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Se non si mette in questione la narrazione secondo cui il fascismo sarebbe antitetico al neoliberismo non si puo' comprendere ne' il capitalismo della sorveglianza (tecno-fascismo) ne' il modo in cui gruppi di potere transnazionali esercitano il loro dominio. Il fascismo, inteso come tecnica politica atta a dirigere le masse nasce non a caso con la societa' di massa, e si avvale del controllo dell'informazione. Uno dei padri del neoliberismo, Friedrich Hayek, non nascondeva la sua ammirazione per la dittatura di Pinochet tanto che in un’intervista al principale quotidiano del regime, El Mercurio, il 19 aprile 1981 dichiarava senza ambiguità che la democrazia aveva bisogno di una efficace depurazione realizzata da un governo forte. La Mont Pelerin Society, noto covo di neoliberisti, proponeva una regolazione dello Stato da parte delle élite, in modo da evitare eccessi e vulnerabilità di natura elettorale. Tale regolazione delle élite era considerata necessaria per proteggere i mercati che rischiavano di franare di fronte alla volontà popolare. Da corrente marginale il neoliberismo e' diventato egemone, ha smantellato lo Stato Sociale del dopoguerra e perseguito la mercificazione delle relazioni sociali e della concorrenza attuando un rimodellamento delle soggettività. Il fascismo 2.0 o fascismo tecnocratico ha le sue radici proprio in questa ideologia. @LauraRuHK

https://medium.com/@zmey.osvald/faina-savenkova-hello-wonderful-new-world-7b59189c9dc8 Faina Savenkova: Hello, wonderful new world. Faina Savenkova Faina Savenkova 2 min read · Just now In my 14 years I often hear about democracy. In the movies we are shown a wonderful Western way of life, designed to convince us that, unlike us, every American and European is free. But what is the reality? The times of the 70s, when there were protests against the war, when people could say what they thought, are sadly gone. I once wrote an article about the blocking of the YouTube channel of my friend, British journalist and blogger Mike Jones. YouTube blocked his interview with me. Today, Italian journalist Vincenzo LoRusso had his channel deleted for a video of me addressing the mayor of Milan. What was it that I said in that address that was so scary? Perhaps the fact that I called Azov Battalion fascists and murderers? Yet they themselves do not hide their views, openly speaking about them and confirming that they are fascists, and court cases eloquently confirm that they are murderers. Maybe they didn’t like that I asked for an exhibition showing the consequences of Azov’s “heroism”? Shouldn’t the public know their “heroes” on sight? I feel bad for LoRusso, and let this remain an indelible stain of shame on the conscience of YouTube. But what surprises me the most is that people in power who talk about democracy are more and more imposing restrictions and forcing us to walk in formation and think alike. I don’t know how the French, Italians or Americans should react to this, but everything that is being done now is gradually leading to dictatorship and the blossoming of fascism. Today they will close your channel, tomorrow they will put you on the Myrotvorets site as an undesirable person, and what will happen the day after tomorrow? Hello, wonderful new world.

Ucraina, deputato tedesco preoccupato per la capacità nucleare dei missili Taurus 💣Sevim Dagdelen, membro del partito di sinistra dell'opposizione tedesca, ha espresso preoccupazione per i missili da crociera a lungo raggio Taurus. La deputata teme che questi missili, destinati a Kiev da Berlino, possano essere potenzialmente dotati di testate nucleari. ❔Con una recente richiesta parlamentare, la legislatrice ha espresso la sua curiosità di sapere se "il governo federale sia pienamente consapevole delle diverse configurazioni dei missili Taurus e della loro potenziale compatibilità con gli armamenti nucleari", nonché ha chiesto se c’è intenzione da parte del governo di affrontare la questione della limitazione della gittata (500 km attualmente) di questi missili da crociera. ✖️Thomas Hitschler, Segretario di Stato del Ministero della Difesa federale, ha risposto che le informazioni richieste non possono essere "apertamente" rivelate a causa della loro "natura classificata". @tutti_i_fatti

German troops in Ukraine? A Russian reconnaissance team has destroyed a Leopard tank handed over to Ukraine with an all-German crew of Bundeswehr servicemen, the commander of the reconnaissance team told RIA Novosti https://t.me/rian_ru/216288

Truppe tedesche in Ucraina? I ricognitori delle forze armate russe hanno distrutto un carro armato Leopard consegnato all'Ucraina con un equipaggio interamente tedesco di soldati della Bundeswehr, ha dichiarato il comandante del gruppo di ricognizione a RIA Novosti. https://t.me/rian_ru/216288

"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jackboots. It will be Nike sneakers and smiley shirts." (George Carlin) Fascism is the merger of state and corporations to enforce a dominant ideology and today the corporations that hold the power to enforce it on a global level are predominantly American. They work in sync with a handful of Western governments to decide what people can or cannot read and watch, which content creators should be censored, banned, demonetized. The Russel Brand's case shows that anyone, even a privileged content creator with million of followers (a gold mine for YouTube) can be targeted on the basis of unproven allegations regarding his offline behaviour. Russell Brand hasn't been convicted of any crime, is innocent until proven guilty, but following a concerted media campaign aimed at destroying his reputation, the pre-crime unit at YouTube proceeded to deprive him of his source of income. In the dystopic world created by digital platforms that are pre-installed in most digital devices you buy, the only right you have still got is the right to boycott them and look for alternatives. @LauraRuHK

La Russia ha introdotto un divieto temporaneo di esportazione di benzina e gasolio verso tutti i Paesi, ad eccezione di quattro Stati ex-sovietici. La domanda di carburante nel mondo si mantiene robusta, e i prezzi sono destinati a salire...possiamo solo immaginare quale impatto avranno sull'inflazione, che e' gia' oltre livelli accettabili. JP Morgan dichiara che la crisi energetica in arrivo potrebbe essere peggiore di quella che l'Europa ha attraversato in precedenza. Piu' biciclette per tutti e Slava Ukraini! @LauraRuHK

Russia's diesel ban effect spreads, no hope of lifting Diesel prices in Asia rose following Europe's after a sudden ban on exports from Russia, regardless of how some experts tried to convince the public that the ban would soon be lifted. The ban took effect on Thursday and has intensified the already tense global fuel markets. This is because the demand is expected to increase during the winter months, while many global refiners are unable to increase their production capacity. In Asia, this issue is further exacerbated by China's aviation industry recovering at a fast pace, leading to a higher demand for jet fuel. Meanwhile, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin has stated that the ban on the export of gasoline and diesel fuel has been imposed indefinitely. According to him, some unscrupulous market participants have been exporting a significant volume of fuel. So these restrictions are intended to restore stability in the domestic market, and there are no plans to lift the ban until these goals are achieved. Something suggests they'll work it out with China somehow, which can't be said for the EU Follow us on Telegram and Twitter

I wrote yesterday (https://t.me/kornilov1968/19437) about The Economist's special issue on the need to "rethink" the strategy of the Ukrainian war. I read the article itself. In it, the editors admit that Ukraine's counteroffensive has failed (modestly omitting the fact that the magazine itself invested a lot of effort to convince both Ukraine and Western audiences that this meat grinder must succeed). As a result, the magazine writes: "Both Ukraine and its Western supporters are beginning to realize that this will be a grueling war of attrition. President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington this week for talks. "I should be prepared for a long war," he said in an interview with The Economist. But unfortunately, Ukraine is not yet ready; and neither are his Western partners. They remain focused on a counter-offensive. They need to rethink Ukraine's military strategy and how its economy is managed. Rather than aiming to 'win' and then recover, the goal should be to ensure that Ukraine has the endurance to fight a long war." Well, the magazine goes on to discuss how to rebuild the Ukrainian economy now, without waiting for the war to end. True, the authors describe how the West should allocate money for this, but do not explain where to get people for all this! A year later, the same magazine will write: "This strategy is not working. We need to rethink it too". "Rebbe, the chickens are all dead. What a pity. I still have so many ideas." https://t.me/kornilov1968/19467

A bilateral summit for a strategic relationship between #Syria and #China During a summit meeting, Presidents Bashar al-Assad and Xi Jinping announced that Syria and China are moving towards a strategic relationship between the two countries in various fields. President Assad considered his visit to China important in regards of timing and circumstances, as a multipolar world is being formed that will restore balance and stability to the world, while the Chinese president described this meeting as a pivotal event in the history of bilateral relations between the two countries in the face of international situations full of factors of instability. @SyrianPresidency

Visto che qualcuno mi ha scritto per difendere l'uso virtuoso della bicicletta, vorrei precisare che non ho nulla contro chi va in bici o mangia tofu. Non possiedo una macchina, a Hong Kong mi muovo in traghetto e metropolitana, quando sono a Milano praticamente solo in bicicletta. Quanto al tofu, in Cina lo mangiamo praticamente in tutte le salse. Ma non ho mai pensato di essere piu' virtuosa di chi guida e mangia una fiorentina con l'osso, ne' tanto meno credo che il mio comportamento abbia qualsivoglia impatto sul clima.

