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"Russia is on the verge of a recession, its economy minister said on Thursday, the first public admission that the country’s war economy is starting to cool three years after President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Maxim Reshetnikov said at the president’s flagship economic conference in St Petersburg that “the numbers show [the economy] is cooling off”."
 

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Hey lads, how long has the Tank of Wank being telling us Russia is on the verge of economic collapse???😂 😂 😂 😂

Now, in the real world WE KNOW that terrorist America actually redefined what a recession is in order to cover up the state of their kip........👍
Of course, in the Degenerate Party and amongst its bootlickers, a recession wasn't a recession....😂 😂


 
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How many people has Zitler 'disappeared' at this point and replaced with others which he will disappear as things go from bad to worse for Ukraine?
Until the last Ukrainian, eh?

Zelensky reshuffles top brass to fix faltering draft – FT​

Kiev’s attempts to reform mobilization and training have so far been “sluggish at best,” the outlet has reported
Zelensky reshuffles top brass to fix faltering draft – FT

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Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has reshuffled his top brass, with the goal of overhauling the country’s flawed and “unpopular” forced mobilization, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. Amid heavy frontline losses, the campaign has been marred by widespread draft-dodging and violent clashes between would-be recruits and mobilization officers.
On Friday, Zelensky tapped Brigadier General Gennady Shapovalov to be the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, replacing Mikhail Drapaty and reassigning several senior officers.
According to the Ukrainian HQ, in his new role, Shapovalov will focus on “increasing the combat capability of the army, improve the mobilization system and training of military personnel, and implement innovative approaches to management according to NATO standards.”
Shapovalov previously headed Kiev’s team in the NATO mission to coordinate military assistance to Ukraine.

The Financial Times said the new commander will face numerous issues, as the “attempts to reform the Ukrainian mobilization and training process have been sluggish at best.” The draft, the outlet added, has been “unpopular,” while Zelensky is facing Western pressure to lower the draft age.
Another problem is a new military contract program aimed at attracting young people between 18 and 24 to the army. However, as of April, only 500 contract soldiers joined the army, the FT reported, citing officials in Kiev.
Shapovalov’s appointment follows nearly three weeks of a leadership vacuum after Drapaty resigned from his post but was later moved to lead Ukraine’s joint forces command, which is aimed at helping align Ukraine’s armed forces with NATO operational methods.
In a parting statement, Drapaty – who resigned after accepting responsibility for devastating Russian strikes on military training sites – condemned what he called a “culture of mutual cover-up and impunity” within the military.
”We will not win this war unless we build an army where honor is action, not a word, and responsibility is the basis of trust,” he said.
According to RBK-Ukraine, Drapaty’s departure also followed reported tensions with Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Aleksandr Syrsky. A source told the outlet that Drapaty privately expressed ambitions to take over Syrsky’s role. The two have had diverging battlefield strategies.
Ukraine announced general mobilization in 2022, barring most men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country. In 2024, Kiev tightened the conscription laws and lowered the draft age from 27 to 25 to recoup growing battlefield losses. The mobilization campaign has resulted in numerous violent altercations between draft officers and reluctant draftees, while many have sought to flee the country at significant personal risk.

 

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Actually, it was from the Bible
Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you
wherever you set foot that land will be yours
not from Hitler, as Western propaganda claims
 

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Gotta love Twatter.
A step up from Reddit, I suppose.

Meanwhile, another little attention seeking narcissistic gimp is squeaking again.....:ROFLMAO:

Zelensky makes new threats against Russia​

The Ukrainian leader has vowed to “reduce” Moscow’s military potential with new strikes, with his army chief echoing the remark
Zelensky makes new threats against Russia

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Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has suggested that Kiev’s forces will conduct more long-range strikes targeting facilities deep inside Russian territory.
Ukraine has significantly escalated drone attacks deep into Russia in recent weeks, despite ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has described the actions as an attempt to derail the peace process.
In a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday, Zelensky wrote that he had held a meeting with the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, claiming that Kiev was keeping tabs on Russia’s “main pain points.” He pledged to “strike appropriate blows” with a view to “significantly reducing” Moscow’s military potential.
Zelensky also stated that Kiev was sharing its intelligence on Russia with its Western backers, with which it is “preparing joint defense solutions.”
Speaking to reporters also on Sunday, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Aleksandr Syrsky, similarly said that Kiev “will increase the scale and depth” of its strikes on Russian military facilities deep inside the country.

