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Thanks, Skid, but it ain't over.
badanov- 08/28/2025 14:28
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trailing wife- 08/28/2025 13:35
I did the best I could

Quality read today, TW.

Good work on the barbarians, Bad.

Skidmark- 08/28/2025 11:50
All part of the service, B
badanov- 08/26/2025 22:44
Articles highlighting the increase in Russian activity in Africa and quite interesting. Thanks Bad.
Besoeker- 08/26/2025 16:47
I did the best I could in terms of articles last night, badanov, but it went on long enough I gave up and left it for this morning.

So today I’m getting done in bits over the course of the day, which is no doubt a better way to handle it anyway.
trailing wife- 08/26/2025 16:07
It appears the attacks have declined in intensity. Still, I have at least a coupla more days to mitigate the attacks.
badanov- 08/26/2025 14:16
Attacks are still ongoing.
badanov- 08/25/2025 21:30
800 million hits?!?! Lil ol’ us? I had no idea we were that interesting.

Well done building defenses, badanov, on Fred’s strong foundation.
trailing wife- 08/25/2025 16:07
Yes, it is.
badanov- 08/23/2025 11:54
This baby is running sweet tonight, Bad.
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It worked.
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Did it work, badanov?
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Rebooting the server promptly at midnight EST to install a coupla firewall rules
badanov- 08/19/2025 17:24
Fred: Check your email.
badanov- 08/19/2025 08:24
What;s missing? I just checked the archives and everything is there,
Fred- 08/19/2025 01:44
Fred: What did you do? We had duplicate records dating all the way back to 2001. Now we don't.
badanov- 08/18/2025 23:47
I figured it out, Fred. No apology due at all, since I hadn’t said what the problem was, and did say it was minor enough to wait until later. You came in well ahead of schedule.
trailing wife- 08/17/2025 15:50
Sorry. I forgot to tell you I fixed that.
Fred- 08/17/2025 09:59
Whether deliberate or an artifact of the changeover, the small problem I was having in Hoover has entirely disappeared.

Thank you!
trailing wife- 08/17/2025 03:32
Fred: I assigned you to the wheel group which means you can su to any other user, as long as you have a passwd, as long as sudo works
badanov- 08/16/2025 15:38
Loading fast, good job!
Frank G- 08/16/2025 05:52
Chinese blocked for now, until they use another netblock.
badanov- 08/16/2025 01:07
And it’s back. Whatever you two are doing, good work!
trailing wife- 08/15/2025 22:47
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Africa Horn
    In Baallade Valley, several ISIS terrorists were killed. (1)
    Ukrainian PMC contractors operating in Somalia (1)
Arabia
    Top Houthi officials likely killed in IDF strike on Sanaa, Yemen (1)
    Strikes reported in Sanaa, Yemen (1)
Britain
    Scots Heroine, British Shame. (1)
Caribbean-Latin America
    Maduro's Fragile War Machine: A State Collapsing In Sequence (2)
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
    Descendants of deported Volga Germans tell about the fates of their relatives (4)
    Current information on the situation on the front line on August 28 (updated) (5)
    Peasant Children, Painting and Astafyev: About Asceticism in Siberia (5)
    Transgender Terror: Why Police Failed to Stop Child Murders (5)
    Russian Ministry of Defense showed footage of the destruction of the Ukrainian ship 'Simferopol' (5)
    Warships Viktor Velikiy, Typhoon and Stavropol join the Russian Navy (5)
    Russia and Ukraine did not agree on air ceasefire - Peskov (5)
    General Valery Kanakin, who freed hostages in Beslan, has died (2)
Economy
    Woke Colossus 'Blackrock' Has Its Tentacles In Nearly Every US Company (3)
    Economic News -basically good (3)
Government Corruption
    What did Obama know about the Trump–Russia probe? And when did he know it? (6)
Home Front: Politix
    President Trump orders US Marshals to remove Defiant Fed Governor Lisa Cook after she refuses to step down! (6)
Home Front: WoT
    Boris Rozhin: Anti-Semitic Transgender Shoots Children in Minnesota (4)
    Good guy US states: Israel Bond creditworthiness ratings got downgraded multiple times, leading it near "junk bond status" and making it illegal for Florida to invest. In response, Florida scrapped the requirement. DeSantis signed it into law. (1)