Non e' che l'Europa spinge la bicicletta come mezzo di trasporto perche' e' piu' virtuosa degli altri, ma perche' milioni di cittadini europei impoveriti dalle sue folli decisioni politiche non possono piu' permettersi l'auto. Si fa di necessita' virtu'. Cantiamo tutti in coro Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine über alles! @LauraRuHK

La Commissione Europea e' lieta di informare il gentile pubblico che oggi ha versato altri 1,5 miliardi all'Ucraina. Quest'anno l'Ucraina ha ricevuto 13,5 miliardi di euro. So che questa notizia vi riempira' di gioia. 🤣 @LauraRuHK

🎉🎉🎉 Urrah!!! Aeroflot has announced the resumption of regular direct flights from Moscow to Hong Kong starting on December 23, in time for the holiday season. Flights were suspended during the pandemic and then Western sanctions dealt a blow to Aeroflot operations abroad. @LauraRuHK .

Western media are fast losing whatever credibility they once may have had not only at home, where their audience keeps shrinking, but also in the Global South, where their mendacious and frankly ridiculous coverage of the West's geopolitical adversaries is met with disbelief. If propaganda works on the assumption that a lie told a thousand times eventually becomes the truth, when it's exposed as a lie the liars hope that it will soon be forgotten. That's often the case, but those who have been lied to multiple times tend to develop a defence mechanism to cope with the stress and anxiety that accompanies the abuse of their trust: they tune out these serial liars. Thanks to people-to-people exchanges, travel and trade between Russia/China and the Global South, narratives spun by Western media clash with first-hand experience which is then related to one's social circle at home. In Asia, Africa and Latin America social and family relations remain stronger than in Western atomized societies, which might explain why it's harder for Western media to smear China and Russia in the Global South. Just take the fake news about "empty" streets and shops in Shanghai supported by a few photos taken from certain angles at a certain time of the day. A few US media outlets absurdly stated that Shanghai - a metropolis of 25 million people and the financial centre of China- is a "ghost town" and claimed that "China is in trouble". Clearly this was a clumsy attempt defame the Chinese financial market and the country's international image. But any business visitor to Shanghai knows that the city is a bustling place and will simply tune out Western media because they have proven yet again their lack of credibility. @LauraRuHK

L'intelligence statunitense ha riconosciuto la vittoria della Russia nel conflitto in Ucraina - Seymour Hersh ✔️La Russia ha vinto il conflitto in Ucraina, ma la Casa Bianca e i media statunitensi mentono su questo, ha dichiarato il giornalista americano premio Pulitzer Seymour Hersh sulla sua pagina della piattaforma Substack. 🖊"La guerra è finita. La Russia ha vinto. Non c'è più alcuna offensiva ucraina, ma la Casa Bianca e i media americani devono mantenere la menzogna", ha dichiarato il giornalista citando un funzionario dell'intelligence statunitense che ha chiesto di mantenere l’anonimato. ✖️Hersh ha anche aggiunto che la comunità dei servizi segreti statunitensi ritiene che Kiev sia demoralizzata, e che non crede che sia possibile uno sfondamento della difesa russa. 🔙L'esercito ucraino ha di fatto annullato l'offensiva dopo settimane di pesanti perdite e se all'esercito ucraino venisse ordinato di continuare l'offensiva, ci sarebbe un ammutinamento, aggiunge il giornalista. @tutti_i_fatti

Keir Giles, an analyst who works for the highly influential UK think tank Chatham House, wrote an opinion piece for CNN. Between the lines one can get a glimpse of the predicament the West finds itself in: after embarking on a proxy war in Ukraine, it has no exit strategy and any promise of a wonder weapon that would give Ukraine the upper hand is illusory. "Anything that draws out the conflict — such as decisions on support for Ukraine that were driven by caution on what to supply — play to many of Russia’s advantages and the West’s weaknesses. And as the fighting drags on into 2024 and potentially beyond, Western backers will find it ever harder to provide what Ukraine needs. The US’s generous support for Ukraine is under threat from political trends there even before a potential change of presidency. So with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the US this week to appeal for international support once again, it’s not only wavering members of the UN he is addressing. He knows there’s a risk that the window may eventually start to close on backing from Washington itself. And even without considering the tolerance of voters for the economic cost, failure to restart European defence industries in earnest means searching ever harder and wider around the world for the munitions and weapons that are essential for Ukraine to survive. For Russia, this is a ‘forever war’ that taps into fundamental ideas of Russian identity and for which President Vladimir Putin is willing to inflict vast economic and human losses on his country. Even evicting every last Russian soldier from occupied eastern Ukraine and Crimea won’t end the war while Russia still has artillery, missiles and drones to launch destructive attacks while rebuilding its land forces for the next offensive. As the US becomes increasingly focused on China, the defence of Europe will increasingly rely on those front-line states that understand the threat and are willing to take it seriously." Well, good luck on finding more sacrificial lambs now that even Poland got cold feet. @LauraRuHK

L'intervento di Lavrov al Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'ONU tradotto magistralmente da Mark Bernardini. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAh3Gxk6JLc

After the ruling class of Germany, the EU's broken-down locomotive, demonstrated the same level of obtuseness and servility as the Baltic chihuahuas, it is hardly surprising that it lost credibility and relevance on the international stage. ▪️ At the UN Olaf Scholz spoke to an empty assembly hall. Who would be interested in listening to the Yankee narrative in German after hearing the original from Biden? @LauraRuHK

Quando la classe politica al governo della Germania, paese locomotiva dell'UE, dimostra la stessa ottusita' dei chihuahua baltici, non c'e' da stupirsi che perda peso e credibilita' a livello internazionale. All'ONU Olaf Scholz ha parlato ad un'aula praticamente vuota, perche' nessuno e' interessato ad ascoltare la narrazione yankee in versione tedesca dopo aver ascoltato l'originale. @LauraRuHK

⚡️ La sergente transgender Sarah Ashton-Cirillo è stata rimossa dal suo incarico di rappresentante ufficiale delle forze armate ucraine Le ultime dichiarazioni di questo oratore non sono state approvate dal comando TRO e dal comando delle forze armate ucraine. Queste accuse sono oggetto di indagine. Fino al suo completamento, Ashton-Cirillo sarà sospeso, ha riferito il servizio stampa delle Forze di Difesa sul social network X. Maria Zakharova, a sua volta, ha commentato le dimissioni della Ashton-Cirillo con un post ironico: “Chi nomineranno adesso, mi chiedo? Il ministro dell'Istruzione prescolare o il capo ostetrico-ginecologo dell'Ucraina? In precedenza, Ashton-Cirillo aveva minacciato una imminente “punizione per crimini” contro i giornalisti russi. Il Ministero degli Esteri russo ha definito queste dichiarazioni una prova della natura terroristica del regime di Kiev. Maria Zakharova ha definito la situazione attuale un'apocalisse zombi. ⭐️ Zvezdanews

As DPP Sinophobes collude with US partners to separate Taiwan from China and prepare for war, mainland authorities are working on the opposite: peaceful reunification. Beijing recently released its most ambitious initiative yet. It was issued jointly by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, respectively the top entities in the party and the government. The plan is a comprehensive blueprint for incremental integration between Taiwan and Fujian across the Strait. The two provinces share a common speech and cultural characteristics, as Fujian is the ancestral home of most of the island’s people. Unsurprisingly, Western and other Sinophobe media have ignored this landmark development. But even Hong Kong’s neocolonial SCMP has taken note, in an Editorial. “Just four months ahead of Taiwan’s election for a new president, Beijing has unveiled guidelines for turning Fujian province into a model zone for 'integration' with the island’s residents, in an attempt to advance peaceful reunification. According to the plan... the coastal province will be a gateway to the mainland for Taiwanese residents and companies, smoothing people exchanges, trade and investment. “The intention is to create interconnected day-to-day living between the mainland port city of Xiamen and the Taiwan-controlled island of Quemoy, also called Kinmen. Visitors from Taiwan would no longer need to register for temporary residence in Fujian and be encouraged to settle, buy houses and engage with the social-welfare system.” https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3235218/proposed-fujian-zone-offers-peaceful-path-taiwan-integration (Thomas Hon Wing Polin @thonwingp)

The USA destroys, China builds/rebuilds. That has become a truism in world affairs. It will be further substantiated when President Assad of Syria visits China next month, his first such trip in 12 years. He will be hosted by President Xi. Talks will likely focus on reconstruction of Assad’s war-ravaged country as well as sanctions relief -- all the result of depredations by the US and its proxies. Assad’s trip is all the more timely as Washington’s forces prepare to ignite more mayhem in Syria. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/09/19/711129/Assad-China-Visit-Help-Syria-Reconstruction-Nullifying-Sanctions (Thomas Hon Wing Polin @thonwingp on X/Twitter)

The Anglo-American colonization of Europe is enforced by NATO, supported by the dollar and enabled by political, economic and cultural elites that were groomed for this role - many members of the EU ruling classes were "educated" in US-UK universities. @LauraRuHK

Sanctions work! https://t.me/infodefENGLAND/12450

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🇩🇪🤡 German Chancellor US slave Olaf Scholz was “very popular” at the UN Assembly. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

