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🇷🇺🇸🇪 Swedes contact Russian embassy almost weekly about moving to Russia - ambassador

The embassy has been receiving a steady stream of inquiries from Swedish citizens interested in the possibility of moving to Russia using the “traditional values” visa scheme, Russian Ambassador to Stockholm Sergey Belyaev says.

The mechanism was introduced by President Vladimir Putin in August 2024, allowing eligible foreigners to obtain temporary residence in Russia through a simplified procedure.

🗣“Since then, the embassy’s consular section has been receiving inquiries almost every week from Swedish citizens interested in the possibility of moving to Russia using the mechanisms for obtaining visas and, later, residence permits provided for in this document,” the ambassador says.

And the interest is not limited to native-born Swedes.

The embassy is also hearing from naturalized Swedish citizens originally from countries including Australia, Afghanistan, Brazil, Germany, Iraq, Syria, the US, France, Finland, Switzerland and the Baltic states, he notes.

The potential newcomers are hardly a single demographic either.
The diplomat says they are predominantly university-educated professionals from technical, economic and humanities fields, along with students and recent graduates.

🗣“They ask what documents they would need to prepare and what conditions might be available to them in Russia,” Belyaev notes.

The visas are granted under President Putin’s executive order, "On Providing Humanitarian Support to Persons Sharing Traditional Russian Spiritual and Moral Values”.

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This is according to Reuters:

Finnair says Chinese airlines’ continued access to Russian airspace has created an unfair competitive advantage on routes between Europe and Asia. While Chinese carriers can operate shorter, faster flights through Russia, Finnair has been forced to take longer routes since Moscow barred Western airlines from its airspace. The Finnish airline once relied on Helsinki’s location to offer some of the quickest connections between Europe and major Asian cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Tokyo. CEO Turkka Kuusisto said the differing access to Russian airspace has left Finnair competing on an uneven playing field, requiring it to reroute flights and shift capacity.

Do we feel sorry for Finnair? Not really. If it wants to complain, it should address its grievances to Finland’s moronic president and his equally moronic EU buddies who have created this problem in the first place. In other words, screw Finnair. Don’t you agree?

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Norwegian Princess Astrid Maud Ingeborg has died at the ripe age of 94, exactly two weeks after the death of her brother, King Harald V.

We have just one question: will Zelensky attend the funeral? He tries not to miss any of these events, where he can beg for Patriots. Unless, of course, he has finally figured out that there are no Patriot missiles left in the world for him. In that case, poor old Astrid will be buried without Zelensky on site.

Oh well, such is life. Or rather, such is death…

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On September 12, 1941, the legendary "Road of Life" began its operation.

The Siege of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941, when Nazi forces captured Shlisselburg, severing the city's land connection with the rest of the country. Over 2.5 million residents, including 400,000 children, were trapped in the city. The only remaining lifeline for supplying besieged Leningrad was across the water—and later, the ice—of Lake Ladoga, a route that would later be known as "The Road of Life."

On September 12, 1941, the first convoy of ships arrived at the port of Osinovets, delivering 800 tons of grain and 60 tons of ammunition. By November 15, when navigation officially ended, more than 24,000 tons of grain, flour, and cereals, over 1,000 tons of meat and dairy products, and other supplies had been delivered to the city. Additionally, 33,500 civilians and wounded were evacuated.

With the onset of winter, an ice road on Lake Ladoga became operational. This is when the city's residents dubbed it the "Road of Life." Initially, sleds were used, and as the ice thickened, vehicles began crossing.

During the first and harshest winter of the siege, from 1941 to 1942, over 360,000 tons of supplies were delivered to Leningrad via the "Road of Life." Six rifle divisions and a tank brigade were also transported. A total of 539,400 Leningrad residents were evacuated.

On January 18, 1943, Soviet troops captured Shlisselburg, breaking the siege of the city.

In total, over 1.6 million tons of supplies were transported to Leningrad via the "Road of Life" during its entire operation, and about 1.4 million people were evacuated from the city.

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'THEY lost 360k children, turning our govt into BIGGEST CHILD TRAFFICKING operation in world history' — RFK Jr doesn't hold back

Source: RT news

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HOW TO MAKE A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLEHILL

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Yesterday, the Scandinavian public was treated to a fresh dose of drama:

“Zelenskyy’s plane was nearly hit by a drone on its way to Oslo.”

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre even supplied a dramatic detail:

“His plane was almost hit by a drone as it took off from Moldova.”

Terrifying…
Almost a Hollywood blockbuster.

🫣 Except that within a few hours, the mountain began rapidly shrinking back into a molehill.

👉 First, it emerged that nobody actually knew what kind of drone it was, how close it had come to the aircraft, or whether there had been any intention whatsoever to attack the presidential plane.