On June 1, Ukrainian intelligence conducted a coordinated attack on several Russian airbases across five regions, from Murmansk in the Arctic, to Irkutsk in Siberia.
Ukrainian media later reported that the operation codenamed ‘Spiderweb’ involved dozens of first-person view (PFV) kamikaze drones. At least some of them were reportedly launched in close proximity to the targets, from commercial trucks that had been covertly brought into Russia.
The strikes were said to have been prepared for more than a year and a half and focused on Russia’s “strategic aviation.”
The Defense Ministry in Moscow said that a number of aircraft in Murmansk and Irkutsk regions had caught fire as a result of the attack.
Kiev claimed that the strikes had damaged or destroyed approximately 40 Russian military aircraft, including Tu-95 and Tu-22 long-range bombers. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov later dismissed these estimates as incorrect.
The equipment in question… was not destroyed, but damaged. It will be restored,” the diplomat told TASS in early June.
Around the same time, Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, cautioned that “when you attack an opponent’s part of their national survival system, which is their nuclear triad… that means your risk level goes up because you don’t know what the other side’s going to do.”

 
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How desperate are Zitler and his henchmen now?

Jar of tomatoes saves Ukrainian man from forced mobilization (VIDEO)​

Conscription officers tried dragging a man into a van in broad daylight, according to a viral video
Jar of tomatoes saves Ukrainian man from forced mobilization (VIDEO)

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A Ukrainian man reportedly managed to escape forced conscription in the city of Lutsk after neighbors hurled a jar of pickled tomatoes from a nearby building at military recruiters, according to a new video highlighting Kiev’s increasingly harsh mobilization efforts.
It is unclear when the video was filmed, but it is the latest in a wave of viral clips showing public resistance to military draft efforts across Ukraine.
The footage circulated on Ukrainian and Russian Telegram channels on Sunday, showing a barefoot man resisting four local draft officers from Ukraine’s Territorial Centers of Recruitment and Social Support (TCR) as they attempted to push him into a minivan.
“Please take a picture of me. My name is Denis Tkachuk, born in 1997,” the man can be heard shouting while clinging to the open door.












Moments later, a glass jar – apparently filled with pickled tomatoes – flies from above and shatters beside him, prompting the person filming to yell at the officers: “Let him go already.”

“They want to kill me – that’s why they feel embarrassed,”
the struggling man screams. He eventually manages to break free and run off, while the draft officers appear to abandon the effort and drive away.
The incident comes amid rising frustration over Kiev’s mobilization campaign, which intensified after Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky signed a new draft law lowering the enlistment age and tightening enforcement.
According to lawmaker Roman Kostenko, fewer than one in four recruits enlist voluntarily, with most entering service through what he described as “brutal compulsory conscription.” Another Ukrainian MP, Yury Kamelchuk, said conscription officers are under orders to bring in 12 new recruits per day and are using aggressive tactics to meet quotas, including luring food couriers with fake delivery requests.

Videos have repeatedly surfaced online showing Ukrainian officials using force to detain men in public areas, in what has become known locally as “busification” – a term which refers to the forcible loading of recruits into unmarked vans.
Moscow has accused Kiev of waging a war “to the last Ukrainian” against Russia on behalf of Western nations, with President Vladimir Putin saying that Ukraine’s recruitment officers are grabbing people “like dogs on the street.”
 

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ROTFL!! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Ukrainian recruitment officer killed in suspected car bombing – media​

The blast in Odessa Region comes as Kiev ramps up aggressive recruitment to fill its military ranks
Ukrainian recruitment officer killed in suspected car bombing – media

