BRICS can play an important stabilizing role in international relations unlike US-led NATO, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Tuesday

BRICS can also undertake a key role in shaping the global development agenda as a platform for equal dialogue and collective efforts to resolve issues of global security, the Russian official added.

Moreover, Patrushev and his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, have discussed fight against terrorism.

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🗣️ On Dan Kovalik’s personal experience in Donbass:

“The war's been going on for nine, going on ten years. You know that 14,000 people died even before Russia intervened last year in a conflict that was really between the Ukrainian government and its own people in the Donbass. It was a brutal war, a racist war against Russian speakers and ethnic Russians. And the people in the Donbass are glad Russia came in and don't want Russian troops to leave,” Dan Kovalik, US human rights and labor lawyer and peace activist, told Sputnik.

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Black Hornet microdrones have become part of a new package of military aid from the United States to Ukraine.

What are these drones and how will Russia counter them?

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🇹🇷🇷🇺 The Russian Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM) has shown footage from the Be-200 aircraft which is helping to extinguish fires in Turkiye.

Massive fires have engulfed Europe and Turkiye. The Russian EMERCOM promptly provided assistance to the friendly country.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 The Russian military delegation, headed by Shoigu, has arrived in North Korea

The official welcoming ceremony of the Russian delegation took place at Sunan International Airport. At the plane's ramp, the Minister of Defense of the DPRK Army General Kang Sun Nam greeted the head of the Russian Defense Ministry with a company of the guard of honor.

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🗣️ On the US dollar losing power and confidence:

“I think the third world countries also observe that Russia took the blow and recovered very nicely and their economy is actually doing better now as a result of being de-dollarized. And so their confidence of the American dollar has been severely eroded by the Biden administration's action,” George Koo, journalist, social activist, and international business consultant, told Sputnik.

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🔺Taiwanese powder keg: the US continues its reckless arming of the island
🔺What’s happening in Spain’s general elections?
🔺The Chinese Foreign Ministry: Beijing would take countermeasures in response to the CIA rebuilding spy networks inside China

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🍴💵 Money Hungry? Caught Red-Handed, Madhya Pradesh Official Swallows Bribe

The incident, which occurred on Monday in the state's Katni district, quickly gained widespread attention after a video of the incident went viral.

🤑 He was then brought to a local hospital, where the bribe notes were extracted in the form of pulp from his mouth by the doctors.

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🇷🇺 🌍 Russia, Africa Should Join Forces to Fight Cancer With Nuclear Medicine, Expert Says

💬 "If Africa had its own infrastructure for the use of nuclear medicine, it would be positive for the development of the continent. Many associations already rank cancer as the first or second leading cause of death in Africa," said Dr Musawenkosi Eslom Mdluli, Director at Khuphuka Kings International (Pty) Ltd. and Khuphuka Medicals & General Trade Ltd., South Africa, in an interview with Sputnik Africa

Last week, Russia's state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, announced its intention to help African nations on their way to technological sovereignty

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🎥 T-90M Proryv tank crew destroys Ukrainian stronghold in Krasny Liman direction

The Russian tank crew strikes a Ukrainian fortified structure with a 125mm gun.

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🇹🇷 Turkiye's first main battle tank to be put into serial production in 2025

The serial production Altay tanks will start in 2025, once the first batch of the 250 combat vehicles is delivered to the Turkish military, Mehmet Karaaslan, the general manager of the BMC Defense manufacturing company, told Sputnik.

Due to a number of export restrictions and sanctions, some of the tanks' parts have been replaced with locally produced items or those not subject to limits, which has required repeated tests, Karaaslan added.

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📹 “We ended cancer as we know it,” claims Joe Biden

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🥴 Joe Biden put the US “on a path to a better, brighter future,” his wife Jill boasts in Paris

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