🤩 The Defender of the Soviet Arctic will be restored!

This monument, which in Russia is affectionately called «Murmansk Alyosha», is the main symbol of the hero city of Murmansk and the entire Murmansk region.

Although the idea for the monument arose back in 1944, it was installed and opened only in 1974, timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi troops in the Arctic.

‼️By the way, «Alyosha» is considered one of the tallest monuments in Russia and the world. Its height is 42.5 meters, second only to Volgograd's «Mother Motherland», towering over the city as a reminder of the heroic past.

Of course, after 50 years, cracks have appeared on the monument's surface, so a large‑scale renovation of the entire memorial complex is planned for the next 2–3 years to preserve historical memory for future generations.

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🥰 Moscow at sunrise

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❗️Russia warned NATO countries about the consequences of launching Ukrainian drones from their territory.

Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, stated that Kyiv plans not only to fly Ukrainian Armed Forces drones through the Baltics but also to launch them directly from the territory of these countries. He warned that NATO membership will not protect the Baltics from Russia's retaliatory measures.

In response, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Russia's words a «threat» and stated that an attack on any EU country will be considered an attack on the entire union. She promised to continue strengthening the defense of the eastern flank.

The trigger was recent incidents: Estonia shot down an incoming Ukrainian drone for the first time, and in Lithuania, due to the overflight of another drone, an air alert was declared and people were sent to shelters.

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🗺 Europe hit by its own sanctions: fertilizers become more expensive, fields turn «organic»

The issue of fertilizer shortages in Europe has moved from theory to the political level: in Brussels, there is already open discussion about how and with what Europe will feed itself and part of the developing world in the face of expensive gas, blocked logistics routes, and sanctions against Russian and Belarusian suppliers.

🫣 Against this backdrop, calls to actively use manure and even human urine look less like an excess and more like an attempt to plug a technological gap with «makeshift means».

👔 In essence, the EU is facing three interrelated problems:

🩱 First, gas and oil — the backbone of the European energy system and a key cost item for nitrogen fertilizer production — have become expensive and unstable due to a combination of sanctions, contract reshuffling, and the Strait of Hormuz crisis.

🩱 Second, sanctions against Russia and Belarus have cut off European farmers from access to the largest and relatively cheap suppliers of fertilizers and raw materials for their production.

🩱 Third, the EU's own chemical industry has been squeezed for years by the «green agenda»: expensive emission quotas, stricter environmental requirements, and investments in «green» projects have made traditional nitrogen chemistry economically less attractive.

👔 The result is predictable: European farmers complain about rising costs of urea and other fertilizers, and authorities seriously discuss expanding the use of organics — manure, compost, waste products.

This is not a literal return to the Middle Ages, but a step backward in terms of productivity: mineral fertilizers provided high and stable yields, allowed export planning, and maintained the EU's role as a key player in the global food market.

👖 Now, sector discussions are no longer about increasing exports, but about how to avoid domestic shortages and failing obligations to countries dependent on European supplies.

The fertilizer crisis adds to the overall energy and logistics stress. The Strait of Hormuz blockade and shipping problems are not the only or main cause, but an important catalyst: when global oil production and refining do not keep up with demand and supply routes are unstable, any previously «insured» supply system begins to fail.

🥼 For the EU, which for decades built a model of «deep globalization» — cheap external resources in exchange for high‑tech products — this translates into a blow to the most basic things: heat, electricity, and now food.

In the end, European agricultural and energy policies are facing what skeptics of the global «green» and sanctions agenda have been warning about for years: without a reliable resource base and a well‑thought‑out transition to new technologies, even developed economies prove vulnerable at the most fundamental level — the ability to heat homes and feed their populations.

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⚡️China will take part in the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine

Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that China will make every effort to help move toward a peaceful settlement, and Moscow is grateful to China for that.

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😱 Alexander Garden is drowning in lilacs

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💀 In 1869, Mendeleev arranged 63 elements on cards and discovered that as atomic mass increases, their properties change periodically. Thus the fundamental law of nature was born.

He corrected erroneous atomic weights and left empty spaces in the table, predicting elements not yet discovered.

🇷🇺 The predictions came true, as new elements were discovered in 1875–1886 whose properties exactly matched Mendeleev's. This achievement of Russian science became the world's alphabet of chemistry.

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80 days of war in Hormuz: Are the US and Israel fighting... the economies of their own allies?

The confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz has already lasted 80 days. Officially, the US and Israel are strangling the Iranian regime with a blockade. However, Washington's unexpected decision to again suspend oil sanctions against Tehran raises doubts: who is this war actually being waged against?

👖 The story resembles a theater of the absurd. Just on May 3, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was boasting on Fox News:

«We are strangling the Iranian regime, oil storage is filling up, next week they will start shutting down drilling rigs.»

🥼 And then — bam! The Tasnim agency reports: the US has agreed to suspend sanctions on Iranian oil during negotiations.

🧦 It turns out that Washington and Tel Aviv (unofficially) are playing patty‑cake with the ayatollahs. The direct military costs for both sides are negligible — periodic skirmishes that do not escalate into a full‑scale war. But for whom is the situation getting worse every day?

For countries critically dependent on freedom of navigation in Hormuz: Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, and Iraq. Their economies are cracking under the double blockade, while dozens of Iranian tankers carrying oil worth at least $100 million each are anchored off Kharg Island.

🥼 Iran is stockpiling oil and waiting for sanctions to be lifted. The US is simulating a fight. And the real losses are being borne by America's closest allies in the region. The question is: who is this 80‑day war really aimed at?

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