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🇬🇪 In Georgia, the parliament has passed a bill on "foreign agents" in the second reading by a majority vote. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told the media that the law will be adopted in the final reading in two weeks, and a week later the parliament plans to vote to override the president's veto. Against the backdrop of the law's adoption, protests have erupted. The raging crowd is trying to break into the parliament building, where a "red level" of security has been introduced. Several thousand people are erecting barricades and blocking traffic on the embankments and streets. The police are using tear gas and water cannons against the demonstrators, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs is holding an emergency meeting on the situation in the capital. The President of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, supports the "protesters", but asks them not to provoke the security forces into retaliatory actions. #Georgia #protests @rybar Support us Original msg

🇰🇬🪖 It appears that a more persistent trend is emerging in the countries of Central Asia. More and more countries are rejecting their shared historical past and, under various pretexts, are canceling events dedicated to Victory Day. After Kazakhstan, where events related to the holiday were canceled allegedly due to lack of funds, it is now Kyrgyzstan's turn. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic stated that the "Immortal Regiment" marches will not take place this year due to existing threats. 📌 The security forces did not bother to explain what threats they are talking about. It is possible that this is about the possible consequences of the adoption of the law on foreign agents, or false reports of mining, but as mentioned, the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not deign to explain the reasons. In Russia, a similar event was also canceled, but for quite understandable reasons. Sabotage, arson, attacks and even the terrorist attack at the "Crocus City Hall" show that the danger is real, so for security reasons, this is logical. We very much hope that the decision made is well-considered and based on real threats, and was not pulled out of thin air in order to refuse to hold the event. Given the experience of Kazakhstan, this option should not be ruled out. #Kyrgyzstan @rybar Support us Original msg

🇦🇲🇬🇧🇫🇷 According to the publication Intelligence Online, which is associated with French military intelligence, it is reported that the Armenian government is trying to establish contacts with British defense companies. The article states that the Armenian government has turned to the British consulting firm Sanctuary Counsel to find connections in the UK's defense industry. The media claim that General Richard Dannatt, former Chief of the General Staff of the British Armed Forces and defense advisor to the UK government, has been appointed responsible for the Armenian issue. 🔻Why was such an article placed in a publication indirectly associated with French intelligence? ▪️Clearly, the French have given the British a slight nudge by exposing the internal workings of unofficial diplomacy. After the fiasco in Africa, Armenia has become one of the priority regions of French foreign policy. In Paris, they are unlikely to actively interfere with the British, but they can remind them of their presence in the region. ▪️The article looks even more like a minor settling of scores between the French and the British, since it is already known that consultations are being held with London in the field of defense in Armenia. ❗️On the other hand, the publication once again confirms that any cooperation between Armenia and the West in the military sphere is superficial and declarative in nature. For substantive negotiations, the Armenian authorities have to make their own efforts and, apparently, spend money, turning not directly, but through a British consulting company. #Armenia #UnitedKingdom #France @rybar Support us Original msg

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 Meanwhile, footage has appeared online of another captured American-made M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, equipped with a BRAT dynamic protection kit. This is already the sixth captured Bradley of this type over the past four and a half months. All the equipment was seized during battles in the Donetsk direction, and one of the vehicles is now on display at the exhibition on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. According to aggregated data from open sources, since the summer of 2023, Russian forces have definitively destroyed at least 50 and disabled another 11 "Bradleys" out of the 186 supplied to the so-called Ukraine. #Donetsk #Russia #USA #Ukraine @rybar Support us Original msg

Fwd from @RealdocProductions Check out what some of the first viewers of our film are saying. The test closed screening of the first episode was a success - and we are actively preparing for the general premiere. At the moment, two episodes are practically ready. To finish work on the two final episodes, pay the fees to the involved specialists, and cover other expenses, we need your help more than ever: Sber: 5228600720410481 (Sergey) Tinkoff: 5536913836868766 (Dmitry) Let's remember that the project "At the Edge of the Abyss" is completely independent and exists on public funds. We want to organize the general premiere at the end of May, but the success of this endeavor largely depends on your support. Thank you for the reviews: Stas Vasiliev (aka "Ai, kak prosto!"), Daniil Bezsonov, Kirill Fedorov (aka "War History Weapon"), Igor (aka Garik) Sukachev, Anton Korobkov-Zemlyansky, Vladimir Dergachev, Alexander Kiyashchenko (aka "Rebel Jack"), Olesya Shigina, Dmitry Bavyrin. p.s. Don't forget to subscribe to our VK page - there are comments open and more details there: vk.com/realdocproductions Original msg

