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“This was a mistake that has deeply embarrassed Parliament and Canada. All of us who were in this House on Friday regret deeply having stood and clapped even though we did so unaware of the context.”
“Poland Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek has begun the process to extradite Yaroslav Hunka, 98, who fought with the Nazis in WWII.
Poland knows he is in Canada because Canada and Ukraine wanted to honor this ‘Ukrainian-Canadian hero’.”
“Things are cooking off in Canada after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and seemingly every member of the nation’s parliament gave a standing ovation to a 98-year-old former member of the Waffen SS.
The scandal emerged on Sunday when Yaroslav Hunka was honored in an attempt to virtue signal for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who also was in attendance and applauded the former nazi. Despite Speaker Anthony Rota announcing that Hunka had fought the Russians during the Second World War, no one in the room put two and two together, or if they did, they didn’t care.”
“Russia has added International Criminal Court (ICC) President Piotr Józef Hofmański to its wanted list, months after the court accused President Vladimir Putin of the illegal deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia.”
“The last few weeks have seen frantic efforts strengthen Moscow’s air defenses. The UK’s Ministry of Defense noted in a Tweet on September 12th that pictures on social media showed new anti-aircraft installations on towers and ramps around Moscow to protect against drone attacks.”
“Russia initially claimed that the rogue pilot had shot at the British plane, which was carrying 30 airmen and women, but communications have revealed that the shot was actually approved by Russian ground control.”
“Russia will likely ask North Korea for conventional arms, including artillery shells and rocket artillery munitions in exchange for food and raw materials, and continuing support at international forums like the United Nations…”
“I believe that Putin can go easily to Brazil. What I can say to you is that if I’m president of Brazil, and he comes to Brazil, there’s no way he will be arrested.”
“I think it says a lot that Russia is having to turn to a country like North Korea to seek to bolster its defense capacity, in a war that it expected would be over in a week.”
“We have never seen a threat this large scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.”
“It also follows a series of poisonings targeting Moscow’s critics in recent years – the most prominent being Russia’s de facto opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who almost died after FSB agents smeared his underwear with novichock in August 2020.”
“Enemies of Russian President Vladimir Putin living abroad have been poisoned in the past, including former secret agents Sergei Skripal, who survived, and Sergei Litvinenko, who did not. A former Chechen rebel died in Berlin in what a German court said was a Russian state assassination.”
The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the plane crash near Moscow that is believed to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group that ran afoul of President Vladimir Putin by launching a short-lived mutiny against Russia’s top army brass over how the war against Ukraine was being conducted.
“While many details are yet to be confirmed, many Russia watchers wonder how and why Prigozhin survived so long after his June 23 mutiny attempt…”
“The majority of individuals implicated in Navalny’s poisoning have been reported to have worked within or collaborated with the FSB Criminalistics Institute, an FSB sub-unit originally founded under the Soviet-era Committee for State Security (the KGB) as a specialized laboratory.”
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“How would moon mining work?
It is not entirely clear.
Some sort of infrastructure would have to be established on the moon. The conditions of the moon mean robots would have to do most of the hard work, though water on the moon would allow for long-term human presence.“
“McGonigal, one of the highest-ranking FBI officials ever criminally charged, served as a top agency counterintelligence official in New York during the Russia probe of former President Donald Trump.”
“India’s crude oil imports from Russia in June were the cheapest since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, during which time the world’s third-largest oil importer became a key Russian oil customer alongside China.”
“The most obvious items that Pyongyang has and that Moscow needs are artillery shells and rockets that Moscow can use in Soviet-era weaponry in Ukraine.”
“At least 11 Russian and Chinese ships went close to the Aleutian Islands in the northern US state of Alaska, the WSJ report said, adding that the ships never entered US territorial waters and left. They were shadowed by four US destroyers and P-8 Poseidon aircraft.”
“The woman, who who lives in Ochakov, allegedly planned to inform Russian authorities of Zelenskyy’s whereabouts during a recent trip to the Mykolaiv region for a coordinated air strike”
“Now, in 2014, the Vice President – then the Vice President attended a business dinner at Cafe Milano, a ritzy place here in Washington D.C., with [Elena Baturina] the widow of former Moscow mayor, who was then an oligarch. But when the Biden administration took over, President Biden was in the White House, they never put sanctions on that oligarch.”
“The PRC has increased its importation of Russian energy exports, including oil and gas supplies rerouted from Europe,”
(China) “an increasingly important buttress for Russia in its war effort” … “probably supplying Moscow with key technology.”
