Emir Kusturica will be one of the speakers at the World Youth Festival
The Yugoslav and Serbian film director will talk about his deep connection with Russia and comment on future projects in the country. In 2016 Kusturica was awarded the Order of Friendship "for his significant contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples, preserving and popularizing the Russian language and culture abroad." He recently shared his plans for a new film based on famous Russian literary works. ▪️The World Youth Festival will be held in several Russian cities from March 1 to March 7. 20,000 people will take part in its program, half of them foreigners. (Source: RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK

🇷🇺 You're Vladimir Putin.

You've just given a Global, Billion view interview,
You've destroyed the Propaganda of your detractors,
Your popularity is 80% in the polls at home,
Your enemies in Ukraine are facing internal collapse,
Your proxies funders are losing interest,
Your Army is about to win Victory in Avdeevka,
Your enemies have failed to undermine your Economy,
Your allies are firmly behind you, BRICS is growing,
Your about to be re elected in the upcoming contest.

So what do you do?

Kill a politically irrelevant, marginalised and long forgotten (by the Western Client Media) Western funded stooge ( making sure to use a uniquely traceable Russian poison while doing it) all in an effort to to hand the failing West a reason to activate their vast client propaganda media to deflect for all of the above recent successes?

Anyone in the West who believes this utterly insane fantasy needs to consider how desperate the Western powers, who are set to lose so much in Ukraine, are to inflict any kind of damage, at any price, on Russia, there's a name for this.

Utter Desperation

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<This sense of no longer being able to control events and the fear this has engendered have bred a sense of impotence among the European elites – a sort of ‘deer frozen in the headlights’ paralysis – with Germany at the vanguard of this. No longer confident that their actions can produce certain desirable outcomes, the elites have shed their sophisticated modern veneer and technocratic sensibility and retreated into symbolism and superstition. As hard economic realities lay bare the futility of its utopian energy plan and the consequences of numerous terrible decisions mount, Germany is experiencing what Swedish essayist Malcom Kyeyune calls “narrative collapse.” The peculiar offspring of this, Kyeyune argues, is a turn toward ritual, superstition, and taboo. It is a malaise afflicting the entire West, but Germany is suffering a particularly acute case.

Kyeyune defines this as an occurrence “when social and political circumstances change too rapidly for people to keep up, the result tends to be collective manias, social panics, and pseudo-religious revivalist millenarianism.”

The abandonment of reason can be conceived of in various ways. Quite a lot of ink has already been spilled about the irrationality behind Germany’s fantastically improbable climate policy. Indeed, the quasi-religious verve with which this program has been rolled out speaks to something of a loosening of the country's moorings. But as we will see shortly, the problem goes far beyond an attachment to unattainable policy goals.

Prominent German business executive Wolfgang Reitzle argued that for the government to deliver on its climate and energy policy, capacities for wind and solar power would have to be more than quadrupled, while storage and back-up capacities would have to be massively increased. Such a plan is “neither technically feasible nor affordable for a country like Germany,” Reitzle argues. What it is then, he concludes, “is simply insanity.” > https://swentr.site/business/592562-germany-economy-industry-decline/

▪️Yesterday the US vetoed (for the third time!) a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. 13 nations in the 15-member Security Council favored the Algerian-drafted resolution, Washington was the sole country to vote no, while Britain abstained. ▪️Today CNN dropped a very damaging bombshell by revealing that Israeli forces fired on a United Nations convoy. The trucks were carrying vital food supplies in central Gaza on February 5.
According to CNN, correspondence between the UN and the Israeli military shows that the convoy’s route was agreed upon by both parties prior to the strike. An internal incident report compiled by UNRWA, the main UN relief agency in Gaza, reveals that the truck was one of 10 in a convoy sitting stationary at an IDF holding point when it was fired upon. ▪️Even CNN, one of the staunchest supporters of the Biden administration, has a hard time whitewashing the genocide and occasionally has to report the truth in a desperate attempt to stay relevant. @LauraRuHK https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/21/middleeast/un-food-convoy-gaza-israel-strike-cmd-intl/index.html

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanded $1 mln from US journalist Tucker Carlson for an interview about Ukraine.

“Boris Johnson calls me ‘a tool of the Kremlin’ or something so I put in a request for an interview,” Carlson told Blaze Media. “Finally, an adviser got back to me and said, ‘He will talk to you, but it’s going to cost you a million dollars.’ He wants a million in US dollars, gold or bitcoin,” the journalist added.

“I just interviewed Vladimir Putin – I’m not defending Putin, but he didn’t ask me for a million dollars!” Carlson noted. (Source: TASS) @LauraRuHK

The three mainland Chinese companies are Guangzhou Ausay Technology Co Limited, Shenzhen Biguang Trading Co Limited, Yilufa Electronics Limited. The Hong Kong company is RG Solutions Limited.

