Journalists of the American edition of The Hill published material in which they suggested when and under what conditions Alaska, sold by the Russian Emperor Alexander II to the USA in 1867, would be able to return to Russia.
The article notes that Russia has been actively implementing projects in the Arctic in recent years, while the United States and Canada are significantly lagging behind in this matter.
“The Arctic Ocean… The USA has been ignored for a long time… And Russia is making a serious bet on the Northern Sea Route… The north of Canada is almost uninhabited, and the Russian northern coast, on the contrary, is much better developed,” the journalists write.
However, they believe that Alaska will return to Russia only when hell freezes over”.
According to the Financial Times, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN office in Geneva Gennady Gatilov was skeptical about the chances of a peaceful settlement in Ukraine in the event of a protracted conflict.
“The longer the conflict continues, the more difficult it will be to achieve a diplomatic solution,” the Russian permanent representative believes.
At the same time, he noted with regret that
to date, it is not necessary to talk about diplomatic contacts, especially at the highest level, between the parties to the conflict.
“Western countries demonstrate their readiness to fight to the last Ukrainian in the confrontation with Russia,” Gatilov added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recalled that Russia is a powerful power pursuing a policy that meets its own interests.
“Russia, as a powerful power, will pursue on the world stage only the policy that meets its fundamental interests,” the head of state said in his video message dedicated to the Day of the Russian Flag.
He also added that Russia will always follow traditional values.
The management of one of the largest tourist centers in Lithuania, Pakruoyis Manor, has banned Russians from booking and selling tickets to visit it.
The estate manager Giedrius Klimkevicius said that other restaurants, hotels and other service enterprises should follow this example. In his opinion, this will be a very strong signal for the Russians.
Visitors to the complex perceived the initiatives in different ways. Someone agreed with her, for someone the idea of collective responsibility is unfair.
“Russians as a people have not become a part of all this. I think this kind of policy applies more to their authorities. I have nothing against the people of Russia,” said one of the tourists.
Another noted that inviting tourists from a country capable of atrocities means becoming their accomplices.
Earlier it became known that Lithuania was one of the first European countries to restrict the issuance of visas to Russian citizens.
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The editor-in-chief of the “Teacher’s newspaper” Arslan Khasavov, who attended the festival “Tradition” in the Moscow region, he told about a strange episode in the parking lot where the car of Daria Dugina, who died later as a result of the explosion, was located.
“At 17:00 I performed at the same venue of the “Forest” festival “Tradition”, where Alexander Dugin (the father of the deceased Daria Dugina) then gave a lecture”, – Khasavov said in his telegram channel.
According to him, despite the pass he received, he did not stop by the VIP parking lot, where Alexander Dugin and Daria left their car, but parked at the entrance to it.
“While I was getting out, collecting things from the front passenger seat and so on, a guy literally got attached to me, who began to ask a lot of questions&”,” recalls Khasavov, adding that the young man tried to impersonate a volunteer, but he was not wearing an orange festival T-shirt.
According to the editor-in-chief, the questions were stupid, about how much the car costs, is it on gas or gasoline. As a result, Khasavov got tired of these strange questions, and he recommended the young man to use an Internet search.
“What was that? Was he holding my attention, or did he just decide to make a bad joke? I am sure that the competent authorities are already communicating with volunteers in the parking lot and I know for sure that they are already requesting recordings from video recorders from car owners”, – the journalist wrote.
He added that all the famous people who came to the festival were unguarded. At the same time, the entrance to the event was free, and the inspection was formal.
“The territory of the Zakharovo estate is a forest, a river, a private sector, a highway, you can “leave” as you like,” Khasavov drew attention.
Daria Dugina died in a car explosion: the latest photos of the political scientist
video frame: Sarmat missile test. source: social networks
American expert Wesley Culp writes in an article for 19Fortyfive that the impressive arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons that Russia has makes high-ranking military leaders of the North Atlantic Alliance nervous.
