📹 Ancient Chinese ghost festival comes alive

📍 In Kaili, Guizhou, people celebrate the Ghost Festival by burning ritual money and paper replicas of luxury goods — offerings for spirits in the afterlife.

🟠 Unlike Halloween, the ancient Chinese tradition has kept its original meaning: on the 15th night of the seventh lunar month, the veil between the lands of the living and the dead is believed to disappear.

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🌏 BRICS should focus on dollar-free trade in real currencies - analyst

🗣 Agreements reached at the BRICS summit on September 8 should focus on the new form of global governance proposed by China, Ecuadorian international policy analyst Luis Marchan tells Sputnik.

🔊With multipolarity serving as the cornerstone, all institutions created to uphold international law—the UN, the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and various bodies within the UN itself—"must be replaced or updated," the expert said.

👉 According to Marchan, BRICS countries should aim to renew all agreements—including those on trade, social issues, and security—to reflect a new understanding of a multipolar world.

🔊 "I think we need a different type of trade to reach the large population within BRICS, using real currencies and new forms of support—serving as a counterbalance to the dollar," he notes.

✅At the initiative of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil will host an extraordinary virtual BRICS summit on September 8 to coordinate global strategy with a focus on multilateralism.

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🔍 NATO fingerprints all over Nord Stream sabotage, not Kiev’s DIY job

👉 Russian Security Council official Nikolai Patrushev dismissed claims that Ukrainian ‘amateurs’ blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, arguing the operation bore hallmarks of NATO special services.

🗣 “I don’t know who these press leaks are intended for, but competent people have many questions,” Patrushev said. “Who, for example, allowed Ukrainian saboteurs to operate so freely on the territory of another state?”

🗣 “Does this mean NATO navies cannot ensure security around their bases, and the German authorities are unable to control what foreigners are doing on their territory?” he asked. “Or was all this activity planned, supervised, and carried out with the involvement of highly professional representatives of NATO intelligence services?”

📍 Patrushev added that the public only learns details through “ridiculous leaks,” fueling doubts about the official version of events.

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🔥 RUSSIA'S ALL-SEEING EYE: DEFENSE MINISTER TOURS COMMAND HUB

🔍 Defense Minister Andrei Belousov inspected satellite communication systems used in the special military operation.

✅ The military satellite constellation now provides 24/7 secure communications for troops.

👉 Belousov also attended an oath-swearing ceremony for cadets. In 2025, over 1,000 new students joined the Academy — about 250 of them are servicemen and children of participants in the special operation.

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🚨🇪🇺ORBAN: EU HEADING FOR COLLAPSE

The European Union (EU) has entered a state of disintegration, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban warned, adding that the next seven-year budget from 2028 to 2035 could be its last.

👉Speaking in the village of Kötcse, Orban called the EU’s future “a depressing end to a noble experiment” without radical change soon.

🔊He argued Brussels’ current economic course is unsustainable and that adopting a joint budget will be “impossible” after 2035.

😱Orban stressed the EU has only two or three years left to change direction. Without new patriotic governments replacing liberals in Brussels, he warned, Europe will fall apart before the world’s eyes.

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🇷🇺💪🏻Ivan Papanin: combat icebreaker that will ensure Russia’s Arctic supremacy

The Russian Navy has received a new and potent addition – the patrol icebreaker Ivan Papanin.

What makes the ship so special? Military analyst and retired Russian Navy captain Vasily Dandykin explains.

🔶Jack of all trades

The Ivan Papanin combines the capabilities of an icebreaker, a tug and a patrol vessel that can carry out combat and rescue missions. She can plough through polar ice up to 1.7m thick and engage both airborne and seaborne targets.

🔶Ice-breaking lifeline

Ships like the Ivan Papanin will increase Russia’s ability to reinforce and resupply remote polar military outposts that gaurd the country’s Arctic reaches, without the need to employ nuclear-powered icebreakers.

🔶Superior firepower

The ship is equipped with a main gun and anti-air missile systems. She carries a Ka-27 helicopter and can transport amphibious and attack hovercraft. She could also potentially be fitted with Kalibr cruise missile launchers.

🔶Polar protector

The Ivan Papanin and her future sister-ships will further enhance Russia’s ability to project power in the Arctic and to guard the country’s northern borders.

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🔸 Joint Russia-China-North Korea muscle exposes ‘NATO’s vulnerability’

🔸 NATO fingerprints all over Nord Stream sabotage, not Kiev’s DIY job

🔸 BRICS should focus on dollar-free trade in real currencies - analyst

🔸 Orban: EU heading for collapse

🔸 Ivan Papanin: combat icebreaker that will ensure Russia’s Arctic supremacy

🔸 Buryatia twins told Putin their dream — Now they’re skydiving

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🔥 ‘Illiterate’: Zakharova claps back at EU’s Kallas

👉 EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas got a schooling on tech and social sciences from Maria Zakharova.