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A senior recruitment officer has reportedly been killed in a car explosion in Ukraine’s Odessa Region on Friday, according to police and local media reports.
Investigators suspect the blast was intentional and may have been triggered remotely. Odessa regional police confirmed one fatality and said an investigation is under way, but did not name the person who was killed when a vehicle exploded in a village in Berezovsky District.
Law enforcement sources cited by local media said that the vehicle belonged to a local draft office. The Southern Courier named the victim as Colonel Oleg Nomerovsky, a top official at a regional military recruitment center.
The incident comes as Ukraine faces mounting scrutiny over its conscription practices, with the conflict with Russia now in its third year and Kiev struggling to replenish its forces.
Ukraine has been under general mobilization since 2022, barring most men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country. The minimum conscription age was lowered from 27 to 25 in 2024, and penalties for evading service were tightened.
Ukrainian MP Yury Kamelchuk said conscription officers are under orders to bring in 12 new recruits per day and are using aggressive tactics to meet quotas, including luring food couriers with fake delivery requests. He blasted the government’s approach as disrespectful and claimed even men with health issues are being targeted.
Videos have repeatedly surfaced online showing Ukrainian officials using force to detain men in public areas, in what has become known locally as “busification,” a term referring to forcibly loading recruits into unmarked vans.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Ukrainian recruitment officers were grabbing people “like dogs on the street,” contrasting it with Russia’s volunteer-based enlistment. “They are catching 30 thousand people [per month] there now, and we have 50-60 thousand a month enlisting willingly,” he said earlier this week.
One such video from Lutsk in western Ukraine showed soldiers dragging a food delivery worker into a white van as he resisted. The clip went viral after being shared on X. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, reacted to the video with “!!” and has previously criticized Ukraine’s conscription policy, writing in November: “How many more need to die?”
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has repeatedly dismissed criticism of the mobilization process as “Russian propaganda,” but Deputy Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Ivan Gavrilyuk acknowledged the issue last month, calling “busification” a “shameful phenomenon.”
In response to falling voluntary enlistment, Kiev recently launched a campaign targeting men aged 18–24, offering a one-time payout of one million hryvnia ($24,000) for a year of service.


 

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How desperate are Zitler and his henchmen now?

Jar of tomatoes saves Ukrainian man from forced mobilization (VIDEO)​

Conscription officers tried dragging a man into a van in broad daylight, according to a viral video
Jar of tomatoes saves Ukrainian man from forced mobilization (VIDEO)

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A Ukrainian man reportedly managed to escape forced conscription in the city of Lutsk after neighbors hurled a jar of pickled tomatoes from a nearby building at military recruiters, according to a new video highlighting Kiev’s increasingly harsh mobilization efforts.
It is unclear when the video was filmed, but it is the latest in a wave of viral clips showing public resistance to military draft efforts across Ukraine.
The footage circulated on Ukrainian and Russian Telegram channels on Sunday, showing a barefoot man resisting four local draft officers from Ukraine’s Territorial Centers of Recruitment and Social Support (TCR) as they attempted to push him into a minivan.
“Please take a picture of me. My name is Denis Tkachuk, born in 1997,” the man can be heard shouting while clinging to the open door.












Moments later, a glass jar – apparently filled with pickled tomatoes – flies from above and shatters beside him, prompting the person filming to yell at the officers: “Let him go already.”

“They want to kill me – that’s why they feel embarrassed,”
the struggling man screams. He eventually manages to break free and run off, while the draft officers appear to abandon the effort and drive away.
The incident comes amid rising frustration over Kiev’s mobilization campaign, which intensified after Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky signed a new draft law lowering the enlistment age and tightening enforcement.
According to lawmaker Roman Kostenko, fewer than one in four recruits enlist voluntarily, with most entering service through what he described as “brutal compulsory conscription.” Another Ukrainian MP, Yury Kamelchuk, said conscription officers are under orders to bring in 12 new recruits per day and are using aggressive tactics to meet quotas, including luring food couriers with fake delivery requests.

Videos have repeatedly surfaced online showing Ukrainian officials using force to detain men in public areas, in what has become known locally as “busification” – a term which refers to the forcible loading of recruits into unmarked vans.
Moscow has accused Kiev of waging a war “to the last Ukrainian” against Russia on behalf of Western nations, with President Vladimir Putin saying that Ukraine’s recruitment officers are grabbing people “like dogs on the street.”
The draft, the outlet added, has been “unpopular,” while Zelensky is facing Western pressure to lower the draft age.

I should say so!
 

