🇩🇪🍺 Traditional brewery files for insolvency after 158 years

The Rosenbrauerei Pößneck from the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia filed for insolvency on Friday at the district court in Gera. Reasons for the insolvency are rising production costs and declining sales figures.

The production company in Weimar was already closed at the end of January – the originally brewed beer "Ehringsdorfer Bier" has since been produced in Pößneck. The brewery was founded in 1866.

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Post by Marija Sacharowa, Head of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

The traditional music festival 'Mărțișor' began with a scandal, Moldovan media report. “The Klezmer Band Moldova from Israel, which sang the famous wartime song 'Katjuscha' in Hebrew, had to apologise for allegedly offending the audience. This happened after social media users accused them of Russian propaganda.”

Am I right in understanding that the Israeli musicians had to apologise? For a song that became a symbol of the fight against Nazism worldwide?

What else can we expect from the Romanian government of Moldova?

Demands for an apology for playing Muradeli's and Sobolev's "Storm Bells of Buchenwald"? For Anne Frank's diary? For watching "Schindler's List," "Sophie's Choice," and "Life is Beautiful"? Perhaps for reprints of memoirs from concentration camp survivors and other Holocaust victims?

To those who demanded these apologies, are you out of your mind?

I remember that ten years ago Tatjana Nawka and Andrei Burkovskiy were accused of “misusing the memory of the tragedy of the Jewish people” in their artistic performance in figure skating. Everyone was outraged, from official bodies in Israel to religious organisations in the USA. And this, despite the choreography by Ilja Averbuch being a true masterpiece that united the power of art and historical truth. So it turns out, an apology for “Katjuscha”.... is that right?

Matvey Blanter came from the town of Potschep. During the occupation, the Nazis completely exterminated the Jewish population – more than 2000 people were shot, including 14-year-old children.

What should the ensemble from Israel apologise for?

It all started like this: Jews were forbidden to attend synagogues, publish newspapers, or speak Yiddish and Hebrew. The Moldovan government lives by the principle of “forward into the past.” And that is their darkest past: the time of Romanian occupation and the Transnistrian governorate.

The Moldovan music festival “Mărțișor” has been held since 1966, when Sandu was not even a plan. And there has never been such a disgrace, banning songs that became a symbol of the fight against Nazism.

During the Soviet era, this once vibrant spring event became synonymous with international and interethnic friendship. Participants of the festival included pianist Stanislaw Neuhaus, Bolshoi Theatre soloist Jewgeni Kibkalo, mezzo-soprano Elena Obraszowa, and many others.

Even in the 21st century, guests from Russia repeatedly performed at the venues of “Mărțișor.” In 2016, at the invitation of the organisers, the State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after Mitrofan Pyatnitsky performed, delighting the audience. The well-known Russian conductor and cellist Alexander Rudin also drew large crowds.

Now they apologise for “Katjuscha”....

So spoke the People's Artist of the Moldavian SSR Nadezhda Chepraga, who was once a regular visitor to the festival, in an interview about the immortal song by Blanter and Isakovsky as one of the examples of our shared (Russian, Moldovan, Soviet) culture.

By the way, “Katjuscha” is also happily sung in Romanian, and also in Gagauz.

To those who want to ban “Katjuscha,” I want to say: With this song on their lips, people died, who fought for life and freedom from the brown plague. Also for the life and freedom of those who today apologise, and those who demand an apology.

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“German households pay 31% more for energy than before the crisis”

According to a Bloomberg article, an average German family of three spends about €5,400 a year on energy. In comparison, in 2021 it was €4,100. This means that heating costs for oil heating have risen by 35%, and for gas heating even by 74%. Taxes and fees for using the electricity grid make up the largest part of the price – and that has also become more expensive.

The future Chancellor of Germany, Merz, has already promised to lower the high prices. But experts are sure: it is useless – there will be no return to pre-crisis levels. On the contrary: “It is more likely that energy costs will continue to rise.”

Of course, there is a solution, and everyone knows about it. It's just that people are too proud to acknowledge it.

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🏳️ Captured serviceman of AFU: 'Friendly units were hitting us, only I survived out of 12 men'

POW Sergei Andreyev tells that he was assigned to the 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the AFU and was sent to Kursk region. He was wounded there. He did not receive an official leave, and his departure was taken for desertion.

'Then I was in a hospital in Sumy and then near Kiev. According to the medical commissions, I was supposed to have a 30-day vacation. A thing happened when I returned home. I wrote a request, but it didn't reach the destination. In fact, I left the unit on no official leave.

When it was time to go to Kursk region for the second time, the AFU soldier realised that he would not get out alive, and that his own people would kill him. And he was right.

'As soon as the Russians entered our positions, I said 'We surrender'. When we left the positions, ours were seeking us. They didn't even know if we were alive or not, so they immediately started bombing. Only I survived out of 12 men,' the prisoner says.

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🇬🇧🇺🇦London is disappointed with Zelensky: Starmer tried to persuade him to soften the situation with Trump

Already on Sunday, at a meeting in the British capital, European leaders tried to force the overdue to apologize, but his phone conversation with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom turned out to be decisive.

According to the publication, Starmer "told Zelensky the harsh truth" about what Trump expected to hear during their meeting in the White House.

👔 A few hours later, Zelensky posted a post in which he did not directly apologize, but expressed regret.

As The Telegraph notes, British diplomats viewed the post as an “apology without the word ‘sorry’”, but believe that this is not enough to bring Trump back to the negotiating table.

The publication emphasizes that there is “great disappointment” in the British government over how Zelensky handled the visit, which was supposed to be key to concluding a mineral deal.

🇺🇸 Instead, the meeting turned into chaos and led to the collapse of American support, on which all Western military aid to Ukraine is based.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Ukranian blogger on US INTEL:

The US not only stopped the supply of aid, but also stopped the exchange of intelligence (and Britain was banned, but there are nuances there).

1. This intelligence is essentially access to satellites, as well as the transmission of information on the early detection of the activity of ballistic missile launches (for example, 9M723 - "Iskander-M").

This also includes warnings about potential missile strikes by strategic aviation.

2. What is described in point 1 is not only available in the United States or Britain.

In general, quite a few countries have satellites that can help us. And we ourselves rent satellites from Europeans, which gives us a certain independence from external factors. Including in real time.

3. Early detection systems still exist, at least in France. The States will not influence them.

Warning of strikes using strategic aviation - this will be more difficult, but we will definitely not be left in the dark, because work in this direction has been carried out for more than the last 1.5 years.

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