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01/05/2023

'I have always loved Russia, and I love Italy. I miss Italy', says Andrea Palmeri, an Italian from the ancient city of Lucca in Tuscany. For eight years, Palmeri has been fighting for Donbass, and now he helps independent journalists. He's an entrepreneur, anti-fascist, and a football fan, but he cannot return home because, as he says, ‘Italy is now under the United States' control. Until the situation changes, I will not be able to return.’

30/04/2023

💬‘They're using the guise of feminism to promote transphobic beliefs.’ An American transgender swimmer Lia Thomas appears on a podcast interview, trying to push for MEN to be allowed in women’s sports, ahead of the Biden administration’s efforts to amend Title IX.

29/04/2023

On Wednesday, Molotov cocktails were thrown at the building of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Nicosia, after which it caught fire. This has become one of the manifestations of Russophobia in Europe.

However, such attacks are not the first occurrence in the world. Earlier, Russian embassies in New Zealand, Romania, Poland and other places were subjected to acts of vandalism. Watch the video and see how it transpired.

29/04/2023

💭‘I witnessed a real-time, hell-like inferno here,’ said Giorgos Papaleontiou, the an owner of a small shop on the opposite side of the Russian Cultural Centre in Nicosia. Investigations are ongoing at the fire site. Moscow has labelled the fire as a 'terrorist attack', while the local fire brigade said that the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

The Russian Cultural Centre in Nicosia was opened in 1978. The building has an exhibition hall set over 280 square metres, as well as a cinema and 257-seater concert hall. The library contains over 17,000 volumes of books.

28/04/2023

'The child burned down there. Seven people were killed,' says an eyewitness of the burnt bus in Donetsk. The Ukrainian military shelled the city center and hit a passenger vehicle. Everyone who was inside, including the child, died.

28/04/2023

💭‘Around Leningrad, there were the French and the Spanish, a few Hungarians. Not to mention Balts and Finns. All the civilised nations took part in the extermination of the civilian population of a big city,’ writes Nadezhda Cherepenina, Chief Methodologist at the Central State Archive in Saint Petersburg [formerly, Leningrad].

In October 2022, the Regional and City Courts ruled that the N***s' actions in Leningrad constituted genocide against the Soviet people. Revised figures for the N***s’ carnage during the siege, and previously classified documents were presented for the first time. 1,093,000 people died in the city, 1.5 times more than earlier figures. The Siege has never been subject to full legal assessment, not even at the Nuremberg Tribunal.

Court verdicts attested to the scale of crimes committed during WWII (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War). The topic has now taken on a particular relevance as the concept of 'N***sm' is interpreted differently in Moscow compared to some European countries.

27/04/2023

💬‘I would like to go back to the troops, even if it’s in the third line of defence There’s always enough work in the army,’ said Evgeny Sokolov, a DPR People’s Militia soldier, after losing a leg and part of his hand.

Evgeny is undergoing rehabilitation in the Prosthetic and Orthopaedic Centre in Donetsk. He managed to get a leg prosthesis through a government program. Now, he’s looking for ways to restore his hand. Despite past and future difficulties, Evgeny is making plans.

27/04/2023

🇷🇺‘Because you are Russian.’ Tennis player Vitalya Dyachenko on Match TV about how LOT Polish Airlines did not let her on the flight.

26/04/2023

💬‘I'm not a Trump guy, but it’s like you can admit it’s kind of a sad day.’ The American comic was responding to 80-year-old
US President Joe Biden, who announced that he would run for a second term.

26/04/2023

‘We aren’t attacking anyone, we’re taking back what’s ours,’ says the machine gunner of the Donbass Vostok Battalion with the codename ‘Camel’. He describes how in 2016 a Ukrainian shell flew into his house in the DPR and his 3-year-old daughter told him that it was necessary to ‘kick the ass’ of those who did it.

26/04/2023

🇫🇷French President Emmanuel Macaron likes to rant about the rights of women in his country, while on the streets they face blatant brutality from law enforcement.

25/04/2023

💭‘Through sport, through Paralympic sport, a lot of our wounded boys will be able to socialise properly. They will be able to adapt,’ says Vladislav Shinkar, Veteran of the Donbass militiamen 'Vostok' Battalion.

After being wounded, he found himself in sports. Now he helps those individuals wounded in battle to adapt to life, thanks to the sport of fencing.

25/04/2023

🇩🇪‘I don't agree with the decisions of the Federal Government regarding the Ukraine war,’ said a protester. Dozens of anti-war demonstrators rallied in Dusseldorf, demanding the government to stop arms deliveries to Ukraine as well as negotiations to end the conflict.