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4. 'Swatting for Hire': Extremist Group Offers Fake School Shooting Threats for Just $20 as FBI Scrambles to Respond
Africa Horn
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Europe
6. 2 French teens charged over plot to attack synagogues, Eiffel Tower — report
7. Dresden: Man arrested after tram knife attack on US citizen
8. Germany: Munich car ramming suspect charged with murder
Fifth Column
9. Academic Jew hate 8/2-
Home Front: Politix
10. Trump to hold White House meeting on ‘comprehensive plan’ for managing postwar Gaza
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
11. Troops seen clashing with Palestinians in Nablus
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13. IDF inaugurates 1st joint air and ground forces base, implementing lessons learned on Oct. 7
14. Has Israel Defeated Iran?
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
15. Iraq to return over 200 nationals from Syria's al-Hol Thursday: Ministry
16. Iraq to return over 200 nationals from Syria's al-Hol Thursday: Ministry

     
In Baallade Valley, several ISIS terrorists were killed.
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Ukrainian PMC contractors operating in Somalia
What, precisely, are they meant to accomplish? Who are they fighting?

Bad Guys

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Top Houthi officials likely killed in IDF strike on Sanaa, Yemen
The IAF on Thursday attacked a group of top Houthi military officials in Sanaa who were watching the Houthi leader give a nationally televised speech.

At press time, the results of the attack were still uncertain, but there were increasing indications that the Houthis' defense minister and military chief were killed in the attack, as well as potentially others.

Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir monitored the attack from IDF headquarters, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following from a secure "red phone."
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Strikes reported in Sanaa, Yemen
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Scots Heroine, British Shame.


… Lola - Lola is the hero from the video. She's the one with the axe defending her sister from the migrant attackers

Ruby - Lola's older sister who was attacked and hospitalized

Mayah - Ruby's best friend who was with them and went to call the police after Ruby was attacked by the migrants

Here's the summary of what happened from Mayah's mother:

"Yes. So what happened was the girls where out just walking and the man in the picture made comments to lola(the younger girl) calling her sexy and other sexual remarks then the girls started to tell this man to leave them alone and stop following them and making sexual remarks to them. After that the man's sister (also in the picture) came around the corner and physically attacked ruby(the older sister) she grabbed her hair dragged her to the floor started to punch her then both the man and woman where kicking her in head while she was on the floor. At this point my daughter (mayah) called the police so my daughters account after that is all abit blurry. But that is when lola had the weapons she pulled them out to protect ruby. After that the man came back at lola recording her making sure she showed the weapons to the camera and antagonising her. Ruby was hospitalised after the attack with a severe concussion a tennis ball sized lump to the back of her head aswell as lots of bruises."


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Maduro's Fragile War Machine: A State Collapsing In Sequence
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Descendants of deported Volga Germans tell about the fates of their relatives
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In the Volgograd region, no events were officially announced to mark the anniversary of the deportation of the Volga Germans. Descendants of the deportees called these events a tragedy that broke the fates of many families.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in October 2021, the descendants of the repressed said that even 80 years after the deportation of the Volga Germans from Volgograd,  the question of the validity of the actions of the Soviet authorities remains open. Some of the deportees, after returning, found their homes occupied and settled in other territories , said members of the German community in the village of Verkhniy Yeruslan in the Volgograd region.

The Autonomous Republic of the Volga Germans was liquidated in the second month after the German invasion of the USSR. On August 28, 1941, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on the resettlement of Germans living in the Volga region. According to this decree, about a million people were sent to Kazakhstan, Siberia and Central Asia, others were mobilized into labor armies. The deported and mobilized Germans died en masse from exhaustion, disease and unbearable working and living conditions.

The Chairman of the Committee for Information Policy of the Volgograd Administration, Maxim Banov , in response to a request from the "Caucasian Knot", reported that, as of August 25, "no applications for approval of any events dedicated to the memory of the victims of the deportation of the Volga Germans have been received by the Volgograd Administration from public organizations or citizen initiative groups." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was also informed at the Old Sarepta German Culture Museum-Reserve (Volgograd) that they will not be holding any events dedicated to this mournful date.

It was not possible to obtain information from the public organization National-Cultural Autonomy of Germans of Volgograd, as their phones were not answered.

Volgograd historian Andrei Kudinov believes that events dedicated to the victims of Stalin's repressions and deportations have been "not in favor" in Volgograd in recent years.

"It is not only unacceptable, but also unsafe to talk about the topics of repression, Stalin's terror, and deportations lately. It is easy to fall under some justification of extremism or Nazism. If earlier the city and regional administration itself organized events in memory of the victims of Stalin's terror, then recently nothing like this has happened," said Andrei Kudinov.

