rada a “decision-making center,”though?

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28 Nov, 01:36

Kiev 🇺🇦 continues to persecute the canonical Orthodox Church ☦️. So I wanted to highlight the case of Metropolitan Arseniy, a prominent figure in the Church, of the Svyatogorsk Lavra.

He has been in custody since June 21st, 2024. According to Ukrainian media, he was accused of treason: disseminating the positions of the Ukrainian Army...PUBLICLY! DURING LITURGY! (This alone makes the accusation sound dubious.)

Svyatogorsk Lavra is outside Slavyansk in Donetsk Oblast. In 2014, the city rebelled against the new regime along with the rest of the Donetsk People's Republic but was ultimately recaptured as part of Kiev's "anti-terrorist operation." In this case, it sounds like the accusation against Metropolitan Arseniy has more to do with the paranoia about the "pro-Russian" attitudes in that city rather than anything the cleric actually did.

His detention was first extended on August 15th and then again on November 19th. The next hearing is scheduled for December 6th.

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27 Nov, 23:33

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Today we discussed G7 and BRICS with the Brazilian political analyst Raphael Machado. We focused on their respective histories, ideological frameworks, and objectives.

✅ Are the relationships between countries within G7 and BRICS, respectively, hierarchic?

✅ Does the US dominate G7, and does China dominate BRICS?

✅ What was Russia's tenure in the G8 like, and why did Russia leave the organization?

✅ What role does ideology play in this comparison?

✅ Is Chimerica still relevant today?

And more!

https://www.youtube.com/live/7YwIp9Gla8M?si=1ZitPtxLXye3cysd

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27 Nov, 20:49

To the last Ukrainian. 🇺🇦

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27 Nov, 20:42

😂

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26 Nov, 23:42

Maria Limanskaya, the Soviet WWII military traffic controller, made famous by the photographer Yevgenii Khaldei pictured in Berlin, passed away at the age of 100.

She joined the Red Army when she was 18. From then on, she participated in numerous key events from the Battle of Stalingrad to Crimea, Belarus, Poland, and all the way to Berlin. Under enemy fire, she was the traffic controller during the Don River crossing.

After the war, Maria continued to serve her people, first, as a nurse, then, as a school librarian.

RIP, Hero.

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26 Nov, 02:27

Is life much better in the Russian-controlled 🇷🇺 territories than in Ukraine 🇺🇦?

More than 150,000 displaced people returned to the territories Ukraine calls “occupied,” and Russia calls “liberated,” including Mariupol, presumably because the Russian authorities take much better care of them than the Ukrainian counterparts.

At least that’s the statement that Maksym Tkachenko, an MP from Zelensky’s party (!), made yesterday. He was then accused of disseminating “enemy propaganda” and debunked his own claim the next day! Tkachenko explained that he made an emotional assumption.

Sure, Max, I can only imagine what type of threats you received in those 24 hours.

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25 Nov, 04:14

In addition to the gazillion billion North Korean soldiers 🇰🇵, Russia 🇷🇺 is also using the Houthis 🇾🇪 in the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦, says the Financial Times. Leave it up to the Western media to unintentionally make Russia sound more impressive than it actually is!

https://www.ft.com/content/da966006-88e5-4c25-9075-7c07c4702e06

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24 Nov, 19:21

Beautiful, especially the famous London Kremlin in the background! 😌

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04 Nov, 01:57

“The world will not end on either the 1st or 13th of November, 1899.”

This is the title page of a book published by Ivan Sytin, a famous publisher, in Moscow. 🇷🇺 The book’s objective was to challenge the hysteria about the perceived end of the world permeating the continent.

This prediction seemed to have been rooted in an 1899 book, Der Weltuntergang [The End of the World] published in Berlin 🇩🇪 by Charles Blunt and Rudolf Falb about a comet. Falb was an Austrian geologist with an interest in natural disasters and astronomy.

