Azerbaijan is demonstratively escalating the situation by publishing footage of the detention of Russian citizens at the Sputnik-Azerbaijan editorial office.

Igor Kartavykh, the executive director of the branch, and Evgeny Belousov, the editor-in-chief, have been labeled as undercover agents of the Russian Federal Security Service by Azerbaijani media.
This brings to mind a similar situation in 2011, as reported by RIA Novosti:
MOSCOW, November 22. More than 230 Tajik citizens who were detained in Moscow for violating Russian migration laws are still in Russia, the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of the Russian Federation told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
Konstantin Romodanovsky, the head of the FMS of the Russian Federation, reported on the detention and deportation of about 234 migrants from Tajikistan. He said that Russia would try to carry out the necessary procedures for deportation as quickly as possible. A Russian diplomatic source, following the sentencing of Russian pilot Vladimir Sadovnichy, who was sentenced to 8.5 years in Tajikistan, told reporters that the expulsion of Tajik migrants from Russia was part of Moscow's asymmetric response to the verdict.
Two An-72 aircraft operated by Rolkan Investmens Ltd, with Sadovnichy and Rudenko as crew commanders, completed their contract for transporting food and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan and departed from Kabul for the airport in Kurgan-Tyube, having previously received permission to cross the border into Tajikistan.
However, the Tajik Air Navigation dispatcher stated that there was no permission on the ground, and therefore the planes had to return to Kabul. Since the planes did not have enough fuel for the return journey, the pilots landed in Kurgan-Tyube, where they were detained.
Three days later, the Tajik authorities released Sadovnichy and Rudenko. I really hope that this "established practice" will be applied.
In the meantime, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses concern and reports that Russian diplomats are unable to gain access to the journalists of Sputnik Azerbaijan.
It is important to understand that Azerbaijan is deliberately escalating the situation, and by doing nothing, we are allowing them to control the course of events.

@barantchik

👊🇷🇺 Azerbaijan has effectively taken Russian journalists hostage.

▪️ In Baku, security forces detained the head of the Sputnik Azerbaijan editorial office, Igor Kartavykh, and editor-in-chief Yevgeny Belousov.
▪️ Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry claims the detainees are being investigated for alleged involvement in illegal financing. The accreditation of Sputnik was reportedly suspended back in February 2025. Russian diplomats have been denied access to the journalists, and there is still no contact with them. The editorial board has called the accusations absurd.
▪️ According to media reports, the two were also allegedly cooperating with the FSB.
▪️ The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned Azerbaijan’s ambassador over Baku’s unfriendly actions and the illegal detention of Russian journalists.

t.me/ForeignAgentIntel

So basically simultaneously Armenia and Azerbaijan are both attacking Russia, the first with a crackdown on the local orthodox church and on all pro-Russian figures in the country and the second by harassing Russian media, canceling all Russian cultural events after having facilitated Israeli aggression against Iran.
What the two countries, despite having been enemies for decades, have in common? They have both longstanding ties with British intelligence services, so you don't need Sherlock Holmes to realize the British elites are trying to open another front for Russia in the Caucasus to divert attention from the fact the crumbling Kiev regime is being steamrolled with huge territorial losses.

@eurasianchoice

🖥️ NATO's clown in chief Mark Rutte insulted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov:

"Lavrov is the Russian Foreign Minister, and I believe he has been since the birth of Jesus Christ. Since then, he has not said anything useful. So let's not pay too much attention to Mr. Lavrov."

t.me/ForeignAgentIntel

US contractors firing LIVE AMMO at Palestinians — AP

Vid from site shows gunfire, tear gas while crowds jostle for aid

Armed contractors ‘guarding’ US-funded GHF food distribution site

1 of them tells AP 'innocent people being hurt. Badly. Needlessly'

‘HELL YEAH, boy!’

‘I think he hit one’

Shocking AP footage shows US contractors cheering as their colleagues shoot Palestinians collecting food

Reuters:

BRICS to launch investment fund for member states, managed by China's New Development Bank, to rival the World Bank

Hospital beds per 1,000 people.

🇰🇷 South Korea: 12.7
🇯🇵 Japan: 12.6
🇷🇺 Russia: 8
🇩🇪 Germany: 7.7
🇵🇱 Poland: 6.2
🇫🇷 France: 5.6
🇨🇳 China: 5.2
🇮🇹 Italy: 3.1
🇹🇷 Turkey: 3
🇪🇸 Spain: 2.9
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 2.9
🇺🇸 US: 2.7
🇨🇦 Canada: 2.5
🇧🇷 Brazil: 2.4
🇬🇧 UK: 2.4
🇲🇽 Mexico: 1

(OECD)

🎙 Comment by Yury Ushakov, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation, on the outcomes of Russia's President Vladimir Putin’s telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump (July 3, 2025)

💬 Yuri Ushakov: Dear colleagues,

🇷🇺🇺🇸📞 Another almost hour-long telephone conversation between President of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and President of the United States Donald Trump has just concluded.

Donald Trump began the conversation by announcing that the US Congress passed his administration's flagship bill envisaging reforms in taxation, immigration, and the energy sector. President Trump himself calls it the 'One Big Beautiful Bill.'