A "Caucasian Knot" correspondent interviewed the descendants of German colonists deported from the Lower Volga region in August 1941. The journalist was interested in the answers to the questions: have the Russian authorities provided and are providing assistance to organizations and the descendants of the repressed themselves, are there any payments.

Nadya Horn is a descendant of Volga Germans. She currently lives in Germany. She moved to Germany with her family with the status of "late migrants". Her family members left Russia gradually - in different years. The first ones left in 1993.

"My entire family lives in Germany. We have never received any assistance from the Russian authorities. In Germany, we received assistance upon arrival, but the later the move, the less compensation," Nadya said.

Alina Liberman told the journalist that she does not know about German organizations in Russia. Her grandfather, who was deported, did not receive any payments from the Russian government. "My grandfather has the status of rehabilitated, no benefits. He says that he himself did not apply anywhere due to his character. Perhaps he could have received. At least, I heard that it was possible at one time. Neither I nor my grandfather know about such organizations, but a long time ago (about 30 years ago) a German woman I knew went and found out something about rehabilitation, benefits, etc. Again, my grandfather is not sure whether it was a public assistance organization or just some kind of government agency," the girl said.

Elena Emrikh has also recently been living in Germany. She told the journalist that, according to her mother, relatives in Russia receive compensation payments of about 2,000 rubles per month. Her mother also has a rehabilitation certificate.

"And sometimes free admission to museums or a discounted ticket. They return 50% of utility bills. And they pay for travel around Russia once a year, wherever you want, but on trains," the girl said.

She knows of two major organizations of Russian Germans, which she believes are the most well-known and influential among her diaspora: the International Union of German Culture (IUCN) and "specialized associations, including the German Youth Association (DJA)."

The girls told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the tragedy of their families during the years of deportation. Elena Emrikh collected information about her ancestors from stories of relatives, she also made inquiries to archives. Elena's grandfather, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, was born in 1930 in the city of Marksstadt (since 1942, Marx) in the Saratov region. After the publication of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the resettlement of Germans living in the Volga region on August 28, 1941, the Emrikh family (mother Robert Anna Ivanovna and five children) along with the general mass of their compatriots was deported to Siberia - to Tomsk.

"My grandfather was 10 years old at the time. Unfortunately, their mother fell into an ice hole while crossing a river and died some time later. Three of the five children were taken to an orphanage, which was located in the village of Aleksandrovskoye in the north of Tomsk Oblast. As for my great-grandfather (grandfather's father) Emmerich (original form of the surname) Aleksandr Andreevich, all that is known is that he was taken by NKVD officers in 1938 (he was repressed as an enemy of the people). He most likely died there, and his grave is unknown," Elena said.

On August 2, 1955, Alexander Andreevich's daughter Elizaveta (born in 1926) filed a request with the state security agencies, trying to find out the fate of her father, Elena explained. The woman received the following response: "Emrikh Alexander Andreevich was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment on August 5, 1938, and his whereabouts are unknown." What the great-grandfather was convicted of, what charges were brought against him, how he died - the family never received answers to these questions.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich told his granddaughter that when he was already an adult, before his rehabilitation he reported monthly to the NKVD department in Tomsk. At that time, he did not have the right to leave the country, she said.

"There is even a document that he signed, stating that he understands that it is forbidden to leave the place of exile, otherwise - 20 years of hard labor. According to documents from the archives, we had a slightly different surname. The NKVD shortened it. For example, the surname was originally Emmerich. And the names were slightly different - German. Grandfather's older sister Emrich Elizaveta and her husband, Mikhail Weber, were allowed to leave for Kazakhstan due to illness (after rehabilitation)," Elena said. 

Elena's mother (born in 1955) and her aunt Svetlana Nikolaevna (born in 195) were rehabilitated. The aunt recalled that it was difficult for her to adapt to school with a German surname. "They called her a fascist. By the way, my distant relative is still being bullied at school, called a fascist," the interlocutor was indignant.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich lived in Tomsk all his life, including after rehabilitation. He was buried there. Since Elena's grandfather had three children and seven years of education, the question of higher education did not arise. He was a worker at the Tomsk flour mill. Nikolai Aleksandrovich worked there almost all his life. His wife (Elena's grandmother) was Russian. Since she was the only daughter, there were practically no relatives. "Grandmother kept her maiden name when registering the marriage in order to avoid a mark in the NKVD commandant's office," Elena noted.