Another attendee added that ‘we are against the sanctions against Russia, and we want to offer an opposition to the warmongering politics of the Federal Government.’

24/04/2023

💭‘We've also expedited our M1 Abrams timelines to supply Ukraine,’ announced the US Secretary of Defence during a press briefing at the Ramstein Air Base. American-made M1 Abrams battle tanks would begin arriving in Germany 'in the next few weeks' to be used for training Ukrainian troops, Austin added.

24/04/2023

💬‘Biden has such a strong record to run on!’ answered Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar to a TV anchor's question, ‘How do you think President Biden could overcome [concerns about his age and mental stamina]?’

24/04/2023

'A man was tortured to death before my eyes.' Vasily Prozorov, a former Ukrainian intelligence officer, witnessed Ukrainian security forces brutally torturing Donbass people who they suspected of having ties to Russia.

In 2014, Prozorov switched to the Russian side because he couldn’t accept the ideology and methods of the new Ukrainian government.

23/04/2023

‘I didn’t understand before why they dragged us to concerts. Then I realized, they wanted the guys to unwind a little,’ said one of the fighters. The Lugansk militia, whose members are now deceased, shared their impressions of the concerts that children gave them on the front line in 2019.

22/04/2023

🥊The Internet remembered the fight from 2013 where the transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox, a former Marine who identifies as a woman, literally destroys his rivals in the octagon. He recently fractured the skull of his second opponent in the first round, at the 39th second of the fight.

22/04/2023

💬‘Quickly, quickly! Get out of here! This is an earthquake!’ Hundreds of thousands of Turkish residents woke up to these shocking words on February 6, 2023. More than 45,000 people died and 300,000 lost their homes after the powerful earthquake. Thousands of buildings were destroyed while some cities entirely collapsed. Turkish rescuers along with locals and volunteers from 88 countries worked round the clock to help those who had been trapped under the rubble. Still, their efforts were not enough to rescue all the victims.

21/04/2023

‘Military schools were established, for example, in the Carpathians, where it was easier to hide, where it was more difficult for troops to search,’ says former state security officer Georgy Sannikov, who saw the secret bases where The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) fighters were trained. The CIA-controlled UPA death squads killed anyone they considered an enemy of Ukraine: from Soviet school teachers to shop workers. They were ruthless, and used the most sophisticated methods. Sannikov was among those who helped eliminate the nationalist underground in Western Ukraine.

20/04/2023

'We were driven outside naked. The warders would sit in front of us and take pictures with us.' According to Margarita Prokhorova, Archivist of the Olonets Municipal Archives in Karelia, this is testimony from people who endured Finnish crimes during World War II, by 'people who were there.' 'This is testimony,' Prokhorova says. 'It's proof of what happened there.' The Archives keep thousands of testimonies of Finnish N**i crimes during World War II. During this time in Soviet Karelia, genocide was occurring against the Russian people. The Finns divided the entire population into two parts: the privileged Karelian-Finnish population and the Slavs. Approximately 25,000 people went through the archipelago of Finnish camps, according to official figures.

19/04/2023

🗣'I am almost sure that Ukraine will not get a victory.' This was ex-CIA officer Andrew Bustamante's answer to a journalist's question about what Ukraine's loss would mean for the United States.

19/04/2023

'Six children and a mother. There were 7,000 prisoners here, in Camp No. 6', recalled WWII Finnish concentration camp survivor Klavdia Nyuppieva. She and her family had to survive famine, disease, forced labour and torture. Approximately 25,000 people went through the archipelago of Finnish camps, according to official figures. To preserve the memory of those years, she and several other elderly women created an organization, known as The Karelian Union of Former Juvenile Prisoners of the N**i Concentration Camps. Greater Finland to the Urals. The N**i theory of racial superiority, Finnish style, which involved four years of Karelian SSR occupation comprised of 14 concentration camps, 34 POW labour camps, and 10 prisons.

18/04/2023

‘I had a friend who was very involved in helping the Vostok battalion. And one day, he came to me and said: ''We have two soldiers without legs. We need help,'' explains Elena Romanenko, the Head of the 'Moscow-Donbass' Volunteer Group, on how she started helping wounded soldiers and finding funding to get them prosthetics. Romanenko notes that warriors almost never dare to ask for help for themselves. That's why we need charitable organizations that look for wounded soldiers and bring them back to normal life.

17/04/2023

🗣‘The world has gone mad,’ says American podcaster Joe Rogan.