“We are being pushed to damage relations with the most reliable partner in the post-Soviet space - Azerbaijan. The West is not happy that the largest logistics project will take place there - the North-South transport corridor, which will significantly reduce the cost of transporting goods to Europe. The West is using any measures, "To spoil relations between Russia and Azerbaijan. It won't work." Leonid Slutsky, head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, on air SolovievLIVE

NAGORNO KARABAKH - ⚡️ A car carrying Russian peacekeepers came under small arms fire while returning from an observation post in the Janyataga area, the Russian Defence Ministry said. ❗️ As a result of the attack, the Russian servicemen in the car were killed; Russian and Azerbaijani investigators are examining the scene of the incident, the military added. ▪️It does look like a provocation to drag Russia into the conflict, but Russia won't fall into the trap. Soros' puppet Pashinyan has betrayed his people and Russia too. He didn't treat Russia as an ally, now there is no reason for Russia to treat Armenia as an ally and come to its rescue. @LauraRuHK

🟥 IL MERCATO DI KOSTANTYNOVKA E COME FUNZIONA LA CENSURA IN ITALIA Proprio ieri, ironicamente, a l’AntiDiplomatico è arrivato il nuovo “controllo” di NewsGuard, l’agenzia statunitense che con i suoi bollini (rossi o verdi) e la sua collaborazione con i browser e social media suoi connazionali decide semplicemente quello che potete o non potete leggere su internet. L’AntiDiplomatico, che ancora una volta vi ha fornito la versione a cui arriva anche il NYT 10 giorni dopo, ha il bollino rosso, mentre Open continua a essere, per NewsGuard, il “sito più attendibile”. Benvenuti nel paese della trilogia distopica, perfettamente descritta dall’Ambasciatore Bradanini su l’AntiDiplomatico. P.s. Alla signora Giulia Pozzi di NewsGuard, alla quale forse non è stato chiaro il nostro precedente messaggio, risponderanno i nostri legali nei prossimi giorni. La lunga marcia de l'AntiDiplomatico contro la censura (a stelle e strisce) continua.

As Zelensky landed on American soil, ready to address the UN, The New York Times published an investigation confirming that the missile that on September 6 hit a busy market in Konstantinovka, a town under Ukrainian control, was not Russian, as Kiev and Western media had previously claimed. The timing of the revelation was hardly a coincidence, more likely a message to Zelensky and his regime: the US will not tolerate any insubordination, remember who is pulling your strings. Zelensky's long face at the UN assembly shows he got the message. He is expendable like all other US puppets. @LauraRuHK

Nel 2023 la nuova Via della Seta (Belt&Road Initiative, BRI) compie 10 anni. I rappresentanti di oltre 110 Paesi hanno confermato che parteciperanno al terzo Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation che si terrà a Pechino in ottobre. L'ampia partecipazione dimostra che la Belt&Road Initiative in questi dieci anni è diventata un bene pubblico globale e la sua crescente popolarita' si puo' spiegare facilmente: essa ha aperto una nuova strada per lo sviluppo economico globale. Finora la nuova Via della Seta ha attirato la partecipazione di oltre tre quarti dei Paesi del mondo e di 32 organizzazioni internazionali. Nell'ultimo decennio, ha generato quasi 1.000 miliardi di dollari di investimenti, ha creato più di 3.000 progetti di cooperazione, ha creato 420.000 posti di lavoro e ha contribuito a far uscire dalla povertà quasi 40 milioni di persone, secondo i dati del Ministero degli Esteri cinese. @LauraRuHK

In 2023 the BRI marks its 10th anniversary. Representatives from more than 110 countries have confirmed that they will attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing in October. The wide scope of participation shows that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a popular global public good over the past decade as it has opened a new development path for global economic development. The platform has attracted the participation of more than three-quarters of countries in the world and 32 international organizations so far. Over the past decade, it has generated nearly $1 trillion in investment, established more than 3,000 cooperation projects, created 420,000 jobs, and helped lift almost 40 million people out of poverty, according to China's Foreign Ministry. @LauraRuHK

Nagorno Karabakh La responsabilità di quanto sta succedendo in queste ore non può che essere attribuita alla leadership armena che, quasi di proposito, ha fatto di tutto per aggravare la situazione. È stata la squadra di Pashinyan a rovinare i rapporti con la Russia, a rifiutare le esercitazioni del CSTO previste a gennaio, a ritirare il suo rappresentante dall'organizzazione e, più recentemente, a organizzare esercitazioni con gli Stati Uniti sul territorio armeno. Ha firmato alcuni accordi attraverso la Francia, ha negoziato qualcos'altro attraverso gli Stati Uniti. E, infine, ha riconosciuto il suo "amato" Artsakh (nome armeno del Nagorno Karabakh) come territorio dell'Azerbaigian..... Non so cosa abbiano promesso a Pashinyan i suoi nuovi amici, ma il risultato e' una vera e propria catastrofe umanitaria per la popolazione del Karabakh. È stata la dichiarazione di Praga di Pashinyan a rendere le azioni sul territorio del Nagorno Karabakh un affare interno dell'Azerbaigian, e le forze di pace russe hanno lo status di osservatori senza il diritto di usare le armi a meno che non vengano attaccate. Questo è il loro status, che porta la firma di Pashinyan stesso. È strano e sciocco pretendere ora l'impossibile dalla Russia. (Fonte: Aleksey Mukhin) @LauraRuHK

On Karabakh. It's hard not to pin the responsibility of current events on the Armenian leadership, which, as if on purpose, did everything to make the incident happen. Pashinyan's team harassed Russia, refused the planned CSTO exercises in January, withdrew its representative from the organisation and, more recently, held exercises with the United States in Armenia. Pashinyan signed some agreements through France, negotiated something else through the States. And, finally, recognised his "beloved" Artsakh as a territory of Azerbaijan..... I do not know what Pashinyan's new friends promised him, but it ends with a real humanitarian catastrophe for the population of Karabakh. It was Pashinyan's Prague statement that made the actions on the territory of Nagorno Karabakh an internal affair of Azerbaijan, and Russian peacekeepers have the status of observers without the right to use weapons unless attacked. This is their status, approved, among other things, by Pashinyan himself. It is strange and foolish to demand the impossible from Russia now. (Source: Aleksey Mukhin) @LauraRuHK

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s visit to China could prove a boost for Syria’s reconstruction efforts and invigorate the sanctions-hit Arab economy, says a Syrian political analyst. The high-profile visit, the first in 12 years by the Syrian president to China, will include a meeting between Assad and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Kosai Abido, a Syrian political analyst and author, told the Press TV website in an interview that the visit would allow the two countries to strengthen their time-tested friendship. “China has throughout the years defended Syria’s territorial integrity and many times used its veto power at the UN Security Council to prevent interventions in the Arab country’s internal affairs,” he stated, referring to the all-weather ties between Damascus and Beijing. “China also backed Syria following the outbreak of the foreign-backed militancy in the country in 2011, particularly in dealing with the illegal anti-Syria sanctions. Now this visit is a good chance to deepen cooperation,” he hastened to add. The Syrian analyst said the meeting could help spur development in Syria and bring peace and prosperity to the people. “I believe during this trip, agreements will be signed to support the Syrian economy that can bring about sustainable development for the Syrian nation, which suffers from international terrorism supported by the US occupation, the Israeli regime and others,” he said. The analyst said Beijing and Damascus are likely to come up with investment agreements in line with efforts to reconstruct Syria and undo the destruction caused by foreign-backed terrorists. “Since China is considered a friendly state for Syria and has significant economic power, cooperation agreements with this country should be expanded to include food, pharmaceutical and technology sectors,” Abido noted, stressing that China could help ensure Syria’s food security at a time when conflicts including the Ukraine war have challenged the global markets. He further stated that the visit could also help the Arab country better deal with the massive Western sanctions, notably America’s Caesar Act. “I believe this visit will help the Syrian government to nullify economic sanctions. The sanctions have created troubles for the Syrian people and this country needs the assistance of its allies, including Iran and Russia, to break the economic siege,” he remarked. On what would be America’s reaction to such cooperation deals between Syria and China, Abido said Washington has tried to disrupt any agreement between Syria and Arab nations or even other countries, and new agreements would be no exception. “Any government that wants to befriend Damascus is threatened by the US not to go forward as Washington wants Syria isolated and weak. This is what Israel wants the US to do,” he asserted. By Ali Ghorban Bagheri (Source: Press TV) @LauraRuHK