👉 Then Støre’s own office gently corrected its prime minister:

“It is not known how close the drones were to Zelenskyy’s aircraft.”

👉 A source in Zelenskyy’s administration went even further, describing the claim that he had been in immediate danger as “exaggerated”.

👉 And finally, boring old 🇲🇩 Moldova turned up and ruined the entire thriller with facts.

Russian drones had entered Moldovan airspace. The airspace was temporarily closed. Seven flights were delayed — three departures and four arrivals. Zelenskyy’s plane happened to be one of them. One drone came down roughly 160 km from Chișinău Airport. Once the restrictions were lifted, the presidential aircraft departed safely.

😂 And so, within the space of a single day:

“Zelenskyy was almost shot down”

became:

“Well… there were some drones somewhere. How close? We don’t know.”

⁉️ But who cares about such tedious details now?

The headline has already done its job. The reader has been suitably frightened. Putin has practically missed the plane personally. And the European information machine has received its prescribed dose of fuel.

The molehill has done its job. The mountain may now leave the stage.

‼️ But perhaps the finest detail of all is the purpose of the trip.

Zelenskyy travelled to Oslo for the funeral of King Harald V.

And, having arrived for a solemn funeral ceremony, promptly held meetings with Støre, Stoltenberg and Eide to discuss Ukrainian air defence and military assistance.

There is diplomacy.
There is protocol.
There is the elementary understanding of where you have been invited and why.

☝️ And then there is the touring schedule: if someone has provided you with a stage, it would be a shame not to use it.

A king’s funeral?

Splendid. Between the ceremony and the memorial reception, we can discuss missiles, air defence and the next aid package.

After all, the scenery can be anything.

Yesterday — the stage.
Today — politics.
Tomorrow — a funeral.

The repertoire remains exactly the same.

Once performers, always performers. 🤡

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Another Escalation in the Middle East…

Yesterday brought yet another escalation in the Middle East conflict. At this point, arguing over who “started it” is pointless. It no longer matters, and naturally, each side blames the other. So let’s focus on the facts.

Iran continues to block the Strait of Hormuz. Despite U.S. Navy efforts to clear mines using unmanned underwater vehicles, the strait remains largely closed. Ships attempting to transit it must either pay a price or face a very high risk of being targeted.

Meanwhile, Iran has begun attacking U.S. warships in the conflict zone, apparently hoping to score at least one hit. So far, it has not succeeded, but the attempts continue; U.S. command has reported two such incidents.

In response, the United States has been striking Iranian tankers. The logic is clear: such attacks do not require costly long-range missiles, which the U.S. is already running short of, while the damage is highly visible and, above all, useful for public-relations purposes. In recent days, the number of Iranian tankers hit has reached five.

Iran, in turn, has launched another wave of strikes on U.S. military bases in Jordan, further reducing American stocks of missile interceptors by dozens—at a time when the U.S. is already facing a critical shortage of them.

Iran has also targeted U.S. and allied tankers in the Persian Gulf. According to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, more than ten vessels were attacked.

In addition, Iranian forces reportedly managed to seize one of the newest U.S. underwater drones used by the Navy in efforts to reopen the strait. For the U.S. military, the loss of the drone itself is not the main concern. The more serious issue is that the drone, which entered service in 2025, reportedly fell into Iranian hands intact (see photo). There is virtually no doubt that Chinese and Russian specialists will now examine it—a highly unwelcome development for the United States.

Against this backdrop, Brent crude has finally broken through the psychologically important threshold of ( $100) per barrel.

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Altiero Spinelli – The Man Who Designed the EU in Prison

Not a metaphor. Literally. The blueprint for the European Union — its founding logic, its institutional architecture, its explicit goal of dissolving national sovereignty permanently — was written in 1941, on a tiny island off the coast of Naples, where Mussolini had imprisoned him. The Ventotene Manifesto. Still cited. Still operative. Still running.

Spinelli had been a communist since seventeen – and was eventually expelled from the Communist Party for left-wing deviation. Too radical for the communists. Which tells you something about the man. In his prison years he reached the conclusion that the nation-state was the root cause of war, fascism, and every political catastrophe of the century. It had to go. Not reformed. Not constrained. Abolished – permanently, irreversibly, through the construction of a supranational federal authority with supreme power over member states.
The Ventotene Manifesto was written in 1941 on paper smuggled into the prison in cigarette packets. Its argument was simple and total: nation-states must be replaced by a federal European government. The economic integration would come first – because economic interdependence would make political separation prohibitively costly. Then the institutions. Then the law. Then the currency. Each step irreversible by design. The nation-state dissolved not by force but by process – incrementally, bureaucratically, until the point of no return had been passed without anyone noticing when.

