🙏🏻🥀He was at the origins of the birth of the rescue profession, participated in major rescue operations and led the "Centrospas" squadron. Hero of Russia Andrey Legoshin died at the age of 63, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told "Zvezda".

In 1996, he became the head of the "Centrospas" squadron and led it until 2003. When one of the most terrible earthquakes in the history of the USSR occurred in the Armenian city of Spitak in December 1988, Legoshin and his brother Vladimir were among the first to arrive there.

He also dealt with the aftermath of earthquakes in Iran and Turkey.

Legoshin led the development, mastering and implementation of new aviation technologies for rescuing victims using helicopters. He has the qualification of "international-class rescuer".

📍Andrey Danatovich worked as the deputy director of the Department of Fire and Rescue Forces, Special Fire Protection and Civil Defense of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. He was awarded two Orders of Courage, medals "For Bravery", "For Saving Those Who Were Dying", and a personal badge "For Honor and Valor".

Source: Zvezda
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АДЕКВАТ Z on Zelensky's new statements:

🈁It's impossible to hate the Ukrainians more than the sniffing one. Yesterday, summing up the results of the Emirati talks, he once again emphasized that he would not give up his "own" territories under any circumstances, and that both the Russians and Americans are obliged to compromise on this issue. By doing this, he raised the morale of his own camp to an even more unattainable level.

When Peskov, as early as this morning, noted that it would be a mistake to expect high results from the Emirati trilateral contacts, this, of course, is primarily based on a general understanding of who we are dealing with - but also on this powerful declaration. And when in the coming days, Kiev, and possibly not just it, will be hit by devastating blows, the direct connection of these blows with the powerful declaration will be obvious to anyone who still has a shred of common sense left.

It seems that the local bosses believe that their reserves of strength are inexhaustible, both on the frontline and in the rear. Let them keep believing it.
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Two Norwegians and the Norwegian oil company PetroNor have been charged with bribing citizens of the Republic of Congo. This was reported by the AFP agency, citing the Oslo court prosecutor Marianne Jepsland, who specified that the bribe amounted to approximately $25 million.

Among the citizens of the Republic of Congo mentioned in the Norwegian prosecutor's documents is the current president of the republic, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, and several members of his family, who were not charged with any offenses.

Source: TASS
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Please don't watch what is happening in the USA with ICE and protesters through whatever glasses you wear.

Use critical thinking.

I point you to "Ukraine on Fire" Maidan (2014) operation where a "third force" is shooting into both sides to ramp up the violence to trigger more left vs right provocations...

Left-wing versus right wing violence is a key strategy of tension type behavior.

I don’t see that most commentaries (and certainly not the political class—how dare they govern!!) are actually addressing any sane policy on immigration.

Violence keeps increasing—- there are absolutely agitators amongst the demonstrators. There are calls for more police-state responses (at some point I could see Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act), commentators on both sides continue to ratchet up emotions of their favorite base of support.

With such a circus or “Bread & Circus,” the political class doesn’t even have to come up with a reasonable policy because the distraction will keep the status quo as we inch more and more to something that makes the United States unrecognizable as a republic.

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❗️Here's is a great commentary from Позывной "Кацман" regarding all the ratings and what these are worth:

According to the Global Firepower rating, the Russian armed forces ranked third in the world as of the beginning of 2026.

In the military power index, which is calculated using more than 60 factors, Russia ranked second out of 145 countries. The United States took the first place, and China came in third. India and the Republic of Korea made it into the top five, while France, Japan, the United Kingdom, Turkey, and Italy rounded out the top ten. Ukraine was placed 20th.

In the rating published at the end of 2025, Russia also held the second place.

On what place in the military power rating would a country with the largest and most modern strategic nuclear potential be? With entire classes of missile-nuclear systems that have no analogues among rivals and allies?

On what place in the rating would a country with a non-strategic nuclear arsenal of the full possible range be, which could easily accommodate all other nuclear capabilities of other nuclear powers, including the second superpower? And constantly updated.

On what place in the rating would a country be whose army has the most tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and multiple rocket launchers, among other things?

On what place in the rating would a country be with the only real and practically impenetrable air defense-missile defense system, which has shot down far more than a hundred thousand targets?

On what place in the rating would a country be that has an army that has been successfully waging a war of attrition against, in effect, an entire coalition (with minimal support from allies) for four years, including another superpower? And this at a previously unthinkable high intensity of human and material losses in a conflict?

