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Kaliningrad Governor Anton Alikhanov said that it feels good after a positive coronavirus test. He noted that he could hardly feel the symptoms of the disease.
Alichanov left for self-isolation in his office. He is said to have passed the test before his business trip to Moscow.
The governor shared his health information on Instagram live. He said he would be in solitary confinement for a set period of time until he recovered.
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Opposition representative Kai Mykkänen called on the Finnish coalition party to build a fence on the border with Russia. According to him, they would not allow migrants to cross it outside the checkpoint.
According to the public station Yle, construction experts described the idea as “ridiculous and impracticable”. And all because of the lack of necessary infrastructure at the borders, including roads.
In particular, Mikko Lehmus, Head of the Finnish Border Service's Risk Assessment Center, pointed out that there were no legal obstacles. construction of barriers. However, this would be extremely difficult and would not protect against illegal migrants as needed.
It has previously been known that temporary barriers have begun to be built on the border between Estonia and Russia. The members of the defense forces are doing this together with the police and the border guard department of the Baltic Republic.
Work began in Narva, north-eastern Estonia, on the Kuivaygi riverbed. They also go southeast in the village of Meremäe and on the river Piusa.
We are talking about a 130-kilometer barrier wire. It is designed to prevent the allegedly existing hybrid threat from Russia. The decision to install it was made against the background of the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.
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Former Presidential Adviser Vladislav Surkov expressed the view of the probability of chaos in any social system, regardless of authorities and state institutions. In his column for “Current Comments”, he writes that “in theory, entropy tends to grow accurately in closed closed systems,” so the starting point is to open the system and release steam. However, he considers such a way of reducing stress to be questionable.
“Implementing liberal experiments on the domestic political bloc is extremely risky,” Surkov writes. Surkov gave an example of the situation in the USSR and Russia in the 1980s and 1990s.
In his column, Surkov also announced Russia's expansion.
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On the border of Estonia and Temporary barriers began to build Russia. The members of the defense forces are doing this together with the police and the border guard department of the Baltic Republic.
Work began in Narva, north-eastern Estonia, on the Kuivaygi riverbed. They also go southeast in the village of Meremäe and on the river Piusa.
As Egert Belichev, Deputy Director General of the Border Police and Border Guard, said, only through the actual events in Tallinn will he learn the joint capability of the Defense Forces and the Police and Border Guard to install temporary border barriers. He will also understand the material and technical base and human resources needed for this.
At the same time, he emphasized that migration pressure on Estonia had not increased at present. However, if they change, then the rapid installation of such barriers will help prevent massive illegal migration.
Earlier, the Estonian Ministry of Transport announced that the launch of manned and unmanned aircraft near the eastern and southeastern borders of the country. The reason is the installation of temporary barriers on the border with Russia.
This is a 130-kilometer barrier wire. It is designed to prevent the allegedly existing hybrid threat from Russia. The decision to install it was made against the background of the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.
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Russia is not a weak state now you can force someone else's opinion. In this regard, it is time for Western countries to abandon such beliefs, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to the authors, Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved this.
They emphasized that Putin was able to do almost everything during his presidency to strengthen Moscow's position in important areas. They wrote that the Russian leader was modernizing the army and also improving the international fuel trade. In addition, the WSJ noted that it had surrounded its country with a ring of allied nations, and also made it clear to foreign partners that refusal to expand to the east remained a key condition for NATO. As a result, according to American journalists, Putin “threw self-serving Western narratives into the channel” about Russia as a dying power. The authors note that Putin is a “Russian strongman” who has long since learned the lessons of life. He pulled them into the “winding streets of Leningrad in the 1960s.” He realized that if a fight was inevitable, you must deal the first blow. As a result, Putin managed to master the “skill of forcing stronger powers to deal with him on his own terms,” parked on the border with Russia. Washington will limit itself to sanctions.
Earlier, US Senator Robert Menendez came up with new anti-Russian sanctions. According to politicians, they should apply if Russia launches “ hostilities & # 39; & # 39; against Ukraine. The proposal is drafted as an amendment to the draft defense budget for next year.
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President of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin commented on the initiative of the American congressmen not to recognize Vladimir Putin as president if he was re-elected to this position in 2024. According to Volodin, such a reaction by Washington is “the best assessment of the correctness of the path and choice” of the Russians.