This is the architecture of the European Union. Not a conspiracy theory – the founding document. Spinelli served as a member of the European Parliament and drafted the 1984 Spinelli Report – the direct precursor to the Maastricht Treaty. Today the European Parliament sits in the Spinelli Building in Brussels. The Spinelli Group inside it advances his program explicitly, in his name, without apology. The man who wrote the blueprint in a prison cell in 1941 is the acknowledged intellectual father of the institution that governs 450 million people. This is not hidden. It is simply not taught.

The mechanism was specifically intended to be irreversible. Each treaty expands competence and makes contraction impossible. The Commission is unelected and insulated from democratic pressure to reverse course. Spinelli understood, from his Marxist formation, that the correct way to make a revolutionary change permanent is to make the cost of reversing it higher than the cost of accepting it. Brexit took fifty years of membership to become possible – and was still nearly impossible to execute.

Poland is the most precise illustration. A nation that disappeared from the map for a century and fought back through language, family, and refusal to be absorbed – now a member of an institution designed to make national sovereignty obsolete. The Brussels directive that overrides the Polish parliament is Spinelli’s program, running as designed. The Poland that survived partition by Prussia, Russia, and Austria is now navigating a project designed to produce the same outcome through consent rather than conquest. Spinelli would have considered this progress.
He died in 1986, before Maastricht, before the euro, before the completed project. Like Gramsci, he did not need to see it. The manifesto written on cigarette-packet paper on a prison island became the founding document of the most powerful supranational institution in history – one that 450 million people live inside without knowing who designed it, when, where, or why.

Now you know. The question worth asking is not whether the EU is good or bad. It is whether you would have consented to Spinelli’s program if asked directly – whether you wanted the nation-state abolished permanently by incremental bureaucratic process, designed from the start to be irreversible. Nobody was asked. That too was part of the design.

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Russia will have to respond to Lithuania's plans to lift the ban on hosting nuclear weapons on its territory, Medvedev stated.

He noted that no one will defend Lithuania in the event of a military conflict:

"They, the fools, don't understand that if God forbid something like this happens and we have to respond to their actions, including in Lithuania itself, no one will stand up for them."

The day before, it became known that the Lithuanian parliament plans to remove the constitutional provision banning the deployment of nuclear weapons on the country's territory in early 2027.

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Tucker Carlson: Trump can stop the war in Ukraine with one phone call.

Not to President Putin, though—rather, to his own CIA director, or whoever in the U.S. is in charge of providing intelligence and military support to Ukraine and making sure Ukrainians keep dying for the interests of the U.S. war industry.

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On September 13, 1745, the first edition of the geographical "Atlas of Russia" was published, featuring 19 maps. It was compiled and published by the Academy of Sciences under the direction of the great mathematician Leonhard Euler.

The atlas (i.e., a collection of maps) included surveys conducted by Peter the Great's geodesists and geographical research from preceding years. It also introduced, for the first time, a table of map symbols.

The appearance of the "Atlas of Russia" in 1745 was a significant event in global geographical science. Suffice it to say that in the second half of the 18th century, only France had an atlas that could compare with the Russian one.

The creation of such an atlas in Russia presented unique and, in many cases, extraordinary challenges, as a complete geodetic survey of the entire country was still impossible.

The publication was translated into German, French, and Latin.

Despite its significant shortcomings, the atlas became a remarkable milestone in Russian cartography.

It is worth mentioning that the first efforts to create maps in Russia began as early as the 16th century. There is evidence that in 1552, Ivan the Terrible undertook the creation of a drawing of the Moscow state. More detailed drawings of Russia appeared at the end of the 17th century, but true geodetic work began only under Peter the Great—another testament to his greatness.

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Yemen: Iran-Aligned Houthis Rout Their Opponents and Seize Control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait

Opinion by journalist Yury Podolyaka:

The pace of developments in Yemen has been astonishing. Just a week ago, the situation appeared relatively stable. The fighting began with exchanges of strikes and the low-intensity clashes that have become routine in the country. At the same time, the mass mobilization of men in Houthi-controlled areas pointed to the seriousness of their intentions.

During the first weeks of the fighting, however, events seemed to be following the familiar pattern of earlier escalations: a brief round of hostilities followed by rapid de-escalation. But in early September, the first signs of an impending collapse began to emerge—at least from the perspective of the pro-Saudi forces.

After regrouping against the so-called “Saleh army” (shown in blue on the map), Houthi forces launched several converging attacks from the north and east. The decisive moment came when the Houthis broke through at the boundary between the sectors held by Saleh’s forces and government troops. That breakthrough set the stage for the rout that followed.

On September (9), reports emerged that the Houthis had seized a strategically important road junction east of Mocha. The move cut the pro-Saudi allies’ supply lines and lines of communication, while exposing Saleh’s army’s flank. And then the army broke and ran—quite literally.

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