This destroys all trust regarding loaning collections of museum pieces and art...
Crimea and ex-Ukrainian/Black Sea regions integration into RF
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This destroys all trust regarding loaning collections of museum pieces and art...
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How about photo of a #CrimeanBridge from outer space? #Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov took a really beautiful picture from #InternationalSpaceStation!
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https://lenta.ru/news/2021/11/29/taliban_crimea/
The Taliban answered the question about the ownership of Crimea
Taliban spokesman Mujahid on the recognition of Crimea: residents of the peninsula have the right to vote
The Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) supports the people who live in Crimea, they have the right to vote. This is how the official representative of the grouping Zabihulla Mujahid answered the question about the ownership of the peninsula in an interview with Octagon.
“With regard to Crimea, I want to say that this is the business of Ukraine and Moscow. We hope this issue will be resolved soon. God forbid that because of this there was a war in the region and other countries used it for their own purposes. <...> If people want to live in Russia, we agree with them, ”Mujahid added.
Speaking about the official recognition of Crimea as Russian territory, a Taliban spokesman said that if the inhabitants of the peninsula want to be with Russia, the movement is in favor.
In October, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the Taliban government the de facto leadership of Afghanistan. “De jure, the Taliban are not recognized, but de facto they are the leadership of Afghanistan,” he said.
Officially, Russia, like other UN member states, does not recognize the Taliban's authority in Afghanistan.
Militants of the radical movement entered Kabul and announced the establishment of control over the entire territory of Afghanistan in August.
Well that's nice that they recognized it I guess, and their logic makes more sense than the European one
But with friends like these..
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Well that's nice that they recognized it I guess, and their logic makes more sense than the European one
But with friends like these..
Well, I guess it is much more complicated, and there is some game running.
Russia is extremely active towards the Taliban, even if the organization is banned in Russia.
Their embassy operated for the entire regime change time, without any break.
The Russian ambassador is openly speaking about the situation there, and it is an extremely informative source on the ground.
It seems that both Russia's and China's stand is sane.
They consider the Taliban as de facto rulers of Afghanistan, so if you are interested in any cooperation - you should do it with the Taliban regime.
There is no other.
The Chinese openly admit, that there is a huge difference between the Talibs now, and 20 years ago. They are not interested in any ideological expansion, you can discuss the matters with them using common ground, mutual interests, and respect.
Very same signals are coming from Uzbekistan and Tadzykistan either, the business is running again, trade is flowing, goods are flowing - there were some technical and organizational issues, as the new regime lacked qualifed&skilled border guard personnel, but ... it is getting better and better. And - guess what - safer!
When we are talking about that, Russian Il's 76 are flying over Afghanistan, bringing emergency supplies there, and taking back the remaining Russian citizens. Three flights like that have been executed, each with 3 planes.
The sole fact, that Russian simply agreed with the Taliban evacuation of its citizens, some of them being actually Afghans - speaks for itself, agree?
Hell, they have evacuated even Afghan army cadets and military school students, bringing them back to Russia!
Those cadets won't go back to Afghanistan I guess, some of them have already applied for Russian military service, and I suppose citizenship will be the obvious next step.
All agreed with the local authorities, peacfully&calmly ...
Let's find a difference
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things:
1) Stop the narcotics racket that the Americans re-established after they invaded in 2001. The Taliban eradicated
this activity in the 1990s.
2) Do not submit their country to being a whore for America like Japan.
If the Taliban do this, then Russia has no business and no interest minding Afghanistan's affairs. By contrast,
the criminal clowns in Washington cannot sleep at night if they are not succeeding in controlling every
crack on the planet.
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They have established some relief facilities and actually forcing the addicted to go through a decontamination process there.
As for the conclusion, Russia does have interests there - another way they would not dig so deep. Keeping the embassy, humanitarian cargo, active talks with the new regime ...
We can consider that as obvious measures to keep the Uzbek and Tadzyk borders safe. As far as Russia does not care about Turkmenistan much, the two others are CSTO members - Tadzyk -or used to be a member - Uzbeks.
But for that, the pure and brutal force would be just enough. If they use a carrot rather than a stick, there must be something there ...
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This is what the words about which are so actively suppressed in the Western media: it is beneficial for Russia to be surrounded by rich, developed and independent FRIENDLY states with which it is possible to trade and develop mutually beneficial cooperation. The US sees benefits only when they are surrounded by a bunch of helpful small dogs, each of which the US will use for its own enrichment.GarryB wrote:Russia benefits from having good relations with its neighbours... everyone does, it is only a country like the US that benefits from everyone fighting everyone else...
What amazes me, while simultaneously killing faith in the reasonableness of humanity, is that there are so many more people in the world who dream of serving a rich master than those who want to live freely.
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Good morning, #CrimeaFlag of Russia!
Ballot box with check2.6 million carsOncoming automobiledrove across #CrimeanBridgeBridge at night in 2021!
Ballot box with checkDuring the #NewYear2022 holidaysChristmas tree - almost 109 thousand cars!
photoCamera with flash: instadron_crimea/ instagram
Rightwards arrowhttps://crimea24.tv/content/v-2021-godu-po-krimskomu-mostu-proekhali-26-m/
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According to Ukrs.
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kvs wrote:That is a figment of the imagination. Those Moskals could never build such a bridge since they do not have the culture for it.
According to Ukrs.
It does look a bit mystical in that light.
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Mind you the centre of those circles looks to be well out to sea
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The radius of possible combat use of Caliber cruise missiles, Tu-22M3 long-range missile carriers and Murmansk-BN electronic warfare systems.