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Zelensky has a Nazi problem. He can’t lie his way out of it​

Facts and numbers make his Russia-Hitler comparisons laughably hypocritical

By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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Zelensky has a Nazi problem. He can’t lie his way out of it

FILE PHOTO. Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, June 24, 1945. © Sputnik/Evgeny Khaldei

Anniversaries can be opportunities. For better or worse. In the case of the recent anniversary of Nazi Germany’s massive attack on the Soviet Union of 22 June 1941 – code-named Operation Barbarossa by the Germans – Ukraine’s beyond best-by-date president Vladimir Zelensky went for the worst. Using his own Telegram channel, Zelensky shared his bizarre view of why that anniversary mattered. In short, because it can serve in the information war against Russia.
“Eighty years ago,” the Kiev regime leader wrote, “the world overcame Nazism and swore ‘Never again.’ But today Russia is repeating the crimes of the Nazis […] Now Ukrainians are fighting against rashism [a pejorative term fusing the words “Russia” and “fascism”] with the same courage with which our ancestors defeated Nazism…”
Where to begin? Why not with the obvious: IF Russia were following Nazi examples, then much of Ukraine would now look like, for instance, Gaza. And while every death is a tragedy, the numbers of Ukrainian civilians killed in the Ukraine War would be of an entirely different order of magnitude.
This is not a matter of opinion. It’s a fact that can be quantified and proven: As of the end of May, the UN counted about 13,279 Ukrainian civilians killed, since the beginning of the large-scale fighting in February 2022. It is true that the UN also warns that these are conservative, minimum figures.

Yet consider some figures for Gaza under Israeli genocidal assault since October 2023. As of early June, the enclave’s health ministry – generally acknowledged as reliable and also conservative with its numbers, notwithstanding Israeli and Western propaganda – has counted over 55,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza alone (Israel’s victims in the West bank and elsewhere should, of course, not be forgotten.)
The Gaza Health Ministry does not distinguish between resistance fighters and civilians, but there is a virtual expert consensus that the share of the latter is unusually high, as you would expect during a genocide. A peer-reviewed study in the prestigious and unbiased medical journal The Lancet, for instance, has estimated that 59.1% of deaths between October 2023 and June 2024 were women, children, and the elderly. Other equally reputable organizations have even estimated around 90% of civilian casualties in Gaza.
Keep in mind that the above is deliberately restricted to minimum estimates. As The Lancet has also shown, the real death toll in Gaza is likely to be far higher. Let’s also not even dwell here on “details,” such as that Gaza now has the highest concentration of child amputees in the world.
For even the bare figures cited suffice to gain a sense of proportion and perspective: Gaza, before the Israeli mass murder attack had a total population of between 2.2 and 2.4 million. Ukraine’s total population on the eve of the large-scale escalation of February 2022 was just over 41 million, according to Ukrainian official sources.

And now compare the numbers of civilian casualties and the total populations. It is obvious: If Vladimir Zelensky is looking for a state that uses methods – if that is the word – of Nazi warfare, then that would be Israel, not Russia. But he cannot say that because Israel is aligned with the US and the West, just like his own regime.
Figures can help expose blatant lies, especially when they are as stunningly unambiguous as in this case. But the quantitative isn’t everything, obviously. What about what social scientists and historians – such as me – call the qualitative dimension? In other words, what about what makes people tick?
In that regard, the West’s proxy war against Russia and via Ukraine has seen one of the most successful operations of political whitewashing in recent memory. Before Kiev, first under Zelensky’s predecessor Petro Poroshenko and then under Zelensky himself, turned Ukraine into a Western tool and battering ram against Russia, at least some Western experts and even mainstream media were well aware that Ukraine had a rapidly growing, increasingly powerful, and extremely subversive (domestically and internationally) far-right movement.
As of 2014, even the BBC was still admitting that Ukrainian media and politicians were deliberately “underplaying” the potency and significance of their far-right. But then, as if on command, Western mainstream media united to belittle this malevolent force, pretending that it was either hardly there (and any impressions to the contrary were, of course, “Russian disinformation”), really harmless (a handful of misunderstood “patriots” with a few tattoos that look Nazi but are really just Tolkien), or on the mend, undergoing a steady and, of course, totally honest conversion to mainstream politics.

What happened in reality was that instead of adjusting to the Western “value” mainstream or Center – wherever that supposedly might be – the Ukrainian far right succeeded in making that mainstream adjust to its will. Probably because real-existing Western “values” have a genuine affinity to fascism anyhow.
Now with the West’s war going badly, as even Western media have to recognize, even French paper of record Le Monde – as russophobic and rarara-proxy war as its worst peers in the US – has noticed that far-right, indeed strictly Neo-Nazi tendencies – polite expression – are alive and kicking in key units of Ukraine’s armed forces. Dear colleagues from France: Congratulations! And you should see the politics.
Since the West and Ukraine are losing the war, expect more of such shocked re-discoveries of what every objective observers has known for a long time: In the Ukraine War, the home of men and women who genuinely enjoy displaying Nazi symbols – from the swastika to the Wolfsangel to the sun wheel – is in Ukraine.
That does not mean that the majority of Ukrainians side with them. But their regime and its controlled media do. The same regime and media droning on about Russia and Nazis. As they – rightly – say about Israel, so about the Zelensky regime: Every accusation is a confession.

