Vladimir Putin just tacitly admitted Crimea is not really part of Russia https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blo...admitted-crimea-is-not-really-part-of-russia/
more or less nothing is really part of "russia". "russia" is a sick construct based on oppression and violence. it has no future.
Hats off to Ukrainian Women, they have been saving many Ukrainian men from the meat grinder this last month.
Does Putin have to worry about his East? Just as he believes he has a right to parts of Ukraine, the Chinese are making similar claims to Russian territory. Because Russia's Far East was once Chinese. Some nationalist-minded Chinese are therefore demanding: Give us our country back! And now seems to be the right time, because Russia has been economically weakened by the Ukraine war and the country is focusing militarily on the West. In any case, the call to finally act is repeatedly heard on Chinese social media. For example, the Chinese reacted angrily to an advertisement in which a Russian tourism organization advertised the culinary delights of the city of Vladivostok on China's social network "Weibo". According to the post, the metropolis in eastern Russia had recently been voted one of the country's gourmet capitals. But the users did not react in a positive way at all, but angrily. "Give us our country back," wrote one user. Another demanded: "They killed my fellow countrymen and occupied our country. The Russians must be punished!” And a third user simply posted a knife emoji. Background: In the 19th century, Western countries, especially Great Britain, forced the Chinese Empire, which was then completely economically and technologically underdeveloped, to its knees in several wars. The Qing Dynasty had to cede several territories to the imperialist powers - for example, the region around what is now Hong Kong fell to the British. And the Russian Empire seized areas in northeast China that were three times the size of Germany. In the region there is also a city that the Chinese once called “Haishenwai”: Sea Cucumber Bay, named after the sea creatures that are considered a delicacy in Asia. Today the city is called Vladivostok and is the center of Russia's Far East.
In Moscow, people gather to watch the live broadcast of a Berlin memorial concert for the deceased Kremlin opponent Navalny. A short time later, a special police unit arrives. The police in Russia's capital Moscow have cracked down on supporters of the deceased Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, who had gathered for a small memorial ceremony on his birthday. Representatives of a special unit stormed a room in northeast Moscow on Tuesday evening where several dozen people had gathered to watch the live broadcast of a Navalny memorial concert from Berlin, the civil rights organization Ovd-Info said. Around 30 people were detained, searched and questioned in the meantime. The media outlet "Sota" published a short video showing several masked officers approaching. Navalny, who would have turned 48 on Tuesday, was considered one of the harshest critics of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin during his lifetime and has been a political prisoner since his imprisonment in 2021. Last February, he died in a penal camp in the far north of Russia for reasons that remain unclear. His relatives and supporters speak of murder - also because Navalny had only narrowly survived a nerve gas attack a few years earlier in the summer of 2020 and was weakened by it. At Navalny's funeral around three months ago, thousands of people surprisingly gathered in Moscow despite great repression and mourned the popular opposition politician. Otherwise, however, there are hardly any protests anymore because the authorities usually nip them in the bud and immediately arrest participants.
Let's see the latest in Russian propaganda about the U.S. navy. Their stuff keeps getting more laughable.
Us navy is not just laughable. It's humiliated. Houthis strikes aircraft carrier with rockets and USA somehow thinks it can win against Russia