China and Russia should continue to coordinate policies to tackle challenges from re-emerging unilateralism and hegemony, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Monday. Stressing the independence of their own policies, Wang said cooperation with Russia “does not target third parties, is not subject to interference by third parties, and will not be influenced by third parties”, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement. “In the face of the rising counter-currents of unilateralism, hegemonism and camp confrontation, China and Russia should … demonstrate their role as great powers, fulfil their international obligations, continue to strengthen their strategic coordination so as to advance the process of multipolarity in the world.” In a separate statement, Russia’s foreign ministry said “the closeness of the positions of the parties regarding US actions in the international arena, including those of an anti-Russian and anti-Chinese nature, was noted”. Wang briefed his Russian counterpart about “the content of negotiations” he had with US national security adviser Jake Sullivan in Malta over the weekend, while Lavrov “talked about major results of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s official visit to Russia”, the Russian ministry said. The two sides also agreed to continue to coordinate policies in the ongoing United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, as well as the coming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, and “many other high- and top-level meetings”, Lavrov said in opening remarks. According to Beijing and Moscow, Wang and Lavrov also discussed the war in Ukraine, with Wang saying China would “play a constructive role in its own way for a political solution to the crisis”. Lavrov said a settlement without Russia’s participation was “impossible”. Wang, a Politburo member who leads the general office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, arrived in Moscow for a four-day visit right after two days of meetings with Sullivan in Malta, during which the two sides discussed US-China bilateral ties as well as the Ukraine war and Taiwan. Wang was expected to join Nikolai Patrushev, the head of Russia’s Security Council, for strategic security talks on Tuesday, before holding trilateral talks with Mongolian officials, Reuters reported, citing Russia’s Interfax news agency.. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Beijing next month to attend a Belt and Road Initiative summit, a mega infrastructure and investment programme endorsed by Xi that aims to boost China’s trade connectivity and international influence. Meanwhile, China’s total trade with Russia in the first eight months of this year jumped 32 per cent from a year earlier to US$155.1 billion, while trade with the US dropped by 8.7 per cent year on year to US$420 billion, with Beijing blaming the Washington tariffs and export controls for the decline. (Source: SCMP) @LauraRuHK

Geography is not an opinion. Digital information flows can overlook the materiality of the territory. Logistics, which is energy intensive, and supply chains cannot. Sourcing raw materials and components, moving them to production, then transporting the finished products to a distribution center doesn't happen in a vacuum. Those who blow up Russian pipelines and try to impose obstacles to the trade with China by sabotaging the Silk Road (BRI) can only achieve one result: the impoverishment and weakening of Europe. Until the Atlanticists find a way to make us live on air and ideology alone, the fate of European countries will be intrinsically linked to their geographical position. Ignoring and even pretending to erase reality can only lead to bloody conflicts, such as the current one in Ukraine and those they caused in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Until Europeans kick out their political, economic and cultural elites - which are corrupt, dependent on and manoeuvred by Washington and London - and regain their sovereignty, they can only continue to suffer the consequences of their inevitable economic, social and cultural decline. Deprived of their sovereignty, they are rapidly losing importance on the international stage. These countries could only regain their importance by shaking off the US yoke and cooperating with China and Russia, their natural partners in that one continental mass known as Eurasia. @LauraRuHK

La geografia non e' un'opinione. I flussi dell'informazione digitale possono ignorare la materialita' del territori. La logistica dell'approvigionamento di materie prime e della movimentazione delle merci invece no. Chi fa esplodere gasdotti russi e cerca di imporre ostacoli alle importazioni dalla Cina sabotando la Via della Seta (BRI) ottiene come risultato l'impoverimento e indebolimento dell'Europa, cosa che in realta' fa molto comodo per mantenere il dominio su di essa. Ma fino a quando gli atlantisti non avranno trovato il modo di farci vivere di sola aria e ideologia, il destino dei paesi europei sara' intrinsecamente legato alla loro posizione geografica. Ignorare e addirittura pretendere di cancellare la realta' non puo' che causare sanguinosi conflitti, come quello attuale in Ucraina e quelli che l'hanno preceduto in Afghanistan e Medio Oriente. Fino a quando gli europei non avranno cacciato le loro élite politiche, economiche e culturali, totalmente corrotte e manovrate da Washington e Londra, riconquistando la loro sovranità, non potranno che continuare a subire le conseguenze dell'inevitabile crollo economico, del declino sociale e culturale. Privati della loro sovranita' politica stanno rapidamente perdendo importanza sulla scena globale. Potrebbero riacquistare un certo peso solo scrollandosi di dosso il giogo statunitense e cooperando con la Cina e la Russia, i loro partner naturali in quell'unica massa continentale conosciuta come Eurasia. @LauraRuHK

Due to the erosion of their sovereignty, European countries have become poorer and are rapidly fading into irrelevance in the global arena. They could regain some clout only by shaking off the US yoke and cooperating with China and Russia, their natural Eurasian partners. But to do so, they first have to kick out their corrupt political, economic and cultural elites. @LauraRuHK

The State Security Service of Georgia announced that a coup is being prepared in Georgia - plotters would follow the typical color revolution scenario that led to regime change in Ukraine in 2014. "A group of people operating on the territory of Georgia and abroad plans to organize destabilization and civil unrest, the ultimate goal of which is regime change by violent means. Protests and riots are likely to begin in October-December" the press service of the State Security Service said in a statement. Behind the plan, Georgy Lortkipanidze (deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the presidency Mikheil Saakashvili), former Saakashvili's bodyguard Mikhail Baturin and commander of the "Georgian Legion" on Ukraine Mamuku Mamulashvili. The moment chosen for the beginning of the protest is scheduled to coincide with the publication of a EU report on Georgia. The report will announce whether Georgia is eligible to become a candidate for EU membership or not. According to the agency, members of the group have worked on several scenarios. One of them is to set up tents on Tbilisi's central avenues, barricade government buildings, and then detonate a bomb in one of the tents so that civilian casualties would spark riots in the city. The State Security Service claims that the criminal group is also considering a scenario similar to Euromaidan in Ukraine, where snipers shot demonstrators blaming the casualties on the anti-riot police. (Source: RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK

Radio France Internationale (RFI), emittente radiofonica di di proprietà dello Stato francese: "Come ha dimostrato il recente vertice del G20 in India, l'ordine internazionale è sempre più fratturato - una spaccatura si sta approfondendo tra l'Occidente e il resto del mondo. Stiamo assistendo all'emergere di un nuovo ordine mondiale? La risposta è sì. Forte della vittoria sul sistema comunista dell'URSS, l'Occidente ha creduto che fosse giunto il suo momento. Negli anni '90 e 2000 ha cercato di imporre il suo modello con la forza, convinto della propria superiorità. Questa arroganza ha portato l'Occidente a credere che le popolazioni di altre parti del mondo stessero solo aspettando l'avvento della democrazia occidentale, senza rendersi conto che, così facendo, i paesi occidentali venivano sempre più percepiti come intrusi e predatori economici - facevano discorsi altisonanti sui benefici della democrazia, ma ricorrevano alla forza politica e militare e al dominio economico per perseguire i propri interessi. Gradualmente si è creato un divario tra l'Occidente e alcune grandi potenze emergenti - Cina, Russia e altri Paesi dell'Africa, dell'Asia e del Sud America - che non sopportano l'approccio postcoloniale dell'Occidente. La guerra in Ucraina è servita da catalizzatore per accelerare questo processo. L'Europa e gli Stati Uniti combattono per difendere i loro valori e interessi, la Russia giustifica il suo intervento puntando il dito contro l'espansionismo della NATO. Questa narrazione trova ascolto in molti Paesi del Sud Globale, come si dice oggi. Da qui il risultato del G20 in India: i Paesi occidentali non riescono più a imporre la loro volontà, soprattutto per quanto riguarda la guerra in Ucraina. Le cose si muovono molto velocemente sulla scena internazionale. E chi cerca di costruire ponti fatica a far sentire la propria voce". @LauraRuHK https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/le-monde-en-questions/20230915-la-fracture-entre-l-occident-et-le-reste-du-monde-m%C3%A8nera-t-elle-%C3%A0-un-nouvel-ordre-mondial

Radio France Internationale (RFI), state-owned international radio news network: "As the recent G20 summit in India showed, the international order is increasingly fractured - a rift is deepening between the West and the rest of the world, despite appearances of consensus. Are we witnessing the emergence of a new world order? The answer is yes. On the strength of their victory over the communist system in the USSR, the Western states believed that their time had come. In the 90s and 2000s, they even tried to impose their model by force, convinced of its superiority and compatibility with very different cultures. Their hubris led them to believe that people in other parts of the world were only waiting for the advent of Western-style democracy, without seeing that, in doing so, they were increasingly perceived as intruders and economic predators, displaying grand speeches about the benefits of democracy, but resorting to political and military force and economic domination for their own interests. And gradually, a gap has developed between the West and some major emerging powers – China, Russia, and other countries in Africa, Asia and South America – which resent the West's postcolonial attitudes. The war in Ukraine served as a catalyst to accelerate this process. Europe and the United States are fighting to defend their values and interests, Russia justifies its intervention by NATO expansionism. This narrative resonates with many countries of the Global South as we say today. Hence the result of the G20 in India: Western countries can no longer impose their will, especially with regards to the war in Ukraine. Things are moving at high speed on the international scene. And those who try to build bridges have a hard time making their voices heard." @LauraRuHK https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/le-monde-en-questions/20230915-la-fracture-entre-l-occident-et-le-reste-du-monde-m%C3%A8nera-t-elle-%C3%A0-un-nouvel-ordre-mondial

I nodi vengono al pettine. Interessi contrastanti stanno causando un problema molto serio a Bruxelles. L'Ucraina intende fare causa a Polonia, Ungheria e Slovacchia per il loro rifiuto di accettare prodotti agricoli ucraini. I divieti applicati dai tre Paesi dell'Europa centrale mirano a proteggere i loro agricoltori e il partito al governo in Polonia è particolarmente interessato a contenere il flusso di prodotti agricoli ucraini, poiché le sue speranze di rielezione nelle consultazioni del 15 ottobre sono strettamente legate a questa politica agricola. @LauraRuHK https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-will-sue-poland-hungary-and-slovakia-over-agricultural-bans/

