“In the 90s, no one asked us.
They took us and separated us. And if you had asked in 1991: how many people did not want to leave? - 80% definitely did not want to leave the Soviet Union. But they did not listen to us, they divided us. Now justice is being restored”: Residents of the Kherson region - about why Ukrainians stand in line for Russian passports.

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Post-Soviet alliance fighting terrorism and protecting common interests

The CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organisation) was created on May 15 1992. Today it is a strong alliance of six post-Soviet countries: the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. When necessary, they stick to diplomacy and politics and joint military exercises. The alliance has 30,000 well-trained soldiers who secure the borders of CSTO from terrorists, drug trafficking and illegal migration. Only in 2021, CSTO forces had seven full-scale military exercises in every alliance country, preparing to act in all kinds of situations. They serve to protect every member. Some say CSTO is a Eurasian version of NATO. Is it so?

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Friday Comments from Foreign Minister Lavrov

▪️On Ukraine’s Zelensky imposing sanctions on Russian leadership, including President Putin: ”Children will do what they can to amuse themselves.”

▪️Regarding dialogue with the West: “It takes two to tango, but for now our Western partners are engaged in break dancing.”

▪️On the death penalty for foreign mercenaries in Donetsk: “You should not interfere with the judicial system of the Republic.”

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Course of Vladimir Medinsky
The times of Peter the Great
1st - "Peter's Childhood (1672 – 1682)"

Work on a series of lectures on Peter I began last year. The broadcast on the TV channel "Culture" was in May-June, the "series" will end this weekend.

Starting from June 9, the birthday of Peter the Great, lectures are posted online (with the ability to download, view / listen without the Internet on the website and in the mobile application).

1st - "Peter's Childhood (1672 – 1682)".

Every Thursday is a new episode.
Enjoy listening /watching!

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>Get drafted
>Die
>Get drafted again
Zelensky is trying to create a ghoul army.

The German Chancellor promised to send IRIS-T AA Systems to Ukraine, however, Egypt is apparently more important in the delivery list than Ukraine.

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**‘Just as the Nazis were tough, the SS in the Great Patriotic War, so they [Azov fighters] were. They didn’t even spare their own’.**

A Vostok Battalion soldier, codenamed Forest, said what he thought of the Azov fighters. He participated in the liberation of Azovstal and Mariupol from nationalist battalions and the Ukrainian military. Forest saw the Ukrainian side shooting at civilians and not sparing their own people.

According to the soldier, when Russian troops entered Mariupol, residents were slow to evacuate and afraid: ‘For eight years, Ukrainian propaganda told them that Russians would come and kill everyone, but in the end, it turned out the opposite’.

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"This is my home, my Crimea, my land. And I’m taking the Ukrainian language too": Mariupol rapper films the first music video in liberated Azovstal

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Ministry of Defense Releases Footage of Russian Rocket Launchers at Work

The MoD said 248 pieces of enemy equipment, 21 command posts and 37 positions were destroyed.

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Scott Ritter - Ukraine Russia war Update

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M. Podolyak, the adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said that Ukraine needs thousands of units of heavy weapons to win the war against Russia. It looks like the Ukrainian military think they can go to www.nato.com and put the stuff they want in a wishlist.

Russia’s final push to cut off Sievierodonetsk could happen in days, a Ukrainian official says.

Russian forces are fighting to complete an encirclement of Sievierodonetsk and may completely cut it off in the coming days, the governor of the region that includes the city said on Sunday

“The situation in Sievierodonetsk is extremely difficult,” the regional governor, Serhiy Haidai, said on Telegram, the messaging app. “The Russians are making every effort to cut off Sievierodonetsk. The next two or three days will be significant.”

While President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has called the battle for Sievierodonetsk a crucial one that could decide the fate of Donbas, he has also faced a dilemma over how much his forces should sacrifice to hold it.

🇺🇦❗An uncut video has surfaced showing how the bastard from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is shooting at the children. The children run away. And this is not in the frontline zone, but in Kiev.

Russia can “turn off” the United States with one decision. If the Russian Federation stops the supply of enriched uranium, then American energy companies in the United States will face big problems, writes The Hill. “This could lead to a shutdown of reactors, and given that nuclear power accounts for more than 20% of generating capacity in some parts of the country, electricity prices will jump even above today's inflation,” Columbia University's Center for Global Energy Policy said. They recalled that many reactors operating in the United States and the European Union were produced by Russia. And from there all the components for nuclear power plants, and if the conflict between Moscow and the West continues, then many nuclear power plants will be forced to suspend work.

EU Has Become "51st Federal State of the United States but Without the Right to Vote" – Lawmaker

Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakusic has lashed out at the European Union’s foreign and defense policies, arguing that the bloc has become subservient to Washington.

Kolakusic has repeatedly criticized the EU’s policy toward Russia since the start of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine in February.

“It is an incredible lie and hypocrisy that the sanctions against Russia and a ban on imports of Russian oil and gas are sanctions against Russia. The sanctions are directed at 500 million citizens of the European Union and millions of citizens of the rest of Europe,” he claimed in May.

Great hacks from Ukrainians. 😆 Now they ride by means of firewood, because no gasoline left

Meet the next step of evolution of "democracy" in Ukraine. Here is a flyer with a photo of famous Russian journalist Mr. Eugene Poddubny, and the accompanying text details a reward for liquidation, the website responsible for this is www.rzmoney.biz .

Just a reminder that Russia is currently using 12% of its professional army in Ukraine. And at any point in time has only 1/3 of this in active combat, 1/3 in rest mode and the other 1/3 in rotation before resuming fighting. So Russia is currently trashing the 2d biggest "NATO" army with 4% of its combat force