Notices tagged with russia

Trump allies target Greenland with investment promises. MAGA leader Jørgen Boassen aggressively confronted lawmaker Per Berthelsen in Nuuk. The group includes ex-special forces and a Project 2025 contributor. The effort is backfiring, incensing leaders.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/maga-figures-are-pushing-trumps-campaign-grab-greenland-its-tough-sledding-2026-04-17/

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #US #Trump #MAGA #Denmark #Greenland

Russia plans to test one-third of its population for HIV to detect infections early and curb spread, Health Minister Murashko said. Focus will remain on high-risk groups.

In 2025 around 1.25 million Russians had HIV.

https://ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/17/-36-a193057

#Ukraine #Russia

The Pentagon’s top policy official is warning that future military support for Ukraine cannot depend on the United States, sharpening pressure on European allies to take the lead.

https://www.politico.eu/article/pentagon-says-ukraine-support-cant-rely-us-american-contributions/

#Ukraine #Russia #US #EU #UK

The Trump administration on Friday renewed a waiver allowing countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products at sea for about a month, two days after saying it had no plans to do so.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-extends-waiver-allowing-countries-buy-russian-oil-2026-04-18/

#Ukraine #Russia #US #Trump

Uh-oh. Russia passing laws to "protect" Russians in foreign countries lays the groundwork for attacks against Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Zr6cv_3nc

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #war

George Orwell, 1942, writing on #pacifism

Pacifism. Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’. The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security.

And a strong resemblance to today’s twisted logic where #Russia is kind of morally allowed to do things that would be unimaginable elsewhere, just because “so they are”

Mr Savage remarks that ‘according to this type of reasoning, a German or Japanese pacifist would be “objectively pro-British”.’ But of course he would be! That is why pacifist activities are not permitted in those countries (in both of them the penalty is, or can be, beheading) while both the Germans and the Japanese do all they can to encourage the spread of pacifism in British and American territories.

And here’s the ancestors of our tankies - “realists”, Chomskys and Mearscheimers…

The Germans even run a spurious ‘freedom’ station which serves out pacifist propaganda indistinguishable from that of the P.P.U. They would stimulate pacifism in Russia as well if they could, but in that case they have tougher babies to deal with. In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.

https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/pacifism/english/e_patw

Russian President Putin to attend BRICS 2026 summit in New Delhi, India in September.
#AureFreePress #Russia #India

More News at @Free_Press

Trump: Italy wasn’t there for us, we won’t be there for them!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116416471379285688

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Italy #US #Trump

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Russians turn to Witchcraft amid uncertainty, new research on happiness (is it Witchcraft?), a remembrance of elder and Witch Margot Adler, we mark the crossing of the Veil for Ted Gill, Star’s Tarot of the Week, and Earth Day events.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/pagan-community-notes-week-of-april-16-2026.html

#pagan #margotadler #witchcraft #russia #tarot #earthday

🇷🇺 #Russia is facing a labor shortage for the first time in its modern history, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said Thursday, warning that an overheated economy is driving inflation and complicating interest rate policy.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/16/russian-central-bank-governor-warns-of-unprecedented-labor-shortage-a92517

🇬🇧 The UK's National Crime Agency has charged a British shipping financier for alleged money laundering and breach of sanctions regarding #Russia, in a rare example of the UK prosecuting those accused of violating the rules on doing business with Moscow.

https://united24media.com/latest-news/uk-charges-financier-with-money-laundering-in-700m-russian-oil-fleet-scheme-17982

🇷🇺 A report by Memorial has found that Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov directly commands upwards of 33,000 security and military personnel, a figure which has appeared to have doubled since the beginning of #Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022.

https://oc-media.org/kadyrov-has-33-000-troops-under-personal-command-report-says/

RUSSIA THREATENS EUROPE!

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, has just put Europe on notice.

#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #BreakingNews #Breaking

More News at @Free_Press

I wonder which companies will say yes to #Trump‽ This will be considered very divisive within the industry—& within the #GOP!

👉🏾 Pentagon Approaches Automakers, Manufacturers to Boost Weapons Production https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-approaches-automakers-manufacturers-to-boost-weapons-production-19538557

No need to pay the @WSJ subscription as the title & description are enough. But honestly, what are #Republicans preparing for‽ A war with #China 🇨🇳, #Russia 🇷🇺 & #NorthKorea 🇰🇵‽

The last time the government did this, #America 🇺🇸 was in the middle of a World War!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/big-oil-huge-war-windfall-consumers

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And #oil #gas companies in #US #Russia #SaudiArabia #Europe

🇺🇲 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will once again forgo a meeting of roughly 50 countries supporting #Ukraine in its fight against #Russia, a defense official confirmed Tuesday.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5831142-hegseth-to-skip-ukraine-defense-group-meeting/

#usa

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia attacked #Ukraine overnight with hundreds of drones and three ballistic missiles, targeting port infrastructure in the south and wounding at least seven people, Ukrainian officials said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-launches-more-than-300-drones-missiles-ukraine-overnight-2026-04-15/

🇺🇦🇮🇱 #Ukraine has reacted to reports that the Russian cargo vessel “Avinsk” has arrived at the Port of Haifa carrying a shipment of wheat allegedly originating from a temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/73939

#israel #russia

" #Russia adds #Hungary to 'unfriendly countries' list after #Magyar wins"

i have a deep and thoughtful response to this move:

<begin poignant rumination>

😂 😂 😂

</end soulful paean>

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-adds-hungary-to-unfriendly-countries-1776086555.html

#EU #Europe

The first electronic surrender was during Gulf War 1 and now the machines are taking prisoners and territory.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-latest-putin-troops-surrender-military-robot-first-time-11825010

#USpol #Ukraine #russia #war #AutonomousWarfare #UGV #robots