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Jan 19 2025 
Dmitry Medvedev: The Walking Dead. Season finale.
The walking dead Biden, now consigned to oblivion, is a telling example of how an experienced and overall smart politician (and he is experienced, having held top government jobs back in the Soviet period) gradually turned into a senile old dude divorced from reality.
When I had meetings with him, he didn’t yet have dementia. What… Continue reading
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Jan 18 2025 
Nikolay Patrushev: interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda
From the Russian MFA: Presidential Aide Nikolay Patrushev gave an interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper (January 14, 2025)
Key points:
#USA
• The US establishment has been divided and lacks a common policy vision for the world and domestically.
• Trump’s core message is that he supposedly has a plan to revive pragmatic politics in the United States, which… Continue reading
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Jan 14 2025 
SMO: Large frontline summary 7-13 January 2025 – Marat Khairullin
From Marat’s Substack
Ed.Note: Russia is getting very close to militarily reaching the original constitutional borders with their SMO. This is a massive milestone. Marat is upbeat in this piece. I don’t think it will be so easy to reach an eventual agreement with the US, which in essense is non-agreement capable. There is much… Continue reading
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Jan 14 2025 
Sergey Lavrov on Russian diplomacy 2024
News conference of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov on the Russian diplomacy outcomes in 2024 – https://t.me/MFARussia/23470
🔴 X (ex-Twitter) (https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlylwBBDJL)
🔴 Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/100069392071612/videos/497770429626272)
🔴 Russia’s MFA Website (https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video)
🔴 Ruptly (https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202501140830-LIVE19228)
Transcript:
Ladies and gentlemen,
I would like to wish everyone present a happy New Year and a Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate this holiday.… Continue reading
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Jan 13 2025 
Comments: Dmitry Medvedev
From his Telegram Channel
As Trump’s team is getting ready for action on the Ukrainian issue, there is no shortage of trumped-up ‘settlement scenarios’ concocted in rotten brains and other body organs. So far, they are all worthless, as one concrete proposal is much more important than hundreds of half-baked hypotheticals. Nevertheless, I would like to… Continue reading
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Jan 12 2025 
Two Majors SMO Summary
Published on The Islander
Ed Note: Toward the end of this summary, the writers consider that Ukraine still has some strength (not a lot, but as we know, they are being artificially strengthened). This is somewhat contrary to the usual ‘Russia has already won’ brigade, or the ‘Ukraine is in tatters’. This may be true, but… Continue reading
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Jan 09 2025
Dmitry Medvedev on Trump, Musk and Sci-fi Brothers LLC
We’ve got no way of knowing how much Trump will accomplish in his second term, but he is off to a really fun start.
His reasoning seems clear enough. There is not going to be a quick solution to the conflict in Ukraine; the US economy will waddle on at a leisurely pace; even the fight… Continue reading
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Jan 01 2025 
The beauty of Sakha (Yakut) Knife (Update)
A friend sent me a YouTube channel on Russia’s Yakutia – rural Siberia, the coldest inhabited place in the world! It is fascinating to hear what the basics of life consist of, in what to me is an inhospitable land. Ice fishing, how houses get heated, how they farm having to cut a daily… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2024
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya, December 29, 2024
Question: Will Russia withdraw from the New START before it expires considering the aggressive Western policy? Or maybe Moscow will be willing to comply with the quantitative limits as set forth in the New START even after the February 2026 deadline?
Sergey Lavrov: There is an objective reality in which the destructive policy by the United… Continue reading
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Dec 20 2024 
Putin’s Q&A and the Forever Wars Riddle
Putin’s answers connect to the fog of the Forever Wars.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
He spoke for four and a half hours, virtually non-stop, reviewing the results of 2024, mastering all the facts.
His Direct Line received over 2 million questions, from Russia and around the world. And he had to crown the performance with a flourish,… Continue reading -
Dec 20 2024 
Banks find opportunity to work under sanctions — Central Bank chief
The Russian Central Bank has unexpectedly kept the key rate unchanged at 21% per annum.
It does not mean there will be no such risks in the future but it is very important in this regard for the financial stable to remain stable, Elvira Nabiullina said
Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina Peter Kovalev/TASSMOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/.… Continue reading
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Dec 19 2024 
President Putin: Live
#LIVE: 2024 Annual News Conference and Direct Line with the people of Russia by President Vladimir Putin
🔴 #LIVE: 2024 Annual News Conference and Direct Line with the people of Russia by President Vladimir Putin https://t.co/AErwdVc2Lz— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) December 19, 2024
Further links to listen:
🔴 Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/100069392071612/videos/603822132064249)
🔴 Ruptly (https://www.ruptly.tv/event_route?link_id=c9e0c148-713e-4c5f-bcbf-d93e10632615&provider_id=13&direction=video)
🔴 Kremlin. News (https://t.me/news_kremlin_eng?livestream)
🔴 Rumble… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2024 
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – First Deputy Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Valery Gerasimov
Briefing for military attachés of foreign states.
Current military political situation in the world
The military political situation in the world is characterised by increase of armed conflicts in the various regions. This fact further undermined the regional and international security.The main reason of escalation is the desire of the Collective West led by the USA to… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2024 
Russia’s therapeutic mRNA vaccine against cancer and it will be distributed to patients free of charge.
BREAKING:🇷🇺 Russia says it developed a therapeutic mRNA "vaccine" against CANCER and it will be distributed to patients "free of charge." pic.twitter.com/iC8wpXjAdW— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) December 17, 2024