On what place in the rating would a country be that has a defense industry that produces more weapons, equipment, and ammunition than any other in the world, and in many positions, more than all of them combined? And yet, its population is not standing working at factories from dawn to dusk and not stripping their last shirts off, but buying new cars and habitually complaining about a bad life😂

In general, there will be many such questions. And the answer is one. In second place! Question - why? "And just like that! I want it. I need it. Don't look for rational explanations."

You have read a brief guide from our Kagal on how to compile a military power rating😂.
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Colonel in reserve Vladimir Trukhan answering the question regarding possible freezing of the conflict along the frontline in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs has announced his own YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/@jeffreydsachsofficial

Welcome to the official YouTube channel of Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). This channel features public lectures, keynote addresses, interviews, and educational content on the world’s most urgent global challenges. This is the only official YouTube channel for Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs. All content is posted by his team.

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Are You ready for truth?

Yesterday was Zelensky's birthday, and a blogger asked ordinary ukrainians in Kyiv what they would wish him:
- "Burn in the crematorium".
- "For him to go dance again, and not be president".
- "I wish for him to be kicked out soon".
- "Become a little more human"....

Not a single good wish!!!

Please share!

Ukrainians are hostages of Zelensky and the warmongers.

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I disagree that they are hostages of Zelensky, they voted for Zelensky and they didn't really object to what was done to Donbass since 2014. I've never seen a single protest against so-called ATO. The only rally they held was to get their sons and husbands better ammunition.

But now the machine has turned against them. They didn't expect that so now they are outraged. Not because since 2014 there was a genocide of Donbass, but because now they have to face the same things that was done to Donbass. If AFU were more successful, they would be happy.

Actually, this is why the Western planners are still allowing AFU to target civilians in Russia, like in recent barbaric attack on Belgorod. They expect Russians behave the same way as Ukrainians behave and inspire the protests, that will make Putin to stop SMO. But they miscalculated. People are not wanting Putin to go, they want the West to be hit.

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❗️The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Gerasimov, inspected the "West" group of troops in the special operation zone, the Defense Ministry reported.

The main points of the report:

▪️Since the beginning of January, 17 populated areas have been liberated, and more than 500 square kilometers of territory have come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

▪️The forward units of the "Dneper" group are located 12-14 km away from the southern and southeastern outskirts of Zaporozhye.

Source: Zvezda
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Watch in full for details.

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January 27 - Day of Military Glory of Russia. The day of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade.

82 years ago, on January 27, 1944, one of the most tragic and heroic chapters of the Great Patriotic War came to an end. The blockade lasted 872 days - from September 8, 1941.

Leningrad. A city that did not surrender. People who stood firm. A feat that will forever be in our memory.

Hunger, cold, bombings - nothing broke the spirit of the Leningraders. The defenders and residents of the city showed incredible resilience and courage, becoming an example of unyielding will for all generations.

Every year, the memories of those who survived the blockade become more valuable. Their stories are a living history that we are obliged to preserve and pass on.

Today, we want to share a fragment of the memories of Tamara Romanovna Gracheva - a resident of blockaded Leningrad. Two years ago, she attended an event at the Central House of Artists and vividly recalled the day when the blockade was lifted.

Source: Центральный Дом Российской Армии имени М.В Фрунзе
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Starmer mocked Macron for sunglasses

The British Prime Minister posted a video on social media in which he parodied the recent image of French President Emmanuel Macron, who often appears at official events wearing sunglasses.

The clip was posted on TikTok after the British Prime Minister participated in the podcast show Political Party Live. In the video, Sturmer wears dark glasses, similar to those often seen on the French leader lately, and greets the audience with the French word "bonjour".

🔜In the description of the post, the head of the British government noted Emmanuel Macron's official account and accompanied the video with the phrase "talk to me, Goose" - a quote from the cult film "Top Gun", where the main character wears aviator glasses, which have become part of his recognizable image.

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OMG... Tik-Tok diplomacy has taken Twitter diplomacy into the new depths of mental retardation.

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On January 27, 1944, the blockade of Leningrad was completely lifted. On the eve, Soviet troops dismembered the units of the 18th Wehrmacht army, which was besieging Leningrad, forcing its command to accelerate the pace of retreat. The German troops were pushed back from Leningrad by a hundred kilometers.