Meanwhile conflicting interests are causing a very serious problem in Brussels. Ukraine will sue Poland, Hungary and Slovakia over their refusal to drop a ban on Ukrainian agricultural products. The bans by the three Central European countries are intended to protect their farmers. Poland's ruling party is especially keen to stem the flow of Ukrainian agricultural products as its fortunes in an election on October 15 are closely tied to a rural support base. @LauraRuHK https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-will-sue-poland-hungary-and-slovakia-over-agricultural-bans/

Politico attacca Christine Lagarde, presidente della Banca Centrale Europea, usando un'espressione volgare "Che cazzo sta combinando Christine Lagarde?", che non è in linea con il tono misurato per cui la pubblicazione è nota. Ma che cosa ha detto la Lagarde per provocare le ire di questi atlantisti certificati? Il mese scorso, davanti a un'ampia platea di banchieri, ha pronosticato con disinvoltura il crollo dell'ordine finanziario internazionale e ha accennato alla de-dollarizzazione. Persino la Lagarde, che non è certo la più informata tra i banchieri centrali, l'ha capito... ma a quanto pare non dovrebbe dirlo a nessuno. @LauraRuHK

Politico is hitting at Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, using a vulgar expression "What the fuck is Christine Lagarde up to?" that is out of keeping with the measured tone the publication is known for. So what did Lagarde say to provoke the ire of these card-carrying Atlanticists? " Last month she stood before a large audience of elite central bankers and casually predicted the collapse of the international financial order and hinted at de-dollarization. Even Lagarde, not the most clued-up central banker, has figured it out...but apparently she shouldn't tell anyone. @LauraRuHK

Someone asked me why these days i seldom post on X/Twitter and Facebook. Here you have the answer. In 3 days this tweet was seen by 129 people out of 5,700 subscribers because i am shadow banned. What is the point of wasting my time on these rigged platforms? Even a post about Russian wine was hidden from view! @LauraRuHK

When Olaf Scholz and his coalition government published Germany’s first ever comprehensive China strategy in mid-July i had written that the much touted "de-risking" was just an euphemism, that actually the US wanted its European vassals to de-couple from China, regardless of the economic and social cost of damaging mutually beneficial trade relations between China and Europe. Now an article published by the European Council on Foreign Relations, an Atlanticist think tank that was set up with Soros money admits that "de-risking was supposed to ease minds; it was supposed to serve as the less sinister sounding little brother of the decoupling monster that has spooked German businesses since US voices inserted it into the global China conversation." @LauraRuHK https://ecfr.eu/article/the-end-of-germanys-china-illusion/

Una cena al VDNKh di Mosca, l'enorme area espositiva con piu' di 80 padiglioni in gran parte costruiti in epoca staliniana, mi ha fatto conoscere un padiglione recentemente restaurato che oggi ospita una fantastica enoteca. Il padiglione in stile neoclassico oggi ospita centinaia di bottiglie di vini prodotti in Russia, in linea con la vocazione originale di VDNKh, quella di un'expo dell'agricoltura sovietica. Ho assaggiato ottimi vini della Crimea e della regione di Kuban, hanno un prezzo molto competitivo e inferiore a quello del vino georgiano. Gia' sogno di poterli bere anche ad Hong Kong. Se solo qualche importatore di vini mi leggesse...😏 @LauraRuHK

“The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. It does not expend itself. It preserves and concentrates its strength and is capable of releasing it even after a long time.” Walter Benjamin This channel will change, slowly because I do not like sudden changes, but it will change. I started it as a kind of note book in which I wrote down thoughts, information and news that primarily interested me. My personal reader's digest. Then I discovered that thousands of other people were also interested and were sharing my posts. And i felt compelled to update it more often, to break news, to report on unfolding events. Its nature changed, it was no longer a "digest" because there was no time for digestion, just an open mouth that demanded constant feeding. And i no longer recognize it. I am not a journalist, never intended to become one, and there i was, running around like a headless chicken in pursuit of information that was worth sharing, or busy debunking disinformation. Unlike channels that rely on various administrators working in shifts, this channel depends solely on my time and energy, which is diverted from other activities that I consider important to make sense of the critical juncture we are witnessing. The amphetaminic nature of Telegram channels forces one to share information and comment on it in real time without being able to metabolise it, without being able to pay enough attention to the quality of writing. It doesn't suit me. I need time to fertilise my mind with reading and study. But most of all, i want to think, write stories and long articles that withstand the test of time, regardless of its crazy acceleration. @LauraRuHK

Questo canale cambiera', lentamente perche' io non amo i cambiamenti repentini, ma cambiera'. Quando l'ho aperto lo consideravo una specie di bloc notes personale su cui annotare riflessioni, informazioni e notizie che innanzitutto interessavano a me. Poi ho scoperto che interessavano anche a migliaia di altre persone ed e' diventato una sorta di servizio pubblico. A differenza dei canali che possono contare su vari amministratori che lavorano a turno, io faccio tutto da sola e non nascondo che l'impegno richiesto e' tale che sottrae tempo ed energia ad altre attivita' che reputo importanti per comprendere questa congiuntura storica. La natura anfetaminica del mezzo che costringe a condividere informazioni in tempo reale senza poterle metabolizzare e rifletterci sopra, senza poter prestare adeguata attenzione alla qualita' della scrittura devo dire che non mi convince, anzi mi preoccupa proprio. Mi manca il tempo per fertilizzare la mente con la lettura e lo studio, mi mancano gli scambi di idee con gli altri in un contesto non stravolto dal protagonismo e da operazioni di intimidazione e discredito. Per approfondire seriamente una notizia occorre tempo, ma i social il tempo te lo mangiano. Quindi rallentero' per riappropriarmi del tempo. @LauraRuHK

A Mosca puo' succedere di imbattersi in un robottino di Yandex per le consegne a domicilio. A me personalmente inquieta, ma resta il fatto che la robotizzazione e' una tendenza storica del sistema produttivo capitalistico per comprimere il costo del lavoro e aumentare i profitti. In un paese come la Russia con una disoccupazione gia' ridotta al minimo, e salari in crescita, l'automatizzazione di alcune mansioni libera forza lavoro da destinare ad altre attivita' ritenute piu' strategiche per lo sviluppo del paese. Ma questo non e' il punto, anche perche' il dibattito e' molto acceso e in Russia come altrove esistono posizioni favorevoli e contrarie, alcuni fanno notare che il termine stesso "robot" e' di origine russa. Il punto e' che i media occidentali ci spacciano la Russia come paese arretrato, rispolverando tutti gli stereotipi risalenti agli anni Novanta, quando il crollo dell'URSS mise in ginocchio il paese producendo una serie di mali sociali da cui la Russia sta cercando, con un certo successo, di liberarsi. Oggi chi descrive la Russia come ad un paese di abbruttiti, pigri e ubriaconi produce un'immagine deformata che non corrisponde minimamente alla realta', e finisce per sottovalutare completamente la forza e le enormi potenzialita' di questo paese. Un errore di giudizio che spinge a decisioni sconsiderate e in fondo autodistruttive. @LauraRuHK

Le aziende italiane vogliono tornare in Russia Le esportazioni verso il paese sanzionato sono calate del 35% rispetto allo scorso anno, afferma il responsabile di un'associazione imprenditoriale Alcune aziende italiane costrette a lasciare il mercato russo a causa delle sanzioni occidentali vorrebbero rientrarvi, ha dichiarato giovedì il presidente dell'Associazione degli imprenditori italiani in Russia (GIM Unimpresa). Vittorio Torrembini ha dichiarato all'agenzia di stampa Izvestia che le esportazioni italiane verso la Russia sono calate di circa il 35% dal febbraio 2022, quando Stati Uniti, Unione Europea e i loro alleati hanno imposto molteplici serie di sanzioni a Mosca per il conflitto in Ucraina. "Ho ripetuto più volte che il mercato russo è molto importante per le aziende italiane, e non solo per loro", ha dichiarato Torrembini. Ha aggiunto che gli investimenti in Russia "non possono essere gettati al vento". Torrembini ha fatto notare che dieci aziende che operano principalmente nel settore del petrolio e del gas hanno annunciato la sospensione delle loro attività in Russia dopo l'avvio dell'operazione militare in Ucraina. Le imprese italiane puntano sulla Russia - gruppo industriale LEGGI TUTTO: Le imprese italiane puntano sulla Russia - gruppo industriale "Inoltre, l'azienda statale Enel, che si occupa della produzione di energia elettrica, è stata venduta a un prezzo molto basso, così come Leonardo, che opera nel settore della difesa", ha detto, descrivendo questi passi come "irrevocabili". Il funzionario ha aggiunto che quasi tutte le aziende italiane che hanno lasciato il mercato russo hanno espresso il desiderio di tornare. "In particolare Maire Tecnimont e Saipem, che lavoravano nel settore energetico e avevano contratti per miliardi di euro. Non credo che gli azionisti di queste società non vogliano rientrare", ha affermato Torrembini. Lo scorso ottobre, il capo di GIM Unimpresa aveva notato che colossi italiani come Pirelli, Barilla e Ferrero avevano deciso di continuare a operare in Russia. All'inizio di quest'anno, Torrembini ha dichiarato che 110 aziende italiane avevano ancora capacità produttive nel Paese colpito dalle sanzioni, mentre 150 membri di GIM Unimpresa hanno mantenuto la loro presenza in Russia. (Fonte: RT) @LauraRuHK

