😁🇷🇺The West cannot find Russian gold and currency reserves 💰💶💷

No more than a third of the $300 billion in Russian gold and foreign currency reserves, which were discussed back in March, have been found and blocked.

There is active work to find the remaining $200 billion, or at least the Russian institution that owns them, but so far there are no results.

#Russian_gold_reserves

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✈ Sukhoi Su-34 ‘Hell Duck’

The Russian Sukhoi Su-34 is one of the most advanced strike fighters in the world today. The 4+ generation fighter combines characteristics of a fighter, bomber, and strike fighter. The Su-34 is capable of engaging enemy targets on the ground and in the air, carrying up to eight tonnes of munitions. The Su-34 is also unique because it can stay in the air for as long as 10 hours and can refuel in the air. The Su-34 has a roomy cockpit, as well a bunk, a kitchen, and a lavatory. In Russian, the Sukhoi Su-34 is affectionately called ‘the duckling’ because of the shape of its nose. Watch the video to learn more.

Source: Military Wave

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💥🇺🇸 Jeremy Loffredo about his trip to Russia in a new episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight 🇷🇺

Russian grocery stores are stocked with food despite Western sanctions. 🍞🧀🥚🥩🍎

#Tucker_Carlson
#Russian_grocery_stores_stocked

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💥🇷🇺 🎵 For those who can waltz, or who just dream of learning to waltz someday, from the Russian hearts to the whole world. Enjoy!

Waltz by Georgy Sviridov
From musical illustrations to Alexander Pushkin's story "Blizzard".
Performed by Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev.

#Russian_music

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‼️🇷🇺Sergei Shoigu's statements at the Collegium of the Russian Ministry of Defense:

▪️Kiev is resorting to forbidden methods, including terrorist attacks and contract killings, shelling civilians with heavy weapons;
▪️The Russian military in Ukraine is being countered by combined Western forces;
▪️Western countries try to ignore "elements of nuclear blackmail" by Kiev, including provocations against the Zaporizhzhia NPP;
▪️The revelations of Merkel and other politicians showed that the Russian Federation was not the source of the conflict in Ukraine;
▪️More than 500 U.S. and NATO satellites are working for the AFU, including more than 70 military;
▪️The Western media's total silence about the Ukrainian military's war crimes is the height of cynicism;
▪️There are NATO staff officers in the combat zone in Ukraine;
▪️More than 25 countries have spent $97 billion to supply weapons to Ukraine, some of the weapons are in the hands of terrorists and are spreading around the world.
▪️Partial mobilization was carried out to "stabilize the situation, protect new territories, and conduct further offensives;
▪️Mobilization plans had not been put into effect since the Great Patriotic War, so the Russian Defense Ministry faced some difficulties;
▪️The Russian Ministry of Defense receives daily data on shootings by Ukrainian nationalists of Ukrainian servicemen evading combat missions;
▪️Partial mobilization has increased the combat capabilities of the troops and intensified combat operations.

Based on: t.me/RVvoenkor

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#Shoigus_statements

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⚡️🇷🇺 Putin gave the order to start supplying gas from Gazprom's Kovykta field

Moscow. December 21. INTERFAX.RU - Gazprom Starts Production of Gas in the Kovykta Gas Field in Irkutsk Region and Operation of the Kovykta-Chayanda Section of the Power of Siberia Gas Pipeline; Russian President Vladimir Putin gives the order to start supplying gas from the Kovykta field.

The Kovykta gas condensate field is the largest gas field in the East of Russia and is considered unique. The recoverable reserves of gas under the project are 1.8 trillion cubic meters, gas condensate - 65.7 million tons, 27
bcm of gas per year planned design capacity.

It is the base field for the Irkutsk Gas Production Center being formed by Gazprom and the resource base for the Power of Siberia gas pipeline (along with the Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia).

The field has a complex geological structure and terrain, which requires the application of best practices and competencies at all stages of field development - from drilling production wells to building infrastructure facilities.

#Russian_gas
#Gazprom
#Kovykta

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💥🇷🇺 In general, if anyone hopes that Russia will run out of missiles and will not have new ones because no one will supply Russia with semiconductors because of Western sanctions, it is in vain. 🤷‍♀️

They do, and even more than before the sanctions were imposed. The world doesn't give a damn about Western sanctions. 😉

Based on: Mriya

#Russian_import
#semconductors

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⚡️🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered Russia's long-awaited response to a Western price cap, signing a decree that bans the supply of crude oil and oil products from February 1 for five months to nations that impose the cap.

According to Bloomberg, exports of "black gold" from Russia are breaking all records

"The Kremlin today banned exports of Russian crude oil and petroleum products to foreign buyers who adhere to price caps.

According to industry data from Bloomberg, Russia's average daily oil production last month averaged 10.9 million barrels, the highest in eight months," the publication wrote.

Based on: BaiBiden

#oil_ban
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⚡️🇷🇺 Russia today must help the world, which is sinking more and more into a spiritual and moral crisis, "to find salvation," as the country once saved the planet from the "terrible plague of fascism," said Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia after a liturgy in the St. George Cathedral in Odintsovo.

Based on: Vyuga

#Russian_Orthodox_church
#morals

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❗️🇷🇺 The Economist: The Russian economy feels better than the West expected. The anti-Russian sanctions were indeed harsh, but this year Russia achieved a record surplus of $220 billion - twice as much as the year before.

The inflow of foreign currency helped Russia finance its imports. Many Western companies have stopped selling goods and services to Russia. On the other hand, companies from other parts of the world are willing to help: Chinese companies, for example, or Turkey, which seems to be an intermediary for Western companies to circumvent sanctions. After the sharp spring slump, Russian imports have largely recovered.

