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26th March 2023
BREAKING: The General Staff of North Macedonia has agreed to the transfer of 12 Mi-24 helicopters to Ukraine. North Macedonia will replace them with 8 new Western helicopters.
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26th March 2023
China’s largest logistics company OOCL Logistics has decided to stop shipping goods to Russia due to the Western sanctions imposed on the country. The company has a fleet of 70 container ships, including 2 icebreakers.
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26th March 2023
Speaking in Waco tonight, Trump says that if elected President again, he could impose a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine “within 24 hours”
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26th March 2023
British actor Orlando Bloom visited #Ukraine. “Today, I arrived in Ukraine for the first time after a trip since 2016. Since I was here, I could not imagine the war could spread to the whole country. But today I was lucky to hear children’s laughter,” he said. : United24
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26th March 2023
PUTIN’S DAYS ARE NUMBERED Russians are strategizing how they can liberate Ukraine and get Putin into handcuffs at The Hague. It is time to plan the post-Putin world. My latest for the
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kyivpost.com The Russians Calling for a Ukrainian Victory and The Hague for Putin The long-divided Russian democratic opposition is united behind an urgent goal: Guaranteeing Putin’s defeat in Ukraine and in Russia.
26th March 2023
Wagner boss claims over 5,000 Russian prisoners freed after fighting in Ukraine. Head of Russian state-backed Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed on March 25 that more than 5,000 Russian prisoners who fought in Ukraine were offered amnesty.
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The Russian-appointed governor of annexed Crimea has started a new private military company called Convoy. It reportedly has deep ties to Wagner Group and enough funding to keep its mercenaries “armed to the teeth.”
26th March 2023
Readovka, a formerly self-styled liberal news outlet, rebranded as an “ultra-patriotic” Telegram channel in early 2022. Now it takes directions from a pro-Kremlin nonprofit, and its founder tried to launch a side gig selling the Russian army winter coats.
meduza.io ‘Our newsroom turned into a cult’ How a ‘liberal’ Telegram channel began peddling Kremlin disinfo… Story by Irina Pankratova (The Bell) with contributions by Svetlana Reiter. Translation by Sam Breazeale.
26th March 2023
Far-right groups “are encouraged by the genocidal rhetoric of Kremlin propagandists… Putin himself is voicing this ideology,” said one expert.
26th March 2023
Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. He also said he would deploy depleted uranium ammunition if Kyiv received such munitions from the West.
26th March 2023
Beijing emerged as an economic lifeline for Moscow last year, above all for its energy purchases, after Western sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cut Russia off from many of its crucial export markets.
themoscowtimes.com Second Russian Pipeline Delay Sign That China Holds ‘Upper Hand’ — Analysts A massive new gas pipeline to China could help reduce Russia’s reliance on European buyers, but analysts say the project reveals a
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25th March 2023
#OpEd “Symbolic as it might be now, the warrant signals a determination against impunity and points to the enormous scale of the abuses committed by Russian forces and their proxies for which Putin bears ultimate responsibility,” writes Stefan Wolff.
26th March 2023
“This is the Vodyane village, near Donetsk. The place where we are successfully advancing, according to our media. But in truth, that’s not entirely the case. [We’re suffering] very heavy losses here,” the servicemen say in the video.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Pity Party’s 2024 frontrunner.
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In addition to threatening to fire missiles at the German parliament and to shoot down
’s plane, the angry drunk former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev is now calling for pirating Netflix. He’s got great breadth in his stupidity
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25th March 2023
Medvedev called for the distribution of pirated copies of Western films and music by companies that have left #Russia “If they left us, all sorts of ‘netflixes’ and others, then we will download it all, we will use it for free. I would distribute it on the Internet to cause them… Show more
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25th March 2023
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26th March 2023
Watching The Rise of the Nazis and admiring @Kasparov63’s ascot. Proper dressing for a gentleman.
