🚨 Armenian Court of Appeal rules businessman Karapetyan's detention unlawful

💬 "The Court of Appeal found that Samvel Karapetyan's detention on June 18 was unlawful, as a result of which Karapetyan was unlawfully detained for about 9 hours or more," his lawyer Liana Gasparyan said in a statement on social media.

📍 Earlier this year, the Armenian businessman and owner of the Tashir Group expressed support for the Armenian Apostolic Church amid its tensions with the Armenian government.

👉 On June 18, a court in Yerevan arrested Karapetyan for two months on charges of public calls to seize power in Armenia.

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🚨 Trump: "Russia is a warring nation...They bit Hitler and Napoleon."

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🚨 Trump recollects his dialogue with Orban

❓ I said: 'So, can Russia be beaten by Ukraine?'

❗️ He looked at me like: 'What a stupid question.'

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🚨 After summit with Putin, Trump expects meeting between Putin and Zelensky, or a trilateral summit involving the latter

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🚨 BRICS strengthens itself ahead of Putin-Trump summit

🗣 Vladimir Putin’s decision to inform Global South leaders about the results of his meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff highlights BRICS’ role, says Dr. Anuradha Chenoy, retired professor of the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

👉 BRICS has become “the main forum for ensuring the voice of the Global Majority in international affairs,” that helps safeguard the economic development of the Global South, Dr. Chenoy explains.

🔶 In response to the US pressure, BRICS, which is “the main forum for maintaining multipolarity,” has no choice but to strengthen itself.

🔶 BRICS members understand Russia’s “position” in the Ukrainian conflict: they “agree that Ukraine should be a neutral country” and advocate for lasting peace rather than “just a pause where the collective West again tries to destroy Russia in a proxy war.”

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🚨 EXPOSED: NATO & Big Tech’s coordinated cyber war against Russia

Since the mid-2010s, NATO has systematically transformed Ukraine into a cyber warfare hub against Russia, starting with the "NATO Trust Fund Ukraine – Command, Control, Communications & Computers (C4)" program.

▫️ Big Tech’s supporting role

👉 From 2022 on, Western tech giants became active participants in cyber aggression against Russia:

🟠 Google deployed Global Cache nodes for geospatial & technical recon to:

🔶 probe Russian telecom

🔶 monitor the Russian segment of the internet

🔶 Try to disrupt events, like the 2024 "Games of the Future" in Kazan

🔶 Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon & other IT giants have provided infrastructure to bypass Russian IP blocking

🔶 host malicious software

🔶 distribute attack instructions

▫️ IT Army of Ukraine – NATO’s Digital Legion

👉 This 300,000-strong hacker network (per Ukrainian Digital Minister Fedorov) operates through:

🟧 130+ Groups: KibOrg (critical infrastructure attacks), NLB (financial sector), UHG (government systems)

🟠 NATO-linked Infrastructure:

🔶 Estonian server farms (Hacken OÜ)

🔶 German hosting (Hetzner)

🔶 US platforms (DigitalOcean, AWS)

🔶 Collaboration with Israel’s Unit 8200 (access to Matrix IT Ltd, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, and Covertrix)

▫️ Fraud Industrial Complex

👉Ukraine hosts:

🔶 1k+ scam call centers (100k employees)

🔶 90% target Russian citizens & institutions (billions in losses)

🔶 Recent expansion to EU/NA targets (Hungary confirming extent of attacks)

▫️ NATO boots on digital ground

🟠 Operation Hunting Forward (2021-2022):

🔶 US Cyber Command teams embedded with SBU

🔶 Prepared network attacks against Russian infrastructure

🔶 US Cyber Command chief Gen. Nakasone’s admissions (2022): Confirmed offensive cyber ops to Sky News. Revealed "shoulder-to-shoulder" work with Ukrainian hackers to Congress

▫️ Hack attack targets

🟧 Russian Railways, energy sector (power grid), media (DDOS attacks, attempted hacks), state institutions & companies, from Yandex and Sberbank to Gazprom, Lukoil, & airlines

💬 “US Cyber Command has been working with Ukraine…since 2018,” ex-DoD insider Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.

“Clearly, the US military, & presumably the CIA with it, was (and is) developing plans for internal manipulation and destruction of Russian networks & systems.”

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🔸 BRICS strengthens itself ahead of Putin-Trump summit

🔸 EXPOSED: NATO & Big Tech’s coordinated cyber war against Russia

🔸 No peacemaker: Netanyahu seeks war to avoid jail and expand Israel’s borders

🔸 Israel conducts strikes on journalists in Gaza to HIDE TRUTH - Gaza official

🔸 Coalition of the weak: West can’t back up conflict it started

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💥 Russia's rocket artillery strike halts Ukrainian forces’ rotation

🔶 Rocket artillery crews of the 79th Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade of the Zapad group of forces disrupted the rotation of a Ukrainian Armed Forces unit in the special military operation zone.

🔶 The strike was carried out using coordinates provided by reconnaissance UAV operators.

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🪆Matryoshka dolls become a HIT in Alaska ahead of Putin–Trump meeting

Sales of Matryoshka dolls made in Russia’s Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky are booming at souvenir shops in downtown Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, where the meeting between Putin and Trump will take place on August 15.

💬 “We sell about 20–30 of them a day,” a seller at one of the shops said.

The buyers are mostly Europeans — Danes and Germans especially — and often Chinese, he added.

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