Laura Ru
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Researcher & writer based in Hong Kong. Former academic. Longform articles archived at https://lauraruggeri.substack.com and https://laura-ruggeri.medium.com. Email: lauraru852@yandex.ru
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Vivo su un'isola meravigliosa ma prima che a qualcuno venga la tentazione di invidiarmi, non mi trovo nel "giardino europeo" di Borrell, bensi' nella "giungla". La nostra vita e' fatta anche di scolopendre e serpenti velenosi. Prima di andare a dormire ispezioniamo il letto per assicurarci che nessun ospite sgradito si nasconda sotto il lenzuolo o in qualche angolo della camera.
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Kremlin ‘alarmed’ by reported coup attempt in former Soviet republic
Moscow is closely monitoring the situation in Kyrgyzstan, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said

Russian authorities are concerned over reports of an attempted coup in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.

Early Monday, local media claimed that Kyrgyz security forces had arrested participants of an alleged coup. According to reports, a group of people had been plotting to take power from President Sadyr Japarov by force.

The identities and whereabouts of those arrested are currently unknown, but judging by the videos of detentions uploaded on social media, the operation apparently took place in the country's capital, Bishkek.

Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry and the State Committee for National Security have yet to make any official statements regarding the situation.

“So far, obviously, very alarming news is coming in,” Peskov said when asked to comment on the reports from Kyrgyzstan. The Russian authorities are “closely monitoring” the events, he added. (Source: RT) @LauraRuHK
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Forwarded from Istituto Italia Brics
🟣 L'incontro dei BRICS concluso a Città del Capo passerà alla storia come il momento in cui la dedollarizzazione è diventata adulta.

Cina e Brasile regolano gli scambi in Yuan e Real.
La Francia ha concluso alcune transazioni in Yuan.
India e Malesia aumentano l'uso della Rupia nel commercio bilaterale.
Pechino e Mosca commerciano stabilmente in Yuan e Rubli.
I 10 Paesi dell’ASEAN spingono per commercio regionale e investimenti in valute locali, non in dollari.
L'Indonesia, la più grande economia dell'ASEAN, sta lavorando con la Corea del Sud per aumentare le transazioni in Rupie e Won.
Il Pakistan sta cercando di iniziare a pagare la Russia in Yuan per le importazioni di petrolio.
Gli Emirati Arabi Uniti stanno parlando con l'India di fare più commercio non-oil in Rupie.

La dedollarizzazione persisterà e crescerà; non è più una questione di se, ma di quando. (Asia Times)

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MI 6 head congratulates Turkish Foreign Minister parody account

The head of British intelligence MI6, Richard Moore, decided to congratulate the appointment of the new Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan via Twitter, but congratulated the parody account.

Fidan, who has been the head of Turkish intelligence for a long time, does not have an official Twitter profile at the moment. Moore eventually admitted his mistake and wrote that it was awkward.
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The Western pressure on India continues. The US policy in this regard is about tearing India away from Russia and sowing discord between India and China. The problem with this policy is that the US has very few carrots to offer. But one shouldn't underestimate the damage it can do through the cooptation of Indian elites and influence operations carried out online. Shortly after a bitter meeting with his Chinese counterpart, US defence secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in India – the world’s largest arms importer – to discuss "upgrading the US’s partnership with Delhi to counter China’s economic rise and increased belligerence".

The US defence secretary’s India visit is expected to lay the groundwork for prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington on 22 June, which has fuelled speculation about a possible announcement of defence contracts.

Mr Austin met Indian defence minister Rajnath Sigh and the two explored ways of building "resilient supply chains", a statement from India’s defence ministry said. @LauraRuHK
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Forwarded from Slavyangrad (Sergey Slessarenko)
🛢#oil

Saudi Arabia will raise the price of oil with delivery to all regions in July, state-run Saudi Aramco said.

The most significant increase will be for the U.S. and the Northwest European region, by $0.9 per barrel. For buyers from Mediterranean states the prices will increase by $0.6 per barrel.

Oil with delivery to Asian countries will go up in price by $0.45 per barrel. As a result Arab Light brand will cost $3 per barrel more than the Oman/Dubai oil basket. This is the highest level in the last six months.

Note: who knew...who knew Arabs could be so vindictive.
Hey Joe, insult them again!

Note 2: oh, so that's why the Arabs ceded the Asian markets to Russia. Now they're going to bring it all back to Europe and America, too.
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US arrogance at its best - The US military, echoed by Western media, slams Chinese warship’s "unsafe and unprofessional" manoeuvres in...the Taiwan Strait! 🤣 If these guys do not want to have a close encounter with Chinese ships, they should stop their provocations. Problem solved. @LauraRuHK
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Monitoring the poor to see what happens when you destroy their jobs and replace them with charity handouts.
British think tank "Autonomy" - Orwellian newspeak - will pay 30 people £1,600 per month for two years while monitoring their mental health
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A British think tank announced the UK’s first-ever universal basic income program on Sunday, offering 30 participants £1,600 ($1,990) per month with no strings attached to see how it affects them mentally and physically.

Autonomy, the group organizing the experiment, promised the recipients of the free money that their anonymity would be preserved. They claim the group will be both randomly selected and “representative.” One group will be drawn from the north London suburb of East Finchley and the other from central Jarrow, in the northeast of England. The think tank also plans to employ a ‘control group’, who will answer the same questionnaires as their well-paid counterparts but without the monthly checks.

“Our society is going to require some form of basic income in the coming years, given the tumult of climate change, tech disruption and industrial transition that lies ahead,” Autonomy research director Will Stronge said in a statement accompanying the plan’s publication, explaining his organization was trialing the project now “so the ground is well prepared for national implementation.”