 

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Russia it turning further away from the sick west and towards the future.

Russia and Mali to boost trade and joint research​

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Assimi Goita have signed new agreements in Moscow
Russia and Mali to boost trade and joint research

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Malian Transitional President Asimi Goita during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on June 23rd, 2015. © Sputnik/Ramil Sitdikov


Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Mali’s transitional president, Colonel Assimi Goita, in Moscow on Monday and signed three agreements, including a treaty on an intergovernmental commission for trade and scientific cooperation.
The documents will “undoubtedly fortify the legal framework” of cooperation between Russia and the West African country, Putin noted.
The two other treaties are dedicated to the fundamentals of bilateral relations and the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
“Our countries have maintained good and trust-based relations over many years. We established diplomatic relations 65 years ago and have continued to cooperate ever since. Over that time, more than 10,000 specialists from your country have been trained in Russia,” Putin said.
Bamako is seeing tangible progress thanks to its “well-established” partnership with Russia across key sectors such as transport, security, culture, and energy, the Malian president told Putin.
READ MORE: Through joint efforts we will ensure expansion of Russia-Africa ties – Putin
“Today, we acknowledge that we have good cooperation with the Russian Federation…We are achieving positive results. All of this demonstrates the effectiveness and trust between our countries,” Goita stated.
The Malian military leader arrived in Moscow on Sunday for a five-day official visit. Ahead of his meeting with President Putin on Monday, he paid his respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by laying a wreath to honor fallen Soviet troops.

Mali is one of the founding members of the Alliance of Sahel States, alongside Niger and Burkina Faso – countries that have increasingly turned to Russia for support in combating terrorist groups that have destabilized the region for more than a decade. Bamako, Niamey, and Ouagadougou have all cut defense ties with France, accusing their former colonial metropole of hostility and failure to contain the jihadist insurgency despite a decade-long military mission.
On Monday, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov held talks with his Malian counterpart, Sadio Camara, and agreed to strengthen cooperation, primarily in the military and military-technical fields, with the goal of enhancing security and sovereignty.


 

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If the European Union was properly united in to a federation as Evola suggests & reformed to be in line with National Socialist ideology, we would have enough resources to remove Russian influence in the Ukraine.
 

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Stating the fucking obvious.


"US President Donald Trump said it was "possible" that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, may have ambitions of invading other countries after his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as he identified Russia as one of the greatest long-term threats to the security of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) alliance. The American leader acknowledged that the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv has been harder to solve than he initially thought and said he believes Putin is "misguided" in his ambitions."
 

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No wonder the corrupt little despot is refusing to hold elections and banning opposition political parties.:rolleyes:

Zelensky would lose Ukrainian election – survey​

Ex-top General Valery Zaluzhny would win the presidency if Ukrainians were allowed to vote, data suggests
Zelensky would lose Ukrainian election – survey

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, June 25, 2025. © Mustafa Yalcin / Anadolu via Getty Images


Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky would lose a presidential election to former defense chief Valery Zaluzhny if citizens were allowed to vote soon, according to a recent public opinion survey.
Zelensky has suspended national elections under martial law and chose not to step down after his presidential term expired last year. Zaluzhny, who was dismissed as commander-in-chief of the armed forces in 2024 and later appointed Kiev’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, has long been seen as a strong potential contender for the presidency.
The latest snapshot of voters’ preferences comes from a monthly report by Kiev-based pollster Socis, released Wednesday.
A survey of approximately 2,000 respondents showed that Zelensky and Zaluzhny would reach a runoff in a presidential contest, as they were the only candidates with double-digit support. However, nearly a quarter of respondents (24.7%) said they had not yet decided whom they would vote for.

