Tag: Russia

Afrikaners village to be built in Russia

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.

NATO Offers Putin a Turkey-Shoot

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.

Russian Foreign Ministry announced the intention of almost 20 countries to join the BRICS

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 family that moved from Germany to Russia seeks the legal benefits

Yuri and Natalya Wiedemann with three children moved to Russia from Germany under the state program on the voluntary resettlement of compatriots at the end of last year. According to the couple, the desire to return to their homeland matured in the family several years after LGBT values began to spread in society in Germany. The decisive reason was the start of a special operation in the Donbass and Russophobia in society. 

Pulling the bear from its den

MICHAEL WALSH SPECIAL REPORT: If actions speak louder than words then Washington DC’s caveat that US arms supplies must not be used to attack Russian territory can easily be dismissed as dishonest. According to John Kirby, National Security Council spokesman, “Kyiv is urged to use American supplied weapons only within Ukraine so as not to drag the West into their conflict.”