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Record number of wealthy Americans to leave US after elections
 
According to CNBC, fearing political and social unrest regardless of the result of the US presidential election, wealthy Americans are making plans to leave the country as they look for second passports or long-term residencies abroad.
 

“We’ve never seen demand like we see now,” CNBC cites Dominic Volek, adviser for the wealthy on international migration at Henley & Partners.

 
Volek said that for the first time, wealthy Americans account for 20% of clients, and more than any other nationality. He said the number of Americans making plans to move abroad has surpassed last year's figure by at least 30%.
 
The trend was echoed by David Lesperance, managing partner of Lesperance and Associates, an international tax and immigration firm. He said the number of Americans hiring him for possible relocation overseas has roughly tripled from last year.
 
Reasons cited for the move include Kamala Harris’ plan to tax unrealized capital gains for those with a net worth of more than $100 million and Trump's MAGA policy.
 
Mass school shootings, the potential for political violence, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the government’s soaring debts are also on the list, according to the report.

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🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵Russia expresses support for the measures taken by the North Korean leadership to curb the aggressive policy of the United States and its allies in Northeast Asia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

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John Robles, a refugee from the United States, has received a Russian passport, the Russian Interior Ministry said.
 
A few weeks ago, Putin granted him Russian citizenship by decree. Since the beginning of his career, Robles has served as a volunteer and delivered medicine to the territory of Donbass.

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Bor-M: Russian servicemen get top-notch floatable armor vest

Russian engineers from the research and production enterprise Fillin have created body armor that allows soldiers to stay afloat in combat conditions. What you should know about Bor-M and how does it help Russian servicemen?

◻️The Bor-M level-four armor vest can tackle a machine gun or an assault rifle bullet, thanks to a 2.2-kg armor plate made of boron carbide, the third hardest material in nature after diamond and boron nitride.

◻️The vest is capable of resisting fragments from the armor plate after being hit by a 7.62mm or a 5.45mm bullet. The Bor-M can save a soldier from behind-the-armor blows to the body, which can damage internal organs.

◻️The body armor’s positive buoyancy is provided by a ballistic package, and a climatic shock-absorbing damper made of lightweight materials.

◻️The vest protects all vital organs. If necessary, the area of anti-fragmentation protection can be increased by installing additional modules for protecting the neck, shoulders, and groin.

◻️The Bor-M is fitted with a quick release system and a wide evacuation loop to help pull a wounded soldier from under the fire.

The body armor is already successfully used by servicemen in the special military operation zone.

🔹Most of all, the Bor-Ms will be used by Russian marines and navy sailors who will have to fight in coastal and riverside areas, including the River Dnepr front line, where fire contact can occur at the most unexpected moment, military experts said.

🔹The vests will also be of help to Russian motorized riflemen and engineer troops, given that a Bor-M can keep a shell-shocked or wounded soldier afloat, thereby saving his life, the experts concluded.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, in connection with the tragedy at the Novi Sad railway station, where 14 people died as a result of a collapsed roof.

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Protesting Boeing workers to make another desperate attempt at pay rise
 
Boeing workers, who have been striking since September, will vote on an improved contract offer that includes a 38% pay rise and a bigger ratification bonus, CNN reports, citing the workers' union.
 
The plane manufacturing company has offered a $12,000 ratification bonus and the reinstatement of an annual bonus program, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said in a statement.
 
The protesters, however, insist on a 40% wage increase and the return of the defined benefit pension, which they lost ten years ago.
 
The beleaguered Boeing is holding firm against the workers’ demands for wage increases, better pensions, and more input into product safety. Meanwhile, the strike by 33,000 unionized West Coast workers is entering its second month, as the company hits back with plans to slash 10% of its workforce as revenues plummet.
 
However, the UAW’s month-and-a-half-long strike has proven that the company has the cash for wage and cost of living adjustments, overtime and retirement benefits, and even protections against plant closures.

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❗️Russian troops liberated Kurakhovka settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic and the village of Pershotravnevoye in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry announced.

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🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️The Russian Armed Forces hit the command post of the "Kraken" nationalist formation and the infrastructure of a military airfield;

◻️Russian air defenses shot down four ATACMS missiles, three Hammer bombs and 50 aircraft-type drones in one day;

◻️Ukrainian losses amounted to 115 militants, a Paladin self-propelled gun and a Caesar howitzer in one day in the area of responsibility of the Vostok Battlegroup;

◻️The Russian Zapad Battlegroup repelled one Ukrainian counterattack, the enemy lost up to 470 militants;

◻️Ukrainian losses amounted to 535 soldiers, an armored personnel carrier and three armored vehicles in the area of responsibility of the Tsentr Battlegroup;

◻️Ukrainian losses amounted to 65 militants in one day in the area of responsibility of the Dnepr Battlegroup.

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❗️ Russian security forces have taken US citizen Daniel Martindale, who was helping Russian forces, out of territory under Ukraine’s control, security agencies told Sputnik

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❗️The US citizen, who passed valuable intel to the Russian military, had been in Ukraine since February 11, 2022, security agencies told Sputnik

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❗️ US citizen Martindale had been transmitting coordinates of Ukrainian military facilities to the Russian Federation for two years, law enforcement agencies told Sputnik

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⚡️Information from US citizen Martindale was repeatedly used to defeat equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian forces, security agencies told Sputnik

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❗️US citizen Martindale, who helped Russian forces plan strikes against Ukrainian forces, is in Moscow and gave his first press conference at Rossiya Segodnya

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❗️US citizen Daniel Martindale who helped the Russian Armed Forces, says he is in Moscow voluntarily, no one forces him to be here

He also thanked Russian soldiers and special services for the evacuation operation

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💬US only cares about its business interests while Russia fights for justice

The United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian conflict essentially amounts to the US attempting to “contain and to repress Russia” as the latter attempts to be “an equal player in the world,” says Daniel Martindale, the US citizen who helped Russian military by providing valuable intel.

“I see it as a war where one side is fighting for justice and the other side is really just interested in their own financial and business interests, really not interested in wellbeing of their own citizens,” he says.

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❗️US volunteer who aided Russia understood Ukrainian conflict ‘from the perspective of Russian, Ukrainian citizens’

Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who actively aided Russian forces in the Ukrainian conflict zone by supplying them with valuable intel, said he was able to stay in touch with the Russian side.

“They also helped me to understand the conflict better from the perspective of Russian citizens, Ukrainian citizens, not just what I would see in the Western media,” he adds.

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