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What does Putin prefer, cucumbers or tomatoes?
Putin talks about the history of tomatoes in Russia during his meeting with workers of the Solnechny Dar greenhouse complex in the frame of the Tomato Festival in the Stavropol region.
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Putin talks about the history of tomatoes in Russia during his meeting with workers of the Solnechny Dar greenhouse complex in the frame of the Tomato Festival in the Stavropol region.
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⚡️The first footage of mass production of Russian Geran UAVs have been published. A huge number of drones is ready for use.
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Biden, you need to start getting along with Russia’ – US Journalist
The Russian-hosted World Youth Festival demonstrates the stark contrast between the Russian and Western economic approaches, Caleb Maupin, a US journalist and political analyst, who visited the event told Sputnik.
Russia is focused on building solid infrastructure and developing energy, whereas the West “is about banking, speculation, profits, and militarism”.
The festival has also allowed for informal contacts between unlikely partners, like North and South Korea. That clearly shows how Russia strives for genuine multipolarity and equity.
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The Russian-hosted World Youth Festival demonstrates the stark contrast between the Russian and Western economic approaches, Caleb Maupin, a US journalist and political analyst, who visited the event told Sputnik.
Russia is focused on building solid infrastructure and developing energy, whereas the West “is about banking, speculation, profits, and militarism”.
“I would say to Biden, you need to start getting along with Russia. This approach of trying to isolate Russia, trying to divide the world between those who are friends with Russia and those who are friends with America, it's failing,” he stressed.
The festival has also allowed for informal contacts between unlikely partners, like North and South Korea. That clearly shows how Russia strives for genuine multipolarity and equity.
“One thing I've noticed is that there are people here from many countries that we in the US don't have the opportunity to visit,” Maupin noted. “The South Koreans and the North Koreans are there at the same festival talking about peace through development. And that gives me a great amount of inspiration. And it shows that Russia has a very different approach.”
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The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, commented on the recent reports on the global outrage of the mainstream social networks:
Millions of people have been signing up and sharing content on Telegram in the last hour while Instagram and Facebook were down. Interestingly, Telegram is more reliable than these services — despite spending several times less on infrastructure per user.Subscribe to @SputnikInt
We also have about 1000 times (!) fewer full-time employees than Meta, but manage to launch new features and innovate faster.
Throughout 2023, Telegram was unavailable for a total of only 9 minutes out of the year’s 525,600 minutes. That’s a 99.999983% uptime🏅
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The cookies are over: US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who distributed cookies on the Maidan in 2013, plans to resign The media cite the fact that Nuland did not receive the post of first deputy secretary of state as a prerequisite for her resignation.…
Coup plotter on steroids: rise and fall of American neocon Victoria Nuland
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced Victoria Nuland will step down as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. What do we know about the US neocon darling?
🟥 Under George W. Bush, Nuland served as deputy foreign policy adviser (2003 – 2005) to Vice President Dick Cheney, a proponent of invading Iraq.
🟥 Between 2005 and 2008, she served as US ambassador to NATO mobilizing Europe to support the occupation of Afghanistan.
🟥 Nuland played a key role in Euromaidan protests of November 2013 – February 2014. In an intercepted phone call with US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt Nuland discussed the composition of a future Ukrainian government while then-President Viktor Yanukovich was still in office. After Yanukovich was ousted, Ukraine was dragged into a civil conflict.
🟥 Nuland downplayed the Kiev regime's war crimes against Donbass, blaming Russia for Minsk Agreements failures. It later turned out that NATO allies saw the accords as an operational pause for the Ukrainian military build-up.
🟥 In March 2022, Nuland admitted that "Ukraine has biological research facilities" in collaboration with the US, thus shedding light on US suspected biological warfare activities on Russia's doorstep.
🟥 On February 1, 2024 Nuland arrived in Kiev amid the conflict between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and then-top army commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny. On February 8, Zaluzhny was removed. On February 17, the Russian military liberated Avdeyevka and continued to make progress on the ground.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced Victoria Nuland will step down as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. What do we know about the US neocon darling?
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❗️The Association of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Russia told Sputnik that it has asked the government and the Parliament to strengthen measures to protect the Russian market.
The measures include:
▪️Set import duties for wine, sparkling wine, fortified wine from NATO countries to 200%
▪️Cancel the preferential regime of import duties for wine, sparkling wine, fortified wine from Georgia.
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The measures include:
▪️Set import duties for wine, sparkling wine, fortified wine from NATO countries to 200%
▪️Cancel the preferential regime of import duties for wine, sparkling wine, fortified wine from Georgia.
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Cherchez la Femme? ‘Bundeswehr scandal’ spreads to failure of gender politics
The roots of the recent “Bundeswehr recording” leak lie in Germany’s radical gender politics, according to Julian Reichelt, former editor-in-chief of the digital edition of Bild Zeitung. He said the head of Bundeswehr’s Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) Martina Rosenberg is to blame:
🟥 “Martina Rosenberg, as the head of Military Counter-intelligence Service, is directly responsible for this disaster,” Reichelt said. “This is what happens when you appoint a former ‘head of the department for social affairs and gender equality’ without espionage experience the head of a German special service... Someone just wanted by all means to have ‘the first female head of a counter-intelligence service’.”
