Heavy floods in Addis Ababa.

💬 One of few sources of information proven reliable and sound in this war - Igor Strelkov, whose assessments from the very beginning were totally true:

On the Kherson front, fighting continues for the village of Blagodatnoye. No data has yet been received on full control of it, although most of it has been under the control of the RF Armed Forces since the evening before yesterday. The total depth of advance of Russian troops in this direction is 3-5 km.
Antonovsky bridge in Kherson - completely disabled (passage is impossible, although the bridge itself did not collapse) as a result of another missile attack. 2 repairmen died, up to a dozen people were injured. The bridge in Novaya Kakhovka was also shelled again (but still functioning).

⚡️The murder of Daria Dugina was carefully planned only in relation to the journalist, whereas her father, public figure Alexander Dugin, was not of interest to the Ukrainian special services, the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation reported.

⚡️The UN is calling for an investigation to establish the facts behind the death of Daria Dugina, UN Secretary General spokesman Stéphane Dujarric, said.

KIEV REGIME SWITCHED TO TERRORIST STRATEGY

I have read most of the books Dugin wrote before 2008. I also know him personally quite well. I don't support many of his views, some of them I find nonsensical, other I don't understand etc.
I leave a probability however that I am merely too 'daft' for his philosophy.
However what British (and I have little doubts the crime was planned and guided by Mi6 and Ukrainian whore - literally - Natalia Vovk and her direct bosses were merely perpetrators and most likely will perish soon) achieved with this disgusting terroristic attack is that millions of people in Russia and all over the world will start reading Dugin's books, lectures, watch his interviews etc. etc. - and will discover literally the most anti-Western and anti-globalist thinker and philosopher ever, in comparison to whom any Western conservative is a kid from a sandbox.
Because Dugin's ideas - sometimes weirdly formulated, seemingly nonsensical and astonishing - are based in the abysmal depths of ancient, medieval and modern philosophy.
His books, already translated into a dozen of languages and quite popular in some countries with strong anti-Western sentiment, especially in Iran and Turkey, but also in China, Japan etc., will be now translated into dozens of languages and will provoke a whirlpool of anti-Western ideas, narratives, emerging one after another like mushrooms after the summer rain.
And some of those offspring ideologies will be even more successful and dangerous for the West than his own ideas.
That's what you've done.
This death is much more than the death of Qasem Soleimani - albeit a similar coward act. Soleimani was a logical target, he was a fighter, not a theorist. However when you try to kill the idea, the idea will likely kill you.

Britain, your soft culture, your mainstream and 'alternative' crap, all your 'Doctor Who', 'Jeeves and Wooster', your BBC, your Harry Potter, your Tolkien and all your Gaydalfs are joke in comparison to the ancient dragon you've awakened. You've awakened the Balrog - trust me, I know what I'm saying.
Death of Darya Dugina is the death of Socrates. You and your degenerative culture will drown in her innocent blood.
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For those who are completely unaware of what Alexander Dugin is all about and only heard from the Western media that he's 'a Russian fascist', 'Putin's brain', 'Kremlin pundit' etc. - he's sort of amalgamation of European traditionalism (René Guénon most notably and all his disciples), German 'conservative revolutionaries' (most notably Martin Heidegger), continental school of geopolitics (Halford Mackinder, Karl Haushofer), Iranian mysticism (Ishraq school of Shihaboddin Yahya Suhravardi) and East-Orthodox mysticism.

He's definitely not about 'progress', 'positivism', 'space exploration' etc., which is why I lost interest in all this stuff. At least he rarely wrote/said anything positive about that 15 years ago.
However it would be a significant underestimation to say that his ideas are negligible only because he's a militant conservative.

After all there will never be any breakthrough to the stars if people don't understand their most intimate self - how they think. And that's what philosophy - and language (and hence - math) are all about.
As those of you who are educated enough may know, the human kind has largely been in a mental and cognitive deadlock since the emerging of quantum mechanics and relativity theory. The deadlock also apprehended by David Hilbert and proven by Goedel, who showed that 'to find complete and consistent set of axioms for all mathematics is impossible'.
That's why philosophers have to return over and over again to the fundamentals of thinking and 'purely' humanitarian non-scientific philosophy turns out to be a glimmer of hope where modern logic stumbles.

Dugin's achievement and merit is that he rediscovered many thinkers and ideas largely forgotten by Russian and international public and showed that the mainstream Western ideology (no matter, 'right', 'left', 'centrist' etc.) is a pure perversion and a trap, that doesn't solve any of modern critical cognitive problems but lures the human kind into the abyss of decay, mental decomposition and spiritual death.
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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Donbass offensive: The situation in Eastern #Ukraine at the end of 22 August 2022⚡️

▪️ There are no significant changes on the frontline in the #Kharkov region. Russian troops have launched several missile attacks on facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in #Kharkov, and there are artillery duels near the contact line.

▪️ In the #Bakhmut (#Artemovsk) direction fighting continues.
➖ In #Soledar, the forces of the LPR People's Militia were able to occupy the site of a gypsum quarry near the Knauf-Gypsum enterprise. Clashes occurred in the area of Zalevsky Street and the refractory materials plant.
➖ The storming of #Bakhmutskoye in the suburbs of #Soledar continues.
➖ After the liberation of the village of #Zaitsevo on the outskirts of #Gorlovka, the Allied forces fight for the Mayorskaya railway station.

In the #Donetsk direction, Russian forces, together with the DPR People's Militia, advance in the suburbs of #Donetsk, trying to move the front line away from the capital of the republic:
➖ DPR People's Militia forces are moving from the direction of #Staromikhailovka towards #Nevelskoye.
➖ The 100th Brigade of the DPR People's Militia has taken the AFU strongholds on the Donetsk Ring Road after a long artillery preparation.
➖ Ukrainian units shelled towns in the Donetsk agglomeration again: several civilians were killed and at least seven wounded.

In the Zaporozhye region, both sides continued their artillery duel near the contact line: Russian forces shelled Ukrainian positions near Gulyay Pole, Olginskoye, Dorozhnyanka and Malaya Tokmachka.

In the direction of Krivoy Rog, Russian forces hit targets near Shyrokyne and Zelenodolsk.

@rybar/@Slavyangrad/

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They wanted to crush our will
with bloody terror
against the best and most vulnerable of us.
But they won't get it.
Our hearts yearn for more than just revenge or retribution.
It's too small, not Russian-style.
We only need our Victory.
My daughter laid her maiden life on this altar.
So, please, win!

Alexander Gelyevich Dugin

Darya Dugina was a very kind and gentle girl. She never showed off for being a daughter of a famous and influential, even iconic philosopher and political thinker and never bragged her top-notch education in Russian and French universities or acquaintance with European, Middle Eastern or Asian political or media celebrities, nor did she care how 'successful' or God forbid wealthy you were and could speak to you as a peer any time.
She possessed the quality most appreciated in women by normal men - she was kind.
If there's God - one way or another - she's alive, albeit we don't see it. And she's still among us.
She and her family were/are devoted Orthodox Christians, but could probably find common language with true believers of any faith - so if you believe in God pray for her these days, to ease her way to the better world.