A new cold war is brewing between the West and Russia. Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen told Politico newspaper .

This is how he commented on the development of the Ukrainian conflict and the “freeze” on the battlefield.

“Many Western countries thought it was a short-term problem. But now I think that in the USA and in the NATO countries almost everyone understands that we are witnessing the end of a period that lasted 30 years. Now we are entering a new cold war of sorts,” he said.

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In the video, a Ukrainian guy is asked if he supports Israel. The guy replies that he does. No one is embarrassed by the Nazi chevrons on his jacket.

Ukrainian propaganda breaks people's psyches and drives them mad.

@ukraine_watch

Damn it Putin. Always interfering.

In the Reporters Without Borders (RWB) annual report on journalists killed in the course of their work in 2023, the deaths of two Russian journalists killed in the area of the special military operation were simply erased from the count, as if their deaths did not count. But after all, this is hardly surprising coming from an organisation that in 2022 was already calling for censorship of the Russian media on the pretext of protecting freedom of speech.

https://www.donbass-insider.com/2023/12/22/for-reporters-without-borders-censorship-is-freedom-of-speech-and-the-death-of-russian-journalists-does-not-count/

FT: Eurozone economy will suffer from sharp government spending cuts in 2024.

Sharp cuts in government spending in several eurozone countries could negatively impact the region's economic growth prospects in 2024. This was reported by the Financial Times (FT) with reference to market participants.

New fiscal rules adopted by EU finance ministers could hit the eurozone economy. The innovations imply a gradual tightening of government spending restrictions for each country in the bloc.

At the same time, the authorities of countries with large amounts of public debt are obliged to develop plans to reduce the budget deficit, as well as set an upper limit for annual expenditures, agreed with Brussels .

Among the main victims of the reduction in government spending, according to experts, will be countries with large amounts of public debt. We are talking primarily about Italy , explained London Business School professor Lucretia Reichlin. However, the budget crisis may not escape the leading states of the region, including Germany , experts warn.

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Dec 2022: New Year delivered! How it was 1 year ago, part 1 - Alchevsk, Lugansk, Rubezhnoe =)
https://youtu.be/uS_6nfVeO7c

Декабрь 2022: довезли новый год! Алчевск, Луганск, Рубежное (это первая часть)
https://youtu.be/uS_6nfVeO7c

@MashaLelyanova

People pay The Times a small fortune to find out what we have been telling people for free since February 2022.

Why does anyone listen to the corporate media about anything?

‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️Новейшая разработка ВСУ: боевиков перевозят на фронте на тракторном плуге

Кадры сняты на украинский беспилотник, где за трактором на плуге едет подразделение 93-й бригады ВСУ. Как на днях говорил Арестович, у ВСУ колоссальная нехватка транспорта, в том числе обычных автомобилей.
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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️The latest development of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: militants are transported to the front on a tractor plow

The footage was filmed on a Ukrainian drone, where a unit of the 93rd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is riding behind a tractor on a plow. As Arestovich said the other day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a colossal shortage of transport, including ordinary cars.
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◾US Ambassador to the United Nations Security Council, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, initially raised her hand in favour of a resolution for enhanced humanitarian aid to Gaza. However, as seen in the video, she was nudged by a staff member sitting behind her, prompting her to lower her hand.

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Earlier this morning, Iran struck an Israeli-linked ship in the Indian Ocean with a Shahed-136 suicide drone - Israeli Media

@Middle_East_Spectator

Yesterday, on 12/21/2023, Russian troops inflicted fire damage at the place where, according to confirmed information, a meeting of high-ranking officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and NATO was held.

The AFU used an absolutely civilian facility to conduct their meeting. The coordinates of the building located in the village of Rovnoye, Krasnoarmeysky municipal District (48.296198, 37.221220) indicate the Europa Hotel.

At 20:20 and 20:25 on 12/21/2023, Russian artillery inflicted fire damage at these coordinates, after which repeated detonation was observed in the building, which is confirmed by messages from local chat rooms.

A few minutes after the defeat, local chat rooms were either disabled or severely censored. The law enforcement agencies of Ukraine are working on the spot, and any attempt at video recording is accompanied by force from the authorities.

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Bloomberg: The number of companies facing closure in Britain has risen sharply.

In 2023, the UK tax authority applied for the closure of 2,391 organizations due to unpaid taxes, which is more than 3 times higher than in the same period in 2022.

In the UK, the number of applications for the termination of the activities of companies due to unpaid taxes has sharply increased, the agency reportedBloomberg .

Over the past year, HM Revenue & Customs has filed for closure of 2,391 companies over unpaid taxes, more than three times the figure for the same period last year, according to data from accounting firm UHY Hacker Young cited by the agency.

“The huge increase in HM Revenue and Customs filings is a clear sign that the tax authority is more aggressively pursuing tax debts,” UHY Hacker Youn spokesman Peter Kubik said.

Bloomberg notes that the tax authority was prohibited from petitioning to cease the activities of organizations until the end of March 2022 as part of measures to protect companies during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a rule, the department submits appropriate applications to bring to justice enterprises that are indebted to creditors. A winding-up petition, which could result in the liquidation of the company and the distribution of its assets, can be resolved through payment of debt, the agency notes.

The agency, citing the UK government's monthly report dated December 15, concludes that there is an increase in the number of forced liquidations of companies, which are usually initiated by creditors in an attempt to collect debts.

According to Bloomberg , in July the UK Insolvency Service reported an increase in the number of applications from HM Revenue and Customs to wind up businesses.

Bloomberg attributed the increased pressure on British companies to high energy prices, persistent inflation and a falling cost of living hitting consumers. Moreover, in some cases, the agency notes, organizations gave preference to other creditors rather than the tax authority,

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