The more US radical politicians try to suppress China's companies, the more they will stimulate Chinese creativity (By Hu Xijin) Ten Republican lawmakers jointly sent a letter dated Thursday to Alan Estevez, undersecretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, exerting pressure and presenting seven demands. These demands include the establishment of a new agency dedicated to controlling the export of American technology to China, imposing "full blocking sanctions" on both Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Huawei, and placing all their subsidiary companies on the Entity List. Their attitude is extremely arrogant, even going so far as to demand criminal charges against executives of SMIC and Huawei. There are several possibilities going forward. The first is that these legislators fail, and their demands are not accepted by the US government. These legislators have always been the most radical anti-China force in the US. The second is that the US government, following these lawmakers, goes crazy, leading to further failure for the US. Previous rounds of sanctions against Huawei were already very harsh, causing Huawei to withdraw from the 5G smartphone business. SMIC has also long been on the US Department of Commerce's Entity List, being a key target of restrictions for US and its allies. Now, how the Kirin 9000S chip used in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro is produced has not been disclosed by Huawei. However, a significant fact is that Huawei has pierced through the network of US sanctions. In the era of globalization, it is impossible for blockade wall to be completely airtight. Huawei has strong research and development capabilities, and Chinese companies have already formed a solid national industrial foundation, which can support their ability to independently develop key technologies. When these two factors are combined, the US cannot hinder Huawei's development simply by building a taller and larger blockade wall. Since Huawei has openly released the Mate 60 Pro, there must be a backup plan. If the US builds a new blockade wall, the first to be actually sanctioned will be American and its allies' companies. Huawei will definitely be able to withstand it. Today's Huawei is even stronger than it was in 2019. It couldn't be defeated four years ago, and now and in the future, there is no way to suffocate it. Thirdly, if the US brings criminal charges against SMIC and Huawei executives, it will signify a new confrontation. This is not an area where the US can unilaterally act without facing any consequences. The US will not gain any additional advantage from this, so they better abandon this idea. Extreme American politicians need to understand that the Chinese people are much more intelligent than they imagine and possess a collective will to never surrender. The more they try to block and pressure, the more they will stimulate creativity in Chinese society. Decoupling and severing supply chain will cause losses for both China and the US, but the US is persisting in the wrong way while China is creating in the right way. Therefore, the US is bound to suffer more loss. (Source: Global Times) @LauraRuHK

The Klitschko brothers were in Berlin, which has just been twinned with Kiev. Olaf Scholz proudly looks at them as if they were his pure breed dogs, momentarily forgetting he too is someone's dog. @LauraRuHK

German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock called Xi Jinping a dictator. German exporters to China are not going to like this incendiary rhetoric. To the question "How does the German government and the West see the outcome of this conflict? How should it end?" She annswered " Freedom and peace in Ukraine. And we will support Ukraine for as long as it takes. Because if Putin wins, what kind of example will he set for other world dictators like Chinese leader Xi Jinping? So that's why Ukraine must win this military conflict." https://t.me/dimsmirnov175/54784

Remember those who claimed that after Prigozhin's mutiny General Surovikin had been arrested/purged/punished? https://t.me/defensepoliticsasia/6121

Nella mia esperienza i russi hanno una caratteristica che raramente ho riscontrato nei paesi nord-europei: quando l'aderenza rigida ad una regola crea un problema o un intralcio, la regola viene interpretata in modo "creativo" per trovare una soluzione. Insomma i russi dimostrano flessibilita' e adattabilita', doti che a mio parere denotano un alto grado di intelligenza, esattamente come i cinesi e gli italiani di un tempo. Quando mi trovo davanti dei replicanti programmati per eseguire ordini il cui senso gli sfugge o la cui logica cozza con una situazione imprevista, penso che i transumani siano ormai tra noi e non e' un pensiero rassicurante. L'ultima disavventura mi e' capitata all'aeroporto di Helsinki, a cui sono arrivata dopo un viaggio estenuante e una notte insonne. Il mio bagaglio a mano, per il quale ormai si paga extra, rientrava nelle misure stabilite ma era leggermente piu' pesante del consentito. Era stato pesato solo perche' avevo fatto il check-in al banco invece che attraverso un'interfaccia digitale senza la pesa. L'addetta mi chiede di pagare 50 euro in piu', cosa folle per un bagaglio di quelle dimensioni, e per trovare una soluzione le dico che avrei tolto qualche maglione dalla valigia e me lo sarei messa addosso e legato in vita. Lei risponde che se facessero tutti cosi' le regole non le rispetterebbe nessuno. Cercando complicita' le faccio notare che io peso molto meno della media e quindi c'e' margine per un minimo di flessibilita' sul bagaglio. Lei per tutta risposta mi fulmina con lo sguardo, probabilmente ho toccato un tasto troppo sensibile nell'epoca in cui il fat shaming e' praticamente un crimine. Emette la carta d'imbarco mentre io davanti a lei apro la valigia e tolgo alcuni indumenti. Pensando che la cosa sia finita li', mi rilasso per un paio d'ore prima della partenza. Ma al momento di imbarcarmi sul volo appare una luce rossa al varco su cui ho strisciato il mio documento di viaggio, il tornello resta chiuso. Arriva un'altra addetta che mi informa che mi e' stato vietato salire sull'aereo perche' non ho pagato il biglietto per il bagaglio eccessivo. Le spiego che deve esserci un errore, visto che la valigina che porto e' decisamente piu' leggera di quando ho fatto il check-in e che la sua collega ha volutamente ignorato il fatto che l'ho mezza svuotata. Le mostro gli strati che ho addosso sotto il piumino, ma niente. Lei dice che fa fede la carta d'imbarco e quella contiene un codice che mi impedisce di imbarcarmi. Io rifiuto di muovermi dal varco, nel frattempo la coda dietro di me cresce e appare chiaro che l'aereo subira' un ritardo a causa di questa disputa assurda. Per spostarmi pretendo che qualcuno porti una pesa se non crede alla mie parole. Arriva il superiore e mi dice di calmarmi, quando in realta' sono calmissima e sto solo cercando di chiarire un equivoco. Anche lui si appella a fantomatiche regole. Gli chiedo se esiste una regola che impedisce a un passeggero di mettersi tre strati addosso. Non sa cosa rispondere. Dopo piu' di un quarto d'ora arriva la pesa e dimostra senza ombra di dubbio che la valigia non eccede il peso massimo di 8 chili. Finalmente mi fanno passare ma la cosa piu' inquietante e' che tutti gli addetti recitano come droni la formuletta "Saremo felici di servirLa ancora in futuro. Buon viaggio con FinAir". Avrei voluto chiedergli se era sarcasmo, ma dubito che avrebbero compreso. In compenso la mancanza di flessibilita' ha causato ritardo al volo, danno maggiore di qualche grammo in piu', e il vestiario che ho spostato dalla valigia alla mia persona mi ha solo fatto sudare e non ha certo cambiato il peso finale. @LauraRuHK

China has decided to impose sanctions on aerospace and defence firm Northrop Grumman Corp and Lockheed Martin Corp for supplying weapons to Taiwan. China urged the US to stop military connection with Taiwan and stop arming the island, or China will resolutely hit back: China's Foreign Ministry. (Source: Global Times) @LauraRuHK

Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post has removed Zelensky from the top 50 influential Jews. @LauraRuHK

Shana Tova! 😏 Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post has removed Zelensky from the top 50 influential Jews. In 2022, he was at the top of the list, at which time the newspaper called him "not only the most influential Jew in the world, but also one of the most influential people in the world". The publication of the list of "50 most influential Jews in the world" is timed to coincide with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year holiday. The most influential Jew this year was Sam Altman, CEO of the American company OpenAI. In second place - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in third place - U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. (Source: TASS) @LauraRuHK

🇭🇺❌🇺🇦🇺🇸🌾 Ukrainian grain has long been grown on lands owned by American companies - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “Brussels is simply not ready to take the side of the member countries and Europeans, but defends completely different interests, including in relation to this grain - not European, not Romanian, not Hungarian, not Slovak, but rather American.” 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

✖️Le aziende europee hanno rifiutato di fornire alla Russia apparecchiature energetiche, il Paese ha ripristinato tutte le competenze, spostato il programma di alcuni mesi, sono apparse nuove competenze ingegneristiche, ha detto il presidente russo Vladimir Putin. 💬"Le aziende europee si sono rifiutate di fornire l'attrezzatura. Bene, e la competenza, speravano che ci sarebbe mancata. Abbiamo ripristinato tutte le competenze, tutte, assolutamente. Un po' spostato a destra nel grafico il programma spostato, di un paio di mesi. Enormi imprese su scala mondiale saranno introdotte presto... Stiamo ripristinando tutto, abbiamo competenze ingegneristiche aggiuntive", ha detto Putin durante i colloqui con il presidente bielorusso Alexander Lukashenko. 💲Putin ha sottolineato che le aziende europee hanno dichiarato che hanno dovuto smettere di lavorare con la Russia, e ora stanno subendo enormi perdite, tagliando il personale. @tutti_i_fatti

