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Address by the President of the Russian Federation – February 24, 2022 18024 ViewsFebruary 24, 2022 55 Comments President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, friends, I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic events in Donbass and the key aspects of ensuring the security of Russia. I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and about the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from year to year. I am referring to the eastward expansion...

American presidents for the past several decades, since the end of the presidency of Ronald Reagan, have had a pretty abysmal record when it comes to the U.S. geopolitical relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin. -snip- In 2013, my father participated in freedom protests in Kiev alongside Democratic Senator Chris Murphy and spoke in front of thousands of protestors. He told them 'We support your just cause, the sovereign right of Ukraine to determine its own destiny freely and independently. And the destiny you seek lies in Europe.' In 2014, following the invasion and annexation of Crimea by Russia my...

Over the past 13 years, from Obama to Trump and continuing through the Biden years, it has become increasingly challenging to discern truth from propaganda touted by our media and the political ruling class. January 6th 2021 was a horrible day in our history. A tragic, heart-breaking, insane, historically-paradigm shifting day for all of us. I'd never belittle the events of the attack on the Capitol. It felt surreal. The man in the Viking horns is bizarrely from my hometown. It is a deeply shameful moment in our history. BUT. At the same time, January 6th is not 9/11 or...

Living near a major joint training base, I see young trainees from every service. Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen; young people during the summer heat who are out there sweating and pushing their minds and bodies; submitting to a drill sergeant or skill instructor. They have enlisted with a determination to finish the course they set themselves on. As I watch them marching by in cadence they are nameless faces. I see them in the PX and I smile at them. When graduations come they are in their dress uniforms and many of them have families present. They are someone's...

In my life I have never intentionally harmed any person. I prefer to live in a dreamy peaceful world where I surround myself in a quiet calm that envelops me in a safety bubble wrap. I desire to sleep with an innocent expectation, letting go of my conscious thoughts and entering into the deep rest of the pure in mind and body. When sleep refreshes us, the body rejuvenates itself. One of our former family members (by marriage, and divorce) recently had a organ transplant. It is so amazing that even though the spirit of the one who died is...

When our kids were younger, I told them I had a dream that when they grew up and had children of their own we would gather together and on balmy summer nights we would watch the children chase fire flies. As the fragrance from the mimosa flowers wafts on the breeze, the glow of little lights all over the fields gives a ethereal quality as the kids run out of energy and sit beside us. The deep calm of the evening settles around us. Fire flies represent hope to me. They shine their light looking for love, then another light...

I have encephalomacia, or scarring of an area of my brain as a result of a stroke a few years ago. When I researched this condition I learned that, depending on the severity of the injury, it can cause anything from mild non-problematic issues all the way to coma and death. Lately I have been falling asleep all hours of the day. I have tried taking caffeine products to no avail, I try so hard to stay alert, I want to keep my husband company. I want to each day put as much love as I can give to bless...

After my husband was commissioned, we were assigned to Fort Rucker, Alabama. We moved our mobile home from Michigan and lived in Tiara Park, the mobile home park on post; it was a nice quiet place with nice people and a friendly community. Soon, My husband was deployed to Egypt. That fall, I was alerted by Military Police pounding on the door. There was a strong tropical storm heading this way and all the residents in the park had to take shelter in the installation gymnasium. Already it had been raining hard and there was lots of water on the...

New York (CNN)CNN's chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is authoring a book about the Trump administration and its battles with the news media. The Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers announced the book on Thursday morning. Harper says Acosta will share "never-before-revealed stories of this White House's rejection of truth, while laying out the stakes for how Trump's hostility toward facts poses an unprecedented threat to our democracy." The book's title is "The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America."

CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is writing a book about the Trump administration and its contentious relationship with the media. The Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers made the announcement Thursday, saying the book will be titled, "The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America." "Acosta, the most visible member of the media branded an 'enemy of the people' by President Trump, exposes the tumultuous and dangerous realities of the current White House and its war on truth and the first amendment," Harper said in its announcement. "Going inside the briefing room and...

Thursday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” network chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta called President Donald Trump “childish” for canceling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) upcoming international travel in response to her proposal to postpone the State of the Union address until the government is reopened. Acosta said, “Well, our nation’s capital has become a playground, Brooke. The president has responded in sort of a childish way, is the only way to describe it, to the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to her letter essentially saying that the State of the Union will be postponed or she asked that it be submitted in...

One year ago, Daily Wire contributor Harry Khachatrian started a trend when he responded to a tweet by Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra. On January 16, 208, CNN’s Jim Acosta whined in a tweet about President Trump telling him to get “out” of the Oval Office, "When I tried to follow up on this in the Oval Office, Trump told me to get “out.” We then went to the Roosevelt Room where WH aides obstructed us from asking questions." Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra responded: “Good. You’re not a reporter.” Fellow Daily Wire reporter Harry Khachatrian responded to Saavedra’s tweet to...

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