Рисунок на бархатном чехле для подушки с изображением логотипа Интернационального союза моряков. Этот предмет был подарен советской стороне коммунистом Вальтером Могком (Эрфурт) после Второй мировой войны в знак благодарности за освобождение от фашизма

The velvet cushion cover features the International Seafarers' Union logo. This item was donated to the Soviet side by communist Walter Mogk (Erfurt) after World War II as a token of gratitude for liberation from fascism

🇪🇺🚫🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇳 EU is preparing sanctions against Chinese and Indian companies for ties with Russia, FT

▪️If EU member states approve this plan, it will be the first time that enterprises in mainland China and India will be subject to EU sanctions. Sanctions against the Indian company will be particularly sensitive because the country is a US ally and is negotiating a trade deal with the EU. New Delhi has responded to criticism by saying it legally buys cheap, sanctioned Russian oil and sends products processed from it to the EU.

The companies, along with one from Hong Kong, are among 21 new entities listed in a European Commission document seen by the Financial Times. They cannot be named for legal reasons. When the commission proposed sanctions against mainland Chinese companies last year, it abandoned the proposal under pressure from EU governments to agree on measures unanimously. At the time, EU officials said Beijing had assured them it did not support Russian military operations.

Under the proposed measures, European companies would be banned from dealing with listed companies as Brussels steps up efforts to prevent any circumvention of its restrictions, especially the supply of electronic components that could be used in weapons systems.

▪️The proposal also includes a ban on the export to Russia of components used for the production of drones. The sanctions package, which is expected to be approved ahead of the second anniversary of the full-scale conflict between Russia and Ukraine on February 24, will be the 13th adopted by the EU. The list of companies subject to sanctions, if approved, will reach 643. Among the new names are also enterprises from Sri Lanka, Turkey, Thailand, Serbia and Kazakhstan.

▪️The Commission ignored requests from some member states and the EU aluminum industry to further limit supplies of this metal from Russia, since it is a critical component for aircraft and other modern products.

#EU #Russia #sanctions #China #India

🇨🇳 World's largest clean energy corridor, consisting of six mega hydropower stations on China's Yangtze River, generated over 276 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity last year, up 5.34% year on year, according to the operator of these stations. @PDChinaNews #eco #energy

Anna Baltzers documentary about Palestine life before the onslaught that began last year.
Palestinian life was hell before and now it's unliveable. Years of apartheid and now they are being ethnically cleansed.

https://youtu.be/Q_MDC2Gty4I?si=5i9S-gtZdMdaHSLr

"In the last few hours of our journey a yellow skinned Kazak youth of twenty six got in our compartment. He was excited to learn that I had seen the Turk-Sib railway at its beginning. He said, "I was a boy of thirteen when they started to build the railway, a starving shepherd boy who had never been to school. I came to beg for a job on the road and they put me in the railway school and fed and trained me. When the Turk- Sib opened, I was sixteen, fit for a semiskilled job. I kept on working and studying; the railway gives you every chance. Now, at twenty-six, I have a good job in the maintenance de- partment. Turk-Sib is my father and my life."

- Anna Louise Strong
The Soviets Expected It.

How industry was seen as more than just a job or a wage in the Soviet Union. It was seen as their life-blood. The power of the workers was harnessed to such a fantastic effect.

Recall the #US #propaganda in 1990 of #Iraq-i soldiers throwing #Kuwaiti babies out of their incubators.

Here we are 34 years later. US enabled this.
#Gaza

🇮🇷 A violent explosion rocks the city of Shahriar, west of the Iranian capital, Tehran

@stayfreeworld

Netanyahu’s son seen hiding in Florida, away from Gaza war zone: Report

🔹Benjamin Netanyahu’s son has been seen hiding out – and draft dodging amid the Israeli military’s bloody campaign in Gaza – in an expensive rented apartment in a high-rise building in Florida.

#PressTV - #Palestine

Trees bearing the slogans written by the anti-Japanese guerrillas in praise of Kim Jong Il as the Shining Star

Ice on the River Mersey...14th February 1895.