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  • RUSSIA ANNOUNCES PLANS TO ANNEX UZBEKISTAN | Who Is Next?

    12/24/2023 1:17:10 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 117 replies
    Inside Russia ^ | 24/12/23 | Konstantin
    many Russians are freezing this winter Chinese cars start suddenly dying on the 0:10 Russians Russian artificial intelligence helps design a completely new breed of 0:16 cars Moscow Mules Dmitri medv loves Africa now 0:23 letter Z is Untouchable these days in Russia Putin admits Russian government 0:30 hands down political opposition leaders in the biggest and saddest news of the 0:36 week Russia just announced its desire in plans to Annex usbekistan and move 0:43 further and usbekistan is officially taking steps to defend its 0:50 sovereignity welcome to another crazy Friday Russian news 0:56 update have been so...
  • Zakhar Prilepin says Russia should annex more former Soviet territories

    12/22/2023 2:19:23 PM PST · by MeganC · 32 replies
    Russian Media Monitor (You Tube channel) ^ | 22 December 2023 | Russian Media Monitor
    Russian language transcript at the link. Go to "more" and expand the page to see this option.
  • Putin’s ‘secret lover’ not publicly seen since his cardiac arrest death rumours

    11/15/2023 9:32:15 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 37 replies
    Metro UK ^ | 11/15/2023 | Josh Milton
    An Olympic gold medalist long rumoured to be Vladimir Putin’s mistress hasn’t been seen for weeks. Alina Kabaeva, 40, hasn’t made a public appearance since October 22 during a visit to her elite gymnastics school in Sochi, a Russian city on the Black Sea. Just days later a sketchy Telegram blog said the Russian president had died of a cardiac arrest, a claim the Kremlin furiously denied as ‘fake news’ at best. Only a week before, the General SVR account alleged that if the leader were to die, a body double would likely rule in his stead. Kabaeva was last...
  • Vladimir Putin's 'secret lover' not seen since rumours of Kremlin leader's death

    11/14/2023 1:28:15 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 25 replies
    Mirror UK ^ | 11/14/2024 | Will Stewart
    Vladimir Putin’s alleged secret gymnast partner has not been seen in public since rumours emerged of the Kremlin leader’s death. -snip- Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva, a woman who is claimed to be the mother of two or three of Putin’s children, and his secret lover, also hasn’t been seen since late October. This is said to be around the date Putin supposedly suffered a heart attack and she has not re-emerged since. Earlier in October she was highly visible in footage from her Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy in Sochi - an elite training base for future sports...
  • BATTERY BLAST Huge explosion ‘fuelled by EV batteries’ rips through airport killing boy, 15, & injuring 163 in blast felt for 20 miles

    09/28/2023 8:51:35 AM PDT · by CFW · 71 replies
    The Sun ^ | 9/28/23 | Katie Davis and Will Stewart
    A BOY of 15 has been killed in a giant explosion feared to have been triggered by detonating electric car batteries. At least 163 were also injured following the huge blast in a customs warehouse near Tashkent Airport in Uzbekistan in the early hours, which was felt up to 20 miles away. Shocking footage shows the explosion at 2.43am local time, which caused damage to hundreds of houses and other buildings over a vast area. Batteries for electric cars exploded at the airport warehouse, it is understood. Dozens of ambulances ferried the wounded to hospitals and at least five children...
  • The Aral Sea: The Toxic Soviet Sea

    09/11/2023 11:55:11 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 31 replies
    YouTube | February 13, 2020 | Geographics
    (at 10:42, video contains an ad Curiosity Stream, YouTube seems to have redacted from the transcript, which skips from 10:41 to 11:04)The Aral Sea: The Toxic Soviet Sea | 23:46Geographics | 1.05M subscribers | 1,782,979 views | February 13, 2020
  • Russia, Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan) locked in tug of war over Ukraine recruiting

    09/04/2023 6:08:36 AM PDT · by Cronos · 5 replies
    Nikkei ^ | 29th August 2023 | Naubet Bisonov
    Central Asian countries are attempting to curb Russian recruiting of their citizens for its war in Ukraine, while Moscow seeks to avoid stirring public discontent with another large wave of domestic mobilization. So far this year, Kyrgyzstan has sentenced one citizen to 10 years in prison and detained another for allegedly serving as mercenaries. In Kazakhstan at the end of July, a prosecutor's office in a region bordering Russia warned citizens about the proliferation of online ads urging them to join the war, noting stiff legal penalties for doing so. This came a few months after Kazakhstan's National Security Committee...
  • Research group deciphers enigmatic ancient 'unknown Kushan script'

