Posted by “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” Henry A. Kissinger
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The 24-year-old basketball player Oleksii Khanilevych has died in battle against the Russian Army after being struck by artillery near Kreminna Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee is on the path of allowing Russian athletes to compete at the Paris Olympics next summer
Too many, so young, people losing their lives. How can Russia sanction this. I thought their concern was depopulation but then this may explain their practice of targetting Ukraine children and vulnerable people for “de-programming” in Russia … . Morally abhorrent tactics of war.
16th March 2023
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda announces that Poland is sending its fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine and that the first 4 planes will be sent in the coming days. Subtitles in English
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16th March 2023
464 children killed #WarCrimes #UkraineWarNews #Ukraine
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16th March 2023
#Germany refused to host the Women’s Fencing World Cup because of the admission of #Belarusians and #Russians to the competition. The Presidium of the German Fencing Federation informed the World Fencing Federation.
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16th Narch 2023
Chinese companies, including one connected to the government, have sent Russian entities 1000 assault rifles and other equipment that can be used for military purposes, like drone parts and body armor, according to trade and customs data writes Politico.
politico.com Chinese companies are shipping rifles, body armor to Russia Customs data obtained by POLITICO reveals direct shipments of Chinese assault rifles, as well as drone shipments and body armor
16th March 2023
Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators said Thursday.
themoscowtimes.com UN Investigators: Russian Deportation of Ukrainian Children a ‘War Crime’ Russia’s forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators sai
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The Moscow Times
16th March 2023
Kara-Murza’s lawyer said that “even the doctors of the Russian prison system are beginning to worry” and that he would be making a request for his client to be examined and treated “in a civilian hospital.”
Kremlin Critic Kara-Murza Unable to Attend Trial Due to Ill Health
Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who faces up to 25 years in jail on charges including treason, was too unwell to attend hi
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16th March 2023
Proost. The war won’t end until Putin is gone or unless he is sure ending it is the only way to stay in power. Sanctions and other economic pressure are essential and Western companies supporting Russia will be called out.
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Olivier van Beemen
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16th March 2023
Garry @Kasparov63 to Heineken & other companies still doing business in Russia: ‘Everything that helps the economy prolongs the war. It means that Vladimir Putin’s regime is buying more time. And every day that Putin stays in power, more people die.’ twitter.com/oli4vb/status/…
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Putin mocks Britain for imposing sanctions on Russia and now ‘having to eat turnips’
add to this that he says the market shelves are so bare in UK that their people are forced to eat squirrel. Propaganda extraordinary for the people of Russia to lap up
Putin mocks Britain for having to eat TURNIPS
In a speech to business leaders, Putin said Western analysts had prophesied that Russia’s store shelves would empty and services
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I wrote in ‘Driving the Silk Road’ about the increasing economic links between China and Russia. And this tweet from the People’s Daily emphasises the point.
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People’s Daily, China
@PDChina
16th March 2023
A China-Europe freight train loaded with 55 forty-foot equivalent unit containers of cargo left Beijing Thursday, and is expected to arrive in Moscow, Russia in about 18 days after traveling some 9,000 km. It was the first China-Europe freight train launched from Beijing.
The Arctic Silk Road: How Russia and China will benefit from the Global Warming https://youtu.be/e7EgELjU-ZA ”The Northern Sea Route could become a very convenient back-up shipping lane for energy imports and could make a commercial trip cheaper and faster due to global warming… ”
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The Arctic Silk Road: How Russia and China will benefit from the…
It’s not a secret that the Northern Sea Route could become a very convenient back-up shipping lane for energy imports and could make a commercial trip cheape…
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Ukraine and Russia are both significant suppliers of food to the world. Before the war, Ukraine – known as one of the globe’s breadbaskets – would export around 3/4 of the grain it produced. About 90% of these exports were shipped from ’s Black Sea ports.
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16th March 2023
Russia has made more than $315 billion in revenue from fossil fuel exports around the world, with nearly half ($149 billion) coming from EU members. #geoeconomics #oilandgas
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15th March 2023
The price of global oil has now hit a 16 month low. As Western central banks continue to raise and hold rates, global economic activity is slowing down and the revenue from all of Russia’s energy and commodity exports is collapsing. Russia won’t survive another year like this.
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Business Ukraine mag Retweeted
16th March 2023
The village of Dovhenke, Eastern Ukraine. Destroyed and burnt by army. Locals tell us used phosphor bombs. This was a wealthy village with its own big school, a culture center, farmer enterprise. Now all gone. Fields around are mined, crops not collected since last year
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16th March 2023
In October last year, a Russian news site published a short video of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary army, sitting with four men on a rooftop terrace in the resort town of Gelendzhik, on Russia’s Black Sea coast
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16th March 2023
#Prigozhin has been forced to push his best fighters into the battle for #Bakhmut, leading ISW to surmise that the [Russian MoD] was using #Wagner “to bear the brunt of the high-intensity attritional urban warfare … to conserve its conventional forces.”
edition.cnn.com Battle for Bakhmut grinds down Wagner’s mercenaries and cuts their notorious leader down to size |… Yevgeny Prigozhin, the combative boss of Russia’s Wagner private military group, relishes his role as an anti-establishment maverick,
16th March 2023
putin’s pov over the last year absolutely incredible
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