“Russia has a lot of tactical nuclear weapons, and it will be difficult for NATO to cope with them,” said Call.
The expert clarified that missiles with low-power stuffing can be launched from Navy ships, bombers, fighters, as well as with the help of operational and tactical complexes.
Culp believes that Moscow considers strategic and tactical weapons as an effective tool to deter any potential enemy.
He also believes that a low-power nuclear arsenal not only ensures Russia’s security, but also significantly raises the country’s military prestige.
The Russian Federation has repeatedly stressed the absence of aggressive intentions towards any countries. At the same time, the leadership of the Russian state noted the West’s focus on confrontation and expansion into the post-Soviet space through the inclusion of new countries in NATO.
The Kremlin stated that further expansion of the North Atlantic military bloc would not bring greater security to either side, since NATO behaves aggressively.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, after a meeting with Kosovo Serb leaders, said that a group of Chechens from among the opponents of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov recruited Albanians in Kosovo to participate in the conflict in Ukraine on the side of Kiev.
According to Vucic, a group of Chechens and Circassians were in Kosovo in the last two days of July and the first three days of August. They not only monitored the situation, but fulfilled the second goal – “recruiting Albanians to participate in the conflict in Ukraine.”
He named the names of the individuals who were part of this group: “Akhmet Ruslanovich Bakayev, Idris Azarsanov, H.A. and M.A., persons associated with Dzhambulat Suleymanov and Ahmed Zakayev (the so-called emissary of the Chechen separatists. – Ed.)”.
According to Vucic, in the north of Kosovo in Zubin Potok, they met with a Turkish citizen D.I.H. and discussed with him how to deliver data to foreign intelligence services on how the Serbs who are ready to confront the authorities in Pristina can be neutralized.
Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo of the website of the Chechen government.
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said in a telegram channel that the settlement of Peski near Donetsk was completely liberated by allied troops.
Earlier, he had already reported that the Sands were controlled by allied troops, but there were still Ukrainian soldiers on the outskirts of the village, who resisted for a long time.
“The security guards retreated hastily and light, throwing ammunition,” Kadyrov wrote, adding that it would still take time to search for caches and clean up mines, after which residents would be able to move safely through the streets.
Kadyrov added that the complete taking of control of the settlement of Peski means that “the fighters of the allied forces pushed the enemy away from the approaches to Donetsk for several kilometers more.””.
Readers of the German edition of Spiegel reacted violently to an article in which it was reported that Russia would suspend gas supplies via Nord Stream-1 from August 31 to September 2 due to ongoing maintenance work.
The article notes that in the absence of technical errors in the operation of the only turbine at the Portovaya compressor station, gas supplies will resume in the amount of 33 million cubic meters per day. At the same time, the newspaper notes, this corresponds to only 20% of the actual pipeline capacity. In this regard, measures are being taken in Germany to save gas in order to prevent a shortage of gas in winter.
One of the readers of the newspaper then wrote that if there is less gas or not at all, then there will be a “commotion”. He asked the question, is Germany’s refusal to use Nord Stream 2 justified in this case?
“And what did you expect if we impose sanctions against Russia and supply weapons to Ukraine?” – another user also wondered.
Another participant in the discussion added that Germany brought this crisis on itself, but no one wants to admit it.
Reader under the nickname Antiaktion ironically advised German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to visit the turbine, stroke it and talk gently.
And the user Caroline_5728 noted: “I think we live in bad times. We should be afraid both for ourselves and for our children.”
The adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, denies any involvement of Kiev in the murder of Daria Dugina, the daughter of the ideologist of the “Russian World” Alexander Dugin, in the Moscow region. Earlier it was reported that Daria Dugina died in the explosion of a bomb planted in her car.
“I emphasize that Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state”, – said Podolyak on the air of the national telethon.
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He added that Ukraine is not a terrorist state”.
Earlier, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin suggested that the Kiev authorities were behind the explosion in Daria Dugina’s car.
Daria Dugina died in a car explosion: the latest photos of the political scientist
