Only Russians will understand it in context, but I will try to deliver the message: "There is such a job - to talk to the bloody idiots" - on a sleeve of a Russian soldier.

🇱🇻 Study in Russian. A rally in defense of education in the native language is being held in Riga.

A rally in defense of education in Russian is taking place in Old Riga opposite the Latvian Ministry of Education.

What are parents protesting against?

The new project of the Ministry involves the complete translation of schools of national minorities and kindergartens into Latvian from September 1, 2023. This applies to both state institutions and private schools.
After that, Russian and literature will no longer be included in the main program — they are proposed to be conducted as an interest-based education.
According to the amendments, in case of insufficient use of the Latvian language in schools, Russian teachers and principals can be dismissed simply by the decision of the inspectors of the State Language Center.

Liaoning (16; Chinese: 辽宁舰; pinyin: Liáoníng Jiàn) is a Chinese Type 001 aircraft carrier. The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force, she was originally classified as a training ship, intended to allow the Navy to experiment, train and gain familiarity with aircraft carrier operations. Following upgrades and additional training in late 2018, Chinese state media announced that the ship would shift to a combat role in 2019.

Originally laid down in 1985 for the Soviet Navy as the Kuznetsov-class aircraft cruiser Riga, she was launched on 4 December 1988 and renamed Varyag in 1990. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, construction was halted and the ship was put up for sale by Ukraine. The stripped hulk was purchased in 1998 and towed to the Dalian naval shipyard in northeast China.

The ship was rebuilt and commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as Liaoning on 25 September 2012.

I am continuing answering our subscribers' questions.
The beginning is here
https://t.me/TrFormer/460
https://t.me/TrFormer/461

I have got another question/objection from a subscriber, concerning the justification of the Russian military operation. It goes along the following line of argument:

"Well, if someone (Ukraine) is trying to ensure its safety, for instance, by joining NATO, should it wary somebody else (Russia)?"

The answer is - yes. And there is a reason why. There is an internationally recognised principle of indivisible security that states (in a simplified way), that security of one of the states should not be achieved at the expense of the other. https://www.ft.com/content/84a43896-2dfd-4be4-8d2a-c68a5a68547a

However, that principle, as well as many other good principles, like "non-interference into the internal affairs of another state" - one of the key points of the international relations, were selectively applied or forgotten altogether. Selective vision is a special topic, do you know, for example, that currently Turkish army is carrying out a "special military operation" on the Iraqi territory against Kurdish militia?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/25/turkish-forces-hit-pkk-in-northern-iraq

Probably not, but Kurds were American allies and probably there are collateral casualties among civilians as well. And the Iraqi government is not welcoming it either:
https://tass.com/world/1439653
However nobody is calling for suctions against Turkey...
But let's return to the main line of our conversation.

Of course, we should believe, that the NATO alliance is purely defensive and is not posing any threat to anyone. How many times we have heard it. However, repeating it again and again can not make people to forget the facts. And the facts are:
NATO Intervention, Location Year Initiated
Anchor Guard, Kuwait-Iraq 1990
Ace Guard, Kuwait-Iraq 1991
Operation Joint Guard, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992
Operation Allied Force, Kosovo-Montenegro-Serbia 1999
Afghanistan War, Afghanistan 2003
NATO Training Mission-Iraq, Iraq 2004
Operation Ocean Shield, Somalia 2009
Military Intervention in Libya 2011

Well, officially NATO was not participating in the Iraqi war. True, it was not lead by NATO, but just by two leading and strongest NATO members - US and UK with a participation of the other allies. The purpose was strictly defensive, of course, to save the world from the chemical weapons, which were never found. In that sense, biological laboratories in Ukraine are much more threatening and solid case than that notorious test tube in the Colin Powell's hand.
Each of those "operation" has very little to do with the security of the NATO countries and caused unmeasurable suffering to the peoples of the countries, where they were carried out.
Certainly, Syria was not invaded (formally) by NATO, but the majority of the US allies took part one way or the other. Wider intervention was prevented only by Russian involvement.

Do you really want Russians to believe, that this is strictly defensive organisation? Majority of the Russian population - those 80-90% that are supporting special military operation in Ukraine believe that NATO is a tool of projecting geopolitical interests of the collective West. They can’t all be wrong. Question number 3:
What will happen next?
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https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/index.html US sees the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of equipment to be vital to the Ukrainians' ability to hold off Moscow's invasion. A senior defence official said Tuesday that it is "certainly the largest recent supply to a partner country in a conflict." But the risk, both current US officials and defence analysts say, is that in the long term, some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm.
"We have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero," said one source briefed on US intelligence. "It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time."
In making the decision to send billions of dollars of weapons and equipment into Ukraine, the Biden administration factored in the risk that some of the shipments may ultimately end up in unexpected places, a defence official said.

