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According to the C-Span TV channel, a procedural vote was held in the US Senate on a bill to reform a number of provisions of the American electoral system.
For the adoption of the bill, the document had to be approved by at least 60 senators. However, this amount of ” for ” could not be collected due to the fact that the Republican senators unanimously voted against.
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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has assessed the new package of restrictive measures of the European Union against the republic, BelTA news agency reports. The Head of state made the corresponding statement during the wreath-laying ceremony at the Brest Hero Fortress memorial complex.
“It’s been 80 years, so what? A new hot war…. What, symbolism? We have imposed economic sanctions against our people and businesses. June 22, at night. Indeed, history has taught us nothing,” Lukashenko said.
At the same time, the Belarusian leader admitted that he did not expect that Germany would join the new package of measures.
“I did not expect to participate in this collective agreement… Germany. From those whose ancestors were destroyed in the Great Patriotic War… every third Belarusian… But for all 80 years after the 45th of the last century, the Germans were wandering around the world, in Europe, in the former Soviet Union and repented, ” he added.
In Belarus, they saw a new “Hitlerite offensive” on the country
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In the United States, a resident of the state of Oklahoma was detained on charges of sending messages threatening to kill President Joe Biden, members of Congress and members of their families. This was reported to the press by the US Department of Justice.
The threat was 58-year-old John Ahrens. From May to June 2021, he sent messages to the regional TV channel KOTV (Newson6). In the letters, he declared his readiness to kill the president, congressmen and their relatives if he did not pay compensation.
A report on the US Department of Justice website says that threats to officials online also have consequences. At the same time, the arrest and arraignment are only the beginning of further bringing Ahrens to justice for his actions.
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In Germany, a scandal erupts, caused by the misconduct of Bundeswehr soldiers in Lithuania, where they serve. The facts were recognized by the head of the German Defense Ministry, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. Senator Alexey Pushkov commented on the excesses of German soldiers in the Baltic States.
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Last week, the media reported that drunken German soldiers in Lithuania sang Nazi songs on Hitler’s birthday. In addition, they distinguished themselves by sexually abusing one of their colleagues.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that the Nazi rape party harms the reputation of Germany. According to the RND newspaper, she asked the commanders to provide those in need with protection from extremism and illegal actions. Allegedly, the ministry received information about sexual assaults, bullying, xenophobic songs of the Nazi era, which are sung by German soldiers.
Violators were threatened with dismissal.
Senator Alexey Pushkov wrote on this occasion in the Telegram channel: “It turned out what the German battalion, designed to protect the eastern borders of NATO from Russian aggression, is doing in Lithuania. Since there is no aggression, and there is no threat either, and the German servicemen are well aware of this, they arrange drinking parties, accost local residents, shout anti-Semitic slogans, sing songs from the Nazi era, and once even raped (!) their colleague.
According to him, ” this is how the Bundeswehr servicemen perform the tasks assigned to NATO.”
“There is nothing in common with the alliance’s commercials. And do they even need them there?the senator asks a rhetorical question.
The former Soviet Baltic republics were admitted to NATO. Soviet troops were withdrawn from their territory. Their place was taken by NATO troops, who serve there on a rotational basis.
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The press service of the office of the Head of the Ukrainian state reported that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Earlier it was reported that Angela Merkel called Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom she discussed his summit with US President Joe Biden.
“The Federal Chancellor invited the head of the Ukrainian state to pay a visit to Berlin in the near future,” the statement reads. It is noted that during this visit, issues of bilateral relations between Ukraine and Germany and the process of peaceful settlement in the Donbas will be discussed.
At the same time, Zelensky invited Merkel to visit Ukraine in August to participate in the inaugural summit of the “Crimean Platform” and events on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the country’s independence.
The US authorities can provide Moscow with a guarantee of the absence of Ukraine in NATO as part of the opposition to the unity of Russia and China. This was written by journalist John Ruhl in an article for the National Interest.
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According to the author, the summit of US and Russian presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva on June 16 will not affect the established positions of Moscow and Beijing in relation to Washington, that is, the Russian Federation and China hold mutual views on the position and influence of the United States on the world stage. He is sure that these countries have no motives to change their position and attitude to the White House.
Ryun noted that from the point of view of the United States, it is necessary to understand how and where Russian-Chinese relations are strengthening in order to see “cracks” in them.
At the same time, Moscow and Beijing continue to strengthen the already existing broad partnership. Chinese leader Xi Jinping called Vladimir Putin “his best friend”, after which the two governments agreed that the current state of relations between Russia and China is “the best in history”.
As stated by the Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov, if the United States raises the topic of China in Geneva, Moscow will notify Beijing about it. He guaranteed that regardless of Washington’s position, Russian-Chinese relations will not change. In addition, he announced the visit of Vladimir Putin to China.
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Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov answered a question from journalists about the existence of a program for “implanting chips” in the human brain.
“No, you know, I do not have such data, so I can neither confirm nor deny it,” Peskov said, adding that he had not seen a document that the president would approve.
Earlier, the publication “Kommersant” published an article about the creation of a working group under the Ministry of Education and Science, which develops the federal program “Brain, health, intelligence, innovation”. Among other things, the program aims to develop technologies for connecting the human brain with electronic devices and allows the implantation of microcomputers in the brain.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an article for the German newspaper Die Zeit, said that the United States organized an armed coup in Ukraine in 2014. According to the politician, he was actively supported by European countries.
The publication notes that the United States and Europe thus provoked a split within Ukraine and the withdrawal of Crimea from its composition.
The Head of State also noted that the expansion of NATO to the east has caused the growth of mutual distrust in European countries. According to him, the waves of expansion of the bloc and the entry of former Soviet republics into the alliance have canceled hopes for a “continent without dividing lines.”
According to Putin, the European security system has deteriorated significantly. Tensions are rising on the continent, and the risk of a new arms race is becoming more and more real.
In 2018, an episode of the end of the Cold War was declassified, during which the United States almost lost its fastest aircraft, the SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft, according to the National Interest. This happened in 1987. This aircraft took pictures of Soviet objects in the waters of the Barents and Baltic Seas. Because of this, its route was named “Baltic Express”. The plane liked to fly up to the Soviet border, and then abruptly go back, thereby “mocking” the Soviet air defense.
But that year there was an emergency & ndash; the plane during the flight over the Swedish territorial waters of the Baltic Sea engine failed.
The plane lowered its altitude to 800 meters, it was met by four Swedish Saab 37 Viggen jets, which escorted it from the territory of Sweden to the Nordholz base in West Germany. So it was possible to prevent the disaster ,because everything could have ended very badly if the plane had flown into Soviet territorial waters.
“By safely escorting the plane and not allowing any outside forces to approach the faulty plane, the Swedes were essentially able to prevent a conflict between the two superpowers and possibly prevent an international incident,” the article says.
As a result, four Swedish pilots received medals from the US Air Force Command for their mission, as well as a picture depicting the incident.
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The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and a senior official of the ruling party of the DPRK, Kim Yo-jung, said that the United States has wrong expectations from her country. A member of the ruling North Korean family stressed that the Americans are trying to console themselves in this way.
Kim Yo-jung said this in response to the words of US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Earlier, the American told reporters that he noticed an “interesting signal” in Kim Jong-un’s recent speech, indicating that Pyongyang is preparing for both confrontation and diplomacy with the United States.
At the same time, the US Special Representative for North Korea, Song Kim, is currently on a visit to South Korea. At a trilateral meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts, he said that Washington expects Pyongyang to agree on the resumption of dialogue between the North and the South.