“Russian lawmakers on Tuesday backed legislation increasing the maximum age limit for compulsory military service to 30.”
“Russian media released this leaflet in June showing Kim Kum Sun, 43, and Park Kwon Ju, 15, who are wife and son of a North Korean trade representative in Vladivostok, Russia. It reads, ‘On June 4, 2023, they left the North Korean Consulate which is on Nevskaya str., 12. The situation is unknown so far.'”
“The defence ministry and ‘company’s management have developed a roadmap for the near future for training and transfer of experience between units of different branches of the armed forces'”
“My personal assessment is that I doubt we’ll see Prigozhin ever again publicly. I think he’ll either be put in hiding, or sent to prison, or dealt with some other way, but I doubt we’ll ever see him again.”
“These are people who fought all over the world to establish a normal civilization. The West hates them to the core.”
“Up to 1,500 civilians were killed and 350,000 fled Mariupol as Russian forces laid siege to the city between late February and May last year.”
“It has also been assessed that the mercenary force had only 8,000 fighters rather than the 25,000 claimed and faced likely defeat in any attempt to take the Russian capital,”
“It’s highly unlikely that PMC Wagner is making this move without getting something in return.”
“The Wagner Group militia is reversing course from Moscow in order to ‘avoid bloodshed’ amid news of a possible deal with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko…”
“Vladimir Putin’s presidential plane left Moscow early Saturday, sparking rumors that he had fled the Russian capital as the Wagner Group’s mercenary forces advanced on the city.”
“Also, we have more weapons like this than the NATO countries. They know it and they keep driving towards negotiation on reduction.”
“The animals are trained to defend against Ukrainian special forces divers – or combat swimmers – who might try to invade the base.”
“The energy department contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the New Mexico-based facility for disposal of defence-related radioactive nuclear waste, were hit in the attack, which was first reported on Thursday, which exploited a vulnerability in a widely used software.”
“Everyone with a Louisiana driver’s license or state ID likely had their personal information exposed in a massive cyberattack that’s punctured agencies across the country.”
“State officials are encouraging everyone to take protective measures.”
“While the scope of the attack is not yet fully known, officials at the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Thursday that ‘several federal agencies… have experienced intrusion’ and suggested a number of businesses could be impacted as well.”
“They have no option to retreat, only advance. If anything happens, you’re allowed to take them down. That’s my responsibility,”
“By February 2001, 300 agents were working on the case, according to the FBI.”
“HANOI/BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters) – A Chinese research ship and five escort vessels were in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on Friday close to gas blocks operated by Russian firms in the South China Sea, a day after Vietnam urged the ships to leave.”
“Little is known about her early life in Russia. She attended university between 2000 and 2005 and studied at the Togliatti Institute of Management on the banks of the river Volga in the Samara region, south-east of Moscow.”
“The project’s map lists 1,387 locations — with physical and email addresses as well as phone numbers — across Russia’s 11 time zones where the deported Ukrainian children could likely be found.”
“According to Net Freedoms, a prominent internet rights group, more than 610,000 web pages were blocked or removed by authorities in 2022 -– the highest annual total in 15 years — and 779 people faced criminal charges over online comments and posts, also a record.”
“We express our categorical disagreement with the decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office. This decision makes it illegal for any Greenpeace activity to continue in Russia. Therefore, the Russian branch of Greenpeace will be forced to close.”
“It was there (Kyiv) that on 4 May, Ukraine’s air defense forces, in a historical first, used an American-made Patriot SAM to destroy a Kinzhal missile apparently sent in revenge for a drone attack on the Kremlin — an incident which, according to Ukraine’s intelligence, was a Russian inside job for propaganda purposes.”
“The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday published a list of 500 US citizens – including former president Barack Obama – who are banned from entering the country with immediate effect. The move is a response to the ongoing American sanctions against Moscow.”
“The attached ‘list-500’ also includes those in government and law enforcement agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called Storming the Capitol.”
“Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to question the arrest of the rioters a few months later, saying the people had come to Congress ‘with political demands’,”
“But American officials, worried about escalating the war with a strike in Russian territory and chancing an intense response, urged Ukrainian officials to back off the strike, according to the documents.”
“Now we know for certain: Russian spy ships are mapping wind farms and key cables off the British coast. There can be only one reason for this – to learn how to sabotage UK and European critical infrastructure in the event of a full-scale war with the West.”
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