Questa è Andreevka. Per chiarezza. Le forze armate ucraine stanno cercando di riconquistare questo villaggio da diversi mesi. Due strade interrotte. Le dichiarazioni sulla cattura di Andreevka da parte di Kiev non corrispondono alla realtà. Continuano i pesanti combattimenti su questa linea, da Kurdyumovka a Kleshcheevka. - Alexander Kots

Russia ready to meet with papal envoy to discuss Ukrainian crisis — Lavrov The top diplomat recalled that Russia has held meetings on Ukraine with representatives of Turkey, "who also have different ideas." The Russian side is ready to meet with Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the papal envoy for the Ukrainian settlement and the president of the Italian Bishops' Conference, to discuss the Ukrainian crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. "The Vatican is continuing its efforts. The papal envoy will come back [to Russia] soon. We are ready to meet with anyone, we are ready to talk with anyone," he said at a roundtable discussion on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. The top diplomat recalled that Russia has held meetings on Ukraine with representatives of Turkey, "who also have different ideas." "We appreciate the non-public efforts of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, first of all, in organizing the exchange of prisoners of war," he added. (Source: TASS) @LauraRuHK

Putin's statements at his meeting with Lukashenko (Source: kp.ru) 🔻Putin described it as "nonsense" the fake news that Russia would send North Korean volunteers to Ukraine; 🔻Actually Russian forces have captured foreign instructors helping Ukrainian on the battlefield, some were captured the other day; 🔻300,000 people signed contracts with the Russian Armed Forces this year, as of this morning; 🔻Russia has never refused to negotiate on Ukraine, if the other side wants to - let them say so; 🔻Putin about the US statement that Kiev and the USA will dance a tango: it is important for Kiev not to forget the "Gopak" (Cossack folk dance), otherwise they will dance to someone else's tune, and in the end everyone will dance the "Barynya" (Russian folk dance). @LauraRuHK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRp4H6MXjKg

Viaggiare in treno per la Russia e' un vero piacere. Negli anni ho provato tutti i tipi di treni anche se i miei preferiti sono i treni lenti ed economici su cui passare la notte in cuccetta con lenzuola di cotone perfettamente stirate, coperte e te' servito in tazze di vetro. Ma quando non mi posso permettere il lusso della lentezza, salgo su treni veloci che hanno i nomi di uccelli, come rondine, rondone o falcone pellegrino. Quest'ultimo (Sapsan), e' un treno ad alta velocita' che in poco piu' di 4 ore collega Mosca e San Pietroburgo. Quello che ho preso aveva 20 carrozze, praticamente interminabile. Come su tutti gli altri treni, il servizio e' impeccabile; se in Italia i treni sono sguarniti di personale e specialmente alla sera diventano terra di nessuno, in Russia il personale di bordo e' numeroso e sa con esattezza chi sale e scende. E' normale per i passeggeri lasciare incustoditi i propri oggetti personali, inclusi i telefoni, qualcosa che stupisce chiunque sia abituato ai treni italiani. @LauraRuHK

Il leader nord-coreano Kim Jong-Un e' stato aggiunto alla lista di proscrizione del sito ucraino Mirotvorets.🤡 https://t.me/smotri_media/59134

Il politologo russo Alexey Mukhin commenta cosi' i risultati delle elezioni amministrative che si sono concluse da pochi giorni in Russia. "Le elezioni del 2023 si sono svolte in condizioni difficili di mobilitazione sociale e hanno registrato il prevalere netto del partito Russia Unita, che è riuscito ad incarnare le tendenze sociali e politiche più promettenti - volontariato, patriottismo, statalismo. Gli altri partiti, compreso il Partito Comunista, sono rimasti indietro nella partecipazione a questi movimenti sociali e gli elettori se ne sono accorti. Ora è molto difficile per gli avversari di Russia Unita spiegare agli elettori, compresi quelli delle regioni, perché si sono attivati solo prima del voto. La caratteristica del Partito Comunista è che raccoglie ancora il voto di protesta. Per questo motivo è risultato il secondo partito anche questa volta. Ma questo non è un merito del partito: questi elettori non diventeranno il suo capitale politico in futuro. Le elezioni del 2023 precedono le elezioni presidenziali del 2024, e dimostrano gli umori degli elettori in questo periodo. Allo stesso tempo, la campagna elettorale si è svolta nel contesto della mobilitazione della società civile, che ormai ignora le sanzioni straniere. @LauraRuHK https://publico.ru/opinions/preimuschestvom-kprf-po-prezhnemu-yavlyaetsya-t-n-protestnoe-golosovanie

The gynecologist acting as president of the European Commission is waging yet another trade war with China. What she doesn't understand is that Chinese consumers have the power to deal a serious blow to European car makers if they want to. @LauraRuHK

Max Blumenthal: Penny Pritzker was on the board of Superior Bank, which her tax evading family bought with $645 billion in govt credits. It collapsed after a subprime scandal, costing 1400+ uninsured depositors their savings and forcing her to withdraw her 2008 nomination. Slava Wall Street!

And while the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is in Russia to hold talks with Vladimir Putin, i came across this Belarusian tractor in Moscow. I am not too familiar with tractors, but its size blew me away: it's bigger than my Hong Kong flat! The sign says "we are creating the future together" and the two countries are indeed cooperating in all areas, including machinery. @LauraRuHK

🎙Risposte del Ministro degli Affari Esteri della Federazione Russa Sergey Lavrov alle domande del programma televisivo “Vesti” a margine del Forum Economico Orientale, Vladivostok, 12 settembre 2023 Domanda: Il Segretario di Stato degli USA Antony Blinken ha rilasciato una clamorosa dichiarazione secondo la quale l’Ucraina sarebbe pronta a negoziare con la Russia. E, se tali negoziati avessero inizio, allora anche gli Stati Uniti seguirebbero l’Ucraina. Lei come si pone al riguardo? Sergey Lavrov: Nel 2022, Zelensky ha firmato un decreto che vieta di condurre qualsiasi tipo di negoziato con il governo russo e con il Presidente Vladimir Putin. Se coloro che dirigono questo regime hanno deciso che gli ucraini debbano essere pronti ai negoziati, allora immagino che il primo passo per loro debba essere l’“auspicio”, oppure l’ordine di revocare tale decreto. Il Presidente Vladimir Putin ha ripetuto molte volte che noi non ci sottraiamo ai negoziati. Coloro che invece a questi negoziati si sottraggono devono capire che, più a lungo tergiversano, più sarà difficile giungere a un accordo. Domanda: Si è detto che la trasferta a Kiev di Antony Blinken fosse legata, tra le altre cose, al suo tentativo di spingere Kiev ai negoziati. Sergey Lavrov: Su questo non posso fare ipotesi. In realtà, per il momento, il regime di Kiev sta facendo di tutto per spingere chiunque, ossia gli americani, gli europei, e tutti gli altri paesi a cedere alle sue richieste di denaro, aiuti, armi e munizioni. Dichiarazioni del genere vengono rilasciate ogni giorno dai rappresentanti del regime ucraino. Il mio “collega” Dmytro Kuleba ha incontrato non molto tempo fa a Kiev il Ministro degli Affari Esteri tedesco Annalena Baerbock e, di fronte alle telecamere, ha lamentato il fatto che i tedeschi non stessero fornendo loro sistemi missilistici a lunga gittata. Eccoli, i “clienti”. Chi ha instaurato questo regime dovrebbe sapere bene cosa comporta lavorare con loro. Testo completo

New Moscow metro station opens at Pykhtino - design theme of the Soviet Tu-144 aircraft, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft.

