Cosmonautics Day is celebrated all over Russia today. It was on this date, April 12, 1961, that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in world history to fly into outer space. His orbital flight on the Vostok-1 spacecraft lasted 108 minutes, and the cosmonaut himself successfully returned to Earth for the first time and landed on the territory of the Saratov region.

A chant for traditional Qouzalli festival celebrated in Syrian coast especially by Alawites, lighting bonfires & preparing food to mark the New Year per old Eastern calendar:

For Qouzalli, O Hanna, [Christian male name]
You're invited tonight to our place.
Come visit us this evening,
The fire will tell you about us.
Tonight’s dish is made of wheat, [Harisa]
With big chunks [of meat] on top.
Don’t be late, my brother,
Welcome, welcome to the visitors.
We have Christmas pastries,
Covered with extra oil.
We offer them to our loved ones,
They carry the scent of my ancestors.
Qouzalli, the fire has been lit,
And the neighbor calls to his neighbor.
May it [Qouzalli] return to you again,
And may this home prosper & flourish.

My latest article on Strategic Culture:
Maidan and Odessa – The West’s Ukrainian Massacres

The scars endure in Odessa, Kharkov, Mariupol, and Volnovakha, where war has claimed countless loved ones.
In 2016 and 2017, I was invited by the families of the victims of the 2014 Odessa Trade Union House massacre to document this atrocity. The slaughter on May 2, 2014, received little – if any – attention in Western media. Over 40 people were burned alive after a mob of neo-Nazi hooligans, backed by the West, attacked peaceful protesters demonstrating against the fascist regime installed in Kiev. This regime was the product of a 2013 coup d’état orchestrated by the U.S. and its EU accomplices, branded as the “Maidan Revolution.” By 2014, its violence had spread to Odessa.

The Mothers of Odessa – echoing Argentina’s Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo – sought justice for the massacre. Like the Argentine mothers who protested the disappearances under military dictatorship, they demanded accountability for May 2, a day the West has long buried in silence – because it was complicit in Kiev’s coup and, indirectly, Odessa’s tragedy.
Read more: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/12/maidan-and-odessa-the-wests-ukrainian-massacres/

Moscow Metro Prepares for Easter

The Trubnaya station of the Moscow Metro has begun to be decorated in anticipation of the bright holiday of Easter.

Each of the 140 decorative eggs has been painted in the finest traditions of Russian patterns.

By the way, decorating this particular metro station for various holidays has become a true tradition in the capital.

However, while the metro is in full swing preparing for a spring holiday, the weather in the capital remains stuck somewhere in February.

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It was cold, we starved, but we endured, we believed, we hoped - resident of the Russian Kursk Oblast about the occupation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Lyubov Ivanovna was recently evacuated from the city of Sudzha and told how she survived this period when Ukrainians tried to even kill civilians.

In the (former) Syrian village of Al-Shaniya, Alawites attend funerals of the victims (many) of the jihadist group from Al-Julani. Also from the village of Al-Houla, massacres took place in the countryside of Homs, Hama, Damascus, Latakia, Jableh and Tartous. Mainly Alawites were killed, but also Christians.
The so-called president (terrorist Al-Julani) of former Syria (now Jihadistan or a Caliphate) is in Abu Dhabi. Of course, many Gulf States have been complicit in the murder of people in Syria since 2011 (particularly Qatar and Saudi Arabia, who are now also complicit in Yemen).

Sumy the west saying that civilians were killed, but according the Russian Ministry of Defence it targeted a meeting of Ukrainian commanders. The attack has left at least 60 dead and many wounded. It was carried out with the use of two Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles.

In violation of the Russian-American agreements to halt strikes at power facilities from 18 March for 30 days, the Kiev regime continues its attacks against the Russian energy infrastructure. Eight Ukrainian attacks on Russian power industry facilities have been recorded.

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