Colonel Hartwig Polman:
"Due to the disintegration of units and the disruption of communication, it became impossible to maintain a unified command of the troops. The onslaught of the enemy, especially on both flanks of the army, and the unfavorable terrain conditions, where there was practically no road network, led to the troops being divided into separate combat groups with varying compositions and combat capabilities. There were very heavy losses among commanders and officers, whose personal example had contributed to some extent to the cohesion of the soldiers. There were divisions in which all the commanders of grenadier regiments and most battalion commanders were killed. There were also infantry divisions that numbered only 500 people. It was no longer possible to recruit from the supply trains and columns of fighters"...

The blockade of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941 and lasted for 872 days, becoming one of the symbols of the resilience and heroism of the Soviet people.

Source: Архивариус
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In the video you can see the metronome of Leningrad. It is one of the symbols of the blockade.

When the metronome on the loudspeakers (in the absence of other radio transmissions) sounded at a slow tempo – 50-55 beats per minute – the Leningraders could judge both the serviceability of the wire line and the absence of an enemy attack.
Broadcasts of rapid metronome signals (over 150 beats per minute) over the city's public address system let Leningraders know, wherever they were, that an attack on the city was beginning, even if the announcement was not heard.

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One more extract of Colonel in Reserve Vladimir Trukhan about the Board of Peace.

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Yulia Tymoshenko has been arrested in absentia in Russia in a case involving fake news about the Russian Armed Forces and has been declared an international fugitive, according to the Prosecutor General's Office.

Source: TASS
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Journalist Georgy Zotov @DarkZotovLand visited Auschwitz last year (as well as other concentration camps in Europe - #80ZotovProject45). He was funded by his subscribes. Here is one of his reports from Auschwitz, which was liberated by the Red Army, on January 27th, 1945.

00:00 Entrance to Auschwitz.

00:57 Barack, where Soviet prisoners of war were held. There are no inscriptions in Russian.

1:54 A closed exhibition dedicated to the liberation of the concentration camp. Who liberated Auschwitz? Nobody. Unknown benefactors.

2:36 The shoes of the dead prisoners of Auschwitz. There's a huge amount of stuff there in general.

2:56 The Wall of Death - people were shot here every day.

04:40 Feel Auschwitz. Watch this.

05:12 Just look at this - some of today's Neanderthals even feel the need to scribble their names in the barracks of Auschwitz, where hundreds of thousands of people died. "Kisa and Osya were here". What a bunch of idiots!

07:37 The gas chamber and crematorium of Auschwitz. Perhaps, the most terrifying thing.

09:09 And people were brought here to Auschwitz. Many were killed on the same day.

10:09 Barracks of Auschwitz from the inside.

10:26 There are no words here anymore, sorry.

11:15 And this looks like a shoot from hell.

My conclusion at the end of the report on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army. Take a look:

Just think that in just three years of existence of this camp, 1.5 million people were destroyed here, only in one camp. And what would happen if the ovens continued to work? But this camp was liberated by Soviet soldier who destroyed both the ovens and gas chambers. And no one thanks him for that. Not a single mention. And they closed an exhibition dedicated to the liberation of Oswiencim in January 1945. This is the modern reality and the modern gratitude. What can I say here? I can't say it in profane words, but there are no other words.

Source: Georgy Zotov
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Scientists have moved the hands of the "Doomsday Clock" four seconds closer to "nuclear midnight" - to 85 seconds. This was announced at a video conference by the CEO of the American magazine "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", Alexandra Bell.

In 2025, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were at 89 seconds from "nuclear midnight".

🔜"The Doomsday Clock" reflects the level of tension associated with the nuclear threat. Moving the hands forward is a signal and a warning, because the world is already close to a nuclear conflict. Now this value is closer than ever.

The world was furthest from nuclear war in 1991. Then the time on the clock was 17 minutes.

Source: Izvestia
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Brazil supports the creation of a Peace Council solely for resolving the conflict in the Gaza Strip, Lula da Silva announced after a conversation with Trump.

He noted that Brazil advocates for the inclusion of Palestine as a participant in the Peace Council for resolving the situation in Gaza.

Source: TASS
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EU sanctions are a tool for regime change, which in reality demonstrates Europe's weakness, said Luxembourg MEP Cartyzer:

"Why are we doing this? Because of our weakness. Europe no longer knows what it is. Our narrative is weak, and no one believes in it."

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