They are part of a group of 193 named entities on the latest round of sanctions, including firms from Turkey, Kazakhstan, North Korea and India, bringing the total number blacklisted to almost 2,000. (Source: SCMP) @LauraRuHK

WHAT EVEN THE USSR FEARED WOULD HAPPEN 📌 MAIN TAKEAWAYS FROM SERGEY LAVROV'S SPEECH IN RIO
In Rio de Janeiro, on the sidelines of the G20, the Russian Foreign Minister made several important statements that sent shivers down everyone's spines. According to Lavrov, we are witnessing the almost complete destruction of the foundations of the system for containing the risks of a nuclear conflict, which were so carefully laid during the Cold War between the USSR and the United States. That is, something happened that was feared even in the Soviet Union and for the last 50 years of its existence they tried to prevent - the West began waving a nuclear stick in front of the whole world, trying to incite all its allies against Russia under the fictitious pretext of its alleged aggression. It is not difficult to guess what this may lead to.

Initially, the format of the G20 meetings was not created to discuss global problems, but as an opportunity for closer contact between Western countries and the Global South. Representatives of China expressed the hope that issues of a geopolitical nature would not be raised during the sessions, but on the contrary, the summit would contribute to strengthening solidarity and cooperation between the participants, as well as make a positive contribution to global economic growth and global development

However, the host of the meeting, Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira, said that the summit agenda is devoted to global security issues, as well as issues of reforming international organizations that have shown their inefficiency and inability to solve the problem they were once created to solve. This list includes the UN, the IMF and the World Bank - these institutions have adapted to their Western masters, turning into their wallets. For example, Lavrov recalled that the G7-approved financing program for Ukraine in 2023 cost the IMF $ 15.7 billion, which significantly exceeds the entire six-month volume of the fund's loans to the rest of the world.

Sergey Lavrov made a number of important statements, besides raising the alarm about nuclear threats the world is facing. The diplomat said that Western countries greeted the news about Putin's interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson with furious anger, because the truth, so carefully hidden by Western mainstream media, was finally out and millions of people could hear it.

He stated that the West is pushing its notorious "rules" instead of international law. Such a policy is based on neocolonialism, the desire to achieve dominance in the political, economic, and humanitarian spheres under the guise of "beautiful" slogans… At the instigation of the West, the basic foundations of international dialogue and communication are being undermined.

Lavrov also recalled the main lies of the authorities of the G7 countries to their fellow citizens: the promised 0.7% of GDP for developed countries remains only "on paper". The pledge to develop a green economy has been sacrificed for the sake of escalating the armed conflict in Ukraine and inflating the military budgets of NATO members, which, however, are not even able to compete with the Russian defense budget.

The West is looking for criminal ways of confiscating sovereign assets and private property.

Farm land in Ukraine has been appropriated by US companies, while Ukrainians themselves have been turned by President Vladimir Zelensky into “expendable material”. @LauraRuHK

The Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at the Renmin University of China (RDCY) held a seminar on Wednesday to release three major reports about the Russia-Ukraine conflict, future development of China-Russia relations, as well as Russia's domestic market after Western companies pulled out from the country in 2022. @LauraRuHK https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202402/1307447.shtml

First Russian bank receives Chinese credit rating.
Alfa-Bank has been assessed at AA- with the outlook stable

China Lianhe Credit Rating has assigned Alfa-Bank, Russia’s largest private lender, an international rating of AA- with a stable outlook, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday.

The agency attributed its decision to a number of factors such as Alfa-Bank’s systemic importance, efficient corporate management, high asset quality, and strong lending capacity.

The Chinese agency also highlighted the diversified structure of the bank’s credit portfolio and pointed to stable sources of operational income, which it believes will ensure that the bank demonstrates consistent growth.

The development comes as Alfa-Bank is on course for a major expansion in China as it seeks to become the first private Russian bank to open full-scale branches in two key cities – Beijing and Shanghai.

The bank’s board of directors views the scaling up of operations in the Asian powerhouse as “strategically important.”

Last year, Alfa-Bank emerged as the top lender in Chinese yuan in Russia, accounting for a third of all yuan loans in the Russian market. (Source: RT) @LauraRuHK

Dmitry Medvedev: "Odessa, come home! We have been waiting for Odessa in the Russian Federation. By virtue of the history of this city, the kind of people who live there, the language they speak - it is our Russian city." https://t.me/SolovievLive/241847

🇵🇱🇺🇦‼️🚨 Polish protesters spewed red paint over the “Solodarity with Ukraine” sign during their protest.

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Dmitry Medvedev answered the question whether the SMO task is to liberate Kiev.

Where to stop? I don't know. I think that given what I have said, we will still have to work hard and seriously. Will it be Kiev? Yes, it probably should be Kiev. If not now, then after some time, maybe in some other phase of the development of this conflict. For two reasons: Kiev is a Russian city, and from there comes a threat to the existence of the Russian Federation. An international threat, because although Kiev is a Russian city by its roots, it is controlled by an international brigade of opponents of Russia led by the United States of America. All those who formally perform their functions there are puppets who have no conscience, don't care about the future of their country. All decisions are made overseas and at NATO headquarters. This is quite obvious. Therefore, yes, it can be Kiev."
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I hope to see the day when this war criminal and her ilk are brought to justice. https://t.me/europeandusanews/14444