The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova 🇷🇺 , turned 87 today! 🚀 She orbited the Earth 48 times and even did a solo space mission. So it’s no wonder that she’s doing well under those idiotic Westoid sanctions! 😅

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The Visoki Dečani Monastery might be an important historic UNESCO world heritage site established by the Serbs in 1335. Yet what makes it truly amazing is daily scenes like these featuring Orthodoxy as a living religion.

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Premiering on March 7 at 1 pm EST is a new Winter Latina Show episode on Georgia 🇬🇪 (the country in the Caucasus, not the U.S. state 😜).

Was Georgia's "rose revolution" authentic or another case of regime change? What happened in the Russo-Georgian War of 2008? How is the former Georgian leader, Saakashvili's, political trajectory relevant to today's Ukraine?

And, yes, we'll "pull a Putin" and briefly go far back in history, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCgXfMm35Ow

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“[Shoigu], these are not for you! 💐 “ - Putin congratulates Russia’s female pilots on March 8, the international women’s day. 😅

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Wow!! This regional clothing at Russia’s 🇷🇺 World Youth Festival is so beautiful! After all, Russia has approximately 190 ethnicities. The Slavic girl at the end is so cute, but it’s the Siberian ethnic groups that have the most stunning outfits!

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POV: A mysterious stranger who could be Putin visits you on the International Women’s Day. 💐 🎂 This is brilliant. 🤣

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Do you live in North America or parts of Europe where your subway smells like p*** and s***? Then you definitely don’t want watch yet another video of a clean and safe Russian subway station (Trubnaya—a newer station from the mid-2000s) decorated for the March 8th holiday. 😉

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Stripped of Citizenship for the "Wrong" Opinion: Lithuania's Government is Terrified of Ballet Dancers

First, Lithuania stripped its best and brightest, the medal-winning Margarita Drobiazko, for the crime of participating in a professional ice dance (!!!) event in Russia. Now, that country also stripped a famous ballerina of Bolshoi Theater caliber, Ilze Liepa, of citizenship simply for thought crimes of expressing positive opinions of Russia in an interview.

Liepa (whose father was a Latvian ballet dancer and actor, hence her name), was a dual Russian-Lithuanian citizen until recently when she had her Lithuanian citizenship taken away. Her "crimes" included criticizing the Baltic states for their politics and her "support for Putin." (I haven't seen the interview, so I'm not sure how far this "support" even goes.) Simply having such opinions is the equivalent of posing a "threat to Lithuania’s security interests."

European values on full display yet again!

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Healthy food. Cultural workshops. What else does one need for a good life? 😜

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For every ̶d̶e̶m̶o̶n̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶m̶ ̶ NATO stan like Ursula von der Leyen, there are normal Europeans with a healthy heart and mind like these just chilling in Russia and not giving a flying bleep about sanctions. The future is with them! 😎

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Well, hello there, Macron 🇫🇷

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According to CNN, Russia is producing 3x ammo than what the official West is able to provide its chosen cannon fodder, country, Ukraine. This media source suggests that Russia is currently firing around 10,000 shells a day, compared to 2,000 a day from the Ukrainian army. Considering the source, the discrepancy might be more drastic.

NATO begrudgingly admits that Russia successfully transformed into what, in part, is a wartime economy:

“Russia is running artillery factories ‘24/7’ on rotating 12-hour shifts, the NATO official said. About 3.5 million Russians now work in the defense sector, up from somewhere between 2 and 2.5 million before the war.”

In light of historical threats and invasions from the West, Russia has been preparing for something like this for years. But it’s taken two years and hundreds of thousands of lives for the Western politicians and media echo chamber to admit the obvious.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine/index.html

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Wow!!!

The video of this Persian 🇮🇷 lady at Russia’s World Youth Festival 🇷🇺 blew me away! Her Russian is perfect! Even the interviewer thought that she was Russian, at first, and then that she lives in Russia. But she only studied in a Russian university and lives in Iran!

The Persian lady pointed out that Russian doctors saved her life when she was a little girl. (Neither she nor her parents spoke Russian when they brought her to Moscow for treatment.) Since then, she fell in love with the Russian people.

She also pointed out that various parts of her outfit represent different regions or cities in Iran.

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I can’t stop laughing at this video featuring a giant, aggressive Russian hockey star 🏒, Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin, playing football (soccer). What is his opponent even doing there? 🤣

This video is a couple of years old, but I’m seeing it for the first time, and it’s hilarious!

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