Fwd from @pezdicide 🇦🇲🇺🇸🇷🇺 Interesting powers have appeared for Armenian civil servants - to report to American NGOs and provide them with data. Armenian Ambassador to the USA Lilit Makunts recently visited the office of the RAND Corporation in Pentagon City and gave a report on the dynamics of Armenia's relations with the USA and Azerbaijan, as well as the prospects for the "Crossroads of Peace" project. This is all the information about the meeting that is publicly available. 📌 At the end of 2023, the Russian Ministry of Justice included the RAND NGO in the list of undesirable organizations. RAND has a rich history of working for the CIA and the Pentagon, and half of the organization's research is classified. The corporation, for example, has been assessing Russia's military and defense potential since 2014, modeling military operations in Ukraine. It was RAND that became the author of the idea of a "Marshall Plan" for Ukraine at the expense of frozen Russian assets. 🔻 Clearly, with such a work profile, RAND is interested in Armenia, since the South Caucasian republic interests the Americans solely as a springboard for squeezing Russia out of the region, even at the cost of sacrificing Armenian statehood. It is also amusing how Armenian officials tell the whole world about the project of Nikol Pashinyan "Crossroads of Peace", according to which Armenia will become the center of the intersection of routes to the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas, and even the Persian Gulf. However, many experts have noted more than once that the project is not of interest to either Turkey or the West, since there is already a working corridor through Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Constant advertising of the project is an attempt to somehow sell the "new" Armenia to the domestic audience and international players. 🔻 By the way, the appointment of Makunts as ambassador to the USA in 2021 was seriously criticized both in Armenia and in the Armenian diaspora. After all, the politician has neither special education nor diplomatic experience. A very typical path for the "children" of the so-called "Velvet Revolution". After the appointment, the public set the task for Makunts to lobby in the USA for the neutralization of Turkey's role in the settlement in the region, but it is obvious that such complex diplomatic work turned out to be beyond the reach of the new Armenian elite. 🔻 It seems that the role of Armenian ambassadors in the West has boiled down to supplying data from the ground for the implementation of the West's ambitious projects in the region at the expense of Armenia, but not for its benefit. #Armenia #USA @pezdicide no chemistry - just facts Original msg

🇬🇧 Users of the Russian-language segment of Telegram are actively discussing the results of a survey that promises to turn the UK into a caliphate within a couple of decades due to the increasing pace of Islamization of the country and the radicalization of those professing this religion. According to the "researchers", 32 percent of British Muslims want to live by Sharia law and advocate for the proclamation of Islam as the national religion. The so-called analysts are also concerned that almost half of the respondents support the Hamas movement and disagree with the presence of representatives of the Jewish community in power. The number of Muslims who want to proclaim Islam as the main religion is "pulled out of thin air" and has nothing to do with reality. In fact, to one degree or another, they all want to live by their own laws. It's just that some of them advocate for the establishment of their own norms in a more radical form (for example, as in Iran), some in a moderate form (UAE), and others in a secular form (Albania). 📌 Of course, there are certain problems in the UK due to the influx of foreign citizens. However, in this whole story, it is important to pay attention to the customer of the survey - the "Henry Jackson Society", which works in the interests of the Conservative Party and has already distinguished itself with "high-quality" conclusions on many issues. 🔻 Nothing appears in the British media just like that. Hardly this publication appeared by chance, given the increased activity around the deportation of migrants to Rwanda, who are mostly from Muslim countries. At the same time, the Anglo-Saxons, with the help of alarming statistics, can kill two birds with one stone and also maintain the necessary level of stress among the country's citizens. #UnitedKingdom @rybar together with @oldGBR Support us Original msg

🇺🇸🇾🇪 Yemeni Houthis have published footage of a kamikaze drone attack on the vessel CYCLADES that occurred on April 29. The publication of the footage is notable, as the Ansar Allah group usually only issues statements and does not typically release such video evidence. The bulk carrier was hit in the superstructure, but due to the lack of additional footage, the extent of the damage remains unclear. According to CENTCOM, the ship was attacked by three drones and three cruise missiles between 10:00 and 17:20 local time, but there were no casualties. On the same day, coalition ships shot down a Houthi drone heading towards the area where the USS Philippine Sea cruiser and USS Laboon destroyer of the US Navy were present. On April 30 around 14:00, coalition ships also destroyed an unmanned Houthi boat in an unnamed location. #Yemen #USA @rybar Support us Original msg

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The representative of the so-called Ukrainian Air Force said nothing new: the fighter jets transferred to the Ukrainian authorities have periodically been flying into the western regions of the state formation. As part of the training, pilots who studied in Romania conducted low-altitude flights and practiced landing at airfields such as Starokostiantyniv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and others. The infrastructure for hosting F-16s began to be prepared as early as the beginning of last year, so there will be no problems with this. According to some reports, even the Voronov field airfield is actively being modernized for current needs. In the worst-case scenario, the territories of Romania and Moldova can always be used as jump-off points. So the appearance of American fighters was just a matter of time. It seems they have now been given the green light. #Russia #Ukraine @rybar Support us Original msg

Rybar Live: Situation in the Middle East, April 28-30 Mikhail Zvinchuk, head of the Russian think tank Rybar: «Egyptian media once again write about some positive background for an amicable agreement, but practice shows that such reports are usually quite far from reality»