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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that his country has never objected to Ukraine's membership in the European Union. "As for Ukraine's membership in the EU, we have never objected to it. As for NATO, that is a different matter. Here we are talking about ensuring the security of the Russian Federation, and not just today," Putin said during a meeting with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, and added that Ukraine's membership in NATO is "unacceptable." The Russian president told Fico that he does not want to put him in a "difficult dual position" by criticizing the EU and...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he was grateful to Chinese President Xi Jinping, his "dear friend", for the warm welcome he has received during his trip to China. "Dear friend, both I and the entire Russian delegation are pleased to meet once again with our Chinese friends and colleagues," Putin told Xi at a meeting, according to a video published on the Kremlin's official Telegram messaging app. "Our close communication reflects the strategic nature of Russia-China relations, which are at an unprecedentedly high level."

NATO begins to crumble Nato fops and neocon wankers have engineered the biggest military debacle since the HMFIC of Tangut called Genghis Khan a plastic man, very much worse than either Little BigHorn or Dunkirk.You saqy you've never heard of Tangut?? That is because Genghis Khan ordered his commanders to remove every trace on the planet of Tangut ever having existed. Scholars finally started finding written documents in caves in the region towards the middle of the last century; prior to that, they had regarded the tale of Tangut as some sort of a fairytale or a cautionary story for...