Just saw these articles.
Have you heard anything else?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-russia-mercenary-rebellion-prigozhin-rcna90938
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/25/europe/putin-russia-analysis-intl/index.html...
I think the vote was great.
"UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Marking one year of war, Ukraine and Russia lobbied countries at the United Nations on Wednesday for backing ahead of a vote by the 193-member General Assembly that the United States declared will "go down in history."
"We will...
Do the people of Luhansk, Donbass and Crimea want to be part of Russia instead of Ukraine ?
I hear Ukraine is committing war crimes against her own people: is this referring to Luhansk,Donbas and Crimea ?
Halliburton is suspending operations in Russia. It is halting all new operations and winding down existing operations.
Halliburton Announces Update on Russia Operations and Sanctions Compliance
From Wikipedia:
In fact, including the Donbas field, Ukraine seems to have not one, but two potentially rich fields of shale gas that remain unexploited to this day:
Could it be that the independence of the Donbas republics and the Russian invasion were at least in part motivated by a need...
This video says there are many people in the southern hemisphere that view US as a provocateur in this current Russian-Ukraine war. The scholar in the included video argues that NATO has threatened Russia by potentially placing nukes there, and he also says that US CIA has promoted right wing...
India faces mounting pressure to condemn Russia, a key ally, over Ukraine invasion
Seems like India is in quite the bind, what with their close relationship to Russia while in the process of transferring to a more US aligned relationship with regards to their arch enemies China and Pakistan...
So...Russia's fiat currency started to fall, badly. It was headed into an inflationary spiral. It central banks reacted by offering 20% interest rates. This stopped the spiral by encouraging people to save instead of spending (to get rid of their currency before it withered). I don't know if...
I always though Putin was a madman, but now I know he is.
At least he is one brave madman.
Maybe someone is really creating threats to his country, to his people, and we can't see them.
Now that Biden is in though, it seems like a good opportunity to attack those Russian threats.
Or maybe...
Johnny Harris has made several observations about the situation in his video:
Reasons Russia Shouldn't Invade:
Russia has a far superior army to Ukraine's, but Ukraine has a good army and will do damage.
Controlling territory in Ukraine would be very hard to conquer.
Invading Ukraine would...
'Russia’s LGBT, radical feminist and child-free groups should be recognized as “extremist,” the chairman of an influential government commission said Wednesday.
“LGBT ideology, radical feminism and child-free movements should be recognized as extremism — an extremist ideology,” the state-run...
'Every day at 6 a.m., former Russian army officer Yevgeny sits bolt upright in bed, remembering security officers in black balaclavas storming his apartment during an early morning raid.
His was one of 16 Moscow households targeted by the authorities earlier this year for being Jehovah’s...
Alexei Navalny Calls Mass Protests in His Honor the 'Salvation of Russia'
Source: Alexei Navalny calls mass protests in his honor the 'salvation of Russia'
Good to see masses of Russians standing up to dictator Putin to call for a freer fairer Russia.
How does Russia operate because it's composed of Administrative Regions, Republics and Oblasts but I don't understand the differences?
Regarding Soviet Union I read that East Germany, Czechslovakia and Poland weren't officially annexed so that they could have more seats in the U.N. If this is...
'Two gay Chechen men who fled to Russia after allegedly being tortured have been returned to Chechnya and are in "mortal danger", a rights group says.
The Russian LGBT Network said Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isayev had been seized and returned by Russian police.
The group said it helped the...
'Agenda.ge, 21 Jan 2021 - 16:42, Tbilisi,Georgia
Georgia has won the 2008 war case against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The court released its judgement earlier today which says that Russia violated several articles of the European Convention on Human rights during the...
'Alexey Navalny has been arrested at a Moscow airport as he tried to enter the country from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from an alleged nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.
The Kremlin critic’s detention on Sunday at passport control in Moscow’s...
Who is hacking who?
I am just curious. I hear many times Americans whining in the news "Russia hacked US". I never hear Russia whining to be hacked by America, or did I miss those?
I do remember Putin ones responding to "America blaming Russia for hacking" saying something like:
"We don't...