Vladimir Putin wished Donald Trump success in implementing the changes he envisioned and, naturally, offered greetings for Independence Day, the national day of the United States, which will be celebrated tomorrow.

At the same time, it was noted by our side that Russia had played a significant part in the establishment of the United States as a nation, including during the War of Independence, fought 250 years ago, and later during the Civil War, which ended 160 years ago.

It was stated that our countries are bound not only by their alliance during World Wars One and Two, but also by deeper historical ties.

Incidentally, Vladimir Putin mentioned that just before speaking with Donald Trump, he had a conversation with representatives of Russia's business community. One of the ideas suggested during that meeting was holding an exchange of motion pictures promoting traditional values, which both we and the Trump administration hold dear. President Trump reacted immediately and said he liked this idea.

There was a detailed discussion of the situation surrounding Iran, and the state of affairs in the Middle East in general. The Russian side emphasised it was crucial to settle any and all contentious issues, differences, and conflicts exclusively via political and diplomatic means. The two leaders agreed to maintain contact on the issue between the respective foreign services, defence ministries, and presidential aides.

The latest developments in Syria were addressed as well. Similarly, the Russian and US sides intend to continue the dialogue on the matter.

Naturally, the issues surrounding Ukraine were also discussed. Donald Trump has once again raised the issue of ending the hostilities as soon as possible. In turn, Vladimir Putin noted that we still continued the search for a political, negotiated solution to the conflict. He informed his counterpart on the progress in implementing the humanitarian agreements reached during the second round of direct Russian-Ukrainian talks held in Istanbul. He also noted Russia was willing to pursue negotiations.

☝️ Additionally, the President of Russia said that Russia would strive to achieve its goals, namely the elimination of the well-known root causes that led to the current state of affairs, the bitter confrontation that we are seeing now. Russia will not back down from these goals.

While exchanging views on bilateral matters, the two sides confirmed their mutual interest in implementing a number of promising projects in economy, notably the energy sector and space exploration.

Overall, I would like to point out that the conversation between the two Presidents has, as always, shown that they are on the same page. It was candid, business-minded, and concrete. The two Presidents will naturally continue communicating and will have another conversation soon.

@RnaudBertrand:

Crazy to me that over 3 years into the Ukraine war the EU still lives in the same mental Lalaland where they seek to convince China to side with them to defeat Russia. And get surprised when they're told that, no, China won't commit geopolitical suicide on their behalf.

Funnily, according to the article, Wang Yi is said to have given Kaja Kallas - the extremely russophobic former Estonian PM who's now the EU's foreign affairs chief - several "history lessons and lectures".

The conversation must have gone something like this: "Kaja, do you think we were born yesterday? Why the hell would we turn hostile to our biggest neighbor and principal partner? And then what, you give us a participation trophy and pat us on the head while you help the Americans contain us next?"

Wang Yi, still according to the article, told Kallas that China wasn't "materially supporting Russia’s war effort, financially or militarily, insisting that if it was doing so, the conflict would have ended long ago," which is something Chinese officials have now been repeating for a couple of months and which I suspect is a subtle way of saying "don't treat us like we're 'helping' Russia because if you do, we might as well help them and then you'll discover the difference between normal trade and 'here's a million drones, unlimited missiles and 2 million PLA soldiers.'"

All of this illustrates once more the terrible strategic situation the EU is in; they've somehow achieved the impressive feat of digging a hole for themselves where they're at odds with all 3 of the world's great powers. They're treated as a vassal by an increasingly aggressive Washington, they're in open conflict with Moscow and they're getting history lessons from a Chinese foreign minister who's barely hiding his contempt for their naivety.

And their answer is apparently to vassalize themselves only further to Washington, double down on the war with Moscow and ask Beijing to kindly commit geopolitical suicide on their behalf. Peak EU diplomacy...

UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese:

"Israel is responsible for one of the cruelest genocides in modern history."

US-backed Israel genocide in Gaza

Not all Jews support the murder of children, just 82% of them...


Mondoweiss:

A Hebrew University poll shows that roughly 82% of Jewish Israelis agree with the genocidal idea that there are “no innocents in Gaza.”

Israeli soldier ADMITS to indiscriminate killings of Gazan civilians — Sky News interview

'Killing [civilians] is normalized, you don't see any problems in it' — Soldier

IDF ordered to shoot anyone approaching Netzarim corridor, where he was stationed, on sight

'In their mind, these [Gazan civilians] aren't innocent'

Israel established the Netzarim Corridor, dividing North and Central Gaza, as a zone of their military presence during war
@MTodayNews
@MTodayNews

They were screwed: families of Colombian mercenaries demand that Ukraine report what happened to their loved ones

▪️The contracts of Colombian mercenaries include a clause on payments to families in the event of their death, and people dream of receiving what they are owed.

▪️The Zelensky regime does not pay Ukrainian families for the "missing" even a hryvnia, much less the families of foreigners who believed the propaganda and poisoned themselves to die for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️It should be noted that the Russian army destroyed a significant number of Colombian homeless mercenaries.

After Ukrainians and Russians, the most casualties have probably come from Columbia.

@Slavyangrad