❗️Putin: Prigozhin was a man with a difficult fate, but talented

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❗️Putin: Wagner made a significant contribution to the fight against Nazism in Ukraine, and we will never forget it.

He also added that the head of the investigative committee reported on the beginning of the investigation into the plane crash with Prigozhin.

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🇩🇪📉 What's behind the decline of Germany?

Germany has turned from Europe's one-time leader into a straggler, as deindustrialization and inflation sting one of the major Western economies. What's behind the slump?

The IMF attributes the trend to weak production output as well as economic contraction in two consecutive quarters (Q4 in 2022 and Q1 in 2023). The latter factor prompted international economists to conclude in mid-July that the country had fallen into a technical recession.

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❗️Lavrov on the plane crash with Prigozhin: an investigation is underway. I urge you to focus on the facts and not on what the western media say

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📹 The full video of Putin's speech about Prigozhin

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🇷🇺🎖Putin met with the crew of the Alyosha tank in the Kremlin

Yesterday, Russian President presented medals to the tankers who almost single-handedly defeated a Ukrainian company on the Zaporozhye front.

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#SputnikInfographic 📊 Today it was announced that BRICS is going to expand: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE will become full bloc members starting January 1, 2024.

Take a look at Sputnik's infographics showing the expansion of BRICS

🇺🇸🛫 The US will soon begin training Ukrainians to fly and maintain F-16 fighter aircraft, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said during the briefing.

Following English language training for Ukrainian pilots in September, F-16 training will begin in October in Tucson, Arizona, stated Ryder, adding that the USA will remain in close consultation with the Dutch and other allies to ensure F-16 training for Ukrainians complements broader coalition training.

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Exclusive|What Are Key Milestones of BRICS Summit? South African Minister Tells

The expansion of BRICS membership, particularly with the addition of African nations, reflects the bloc's commitment to deepening relationships within the global South, Enoch Godongwana, South Africa's Minister of Finance, told Sputnik Africa in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the #BRICSSummit2023.

🗣 "What is done is to assert the BRICS centrality in the geopolitical situation in the global situation. And secondly, we have managed to find to increase the degree and the principle of expansion of BRICS," the South African official said

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💬 ‘That is the most important reality to understand’

Richard D. Wolff, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, explains why the US is no longer the dominant player in the world economy

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📹💥 Russian troops destroyed Ukrainian tank with precision artillery ammunition

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The induction of five new countries from the Global South into the BRICS grouping will transform the grouping into a "forum for a new world order", an Indian think-tanker has told Sputnik India following the major announcement regarding BRICS expansion.

🌐"The BRICS has shown that it is set to play a formidable role in the global politics and shaping a new world order. It is basically west vs the rest now," remarked Commodore (retired) Seshadri Vasan, an Indian Navy veteran the Director of Chennai-based think tank Centre for China Studies (C3S).

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❗Russian air defense systems have shot down a modified Ukrainian missile of an S-200 air defense system over Russia's Kaluga region, the Russian Defense Ministry said early Friday.

❗Trump has officially arrived at the Fulton County Jail, and is set to be formally arrested on his efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results

Exclusive|Whole World Will Benefit from BRICS Expansion, Says South African Trade Minister

With the addition of six new members – Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – BRICS heralds a significant milestone in the economic landscape in the conclusion of the 15th BRICS Summit, highlighted Ebrahim Patel, South Africa's Minister of Trade and Industry.

🗣"What we have now is a bigger number of people, a bigger market, a bigger investable capability, and that will mean that BRICS' weight in the global economy has clearly increased," Patel said in response to a Sputnik Africa's question on the sidelines of the 15th BRICS summit on Thursday. "Our job now is to ensure that out of the combined BRICS membership, we're able to ensure value to every BRICS member"

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➡️ The former president has been formally arrested, booked and has already left the grounds of the jail