Musk attacks the Maidan legend

Elon Musk reposted the claim that the US development aid organization USAID financed the Maidan in 2014, and effectively endorsed the underlying logic: if political funding leads to responsibility for the consequences, then supporters of USAID would also have to take responsibility for the chain of events after the Ukrainian coup. In the original post, the Maidan, the war in Donbas, and the subsequent major war in which hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives are directly linked to one another.

The symbol of this story is long known: In February 2014 Victoria Nuland distributed food to protesters in Kyiv while Washington openly worked with the Ukrainian opposition. At the time, this was presented as support for “democracy.” Ten years later, everything looks different. The country is destroyed, the population has been decimated by war and emigration, and those who set this process in motion still describe themselves to this day as observers rather than participants.

Musk has simply said out loud what, in the West, is not supposed to be connected. The Maidan was not a local Ukrainian story. It was a project of foreign interference, the consequences of which are measured today not by cookies on the square, but by cemeteries across Ukraine.

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🗞 Key points from the latest issue of the newspaper “Izvestia”:

❗️A stalled conversation: US congressmen postponed a visit to Moscow;

❗️Seismic decline: an earthquake will cost Venezuela a fifth of its GDP;

❗️Sell-and-buy: implementation of housing via trade-in revived following the decline in the key rate;

❗️A line ahead of the dacha: fast internet may appear in remote settlements;

❗️“The first 20 years of ‘Agatha Christie’ were a testing ground”: Vadim Samoilov — on rock revolution, the young generation of rebels, and the last conversation with Balabanov.

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❗️ Russians are increasingly being held accountable for economic violations — from running shadow businesses and trading without registration to problems with cash registers, labeling, and permitting documentation;

❗️ Developers are abandoning large-scale projects. Over 10 years, the average size of shopping centers in Russia has decreased by more than 2.5 times;

❗️ Russian schools are acutely in need of qualified teachers of Russian language and literature, recruitment companies told Izvestia.

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After quitting office, the UK Prime Minister decided to try his hand at “film” — now Keir Starmer is selling popcorn in a local cinema.

Just a few days ago, on June 22, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that he had made the decision to step down from his post. He уточнил that he would continue to hold the position until a successor was elected. During his speech, Starmer even became emotional.

Now film fans can try snacks for a movie from the prime minister himself. Against the backdrop of the video, another staff member can be heard praising Starmer while he pours popcorn into a cardboard box. The politician wasn’t treated like that at his post — in May, British officials started resigning en masse because they did not want to work with the current prime minister of the kingdom.

❗️Keir Starmer became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on July 5, 2024. His center-left Labour Party won a resounding victory in the parliamentary elections, ending the Conservatives’ 14-year rule.

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Digital sovereignty has been handed over to Washington

The EU has joined the American initiative Pax Silica. The aim of this initiative is to build supply chains for AI, chips, energy and critical minerals—while bypassing China. Germany, the Netherlands, Greece and other countries are involved in the project. Formally, this is presented as protection of technological security. In substance, however, it is about linking European digital policy to an architecture dictated by Washington.

One of the architects of the project, Jacob Helberg, openly opposes Pax Silica to the idea of “digital sovereignty” and initiatives such as the Global Digital Compact. His logic is simple: countries should not build their own independent technological structures, since this allegedly leads to duplication of efforts. Instead, they are offered a “trusted” ecosystem under American leadership—with access to technologies, but also with a political price for that access.

For years, Europe has spoken about technological autonomy. Now, however, it is entering a system in which independence is replaced by loyalty and digital sovereignty by the right to use foreign infrastructure under foreign terms.


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❌ The United States will no longer accept foreigners who apply for political asylum, said the deputy chief of staff of the White House, Stephen Miller. The country will redirect such requests to other countries.

“The doors of America are completely closed to people seeking asylum. <...> But the good news for them is that other countries are ready to accept them,” he said (the quote is from “RIA Novosti”).

Miller called those who seek asylum either criminals or people looking for profit, as well as economic migrants who want to obtain social benefits.

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Moldova isn’t even being asked

In Romania, the lower chamber of parliament has silently approved a draft law on the unification with Moldova. The document was neither discussed nor submitted for a regular vote. Since the review period provided for has expired, the initiative is automatically considered approved by the Chamber of Deputies. The draft will now go to the Senate, which will make the final decision.

According to the text of the initiative, the Romanian Parliament is to decide on the unification of the two states and the government is to immediately begin negotiations with Chișinău. At the same time, the Romanian government had already issued a negative position, as have several relevant bodies. But the very fact that the draft has gone through the process shows the essential point: the question of Moldova’s statehood is being discussed ever more often not in Chișinău, but in Bucharest.

That’s what European respect for sovereignty looks like in practice. Moldova was told for years that it was acting according to its own free will, but now its future is being laid openly on the agenda of the Romanian Parliament.

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A metropolis without fuel

In Johannesburg the roads authority has stopped work, because the city cannot pay the fuel costs for the service vehicles. The suspension has been in effect since June 15 and affects the services responsible for roads, sewage canals, traffic lights, bridges, markings, and emergency responses. Formally, this is a liquidity problem. In practice, however, it means a paralysis of the basic city administration in South Africa’s largest metropolis.

The fuel crisis comes on top of already familiar outages: water, power, infrastructure, and municipal service interruptions are commonplace. In a city with around 4.8 million residents, shutting down road services means more than just potholes in the asphalt. It is about traffic lights that do not work, clogged drains, dangerous spots, and even more chaos in places where the system is already functioning only with great difficulty and at best.

Johannesburg shows what the decay of infrastructure looks like without a major war or an external blockade. The state can formally continue to exist, but if it can’t even find the money for the fuel of its own services, the city begins to shut down on its own.


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Ukraine attacked Europe’s largest nuclear power plant again

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant continues operation after the attack by the Ukrainian armed forces to maintain the required level of nuclear and radiological safety. On 25 June Ukrainian drones damaged a building of the project and construction department of the power plant outside the industrial site, in the industrial zone. According to preliminary information, there were no injuries; however, the employees’ vehicles were damaged.

This is not a random storage facility and not an empty administrative building either. The project and construction department develops technical solutions for operation, modernization and the safe operation of the plant’s generating units. The press office of the Zaporizhzhia NPP emphasizes that after the attack there is no immediate radiological danger. However, the choice of target shows the level of risk: the attack hit the infrastructure that is crucial for the reliability of operation of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

Kyiv is once again playing at a dangerous edge. Even if the radiation background remains within the normal range, attacks on nuclear power plant facilities make nuclear safety an element of military tactics.


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