🌊❄️ Caspian seashore freezes over due to abnormally low temperatures

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Americans Smuggling Eggs from Mexico Amid Surging Prices, Border Officials Say

Eggs have gotten so expensive in recent months that Americans are increasingly relying on a new way of getting them: smuggling them across the Mexican border.

Officials with Customs and Border Protection say they’ve seen an uptick in the number of egg-running attempts.

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👉 Follow our LIVE UPDATES on the Ukrainian crisis

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Argentine President Alberto Fernandez says he does not intend to cut dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin, although Buenos Aires does not support Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine.

Russian Ambassador to Buenos Aires Dmitry Feoktistov said in December that Russia's bilateral relations with Argentina "withstood and passed the test of time," as evident from the fact that Putin called Fernandez to congratulate Argentina on winning the FIFA World Cup 2022.

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Sweden May Become 'Frontier State' Because of NATO Bid, Former Ambassador Warns

Sweden’s NATO bid at present depends on Turkey’s approval and has been stalled by Stockholm’s reluctance to accede to all Ankara’s demands and a spate of controversies that damaged relations between the two countries including President Recep Erdogan being hanged in effigy and the Quran being burned near the Turkish embassy.

Sweden's former ambassador to Russia Sven Hirdman has said his country’s contested NATO bid is hasty and he warned that Sweden will become a “frontier state” should war break out between the alliance and Russia.
Sweden filed a joint NATO bid with Finland in May 2022 - a step Hirdman labeled as premature - because it felt that the security situation had shifted after Russia launched its special operation in Ukraine.

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🔌 UK electricity operator National Grid launched a reward scheme on Monday where customers will be paid for reducing electricity consumption during the busiest hours.

🗣 "We are also activating a Live #DemandFlexibilityService event between 5-6pm tomorrow [17:00 - 18:00 GMT on Monday]. This does not mean electricity supplies are at risk and people should not be worried," National Grid tweeted on Sunday.

The Demand Flexibility Service has been developed to provide incentive payments for reducing energy consumption during peak hours. According to UK media, the National Grid wants people to turn off energy-consuming household appliances such as washing machines and game consoles at such hours. The company plans to pay up to 6 pounds ($7.45) for every kilowatt-hour saved

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❗️There is reliable evidence that Ukrainian army stockpiling weapons and ammo provided by West on territories of Ukrainian NPP, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service says

❗️Latest statements from Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov:

▪️US statements about possibly supplying Kiev with an Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) are an example of psychological warfare;

▪️Russia and the US have different ideas about how to normalize relations between states;

▪️Russia's opponents continue to exacerbate the Ukrainian crisis;

▪️The new US ambassador to Moscow is to arrive in the next few days;

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WATCH: Russia's MoD has published footage of Russian Su-25 ground-attack aircraft in action during the special military operation

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📹Here is the latest from Pretoria, where talks between Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and his South African counterpart Dr Naledi Pandor are about to begin. Stay tuned for more from South African administrative capital. Subscribe to @BolotskySputnik

🎬 Video of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arriving at the meeting with South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor on Monday

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⚡️Russian Foreign Ministry says Estonian ambassador should leave country on February 7

Russia's lowering level of diplomatic relations with Estonia in response to Tallinn's radical staff reduction of Russian embassy, Russian Foreign Ministry says

Russian Biolab Commission to Invite US Representatives to Meeting: Senior Lawmaker

The Commission on the biological program in Ukraine intends to invite renowned economist and chairman of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission Jeffrey Sachs and former director of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Kenneth Myers to its next meeting, deputy chairwoman of the Russian lower house Irina Yarovaya said on Monday.

🗣 "We propose to additionally invite Jeffrey Sachs, who just headed the Lancet commission on COVID. We propose to invite this scholar because we consider it fundamentally important, since the position of the Russian parliament is absolutely transparent, open, as is Russia's position regarding the provision of evaluation evidence, evidence, and we have repeatedly initiated the need for an international investigation into the dangerous activities of the Pentagon, the conclusions of German scholars on the artificial origin of COVID," Yarovaya said.

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov:

▪️No possibility to negotiate a peace treaty between Russia and Japan at the moment;

▪️On NATO discussions on the delivery of tanks to Ukraine: There is growing anxiety among members of the alliance;

▪️On US designation of Wagner as a terrorist organization: It has no significance for Russia, and even less so for this group;

▪️Putin has no plans to meet with Grossi, but Russia is interested in continuing contacts.

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📹 Combat work of 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers (video courtesy of Russian MoD)

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⚡️Lavrov says Russia will help peacekeepers in Africa by training peacekeeping personnel.

⚡️War between Russia and the West is no longer hybrid, but almost real, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says

❗️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Russia-China-South Africa Military Drills: Russia not interested in any scandals and provocations; the trilateral drills are transparent

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❗️ No UN efforts have contributed to the removal of barriers to the export of food and fertilizers from Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says

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❗️ Russia's Lavrov: By threatening other countries not to work with Russia, the US is already crossing all the existing red lines

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⚡️RT and Sputnik asking Lavrov questions about Washinton's attempts to intimidate African nations over their cooperation with Russia.

Lavrov says America intimidates not only African nations, but also countries in Asia and Latin America, hurting their pride. Adds the US/UK crosses red lines by threatening assets of families of foreign politicians. Says the only thing the West cares about is establishing its own order in various nations under the guise of spreading democracy.