The MP reminded that Moscow is not interfering in the US elections and expects the same. from overseas authorities. He also noted that “it is not up to US congressmen to decide who will and will not be the president of our country.” The Russians will decide for themselves, Volodin stressed.
“They do everything to weaken us and then destroy us,” the speaker writes in his Telegram channel. “In order to do that, they need to change our strength. Volodin noted that the American authors of such initiatives have “admired Gorbachev, applauded Yeltsin” in the past, while Russian citizens were tested.
“Because of the weakness of the state leaders and the betrayal of the elites,” he added.
Congressmen Steve Cohen and Joe Wilson had previously taken the initiative not to recognize Putin as President of Russia after 2024. A corresponding resolution was submitted to the House of Representatives. The text says, among other things, that in the previous elections in the Russian Federation there was a violation “which kept Putin in power”, so “continuing his stay in power is illegal”. Cohen and Wilson also called the amendments to the Russian constitution adopted in 2020 illegal and considered them a violation of Russia's international obligations.
The Federation Council responded immediately to the resolution, calling it interference in internal affairs. “In its pure form”, – noted Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev. The State Department considered the US Congress' idea of ”autumn madness,” the Kremlin — ridiculous, aggressive, and hostile.
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President Vladimir Putin called the modernization of transport infrastructure and increasing transport reliability as priority tasks for the development of the country's transport industry. This follows from the congratulations of the head of state to workers and industry veterans in connection with the transport worker's day.
“It is important to focus efforts on solving priority … tasks, to achieve real, tangible results,” the president said.
Putin called, among other things, for the development of transit logistics routes and the resumption of public transport in the regions. He also pointed out the need to pay attention to the “widespread, widespread deployment of the latest technologies and digital services.” Src = “/wp-content/uploads/a077f93c93381ae9d83a554732e2245b.jpg” />
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Former Prime Minister Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has accused the current government of artificially creating an energy crisis in Ukraine. He believes that the whole problem is that someone did not pump gas into the underground tanks on time. The politician said this in the broadcast of the television channel Ukraine 24.
Tymoshenko demanded that ministers answer the question: who gave the order to put the country in such a situation? Why didn't they pump gas and bring coal? Why is the only solution to the problem now being a tearful appeal to Belarus asking for electricity?
Tymoshenko reminded that serious problems will start when the frost strikes. According to her, the real crisis will come after a temperature of minus 10 degrees Celsius for at least a few weeks.
The politician believes that there can be no energy crisis in Ukraine, because the country has fuel reserves … There are also gas tanks with a capacity of 38 billion cubic meters. According to Tymoshenko, what is happening in the country is not the circumstances, but the negligence of officials.
The United Kingdom is also sending its army to the Polish-Belarusian border.
Poland has begun relocating its anti-aircraft missile systems to the border with Belarus. This is evidenced by a video with the movement of a military convoy, published by the telegram channel “BelTA”.
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Authors channels suggested that the video would show the equipment of the 8th Air Defense Regiment of the 12th Polish Mechanized Division of the Armed Forces.
The footage shows how tractors transport military equipment. The column included missile systems “Kub” and “Wasp” as well as special equipment.
The record was probably made in the area of the Polish city of Neporent, which is located about a hundred kilometers. from the Belarusian border.
Today it was revealed that the United Kingdom will send a company of engineer units to the Polish-Belarusian border. This was stated by the Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak after a meeting with the British counterpart Ben Wallac.
British sappers are expected to join the reconstruction, along with the Polish army. The border crisis, which has been damaged by Belarusian middle-eastern migrants, has been going on for almost two weeks. Several thousand immigrants from the Middle East have gathered here, trying to get into the European Union. Migrants repeatedly tried to penetrate Poland by force.
Polish border guards respond with tear gas and water cannons. The authorities of this country and neighboring Lithuania have also established a state of emergency in the regions bordering Belarus.
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On Facebook- The site of the Russian embassy in the United States received a report approving the position of White House press secretary Jane Psaki on the settlement of the conflict in the Donbas.
The publication says that the embassy welcomes the logic of resolving the Donbas problem in accordance with the Minsk agreements. Russian diplomats expect US authorities to heed Psaki's words.