    07/15/2023 6:27:50 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 20 replies
    Phys dot org ^ | July 13, 2023 | University of Cologne
    ...A team of early career researchers at the University of Cologne has succeeded in decoding a script that has been puzzling scholars for more than 70 years: the so-called "unknown Kushan script." ...Svenja Bonmann, Jakob Halfmann and Natalie Korobzow examined photographs of inscriptions found in caves as well as characters on bowls and clay pots from various Central Asian countries in order to put the pieces of the puzzle together.On 1 March 2023, they first announced their partial decipherment of the unknown Kushan script at an online conference of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan. Currently, about...
  • Portrait of an 8-year-old Neanderthal boy who lived more than 30,000 years ago is REVEALED by scientists who reconstructed his face using a skull found in 1938

    01/19/2023 12:45:03 AM PST · by blueplum · 47 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 18 Jan 2023 | By STACY LIBERATORE
    The face of an eight-year-old Neanderthal boy who died more than 30,000 years ago has been reconstructed by scientists who used a skull initially found in the Teshik-Tash cave in Uzbekistan in 1938. The portrait is the first three-dimensional restoration of a Neanderthal skull fossil, which reveals the young boy had a small, turned-up nose that sunk into his face. The fossil is the first Neanderthal fossil discovered in Asia and the only complete Asian Neanderthal skull fossil preserved so far....
  • How Iran just defeated US sanctions to acquire 4 jumbo jet airliners: A cloak and dagger tale that saw 4 planes mysteriously disappear on their way to Uzbekistan

    01/06/2023 7:23:22 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 01/06/2023 | Thomas Lifson
    Iran attracts a few tourists who love to see, and if possible, fly on vintage airliners that have vanished from the skies elsewhere. US sanctions on the sale of airliners containing US-manufactured components make it impossible to sell not just Boeings but also Airbus planes, which rely on engines, avionics and other bits and pieces which are developed and made in the USA. As a result, the airlines of Iran rely on old models that were flying in Iran before the Islamic Revolution, or which have been smuggled into the country by devious means. A cloak and dagger tale has...
  • New Study Of Uluburun Shipwreck Reveals Ancient Trade Network

    12/02/2022 8:18:16 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    HeritageDaily ^ | December 2, 2022 | Markus Milligan
    New Study Of The 3,000-year-old Uluburun Shipwreck Has Revealed A Complex Ancient Trading Network During The Late Bronze Age.The Uluburun shipwreck was discovered by a local sponge diver in 1982, close to the east shore of Uluburun (Grand Cape), Turkey.The distribution of the wreckage and scattered cargo, indicates that the ship was between 15 and 16 metres in length. It was constructed by the shell-first method, with mortise-and-tenon joints similar to those of the Graeco-Roman ships of later centuries.The study by researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis have compared tin from the wreck site with samples of tin...
  • Declassified 9/11 Commission interview reveals Bush stance on Saudis, Cheney reaction to downed United plane

    11/10/2022 12:32:33 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 12 replies
    Fox News ^ | 11/10/2022 | Ronn Blitzer
    The White House has declassified and released the 9/11 Commission's notes on an interview they held with then-President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in 2004, exploring the situations prior to, during, and after the attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. One area of discussion was how the U.S. had been working on counterterrorism prior to the attacks. Bush said that in early 2001 his administration had been working "to change the conditions that caused terror to arise." In particular, Bush mentioned working on relations with Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia. "This was a difficult problem," the...
  • Russian pullout from Ukraine's Kherson region is 'positive' move: Erdogan

    11/10/2022 8:38:14 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 15 replies
    TRT World ^ | 11/10/2022 | TRT
    Russia's decision to pull its forces back from the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson was "positive and important," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. "Russia's decision regarding Kherson is positive, an important decision," told reporters in the capital Ankara on Thursday before leaving for a summit of Turkic countries in Uzbekistan. Vowing to maintain dialogue with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Erdogan's comments came after Moscow ordered its troops on Wednesday to withdraw from Kherson to the east bank of the Dnieper River. "I don't know whether there will be Russian participation in the G20 or not. We'll have...
  • Russia-Ukraine War Accelerates Collapse of China’s Belt and Road Global Strategy