“All the evidence shows that [a UBI] would directly alleviate poverty and boost millions of people’s well-being: the potential benefits are just too large to ignore,” he said.

While it’s unclear how a nationwide scheme would be funded, the think tank suggested the money would come from private philanthropy or local authorities.

While Autonomy’s is the first truly “universal” pilot in the UK in that there are no qualifications for participating, Wales recently began paying £1,600 ($1,990) per month to 500 young people aging out of foster care for two years and Scotland is working on establishing a minimum income guarantee. A campaign is underway in Stroud to launch a UBI scheme there as well.

“We haven’t seen levels of deprivation and deep poverty across our communities like this in decades,” Emma Kernahan, one of the founders of the Stroud UBI project, told the BBC earlier this year. Government responses to Covid-19 decimated the UK economy, causing the worst market crash in three centuries, and while the economy has largely recovered since then, soaring inflation and skyrocketing energy prices have kept comfortable living out of the reach of many.

As news of Autonomy’s project spread on social media, many users expressed doubt that a government-backed UBI would ever come without strings attached.

Investment bank Goldman Sachs recently estimated AI will replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, with some professions – like the law and administration – losing nearly half their manpower to silicon competitors. (Source: RT) @LauraRuHK
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Former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko believes that the Minsk agreements made it possible to arm Ukraine. In an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper, he called the Ukrainian army "the best negotiator" and said that the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which will become a "general attack", will begin "in the next few hours."

TASS report speculates attack lets wait and see. We are calm and waiting for official statements as always, and will report any information we can verify.

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Secondo i media mainstream occidentali i russi continuerebbero a sabotarsi da soli. Dopo aver fatto saltare il gasdotto Nord Stream e il ponte di Crimea, dopo aver bersagliato la centrale nucleare di Zaporozhye che controllano dall'inizio dell'operazione militare, ieri notte avrebbero lanciato razzi sulla diga di Nova Kakhovka inondando le proprie linee di difesa sul versante orientale del fiume Dnipro. Questo versante e' piu' basso rispetto a quello occidentale sotto il controllo ucraino e quindi e' stato maggiormente colpito dall'inondazione. Ma si sa, i russi sono masochisti, non a caso hanno chiamato l'operazione in corso OMS, operazione masochistica speciale. Non sappiamo se abbiano anche usato pale per distruggere la diga, ma conoscendoli e' probabile che nella notte abbiano mandato una squadra di spalatori coperti da una pioggia di razzi.😉 @LauraRuHK
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According to Western mainstream media, Russians are hellbent on self-sabotage.
After blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline and the Crimean bridge, after targeting the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant which they have controlled since the beginning of the military operation, last night they fired rockets at the Nova Kakhovka dam, flooding their own defence lines on the eastern side of the Dnipro river and forcing the evacuation of an area under their administration. As the terrain on the eastern side has a lower elevation than on the western side under Ukrainian control, it will bear the brunt of the devastating flood that followed the attack.
But you know, Russians are masochists - it is no coincidence that they called the current operation SMO, Special Masochistic Operation.
It's too early to tell if they also used shovels to damage the dam, but one can't rule it out: they could have easily sent a team of diggers with 19th century shovels under the cover of dark and rockets.😉 @LauraRuHK
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📋🇷🇺🇺🇦🌊 On the Consequences of the #Kakhovskaya Blow📍

🗓 In April last year, the editorial board of the Propagandist's Notebook carried out with the help of a special computer simulation visualization of the potential flooding zone (not flooding, there will be no tsunami) in the event of the destruction of the #Kakhovskaya HPP.

The simulation was done before the water discharge, which took place earlier.

Nevertheless, as can be seen from the terrain elevation model, our coast is lower than the enemy's.

It is reported from the field that some trenches of our troops have become unusable.

📌 The conditions for the defence of the RF Armed Forces' terrain of the have become difficult, while after the discharge of water from the reservoir, the AFU retain the ability to force the #Dnieper and direct pontoon crossings to transfer equipment near the remnants of the dam to strike in the direction of #Berislav - Novaya Kakhovka.

At the moment, both sides are withdrawing troops from the islands.

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Forwarded from Rossella Fidanza (Rossella Fidanza)
Zakharova: Il 21 ottobre 2022, l'ambasciatore russo presso le Nazioni Unite ha inviato una lettera al Segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite in merito ai piani del regime di Kiev di distruggere la diga idroelettrica di Kakhovskaya. Ecco una domanda per Antonio Guterres: cosa è stato fatto?
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Ukro terrorists had long planned to sabotage the Nova Kakhovka dam. Last year Ukrainian military officer Andriy Kovalchuk gave an interview to The Washington Post sharing those plans.
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💬 Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova:

On October 21, 2022, Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, sent a letter to the UN Secretary General regarding Kiev regime's plans to destroy the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam.

Here is a question for the UN Secretary General: what has been done?
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La Repubblica applaude l'ennesimo episodio di russofobia e cancel culture in Italia. Questa volta a danno di Valentina Lisitsa, grandissima interprete di Rachmaninoff, che e' nata a Kiev e ha radici russe, ucraine e polacche. La sua colpa? Aver suonato a Mariupol il 9 maggio del 2022 e aver commemorato i morti della strage alla Casa del Sindacato di Odessa del 2014. Gli organizzatori del concerto che doveva tenere a Lerici sono stati subissati di minacce e proteste pilotate dalla rete della propaganda ucraina in Italia e hanno deciso di annullare la sua esibizione. @LauraRuHK
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