🇦🇺🇷🇺Russian Media continue coverage of the mysterious death of Australian man James Walters:

🇺🇦Threats against Walters came from an English-speaking group on Facebook * (an organization banned in the Russian Federation ) led by a certain Michael Crook .

⚡️This group also wrote that the next after James Walters would be a Russian émigré named Artyom.

❗️In addition, Walters himself complained that he was threatened by Anton Boganovich , a local Banderist who teaches at the University of Sydney and collects money for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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🟥Pubblichiamo alcuni, importanti, estratti dall'intervista con Maria Zakharova - condotta da Thomas Röper per il suo sito ANTI-SPIEGEL e per il suo canale YouTube

La traduzione è stata effettuata da Nora Hoppe.

LETTURA ALTAMENTE CONSIGLIATA DEL GIORNO

https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-la_vecchia_europa_ha_perso_la_sua_sovranit_estratti_dellintervista_di_maria_zakharova_a_lantispiegel/45289_49822/

📍Berlin revokes permits for four out of five Russian consulates in the country, German Foreign Ministry announced. Annalena Baerbock, the radicalized Atlanticist in charge of Foreign Affairs in Germany, has neither the ability nor the inclination to engage in diplomacy. No wonder she disregards the work of diplomats, whose importance in times of crisis can hardly be overstated. @LauraRuHK

🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Russian banks connect to the "Chinese killer" SWIFT

30 Russian banks have already joined the CIPS payment system. Dozens more are awaiting approval of applications. It is expected that due to the transition to the analogue of SWIFT, logistics and settlements will become more predictable.

📝 “The main problem with payments is that they do not go through or go much longer than we would like. Within the framework of CIPS, there will be no such problems, ” said Georgy Mikhailets , partner of the Payments and Transfers company.

📈 Fast and accurate payments are also required by the growth of trade between Russia and China. Over the past year, it has grown by almost a third, and 70% of transactions with Beijing are already carried out in national currencies. Also, more and more banks offer deposits in yuan.

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Xi harbours no illusions about US real intentions and wants the country to prepare for the storm ahead. According to Xie Maosong, senior fellow at Beijing’s Taihe Institute and a senior researcher at Tsinghua University’s National Strategy Institute, “The ‘worst-case scenarios’ might include a nuclear war, a devastating war that ruins China’s coastal economic belts [or] Western sanctions on China’s energy, finance and food supply,” Xie said.
“The better China is prepared for these, the less likely such scenarios will actually happen.”
Other likely challenges could be “a new pandemic” or “a major earthquake and other disasters caused by extreme weather”, he added. @LauraRuHK https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3222477/china-facing-more-complex-security-challenges-president-xi-jinping-says-warns-worst-case-situation

After 12 years flights resume between Venezuela and Syria. 🎉 https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/66483

💢 I don't want to hear "Glory to Ukraine" in Croatia

Croatian President Milanovic

He said that the slogan "Glory to Ukraine" has the same origin as the cry of the Croatian Ustashe, the extreme right-wing group that operated in the country during World War II.

"There is no difference between 'Ready for a home' and 'Glory to Ukraine'. This is the cry of the most radical chauvinists in Western Ukraine, who collaborated with the Nazis and killed thousands of Jews, Poles... I don't want to hear this in Croatia," he said.

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Investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg, who was recently detained upon his arrival in London and subjected to a 5 hour interrogation about his political views and reporting, spoke about his investigations in this podcast. I have been following Kit's amazing work for years, often sharing and quoting it. If you don't know him, this is a great chance to get acquainted with his work. https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/47988

🇬🇧🌍 How Great Britain tries to recreate its colonial empire in Africa

Russian channel Rybar analyzed the British expansion into Africa.

The most interesting part of the material lies in the current state of Great Britain’s policies towards African continent and how it tried to maintain position after the disband of colonial empire.

▪️In the middle of 20th century British government after the pressure from the US decided to change its format of interaction with the newly formed states. Despite granting them formal independence, Great Britain replaced direct control with an indirect one.

Most of the former colonies did not have any national industries or skilled workers to develop them. Trying to gain something by selling resources was also destined to fail, since the international market was already divided between developed states.

The most logical way for local leaders in this dire situation was to ask its former colonizer and British companies for a help to win some place under the sun. Thus newly formed countries sold themselves to UK and were forced to play by its rules in hopes of gaining access to the international market and develop somehow.

▪️The main British interest in African countries lies in mining, mineral extraction and financial services, since the continent is viewed as a source of raw materials. Thus 88% of all Great Britain’s investments in the region lie in these spheres. Other fields that African really need to improve, like communication and agriculture, are overlooked.

▪️Moreover, Britain maintains a military presence on the territory of about 40 countries of Africa. The UK government justifies its presence by training African personnel, peacekeeping missions and the fight against terrorism.

But all this activity, for the most part, exists only on paper, and the situation of fragmentation and terrorism has not improved at all during the time British "peacekeepers" have been on the continent.

▪️The situation to this day doesn't look so good. Dependence on Britain persists. However, with the rise of other foreign players in the end of 20th and beginning of 21st centuries, Africa can see some improvements.

