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Dec 27 2022 
Lavrov: interview with TASS
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s year-end interview with TASS news agency, December 27, 2022
Question: The launch of the special military operation in Ukraine and ensuing developments, including an unprecedented deterioration of our relations with the West, was the main event of the outgoing year. Do you think the conflict in Ukraine can last a long time,… Continue reading -
Informal summit of CIS heads of state
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St Petersburg hosted an informal meeting of the heads of state of members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Attending the meeting were President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Traditional informal… Continue reading
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Dec 27 2022 
Lavrov speaks to Russian Media
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a working meeting with senior executives of the Russian media, Moscow, December 26, 2022
Summary:⚠️ Everything that we are now witnessing in Europe in its broadest sense and on other continents, where US “messengers” want every country to take an anti-Russia position, to join the sanctions and to keep… Continue reading
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Russia dropping US dollar for Chinese Yuan – and fast
From Ben Norton and excellent research as usual:
In response to Western sanctions, Russia’s central bank is dropping the US dollar and plans to buy Chinese yuan on the foreign exchange market. The yuan’s share of trading on Russia’s currency market increased from 1% to 40-45% in less than a year, while dollar trade halved from… Continue reading
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Tentative forecast: Ukraine SMO
This is a writing from the TG channel Donbass Devushka written by a regular contributor Alcibiades. My comments follow:
Alcibiades on the War: Ultimatum.
Something’s caught my attention over the last several days. Russian leaders have, across the board, become noticeably more substantive in their rhetoric about the war and where it’s going. Specifically, I noticed that… Continue reading -
Dec 26 2022 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
Judging by the channels waking up and reporting many missile, drone and other artillery strikes, it seems as if Russia is doing another major wave of… Continue reading
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Medvedev: The results of 2022 changed World Order
Medvedev – on the results of 2022, which changed the world order
Following is a machine translation of Medvedev’s year-end article. While the content may be Russia-specific in some areas, in most areas it is clearly not only Russia-specific. Bear in mind that Medvedev has just returned from a visit to Xi Jinping, and this article… Continue reading -
Dec 23 2022 
Can China help Brazil restart its global soft power?
Bolsonaro reduced Brazil to resources-exporter status; now Lula should follow Argentina’s lead into Belt and Road
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Asia Times
Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social… Continue reading
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Transformative Z..oomerangs of 2022
We are not seeing Boomerangs returning on the sanctions and repression policies. They turn and come back at a tremendous Zoomerang speed. A Zoomerang is a karma boomerang and as we know, karma is a beetch.
“Sanctions against Russia ‘boomeranged’ “– Lukashenko
Last year around this time, we were looking on in stunned amazement while Russia gave… Continue reading
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Dec 22 2022 
Sanctions: A weapon for subordination
First posted at Multipolarista.com
How sanctions are a weapon of imperialism, used to subordinate the Global SouthThe International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism explains how US, EU, and UN sanctions are a means of controlling Global South sovereignty and blocking the emergence of a multipolar world, to maintain the neocolonial capitalist order. ByHelyeh Doutaghi, Corinna Mullin… Continue reading
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Putin and Shoigu speak
After a flurry of security council meetings, a visit by Putin to the front lines of the SMO, Medvedev visiting Xi Jinping, Putin and Shoigu are giving their speeches.
I’ve taken this from a Russian reporter that wrote down the basics. We will have to wait for a professional and accurate transcript.
Collegium of the Ministry of… Continue reading
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Dec 21 2022 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
We are in the tropics. We don’t have snow and sleighbells and all the traditional Christmas paraphernalia. The image on this post is then our Christmas… Continue reading
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Dec 21 2022 
Europe: Reaping the whirlwind
By Femi Akomolafe and posted with permission
a missive to a European friend
Greetings to you.
Did you pause to consider the fact that the equivalence you seek/sought is simply invalid, thereby untenable?
From whichever angle you consider it, comparing European violent colonial conquest of, say Africa, with Europeans WILLINGLY voting for racists and fascists is outrageous, to put… Continue reading