"It is surprising that, having overcome many difficulties and humiliations, my grandfather Emrich Nikolai did not want to leave for Germany after rehabilitation. It is probably difficult to start all over again. And the German language had already been forgotten," Elena Emrich concluded her story.

Chelyabinsk native Alina Liberman lost her parents early. From the age of 10, she was raised by her grandmother Nelly and grandfather Lev. Alina's grandfather Lev (Leo) Schil was born in 1936 in the village of Gebel (Ust-Gryaznukha). Now this village administratively belongs to the Kamyshinsky district of the Volgograd region. Lev was not the firstborn in the Schil family. The first children died during the famine in the early 1930s. When Stalin issued a deportation decree, the Schil family - father Ivan (Johan), mother Kristina and newborn brother Alexander - were sent to the village of Cherlak in the Omsk region.

"People were transported in the train like cattle. It was cramped, there was not enough food. My great-grandmother was in the last stages of pregnancy then. She gave birth to Uncle Sasha in September already in Cherlak. What it was like for her to be pregnant with a young son in her arms in that train, it is scary to even imagine. Grandfather remembers those days when he first found himself in a completely Russian-speaking environment. He did not know how to talk to the local children, how to find out the name of the dog from the owners. But gradually, imperceptibly for himself, he mastered the new language and began to use it freely," said Alina.

Soon, Alina's great-grandfather, like other adult men and women, was sent to a Trudarmiya labor camp. Alina's great-grandmother managed to avoid this call-up, since her youngest son Sasha was a baby. At that time, there was a regulation: if all the children in the family reached three years old, then both the father and mother were taken to the Labor Army. "So my grandfather's cousins, aged three and five, were left in the care of neighbors for a long time. It's fortunate that decent people helped the girls survive, and both parents returned alive after the war," the interviewee noted.

The head of the family was mobilized into the Labor Army, Lev, his brother Alexander and mother remained in the village of Cherlak, the three of them. They lived in a roommate's house with a single woman, with whom they worked and helped each other survive during the difficult wartime.

 "They fished, felled trees, prepared firewood to keep warm and feed themselves in the Siberian frosts. There were almost no men left in the village, and the women did all the work themselves. Later, the Shil's lived at the village hospital - great-grandmother worked as a cleaner, receiving a roof over their heads, bread, food. Grandfather, as a child, also worked - looked after the head doctor's horse: harnessed it, took it to pasture, drove the cart when the doctor went to patients' homes," Alina said about the life of her ancestors in Siberia.

Her great-grandfather Ivan spent three years in the Labor Army in the northernmost point of the Sverdlovsk region. She assumed it was a logging camp. The conditions there were "horrible, especially in winter." In the pre-war years, her great-grandfather worked as a collector: he traveled to Russian settlements, and could speak and write Russian. This helped him get a job as a clerk in the camp, and saved him from hard labor. He managed to survive and stay healthy.

"During his exile, my great-grandfather met a young woman, Dina, who was also in this camp. They began a relationship. When the war ended, and then the labor exile, my great-grandfather was able to return to his family. He was released on December 31, 1945. By that time, Dina had become pregnant, and their relationship continued. They both ended up in Chelyabinsk. My great-grandfather found his wife and children, moved them from Siberia to the Urals, and managed to get a room nearby so he could continue to take care of his sons. Of course, the Shiel family was destroyed, my great-grandmother was in despair over her breakup with her husband, but, as my relatives say, she never blamed him. She said that the war was to blame for everything, and humbly accepted this reality. But at first, she would simply come home after work, lie down and could not get up," Alina said.

 Alina's grandfather, brother and mother lived not far from her father and his new family. The father did not abandon his sons, he brought money and food. Lev helped his father with the shoemaking business - together they sewed slippers and took them to the market to sell. This is how Lev Shil earned money for his first suit, which he wore to school.

 "After Stalin's death, restrictions were gradually lifted for Germans. My great-grandfather and his family moved from Chelyabinsk first to Kazakhstan, where his second wife's relatives lived, and then to Kalmykia. My grandfather had reached the age of conscription by that time and was incredibly happy that Russian Germans were allowed to serve in the army on an equal basis with other citizens. This conscription was the first for young people of German nationality, which is why it was truly special for my grandfather. They also abolished the humiliating checks on residence. Now it was possible to move more freely between cities. Previously, in order to visit relatives in Kopeysk (a city adjacent to Chelyabinsk), it was necessary to obtain permission. Now my grandfather could calmly visit his uncle and his family," Alina said.

