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Nov 24 2024 
Dmitry Medvedev’s Sunday Review
Five events that have already happened
1. First on the list, of course, is the firing of the ‘Oreshnik,’ Russia’s new hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile carrying a MIRV payload, used (this time) with non-nuclear warheads. Europe is at a loss, speculating how much damage the missile would cause with nuclear warheads, whether it can be shot… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
Oreshnik – The 3 Km per Second Plot Twist
Nothing to see here. Just a hypersonic demo. Well, not really.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
The average American is only capable of making (some sort of) sense of the world through movies. So let’s go back to a classic: the opening sequence of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now – the Vietnam war counterpart to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of… Continue reading -
Nov 22 2024 
Putin: State awards for the novel Oreshnik missile
Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Kremlin with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense. (He really likes that Oreshnik!)
He kept using the word ‘novel’ in his speech yesterday, and I took it to mean new .. new concept. Not five minutes later the talking heads were speculating on which older technology this was… Continue reading
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Nov 21 2024 
❗️ ❗️ Putin: Address to the nation — in progress (Update, now complete with transcript))
This is happening now but the RT live stream does not want to work for me. No doubt we will have Putin’s full address from another source quite rapidly.
https://www.rt.com/on-air/607958-putin-president-russia-statement/
Here are the notes as taken down from other streams:
Putin stated that Western missiles were used to strike military facilities in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions.
The conflict… Continue reading
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Nov 19 2024 
Russian Economy: Central Bank chief’s statement in State Duma
TASS
The national economy is in the “breaking point” and inflation slowdown can be expected in coming months
MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. The key rate is expected to become lower in the next year if there are no new shocks, Governor of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina said at the plenary session of the State Duma,… Continue reading
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Nov 19 2024 
FM Lavrov: Remarks & answers to media questions following the G20 Summit
Key Takeaways:
Key takeaways from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s press briefing following the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro:
🔹 The summit yielded “very positive results,” and important agreements were made, including on the creation of the Global Alliance to Fight Hunger and Poverty;
🔹 Russia agrees with the provision on Ukraine in the final G20 declaration… Continue reading
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Nov 19 2024
❗️❗️ Putin approves revised Russian nuclear doctrine (Update: Full Text)
UPDATE: Formal translation from the Russian MFA.
✍️ Russia’s President Vladimir Putin approved the new Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence, signing the attendant Executive Order on November 19, 2024.
Key items:
• State policy on Nuclear Deterrence is defensive by nature, it is aimed at maintaining the nuclear… Continue reading
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Nov 19 2024 
About the confirmed Russian presidential decision on Russia’s nuclear policy
💠@Dmitry Medvedev:
⭕ About the unconfirmed decision regarding strikes “deep into Russia” and the confirmed Russian presidential decision on Russia’s nuclear policy:As the dust raised by Western newspapers begins to settle, it is becoming evident that, despite the apparent propagandistic intent behind these publications, this development could carry very serious consequences.
It’s not so important who… Continue reading
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Nov 17 2024 
US Options Narrow as Ukrainian Lines Continue Crumbling
By Brian Berletic: Update on the conflict in Ukraine for November 17, 2024;
Ukraine continues losing territory at an increasing rate, with the salient west of Donetsk City continuing to expand including the city of Kurakhove, as well as advances into the urban areas of Toretsk near New York, Chasiv… Continue reading
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Nov 17 2024 
The SMO – summary from Two Majors
In general we should give more attention to the Russian SMO. Although comments abound such as ‘Ukraine is toast’, ‘it cannot continue for much longer’, ‘404 is off the map’, and similar, there is still furious fighting going on and the incursion into Russian territory (Kursk) is being fortified. It is clear that Russia walks… Continue reading
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Nov 16 2024 
And he lost it! Trump’s ex-Deputy Assistant Dr. Sebastian Gorka & Afshin Rattansi
It is a bit slow in the beginning but wait for it. You see the snake rise up and then slither away, because he cannot answer the questions from Afshin Rattnsi
Trump’s ex-Deputy Assistant Dr. Sebastian Gorka & Afshin Rattansi clash Over Gaza. This is worth while watching because we see what we… Continue reading
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Nov 15 2024 
Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC Briefing on the Situation in the Gaza Strip
Madam President,
We are grateful to Algeria, Guyana, Slovenia and Switzerland for their initiative to convene today’s UN Security Council meeting in connection with the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. We thank Ms. Brands Kehris, Rein Paulsen and Joyce Msuya for their overviews of the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding before our very eyes, and for… Continue reading
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Nov 14 2024 
FM Lavrov’s interview: Marina Kim for the New World project
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1981521/) with Marina Kim for the New World project (Moscow, November 14, 2024)
Key talking points:
#InternationalAffairs
• Our main task now is to achieve all the goals formulated by President Vladimir Putin. You are aware of the West’s expectations. They are speculating about stopping the hostilities at a certain line and… Continue reading
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Nov 08 2024 
President Putin’s speech at the Valdai Club
This is a good and complete video out of Putin’s speech. The transcript will be updated here as it is completed. I suggest that this becomes a ‘required course’ for all of us.
The best description of Mr.Putin is cool, calm, collected, warm and friendly with his trademark of a phenomenal grasp of international affairs and… Continue reading
