The European Union is preparing a new sanctions package that could include children’s camps in Russia, Crimea, and North Korea, as well as officials responsible for education in Ukrainian territories occupied by the Russian army. The restrictions are planned to be approved in October, and the draft lists 1,600 individuals and legal entities.

#EuropeanUnion #Crimea #Russia #RustamMinnikhanov #EUsanctions #NorthKorea

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Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko said at the Eastern Economic Forum that NATO is preparing for a military confrontation with Russia. He also said that the West has unleashed a hybrid war against Russia in the Arctic and is trying to achieve military superiority there.

#AlexanderGrushko #Arctic #WarinUkraine #vef #hybridwar #militarism #NATO #Russia

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Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening video address that Russian airspace is «becoming completely unsafe» for airlines, insurers, and those who use key Russian airports. According to him, Ukraine does not threaten civil aviation, but because of drone attacks, «the Russian sky will in fact be closing».

#aviation #security #business #VladimirZelensky #WarinUkraine #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine

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Alisher Morgenstern said in an interview with Yury Dud that people linked to the Russian authorities had offered him a return to Russia in exchange for public support of the war. According to the musician, the conditions included a trip to the occupied territories, a public apology, or one million dollars.

#AlisherMorgenstern #morgenstern #ON #Russia #ToYuriDud

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German authorities said Russia was involved in last month’s drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport in the eastern part of the country. According to them, the incident occurred on 4 August near Ukrainian cargo planes, and the explosive device did not go off.

#droneattack #WarinUkraine #Germany #EuropeanUnion #RussiansabotageinEurope #Russia #RussianHouse #sanctions

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Der deutsche Verteidigungsunternehmer Stefan Thumann erklärte in einem Exklusivinterview, dass die Sabotageoperationen, die er Moskau zuschreibt, ein «Kriegsakt» seien und dass sich Deutschland und Russland im Kriegszustand befänden. Seine Worte fielen vor dem Hintergrund der Vorbereitung Berlins auf Vorwürfe gegen Moskau im Fall eines versuchten Drohnenangriffs in Leipzig und auf neue Sanktionen.

#business #militaryindustrialcomplex #WarinUkraine #Germany #interview #Russia

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Scientists at Lomonosov Moscow State University will study the approach of Earth to asteroid Apophis, which will pass at its closest distance to the planet in April 2029. This was reported on September 1 during a ceremonial lecture for first-year students in the Main Building of MSU by Rector Viktor Sadovnichy.

#Space #MSU #Thescience #Russia

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In Moscow, around 10:30, a man with a shovel attacked people leaving a church on Belorechenskaya Street and injured a 32-year-old female paramedic. The victim was taken to the Sklifosovsky Research Institute in extremely serious condition; the number of victims is being уточняется.

#Moscow #violence #crime #Russia

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In Montenegro, 30-year-old Russian citizen Mikhail Shabunin was suspected of killing three shooting range employees in Danilovgrad. According to police, when they tried to detain him, he opened fire on the police, and then killed himself.

#Balkans #violence #crime #Russia #Montenegro #Emigration

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In the settlement of Nickel in the Murmansk region, a museum will open in the closed Kaula-Kotselvaara mine, where extraction stopped in 2023. The exhibits will be placed directly in a real underground mine working.

#aftertheUSSR #industry #Russia #tourism

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, in an interview with Spanish radio Cadena SER, accused Russia and Israel of spreading disinformation around the migration crisis in Ceuta. According to him, several thousand people remain in the enclave after the July influx of migrants.

#CadenaSER #Israel #Russia #Sanchez #CeutaPrimeMinisterofSpainPedro #CeutaPo

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Back then, no one thought that war would turn out to be only the first — the Second Chechen War began in August 1999. Both key participants in the Khasavyurt Accords did not live to see its end.

#AlexanderLebed #army #AslanMaskhadov #BorisYeltsin #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #SecondChechenWar #DzhokharDudayev #imperialthinking #aftertheUSSR #RamzanKadyrov #Russia #KhasavyurtAccords #ChechenRepublicIchkeria

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Amid Ukraine’s strikes on oil refineries, Russia is expanding gasoline imports this summer and looking for new supply schemes. This week, the country bought 200,000 barrels of fuel from Turkey for the first time and agreed to process Russian feedstock in Kazakhstan.

#Kazakhstan #On #Russia #Turkey #Ukraine

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More than 30 years after the massacre of Bosnian Muslims by Serbian nationalists in Srebrenica, the world is once again remembering those nightmare events — this week, their chief organizer died. At the same time, for modern Serbian far-right activists and their platonic Russian fellow travelers, Mladić, like the organizers of other mass killings in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, remains a hero.

#20thcentury #warcriminals #genocideinSrebrenica #CivilWar #History #nationalism #RatkoMladic #Russia #Serbia #ultraright #Yugoslavia

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Soon after the AFU strikes on Ozon warehouses, it became known about Vladimir Putin’s decree on protecting infrastructure facilities. Its essence is simple: critical infrastructure facilities whose owners failed to ensure their security under conditions of external threats may be transferred to temporary state administration. The question of why business should perform the state’s duties does not even arise.

#Ozon #Analytics #droneattacks #business #Prigozhinsrebellion #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #state #retail #Russia #securityforces

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The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially demand that Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film «DAU» be removed from the Venice Film Festival program. The festival leadership refuses. What is the vulnerability of both sides of the conflict?

#VeniceFilmFestival #WarinUkraine #IlyaKhrzhanovsky #movie #aftertheUSSR #Russia #scandal #Stalinistrepressions #Kharkov

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August 19-21, 1991, with each passing year, become an increasingly mythologized distant past. The current authorities generally prefer not to recall them at all, even though many of their representatives would never have reached their current heights without those historic days. A whole generation has already grown up that simply does not remember. And those who do remember are increasingly critical of these events. They say, well, what was achieved? Was it worth it? Believe me – it was.

#1991 #Augustputsch #gkchp #Gorbachev #democracy #Yeltsin #History #personalexperience #society #aftertheUSSR #protests #revolution #Russia

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Last week, the Russian leader visited the Kuril Islands for the first time in the 26 years of his rule. This demonstrative trip sharply worsened Russian-Japanese relations. On the other hand, it was supposed to please the Chinese comrades

#Analytics #WarinUkraine #diplomacy #China #KurileIslands #aftertheUSSR #Russia #scandal #Taiwan #Japan

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Desperate pleas from Wildberries owners and sellers to the government are provoking a sluggish and chaotic response. And it seems the issue is not just a banal lack of money.

#Wildberries #Analytics #business #WarinUkraine #elections #state #capitalism #acrisis #mobilization #society #Putin #retail #Russia #elites

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Speaking in Kazan on August 6, 1990, the head of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, Boris Yeltsin, uttered the classic phrase: «Take as much sovereignty as you can swallow». Back then, at the end of Perestroika, the Supreme Soviets of all the union and autonomous republics of the USSR proclaimed their state sovereignty. And some later declared independence as well. But does anyone really think that this experience can be repeated today?

#Analytics #WarinUkraine #2026StateDumaelections #Empire #UnitedRussiaparty #politicalemigration #aftertheUSSR #Regions #Russia #tatarstan

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