Alina Liberman and Elena Emrich emphasized that after rehabilitation, the ancestors were not allowed to return to their former places of residence for a long time; all lost property - houses, lands - remained in someone else's ownership.

The Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On the resettlement of Germans living in the Volga region" did not correspond to the then current Constitution of 1936, believes lawyer and expert in international law Roman Melnichenko .

"According to the Decree, it was prescribed: "to resettle all Volga Germans", that is, the rights of a certain national group were diminished. According to Article 123 of the Constitution: "Any direct or indirect restriction of the rights of citizens depending on their racial and national affiliation is punishable by law." That is, the Decree contradicted the Constitution, and the Volga Germans should be legally considered illegally repressed," the lawyer explained.

The logic of the Decree itself, according to Melnichenko, does not stand up to any criticism and is presented by a logical chain of three links. First, there is reliable information that there are saboteurs among the Volga Germans. Second, the Volga Germans do not inform the authorities about the saboteurs. Third, if there are sabotage, then our agencies will in response destroy all the Volga Germans indiscriminately.

 "The conclusion is that in order to save the Volga Germans from the Russian punitive organs, they must be evicted. This is such Jesuit logic," Roman noted.

"It is significant that from the standpoint of international law, this eviction was not an offense, since only peaceful citizens of another state who fell under occupation enjoy international legal protection. The Volga Germans were citizens of the USSR and could not count on international protection," concluded Roman Melnichenko.

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Current information on the situation on the front line on August 28 (updated)
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21:40 Seven people suffered as a result of shelling of the Dneprorudny Iron Ore Plant by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

At the time of the attack, a concert was taking place in the assembly hall of the plant, in which children and creative groups participated.

21:00 In the area of ​​the village of Dvurechanskoye with FPV drones "Vit-40"destroyedBTR-4E "Bucephalus" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

20:10 Assault groups are advancing north of Novomykhaylovka in the northern part of the DPR –MAP

19:46 From 14.30 to 15.40 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:

One – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,▫️
One – over the territory of the Belgorod region.
17:59 Special forces support the offensive beyond Chasov Yar, destroying UAV operators, equipment and enemy artillery –VIDEO

17:57 Objective control footage defeats the Ukrainian Navy's medium-sized reconnaissance ship Simferopol was attacked by a Russian high-speed unmanned boat at the mouth of the Danube River.

17:21 Mi-35m crew hit the control point and launch site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV in the area of ​​responsibility of the North troop group.

16:10 Crews of the Molniya-2 aircraft-type UAV of the Zapad group of forcesdestroyedarmored vehicles, camouflaged artillery pieces and shelters with Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.

Thanks to its simplicity and mobility, the use of "Lightning" makes it possible to quickly respond to changing situations and effectively counter the enemy.

14:19 From 08.40 to 13.40 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:

Two - over the territory of the Kursk region,
One - over the territory of the Belgorod region
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12:21 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of August 28, 2025

Units of the North group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized, motorized infantry, ranger, assault brigades, an airborne assault and two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Golubovka, Varachino, Pavlovka, Stepnoye, Kondratovka, Novaya Sich, Maryino and Yunakovka in the Sumy region.💥

In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized and motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade and the border detachment of the border service of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Ivashki, Volchansk and Ambarnoye in the Khar'kov region.

The enemy lost over 180 servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, 12 cars, an artillery piece, two ammunition depots and seven supply depots.

Units of the "West" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Boguslavka, Borovskaya Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region, Stavka and Kirovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 235 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, 22 cars and an artillery piece. Four electronic warfare stations and two ammunition depots were destroyed.

As a result of decisive actions by units of the Southern Group of Forces, the settlement of Nelepovka in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.

Formations of six mechanized, airmobile, mountain assault and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Fedorovka, Konstantinovka and Dronovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 205 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, five pickup trucks, two field artillery guns, two ammunition depots and a supply depot.

Units of the "Center" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, infantry, ranger, two assault, two airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade, a territorial defense brigade and three national guard brigades in the areas of the settlements of Krasnoarmeysk, Dimitrov, Dorozhnoye, Belitskoye and Rodinskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to more than 410 servicemen, a Leopard tank made in Germany, three armored combat vehicles, six cars and an artillery piece.

Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated formations of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Voronoe in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Kamyshevakha in the Donetsk People's Republic and Levadnoe in the Zaporizhia region.