Well, they may have a look, where many of those weapons have gone... Not just American Stingers, but British NLAW, Canadian, Swedish - and many others. Russian army has a sufficient supply of modern weapons. However, Luhansk and Donetsk militia is using all those trophies... And this is just a fraction of the total number.

🇷🇺Meeting of Putin and Shoigu. The main thing.

▪️Shoigu:

Mariupol has been taken under control. About 2 thousand Ukrainian militants are blocked on the territory of Azovstal.

More than 142 thousand civilians were evacuated from the city.

The militants covered themselves with civilians during the retreat, driving them out of the half-blocks of houses.

It takes 3-4 days to complete the operation at Azovstal.

▪️Putin:

All those who surrendered in Mariupol are guaranteed life.

The President called the storming of the industrial zone "Azovstal" in Mariupol inappropriate, ordered to cancel it.

"There is no need to climb into the catacombs, it is necessary to block the industrial zone in Azovstal so that a fly does not fly by."

PLEASE REPOST
Well, we are not going to make money from our channel, the only aim of it is to supply information to those English-speaking people, who are not totally influenced by the frenzy of the anti-Russian propaganda and are trying to find truth on their own. We can afford spending an hour or two a day, translating and selecting sources, that we consider truthful enough.

To find unbiased sources in the West info-space is very difficult, as the majority of official Russian sources are banned from the English segment of of the mass media. I have been living for a long time in one of the western countries, and I have many friends there. I know, that many people out there are nice, kind and deeply moral. They were brought up in a way, that they are still trusting their governments and are taking anything that comes from TV for a truth. Well, they are naive. It is an info-war, and the first casualty in any war is the truth.

They honestly and sincerely would want to help those poor Ukrainians and prevent war and the suffering of the innocent. But they are blinded and deafened by a very sophisticated and well funded propaganda machine of the collective West, run by the directives from the USA elites, that are following their agenda.

For us, there is no business, just being very personal.

I want to provide our subscribers with the links to those channels, that are not necessarily telling absolute truth, but at least are providing relative truth or another view point on the truth. They are (here I will list only English language sources):
https://t.me/TrFormer
https://t.me/news_kremlin_eng
https://t.me/RTNews9
https://t.me/sputnik
https://t.me/inessas100
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/NewResistance
https://t.me/InfoDefenseEn
https://t.me/PatrickLancaterNewsToday

There are a multitude of the Russian language channels, which I will select and publish later.

If any of the admins of those channels will read it - please mind, that your links to the official RT channel is not displayed in the majority of the western countries. Please use link to their mirror, which is still available.

Если вам нужен контент на английском, пожалуйста пользуйтесь.

Для ваших англоговорящих товарищей, которые хотят узнать больше о войне на Украине.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/leading-putin-ally-predicts-mariupol-victory-thursday-2022-04-20/ If you think about it - it is the best option in both military and humanitarian ways. It certainly will save lives of Russian soldiers, it will give another chance to Azov fighters to surrender, it will give any civilians (if any) to come out, otherwise responsibility will be of Azov only. Keeping blockade of the plant will require less forces than storming it, so the army can go on. Time is on the Russian side here. KYIV, April 21 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered the Russian military to cancel plans to storm the Azovstal steel plant inside the port city of Mariupol, where thousands of Ukrainian defenders and civilians are holed up.

Effectively declaring victory in the city after nearly two months of siege, Putin said there was no point in trying to root out the defenders barricaded inside the sprawling factory.

"I consider the proposed storming of the industrial zone unnecessary," he told his Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in a televised meeting at the Kremlin. "I order you to cancel it."

"There's no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground through these industrial facilities," he said. "Block off this industrial area so that not even a fly can get through."

Shoigu estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters remained inside the plant. Putin called on them to surrender, saying Russia would treat them with respect.

Well, the main news and the intrigue of the current situation for now is “Azovstal” - steel works plant in Mariupol, where about two to three thousands of Ukrainian fighters, including neo-nazis from Azov regiment are locked by Russian and Donetsk/Luhansk forces. There are calls from Zelenskii and western governments to let them out and not to “starve them to death”. Allegedly that is Putin’s plan, as the final attack of the plant was cancelled to save lives of Russian troops, instead it is supposed to be blockaded so that “no fly will pass through”. There are also continuous speculations, that there may be about a thousand of civilians and hundreds of wounded. Is it true or not, we don’t really now. However, if it is true - it is a sole responsibility of Azov commanders, as for the third day already there is an opportunity to come out and surrender, life guaranteed.

There are videos showing the situation on the spot.

From Patrick Lancaster
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cxNpoiWus)
and from Graham Phillips
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfFH6YrY70s)