In a head-to-head, the former top general would receive more than 60% of the vote, according to the poll – a figure that aligns with prior sociological research.
Zaluzhny has not declared an intent to run, stating that Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia must be resolved first. When Socis asked voters whom they would support if their preferred candidate were not on the ballot, only 6.5% named Zelensky as their second choice, compared to 18.1% for Zaluzhny and 11.0% for Kirill Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency.
The poll also indicated that if Zaluzhny were to form a new political party, it would win the most votes in a parliamentary election – also hypothetical for now – defeating any party backed by Zelensky.
Respondents identified persistent corruption and misappropriation of public funds as the leading failure of the current government, with 65% citing the issue.
When asked who was responsible, 55.1% blamed “the entire government,” 40.3% pointed to law enforcement agencies charged with tackling corruption, and 31.2% assigned blame to the presidency, and by extension, to Zelensky.


 

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Sanctions against Russia, eh? :ROFLMAO:

12,000 German companies went bust in six months – economic tracker​

Corporate insolvencies have hit their highest level in a decade, a new study indicates
12,000 German companies went bust in six months – economic tracker

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Germany endured the highest wave of corporate bankruptcies in a decade in the first half of this year, a study by economic tracking agency Creditreform has suggested.
The first six months of this year saw some 11,900 German companies go bust, the study released on Thursday indicates. The figure represented a 9.4% increase over the same period last year, according to the agency. Some 141,000 employees worked at the companies affected.
“Despite some signs of hope, Germany remains mired in a deep economic and structural crisis. Companies are struggling with weak demand, rising costs, and persistent uncertainty,” Creditreform chief economist Patrik-Ludwig Hantzsch said.
The situation is expected to remain difficult as Germany continues to struggle with a recession that has dragged on for two years already. The wave of bankruptcies might ultimately increase in the next six months, given that the “persistently high level of insolvencies is increasingly triggering chain reactions,” Hantzsch warned.

While German GDP grew by a slight 0.2% in the first quarter of 2025, weak global demand and uncertainty in trade policies continue to take a toll on its economy. According to a new survey conducted by the Ifo economic institute released this week, expectations have worsened among German exporters this month over uncertainty regarding a potential trade war with Washington. The US was Germany’s top trading partner in 2024, with bilateral trade in goods totaling €253 billion (around $280 billion), according to official data.
Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump imposed 20% tariffs on all EU goods, with 25% on steel, aluminum, and cars. When Brussels signaled its readiness to retaliate, most of the levies were put on hold for 90 days to allow for negotiations. A 10% base tariff and the 25% targeted duties remained unchanged.
“The tariff threats from the US are still on the table. An agreement between the EU and the US has yet to be reached,” Klaus Wohlrabe, head of Ifo surveys, said, adding that the uncertainty has lowered exporters’ expectations, with the respective index falling to -7.4 points in June from -5.0 in May. The index measures how optimistic or pessimistic German manufacturing companies are about their prospects for selling abroad over the next three months.
 

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Sanctions against Russia, eh? :ROFLMAO:

12,000 German companies went bust in six months – economic tracker​

Corporate insolvencies have hit their highest level in a decade, a new study indicates
12,000 German companies went bust in six months – economic tracker

FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / DigitalVision

Germany endured the highest wave of corporate bankruptcies in a decade in the first half of this year, a study by economic tracking agency Creditreform has suggested.
The first six months of this year saw some 11,900 German companies go bust, the study released on Thursday indicates. The figure represented a 9.4% increase over the same period last year, according to the agency. Some 141,000 employees worked at the companies affected.
“Despite some signs of hope, Germany remains mired in a deep economic and structural crisis. Companies are struggling with weak demand, rising costs, and persistent uncertainty,” Creditreform chief economist Patrik-Ludwig Hantzsch said.
The situation is expected to remain difficult as Germany continues to struggle with a recession that has dragged on for two years already. The wave of bankruptcies might ultimately increase in the next six months, given that the “persistently high level of insolvencies is increasingly triggering chain reactions,” Hantzsch warned.

