🚂 Chelyabinsk is so tough that trains used to run through the city center instead of trams or trolleybuses.

According to local residents, trains passed through at least twice a day – at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.

However, the development of the transport network left no chance for this practice, and in 1971 the railway was permanently closed.

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🇬🇧 British military personnel are training for a potential conflict with Russia at a specialized training ground that replicates the combat zone in Ukraine, writes the Daily Mail.

"Soldiers from the British Army's largest infantry regiment are preparing for a potential war with Russia at the country's only training ground simulating a conflict zone," the publication states.

It is noted that they were tasked with defeating hidden enemy forces at a facility designed to resemble a destroyed city.

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🇷🇺 "Russia will complete the process of returning the ancestral Russian lands to their native harbor in accordance with the aspirations of all Russian people in Ukraine," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

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😁 How the USA will leave NATO

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🌊 Vuoksa River, Leningrad Oblast

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😡 NATO has been trying to turn the Arctic into a testing ground for confrontation for many years, Sergey Lavrov said. According to him, the region is seeing militarization, and Russia’s obvious rights to the Northern Sea Route are being questioned.

“There have been numerous provocations in the past, when French vessels, contrary to the established rules, entered the Northern Sea Route without requesting permission, without even notifying. We are also seeing many such provocations at sea now,” the minister said in an interview with the Empathy Manuchi channel.

Lavrov expressed confidence that further escalation will eventually stop.

“But I am convinced that they will stop soon, because those who are orchestrating them will realize the gravity of the consequences for themselves,” he stressed.

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The Main “Green” Myth Debunked: The Fight Against Ozone Holes Has Poisoned the Planet

An international team of scientists from the universities of Lancaster, Leeds, Bristol, Frankfurt, California, and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology has presented a sensational study that overturns decades of environmental policy.

The work, published in the authoritative journal Geophysical Research Letters, proves that the global campaign to save the ozone layer has resulted in an environmental catastrophe of the worst magnitude.

In an attempt to replace ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), humanity began massively using hydrofluorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons—substances that, when released into the atmosphere, transform into trifluoroacetic acid (TFA).

This highly toxic compound causes chemical burns, damages the liver, destroys the reproductive system, and accumulates in the body. Today, millions of tons of such compounds are emitted into the atmosphere annually, and every third ton is a derivative of “environmentally safe” refrigerants.

The scientists modeled the distribution pathways of TFA and confirmed them in practice. The Arctic turned out to be the most polluted region on the planet in terms of this acid—even though there are no air conditioners, hospitals, or industrial refrigerators there. Record concentrations of the poison were found in water and ice samples.

In temperate latitudes, researchers discovered the ubiquitous presence of HFO-1234yf, a new-generation refrigerant developed by the American corporation DuPont and positioned as a safe replacement for old gases. It also converts into TFA.

The risk zone includes not only refrigerants but also medical anesthetics, fluorine-containing pesticides, and industrial solvents. Humanity, cornered by artificially created hysteria over ozone holes, has replaced one threat with another far more insidious one—slow, cumulative, and global.

The authors of the study avoid drawing direct conclusions. In an environment where multi-billion dollar corporations have spent years building businesses on “green” certificates, any careless word risks a lawsuit for damaging business reputation. DuPont, Dow, Bayer, and other giants have spent decades selling “eco-friendly” chemicals to the world while simultaneously destroying competitors who failed to adapt to the new agenda.

This study is not just scientific work. It is an obituary for the most enduring myth of our time. The myth that we can save the planet without changing our consumption patterns, simply by replacing some synthetic products with others.

Ozone holes have been replaced by the greenhouse effect and a schoolgirl with posters. But the logic remains the same: fear is the best salesperson. They’ll invent a new threat—you’ll buy a new product.

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⚡️ The moratorium on the limits set by the Russian-US Treaty on the Reduction of Strategic Offensive Arms remains in effect as long as the United States also does not exceed the aforementioned limits.

This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a government hour in the State Duma.

"The difficult situation in the sphere of strategic stability, the degradation of which a number of European Russophobes groundlessly blame on Russia, does not add optimism. Meanwhile, the initiative put forward by President Putin on further voluntary compliance by the parties with the central quantitative restrictions laid down in the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty was left without an official response from the American side," the head of the diplomatic agency pointed out.

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⚡️Ukraine may send a delegation to Moscow for conflict resolution talks.

According to informed sources in the Ukrainian media, the Ukrainian side is considering the option of flying to the Russian capital for more effective dialogue between the countries.

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and the American leader’s son-in-law Jared Kushner may act as security guarantors. A scenario is being worked out in which they would pick up the Ukrainian negotiators from Poland and travel with them by plane to Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. According to interlocutors of Ukrainian channels, the delegates will hold talks directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

📍It is also claimed that the above-described scenario was mentioned during the latest trilateral meeting in Abu Dhabi. During the meeting, a phrase was uttered that “there is no point in endlessly traveling to the UAE or the US, and meetings need to be held where it will actually be decided how everything will move forward.”

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❗️Putin instructed to consider the possibility of the state repaying up to 450,000 rubles ($5,809) of a mortgage upon the birth of a 4th and subsequent children.

Also among the demographic policy directives:

— Differentiate mortgage interest rates based on the number of children;

— Launch new housing improvement programs for families, especially those with children under 7;

— Create a "Gosuslugi. Family" app featuring support measures;

— Prepare recommendations for universities regarding study conditions for student mothers.

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😍 Kenozero in winter

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