George Galloway being detained is an opportunity to post his all time taken on Ukraine

Nigel Farage appears to have forgotten all the conspiracy he spread about Keir Starmer and Jimmy Savile. "How low can the Labour government sink?" He asked. Surprised to see them sinking towards your level?

Today’s Russian papers focusing again on economic problems: ▪️ “To pay utility bills some Russians are falling into debt" ▪️ “Rise in bread prices outstripping inflation” ▪️“Cement factories on the brink” ▪️ Call to "freeze basic food prices to battle inflation" #ReadingRussiahttps

Again today Russian papers are reflecting economic concerns: • “New car sales in Russia fall by a quarter” • “Russians struggle to pay off credit card debts” • “Wage arrears have tripled” • “June was most alarming month for manufacturing industry in 3 years” #ReadingRussia

In today’s Russian papers: federal budget readjusted due to lower oil prices; pork prices rise; One paper mocks Europe: “Like a monkey on a bicycle, Europe’s economy is careering towards the abyss.” And how “Putin threw fuel onto the fire of Trump’s vanity.” #ReadingRussia

Moscow bookshop.

I don't trust lawyers who say not to use ChatGPT for legal advice. They never appear to give an example of what ChatGPT gets wrong and I think they have ulterior motives.

A few thoughts about Vladimir Putin's three-day May ceasefire.

Swan Lake played as the USSR collapsed. What will be the equivalent for Trump? Music video like "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen? Or "American Pie" by Don McLean? Perhaps the West Side Story stage show? Or maybe a Bob Ross marathon?

Ukraine's intelligence services lit up the sky by detonating 160,000 tons of Russian ammunition in Rykov, a key military center in the occupied Kherson region. It was not just a strike - it was a spectacular defeat of Russian logistics. Boom. Precision. Retaliation. 🇺🇦💙💛

Tankies: The EU is corrupt & politicians just steal public money France: Convicts politician for stealing public money from EU Tankies: Stealing public money from EU is now not wrong

"It feels as if the old world order is cracking." My BBC News report from Murmansk where Vladimir Putin cited "historical roots" behind Donald Trump's claim to Greenland and I caught up with powerful Putin aide Nikolai Patrushev.

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Steve Witkoff’s interview to Tucker Carlson is making headlines in Russia. One paper today: “US & Russian officials are now speaking the same language…for the first time in years the White House & the Kremlin are openly demonstrating their mutual attraction…” #ReadingRussia

One Russian newspaper today: “America now has more in common with Russia than Washington does with Brussels or with Kyiv.” #ReadingRussia

Judging by today’s Russian papers, Moscow’s rather pleased with Donald Trump. One paper: “Trump is ready to make significant concessions to Russia.” Another: “Events are developing in the right direction: right & beneficial for Russia.” #ReadingRussia

I'm calling it now. The counter to not attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure is that Ukraine can't attack oil refineries.

"Some Russia-watchers warn the US president may have limited patience for Russia's stalling - and begin to pile on the pressure. But he's shown no sign of that yet. On the contrary, so much has already shifted in Moscow's favour, so quickly, even many Russians still can't quite believe it."

A lot of news saying Russia is quibbling about policing a potential ceasefire. Less clear that Russia means policing Ukraine during the ceasefire, whilst policing them is a red line.

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I asked Russia's foreign minister if Moscow still opposes idea of European peacekeepers in Ukraine. Sergei Lavrov replied "We see no room for compromise...this would mean no longer hybrid involvement, but the direct, official, unconcealed participation of Nato countries in war against Russia."

Russian state TV on the new world order: "Now everything is being decided inside a big triangle: Russia, China & the US. Within this, the new construction of the world will come to fruition. The EU as a united political force no longer exists..." ['News of the Week', Russia-1]

This is how Russia has been speaking of Ukraine for years. It’s really important to remember this context, when imagining ‘deals’ with Moscow

Three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a hundred miles from Moscow we ask Russians about three years of war and whether they believe Donald Trump will help to end it. Producer @bentavener.bsky.social

I guess we need to send the bill for their Article 5 support for Afghanistan.

The pope is battling serious illness. Cells are dying on both sides. I hope the vatnik in the Vatican has the courage to wave the white flag. #NAFO #NAFOFELLAS

Donald Trump has moved from declaring he’d end the war in Ukraine in a day to conceding Moscow’s key demands & now blaming Ukraine itself for Russia’s invasion ‘You should never have started it…it’s the (Ukraine) leadership that allowed the war to go on’ That was some phone call he had with Putin

Today one Russian paper describes how Moscow views the idea of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine: “Russia is ready for talks. But on its terms. If you drop the diplomatic language, essentially that is called an ultimatum.” #ReadingRussia

In today’s Russian papers: “everything [in Russia] keeps jumping in price”. Plus, claims of censorship in a Siberian theatre.#ReadingRussia

Today’s Russian papers see benefits (for Russia) from Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade wars. One claims: “There are pluses for Russia from Trump’s actions… this will become an additional window of opportunity to expand our export market.” #ReadingRussia

One Russian paper today interprets Donald Trump’s recent criticism of Russia war in Ukraine as “a fake demonstration of strength…to sell a possible deal as his victory.” It claims the Kremlin couldn’t care less so long as “the outcome is Russia’s victory.”

Sometimes it feels like the world has moved on, stopped caring. But Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine has destroyed lives in so many ways. The disappearance of civilians is just one of them. This is Lyudmila’s story, which I hope people might read It’s still happening www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of today’s Russian papers reports a “depressing trend” in the judicial system: “guilty verdicts where there is no proof a crime has been committed.” Another paper writes: “Trump talks to his ‘allies’ in the same way a Russian aristocrat talked to his serfs…” #ReadingRussia

Map updated

47th Brigade shared footage repelling another Russian mechanised push in the Kursk operational zone.

Belarus holds an ‘election’ with no choice today, very different to 2020 with its sudden huge hope of change I’ve been speaking to some of the women who protested & were arrested - about their feelings then & now The mood? Depression www.bbc.com/news/article...

Russian oil refinery in Ryazan burning intensively after drone attack.

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It’s Daily Fella time. Read about russia imploding & there’s nothing Putin can do! Also Orban’s at it again, Engels’ still burning & Ukraine’s new air defence. #DailyFella #DailyFellaNews #SlavaUkraini #NAFO

A Russian court has convicted three lawyers of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny on extremism charges and sentenced them to between 3 1/2 and 5 1/2 years in prison.

In today’s Russian papers: • “Pressure on Russia's economy from sanctions increased significantly.” • “There remains a danger of stagflation. It’s very difficult to exit that.” #ReadingRussia

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