While German GDP grew by a slight 0.2% in the first quarter of 2025, weak global demand and uncertainty in trade policies continue to take a toll on its economy. According to a new survey conducted by the Ifo economic institute released this week, expectations have worsened among German exporters this month over uncertainty regarding a potential trade war with Washington. The US was Germany’s top trading partner in 2024, with bilateral trade in goods totaling €253 billion (around $280 billion), according to official data.
Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump imposed 20% tariffs on all EU goods, with 25% on steel, aluminum, and cars. When Brussels signaled its readiness to retaliate, most of the levies were put on hold for 90 days to allow for negotiations. A 10% base tariff and the 25% targeted duties remained unchanged.
“The tariff threats from the US are still on the table. An agreement between the EU and the US has yet to be reached,” Klaus Wohlrabe, head of Ifo surveys, said, adding that the uncertainty has lowered exporters’ expectations, with the respective index falling to -7.4 points in June from -5.0 in May. The index measures how optimistic or pessimistic German manufacturing companies are about their prospects for selling abroad over the next three months.
Russia was an important market for a lot of German companies but they won't speak out, it's all 'My country right or wrong' with them and I have asked about energy prices when out there and they either shut up or point to their glorious solar panels as being their deliverance.
 

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Any day now....within 2 weeks I'd reckon...
2022 is calling.😂
 

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Lavrov compares Ukrainian Nazis with Third Reich​

Kiev and Nazi Germany both burned people they wanted to enslave, the Russian foreign minister has said
Lavrov compares Ukrainian Nazis with Third Reich

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. © Sputnik/Alexey Filippov

Nazis in both Ukraine and World War II-era Germany killed people based on their ethnicity, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, in reference to the 2014 Odessa massacre.
Speaking after talks with Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubaev on Sunday, Lavrov drew direct parallels between the Third Reich and modern Ukraine with regard to their treatment of people they seek to subjugate.
”The Nazis burned Jews simply because they were Jews, and the Ukrainian Nazis burned Russian people in Odessa on May 2, 2014 simply because they were Russian,” he stated.

The Russian foreign minister was referring to violent clashes in Odessa in the early days of the Ukraine crisis, when street battles between pro-Ukraine and anti-Maidan activists ended with a fire at the city’s Trade Unions House, which claimed dozens of lives. Moscow described the incident as a massacre by Ukrainian nationalist groups.
Lavrov also criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for calling for Ukraine’s defense capabilities to be strengthened and for warning European countries against repeating the appeasement policies of the 1930s by negotiating with Russia on its terms.
“A stunning comparison for a person who expects to be taken seriously as chancellor of Germany,” Lavrov said, adding that Moscow is seeking a just settlement of the Ukraine conflict. “But of course, we are not ready for the fraudulent approaches that some European leaders are pushing us toward,” he stated.
READ MORE: Zelensky is ‘politically dead’ – Russia’s top UN diplomat
Moscow has denied that it has any plans to attack NATO countries, and has for years sounded the alarm over the resurgence of Nazi ideology in Ukraine, as well as the suppression of Russian culture by Kiev. The Kremlin has listed ‘denazification’ as one of the key goals in the Ukraine conflict.
 

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UK wasted 20 years searching for ‘Russian mole’ in MI6 – Guardian​

The lengthy operation reportedly failed to yield any proof, and the suspected double agent eventually quit the agency
UK wasted 20 years searching for ‘Russian mole’ in MI6 – Guardian

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British intelligence agencies spent two decades hunting a suspected Russian double agent inside MI6, only to drop the case after failing to find evidence, The Guardian has reported, citing unnamed sources. The investigation, dubbed Operation Wedlock, was eventually closed as “inconclusive,” and the suspect left service, the outlet said on Friday.
The probe, which reportedly ran from the mid-1990s to around 2015, was led by MI5, the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence agency. MI6, which is responsible for foreign intelligence, launched the inquiry after a CIA tip-off suggested a senior officer may have been spying for Russia.
“[We were told] the target was a Russian spy… The US believed he was leaking information to the Russians,” a source told The Guardian. “The job was taken more seriously than any other [MI5] was involved in. Wedlock eclipsed them all.”
The operation allegedly involved some 35 officers. MI5 is said to have bugged the suspect’s home, tailed him around London with video surveillance, and even followed him abroad, despite that being outside its legal mandate. MI5 reportedly believed the mole had two accomplices based in London but found no supporting evidence.

