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  • Vladimir Zhirinovsky: Russia will arm to seize countries of former Soviet Union

    07/04/2015 9:30:50 AM PDT · by Astralike · 16 replies
    Joinfo.com ^ | 4/07/2015 | Joinfo.com
    Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an odious leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia has approved militarization of the Russian Federation and said that all the countries of the former Soviet Union were a zone of Russian interests. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia praised the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, which began to verify the legitimacy of recognition of independence of the Baltic republics by the State Council of the USSR in 1991, Joinfo.ua reports referring to the Russian media...
  • Russian economic meltdown as oil runs out and Kremlin stops paying pensions

    05/14/2025 9:30:04 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 28 replies
    Express UK ^ | 5/14/2025 | John Varga
    Russia's supply of cheap oil is running out, another major blow for Vladimir Putin as he continues to grapple with a growing economic crisis. Businesses and consumers across the country are reeling under the effects of spiralling inflation and high interest rates. In April, the Central Bank confirmed it would keep the key interest rate at 21% for the foreseeable future, much to the bitter disappointment of the Kremlin and business leaders. Many firms are fighting to stay afloat, as they attempt to pay back bank loans originally secured during more favourable economic times. -snip- Gazprom Neft CEO Alexander Dyukov...
  • Soviet Secret Service Founder's Statue Unveiled In Moscow, Faces Northwest 'Threat'

    09/11/2023 5:46:25 AM PDT · by tlozo · 12 replies
    Radio Free Europe ^ | September 11, 2023 | Unnamed
    A statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police, Cheka, was unveiled in front of the headquarters of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in Moscow on September 11. The statue is a replica of a larger Dzerzhinsky statue, one of the symbols of Soviet repression, which was pulled from its pedestal outside KGB headquarters in August 1991. SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin said at the ceremony for the statue's unveiling that Dzerzhinsky's face on the original and new statues is turned toward Poland and Baltic states "because the threat to Russia from the northwest remains."
  • ‘Talk about an {Russian} invasion is everywhere’ — How Lithuania is preparing for war with Russia

    03/25/2025 9:27:17 PM PDT · by Cronos · 80 replies
    Kyiv independent ^ | 17th March 2025 | Yuliia Taradiuk and Andrea Januta
    Throughout Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, repeated and escalating warnings of the potential for a wider war have only raised fears in the Baltic states that they could be next in the crosshairs of the Kremlin. Talk about a potential Russian invasion is "very common at parties, gatherings, lunch breaks, water cooler talk," Gabija Stasiukyne, a 32-year-old living in Vilnius, told the Kyiv Independent. "It’s everywhere. The conversation inevitably turns in the direction of — what are you going to do?" Lithuania's government is also taking the threat seriously — the country reinstated conscription in 2015, and Vilnius in January...
  • Europe Preparing for War To Conquer Russia

    03/10/2025 7:04:58 AM PDT · by delta7 · 143 replies
    Armstrong Economics ^ | 10 Mar 25 | Martin Armstrong
    The European Parliament President Roberta Metsola has completely sealed the fate of Europe and its desire for self-destruction. She is now claiming that it is Ukraine that is defending Europe against a full-scale invasion by Russia. Ukraine is fighting for the security of Europe. Some people only understand a story if it is explained as a picture. Xxx This is the image that Metsola is promoting to try to inspire Europeans to throw their lives away for these ethnic hatreds that are as unsolvable as the Middle East battle between Suni and Shite. The Neocons have full control of the...
  • EU top diplomat rejects Trump closing NATO door to Ukraine

    02/27/2025 1:55:48 PM PST · by Mariner · 77 replies
    AFP (france) via Yahoo ^ | February 27th, 2025 | Shaun TANDON
    The EU's top diplomat said Thursday that NATO offered the best security guarantee for Ukraine, accusing President Donald Trump of falling for a Russian narrative by closing the door.In an interview with AFP on a visit to Washington, Kaja Kallas also warned that the Europeans would not be able to assist in an eventual ceasefire deal in Ukraine's three-year conflict with Russia unless they are included by Trump, who has reached out directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin.Kallas, a former prime minister of frontline state Estonia, said NATO countries have never attacked Russia which instead was "afraid of democracy."
  • Don't Cry for Russia - The world's unlikeliest "victim."