#Crimea
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Units of the Russian Armed Forces take full control of the North Crimean Canal.
The head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov ordered to prepare for the reception of the "Dnieper water".
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The water blockade of Crimea has been stopped: Aksenov gave the command to prepare the North Crimean Canal to receive Dnieper water
Telegram RIA Novosti
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Crimea restored the railway line with the Kherson region, in the future it will be possible to raise the issue of resuming full-fledged passenger traffic, said State Duma deputy Sheremet
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Crimea restored the railway line with the Kherson region, in the future it will be possible to raise the issue of resuming full-fledged passenger traffic, said State Duma deputy Sheremet
Together with the restoration of water flow to the Crimean canal this suggest to me that Russia is going to impose a loyal regime for a long time in
what is now Ukraine. I do not see how leaving and letting Banderites restore their power is consistent with these developments.
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Units of the Russian Armed Forces take full control of the North Crimean Canal.
The head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov ordered to prepare for the reception of the "Dnieper water".
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The water blockade of Crimea has been stopped: Aksenov gave the command to prepare the North Crimean Canal to receive Dnieper water
Telegram RIA Novosti
Looks like the canal has filled up now.
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For the first time in eight years, water through the North Crimean Canal reached Dzhankoy,And all this thanks to the Russian military, who liberated the hydrotechnical unit.
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Crimea restored the railway line with the Kherson region, in the future it will be possible to raise the issue of resuming full-fledged passenger traffic, said State Duma deputy Sheremet
I remember just after annexation I travelled from Kiev to Crimea and the border was at near Dzhankoi railway station (not sure if spelling) the Ukrainian border guards were pissed off when they saw I had a Russian federation visa with the words Crimea on it, they emptied my rucksack upside down and let there dog trample all over it and threw my passport at me. Shortly afterwards and I just finished packing my rucksack we ended up at the Russian side they were very professional and used a hand held PDA scanned passport and typed a few things and shakes my hand and said welcome to Russia welcome to Crimea, he then held asked me where exactly I was from I replied Scotland he shouted along the carriage something in Russian only word I knew was shohtlandyets (not sure of spelling) which ment Scotland everyone cheered. When he handed over my passport he said it was the first russian visa he had seen with Crimea on it and he was happy to see it. I think at first he was surprised to see it when it was on their database. When I get back to Scotland (currently in Uganda) I will take a picture of it (it's in my old passport). I remember the Ukrainian border point had a BRDM-2 in a dug out facing Crimea
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IN 1991, CRIMEA HELD A REFERENDUM (this was before Ukraine became Independent).
It was KIEV in 1995, that annexed Crimea.
Here are some more Objective Facts vis a vis recent history of Crimea, courtesy of The Postil
On 20 January 1991, before the independence of Ukraine, the Crimeans were invited to choose by referendum between two options: to remain with Kiev or to return to the pre-1954 situation and be administered by Moscow. The question asked on the ballot was:
Are you in favor of the restoration of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea as a subject of the Soviet Union and a member of the Union Treaty?
This was the first referendum on autonomy in the USSR, and 93.6% of Crimeans agreed to be attached to Moscow. The Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea (ASSR Crimea), abolished in 1945, was thus re-established on 12 February 1991 by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.
Ukraine became independentsix months after Crimea , and after the latter had proclaimed its sovereignty on September 4. On February 26, 1992, the Crimean parliament proclaimed the “Republic of Crimea” with the agreement of the Ukrainian government, which granted it the status of a self-governing republic. On 5 May 1992, Crimea declared its independence and adopted a Constitution.
In 1994, by signing the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine surrendered the nuclear weapons of the former USSR that remained on its territory, in exchange for “its security, independence and territorial integrity.” At this stage, Crimea considered that it was—de-jure—no longer part of Ukraine and therefore not concerned by this treaty. On its side, the government in Kiev felt strengthened by the memorandum. This is why, on 17 March 1995, it forcibly abolished the Crimean Constitution. It sent its special forces to overthrow Yuri Mechkov, President of Crimea, and de facto annexed the Republic of Crimea, thus triggering popular demonstrations for the attachment of Crimea to Russia. An event hardly reported by the Western media.
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Work is actively continuing on the Kerch Strait Bridge to repair the aftermath of the 8 October terrorist attack which destroyed four spans of the road bridge crossing and damaged the structures of two spans of the railway section.
Rehabilitation is ahead of schedule. The third and fourth spans of the road bridge have been overhung and the structures are being assembled to their designed position.
The first and second spans have already been installed. Final works are underway to install the expansion joints between the bridge structures. Once this is complete, the pavement will be repaired: two layers of asphalt concrete will be laid over the already prepared waterproofing.
Full restoration of the storm drainage system, cable structures, lighting and other engineering systems of the damaged section will be carried out after the opening of traffic.
As we wrote earlier, the preservation of production links and the availability of a prepared industrial base made it possible to more than halve the originally planned timeframe for rebuilding the structure.
It is planned to open the traffic on the repaired road part of the bridge by 20 December.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/21218
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Since October 27, part of the trucks delivering goods to and from Crimea were allowed to bypass the Kerch bridge and the ferry across the territory of new regions.
And by the 20th of November, from 300 to 700 trucks pass through the territory of the Northern Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov every day. From 400 to 500 trucks pass through the ferry a day.
So the land bridge to the Crimea has started working and its capacity, despite the risks and novelty of the route, is already higher than that of the crossing. At the same time, fortunately, I did not see any news about shelling / blowing up trucks in the new territories, so the route can be called quite safe.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/22238
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