#UK #Africa

@africaintel @rybar

Non capisco perche' ieri alcuni canali Telegram abbiano condiviso come se fosse recente un mio post dell'ottobre 2022. L'eterno presente della rete. https://t.me/LauraRuHK/1809

CIA hacked iPhones of diplomats in Russia – FSB
Russian security officials claim to have uncovered a major surveillance operation exploiting Apple devices.

The CIA installed malware on thousands of Apple phones used by Russian citizens and foreign diplomats working in the country, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed.

The FSB said on Thursday that a joint operation with the Federal Guard Service (FSO) had “uncovered a surveillance operation by American intelligence agencies, carried out with the use of Apple’s mobile devices.”

An assessment of Russia’s telecom infrastructure revealed “anomalies” in the operations of some iPhones, caused by “a previously unknown malicious program that uses software vulnerabilities provided by the manufacturer,” a statement by the agency read.

Several thousand phones made by Apple were infected with the malware, according to the FSB.

Not only Russian citizens were targeted, but also “foreign phone numbers and subscribers that use SIM cards registered with diplomatic missions and embassies inside Russia, including countries from the NATO bloc and the post-Soviet space, as well Israel, Syria and China,” the agency said.

The discovery is more proof of the close cooperation between Apple and the US intelligence community, the FSB claimed, adding that “the declared policy of ensuring the privacy of personal data of Apple users has nothing to do with reality.”

The FSB also accused Apple of “providing the American intelligence services with a wide range of opportunities to survey any persons of interest to the White House, including their partners in anti-Russian activities, as well as their own citizens.” (Source: RT) @LauraRuHK

MOLDOVA - People in white T-shirts have again been spotted in various corners of the capital, Chisinau.

Yesterday, protesters wearing such T-shirts to skirt a ban on demonstrations, were stopped by the police. The T-shirts displayed messages critical of President Maia Sandu, while participants at a European Political Community (EPC) summit gathered in the city.

“Europe, if you support Maia Sandu, you also support: silencing the opposition by banning independent media; canceling free and fair elections; mass arrests targeting political opposition,” said the shirts, which were white and printed with red letters, front and back. https://t.me/mv6566/18740

⚡ The Security Service of Ukraine, with the help of the Save Ukraine Foundation, is preparing an informational provocation on the subject of the allegedly forcible deportation of children to Russia, a source told Sputnik

▪️ According to the source, the women, whose children were evacuated to Russia from Kherson, received financing for a trip to Russia on the condition that they give an interview after returning with their children to Ukraine.

▪️ One of the women confirmed that she had helped in organizing the trip and paid for travel expenses, but with the condition that the child should give an interview: "maybe they are preparing surprises there; I will be simply amazed."

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Rybar wrote a long article about the Commonwealth as a vector of British influence and British-led globalization. It mentions the role of NGOs such as Amnesty International, Oxfam and Save The Children. I have just translated it into English. https://telegra.ph/Commonwealth-of-Nations-How-Britain-is-spreading-its-influence-in-the-world-06-01

⚡️ On new facts of global surveillance by the United States

The Russian authorities have uncovered new facts of the US special services using American IT companies for global surveillance of US and other countries’ citizens. In this instance, they used the software vulnerabilities of US-made smartphones.

This fact has conclusively proven what Moscow has been speaking about for a long time, namely, that the US intelligence services have been using IT giants for decades to collect internet users’ personal data without their knowledge. More evidence of this illegal activity comes to light every year.

Time and again, we addressed the concerned international platforms on the need to restore order and formulate the universal rules of conduct in the digital environment based on respect for the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals and the sovereign equality of states. In January 2021, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation adopted a Statement on the violation of the freedom of speech principle by US global IT companies and on drafting an international convention to regulate their operations. Practice has shown that Washington is not ready to consider our proposals.

❗️ The United States has placed itself above the law. We have provided the UN with ample evidence of the double standards that country and its special services and companies have been using in the sphere of international information security (IIS).

We once again call on all the concerned parties to formulate clear and fair regulations in the digital sphere that would be binding for all states and especially ICT designers. This is the goal of the initiatives Russia has advanced within the framework of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on IIS. <...>

☝️ No state has a right to abuse its technological capabilities in a sensitive sphere such as access to the personal data of smartphone users.

Russian analyst Elena Panina writes: We agree with Vladislav Shurygin. Through their attacks on the Belgorod region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to force the Russian Army to redeploy manpower and weapons there - and thereby weaken other parts of the front, making them vulnerable to the much-publicized Ukrainian "counter-offensive".

Overall, we are heading towards a situation where the entire line of contact with Ukraine, including the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions, will eventually become a front line. This implies an increase in the size of the Russian Armed Forces' contingent involved in the Special Military Operation (SMO) and an increase in its armaments and combat equipment.

Let us stress once again that victory can only be achieved by launching an offensive. We will need 1-1.5 million servicemen in the zone of the SMO, not counting the reserves. And the strike groups need to be formed now. https://t.me/EvPanina/9753