The Georgian Parliament has adopted a bill on the prohibition of LGBT* propaganda in its final reading.

Under the law, surgical operations or medical manipulations involving sex reassignment are punishable by up to one to four years in prison.

Earlier, Georgian authorities imposed fines for LGBT propaganda.

*The LGBT movement is recognized as extremist in Russia and is prohibited

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❗️ Ukraine has lost over 14,200 soldiers and 119 tanks since start of offensive in Russia's Kursk region

🇷🇺🪖 Key highlights from the Russian Ministry of Defense's daily briefing on the situation in the Kursk region:

◻️ The offensive of Russia's Sever Battlegroup continues and eight Ukrainian brigades were defeated.

◻️ Russia’s military thwarted four enemy attempts in the Kursk region, Ukrainians lost up to 30 soldiers.

◻️ Russian forces thwarted five enemy attempts to breach the state border in the Kursk region, with Ukrainian losses of up to 40 militants and two tanks.

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Meta's ban on Sputnik: What do our subscribers say?

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❗️ RFK Jr., Donald Trump Jr. call for direct start of US-Russian negotiations on Ukraine

Donald Trump Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. published an article in the Hill arguing for the US to start direct negotiations with Russia over Ukraine.

The aim is to avoid the risk of a global nuclear conflict, because, as the authors note, a nuclear war would mean the end of civilisation.

💬 "At a time when American leaders should be focused on finding a diplomatic off-ramp to a war that should never have been allowed to take place, the Biden-Harris administration is instead pursuing a policy that Russia says it will interpret as an act of war. In the words of Vladimir Putin, long-range strikes in Russia 'will mean that NATO countries — the United States and European countries — are at war with Russia'" - article

💬 And for what? To “weaken Russia”? To control Ukraine’s minerals? No vital American interest is at stake. To risk nuclear conflict for the sake of the neoconservative fantasy of global “full-spectrum dominance” is madness.

They have forgotten the wisdom of John F. Kennedy, who said in 1963, 'Nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.'

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