#RussianElections Very high turnout in the 4 historic regions that have joined the Russian Federation in 2022 - between 83 and 88%, and a landslide victory for Vladimir Putin. ▪️The presidential election was monitored by observers from all over the world. @LauraRuHK

#RussianElections - Vladimir Putin leads the Russian presidential race with 87.32%. For comparison, here are Putin’s performances in the previous four Russian presidential elections that he participated in as candidate:
2018 – 76.69%
2012 – 63.6%
2004 – 71.3%
2000 – 52.9%

❗️Key takeaways from Vladimir Putin’s statements at a press conference at his campaign headquarters:

▪️ Putin says all Russians are one family; hopes the country will achieve its goals

▪️ Will of Russians can never be crushed from abroad

▪️ Election results show that Donbass and Novorossia are thankful to Russia for protection

▪️ Putin names special operation tasks, strengthening Russia’s defense capabilities among the priorities for his next presidential term

▪️ Attacks on borderline Russian regions continue now, but the enemy’s losses are nearly 100%

▪️ Russia destroys nearly 100% of the enemy’s forces trying to sneak into its soil

▪️ Enemy amassed around 5,000 troops in the border areas and immediate rear zone

▪️ Russia favors peace talks but not only because the enemy is short of ammunition

▪️ Russia has no preferences on US presidential candidates, will work with anyone who is elected

▪️ Putin says he was ready to swap Alexey Navalny for inmates from Western jails

▪️ At some point, Ukraine’s attacks on Russian border areas may force Russia to create a ‘buffer zone’

▪️ Russia-NATO conflict will lead to a situation only one step away from World War III – Putin. (Source: TASS) @LauraRuHK

🎶 A Tchaikovsky Conservatory will be opened in China.
💬 China is set to establish a Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the near future, as announced by Mikhail Shvydkoy, the special representative of President of the Russian Federation for international cultural cooperation.
🔹 This ambitious and long-term educational project, supported by the leadership of the People's Republic of China, will be based on the Moscow State Conservatory named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in collaboration with a Chinese university.
⚡️The newly established music university will employ teachers who have graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and are well-versed in traditional Russian teaching methods, which enjoy global recognition. Mikhail Shvydkoy emphasized that while the conservatory will be open to all applicants, its primary focus will be on catering to the Chinese audience.
Photo: official website of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (source: Russian Consulate General in Hong Kong) @LauraRuHK

Elezioni in Russia. Anche quando la propaganda occidentale si arrampica sugli specchi collezionando figuracce, potete stare sicuri che il fido Iacoboni la rilancera' eroicamente, sfidando gli abissi del ridicolo. Ieri ci mostrava foto di schede elettorali annullate dagli insulti, foto che ha preso da Novaya Gazeta, testata finanziata dai soliti noti. Ai fact checkers di regime ovviamente non interessa smascherare questi fake visto che sono impegnati a diffonderli. Ma chiunque abbia votato sa che prima di entrare nella cabina con la scheda in mano deve lasciare fuori borse e telefoni. La regola vale in tutto il mondo, Russia compresa. Quindi, o le foto sono un falso, o chi le ha fatte ci vuole raccontare che anche in Russia si annullano le schede. A questo punto, dove starebbe la notizia? Forse che in Italia e altrove cio' non avviene? @LauraRuHK

Elezioni in Russia - Il risultato, che alle 7 del mattino ora di Mosca vede l' 87,32% dei voti per il presidente russo - un vero plebiscito - eccede anche le stime derivanti dai sondaggi pre-elettorali che gia' davano Vladimir Putin intorno all'80%. Quali conclusioni si possono trarre? Una su tutte. Quando il popolo russo e' sotto attacco, mette da parte le divisioni politiche e si stringe intorno al suo leader. E' esattamente l'opposto di quanto avviene in Occidente, dove le crisi minano la fiducia popolare nel governo in carica, gia' bassa in partenza, e inaspriscono il conflitto sociale e politico. In Russia chi aveva votato per gli altri maggiori partiti nel 2018, come il Partito Comunista o il Partito Liberal-Democratico, nel 2024 ha deciso di sostenere Putin. Le ragioni sono diverse. In gran parte gli elettori condividono le scelte del loro presidente, scelte difficili e di portata storica, hanno compreso che non era possibile agire diversamente, e ora intendono dimostrare unita' nel perseguimento degli obiettivi dell'operazione militare in Ucraina e sostenere il corso intrapreso dal governo sia in politica interna che in quella estera. Putin ha dato prova di quelle qualita' di leadership che i russi si aspettano dal capo del loro governo. All'Occidente puo' non piacere, ma ai russi ormai interessa poco o nulla quello che l'Occidente pensa di loro e lo hanno dimostrato sia recandosi alle urne (l'affluenza piu' alta dal 1991!) che votando per Putin. @LauraRuHK

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#RussianElections - Vladimir Putin's landslide victory exceeds what pre-election surveys had anticipated - they had put Vladimir Putin at around 80%, he has won over 87%. ▪️What conclusions can be drawn? When Russia is under attack, Russians put aside political differences and rally around their leader. ▪️This is exactly the opposite of what happens in the West, where crises undermine popular trust in the incumbent government, already low to begin with, and exacerbate social and political divisions. In Russia, those who had voted for the other major parties in 2018, such as the Communist Party or the Liberal Democratic Party, decided to back Putin in 2024. The reasons are diverse. For the most part, voters support the choices made by their president, difficult choices of historic significance, and intended to show unity in the pursuit of the goals of the SMO in Ukraine. ▪️Russians understand that the course taken by their government in both domestic and foreign policy is the correct one and Putin has already demonstrated the leadership qualities Russians expect from the head of their government. ▪️The West may not like it, but Russians now care little or nothing what the West thinks of them, and they proved it by going to the polls (highest turnout since 1991!) and voting for Putin. @LauraRuHK