March 2023
On the margins of the IV Anti-War conference in Riga today. Good conversation with Mr. Garry Kasparov
, co-founder of the Free Russia Forum. Looking forward to very interesting discussions during the conference
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26th March 2023
Russia has lost more than 170,000 of its soldiers in the war against Ukraine, 660 of them being killed over the last day only. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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25th March 2023
The keyspring of #PeaceStudies is LIFE. The preservation & improvement of LIFE: Human and other. Dukkha & Death are inevitable. Suffering & eventual illbeing are a part of LIFE. The Art of a LIFE in wellbeing is to intentionally decrease & negate dukkha WHILE increasing sukha.
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In 1968, J.R.R Tolkien sat down in his study, pulled a newspaper clipping from his pocket, and revealed to the BBC the “keyspring” that drove his masterwork, The Lord of the Rings.
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25th March 2023
For Peace, fulfil human needs for: Freedom Security Wellbeing Identity But do so with nonviolent means exclusively.
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26th March 2023
The powerful founder of Russia’s mercenary group Wagner, is preparing to scale back his private army’s operations in Ukraine amid a turf war with Moscow’s military
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All the worst agitators – Kadyrov, Prigozhin, Solovyov & Simonyan – are creatures of Putin. They will disappear when Putin disappears. They have no other power base than Putin.
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“The head of the occupation administration of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, has created his own private military company Convoy, on the peninsula, the Russian publication Vazhnye Istoriia reports. The mercenaries are led by Konstantin Pikalov, call sign Mazai, the right-hand man 1/
Head of occupied #Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, creates new Wagner-affiliated #Russian mercenary group “PMC Convoy”, aka “PMC Aksyonov”. The new PMC initially consisted of 300 people and has reportedly been deployed to occupied #Kherson Oblast.
Sports, state propaganda, and the army are indivisible in Russia. And now Putin has already introduced not only politics, but also war crimes into sports. There is no way for Russian or Belarusian athletes to compete in the Paris Olympics or any other major sporting event.
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Trump said that the United States has turned into a banana republic “A third-world banana republic is what we have become,” Trump said at a rally of supporters in Texas. Among the most pressing problems in the U.S., Trump singled out border security, the electoral system, and… Show more
26th March 2023
The Russian Federation approved a bill on the creation of a free economic zone in the occupied territories of #Ukraine. This zone will include Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine.
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Navalny’s team are incredibly skillful at appealing to younger Russian and creating viral content, but it’s harder to overcome the quirks of Russian demography (aging population, smallish numbers of under-25s) 4/
Some more on Russian demography: #Russia has one of the lowest fertility rates in the entire world. In fact, for twenty years – from 1992 to 2012 – Russia’s death rate exceeded its birth rate. That’s also been true since 2016. Russia therefore has an
https://rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF124.html
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rand.org Russia’s Demographic Crisis At a June 1995 conference a group of Russian demographers presented the results of their pioneering research on Russia’s
CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program
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Risks&challenges for Russian modernization: demography, hydrocarbon dependency, weak institutions & corruption, inadequate innovation system
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25th March 2023
Belarusians came out to march for the 105th anniversary of the foundation of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in 1918 today in Warsaw, waving flags and symbols of the Belarusian opposition. Celebrations commemorating this date are banned in #Belarus under Lukashenko’s rule
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26th March 2023
Putin planned a “total cleansing” of Ukraine with “house-to-house terror”leaked spy documents show. Chilling emails from within Russia’s FSB talk about orders “from the very top” for civilians to be taken to concentration camps in a bid to conquer Ukraine.
My cartoon published 4/6/22.
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A wise old judge once said “Beware of the Vested Interest”.
China Xi Jinping visit to Russia was a spectacular event on the global stage. But if you watch the video by DW below you will establish that Belgrade Servia, Budapest, Hungary, are already in line with China. A bridge has been built by the Chinese over the Danube.
The question is: Russia may be disrupting China’s ambitions for Europe. If so, maybe this explains the 12 point Peace Plan.
Who Watches the Watchers? 