This freak is completely unhinged...which is also the reason s/he became the spokesperson of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.https://t.me/Sp utnikInt_unc2/14245

♟️ In 1997, Zbig Brzezinski, the original ‘driver’ behind the making of Afghanistan as a quagmire of ‘mud’ into which Russia was to be dragged, wrote his celebrated book, The Grand Chessboard. It was a work that ‘forever’ embedded the Mackinder doctrine of ‘he who controls the Asian heartland controls the world’ into the U.S. zeitgeist. Tellingly, its subtitle was American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. Brzezinski had already written in his book that absent Ukraine, Russia would never become the heartland power; but with Ukraine, Russia can and would. Thus, Mackinder’s doctrine, ‘He who controls the heartland’ dictum, was codified into U.S. ‘cannon law’ – never to permit a united heartland. And Ukraine became seen as the hinge around which heartland power revolved 🌀 Brzezinski further ordained that this ‘Grand Game of Chess’ was to be one of pure U.S. primacy: “No, no one else plays”, he insisted; it is a game purely for one. Once a chess piece is moved; ‘we’ (the U.S.) simply turn the board the other way around – and move the other side’s chess pieces (for ‘them’). There is ‘no other’ in this game”, Brzezinski warned. This is today’s dilemma – It is so long since Brzezinski originally formulated the Mackinder notion, that classical diplomacy has become etiolated. 💬 Read more by Alastair Crooke #Brzezinski #China #Kissinger #Mackinder #NewWorldOrder #UnitedStates 🌐 More exclusive analysis | 🌐 Subscribe | 🌐 Join us on VK

😎 The boat of US-Vietnam "friendship" has crashed against reality, to paraphrase Mayakovsky. @LauraRuHK

Kim Jong-un: "La Russia e' impegnata in una lotta sacrosanta per difendere la sovranità del suo Stato e proteggere la sua sicurezza. Abbiamo sempre sostenuto e appoggiato tutte le decisioni del Presidente Putin e del governo russo. Spero che saremo sempre uniti nella lotta contro l'imperialismo." https://t.me/dimsmirnov175/54608

🇷🇺🚀🇰🇵 Putin and Slim Kim kick off their historic meeting with a visit to Russian missiles launch complex. Leaders admired newly-modernized Russian-made missiles. Subscribe @IntelRepublic

One couldn't have chosen a better location for the Putin-Kim meeting. The Vostochny Cosmodrome is just perfect. https://t.me/LauraRuHK/6303

Address at the Eastern Economic Forum summary: ▪️The rate of investment in the Far East is 3 times the Russian region average. ▪️The development of the Far East is our absolute priority for the 21st century. Another of our strategic priorities is the Arctic; ▪️Far East is only 35% explored, with huge potential for natural resource industries; ▪️By 2030, LNG production in the Russian Arctic will triple. ▪️Ensuring energy security, the Power of Siberia and Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipelines will be connected, to include them in the country’s unified gas supply system. ▪️The global economy has changed and continues to change; the West, with its own hands, is destroying the system of trade and finance that it itself created; ▪️Russia’s trade turnover with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region grew by 13.7% last year, and by another 18.3% in the first half of 2023.

⚡️Kim Jong-Un Expressed Enthusiasm For Russian Rocket Technology While Meeting With President Putin At The Vostochny Cosmodrome 👉 @RTnews_unc3 RT

⚡️President Putin Meets Kim Jong-Un At Vostochny Cosmodrome 👉 @RTnews_unc3 RT

And while i am in Russia without access to Facebook and Twitter someone is trying to hack into my accounts, again.

☝🏻I Paesi occidentali stanno distruggendo con le loro stesse mani il sistema di legami commerciali e finanziari che essi stessi hanno creato, ha detto il presidente russo Vladimir Putin al Forum economico orientale 2023. @tutti_i_fatti

Putin's working day at the ЕEF began at 5:30 Moscow time. Vice President of Laos Pany Yathothu - at the meeting with Putin: I am closely following the development of the situation in Russia. I would like to take this opportunity to say that under your leadership, despite the difficulties and challenges from outside, as well as the economic sanctions imposed by the policies of the United States and its Western allies, Russia has been able to maintain economic and social stability. The Russian economy continues to grow, and Moscow's role and influence in the world and in the region in the process of forming a multipolar world order is constantly strengthening. @Slavyangrad

Today is a great day to post my interview with Kit Klarenberg on X about his investigation of an explosive new court filing, which indicates that at least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level❗️ WATCH: https://youtu.be/tflB4oH1NhY

Al Forum Economico di Vladivostok e' iniziata la seduta plenaria https://t.me/smotri_media/58671

The meeting between the leaders of Russia and the DPRK, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, will be held in the Far East of Russia, including in a one-on-one format, no press conference is planned, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "Negotiations will take place. We are talking about negotiations between two delegations, which, of course, are headed by the leaders of the two countries. There will be one-on-one communication, there will be an official dinner in honor of Kim Jong-un." Peskov said. "So far, we have not said [where the negotiations will take place]. In the Far East," Peskov said. Topics of negotiations Putin and Kim Jong-un will discuss issues of bilateral cooperation between Russia and the DPRK in various fields, the situation in the region, international affairs, the spokesman added. During the talks, "sensitive topics" will also be touched upon. "First of all, of course, issues related to bilateral relations, bilateral cooperation, trade and economic ties, cultural exchanges will be discussed. Of course, there will be a rich exchange of views on the situation in the region and on international affairs in general, because it is of interest to both Putin and our guest from Pyongyang," Peskov said. He added that the Russian Federation is ready, if necessary, to discuss with the DPRK the sanctions of the UN Security Council. "The processes related to our work in the United Nations, in the Security Council, are becoming a subject for discussion. We coordinate our actions as neighbors and partners with North Korea. Of course, if necessary, we will be ready with our comrades from North Korea to continue the discussion on this topic." Peskov explained. Commenting, at the request of journalists, warnings from the White House to the DPRK about the sale of weapons to Russia, the spokesman said that Moscow is not interested in warnings from Washington in the context of negotiations with the DPRK. "As you know, after all, realizing our relations with our neighbors, including North Korea, the interests of our two countries are important for us, and not warnings from Washington. It is the interests of our two countries that we will focus on," he concluded. (Source: TASS) @LauraRuHK

At the G20 Western countries were politely told that the rest of the world has had enough of their fixation on Ukraine. @LauraRuHK

EU Greenlights Seizure Of Personal Phones And Cars From Russians Russian nationals are effectively banned from taking many personal items with them when traveling to the EU, the European Commission confirmed this week. Goods ranging from private cars and smartphones to cosmetics and even toilet paper are sanctioned. They thus cannot be brought into the bloc even temporarily or during tourist travels, it explained. The latest set of answers to the ‘frequently asked questions’ by the EU Commission issued on Friday focused on Russian cars. “It is not relevant whether the use of the vehicles is private or commercial” as long as they fall into the sanctioned goods category, it said. The ban covers “vehicles having a Russian license plate” and “registered in Russia,” the commission’s statement said, adding that the duration of a car’s possible stay in the EU is “not relevant.” The clarification came following a series of incidents in which German customs authorities were seen confiscating private Russian cars entering the country at least since July. (Source: RT) @LauraRuHK

Questi sono i risultati delle elezioni amministrative in Russia. Russia Unita (Edinaya Rossya) ha ottenuto la maggioranza ovunque tranne che nella regione di Oryol e nella Repubblica della Khakassia, dove il Partito Comunista che gia' amministrava ha mantenuto il suo vantaggio.@LauraRuHK

India will offer Russia options to invest the billions in rupees it has accumulated for exports, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Sunday during the G20 in New Delhi. “Our Indian friends said they would propose promising areas they can be invested in,” Lavrov told reporters, citing talks with Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the sidelines of the East Asia summit prior to his arrival to India. “Right now our governments are talking how to use and invest them to mutual benefit.” (Source: Bloomberg) @LauraRuHK

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Kiev regime may expel Reuters media agency out of the country. This is due to them publishing Russian strikes, and Ukraine's ineffective missile defenses. Imagine the level of self-delusion, when you kick out even mainstream media, who do most of your lying for you! Subscribe @IntelRepublic

Chinese firm to produce smart tech in Russia’s Far East The company plans to invest more than $100 million in a new industrial park in Amur Region China’s Xuanyuan Group Industrial Development plans to create an industrial park in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur Region, the company announced on Sunday, according to TASS. It signed a declaration of intent with the Amur Region Investment Attraction Agency on the first day of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. According to the deal, the Chinese company will invest up to 10 billion rubles ($102 million) in the industrial park, which will create over 400 jobs in the region. The park will produce smart equipment, including robots, 3D printers, drones, wind turbine blades, tanks for storage and transportation of liquefied natural gas and helium, and other technological goods. The project envisages the creation of a science and research center, a production base for robotics and 3D printing, smart warehouses, and engineering infrastructure. Xuanyuan Group said it has a strong research and development team and long-term cooperation with leading technological institutes in China, which will help the company in its work on the industrial park. “We want to build something new, different from what we had before – a new industrial park complex for the production of intelligent equipment. We know that there are good business opportunities in the Amur region, we have already looked at the site offered to us. We plan to attract experienced Chinese manufacturers to work with us,” Xuanyuan Group CEO Hailong Xue told reporters. Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum welcomes foreign participantsREAD MORE: Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum welcomes foreign participants According to Sergey Khmura, the deputy head of the Amur Region Investment Attraction Agency, the industrial park will offer equal opportunities for companies of both Russian and Chinese origin. “This is a very important stage for the development of the region’s economy. It shows how much the region is becoming a priority in terms of high-tech development and cooperation with foreign investors. Previously, entrepreneurs from Asia were interested in mining, timber logging, and agriculture. Now the region is developing conditions for high-tech industry,” he stated. (Source: RT) @LauraRuHK

Come nel resto della Russia, anche nelle quattro regioni che hanno siglato la loro adesione alla Federazione russa con il referendum del settembre 2022, si sono svolte le elezioni amministrative per il rinnovo dei consigli locali. A Mariupol un'elettrice afferma "Anche da noi ci sono cambiamenti positivi in corso. Qualcosa che in Ucraina non si vedeva da 30 anni. Sono felice di essere in Russia!" https://t.me/rt_russian/171539