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😆Armando Mema — who is presented as a Finnish politician and quoted daily by the most important mouthpieces of Kremlin propaganda — turned out to be a plumber without Finnish citizenship.

If you’re looking for some good news, I’ve got some. Just two months ago, I was at the Hryshko Botanical Garden in Kyiv. The photographer and I had gone there to document the impact of Russian attacks on the power grid on the tropical plants. At the time, there were barrels of burning fuel right inside the greenhouse. And the staff were doing everything in their power, day and night, to keep the 50-year-old philodendrons, rare orchids, citrus trees, palms, bromeliads and cacti warm. I came back deeply moved and wrote that I hoped these plants would survive the winter. And someone commented under that post: ‘I hope we all survive it.’ So, yesterday at the opening of a photo exhibition on ecocide, which is being held in a room next to the greenhouse, I finally met its director. They did manage to save everything after all. She spoke gratefully of how many caring people had joined the fight against the cold. Some donated fuel, others generators. And finally, she took me to the garden with the azaleas. She says they’re blooming particularly beautifully this year, as if they were victors.

Bessent: "We unsanctioned Russian oil ... in the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water"

Sometimes Putinists tell me that Latvia should be grateful to Russia for the liberation from Nazi occupation in 1944/45. I tell them I would be grateful, of course! It’s just that I can’t seem to find a free and independent Latvia on the map of Europe after 1945. Nor Lithuania and Estonia, for that matter

Well you know, it’s cause he reads a lot of Dostoevsky and attends the Swan Lake

1. The Kremlin merely feigns interest in peace talks, hoping to restore its bilateral relations with the United States to their previous level and formalise Ukraine's defeat. Despite this illusory thaw, Russia continues to regard the U.S. as its principal adversary.

The U.S. is ready to draw closer to Russia to weaken China — Politico The Trump administration is considering reshaping its relationship with Russia to reduce China's influence. The White House believes that encouraging Russia to end the war in Ukraine and reintegrating it into economic cooperation with the West could shift the global balance of power in favor of the U.S. Economic incentives and investments are being discussed as ways to bring Moscow closer to Washington. However, in Ukraine and among experts, this strategy is met with skepticism, with reminders that similar attempts in the past have been unsuccessful, and the Russia-China alliance remains strong. Experts believe that at best, limited cooperation can be expected, but not a rupture between Moscow and Beijing.

A video of a Russian woman being beaten in Thailand has surfaced online — the footage shows her attacking first. The exact date the video was filmed is still unknown.

He survived four Nazi concentration camps — Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora, Bergen‑Belsen. He survived Hitler’s terror… but not russia. On 18.03.2022, a russian shell destroyed his Kharkiv home and killed Borys Romanchenko, 96. russia is worse than the Nazis.