The real economic data paint an alarming picture for the West: the Russian economy is in better shape than the West had hoped, thanks to sanctions, while Europe, suffocating from soaring energy prices, is sliding into recession.

#Russian_economy

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❗️🇷🇺🛢️Europe is not the world's only destination. What Oil Hubs Russia Created to Bypass Sanctions

Bloomberg was disappointed to find another successful scheme of circumventing the sanctions imposed on Russia at the oil market. More tankers with Russian black gold began to enter Singapore's oil storages. To clarify: If in August 2022 0.7 million barrels of crude oil and naphtha (a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons slightly heavier than gasoline) arrived in the city-state, in December the figure rose to 3.4 million barrels.

In fact, we are talking about re-export to unfriendly countries through neutral countries. To the list of "Baltic blend" and "Japanese blend" is added "Singapore blend.” This is an extremely profitable business for petrochemical companies in Asia - profits can amount to 20% of the turnover value of oil products. In Singapore, Russian oil is blended with other grades, resulting in the "Singapore blend" being sold without a discount.

Other unpleasant news for the West was the sharp increase in "exports" of hydrocarbons from Malaysia to China. If at the beginning of 2022 it was 0.2 million bpd, by the end of the year it suspiciously jumped to 1.2 million bpd. Few people are under any illusions about huge oil supplies appearing out of nowhere. It is also highly likely to be a new channel for Russian shadow hydrocarbon supplies abroad.

The conclusions are obvious: more and more countries are beginning to help Russia bypass the embargo and price ceilings. This will make it possible to avoid the collapse of Russian production, which the U.S. hoped for.

#Russian_oil
#sanctions

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❗️🇭🇺 Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó opposed the new EU anti-Russian sanctions. ⛔️

The minister noted that restrictions against Russia would lead Europe into a dead end: "It would be a big mistake to propose another sanctions package in terms of economics, politics, and security.”

According to media reports, the European Union plans to agree on a tenth package of anti-Russian sanctions by the end of February.

#Hungary
#Russian_sanctions

Source: Antifishki

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Russian, who is that?

The girl reads out a funny story that so accurately describes the Russian people.
All those who live in multinational Russia are members of one big and friendly family.
The strength of Russia is not in size, but in respect for one another. Traditions are honored, culture is upheld, different faiths are practiced, language is preserved and the history of all peoples of immense Russia is remembered.
Russian is a state of mind.

#Russian
#multinationalCountry
#Russia

Source: https://t.me/c/1604616434/6065

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⚡️🇷🇺 The Russian Federation has increased production of hypersonic rocket system "Dagger", - head of Rostekh Sergey Chemezov.

💬 "It went on stream a long time ago, initially there was no need for the number of such. We are now increasing," Chemezov.

He said that Rostec now produces huge volumes of products for the Russian Defense Ministry.

#Russian_weapons
#hypersonic_weapons

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❗️🇨🇳🇷🇺 "What's up on isolation?" China Helped Russia Restore Microchip Purchases

According to Chinese customs, Russia imported $179 million worth of microchips in 2022, an increase of $105 million from a year earlier. However, according to this information, it is impossible to determine what kind of semiconductor technology was sent to Russia, and who the seller is. Thus, microchips find their way to the Russian market, often from third countries, for example, through Turkey - here the volume of purchases of microchips grew from $79 thousand in 2021 to $3.2 million in 2022. By the way, China is the largest seller and producer of cheap chips.

Despite the threat of sanctions, Beijing continues to strengthen trade cooperation with Moscow. This proves that the West's influence on the world is not comprehensive. European countries and the U.S. can refuse to trade with Russia, but they are still unable to force other independent states to do the same.

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Gilbert Doctorow talks on Press TV about Russian Kinzhal missile strike on NATO Bunker in Lvov, Ukraine, which allegedly killed 200 NATO officers

"At the conclusion of my time on air, I brought up another major event of the past month which also was blacked out by our broadcasters, namely the destruction of an underground #bunker near the Western #Ukraine city of #Lvov by a #Russian #hypersonic #missile #Kinzhal, which cost the lives of more than 200 #NATO generals and other high military officers, including about 20 Americans.


That event, which first was announced very discreetly on Russian news tickers immediately following its execution, was again quietly and briefly mentioned on the Yandex ticker yesterday with respect to the “shipment in crates” of the recovered remains of those officers killed to their home countries in the West."

#Snopes naturally claims to have "debunked" this claim
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nato-command-center-strike/

Full Press TV interview here

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🇷🇺 The Russian Embassy in Latvia continues to tell stories about Russian pensioners who following implementation by Riga of discriminatory amendments to the law “On Immigration” have lost their residence permits, have been left destitute and are under the threat of deportation:

• Today's story is about 71-year-old spouses from Riga, who suffer from congenital deaf-mutism and have permanent disability;

• being law-abiding citizens, in accordance with migration law, promptly started re-issuing a residence permit;

• however, even having all the necessary documents confirming the status of a disabled person, as well as a certificate of graduation from a school for the deaf, the elderly couple didn't manage to overcome bureaucratic barriers and obtain a medical exemption from the Latvian language exam;

• as a result, as expected, they did not score the required number of points in such sections as speaking and listening;

🚫 due to the failure to pass the exam, the Russian citizens had their permanent residence permit revoked, and received letters with prescription to leave the territory of Latvia;

• as a result, the married couple, who found themselves in an “illegal” situation, have lost access to social benefits, banking services, as well as free medical care in Latvia;

❗️all these atrocities occur despite the explanations of the UN Human Rights Committee, which clearly state that the deportation of people who have lived in the state for more than 10 years is unacceptable without compelling reasons.

#No_To_Discrimination
#Discrimination_in_Latvia
#Russian_Pensioners
#Residence_Permit_Revocation
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