"There were no elections in Russia"🤣Favourite coping strategy in the Baltics: denial of reality! They got the memo from Washington. Remember a few days ago when Yulia Navalnaya called on the West not to recognize the results of the presidential election in Russia? But why stop there? Let's pretend that Russia doesn't exist, never existed, that millions of Russians are just a figment of the imagination. Say abracadabra, and Putin, Russia and Russians will magically disappear. See? Easy. Problem solved. https://t.me/LauraRuHK/7899

Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a congratulatory message to Vladimir Putin, said that his re-election as President of the Russian Federation fully reflects the support of the people of the country, reports China Central Television.

"In recent years, the Russian people have united, overcome challenges and made steady progress on the path of national development and rejuvenation," the Chinese leader said. (Source: RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK

Freedom of speech in the United States is one for domestic politicians and interest groups, and another for ordinary people. The United States issued a report to baselessly smear and accuse other countries of spreading "disinformation," but the United States is the source of disinformation and the command post of "cognitive warfare" throughout the world. Today's world is not at a time when a lie repeated thousands of times can become the truth, or smearing others can whitewash oneself. The eyes of the people of the world are bright. No matter how the United States propagates its freedom of speech, and how it spares no effort to blame other countries for spreading"false information", it cannot change the fact that more and more people are seeing through the ugly practices of the United States: how it relies on lies to weave "the emperor's new clothes," and how it smears others to maintain its hegemony. (Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs) @LauraRuHK Read more here https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/wjbxw/202403/t20240314_11260689.html

BREAKING: Israeli army arrests the entire Al Jazeera crew and destroys the broadcasting vehicles in the yard of the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, according to local sources.

Secondo un rapporto del Ministero della Difesa russo le forze armate russe hanno eliminato 5 .962 mercenari stranieri sui 13.287 arrivati in Ucraina.

Tra i mercenari si contano 90 italiani e 33 di essi avrebbero trovato la morte in Ucraina. Ma questa notizia non viene commentata né da parte del ministero degli Esteri, né degli Interni, né della Difesa. https://contropiano.org/news/politica-news/2024/03/18/in-ucraina-uccisi-33-mercenari-italiani-silenzio-da-parte-del-governo-0170484

Avete presente i "Disturbatori" visti davanti al consolato russo di Milano che provocavano le signore in fila per votare? Quel tizio che "VOLEVA" entrare per vedere gli scrutinatori e sapere i risultati perché non si fidava dei comunicati ufficiali?- video: https://youtu.be/Hxani0_-9hw?si=bL9yERYsVzKhbu2n Il caso ha voluto che quel provocatore con il cappotto color cammello sia stato eletto nel 2017 Presidente dell'Associazione Milanese Amici Di Israele. (Fonte: @Bayanov74 via X/Twitter)

Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA's spokeperson:

The German Foreign Ministry stated that it would not indicate Putin’s position in official documents and would limit it to his last name. A representative of the German Foreign Ministry said that he “does not remember” that the ministry had recently put any designations before the name.

Remember, as Rudyard Kipling said: “Bagheera called fire the Red Flower because not a single animal in the jungle would call fire by its true name. All animals are mortally afraid of fire and come up with hundreds of names just to avoid calling it directly.”

Call doctors at Werderscher Markt, 1 - memory loss and acute phobias

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All the leaders of sovereign, independent countries congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election as president. The leaders of vassal, captured states didn't.
Isn't it an easy way to separate the wheat from the chaff? 😏 @LauraRuHK

Russia and Iran followed at 26 per cent and 9 per cent, respectively. While the figure for Russia dwindled from 32 per cent in 2023, that of Iran jumped from 2 per cent a year earlier. ▪️While most Americans have not visited China, they have been heavily propagandized, that is exposed to negative coverage of China on a daily basis and psyops aimed, among other things, at changing their perception of China.

Evidence of such an influence is reflected in opinion polls that tracked changes in Americans’ perception of China during the past five decades. Polls show that Americans’ views of China were relatively stable and positive for almost three decades, but then dropped precipitously from 53% of Americans who held favorable views of China in 2018 to only 20% who held such views in 2022. This significant drop was likely due to fake news about Hong Kong riots (2019-20) and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. @LauraRuHK

Ukraine’s losses in its confrontation with the Russian Armed Forces should be counted in the millions, rather than in hundreds of thousands, a high-ranking Polish general said.

Former Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces Rajmund Andrzejczak said in an interview with the Polsat TV channel: "I believe that [Ukraine’s actual] losses should be counted in the millions, not the hundreds of thousands." "There are no resources in this country, no one left to fight," the general added.

"The Ukrainians are losing this war," he said, describing the situation as "very, very dramatic."

Commenting on the strategic situation on the battlefield under new Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky, who recently replaced the former commander, General Valery Zaluzhny, Andrzejczak said that the top brass reshuffle had not changed anything. "General Syrsky is facing the same dilemmas as General Zaluzhny. It turns out that he had to withdraw the troops and tidy up the frontline. All the problems that Zaluzhny had still remain," he maintained.

When asked to comment on reports saying that Ukrainian forces may run out of air defense missiles by the end of March, the general opined that this means "further effective strikes [on Ukraine], more victims, and more elements of the [Ukrainian] state’s infrastructure destroyed."
(Source: TASS) @LauraRuHK