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The contracts, which are all for the provision of food services to various state-run institutions, are worth a total of 1.06 billion rubles ($11.7 million).
themoscowtimes.com Prigozhin-Linked Companies Win Government Contracts After Failed Mutiny Companies with known links to Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin have been awarded over 1 billion rubles in government
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12th July 2023
The NATO-Ukraine Council has been created. By way of reminder, in 2002 the NATO-Russia Council was established. How it all ended is well known. Now the Alliance and our country are on (or rather, beyond) the brink of war. This time, it’s going to end differently. The Council… Show more
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13th July 2023
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke of a U.S. plan to transfer F-16s to Ukraine, although Washington has not given the go-ahead for any country to supply them.
Russia Says F-16 Jets in Ukraine Will Be Seen as ‘Nuclear’ Threat
Russia will regard Western F-16 fighter jets sent to Ukraine as a “nuclear” threat because of their capacity to carry atomic weapons, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
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A delegation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church led by Archbishop Philipos travelled to Moscow, Russia to discuss the continuing relationship between the two churches with the Russian Orthodox Church patriarch, His Holiness Kirill.
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Vladimir Putin has attended an Easter service led by Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill, who described Ukrainians as ‘Little Russians’ https://trib.al/AUkOvey
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KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine
The Ukrainian armed forces eliminated at least 2 487 Russian officers as of 12 July 2023. Based on publicly available data from Russia. Confirmations are made via funeral notices, obituaries and news sites. Names and sources can be found in the table in our profile.
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KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine
13th July 2023
Marine Major Чепа Владимир Александрович (Chepa Vladimir Alexandrovich), commander of the reconnaissance battalion, 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, was killed near Orikhiv, Ukraine on 12 July ’23.
https://vk.com/wall-93188324_214078
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13th July 2023
#Russia and #Iran, both under international #sanctions, are intensifying ties with each other. This includes the trade in #wheat, with transactions going mainly through #Switzerland. Here’s why this is a sensitive issue
Putin at SCO Summit: Russia is united as never before, and will continue to resist sanctions and provocations
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The United States and countries around the world support Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion. One of the ways we support Ukraine is through sanctions on Russia, which have weakened the Kremlin’s ability to wage its illegal war.
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‘An increasing number of countries are repatriating gold reserves as protection against the sort of sanctions imposed by the West on Russia, according to an Invesco survey of central bank and sovereign wealth funds published on Monday.’
12th July 2023
The Belarusian diaspora in Bialystok also displayed a banner yesterday saying “Heroes don’t die.” The banner includes the names of all Belarusians who fell in the fight against the Russians in Ukraine.
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2/2 Atleast 71 Shahed-136 have bn successfully used by Russians in Ukraine, rebranded as Geranium 1 and 2. Due to its low cost $20,000 apiece, Russia purchased it in 1000’s and launched “swarm attacks” against Ukraine.
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Biden is now a world historic figure. He has destroyed the dollar, not an easy task. A BRICS gold-linked currency will be previewed August 22, to be implemented in stages. SCO will merge with BRICS; others will join. Dollars will still be around but marginalized. Nice job, Joe.
Unbelievable A Russian submarine commander was assassinated on his run yesterday He was posting his workouts on Strava! One of the people who liked the posts, was the Chief of Intelligence of Ukraine
13th July 2023
The “show gratitude” drivel is galling when Putin and his gang built the Russian police state & the war machine that is terrorizing Ukraine with hundreds of billions of dollars from European nations. The US less so, but four US admins legitimized & enabled Putin.
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Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt
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13th July 2023
My rebuke of @JakeSullivan46, @BWallaceMP & any other #NATO leader calling on Ukraine to be more “grateful”: “You will never have to thank the Transatlantic alliance for what it has done to support Ukraine, because it is absolutely in our national security interest to do so.”
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12th July 2023
Thanks to Vilnius for hosting our historic #NATOSummit. We agreed to strengthen #NATO’s deterrence & defence, invest more in defence, bring #Ukraine closer to NATO membership, and deepen our partnerships around the world even more. We are more united than ever.
13th July 2023
At the
summit in Vilnius, we proposed the creation of a group to coordinate cooperation between the Alliance & democratic Belarus. It’s important that the Belarusian opinion is considered when NATO countries discuss future regional security.
NATO should closely cooperate with democratic Belarus: Tsikhanouskaya
The leader of Belarusian opposition participated in the North Atlantic Alliance summit taking place in Vilnius.
13th July 2023
Turkey’s President Erdogan has been busy at the NATO summit in Lithuania discussing: Ratifying Sweden’s NATO membership bid F-16 jet deal with the US Ankara’s role in the Ukraine war Read more about the Turkish president’s talks in Vilnius
13th July 2023
President Zelensky’s conclusions from the NATO Summit in Vilnius. This is extremely inspirational and morale-boosting for the Ukrainian soldiers risking their lives for freedom on the frontline.
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13th July 2023
Russia is pursuing the neo-imperial subjugation of Ukraine. Atrocities are a central part of the Kremlin’s tactics, as was the case in Syria, writes
How to end Russia’s war on Ukraine
This report makes the case for dramatically increased Western military assistance to Ukraine, and counsels against concessions to Russia.
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“The greater the erosion of Russia’s military capacity by Ukraine, the longer it will take Russia before it tries again, and the safer Europe will be”
challenges the narrative that ‘Russia cannot suffer a humiliating defeat’.
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12th July 2023
The transfer of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague in 2001 to face war crimes charges cannot have escaped Putin’s attention, writes
This is interesting. A general gets sacked, but he speaks up and pursues Prigozhin’s hardline, militant line. This looks as if discipline at the level of Russian generals is breaking up.
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Igor Sushko
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13th July 2023
Spartak addresses his gladiators Russia’s Gen. Ivan ‘Spartak’ Popov picks up the torch from Prigozhin to open the next chapter of Russia’s civil war. The next armed rebellion on Putin may very well be spearheaded by the Russian army itself. English subs http://woc.one
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13th July 2023
WAGNER ON THE MOVE Russian news reports that Wagner had left their camp in Belarus and are headed, accompanied by police, in the direction of Moscow.
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Гюндуз Мамедов/Gyunduz Mamedov
This is how an apartment in Kyiv looks like after being hit by debris from kamikaze drones. Ukraine was attacked overnight by drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Most of them targeted Kyiv region and were shot down there. Each day forces are targeting civilian… Show more
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13th August 2023
The man is facing from 12 to 20 years behind bars or a life sentence. The law on life sentences for high treason was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 28 April.
Russia’s FSB reports detaining transgender man over charges of high treason for allegedly transfe…
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reports to have detained a transgender man, “who had changed his gender from female to male”, from the Oryol region over charges of high treason, Russian state…
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War, the futility. USSR now Russian Federation but looking to have their siblings in the Ukraine as their little brothers, in other words, Russia would reign supreme and NATO would be separated by a Buffer ie Ukraine.
Climate change, the environment…Every year countries gather and warn the people of the ecocide that lies ahead for our children, their children and the survival of humanity.
Wars are distracting us from dealing with what is a real war of disaster and that is destroying the planet for our greed.
The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn’t enough food or water to go around.
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Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market – the temple of the Mall – govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings – bugs and bees and buntings – on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.
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