The enemy lost up to 240 troops, seven vehicles and two field artillery pieces, including a US-made 155mm M-198 howitzer.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades, the coastal defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novoandriyevka, Pavlovka, Veselyanka, Primorskoye in the Zaporizhia region, Nikolskoye and Antonovka in the Kherson region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 55 servicemen, a US-made HMMWV armored vehicle, 12 vehicles, and five field artillery pieces. Eight electronic warfare stations, a counter-battery radar station, an ammunition depot, and four supply depots were destroyed.


12:12 Tonight the Armed Forces of the Russian Federationinflicteda group strike with long-range air-launched precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, and strike unmanned aerial vehicles against military-industrial complex enterprises and military air bases in Ukraine.

The strike targets were achieved, all designated objects were hit.

12:08 Sumy region. Correction of the front line in the area of ​​the settlement of Maryino –MAP

11:25 Zaporizhia direction. Russian army fighters have liberated the settlement of Plavni. The first assault groups have entered the southern outskirts of Primorskoye –MAP

11:09 Kursk region. It has been clarified that the village of Otruba is controlled by the Russian army –MAP

10:30 Drone operators of the Sever Brigade continue to effectively control supply routes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Using airdrops and FPV drones, as well as artillery support, fighters strike enemy vehicles.

09:17 Russian Aerospace Forces smashed enemy UAV control center

Reconnaissance units in the area of ​​the settlement of Petrovpavlovka in the Kupyansk direction discovered a control center for drones of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the abandoned buildings.

The Russian Aerospace Forces crew carried out an airstrike on a target using a light multi-purpose guided missile Kh-39. The enemy UAV control point was destroyed, which was confirmed by objective monitoring means in real time.🔹

Enemy drone activity in the area has significantly decreased.

08:16 Russian Aerospace Forces worked at the temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Krasnoarmeysk using FAB-250

In the industrial zone of the settlement, as a result of reconnaissance activities, a temporary deployment point of one of the units of the 155th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was discovered.

An airstrike was carried out on the identified target using FAB-250 aerial bombs from the UMPK.

The successful defeat of the air defense system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit was confirmed by means of objective control in real time.

07:34 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:➡️

Advance in the area of ​​the settlement Zeleny Gai
Expansion of the control zone between the settlements of Shandrigolovo and Kolodezi➡️
Advance in Yunakovka

07:17 During the past night, from 23:00 Moscow time on August 27 to 07:00 Moscow time on August 28, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 102 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:

22 UAVs – over the Black Sea,
21 UAVs each – over the territories of the Rostov and Samara regions,
18 UAVs – over the territory of Krasnodar Krai,▫️
11 UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,▫️
Three UAVs each – over the territories of the Voronezh and Saratov regions,
Two UAVs – over the territory of the Volgograd region,
One UAV – over the waters of the Sea of ​​Azov.


05:04 Crews of 152mm towed howitzers "Msta-B" of the artillery unit of the "North" group of forces destroyed temporary deployment points with the Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower. This significantly facilitated the advancement of motorized rifle units for further offensive actions.

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Peasant Children, Painting and Astafyev: About Asceticism in Siberia
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by Mikhail Tarkovsky
It is always with delight and admiration that you discover people who do something selflessly and for the sake of the future. Their life, their example is the natural Russian asceticism of our time.

The essence of this movement, although not massive, but stubbornly existing, is that everyone takes on their own shoulders a feasible part of the work, working on their small Motherland, and from such scraps of creation the huge fabric of modern Russia is formed.

People obsessed with love for their native land and the idea of ​​preserving traditions - craftsmanship, spiritual and moral, military (although one does not exist without the other) - without waiting for a command, they themselves bring their wonderful ideas to life.

Village on the Yenisei
There is a small settlement Bakhta in the north of Krasnoyarsk Krai, in the huge taiga region of Turukhansk. On the bank of the Yenisei. There are a little over two hundred people. It was founded more than 400 years ago.

As usual, Bakhta was first just a winter hut, then a handful of huts, then it grew... It stands beautifully, as is customary in Siberia, at the mouth of a river. The river is magnificent - 500 miles of transparent Evenk water among the hills.

As for the name, there are only guesses. There are many names for "Bakhta" in Russia - in the south of our region, in the Kemerovo region, and in the Urals... In Vladimir Ivanovich Dal's dictionary, the word "bakhta" is defined as "Asian printed fabric", so the first thing that comes to mind is the Turkic origin of the name.

