Chronicles of Troubled Times: prologue to WWIII

⚡️The #UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution not recognizing the so-called "referendums" in the occupied DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine.
▪️143 out of 193 member countries voted "FOR" the resolution.
🇷🇺🇸🇾🇧🇾🇰🇵🇳🇮 Five were "AGAINST" — #Russia, #Syria, #Belarus, #North_Korea and #Nicaragua.
🇨🇳🇩🇿🇮🇳🇻🇳🇵🇰 Abstentions include #China, #Algeria, #India, #Vietnam, #Pakistan and others (35 countries in total)

⚡️Генассамблея #ООН подавляющим большинством голосов приняла резолюцию, не признающую так называемые «референдумы» в оккупированных ДНР, ЛНР, Херсонской и Запорожской областях Украины.
▪️143 из 193 стран-членов проголосовали "ЗА" резолюцию.
🇷🇺🇸🇾🇧🇾🇰🇵🇳🇮 Пять выступили "ПРОТИВ" — #Россия, #Сирия, #Беларусь, #Северная_Корея и #Никарагуа.
🇨🇳🇩🇿🇮🇳🇻🇳🇵🇰 Среди воздержавшихся — #Китай, #Алжир, #Индия, #Вьетнам, #Пакистан и другие (всего 35 стран)

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🇷🇺 Russian authorities are intending tighten migration control — Patrushev

🇷🇺❌🚘 Some of the governors of the yellow-orange regions spoke out against movement restrictions (the mayor of Moscow, the governors of Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov regions and the head of the Krasnodar Territory)

🇷🇺❌ ☦️ The Russians are tired of the ROC: the influence of the Church on society has collapsed to a minimum in more than 10 last years
Having become the mouthpiece of state propaganda and supporting the war, the Russian Orthodox Church is rapidly losing its leverage on the mass consciousness.
Almost one in three (31%) considers Church interference in domestic politics to be excessive, and only 1% still support the ROC

🇰🇷❌ 🇷🇺 The South Korean company Hyundai Motors finally leaves Russia and sells its plant in St. Petersburg
1.5 thousand remaining vehicles are removed from the production site.

🇺🇸🛢❌🇷🇺 Exxon Mobil also left Russia and threatened the Kremlin with an international court after the Russian government “unilaterally terminated” Exxon Mobil's stake in the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project, the largest field developed by company owning a 30% stake in this project in Russia /Reuters/

🇹🇷🤝🇷🇺 Erdogan agreed to Putin's proposal to create a gas hub /Reuters/
This means that Russia will be able to sell fuel to European countries through Turkey (but this is not certain 😎)

🇷🇺🇹🇷🇮🇷🇵🇰 Trying to negotiate the creation of an illegal international gas transit hub with Erdogan, Putin created a conflict of interests between Turkey and Iran: on October 13, Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Ahmed Asadzade said on the sidelines that Gazprom has a promising opportunity to transport its gas through Iran to neighboring countries, incl. in #Pakistan

🇷🇺 Russian state-owned banks and major mobile operators have banned their employees from working outside of Russia

🇷🇺🇮🇷🇧🇷 According to the Russian sources themselves, the Kremlin could pay off #Iran for arms supplies through one of the Brazilian banks. The kickback ("investment by Iranian farmers in Brazilian agriculture") was 20%.
The story is reminiscent of the scheme with the "investment" of Russian deputies in the palm plantations of #Indonesia... where Rosoboronexport successfully "invested" several fighter jets.

🇪🇺 Some #EU countries are still not ready to abandon the import of Russian diamonds, nuclear fuel and oil /NYT/
🇧🇪 #Belgium imports rough Russian diamonds via Antwerp.
🇬🇷 #Greece freely supplies Russian oil.
🇫🇷🇭🇺🇸🇰🇫🇮 #France and a number of other countries (including #Hungary, #Slovakia, #Finland) still import Russian uranium for their nuclear power plants.

🇪🇺❌⛽️🇷🇺 It took Europe just 8 months to find an alternative to Russian gas
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that initially it was estimated that refusing entirely from Russian gas would take 7 years.

🇷🇺❌👶 Russia Faces Biggest Demographic Disaster Since WWII (chart)
At the same time, the Russian government is also counting on the death of at least a million pensioners next year.

🇺🇸🦠 Boston University scientists are claiming to have created a new strain of coronavirus with a lethality rate of 80%.
A variant that's a combination of Omicron and the original Wuhan virus killed 80% of the mice it infected.
The scientists also infected human cells with the hybrid variant and found that it was 5 times more infectious than Omicron.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇮🇹🇷🇺 The US Department of Justice charged five Russian citizens and two Venezuelan oil traders with sanctions evasion and money laundering.
Among them – Artem Uss, the son of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Uss was detained in Italy and will be extradited to US

🌎❌🇧🇾 The World Bank transferred all loans granted to #Belarus to the status of non-performing due to overdue payments for $68.4 million

🇷🇺❌🇷🇺 A popular movement for secession from Russia began in Bashkortostan

⛽️🇪🇺 #Europe cannot cope with the influx of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The price of gas has fallen three times since the August peak. Dozens of LNG tankers ply around European shores. /Reuters/

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Chronicles of Troubled Times: prologue to WWIII

🇷🇺🤝🇵🇰#Pakistan, where Putin promised to send Russian troops a week ago, now has its own problems: More than 100 lawmakers loyal to Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan resigned, creating a headache for the new, Western-friendly incumbent Shehbaz Sharif…