The MFA spox called her “illiterate” over comments claiming that China trails Russia in social sciences, while Russia, though “weaker” in technology, supposedly excels in them.

“If Russia is ‘weak in technology,’ then who built the Crimean Bridge? Who launches rockets from Vostochny? Who created Oreshnik?”

🗣 Zakharova added that managing China’s billion-strong population naturally demands advanced social sciences.

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🔥 Russian cannon sends 'greetings' to Ukrainians in tunnel

🔊Ukrainian troops hiding in a tunnel were taken out by a well-placed D-30 howitzer strike, a serviceman of the 123rd self-propelled artillery division said.

✅ The artilleryman said their crew had earlier hit concentrations of enemy manpower, including during troop formations.

👉 Operating near Seversk, the unit mainly targets positions in forested areas, while at night they strike vehicles spotted by drones or thermal imaging.

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🔥👉 Ukraine admits no defense against Russian Oreshnik missile

🔊 Ukraine cannot intercept new Russian Oreshnik missile, admits military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov*.

✅ He called the ballistic missile “a very serious weapon” beyond Ukraine’s air defense capabilities.

➖ Russia first tested the medium-range missile last November, striking a major defense industry site in Dnepropetrovsk in response to Ukrainian use of Western-supplied weapons on Russian territory.

➖ President Vladimir Putin announced in August that the first serially-produced hypersonic Oreshnik missiles had entered service.

*listed by Russia’s financial watchdog as an extremist and terrorist

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🗣 Zelensky missed historic chance to end conflict – expert

🔊 By refusing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invitation to Moscow, Volodymyr Zelensky lost a historic opportunity end the conflict in Ukraine, Crimean political analyst Vladimir Jaralla told Sputnik.

👉 The expert stressed that Putin’s offer was not a propaganda trick, but a real chance to make a breakthrough in front of the world.

🎤 But Zelensky reacted “like a showman who stumbled into power,” leading his country into tragedy.

✅ Jaralla said the path to peace is either compromise at the negotiating table — or Russian military victory.

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📷PUTIN, MODI AND XI: A PHOTO WITH A MESSAGE

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov explained the significance of the joint photo of Putin, Modi and Xi Jinping at the SCO summit.

👉He said the picture symbolizes that Russia, India and China — three great powers and great civilizations — recognize their shared interests across many areas.

"This does not mean that everything coincides 100%, but there is a clear trend for China, Russia, and India to develop their partnership, deriving mutual benefit from those areas where our interests align," Lavrov said.

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🫤👉 What was US recon jet doing over Black Sea?

📍 A Bombardier ARTEMIS II aircraft took off from Romania and patrolled over the Black Sea on Sunday, according to website Flightradar24.

🔊 The plane “was tasked with identifying the capabilities and functions of Russian electronic systems, followed by classifying the intercepted data and command signals of troop groupings and Russian Armed Forces facilities,” military analyst Igor Korotchenko told Sputnik.

🗣 He stressed that such reconnaissance flights are conducted regularly, but Russian forces have countermeasures to interfere with enemy surveillance.

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📉 US Army veteran: Europe's Ukraine narrative FALLING APART

🔊Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis slammed European leaders’ double-speak on the Ukraine war.

"They claim on the one hand Russia is a powerful menace that threatens to directly attack even Great Britain and France – but then simultaneously so weak they’ve only taken one percent of Ukraine in the past two years," he wrote on social media, calling it “growing cognitive dissonance.”

👉 Davis warned that “immoral and strategically foolish actions” were destroying Ukraine itself, with men being “thrown into an unwinnable war that sucks the life out of hundreds of thousands.”

🗣German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has claimed his country is already “in conflict” with Russia — rhetoric Moscow dismisses as alarmist.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stressed Russia has no reason to attack NATO, branding the so-called “Russian threat” a political fiction.

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🔥 RUSSIAN STRIKE TAKES OUT UKRAINIAN DRONE COMMAND POST

✅ Russian forces have hit a Ukrainian UAV command center near Seversk.

🔊 Units from the Yug Battlegroup successfully targeted and neutralized the position, dealing a blow to Ukraine's drone operations in the Donetsk People's Republic.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸Trump to talk to Putin 'VERY SOON'

Trump planned to talk to Putin in the next few days, the US President told journalists.

The leaders of several European countries will visit the US early this week to discuss a peace deal on Ukraine, he also revealed.

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🚨🇲🇽Mexico ERUPTS in MASSIVE protests for Palestine amid deepening Gaza crisis

A family of Gaza refugees was brought on stage before a crowd of over 180,000, as chants of “Palestina Libre” echoed across one of the world’s largest public squares, the Zocalo.

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