From there came a pamphlet published in Łódź, Poland 🇵🇱 “Koniec swiata w dnin 13 Listopada 1899” [The end of the world on November 13th, 1899], which was reprinted in Russia not once or twice, but FOUR TIMES! Its popularity might explain the panic that ensued.

Ivan Sytin's book contained the following optimistic line, “And until the end of the world, there are still as many years as years that have passed since the beginning of the world." That’s a relief!

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02 Nov, 22:01

German tabloid BILD (of all mainstream sources!) now discredits the quasi-official and convenient theory that it was Ukraine 🇺🇦 that carried out the Nord Stream 🇷🇺 🇩🇪 sabotage. Considering its massive negative impact on German economy, it’s unsurprising that some are dissatisfied with the lack of answers and culprits.

German underwater archeologist and diver Sven Thomas rejects the theory that Nord Stream could have been blown up by Ukrainian saboteurs from the yacht Andromeda.

The quasi-official version of events is that the Nord Stream gas pipelines were blown up by a group of Ukrainian saboteurs who rented the sailing yacht Andromeda in Rostock. The Ukrainians allegedly loaded diving equipment and explosives on board, and then installed it on the bottom of the Baltic Sea at a depth of about 80-90 meters.

Sven Thomas argues:

❌For underwater diving, you need several vessels plus a fixed platform with cranes, anchors and ballast with a total weight of about 1 ton.

❌In order to dive from the Andromeda, it would have to been fixed directly above the Nord Stream pipeline. This required 3-4 heavy anchors with ropes 300-500-meters long. Otherwise the yacht would be blown away in the open sea by wind and waves.

❌The Andromeda uses a 75-horsepower engine. This would not be enough to stay in the Nord Stream area with constant maneuvering. In addition, the yacht could not take 400 kg of explosives on board.

The underwater archeologist also calculated the oxygen supply required for the dive, the speed of the waves, and determined the difference between the two explosions.

https://www.bild.de/politik/nord-stream-explosionen-die-andromeda-theorie-kann-nicht-stimmen-6725f4c77cd3a5795d03be16

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01 Nov, 19:29

Is T-72 the best tank in the world because it seems that NATO tanks were designed to terrorize local shepherds in sandals (goat herders in flip-flops) in far-off lands?

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russias-old-t-72-best-tank-earth-and-ukraine-knows-it-213349

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01 Nov, 02:43

Beautiful! The newly restored sphynx guarding the Egyptian Bridge in St. Petersburg 🇷🇺 The bridge dates to 1826--a time of Egyptomania in Europe and Russia. Each of these gilded statues, created by the sculptor Pavel Sokolov (1764-1835), weighs 2 tonnes.

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31 Oct, 19:09

Point: You and your brothers are all named Lawrence Eagleburger. 🤣

Counterpoint: Eagleburger 🦅 🍔 is the most American name of all time.

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30 Oct, 18:03

Some called last week's BRICS Summit in Russia a success. Others argued that India's Modi and Brazil's Lula are undermining the organization. What is the future of BRICS? Should it be expanded? Will there be a BRICS currency? Streaming on X and YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/live/TyvjKyb_cB8?si=M7bCGZIUDk69U3Rq

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30 Oct, 02:00

Standing in the center of Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪 shoulder to shoulder with the protesters, the ambassadors of the Netherlands 🇳🇱, France 🇫🇷, Poland 🇵🇱, and Ukraine 🇺🇦 criticized Russian 🇷🇺 meddling in Georgia’s elections.

It’s a joke….I think. 😜

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28 Oct, 05:10

Typical dictatorial Euro-Atlanticists in the EU and in Canada: things didn’t go *exactly* our way, so we won’t recognize the 🇬🇪 elections.

