On May 31, 1891, the Trans-Siberian Railway was officially inaugurated.

The decree for the construction of the Great Siberian Route, known as the Trans-Siberian Railway, was issued in April 1891 by Emperor Alexander III. The ceremonial inauguration, which took place on May 31 near Vladivostok, was attended by Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, the future Emperor Nicholas II. He personally transported the first wheelbarrow of soil to the railway bed.

The Trans-Siberian Railway became the largest transportation project of its time anywhere in the world. Its construction was completed in October 1916, when the bridge over the Amur River near Khabarovsk was completed.

The total cost of constructing the railway amounted to 1.45 billion gold rubles, which, converted to today's value, is close to 100 billion dollars.

Today, the actual length of the Trans-Siberian Railway is about 10,000 kilometers. It is the longest railway line in the world.

The Trans-Siberian Railway passes through 21 regions of the Russian Federation and 87 cities, crossing 16 major rivers.

The journey between Moscow and Vladivostok on a passenger train takes 6 days. But what an unforgettable journey it is!

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👆Russian world champion Dmitry Bivol (left), who holds the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Organization (WBO), and International Boxing Federation (IBF) light heavyweight titles, defeated German boxer Michael Eifert in a bout held in Yekaterinburg.

The fight, which headlined the RCC Boxing Promotions event, went the full 12 rounds and ended with a unanimous decision victory for the Russian boxer.

Only the WBA and IBF titles were on the line.

The 15,000-seat UGMK Arena, where the event took place, was sold out.

Bivol entered the fight as the clear favorite.

"That motivates me to be more careful and more attentive. I always try to take my fights seriously. Is my coach satisfied? I accomplished some of the tasks he set for me and didn't accomplish others. But I think he's satisfied," Bivol said after the fight.

The 35-year-old Bivol now has 25 victories and one defeat as a professional. The 28-year-old Eifert's record stands at 13 wins and 2 losses.

Notably, Eifert, who was born in Germany, is of Russian descent, as are members of his coaching staff, and he communicates with them in flawless Russian.

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Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, responded to the Ukrainian drone strike on the turbine hall of Unit 6 at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant by stating that, in the event of a catastrophe at the plant caused by attacks from Kiev, a response could follow in the form of a symmetrical strike on nuclear power plants in Ukraine and in NATO countries involved in the conflict.

"It is obvious that if the turbine hall or reactor hall of a nuclear power plant were catastrophically destroyed, it would result in a new Chernobyl. And that would be no better than the use of a tactical nuclear weapon. The response to such actions could be a symmetrical strike against Ukrainian nuclear power plants, as well as nuclear power plants in NATO countries involved in the conflict," Medvedev wrote.

We suspect he's neither joking nor bluffing. The kid gloves are off.

In the meantime, Rafael Grossi, Director of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expressed his grave concern in a post on X:

Attacking nuclear sites is like playing with fire, Grossi said.

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Weekly battlefront update based on thelatest reports by Yury Podolyaka

This short video recaps last week’s events on the Ukrainian battlefield, withkey developments illustrated on the map.

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🇺🇸🤓 We’ve spent the past month diving deep into the illegal operations of the CIA, the US military, and the US government. All of the following are authentic, documented, and officially declassified events.

The titles are clickable, so you can follow the links and read more:

· MK-Ultra: CIA’s mind control experiments on civilians.
· Operation Delirium: U.S. military subjected to harmful biological agents.
· Operation Fishbowl: Reckless nuclear tests in upper atmosphere.
· COINTELPRO: FBI’s illegal surveillance and sabotage of activists.
· MK-Naomi: CIA’s biological warfare research on civilians.
· Operation Chaos: CIA’s illegal surveillance of anti-war Americans.
· Operation Highjump: Military expedition masking possible Nazi cover-up.
· Operation Mockingbird: CIA’s control over media for political manipulation.
· Operation Northwoods: U.S. military’s plan to stage false-flag attacks.
· Operation Paperclip: U.S. protected Nazi war criminals for scientific gain.
· Project Seal: Secretive testing of underwater explosives.
· Operation Stargate: $20 million+ secret psychic-warfare program.
· Operation Popeye: Manipulation of weather during the Vietnam war.
· Project Artichoke: Turning unsuspecting people into programmable agents.

Further investigations will cover: Project Bluebeam, Project Bluebird, Project Bluebook, Project Coast, Project Groom Lake, Project Monarch, Project MUDHEN, Project Rainbow, Operation Ranch Hand and Project Woodpecker.

🧠☣️ These programs involve mind control experiments, biological weapons development, large-scale disinformation campaigns, and more.

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June 1 is Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet Day

This holiday was established by the order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy on July 15, 1996.

The year of the Northern Fleet's establishment is considered to be 1733, when the Arkhangelsk military port was created by order of Empress Anna Ioannovna. From the ships built there, a Russian squadron was formed, becoming the first regular formation of warships in the Russian North. Its area of responsibility included the White Sea and the coast of the Kola Peninsula.

On June 1, 1933, a new chapter in the fleet's history began. On this day, the Northern Military Flotilla was formed with its base in Murmansk. On May 11, 1937, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR, Kliment Voroshilov, the flotilla was renamed the Northern Fleet.