But in the Yenisei north there are no Turkic names - they are all in the south of Siberia.

In the taiga north - Selkups, Kets and Evenks. Therefore, there is also a Ket version of the origin of the word Bakhta. Bok tes : Bok - fire. Tes (tes', ses') - river. It seems like it's burnt... Maybe from forest fires? There is also a Ket word "deng" - translated as "people", "family". Boktedeng - people, family from "burnt", from the Gorela River... For example: Kasdeng, people from Kasa, Elukdeng - people from Eloguy (such a river).

Maybe Boktedeng or Bokteng really turned into Bakhta? One can only guess. When our ancestors came to Siberia, they often transformed local names, altered them in their own way. One of our hunters transformed the Evenki name of the river Yadokta into Yagodka. Or, for example, Ergene - in Evenki "winding river", our Transbaikal Cossacks turned it into Argun.

The village is small but significant. In the midst of deserted spaces, even one person - as if it seems larger, grows to a phenomenon, an event. As the neighbor said: "Some kind of concentration!" You can feel the elbow of this neighbor three hundred miles away. Therefore, the village has many things necessary for life - a kindergarten, a museum, a temple, a full school.

Telephone tower.
And in the year of Viktor Astafyev's centenary, an initiative arose to organize a two-month School of Painting here, on the basis of the secondary school. The V. P. Astafyev Charitable Foundation was engaged in this, and financial support was provided by the Charitable Foundation for the Preservation of Ecological Systems of Siberia and the Far East. They invited a real artist - a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation Dmitry Plokhikh, who taught schoolchildren (and anyone else interested) the basics of painting.

I won't bother the reader with the program of classes, but I will say the main thing: there was no plan to make artists out of everyone - the task was to teach children to think artistically, to feel aesthetically and, of course, to try to discover, to see through painting the beauty of their native place. And, of course, to reread Astafyev.

With all the academic breadth of the program (drawing, modeling, oil painting), it was precisely the work with oil paints that rose up and reigned over everything, and this turned out to be an absolute miracle: painting in children's little hands is unusually luminous - what is the mystery of mixing paints worth alone! Or light in painting...

The vast world is the life of this light, the particularities of how it fills the surrounding objects with meaning, mood, intonation - no matter what they are - logs, bare larches, the distant Yenisei Ugor in the gray haze. The secret of conveying light and color, turning them into elements of a painting - all this turned out to be such an endless and fascinating matter that even some adult participants of the School left it completely "sick" with painting.

Taking on this hitherto unknown enterprise, we did not know how much it would captivate and interest us - perhaps after the very first lesson no one would want to go. But it was not so. Both children and adults went in almost their entire numbers - and this despite the rather serious workload at the school in general.

Astafiev and children
Since the program began in the year of Viktor Petrovich Astafyev's centenary, the theme of the School of Painting became images from the works of this writer (and our amazing fellow countryman), a true ascetic and educator. And there was another sub-idea in this idea: to show the kinship of the arts, their great contiguity, which Astafyev felt like no one else - let's remember his holy, enthusiastic attitude to music and painting, his heightened sense of nature.

And, of course, the child’s soul from a distant village, so thirsty for beauty, glorified by the writer.

And let us remember ourselves in childhood, when painting or music was revealed through literature and vice versa, and how in this interweaving of births a lifelong impression arose. How this crossroad was filled with a special glow: to feel through Astafyev the composer Sviridov or the conductor Kolobov, through Bunin - Gogol, through Pushkin - Pugachev, Razin - through Shukshin...

I will never forget the heartbeat I felt when I first watched Kalina Krasnaya and in the pre-finale the prisoner sang a song based on Yesenin's poems. This episode struck me so much that for a long time it seemed as if the film began with that song. And the names of Shukshin and Yesenin forever entered my heart as a bright and sorrowful alloy.

Astafyev, with his passionate passion for music and painting, lived a difficult and tragic childhood and wrote a lot about orphanhood - both in the human kingdom, and in the animal kingdom, and in the bird kingdom. He grieved for his drowned mother, for the lost boy in the white shirt, for ruined nests, for snatched babies, for birds and animals that died for various reasons. And he was never afraid - ah! - to traumatize the child reader as if by cruelty - wounded himself from childhood, he carried his wound like a vaccination...

He didn't take care of himself or us.