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28 Oct, 04:28

This is a member of the Georgian 🇬🇪 opposition that lost the election this weekend to a more reasonable ruling party, Georgian Dream. Looking at the flags behind her, do they manufacture these people at the same factory? 😉

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25 Oct, 20:33

This weekend’s upcoming parliamentary elections in Georgia 🇬🇪 are turning into a circus 🤡

The official West has been using its standard tactics of accusing Russia 🇷🇺 of meddling while applying unprecedented pressure on Georgia. We’ve already witnessed this play out with Georgia’s foreign agent law earlier in the year. Whereas the law is about funding transparency for NGOs, the official West brazenly dubbed it the “Russian law” for propaganda purposes while dangling carrots and employing sticks in several ways, such as Georgia’s EU bid. As a result of these tactics, the main message of the Georgian Dream Party has been not being anyone’s vassal.

One of the other reasons for a crisis in the relationship between Georgia and the official West was the fact that the West planned to use Georgia to launch a second front against Russia in the Ukraine war—at least according to the founder of Georgian Dream, Bidzina Ivanishvili. Indeed, the Party has been using the Ukraine war imagery to promote peace, enraging some Westerners and Ukrainians. At the same time, the official message of Georgia’s PM and Georgia Dream’s leader Irakli Kobakhidze is that Georgia seeks to be in the EU 🇪🇺 around 2030.

On a practical level, these tense parliamentary elections involve 3.5 million voters, of which close to 96,000 live abroad. These are the 11th parliamentary elections since the Soviet dissolution. The voters are to elect 150 MPs from those parties that meet the 5% threshold. The results may range from a coalition government to a majority Georgian Dream rule, giving it significant power. The opposition, using the “Russian meddling” language just like the official West, may seek to accuse the government of vote falsifications and cause unrest. Some fear regime change.

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25 Oct, 20:04

I wonder what ordinary Europeans, especially Germans, think of the IMF’s current data and downgraded forecasts for the EU. The IMF euphemistically blames the war in Ukraine, and we know their leaders are compliantly silent. Sanctions massively damaged German industries, especially in regard to the energy sector. Being forced to buy more expensive U.S. energy and moving some industries to the U.S., when will the Europeans realize the extent to which they’ve been screwed six ways to Sunday and by whom?

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/10/22/us-europe-economic-growth-divergences-to-widen-further-imf-warns

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/10/24/tr102424-transcript-of-eur-reo

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24 Oct, 14:40

Putin, as the Host of the BRICS Summit, highlighted the “unhealthy” methods used by the West that, in his view, undermine regional and global stability:

“The transition to a new fairer world order is not progressing smoothly. Forces used to the logic of dominating everyone and everything are attempting to slow it down. Behind the screen of the rules-based order imposed onto the world, there are attempts to contain its growing competitors and sovereign development of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America beyond their control. They use illegal unilateral sanctions, outright protectionism, currency, and stock market manipulation, as well as meddling in internal affairs disguised as concern for democracy, human rights, and the fight against climate change. This is being used, too.

These, let’s put it bluntly, unhealthy methods lead to the rise of new conflicts as well as exacerbate old contradictions. Thus, they violate regional and global strategic stability, and the principles of equal and indivisible security, while encouraging internecine strife and conflicts between countries.

One such example is Ukraine, which was and is being used to create critical security threats for Russia while ignoring our existential interests and justifiable concerns about the violation of the rights of the Russian-speaking people.”

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23 Oct, 20:49

BRICS vs G7 in terms of GDP according to the IMF

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23 Oct, 20:33

Putin Speaks at the BRICS Summit about the Weaponization of the Dollar

“Thank you, Dear Madame Rousseff 🇧🇷[the Chair of the New Development Bank]. You said that the dollar is being weaponized. Yes, indeed, we see that this is so. In fact, I think that this is a big mistake for those who’ve been doing this. After all, the use of the dollar (which is still the most important instrument of global finance)—as a means of achieving political goals—undermines the confidence in this currency and reduces its capabilities.”

“But we 🇷🇺 are not the ones doing this. This is being done by others. We are not rejecting the dollar or fighting against it. But if they aren’t letting us work with it, then what should we do? We are forced into looking for other alternatives.”

