Russia

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Russia is modernising its meteorological stations along the Northern Sea Route

In anticipation of future shipping, dozens of stations above the Arctic Circle are being upgraded.

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The new Russian internet: closed, censored, and “secure”

The World Wide Web is gradually disappearing in Russia — not only as an information technology, but also as a space of freedom. The Russian state today is making great efforts to build its alternative Runet — a closed and strictly controlled Russian internet. The Barents Observer has compiled an...

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Burevestnik - Russia's New Nuclear Powered Cruise Missile Explained​

 

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Murmansk region lost 10 percent of its population during the years of full-scale war

Up to 30 percent of the population has disappeared from some of the closed military towns of the Northern Fleet, according to calculations by the news-outlet Chronicles.

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New military hospital in Northern Russia opens doors for legions of wounded men

As the number of killed and wounded soldiers on the battlefields in Ukraine reaches a record high, the Russian ministry of war opens its new large military hospital in Mirny, Arkhangelsk region.

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If I could convince my wife... I'd move to Russia!

My grandfather was known as a "White Russian" which was a German farmer who migrated at the behest of Catherine The Great (Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796) to the Volga region which had rich soil for farming. She promised German farmers they wouldn't be conscripted for 100 years. Many German farmers went.

Around the 1890's, as a young man grandpa decided to leave and migrated to the US.

 

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Russia Didn't Collapse — The West's Strategy Backfired Catastrophically | J. Mearsheimer​

The sanctions that were supposed to destroy Russia have created something far worse for the West: a multipolar world order that challenges American hegemony itself.
Professor John Mearsheimer reveals how Jeffrey Sachs' devastating analysis exposes the complete failure of Western strategy. While NATO celebrated tactical victories, Russia was winning an entirely different war—the systematic dismantling of dollar dominance and Western economic control.

What You'll Discover:
Why the "ruble collapse" predictions were catastrophically wrong
How Europe committed economic suicide with energy sanctions
The hidden mathematics behind America's declining financial hegemony
Russia's strategic pivot to the Global South and what it means
Why BRICS expansion threatens the foundation of Western power
The real reason China, India, and Saudi Arabia are abandoning dollar trade
Sachs' warning about the "awakening of sovereignty" worldwide
How desperate hegemons historically respond when economic weapons fail

Key Revelations:

Russia-China trade in domestic currencies jumped from 2% to 75% in three years
German factories are shuttering while Russian energy flows east
BRICS+ now represents over half the world's population
Alternative payment systems are processing billions outside SWIFT
The "exorbitant privilege" that built American empire is ending

This isn't just about Russia surviving sanctions—it's about the emergence of a genuinely multipolar world where American economic coercion no longer works. Mearsheimer's realist analysis combined with Sachs' insider warnings reveals why the West's strategy has accelerated its own decline.

Critical Questions Answered:
Can the West adapt to multipolarity before it's too late? What happens when dollar dominance truly ends? Why are America's closest allies quietly hedging their bets? How do declining hegemons typically respond when facing existential threats?

Professor Mearsheimer breaks down the structural forces reshaping global power and warns that the choices made today will determine whether this transition happens peacefully or through the chaos that historically accompanies imperial collapse.

 

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Former environmental minister vows to divert water from northern rivers to occupied Donbas

A study by the Russian Academy of Science proposes to build a pipeline to pump massive amounts of fresh water from the Northern Dvina and Pechora rivers to occupied territories in Ukraine.

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Russia withdraws from Euro-Arctic rescue cooperation

The Foreign Ministry in Moscow announced on November 26 that it formally had terminated the agreement with Norway, Finland and Sweden on joint repose to emergency situations in the north.

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