“We thought we had another Philby on our hands,” a source told the outlet, referring to Kim Philby, one of the most prominent members of the intelligence group Cambridge Five, which supplied the Soviet Union with information from the UK during World War II and the early stages of the Cold War.
The Wedlock spy saga is believed to have dragged on until at least 2015, by which time the suspect had left MI6. Despite the scope of the operation, MI5 failed to prove any espionage.
“MI5 never got the conclusive proof it was looking for,” one source said, calling Wedlock “highly unusual… the longest in recent memory and probably the most expensive.”
The UK has repeatedly accused Russia of espionage and sabotage in Europe without offering proof. In a high-profile case in 2018, London alleged Moscow tried to poison ex-Russian military intelligence officer turned MI6 asset Sergey Skripal and his daughter. Russia denied involvement.
READ MORE: UK to step up cyberattacks on Russia and China – minister
Tensions between Moscow and London have worsened since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. The UK is one of Kiev’s staunchest backers, imposing sanctions on Russia and supplying weapons to Ukraine. Russian officials believe that British intelligence trains Ukrainian units for sabotage missions inside Russia.
 

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Fact is the manufactured proxy American terrorist war against Russia will continue indefinitely.
Wank material for some filthy perverts but a shame and a stain on all other decent humans.
 

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Yep.
And wait until the gowls in the west find out how much Zitler and his corrupt cronies has stolen from them too......:cool:

Russian assets freeze has backfired on the West – Putin aide​

Moscow warns that the “theft” of its sovereign funds erodes trust in Western financial institutions
Russian assets freeze has backfired on the West – Putin aide

Maksim Oreshkin, deputy chief of presidential staff, at an event in Moscow on May 9, 2025. © Mikhail Metsel / Sputnik


The freezing of Russian sovereign assets as part of Western sanctions has undermined trust in global financial systems, according to Maksim Oreshkin, deputy head of President Vladimir Putin’s administration.
Since the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, the US and EU have frozen more than $300 billion in Russian state assets. In May, the EU approved a plan to channel profits from those assets to support Ukraine, while some member states have pushed for outright confiscation.
In an interview aired Sunday on Rossiya-1, Oreshkin argued that the move has backfired. “This whole situation is a major blow to the Western financial system and Western countries,” he said. “This isn’t something that might happen - it already has. The damage is done.”

Putin echoed this sentiment during a recent visit to Belarus, warning that the “theft” of Russian assets would prompt other countries to abandon Western financial institutions. “This shift will undoubtedly be irreversible,” he said. “Overall, it would benefit the global economy. Perhaps it’s even worth the cost.”
Moscow has repeatedly warned that seizing its funds would violate international law. Legal and political concerns - particularly over sovereign immunity and property rights - have so far prevented the EU from endorsing full confiscation.

 

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Really shows just how pathetic and petty the failing and fragile west has become.
We see this in Herr Starmer's kip too where his stormtroopers are investigating a couple of artists after the Glastonbury wokefest of shite.


Apple Music partially restores sanctioned Russian artists​

The platform has brought back the profiles of the likes of Shaman and Polina Gagarina
Apple Music partially restores sanctioned Russian artists

Russian singer Shaman performs during a concert marking Russia's National Flag Day at the Red Square. © Sputnik / Kirill Zykov


Apple Music streaming service has restored profiles with biographies of some of the most popular Russian artists, who were blocked after being sanctioned by the EU as part of curbs against Moscow over the Ukraine conflict.
Despite the profiles of such pop-stars as Shaman, Polina Gagarina and others being brought back, their music catalogs still remain inaccessible to users, Russian media reported on Sunday.
Brussels sanctioned numerous Russian musicians after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, accusing them of performing patriotic songs and supporting the country’s armed forces. This led to the profiles of the restricted artists being removed by Apple Music and Spotify.
Shaman, whose real name is Yaroslav Dronov, and Gagarina were blacklisted as part of EU’s ninth sanctions package against Moscow in June 2024.

The bloc explained its decision by saying that Shaman has “repeatedly participated in Kremlin-organized concerts including the Kremlin’s anniversary event for that war,” while also performing “as part of troop entertainment events for the Russian Armed Forces.”
According to the EU, Gagarina, who finished second in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with her song ‘A Million Voices’, has also been “generating significant revenue” from concerts sponsored by the Russian authorities.
Shaman, who made a name for himself with his 2022 hit ‘Ya russkiy’ (I am Russian), will represent his country at the 2025 Intervision Song Contest.
The a Soviet-era event, which had been revived by Russia as an alternative to Eurovision, is scheduled to take place in Moscow in September, gathering musicians from two dozen nations, including China, Saudi Arabia, Columbia, Serbia, South Africa and others.
 

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