    08/28/2008 4:19:26 PM PDT · by neverdem · 3 replies · 100+ views
    Weekly Standard ^ | 09/01/2008 | Cathy Young
    As Russian tanks rumble through Georgia, and Western pundits talk of the "new Cold War," one trope keeps reappearing in their discourse. Russia's newly aggressive stance, we are told, is partly our fault: After the fall of Communism, the West went out of its way to humiliate and trample Russia instead of treating it as a partner--and now, an oil-powered Russia is striking back. "Russia's litany of indignities dates to the early 1990s when the Soviet empire collapsed," Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and former Barack Obama adviser, wrote in Time. "A bipolar universe gave...
  • Baltic States End usage of Russian Electricity grid, Historic Weekend Ahead

    02/06/2025 6:48:33 AM PST · by Cronos · 11 replies
    money.pl ^ | 4th February 2025
    This weekend, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will take a historic step and disconnect from the Russian and even post-Soviet power system controlled by Moscow. They will join the Western European grid. Preparations for this process have been underway for 15 years. - We are prepared for all scenarios . Our societies can be calm, everything is under control - assured Lithuanian Minister Žigimantas Vaicziunas at the end of January after a meeting in which the deputy head of the Polish Ministry of Climate and Environment, Krzysztof Bolesta, also participated. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are facing a historic moment of disconnection...
  • Putin Ally Calls for Alaska's Return to Russia

    12/28/2024 2:08:52 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 75 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 12/28/2024 | Natalie Venegas
    Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, recently called for Alaska's return to Russia during a recent Russian-state media program. -snip- During the recent program, Solovyov said Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, Moldova, and Alaska should be "returned to the Russian Empire." "Do you think I'm joking when I mention Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, Moldova? Everything returned to the Russian Empire. And Alaska too, while you're at it," Solovyov said in a translated video.
  • Report: Poland and Baltic Countries Prepare To Send Troops Into Ukraine if Russia Makes a Strategic Breakthrough

    05/27/2024 12:39:10 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 62 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | May 27, 2024 | Paul Serran
    Against the backdrop of continuing Russian advances, some Western leaders have started to advocate missile strikes inside Russian territory, from NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg up to chief warmonger, former British Premier Boris Johnson: Now, some European neighboring countries have started preparing to introduce their troops into Ukraine in case of strategic Russian advances in Eastern Ukraine. The Baltic states and Poland have warned Germany that they could send troops to Ukraine if the situation gets noticeably worse for Kiev due to its allies being reluctant to supply it with weapons.
  • Baltic Sea countries remain vigilant after Moscow mulls altering its sea border

    05/23/2024 11:24:02 AM PDT · by MeganC · 27 replies
    Euronews ^ | Published on 23/05/2024 - 07:17 | By Euronews with AP
    <p>Baltic leaders reacted warily on Wednesday to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region.</p><p>In a draft proposal reported by some Russian media, Russia's Defence Ministry suggests updating the coordinates used to measure the strip of territorial waters off of its mainland coast and that of its islands in the Baltic Sea.</p>
  • Russia Is Threatening to Expand Its Borders Again—This Time in the Baltic Sea

    05/22/2024 5:19:44 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 46 replies
    Daily Beast ^ | May 22, 2024 | Allison Quinn
    Russia’s Defense Ministry has unilaterally moved to revise the borders of Russian territorial waters in the Baltic Sea, drafting a government decree on the expansion without even bothering to notify NATO members Finland and Lithuania. In reaction to the surprised responses of the Baltic Sea states, the Kremlin on Wednesday issued a statement that seems bound only to make matters worse. Insisting that there’s “nothing political” about the proposed border change, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in the same breath that the “political situation” has in fact “changed significantly” since the borders were drawn. “You see how tensions are...
  • Top Ukraine Official Warns Russia Could Capture 'Baltics in 7 Days'

    05/05/2024 7:24:49 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 43 replies
    Newsweek ^ | May 3, 2024 | Jon Jackson
    A senior Ukrainian intelligence official warned about the threat Moscow poses on other nations in Europe, saying "the Russians will take the Baltics in seven days" if allies don't stand up to Russia now. The comment was made by Major-General Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of Ukraine's military intelligence directorate (GUR), during an interview with The Economist published on Thursday. The alarm has been sounded before about the potential of Russian President Vladimir Putin looking to start conflicts in the Baltic states. Earlier this year, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote that the Russian leader appeared to...
  • Russia blames 'hostile' Baltic countries for split in relations