    04/23/2022 9:38:58 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | April 23, 2022 | Jennifer Bateman
    Over the past ten years, China’s Communist Party (CCP) has strategically relied on its $4 trillion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to boost its image and influence with at least 149 countries to date. But success has eluded its efforts, and the BRI strategy may be doomed as a result. Consider for example the CCP’s stalled attempts at pushing the BRI strategy across countries in Europe. Not anticipated were the barriers and delays created by sanctions imposed on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine. Before the sanctions, China used Russia as a convenient transit point for the shipment of BRI...
  • "China is our [Taliban's] most important partner}

    09/02/2021 8:48:00 AM PDT · by AndyJackson · 14 replies
    Disclose TV ^ | 9/2/2021
    "China is our most important partner," says Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on the prospect of Afghanistan becoming part of the New Silk Road initiative
  • Now Putin has to listen to lectures from the President of TAJIKISTAN: Central Asian Republic boss berates Russian leader and tells him: 'We want to be respected'

    10/15/2022 2:08:23 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 31 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 10/14/2022 | Walter Finch
    Vladimir Putin was given a stern dressing down by the president of Tajikistan in another indicator that the Russian dictator has lost respect and influence in his own backyard. Fellow longstanding dictator Emomali Rahmon, ruler of the Central Asian state of 9 million since 1994, seized upon Putin's woes back home and in Ukraine to give him a piece of his mind and tell him how he really feels during a summit in the Kazakh capital of Astana. A glum and awkward looking Putin slouched back in his chair and took the seven minute tirade as a host of Central...
  • Russian oligarch who met with Hunter Biden sanctioned by UK — but not US

    04/29/2022 5:45:05 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 13 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/29/2022 | Bruce Golding
    Hunter Biden once met with a controversial Russian oligarch who’s been sanctioned by the UK over the deadly invasion of Ukraine — but hasn’t faced any punishment from the US. An itinerary for a three-day visit to the US by billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov shows a breakfast scheduled with President Biden’s son at the swank Ritz-Carlton hotel near Central Park from 9 to 10 a.m. on March 14, 2012, investigative journalist Vicky Ward revealed on her Substack account Wednesday. -snip- Online reports, including one cited in a secret US government cable posted online by Wikileaks, have said he is married to...
  • Is Xi Jinping under house arrest?

    09/23/2022 6:22:05 PM PDT · by BusterDog · 44 replies
    For the last two years, there was no place like home for Chinese President Xi Jinping. He had not moved out of his home in Beijing and was not meeting any world leader, not even any prominent CCP leader. However, on September 14th, the tyrant leader finally moved out of his home for an SCO meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. After a hiatus of two years, Xi departed for Central Asia by a special flight and attended the 22nd Summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). But, despite being the founding member of SCO,...
  • Modi rebukes Putin over war in Ukraine

    09/16/2022 8:54:19 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 95 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | September 16, 2022 | Mary Ilyushina
    Bluntly challenged by Indian Prime Minister Nerandra Modi over the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that Russia would strive to stop the conflict “as soon as possible” but then blamed Ukraine for refusing to negotiate, though Putin ordered the invasion and his troops are still occupying a large swath of Ukrainian territory. Putin’s remarks came during an appearance with Modi, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where they are attending a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. In a stunning public rebuke, Modi told Putin: “Today’s era is not an era of war, and I have spoken to...
  • Iran to become full SCO member at September summit in Samarkand

    09/07/2022 7:34:20 AM PDT · by FarCenter · 2 replies
    Tehran (AsiaNews) – Iran will become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) with the signing of the memorandum of obligation at a summit in Samarkand, on 15-16 September. “This year, within Uzbekistan's chairmanship, Iran, as an observer state will ... become a full-fledged member of the SCO,” RIA Novosti quoted Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov as saying yesterday during a meeting in Moscow. Iran took one step closer to full membership on 17 September last year when its application was accepted 15 years after it was made. On that date, SCO began the country's accession, which usually...