Rishi Sunak, British politician with Indian background is leading a race for leadership in Conservative Party and position of Prime Minister.

Rishi Sunak is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022, having previously served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015.

Born in Southampton to Indian parents who had emigrated from East Africa, Sunak was educated at Winchester College. 🕉

In UK, a true democracy, leader of the Government (actually, of the country) is elected not by the people of the country, not by the Parliament, but by a group of Conservative Party leaders in a contest of mutual blaming and exposing. Well, that is how it works...
Just imagine, that you are one of them (sorry, I do not want to be offensive to anyone). Who would you like to lead the UK in the future? Take a poll. ⬇️

1994, Congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Great Britain, an activist of the youth wing, 18-year-old Liz Truss, speaks:

"I agree with Paddy Ashdown (head of the party) when he says that every citizen of our country should be given a chance to be nominated, but for some reason only one family supplies us with heads of state!"

Not everyone knows, but the head of the British Foreign Office, Liz Truss, who claims to be the leader of the Conservative Party and the post of prime minister, has actually come out of the rather leftist camp. Her mother supported nuclear disarmament, and Liz herself was considered an ardent liberal democrat. She could not stand Margaret Thatcher and publicly advocated the abolition of the monarchy in the UK.

Things have changed...
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🇷🇺🚛 Russian servicemen delivered over 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid to civilians in liberated Kharkov region.

▫️Convoys with humanitarian aid to cities and villages of Kharkov region arrive weekly.

▫️Inpatient hospitals are the first to receive the humanitarian cargo.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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The US Treasury Department has published general licenses that allow trade with Russia for certain categories of goods.

Also, the US Treasury specified the scope of sanctions against Russia in the field of telecommunications and Internet technologies, as well as financial services.

The agency stressed that it did not prohibit Russia from exporting agricultural products and fertilizers. “The United States has not imposed sanctions on the production, manufacture, sale or transportation of agricultural goods (including fertilizers), agricultural equipment and medicines associated with Russia,” the report says.

With a separate general license, the United States allowed until December 16 to make transactions with the SEFE Securing Energy for Europe GmbH group of companies, a former subsidiary of the Russian Gazprom Gazprom Germania GmbH. The group of companies has been administered by the German regulator since April, and in July the German federal government passed a law allowing the government to acquire a stake in the group.

In addition, the Kazakh "daughter" of the Russian "Alfa-Bank" was excluded from the sanctions list, which, together with its co-owner, Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman, is under EU and US sanctions.

Certainly, it is not a weakening of sanctions, but just a "cherry picking", selecting only those, that are harming US economy most.
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Russian oil tanker arrives in Cuba.
About 700,000 barrels of Russian oil were delivered to the island.

Translated from source.
Today in Vinnitsa, two children were killed as a result of our missile attack. It is unlikely that any excuses are appropriate here. We are always to blame for the death of hostages - it does not matter whether they are being held by terrorists or Nazis are hiding behind them. We do not strike at civilians, but this is little consolation to the families of the victims today.

We came to Ukraine to stop the Ukrainian conveyor of children's and any other deaths. We have no funds left to stop attacks on civilians by Ukraine. It is pointless to negotiate with the Ukrainian leadership as with terrorists. And this coercion to peace, alas, is not without casualties among civilians. Including our fault.

These are accidental casualties of the war. We didn't want them to die, we didn't want to hurt them out of vengeance or malice. And we are very sorry that such tragic incidents are inevitable. We don't hit civilians like they do. And we apologize for these accidental victims of our blows. The children who died in Vinnitsa are the same pain for us as the children who died in Donbass. We grieve together with their loved ones, because we do not divide children into our own and others. And this distinguishes us from the Ukrainian adherents of neo-Nazism, hooting gloatingly after strikes on civilians.

We want no more children to die under the bombings. Nowhere. We have been asking for a long time to stop the bloodshed. We were not listened to. We will stop this war ourselves. Necessarily. And we will punish those who forced us to pay such a price for peace. We'll find them wherever they are. In the meantime, all we can do is express our condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
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🇺🇦 Ukrainian soldiers with the help of a quadrocopter tried to drop a grenade to Russian positions, but something went wrong.

A very good and positive news about those strange Russians...

VCIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Centre) has published results of a public pole with only one simple question: “Everything happens in life - both good and bad. But generally speaking, are you happy or not? (closed question, one answer, % of respondents and index in points)”.

- certainly YES - 35%
- rather YES than NO - 49%

Cumulatively 84% of Russian population consider themselves “happy” to some degree.

It is not what could be expected from the people of a country, which is under all types of sanctions and involved in an armed conflict in neighbouring Ukraine.
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