    05/05/2024 5:14:01 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 32 replies
    Euronews ^ | 5/5/2024 | Joshua Askew
    Russia has blamed the "hostility" of Baltic states for them severing most of their ties with the country. "Because of the openly hostile line of Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn, all interstate, interdepartmental, regional and sectoral ties with Russia have been severed," said Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharov on Sunday. She warned Moscow would respond with asymmetric measures, though did not specify exactly what the Baltics had supposedly done. "We will also respond to the hostile actions of the Baltic states with asymmetrical measures, primarily in the economic and transit spheres," Zakharov detailed. Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine has...
  • Prepare for Putin pivot to invade us, say Baltic states

    03/30/2024 11:30:59 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 79 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | March 30, 2024 | Will Hazell
    Nato must be ready for Russia launching an “existential” war against the Baltic states “masked by a blizzard of disinformation”, ambassadors from the three countries have warned. Writing exclusively for The Sunday Telegraph, the top diplomats to the UK from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said that Russia could “pivot quickly” from Ukraine to invade the Baltic. And they said that Vladimir Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine is evoking the three countries’ “darkest memories” of occupation under Stalin. The Estonian ambassador Viljar Lubi, the Latvian ambassador Ivita Burmistre, and Lithuania’s charge d’affaire Lina Zigmantaite, wrote the joint article to mark Friday’s 20...
  • Finnish president says undersea gas and telecom cables damaged by 'external activity'

    10/10/2023 9:43:00 AM PDT · by Species8472 · 13 replies
    Associated Press ^ | 10/10/23 | JARI TANNER
    HELSINKI (AP) — Damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by “external activity," Finnish officials said Tuesday, adding that authorities were investigating.
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report Tuesday 10/10/2023 Turkish President Suggests US Carrier Will Strike Gaza, Argentina's Peso Drops Sharply Against US Dollar, Gas Pipeline Damaged By "Deliberate Action", Rockets Fired At Israel From Gaza, Lebanon And Syria

    10/10/2023 6:39:12 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 3 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 10/10/2023 | Nextrush/Self
    What is the US aircraft carrier doing in Israel? It will start to carry out serious massacres there by striking, destroying Gaza"...The comments of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... A plane carrying ammunition from the United States arrived in Israel tonight... Tonight rocket fire aimed at Israel from Syria... Meanwhile the Russian military in Syria says that there were only three US coalition air space violations in Syria's Al-Tanf today... The United States determining that the new military government in Niger since July is the result of a military coup. This means a permanent cutoff of 200 million dollars... Tensions...
  • Nord Stream mystery: the tanker Minerva Julie spent 7 days idling near the attack site

    03/11/2023 6:49:24 PM PST · by Mariner · 76 replies
    Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | March 11th, 2023 | Mattathias Schwartz
    The question of who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines is likely to remain an unsolved mystery for some time.Even as new details surface from European investigators, one of the most intriguing clues to recently emerge comes not from official probes but via a 29-year-old open-source analyst based in Denmark. Oliver Alexander spent months analyzing data from the maritime Automatic Identification System, or AIS, from vessels that passed near the site of three out of the four pipeline ruptures shortly before the damage. He noticed that the Minerva Julie, a 600-foot Greek-flagged tanker, was headed east from Rotterdam when, on...
  • Minsk reserves right for preemptive strategic deterrence measures - Defense Ministry

    10/17/2022 5:28:42 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 32 replies
    Tass ^ | 10/17/22 | Tass
    MINSK, October 17. /TASS/. Belarus reserves its right to take preemptive strategic deterrence measures amid the establishment of offensive NATO groups near Belarusian borders, says Valery Revenko, head of the Belarusian Defense Ministry international military cooperation department. "The Republic of Belarus will protect its national interests with use of all available means, including by use of forces, and retains its right to take a complex of preemptive strategic measure complex in order to prevent an attack or to neutralize an internal armed conflict," he said during a briefing for foreign military attaches, partially published by Defense Ministry press office Monday....
  • BREAKING: Did Lithuania Light the Fuse on World War III?

    06/18/2022 9:51:34 PM PDT · by bitt · 142 replies
    GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 6/18/2022 | larry johnson
    In a move of staggering stupidity and hubris, Lithuanian banned the transit of Russian goods to Kaliningrad effective today, June 18, 2022. Kaliningrad, which is wedged between Poland on the west and Lithuania on the east, is home to almost a half-million Russians and the headquarters for the Russian Navy’s Baltic Sea force. Lithuania claims it is simply abiding by the sanctions imposed by the European Union. After all, Lithuania is a member of the European Union and NATO. But that is the point. This is a deliberate provocation. It is laying economic siege to a vital interest of Russia....