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23 Oct, 16:54

DIVIDED COUNTRIES: FROM MOLDOVA TO UKRAINE. In a few minutes, we'll be joined by the British historian, author, & political commentator Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos to discuss the phenomenon of a divided post-Soviet country we've witnessed during the Moldova EU referendum.

https://www.youtube.com/live/yGL15LmRdgk?si=XkEKJ601pF-Z-0dz

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22 Oct, 20:00

Someday Russia will catch up with the unprecedented levels of badassery attributed to it by the Western tabloid propaganda 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤣

https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland-und-internationales/suedkorea-berichtet-putin-tarnt-kims-kampf-sklaven-als-russen-6714c905a0e636753eda5e75

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22 Oct, 17:23

The Chronicles of "Russian Isolation”:

All eyes are on the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia. 🇷🇺 Who is in attendance?

🇨🇳President Xi Jinping of China
🇮🇳Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
🇿🇦President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa
🇪🇹Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed
🇪🇬President of Egypt Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
🇧🇷Foreign Minister of Brazil Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira (President Lula canceled his trip due to a head injury)
🇮🇷President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian
~20,000 delegates
~2,000 journalists from 59 countries

The Summit will focus on:

✅strengthening multilateralism
✅integrating new members of the association
✅resolving regional conflicts

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22 Oct, 04:30

This is the stunning 16th-century Transfiguration Church in a tiny village called Ostrov outside Moscow 🇷🇺. Ostrov itself traces its history back to the 14th century as a favorite hunting spot of the princes and, later, Muscovite tsars like Ivan IV. The church was built in his time and is one of the most striking examples of Russian tent-roofed architecture.

🎥 juliaruspirit

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21 Oct, 22:04

Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 former commander-in-chief Zaluzhnyi—and now an ever-so-“dignified”Amb to the UK 🇬🇧 —wrote a memoir called My War. The first thing that comes to mind is that someone must’ve talked him out of using “MY STRUGGLE”! 😜

Source https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/valeriy-zaluzhnyy-napisal-memuary-moya-voyna-smi-50460024.html

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21 Oct, 04:07

Whose flags should the ATM have?

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19 Oct, 23:35

All that’s missing is Zelensky’s powerful bio! 🤩

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19 Oct, 21:52

Where’s the lie? 😜

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18 Oct, 03:12

Slavic and even Scythian-inspired folk motifs in the art of Olga Samosyuk 🇷🇺

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16 Oct, 17:03

Is Western culture dead? We’ll discuss this in a moment.

https://www.youtube.com/live/fhJcQQpCmXQ?si=PXBX_Htk_dVA3SAl

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16 Oct, 02:11

Russian 🇷🇺 virtuoso Daniil Trifonov performs Liszt at age 20 (2011). The piano might need a cigarette after that! 😜

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15 Oct, 19:45

Babe, wake up, the North Koreans are already fighting the U.S. Marines in Kiev (according to Ukrainian media 🤭).

https://youtu.be/jfHPoqm1sUE?si=8X3cjjbIcoDZJSlG

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15 Oct, 19:25

Well whaddya know?! Yet another awkward moment when one of Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 “closest allies” (sic), the Czech Republic 🇨🇿, has been profiting from Russian 🇷🇺 energy in the billions.

All this shows is how much better off Europe would be if it didn’t dance to the political tune of the Euro-Atlantic elites.

https://www.politico.eu/article/czech-industry-russia-oil-ukraine-fuel-surplus-aid-sanctions/

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14 Oct, 04:28

Project Navalny was milked till the end with the goal of undermining Russia. 🇷🇺 Now it looks like his daughter has not only been going to Stanford and doing Ted talks (who is funding this?), but also appears to be working as a field organizer for the Kamala Harris campaign. WHAT THE ACTUAL?

I get that she’s being trained to be part of the political-managerial class, but still.

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14 Oct, 04:27

Again, Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 intelligence chief Kirill Budanov looks like his head was Photoshopped onto someone else’s body with T-Rex arms.

Context: he is receiving a blessing from Ukraine’s chief rabbi on Yom Kippur per Ukraine’s media. I get blessing a head of state, but an intelligence chief??

