Vladimir Putin will today hold a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State in St. Petersburg: "President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will also take part in the meeting. It is planned to make a number of important decisions on further building up integration cooperation in specific areas."

@Slavyangrad

❗️🇭🇺 The EU is developing a plan to undermine the Hungarian economy in case Budapest refuses to agree on the next aid package for Ukraine. This was reported by the British newspaper The Financial Times.

The author claims that Brussels intends to collapse the exchange rate of the Hungarian forint and strike a blow to the country's investment attractiveness if Prime Minister Viktor Orban does not make concessions. EU leaders may publicly announce a complete cutoff of funding to Budapest with the intention of "scaring the markets".

@Slavyangrad

💥🇺🇸 "The Independent Republic of Texas”: As usual, everything was already on The Simpsons.

@Slavyangrad

💥🇳🇱🤡"Amsterdam mayor urged to allow cocaine sales amid rampant crime": The city's authorities realized they couldn't beat the drug mafia and decided to take charge of the hard drug trade.🤷‍♀️

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has proposed legalizing and decriminalizing the drug amid rising cocaine seizures. She said it would deprive criminal cartels of multi-billion dollar profits and help replenish the treasury, as well as end the authorities' long struggle against cocaine trafficking. "Let's accept the fact that hundreds of years of repression have yielded few results. Apparently people have a need for stimulants. There is a market for that."

@Slavyangrad

❗️🇨🇦🇷🇺"You have it better!": A Canadian chose to live in Russia and moved his entire family here

Arend Feinstra is a farmer from Canada who raises cows. Or rather, he used to. The LGBT* agenda was so insistent in every crevice even in his farm barns that Arend started looking for a new place to live. But more importantly, for the future of his children. All eight of them. And maybe more would be born.

The choice fell on Russia: the climate is similar, people are kind, and the state supports large families. The main argument for the final decision was traditional values: family and children. Lots of children!👫❤️

@Slavyangrad

⚡️Three African Sahel countries have withdrawn from the ECOWAS alliance.

🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫 Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso said they are leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with immediate effect. A joint statement by the three countries was read out on Niger's national television, Reuters writes.

"After 49 years, the valiant peoples of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger note with regret and great disappointment that the ECOWAS organization has departed from the ideals of its founding fathers and the spirit of Pan-Africanism," Colonel Amadou Abdraman, a spokesman for Niger's authorities, said in a statement.

🥷 Abdramana added that the organization has failed to help these states in their fight against terrorism and secure their territories. Mali and Burkina Faso warned of plans to leave the Economic Community of West African States as early as August last year.

"Any military intervention against Niger would lead to the withdrawal of Burkina Faso and Mali from ECOWAS, as well as the adoption of legitimate defense measures in support of the armed forces and the people of Niger," that statement read.

The transitional governments of the Sahel countries expressed support for Niger following the July 26, 2023 coup d'état there that overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum and imprisoned him in his presidential residence. Abdurahmane Tchiani became head of the transitional government.

ECOWAS demanded that President Mohamed Bazoum be returned to power within a week, effectively issuing an ultimatum to the new authorities in the Niger. If the demand was not met, the Union threatened Niger to use "all measures," including military action. 🎮

Although military measures were never applied, ECOWAS subjected Niger to harsh sanctions. According to Louise Oben, the UN Resident Coordinator in Niger, this has led to the country "quickly running out of funding, of medicine. People are running out of food."

On the eve of the ECOWAS withdrawal announcement, Niger held a meeting of the Sahel Security Alliance.

@Slavyangrad

✔️🇺🇸 "Fucking lunatics."

Tucker Carlson commented on statements by prominent senators and congressmen about the need to "hit Iran"

@Slavyangrad

Zelensky has officially become three times poorer over the year: "Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made public his declarations on property, income, expenses and financial obligations for 2021 and 2022. According to the 2022 declaration, the income of the head of state and members of his family amounted to 3.692 million hryvnias [more than 98 thousand dollars]. In 2021, the income of Zelensky and his family amounted to almost 11 million hryvnia [more than 290 thousand dollars]. Compared to 2020, the income decreased by almost 12 million hryvnias [almost 320 thousand dollars]."

Note: I know how it's done. You rewrite part of the property to your wife, uncle and so on. You divert part of your income offshore, divide part of your business into different legal entities, and voila, you are formally poorer.

@Slavyangrad

Hungary's EU Affairs Minister Janos Boka on Brussels' plans to punish Budapest: Hungary will not give in to blackmail! A document prepared by Brussels bureaucrats claims that if the EU summit on February 1 does not make a decision on financing Ukraine, the member states will publicly declare that Hungary will not receive the funds due to it because of the unconstructive behavior of the Hungarian prime minister, and will propose to withdraw the funds due to it completely. This information confirms what the Hungarian government has long stated: Brussels is using access to EU funds to exert political pressure. Hungary sees no connection between support for Ukraine and access to EU resources and will not allow others to do so. Hungary will not allow coercion.

