Russian President Vladimir Putin said the U.S. was making the same mistakes now that the Soviet Union did in the past. Sending Soviet troops to suppress the anti-Soviet uprisings and liberalization attempts in communist Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 was a mistake, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Tuesday.
Russians got richer last year, even with the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, while the US and Europe lost trillions of dollars, according to Business Insider. According to the Swiss bank UBS, Russia added $600 billion. At the same time, the United States lost more wealth last year than any other country – $5.9 trillion, and North America and Europe combined became poorer by $10.9 trillion.
Due to visa problems, many Russians now prefer not to travel to Europe. They prefer sunny, welcoming, cash-hungry tropical countries to the cool reception of the EU states. In the first half of 2023, tourism to Thailand grew by 1,000%. Russian citizens can be found on the beaches, bars and restaurants of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Charity begins at home; Crimea and Sochi are bursting at the seams. Domestic tourism is flourishing in the country.
The main reason why the West is so worried about the events in Niger is minerals, according to the Redacted YouTube channel. First, after undermining the Nord Stream, the United States stepped up the construction of a gas pipeline from Africa to Europe. Now Europe is facing a catastrophe. Secondly, Niger […]
American families are not the only displaced minority to seek new lives in Russia: Moscow and Tver Regions plan to accept 3,000 Afrikaners families from South Africa. A rural community about halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg has been selected as the location of an African village, according to the African International Congress in Russia. The project is part of a five-year pilot program to settle thousands of migrants from South Africa.
Who are Wagner’s militiamen? Recruited from prisons, genocidal xenophobic race-haters and neo-pagans. Wagner Group founded in 2013, involved itself in the Ukrainian conflict with 50 thousand men (40,000 released convicts) but suffered many losses.
Kyiv will most likely receive old F-16s from NATO – but it is claimed they will still become a message to Putin that the alliance with Ukraine will be for a long time. The yet-to-be-finalized delivery of F-16 fighter jets to NATO to Ukraine is perceived primarily as a gesture to the Kremlin, designed to show that the alliance intends to support Kiev for a long time and ultimately integrate it into its composition, reports Bloomberg. Meanwhile, the fighting qualities of the machines themselves are unlikely to be outstanding: according to the agency, Ukraine is likely to receive old fighters, which are not only inferior to Russian ones, but also require huge maintenance costs.
After the goals of the special military operation have been achieved, Russia will trust nobody else to guarantee its security, the foreign minister said. By the time the conflict in Ukraine is resolved, Kyiv will respect and accept the loss of its former territories, and Western-led globalization will be dead, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told RT Arabic on Friday.
Almost 20 states want to join the Russian-led BRICS, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. According to him, this reflects the growing role of the association and dominance in the international trading arena. The interest of a number of countries in BRICS membership indicates their search for de-dollarization and an alternative to international institutions dominated by the West. According to experts, in the context of the BRICS expansion, we are talking about the emergence of a community with a fundamentally different level of opportunities in geo-economics.
A number of major Western media drew attention to the RT parody video, which shows how Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz, Ursula von der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron are agonizing over what other sanctions to impose on Russia.
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