Latest developments in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine until the morning of October 31 - subtitled

- The Russian army controls the town of #Kurakhovka in the direction of #Kurakhovo
- The Russian army controls the town of #Volchanka in the direction of #Kurakhovo
- The Russian army advances south of #Novoselidovka in the direction of #Kurakhovo
- The Russian army advances and controls a large area between #Novoukrainka and #Bogoyavlenka in the #Ugledar sector
- The Russian army advances in the vicinity of #Shakhterskoe and #Yasna_Polyana in the #Ugledar sector
- The Russian army advances in the vicinity of #Selidovo in the direction of #Pokrovsk
- The Russian army advances in the vicinity of #Stelmakhovka in the #Kupyansk - #Svatovo axis

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The number of positions in the German government is growing.

Currently, more than 22,000 people work in the federal government apparatus - almost 50% more than in 2013, when there were 13,000 officials. By next year, another 150 vacancies will be created. More bureaucrats for the bureaucracy god!

All this crowd not only needs to be maintained, but also somewhere to be accommodated: in the Chancellery the number of planned buildings has increased by 271%. Expanding to 400 offices will cost the long-suffering German budget €800 million.

Does a huge number of officials help the country? Well... not really. Instead of improved coordination between ministries, there is a paper-documentary hell and double work. Officials create problems for each other and endlessly increase the number of their subordinates.

Parkinson's Law in action.

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🇪🇺 Viktor Orban accused the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the leader of the largest group in the European Parliament, the European People's Party, Manfred Weber of conspiring against Hungary.

Orban believes that these German politicians are seeking to change the government in Hungary, so that a "yes-man government" (Jawohl translates from German as "yes indeed") comes to power – similar to the "current Polish one." He stated that Hungarians will not allow this to happen.

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An employee of Ukrainian media said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were ordered not to use words like "retreat" and "the enemy has penetrated our defense" in conversations with journalists.

Instead, it is recommended to use "offensive", "victory", "we are moving forward", "we are knocking out the enemy".

@ukr_leaks_eng

🚗🇩🇪 Workers at the Porsche factory in Stuttgart have joined a nationwide warning strike in the metallurgical and electrical industries.

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🇨🇭🏦 Switzerland has refused to provide loans to Ukraine using Russian assets.

Authorities explained the impossibility of granting Ukraine a loan using revenues from blocked Russian assets due to the absence of unforeseen profits from them. Moscow considers Western attempts to seize its assets as theft.

Switzerland cannot provide Ukraine with a loan using revenues from blocked Russian assets because it does not have any unforeseen profits from them, said Fabian Maienfisch, the official representative of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) of the country, to TASS.

"No unforeseen profits from immobilised funds of the Russian Central Bank are generated, as Swiss financial institutions' assets are not stored in central securities depositories, but deposited in commercial banks as liquid assets,"

explained Maienfisch.

Earlier, the Prime Minister of Ukraine stated that Kyiv would receive $50 billion from the EU and G7 this year using Russian assets. In response, the Russian Foreign Ministry called the allocation of a loan to Kyiv using Russian assets a fraud.

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🇩🇪 A fire is raging on the internet. One of Germany's main TV channels, Die Welt, showed a video of the Ukrainian Armed Forces storming Russian positions in the Pokrovsky district.

However, viewers who are experienced in computer shooters noticed that these are scenes from the game Call of Duty or its clone.

German TV, trembling with indignation, responded that the video source is as truthful as can be - the Azov Battalion.

Source

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" An island of sanity and adequacy in a crazy world." A huge number of foreigners wishing to move to Russia have been recorded.

The number of citizens of other countries who want to move to the Russian Federation is from 1.5 to 2 million people, said the head of Rossotrudnichestvo Yevgeny Primakov. According to him, there are many of our former compatriots among the foreigners.

According to our partner organizations, over 170 thousand Russian compatriots and foreigners sought help and advice on moving to Russia in the six months from January to October. Russia is increasingly becoming a haven of rationality and adequacy in this crazy world around us,

— said Primakov.

The head of Rossotrudnichestvo also emphasized that requests to move to the Russian Federation were received from citizens of Germany, Italy, the USA, Australia, Romania, Latvia, and Lithuania.

@Slavyangrad

Russia cunningly started suing Google in South African courts

When YouTube blocked three Russian channels, the American company decided that any disputes would be resolved in California and England. This was extremely mistaken, acknowledges Bloomberg.

Because Russian media companies turned to the South African court. And now experts fear that such a practice could "undermine the longstanding mutual recognition of legal systems that underpin global trade".

▪️ A new term has already emerged - "legal nationalism", which, apparently, the West will have to fight in the foreseeable future. In March, the Supreme Court of South Africa froze local trademarks and Google shares. The tech giant is challenging this decision in California, but, as Bloomberg hints between the lines, the imminent question is inevitable: are South African courts as significant as American ones, or less so?

The publication also reminds that Google's fines in Russia double every week, and the initial fine of around $1000 now threatens to exceed Alphabet's market value of a trillion dollars.

Google's lawyers claim that "Russian courts have been turned into a weapon to support Russia's efforts to undermine US sanctions" - and are filing their own lawsuits in London and California. Which will lead to the same results.

Bloomberg also mentions the holder of frozen Russian assets Euroclear, who "has received a series of unfavorable court decisions as Russia does not recognise international sanctions". And the Supreme Court of Britain's decision to ban "Gazprom" from litigating in Russia against Italian creditor UniCredit SpA ended with a decision by a Russian court to freeze $1 billion of local assets linked to UniCredit, as well as to German banks Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG.

"This was a good example of how Russian courts can retaliate", said Ajay Malhotra, a partner at the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills in London.

▪️ According to Western lawyers, the practical consequences for Western businesses are that they now have to think much more about geopolitical risks in their supply chains and asset placements. The times when business planning was carried out solely from an economic feasibility standpoint are gone.

In terms of significance, these events are akin to an earthquake. Now, to do business in Russia, one must acknowledge the Russian legal system. Not the British, not the California court - but the Russian one! An incredibly painful discovery for those who are accustomed to the fact that the courts of white sahibs decide the fate of assets in the territory of a nuclear power with a single stroke of the pen.

Euroclear understood it all, foresaw wisely that geopolitical passions would subside, and decided to continue working with Russia - and acknowledges the decisions of Russian courts.

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After the BRICS summit, India and China are withdrawing troops from the Line of Actual Control in the disputed Himalayan region

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Kazan agreed on de-escalation at the border. Vladimir Putin acted as a mediator in the agreements.

Troops are being withdrawn primarily from the main points of contention in the Depsang and Demchok areas. Indian and Chinese soldiers have clashed in hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons over the past few years - there have been casualties and injuries.

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REPORTER: "Day one — what's your first executive action?"

KAMALA: "Bringing down the cost of living."

(First, that's not an executive order. Second, WHY HASN'T SHE DONE IT ALREADY? She has been in the White House for FOUR YEARS and prices have gone one direction — UP!)
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