"We refuse to listen to the speaker in camouflage."

Members of the Bundestag, chairmen of the Alternative for Germany parliamentary group Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, issued a special statement in which they refused to consider Zelensky as president.

“Zelensky’s term of office has expired. Now he is in office only as a belligerent and pleading president. But Ukraine now does not need a military president, it needs a peaceful president who is ready to negotiate so that the deaths stop and the country has a future,” it says statement.

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The US Treasury will quadruple the list of Russian companies that will be subject to secondary sanctions for working with them. — The Financial Times

According to the publication, the number of sanctioned companies will grow from 1,200 to more than 4,500, including the largest banks, for example, VTB and Sberbank. Any operation with an organization from the list will be equated to cooperation with the Russian military-industrial complex. According to Emily Kilcrease, an expert at the Center for a New American Security, this is how the United States wants to impose restrictions on organizations and people who do not work in the States. Chinese companies working with the Russian Federation will also be under the threat of restrictions.

Bloomberg also reports that part of the new sanctions concerns the export of semiconductor chips to Russia, which are used for the military industry. It is alleged that the US will expand the categories of prohibited goods to include products that are not manufactured in the US. As an example, the source names companies from Hong Kong that supplied chips bypassing sanctions. New sanctions are expected to be introduced within a week.

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Russia Day to be celebrated as continuity symbol of its millennia-old history

"This is the holiday in honor of our Motherland," the President said. "We celebrate it with respect to our country, with reverence for its centuries-long history, commandments of our ancestors, their achievements and victories," Putin said.

All the stages of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union are the integral whole with modern Russia, the head of state noted. "I therefore consider necessary, historically proper to celebrate the Russia Day as the symbol of continuity of the millennia-old way of our Fatherland," Putin added.

Happy Russia day to everyone in Russia and to all our friends abroad!

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Some countries back out of plans to attend Swiss-hosted Ukraine conference

Some countries backed out of plans to attend the "peace conference" on Ukraine in Switzerland, prompting the number of participating nations to drop from 93 to 78, according to the Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty (designated in Russia as a foreign media agent and included in the register of undesirable organizations).

The report, which cites unidentified EU diplomats, didn’t name the countries that pulled out of the conference. One diplomat said the number of withdrawals could rise.

Sergey Nikiforov, a spokesman for Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, declined to give the number of participating countries.

"We would not like to state the final number," he said on Rada television on Tuesday.

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Putin signs Moon-station deal with China

The agreement with Beijing is aimed at consolidating Russia’s leading role in space exploration, Moscow has said.

The document, in which the president validates a deal first agreed by Moscow and Beijing in 2022, was published Wednesday on Russia’s official legal information portal.

The ratification law last month passed the lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, and last week was approved by the upper house, the Federation Council.

The agreement to cooperate on the Moon station “meets Russia’s interests because it will contribute to strengthening Russia’s strategic partnership with China” and will provide for “the consolidation of Russia’s leading role in the exploration of outer space, including in the exploration and use of the Moon,” an explanatory note to the law reads.

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EU energy giant terminates Russian gas supply contracts

Germany’s Uniper has won arbitration proceedings against a Gazprom subsidiary.

Uniper launched arbitration proceedings against Gazprom Export in 2022, claiming damages due to undelivered gas supplies.

Only limited gas had been delivered since June 2022, and the company halted purchases completely in August of that year after the EU introduced sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine conflict. The Nord Stream pipelines were blown up the following month.

However, the long-term supply contracts between the two companies remained legally in force. Gazprom Export said at the time that it did not admit to breaching the contracts and pledged to dispute Uniper’s claim for compensation.

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Moscow Exchange stops trading in dollars and euros.

The Moscow Exchange will stop trading in dollars and euros from June 13 due to sanctions from the United States , the trading platform said in a statement .

"In connection with the introduction of restrictive measures by the United States regarding the Moscow Exchange group, from June 13, 2024, trading on the Moscow Exchange markets will be carried out in accordance with the current regulations: on the foreign exchange market and the precious metals market, trading is carried out in all instruments, with the exception of currency pairs with the US dollar and the euro," the statement said.

In turn, on the stock and money markets, as well as the mutual fund market , trading will continue for all instruments, except those that are settled in US dollars and euros. The situation on the derivatives market remained unchanged.

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The children of the choir of the Academy of Artists, together with cadets of the Military Academy of Communications, shot a video for Dmitry Uvarov’s song “We are children of Russia.

Happy Russia Day, friends!🇷🇺

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US recon planes over Florida.

Turns out the Yanks don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot...

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Medvedev urges to turn life in West into 'permanent nightmare' in response to sanctions

Russia should get biblical with its response to Western sanctions by turning life in the West into a "permanent nightmare" and inflicting maximum damage on unfriendly countries, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said.

"We should try every day to do as much damage as possible to those countries that have imposed these restrictions on our country and all our citizens. Hit them where it hurts," the official wrote on his Telegram channel. "Do damage everywhere, paralyze the operation of their companies and government agencies. Find vulnerabilities in their critical technologies and attack them mercilessly. Literally destroy their energy, industry, transportation, banking and social services," he said.

"Let's turn their lives into an ongoing permanent nightmare," Medvedev concluded, referencing the Old Testament principle of "an eye for an eye."

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Russia to continue working with Armenia to clarify Yerevan's position on CSTO

Russia will continue to work with Armenia to clarify Yerevan's position on the CSTO, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"As for Armenia, we will continue to work with our Armenian friends, we will clarify their position, of course, we hope that in any case we will stick to partnership and alliance relations," the spokesman said when asked to comment on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's statement on Armenia's withdrawal from the CSTO.

"Every country has its own priorities. Our priorities are well understood, we consistently defend them. The CSTO member states also share these priorities in the field of security and collective security," Peskov added, saying that Armenia is certainly interested in this as well.

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Russia formally charges WSJ journalist with spying for CIA

Evan Gershkovich is accused of collecting intelligence about the Russian military industry.

Investigators claimed in a statement that they have evidence proving the US citizen was acting on behalf of the a foreign intelligence agency when he tried to collect classified information about Uralvagonzavod, a major Russian producer of tanks and armored vehicles, in Ekaterinburg in March 2023.

The case, which was compiled based on materials provided by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), has been sent for trial at a court in the Urals region of Sverdlovsk, it added.

The court has jurisdiction as Uralvagonzavod is located in the region and the alleged crimes were committed on its soil.

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The "Regime Change Russia" gang.

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UK parrots US sanctions on Russia

The British government has followed Washington’s lead by targeting the country’s energy sector and key financial institutions.

In total, 50 entities and individuals were identified in the sanctions list, aimed at disrupting Moscow’s ability to get around a price cap on Russian oil through the use of an alleged ‘shadow fleet’ of tankers.

New targets also include institutions at the heart of Russia’s financial system, particularly the Moscow Stock Exchange and its two subsidiaries, the National Clearing Center (NCC) and the National Settlement Depository (NSD). The action was taken in coordination with the US, which designated the MOEX a day earlier, the UK government said.

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