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14 Oct, 02:54

Some people in the UK 🇬🇧 need to choose between food and heat? Sounds like their government needs to give more money to Zelensky!

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12 Oct, 22:09

Is this a typical Russia cat breed? 😏

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12 Oct, 04:08

Nyonoksa 🇷🇺 is a beautiful and remarkable small village in the Russian Far North outside of Arkhangelsk featuring several objects of major cultural significance ranging from a Neolithic settlement dating to 2000 BC to unique 300-year-old wooden churches. The village was first mentioned in 1397 and was governed by Novgorod, then Moscow.

Nyonoksa is also the site of establishing diplomatic relations between England and Russia under Ivan IV in 1553, as the former was seeking a northern route to China and India but arrived in Russia instead.

🎥 Andrew Bazanov

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11 Oct, 21:07

Boris Johnson’s brand new memoir seems to already be discounted at 50% on Amazon in the UK 🇬🇧 🤣

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11 Oct, 14:15

I made a video about the Black October — the Yeltsin-era politically motivated massacre in Moscow in 1993 that was part of the constitutional crisis that year.

https://youtu.be/p9sRc74ONMg?si=IDm0nC09RacralFL

What really happened, and why was this event such a watershed moment in post-Soviet Russia?

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11 Oct, 02:27

Say what you will about the UK 🇬🇧, but at least they're consistent....sort of 😅

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08 Oct, 22:56

Another day, another Third Reich-linked OOPSIE for Canada 🍁!

Source https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/government-should-remove-more-than-330-names-on-victims-of-communism-memorial-because-of-potential-nazi-or-fascist-links-report-recommends

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08 Oct, 16:24

Renowned Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky on why he's drunk every day (probably while writing this too 🤣)🍷🍷🍷

«They say that abusing alcoholic beverages is harmful. I readily agree with this assertion. But, nevertheless, I, that is, a man who is sick and full of neuroses, positively cannot function without the poison of alcohol, which [the Russian explorer and anthropologist] Miklouho-Maclay challenges. A person who has such a weird last name is very happy that he does not know the delights of vodka and other alcoholic beverages. But how unfair it is to judge others by using yourself and to prevent others from doing what you dislike anyway.

Well, I, for instance, am inebriated every evening and cannot function without it. What can I do to become a member of one of his expeditions??? And is he right? In the initial period of intoxication, I feel complete bliss and understand in this state infinitely more than I can understand without Miklouho-Maclay's poison!!! Neither do I notice that my health suffers much from drinking. And, by the way, quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. Only God knows who is more right: Maclay or I. Yet the fact that I would be rejected from one of his expeditions is such an incomparable disaster!!!»

Summer 1886

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08 Oct, 14:17

Zelensky 🇺🇦 briefing NATO on how he’ll win the war, or so it seems.😜

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07 Oct, 18:44

On Putin’s birthday, it’s worthwhile to revisit this interview:

Interviewer: Are you able to forgive?
Putin: Yes. But not everything.
Interviewer: What is impossible to forgive?
Putin: Betrayal.

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06 Oct, 21:42

Imagine making your kids destroy portraits of world-renowned authors and thinking it’s some kind of a flex. This is what happens in this Ukrainian 🇺🇦 video in which kids burn the portraits of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Pushkin.

The video was made by the Goncharenko Center founded by the 🇺🇦 MP Alexey (Oleksiy) Goncharenko, a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In 2014, he is alleged to have participated in the Odessa massacre by taking photos of dead bodies. Before the regime change, he defended Russian language rights with Yanukovich. Typical opportunist, to put it mildly.

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05 Oct, 04:40

Is Zelensky’s 🇺🇦 nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize 🕊️ the most Orwellian thing you’ve seen this week?

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05 Oct, 01:30

Maria Rasputina (1898-1977) with a portrait of her father Grigori Rasputin in 1972 in the U.S. “Bring your daughter to work” days must’ve been quite something in the Rasputin family! 😜

Source https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/maria-rasputin-pictured-holding-a-portrait-of-her-father-news-photo/789851457

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