❤️ Moscow is diverse and always beautiful.

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In Oktober 2023 one week after the war I visited Beirut and went to the site where on August 4 (yesterday), 2020 a huge explosion took place. It was a dark day for Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, when a large explosion devastated the port and surrounding neighborhoods. According to the official version, 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated. The chemical, seized from the cargo ship MV Rhosus in 2014 and stored in Beirut's port for six years without adequate safety measures, detonated after a fire broke out in a nearby warehouse. The explosion killed at least 218 people, injured 7,000, and displaced approximately 300,000. The property damage was estimated at $15 billion. The unofficial version is that the 2,750 tons were deliberately detonated by the Mossad. In any case, it was a major catastrophe for the civilians. Now, in 2025, five years later, Lebanon remains in chaos. Israel is besieging and bombarding southern Lebanon. Beirut has been bombed by Israel, the hotel where I once stayed is gone, and dozens of families in the poor neighbourhoods are homeless. Instead of helping the people, Israel has only exacerbated the chaos and misery, all for the sake of land grabbing and the Yinon-Greater Israel plan.

Visit to Beirut October 2023 Port of Beirut

The regiment commander of the Russian 98th Guards Airborne Division Roman Ivanov spoke about the liberation of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic.

Rare Clouded Leopard caught on camera in India

Cute cub stares into the camera lens.

A court in Chisinau, Moldova, has sentenced the head of the democratically elected Gagauzia Autonomous Region, Yevgenia Gutsul, to seven years in prison for allegedly illegally financing the 2023 election campaign. This accusation is, of course, untrue: the EU will jail everyone, or perhaps even kill them (they are that radicalized).
Read my article from May of this year about the situation in Moldova, the EU, and the Gagauzia Autonomous Region https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/24/west-pressures-moldova-president-to-launch-blitzkrieg-against-transnistria/

Court sentence for Evghenia Guțul

The misery in Gaza is a disgrace to world leaders. They pretend to care about humanity, but they have utterly failed. It has nothing to do with Hamas or pro-Israel; it's murder, and everyone, with or without the power to change it, is watching how children are being killed and starved to death! What will future generations say? What will we say, like the Germans: "Wir haben es nicht gewusst".

🇷🇺 Blooming VDNKh

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How real is the U.S. rhetoric of a ‘Unified Syria’? — Strategic Culture
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/08/07/how-real-us-rhetoric-unified-syria/

Nearly 10,000 killed in Syria since 'diversity-friendly jihadists' seized power: Report - Sectarian violence and massacres against Alawites, Druze, and Christians have skyrocketed since former ISIS commander Ahmad al-Sharaa became president in December 2024 https://thecradle.co/articles/nearly-10000-killed-in-syria-since-diversity-friendly-jihadists-seized-power-report

Most of the new US tariffs on foreign imports have gone into effect. A short overview
Brazil 50%
Canada 35%
China 30%
Mexico 25%
European Union 15%
Syria 41%
Laos 40%
Myanmar (Burma) 40%
Switzerland 39%
Iraq 35%
Serbia 35%
Algeria 30%
Bosnia and Herzegovina 30%
Libya 30%South Africa 30% Libya, Syria, Laos, Myanmar poor countries have besides Brazil the highest tariffs...

🍉 Watermelon season has already begun in the main fountain at Moscow's GUM!

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My latest article in Dutch, easily to be translated in any language:
Zullen nieuwe verkiezingen in Nederland in oktober enig verschil maken voor de bevolking?
https://freesuriyah.eu/2025/08/08/zullen-nieuwe-verkiezingen-in-nederland-in-oktober-enig-verschil-maken-voor-bevolking/
Ja, het is weer zover, weer nieuwe verkiezingen, Nederland loopt voorop in het uitschrijven van nieuwe verkiezingen, dat zegt wel iets over de situatie in het land, foto’s: EW, X, Hartpatienten Nederland, bewerking: Mirjam©Photo

Niet zolang geleden is er een nieuw kabinet aangetreden, 3 juli 2024, en in juni 2025 alweer gevallen (nog geen jaar uitgehouden). Het Rutte V-kabinet ,was een staatsgreep van Rutte vanwege zijn NAVO-positie (nu is hij secretaris-generaal). Rutte V viel al juni dit jaar (zogenaamd over de asielzoekers kwestie), met Dick Schoof als zwakke premier (ex hoofd NCTV en AIVD), premier omdat Wilders van Mark geen premier mocht worden.

Het zou dus om de asielzoekerskwestie gaan. Volgens Wilders zijn het er te veel, en hij had gelijk. Ze maken het land economisch kapot en de criminaliteit neemt met de dag toe. Maar Wilders zelf, een racist pur sang, of beter gezegd, een troef van de Mossad en de Israëlische crimineel Netanyahu, die in eigen land van corruptie wordt verdacht, trok uiteindelijk de stekker eruit. Of misschien was het op aandringen van Mark Rutte, wie weet? In Nederland bestaan er immers nog steeds een geheim het “het torentje overleg“.
Lees meer: https://freesuriyah.eu/2025/08/08/zullen-nieuwe-verkiezingen-in-nederland-in-oktober-enig-verschil-maken-voor-bevolking/

Massive pro-Hezbollah protests continue in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon. The government (at the behest of the US) wants Hezbollah to disarm. This isn't going to happen. In other countries where this has happened, the US has taken over the governments. Consider the so-called recent peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Now the US has a foothold, just like in Syria, etc., under the guise of peace. Even though Beirut has the largest US embassy in almost the entire world (ships can enter, as I've seen), Hezbollah and southern Lebanon will not be given up easily, as has happened in other countries.

For years, the US has been trying to expedite the arrest of Venezuelan President Maduro. Now, the US government has increased the reward once again—to $50 million. The US accuses him of violating US drug laws, according to a press release from the US State Department. The coup from Trump failed in 2020 (operation Gideon) but he will try again, the US desperately needs money...they have huge debt and Venezuela has the oil...https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/5/6/trump-denies-ties-to-americans-linked-to-venezuela-coup-plot

My latest article on Strategic Culture:
Britain’s war agenda backfires: Starmer’s leadership in crisis
Sonja van den Ende
The multipolar world has become a reality — and for former colonial powers like Britain, this transition proves particularly painful.
Keir Starmer has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024 and leader of the Labour Party since 2020. He is no longer popular with the British public, or perhaps he was never truly popular to begin with, as few Britons knew him well before he took office. Like his European counterparts — prime ministers and presidents — he has been radicalized by the “Russia agenda” and wants to wage war against what they consider the greatest threat to so-called “freedom and democracy” in the West: Russia. This stance has clearly angered the British people
Read more: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/08/09/britains-war-agenda-backfires-starmers-leadership-in-crisis/