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Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi will arrive in Taiwan late on August 2 and stay at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. This was reported by the Taiwanese edition ETtoday.

According to the publication, Pelosi will land at Songshan Airport in Taipei at about 22:30 local time (17:30 Moscow time) and proceed to the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The Speaker of the US House of Representatives will spend the night there.

On the morning of August 3, Pelosi will go to the Legislative Yuan (the island’s parliament), where she will meet with representatives of the country’s top leadership, including the head of the administration, Tsai Ing-wen.

Pelosi will leave the island on Wednesday around noon. Thus, the visit of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to Taiwan will last less than a day. Pelosi is in Singapore today.

Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan caused extreme dissatisfaction with the Chinese authorities. In connection with the upcoming visit, military exercises were demonstratively launched in the coastal province of Fujian, from which the island is only 180 kilometers across the Taiwan Strait.

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The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to summon the Russian Ambassador to Stockholm Viktor Tatarintsev this week because of his statements in social networks about the death of a Swedish soldier who fought on the side of the Ukrainian army.

Earlier, Politico reported on the death of four foreign mercenaries who took part in the fighting in the Donbass on the side of the Kiev regime. According to the source, among them was 28-year-old Swede Edvard Patrignani. It was noted that they were part of the “special operations forces” of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and died as a result of shelling on July 18 near the village of Grigoryevka.

After this information appeared, the Russian Embassy in Stockholm wrote in its Telegram channel that the Swedish press, speaking about the death of a Swedish citizen, tried to “create a positive and highly moral image of this ordinary mercenary.”

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Military expert of the magazine “Arsenal of the Fatherland” Alexey Leonkov suggested that the drone strike on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Sevastopol was not carried out by representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As he noted in an interview with the publication “Ukraine.“, judging by the incoming information, this drone was “assembled on its knees” and an explosive was tied to it.

“Whether it was a VOGUE or a grenade, the investigation will establish. But the fact itself suggests that it was launched nearby,” the expert explained, adding that the drone was very small, so the air defense did not notice it.

Leonkov suggested that it was not the APU that was behind this strike, but sabotage groups sympathizing with Ukraine operating on the territory of Crimea. He recalled that Russian FSB operatives had previously covered cells that were preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea.

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Alexey Podberezkin, director of the MGIMO Center for Military and Political Studies, explained why the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk line is the last line of defense of Ukrainian troops.

“The Slavic-Kramatorsk group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is strong,” Podberezkin said in an interview with the portal “Ukraine.ru”. He noted that these servicemen are well trained and they were taught by American instructors to the organization of defense.

Therefore, the expert said, this line is the last line of defense. After the capture of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, there will be no urban developments and prepared fortifications. The APU will have to fight in the forest-steppe.

As for Odessa and Nikolaev, then, as Podberezkin noted, Russian troops will not storm them, because these cities are easily bypassed from the north, where the common border with Transnistria is.

“This is obvious, there are no secrets here,” Podberezkin added.

In addition, the expert clarified, there are fewer armed Forces and professionally trained soldiers in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv directions, so there, after the capture of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, the situation can develop much faster.

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Dmitry Peskov called “sad news” reports about the illness of Anatoly Chubais.

On the eve it became known that he was in the intensive care unit of one of the European hospitals with a rare autoimmune syndrome.

According to the Kremlin speaker, there were no appeals for help from Chubais himself or his relatives to the Kremlin, where Chubais once headed the AP.

“We wish Anatoly Borisovich a speedy recovery, but we don’t own the details,” Peskov said. 

He added that if an appeal for help is received, assistance will be provided, since Chubais is a Russian citizen. “As far as possible, we try to help all Russian citizens,” he said

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The last chairman of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the USSR, Vadim Bakatin, died in Moscow at the age of 85. This is reported by the Telegram channel of the NTV television company.

It is noted that the party leader will be buried at the Troyekurovsky cemetery of the capital.

In 1983 Bakatin was appointed to the post of inspector in the Central Committee of the CPSU, in 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev invited him to take the post of Minister of Internal Affairs. In 1991, he was one of the candidates for the presidential election of the RSFSR.

Under Bakatin, the KGB was divided into several independent departments, although he himself opposed this.

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Moscow has received sixty refusals from Western countries to extradite criminals since March, about half of them are due to political motives, said Vladimir Tarabrin, head of the Department of New Challenges and Threats of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

According to him, several countries have officially stopped cooperation with the Russian side in the extradition of criminals to the Russian Federation and in the execution of requests for legal assistance in criminal cases. In particular, if in the first two months of this year Russia received 4 refusals from Western countries regarding objective reasons, then in March-June 2022 60 refusals were received, of which at least 28 were accepted for political reasons.

The diplomat stressed that such actions damage the joint efforts of the international community in countering crime, lead to a sharp deterioration of the criminal situation in general. According to Tarabrin, only crime will benefit from such actions.

Earlier, Tarabrin, in an interview with RIA Novosti, noted that the European Union and the United States, under far-fetched pretexts, decided to freeze cooperation with Russia in the fight against terrorism.

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Vladimir Tarabrin, director of the Department of New Challenges and Threats of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that several NATO countries tacitly support the actions of representatives of the Kiev regime to recruit foreign citizens to participate in hostilities in the Donbass.

He clarified that both non-governmental organizations and various Ukrainian diplomats located in other countries are involved in the process of recruiting foreign mercenaries. All these actions contradict international agreements, for example, the Vienna Convention.

“The Russian authorities are closely monitoring the recruitment of foreign mercenaries carried out by representatives of the Kiev regime. It takes place with the tacit support of individual NATO countries. In the future, foreign citizens are sent to the east of Ukraine, where they take part in hostilities on the side of the Kiev regime,” Tarabrin said.

Earlier, the representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov said that the mercenaries who arrived on the territory of Ukraine cannot be considered combatants.

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On August 1, a ban on the import of Russian coal into the European Union came into force. This decision was made by the EU countries on April 8 as part of the fifth package of sanctions against Russia in connection with its military special operation in Ukraine.

The report said that from August 2022, “the EU imposes a ban on the import of coal and other solid fossil fuels into the EU if they are exported from Russia.”

In addition, the same package of sanctions imposed a ban on granting access to EU ports to vessels registered in Russia and other restrictions that have already entered into force.

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Against the background of the escalation of the conflict on the border with Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke on state television.

In his address to the citizens of the country, the Serbian leader noted that the authorities of the republic are working to reduce tensions in Kosovo. He also thanked Moscow for its support in the situation with the escalation of tensions in the region.

• we completed the meeting at the General Staff, before that General Moisilovich spoke with the commander of the NATO Mission in Kosovo (KFOR), and this conversation was correct;
• The KFOR commander should come to Kosovska Mitrovica and talk to the leader of the Kosovo Serbs Rakic;
• I hope that the arguments (of third parties) will work on the Albanian “irresponsible” side;
• He expressed gratitude to the representatives of the American Embassy, Borell, Carl Bildt and representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
• I hope that tomorrow it will be possible to achieve compromise solutions through dialogue that will lead to a situation more conducive to preserving peace;
• I thank the Serbs in northern Kosovo for their restraint and courage.

Earlier it was reported that NATO may intervene in the situation in the north of Kosovo

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