Today, the fleet's core consists of nuclear missile and torpedo submarines, missile-carrying and anti-submarine aircraft, missile, aircraft-carrying, and anti-submarine ships.

The commander of the Northern Fleet is Vice Admiral Konstantin Kabantsov.

One of the objectives of the Russian Armed Forces, including the Red Banner Northern Fleet, is to protect the people of Russia, especially Russia’s children. Perhaps it is not coincidental that Northern Fleet Day is celebrated on the same day as International Children’s Day.

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On June 2, 1955, the Baikonur Cosmodrome was established.

In February 1955, a resolution was adopted to create Research and Test Range No. 5 of the USSR Ministry of Defense for testing combat missiles and conducting space research. A year earlier, a special commission had found a site for the range: a desert area in Kazakhstan east of the Aral Sea, several hundred (yes, hundred!) kilometers from the village of Baikonur. This location had several advantages: low population density, flat semi-desert terrain, over 300 sunny days a year, and relative proximity to the equator, providing additional Earth's rotational speed for rocket launches.

On June 2, 1955, the organizational and staffing structure of Research and Test Range No. 5 was approved. Five years later Minister of Defense designated June 2 as the founding day of the Baikonur range.

From the launch pads of Baikonur, humanity's path to space was opened: in 1957, a rocket carrying the first artificial man-made Earth satellite launched from here, and in 1961, the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, began his flight. The "lunar" N-1 rocket and the reusable spacecraft "Buran" were also tested at Baikonur.

Baikonur has seen over 2,500 space rocket launches with various payloads. More than 130 cosmonauts and astronauts have been sent into orbit from here.

After the dissolution of the USSR, the cosmodrome ended up on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan and was leased to Russia. In 2004, the lease was extended until 2050.

Currently, Baikonur is one of the busiest cosmodromes in the world. Its total area, excluding the zones where used booster stages fall, is 6,717 square kilometers. The cosmodrome includes five launch complexes, three silo launchers, and more than 35 technical complexes for the pre-launch preparation of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and booster stages.

In addition to Baikonur, Russia successfully uses the Vostochny Cosmodrome, ensuring the uninterrupted execution of the Russian space program.

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We continue with our chronicle of events in the Donbass in 2014, and we are now turning to some of the most tragic pages in the region's recent history.

The Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) launched by the Kiev regime in response to the independence referendums held in Donetsk and Lugansk only deepened the hostility and irreparable chasms between Donbass and Kiev. Any hope of a peaceful solution felt more unrealistic than ever.

Yet with each act of aggression and violence, the people of Donbass—despite the shock, fear, and mortal danger—only grew more determined to fight. These tragic episodes reveal what truly shaped their choice.

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12 Years Since the Tragedy in Lugansk: "It Was Like a Horror Film"

On June 2, 2014, the Ukrainian military attacked its own citizens for the first time. Pilots from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (VSU) targeted the Lugansk government building. The airstrike also damaged nearby sites, including a parking lot and the Square of Heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

Most of the victims were women and children. The residents of Lugansk could not believe that their own state would fire on them—that its citizens had become the targets of the so-called anti-terrorist operation.

"For thousands of Lugansk residents, that was the Rubicon. There was no turning back," stressed Rodion Miroshnik, an ambassador-at-large for the Russian Foreign Ministry, who witnessed the attack and its aftermath. "The Ukrainian assault plane that struck the heart of a peaceful city shattered that path to pieces."

Meanwhile, the other side denied that civilians or non-military objects had been targeted. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry stated that the Air Force had only operated in the outskirts of Lugansk, striking militia positions there.

The pro-Kiev media’s version of events, however, could hardly withstand scrutiny. For instance, they claimed that a portable anti-aircraft missile, fired by Lugansk militia at a Ukrainian aircraft, had gone astray and hit the government building—misled, supposedly, by an air conditioner on the building's wall.

"Only later did I realize that it was all very American: brazen, showy, far more forceful than necessary, and with no way for the intended targets to defend themselves. Just how they like it—from a position of strength," recalled Rodion Miroshnik.

One by one, other tragic episodes would show how destruction, death, and aggression only hardened Donbass's refusal to surrender.

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On piracy

🔸 The increasing number of aggressive boardings of Russian tankers on the high seas by the United States, France, and Great Britain raises the question of their legality.

👉 In fact, these are clear acts of piracy, because the attacking states have no international mandate authorizing them to seize a third country's vessel in international waters.

🔸 International law here is very clear: outside territorial waters, the law of the sea protects the principle of freedom of navigation. Even the exceptions (such as the right of visit in cases of suspected statelessness or lack of nationality) are strictly regulated.

🔸 The boardings of tankers carrying Russian oil—like the Marinera or the Taigor this week—are based solely on coordinated national legal decisions, which legally can only be enforced within the territorial waters of the attacking countries.

👉 To be applied on the high seas, these national legal decisions would require special, temporary authorization from the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). But that is not the case! Therefore, in international waters, vessels are subject only to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state whose flag they fly (Article 92 of UNCLOS) and international maritime law.

🤔 So these are indeed acts of piracy, and the attacked vessels have the right to defend themselves against them. Will Russia create an embarked maritime private security force, tasked with protecting these vessels from such attacks?

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