🇷🇺🏴 Putin expressed condolences to the families of those who died in the plane crash in the Tver region. He referred to Prigozhin as a person with a complex fate but acknowledged his talent.

Putin stated that the "Wagner" group made a significant contribution to the fight against Nazism in Ukraine, and this will never be forgotten.

Putin shared that he had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early 90s. While acknowledging Prigozhin's mistakes, he highlighted that he achieved meaningful results both personally and for the greater cause.

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🎙 We'll Just Leave This Here...

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💥 Reports of a powerful explosion in Zaporozhye.

According to Ukrainian monitoring channels, the explosion was felt throughout the city.

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Russia in the 1990s - Episode 1 (1992-1994)

Lydia and JM discuss Russia in the early 1990s and the years 1992-1994. Lydia discusses her lived experiences and the experiences of those who she knows during this time to give an eyewitness testimony to a turbulent and horrific time in Russian history. We discuss what the end of the Soviet Union and beginning of the Russian Federation felt like to someone who was there, hyperinflation, planting potatoes to survive, politics as farce and politics as murder, how Russian liberals demonstrated their "commitment" to democracy, and how President Yeltsin set an example of propriety in the midst of the loss of public morals. On that last point we are being sarcastic - he helped set the tone for corruption, violence, crime and blending of all three such that nobody knew who was the government, who was the gangster and who was just some guy.

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🚨 23:34 Local Time

💥 Explosions reported in Odessa

🚀 Ukrainian monitoring channels report threat of missiles

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💥 Odessa

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Ramzan Kadyrov's message about Yevgeny Prigozhin

We were friends for a long time.

With Yevgeny Viktorovich, we often had to solve the most difficult issues. He was distinguished from others by responsiveness, unique sociability and perseverance. He came to Grozny at my very first invitation, although he was older than me. You could discuss any topic and problem with him. He was always ready to help and really helped from the bottom of his heart. We also assisted him in some issues on Libya and Africa. We had a lot in common. On one of his visits, he presented me with a Wagner gold medal "For Special Merits." You can see this moment in the photo.

Yevgeny Viktorovich was very active for his age, he was an important person on a national scale. But recently he either did not see or did not want to see the full picture of what is happening in the country. I asked him to leave personal ambitions for the sake of matters of paramount national importance. Everything else could be decided later. But he was like that, Prigozhin, with his iron character and desire to achieve his goal right here and now.

Undoubtedly, he made a great contribution to the SMO. And this merit cannot be taken away from him. His death is a great loss for the entire state.

I offer my sincere condolences to the family and friends of Yevgeny Viktorovich.

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🇩🇪🤡❌🇷🇺 Russian artists who support SMO will not be allowed into Germany.

This was stated by U.S. hostage Olaf Scholz. In general, he spoke out against the ban for Russian artists to perform in Germany, writes Deutsche Welle.

"Russian culture is part of our common European history, and it cannot simply be banned now," German Chancellor U.S. hostage Olaf Scholz said during a meeting with the people of Munich.

However he also then announced:

“However, propagandists who support the SMO are unlikely to receive an invitation to speak in Germany.”

🐻 Being a U.S. slave, he bows to his masters...

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🇷🇺 Russians have chosen the best and worst rulers in the history of the country. Kommersant writes about this with reference to the results of a study by the Russian Field research group.

The most popular in Russia were Peter I and Catherine II (82 and 71 percent respectively), Joseph Stalin closes the top three (65 percent).

The anti-rating was headed by Boris Yeltsin (19 percent) and Mikhail Gorbachev (17 percent).

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