⚡️🇷🇸 SURROUNDED BY NATO: Serbia mulls bringing back the draft amidst regional tensions.

Mandatory military service may be reintroduced - military leaders advise President Vucic. It was dropped in 2011 to professionalize the Armed Forces.

Today, if you don’t have a strong army, you don’t have a country, Vucic says, suggesting military service would last about 3 months.

Republika Srpska (enclave off Serbia) leader Milorad Dodik accompanied Vucic at the meeting of military leaders.

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🥇SUPERSTAR Russian figure skater stripped of her Olympic medal - given to losing team USA.

Kamila Valieva was just 15 years old at the time of the doping test in December 2021 & is now banned for 4 years from competing abroad.

The Kremlin slams the 2 year decision-making process as politically motivated.

Meanwhile, there's a peculiar amount of "asthmatics" among Western athletes, a story for another day.

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🇷🇺⚡️NO WAY BACK: Russian parliament adopts law on "scoundrels."

The law applies to people with Russian citizenship living abroad, discrediting or spreading fakes about the Russian Armed Forces and/or financing the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The adopted decision will make it possible to punish those who conduct activities against their own ountry - depriving of honorary titles, confiscation of property, business is also possible.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸 ISRAEL SENDS ASSASSINS INTO WEST BANK HOSPITAL, DISGUISED AS DOCTORS - is this "due process"?

Given assassins carry out extrajudicial killings, journalist wonders if this is appropriate conduct for a state.

We think it is appropriate that they have the ability to bring members of Hamas to justice, State Department spox. Matt Miller says.

Due process out of the window - ALL executions seem legal for US allies in the farcical "rules-based world order".

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⚡️🇲🇻 WHEN MPs KICK EACHOTHER'S ASS - now that's justice.

A fight breaks out in the Maldives Parliament over a vote to approve the proposed government structure, by new President Mohamed Muizzu.

Several Members of Parliament are injured and require medical attention.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 "NI HAO! Dear Comrade Minister" - Shoigu greets Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun in Chinese.

The actions of Russia and China are not directed against third countries; Moscow and Beijing, unlike some Western states, do not create military blocs.

At the present stage, relations between Russia and China are experiencing the best period in their history - Shoigu states.

The Russian Defense Minister congratulates Chinese colleague on his appointment to the post of Minister of Defense of China, wishing him every success.

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