@Slavyangrad.

The US was behind the September 11, 2001 attack - Donald Trump.

"They shut my mouth for four years, but now I'm telling you, there was no attack on the World Trade Center Twin Towers. There was not the attack that we were shown and that other countries were involved. But we ended up getting dragged into a war in the Middle East. We spent $9 trillion, we killed millions of people. And what did we accomplish? Nothing. All we got was death and blood. It's a disgrace!",
- Donald Trump said during his speech after winning the New Hampshire primary.

Note: a rather harsh statement, I must say

@Slavyangrad

🇩🇪🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky in an interview with the German TV channel ARD asked the USA for another aid package

- "Europe alone will not be able to cope at the level at which Ukraine has received support before. Neither with weapons, nor financially," the president of Ukraine said.
- According to him, the delay in aid from the U.S. has an impact on some leaders of the European Union. A refusal by the United States to help Ukraine could lead Russia to advance in the independent republic, as well as to a split in Europe and NATO that would mark a "new division of the world."

Join Slavyangrad chat. Your opinion matters.
https://xn--r1a.website/+5vjQfD5RwOgzMjgx

@Slavyangrad

🇺🇸🇾🇪 Yemeni Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari said the Houthis launched a missile strike on the U.S. Navy ship USS Lewis B. Puller in the Gulf of Aden. No details on the strike were given.

The Lewis B. Puller is the US Navy's newest expeditionary ship designed to support amphibious operations. The 240-meter-long ship with a total displacement of under 80,000 tons is one of the newest in the fleet - it was commissioned on August 17, 2017.

Source

Join Slavyangrad chat. Your opinion matters.
https://xn--r1a.website/+5vjQfD5RwOgzMjgx

@Slavyangrad

Nancy Pelosi on whether the pro-Palestine protests are orchestrated by Russia: What they're calling for is a cease-fire, that's Mr. Putin's message. Make no mistake. It's directly related to what he would like to see. It's the same with Ukraine. That's Mr. Putin's message. I even think some of these protests are sincere and some of them are connected to Russia. I think there should be an investigation into the funding of these protests and I want to ask the FBI to do it.

Note: But watching the neocons make Putin look like the Boogeyman is very interesting.
It's under the bed...
Oh, I'm waiting for the stage where Putin starts stalking them in their sleep like Freddy Krueger!

@Slavyangrad

Key messages from Sergei Naryshkin, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), on US attempts to politicize sports

▪️ The US administration is deeply unnerved that their crusade to isolate Russia in high-performance sports is failing.

▪️ International sports federations are expressing their reluctance to align with the US’s position on preventing Russian athletes from participating in competitions.

▪️ Several countries in the Global South are eager to participate in Russia's Games of the Future, BRICS Sports Games, and World Friendship Games.

▪️ To maintain its dominance, the US is ramping up efforts to disrupt sports events organized in Russia.

▪️ The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is seen as crucial in this effort, with its president Witold Banka potentially seeking a lucrative position after his term with WADA ends in 2025.

▪️ Banka unleashed an aggressive campaign to discredit the competitions organized by Russia. This effort also targeted foreign athletes planning to participate in these events, which stoked fears among those athletes about their future careers in Olympic sports potentially being ruined, particularly during the upcoming Summer Games in Paris.

▪️ What's more, Banka's blatantly pro-American activities, which hamper the development of world sports, are increasing becoming an annoyance in professional circles.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

Because many were not following the civil war in Ukraine in 2018, it's important to remind you what Russia is up against.

In Kiev, S-14 (C is an S sound in Russia, so this is also called C-14), C-14 won a defamation law suit against someone who referred to them as "Neo-Nazis" on Twitter.

These guys are also known to have worked with the SBU. They burned Roma camps, wrapped Roma around poles and stained their skin green, and murdered at least one Roma man.

This story, posted by Human Rights in Ukraine in 2018, is about their state-sponosred children's camp. I repeats, STATE-SPONSORED.

Clearly, no Nazi in Ukraine.

EDIT: In case you're unfamiliar, the number 14 in context here stands for the 14 words of the white supremacist creed: We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SlavyangradSLG
TG Chat: https://xn--r1a.website/+5vjQfD5RwOgzMjgx
Rumble: https://rumble.com/Slavyangrad
@Slavyangrad

My name is Nagasaki, and I approve this message:

https://xn--r1a.website/BazaFromOlga