🟥 Rosenberg became the head of MAD in October 2020. Soon after her appointment she initiated a “reform program,” focused on the “fight against right-wing extremism among the women and men of German Bundeswehr.”
🟥 Since the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Rosenberg said the importance of her service “has only been growing.”
🟥 But she is not the only female official who presided over the decay of the German military.
🟥 According to investigative site danisch.de, Rosenberg has much in common with the so-called Unholy Trintiy of Ursula von der Leyen, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Christine Lambrecht. These women have in turns headed Germany’s ministry of Defense for most of the past decade with catastrophic results for the Bundeswehr.
🟥 “It has long been the case that incompetent women were put in important positions in Germany, with no attention being paid to their professional abilities,” the report said. “The main requirement is to be a politically correct woman. The feminist battle cry is ‘quality is a myth,’ and the mere notion of competence is dismissed as an invention of white males.”
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The roots of the recent “Bundeswehr recording” leak lie in Germany’s radical gender politics, according to Julian Reichelt, former editor-in-chief of the digital edition of Bild Zeitung. He said the head of Bundeswehr’s Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) Martina Rosenberg is to blame:
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The Kiev regime cannot explain where 700,000 mobilized Ukrainian servicemen are and what they are doing, The Washington Post reported.
Lack of a clear mobilization strategy was one of the reasons for the dismissal of Valery Zaluzhny from the post of commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, the article revealed.
However, Syrsky has so far brought no clarity to the issue.
Meanwhile, Zelensky recently claimed that only 31,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since the outset of the conflict.
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Lack of a clear mobilization strategy was one of the reasons for the dismissal of Valery Zaluzhny from the post of commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, the article revealed.
New commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky "has been tasked with auditing the existing armed forces to find more combat-eligible troops, after Zelensky’s office recently announced that of the 1 million people who have been mobilized, only about 300,000 have fought at the front lines," the newspaper stressed.
However, Syrsky has so far brought no clarity to the issue.
"Nearly a month after his promotion, no one in the military leadership or the presidential administration has explained where those 700,000 are — or what they have been doing," the article explains.
Meanwhile, Zelensky recently claimed that only 31,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since the outset of the conflict.
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❗️ Yemen’s Houthis said they carried out strikes using missiles, drones against two US warships in the Red Sea.
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"The Naval forces, Missile forces, and airforces of the Yemeni armed forces ... carried out a qualitative military operation in which they targeted two American warship destroyers in the Red Sea. The operation was carried out with a number of naval missiles and drones," the Houthis said on Telegram.
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The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Inspector General said in a report that it documented dozens of claims of misconduct involving aid sent to Ukraine by the United States since February 2022.
USAID’s Office of Inspector General has received 15 complaints of alleged theft or diversion of aid, 12 complaints of program fraud, 11 complaints of procurement fraud and 11 complaints of conflict of interest, the report, released Monday, said.
The oversight office also received five complaints of alleged bribery, five complaints of mismanagement, and one complaint of sexual exploitation and abuse, the report said. In total, the office received 182 separate complaints.
The report includes summaries of closed complaint cases, but the office does not publicly disclose information about open investigations.
One closed case involved aid workers allegedly demanding fees from beneficiaries in order to receive assistance, the report said. Another case involved alleged corruption by a medical doctor in the city of Dnepr, the report said.
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USAID’s Office of Inspector General has received 15 complaints of alleged theft or diversion of aid, 12 complaints of program fraud, 11 complaints of procurement fraud and 11 complaints of conflict of interest, the report, released Monday, said.
The oversight office also received five complaints of alleged bribery, five complaints of mismanagement, and one complaint of sexual exploitation and abuse, the report said. In total, the office received 182 separate complaints.
The report includes summaries of closed complaint cases, but the office does not publicly disclose information about open investigations.
One closed case involved aid workers allegedly demanding fees from beneficiaries in order to receive assistance, the report said. Another case involved alleged corruption by a medical doctor in the city of Dnepr, the report said.
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Former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces Valery Zaluzhny would win the presidential election if it were held in Ukraine in 2024, according to a poll conducted by the Ukrainian Center for Social and Marketing Research SOCIS.
According to the survey, Zaluzhny would garner 41.4% in the first round among those who would go to the polls, Volodymyr Zelensky would garner 23.7% support, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko 6.4%, and ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada MP Dmytro Razumkov 5.6%. In the second round Zaluzhny would defeat Zelensky 67.5% to 32.5%.
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According to the survey, Zaluzhny would garner 41.4% in the first round among those who would go to the polls, Volodymyr Zelensky would garner 23.7% support, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko 6.4%, and ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada MP Dmytro Razumkov 5.6%. In the second round Zaluzhny would defeat Zelensky 67.5% to 32.5%.
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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi has arrived in Russia's Sochi for consultations, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
On Monday, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov told Sputnik that Grossi will travel to Sochi on March 5 and is scheduled to hold consultations with the Russian delegation on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on March 6. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there could be a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Grossi.
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On Monday, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov told Sputnik that Grossi will travel to Sochi on March 5 and is scheduled to hold consultations with the Russian delegation on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on March 6. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there could be a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Grossi.
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