17/04/2023

'It was a major effort to try and split Ukraine off from the Soviet Union,' says US politician Michael Springmann, who supports the belief that the Security Service of Ukraine has adopted not only the sadistic methods, but also the ideology of the nationalists. The roots of all this can be traced back to the United States of America. For years Springmann worked in the Reagan administration where he became acquainted with the classified 'Operation Aerodynamic', launched by US intelligence in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic in the late 1940s.

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16/04/2023

🔥'Nike, you should be ashamed.' A woman burned her Nike sports bra in the 'Burn Bra Challenge' and posted it on her TikTok account. The reason is the boycott of the sports brand's partnership with transgender Dylan Mulvaney.

16/04/2023

💬‘Mali no longer wants to accept France’s dictate on how to manage our affairs,’ says Aboubacar Maiga, the CEO of the Higher School of Journalism in Bamako. According to him, African countries were only de jure independent. De facto, they remained dependent on French policy. That's why there have been two coups in Mali in a decade, Maiga believes.

15/04/2023

💭'When the mobilization began, I waited for my call-up, it never came. So, I went to the recruitment office,’ says a volunteer with the codename ‘Spartak’ about how he ended up on the front line. He chose his call sign based on the name of his favorite Russian football team.

14/04/2023

TOP 7 AWKWARD BIDEN MOMENTS IN BELFAST. Joe Biden insulted the Prime Minister and angered the British. The fleeting visit of the US President to Northern Ireland was not without embarrassment. We have collected the most memorable of them.

14/04/2023

'The first days after the surgery were very difficult,' says Elena, the mother of Miroslava, a girl from Donetsk. Her leg was deformed after the shelling of the Ukrainian military. The girl was operated on by surgeons of the regional traumatology center. Now she can walk on crutches.

14/04/2023

‘Get the hell out!’ Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro responded to US threats of sanctions because Caracas doesn’t make concessions to the political opposition.

13/04/2023

How to endure police brutality. Amid spike in reports of police brutality nationwide, teenagers from the Bronx neighborhood in New York are learning how to deal with police confrontations in a workshop in the city's Lincoln Medical Center, as seen in footage recorded on Tuesday.

During the weekly course, young people learn, among other things, the six 'Rs' for dealing with confrontations with police: Don't run, Don't resist, Refuse searches, Refuse food, Right to an attorney, Right to remain silent. According to data from the New York Police Department, teenagers from 15 to 17 years old were stopped by the police more often than any other age group between 2003 and 2001, and they are assaulted at the same rates as adults.

13/04/2023

‘Sweat saves blood,’ and ‘Train every minute!’ These are the slogans that Ruslan Tsvetkov, head of the Bars-16 Volunteers training centre, is guided by. He considers it the main mission for all military trainers to prepare fighters for their tasks in battle and return home alive.

12/04/2023

'Just to see the pain that our friend is going through,' said one of the residents of Louisville, Kentucky, which held a vigil at the Old National Bank building after the tragic mass shooting that left five dead and eight injured on Monday. According to media reports, five people died when an employee opened fire inside the bank while live-streaming the attack via Instagram.

12/04/2023

💧'We've forgotten how precious water is!', says a resident of Hawaii, which has been hit with a water crisis.

19,000 gallons of jet fuel from the US Navy’s World War II-era underground fuel storage facility leaked into one of Oahu’s main drinking water aquifers. The contamination affects some 93,000 residents. At the same time, the world's largest surfing wave pool, called LineUp, has opened in Oahu.

12/04/2023

💭‘It was very hard, because - how should I put it - they killed a lot [of people]. I felt this evil like never before. It was a very hard moment for me, and I will remember it for the rest of my life,’ says Laurent Briard, a journalist from France who is covering what's happening in Donbass for Western audiences.

Dutch journalist Sonja van den Ende investigates US intelligence links to terrorists around the world. According to van den Ende Western leaders ignore the manifestation of primitive nationalism, which the Kiev regime no longer conceals.

11/04/2023

💬’They [SBU] had taken my son as leverage against me. He was very brutally beaten,’ says a resident of Donbass Larisa Gurina. She knows firsthand what secret prisons of the Security Service of Ukraine are.

This woman was accused of treason for distributing humanitarian aid to the starving residents of Donbass. At first they bullied her son, and then 14 people with machine guns broke into her home. According to the testimonies on social networks, it is known that people were tortured and even killed by Ukrainian military for communicating by phone with relatives in Russia, or if you subscribed to the Russian news media.

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