The artistic image of the kapalukha (wood grouse, female wood grouse), which sometimes rushes about, leading the children away from the nest, and then sits amazingly steadfastly on the nest when a tractor passes over it, became a symbol of the mother's share and responsibility in several of his stories. This image of a mother bird - sometimes touching, sometimes powerful - is the theme of many of his works.

And so, in our School of Painting, we painted this very kapalukha. Adults, children, and hunters painted it, knowing this bird well, so inconspicuous in appearance, unlike the handsome wood grouse - its entire coloring seemed to be created in order to dissolve in the forest and grasses and mosses, to make this mother bird ( "mother bird and dragonfly" ) as invisible as possible.

But how detailed and beautiful are its speckles! Eyes, spots and sabres on ochre. Black on red... What extraordinary beauty in this variegation, in these filigree brackets on a strong field - as if before us is not a feather, but something cast and dense. Such perfection also occurs... in the skies... In light clouds... Thoughtful feathery ripples on the slope of the day in early autumn. Thus the earthly is reflected in the heavenly...

Of course, he tried, the master artist helped, and the brushes worked, and the children's eyes squinted. And the canvas was covered with paints. The mother-kapalukha came to life in the unbearable detail and complexity of the drawing, the long neck stretched out, and now a wary and curious brown eye was shining, a red eyebrow with a bright cranberry arch colored the picture...

And the child himself froze in amazement - how does an image emerge from a mess of colors?! Truly, "the will and labor of man create wondrous wonders!" And his own, close, forest-like - intertwined with great literature.

We cancel the classics
Once, one lady from the "cultural" and literary circles, who always takes interviews, gave a fantastic speech in one of her programs. About books and the Soviet era. She even started encouragingly: like, that's how we were, reading and bookish, and so it's right and good. But suddenly (don't fall!): it turns out that all this was forced !

This is from wretchedness and totalitarianism. A lousy life. Like, in bad (!) times you'll grab at any straw, you'll read under the blanket with a flashlight. Because in normal times, reading is not such an important thing. It goes through a comma, on par with everything else. An artist's testimony about his time - what is it for! In "free" eras, there are more interesting things. By normal eras, apparently, they mean times when a child can barely cope with the information trash and impositions like market morality that have fallen on him.

It turns out that the state of hermitage, spiritual autonomy, necessary for a thinking person, which is so valuable at any time and without which a real immersion in culture and history is impossible, is now called a mistake and a disaster. Poor Soviet intellectuals - how unlucky they were to have read so much!

Let's now deal with the impositions. The main one is from the area of ​​overthrow: Pushkin is great, but now is a different time. The effect of that living water has ended. Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky - they are, of course, great - who argues! As well as Rasputin, Shukshin, Astafyev... But, as you understand, now everything is different. Therefore - under the hood! We will wipe the dust, receive money for storage, but we will not open the hood. We will not let you breathe the air alone.

At one time they suggested throwing everyone "over the ship of modernity", they suggested, they shouted, but in schools they studied "War and Peace"! And "The Captain's Daughter". Our "cultured lady", however, will say that it was for the sake of Pugachev's rebellion against autocracy. It may be "for the sake of", but they learned honor, courage and compassion. And now they have thrown everyone over the ship for real: culture must serve the market.

Honest village
Actually, the dispute is about time and the soul. For some in Russia, time is different, but for us it is always the same. That is why some say: "Astafyev wrote about this and that"... And we say - "writes". Astafyev writes about the village, about nature. They will immediately label him - a villager. They say that time has passed, there is no more village literature. And there is no literature about nature either. I wonder: there is a village, there is nature, but there is no literature? Dead. The topic is closed by a new culture, but the phenomenon remains. So who is dead?

By the way, I never liked the word "village dwellers". I imagined some old man from city dwellers' films about the village... Sitting on a bench with a cigarette... Honestly, the term somehow narrows, reduces the scale, stuffs the great into genre, into some specialty... Instead of cosmic... When both the way of life, and nature, and the stars, and calluses on the hands.

Just before the School of Painting, they held a regional competition, "Astafyev and Nature", junior schoolchildren wrote essays, middle and senior schoolchildren wrote essays and research papers. So all the best, all the honest works were from children from villages. Not quite so, of course: city dwellers, especially seniors, have many good works, but there are also many like the one from the girl from the second grade: "The concept of Astafyev's village prose consists in...". It consists in blowing from "sources" on daddy's computer!

And it turns out that the villagers, the backward ones, thought for themselves. So where is there more culture?

Therefore, we will study Shishkin and Surikov, read Belov and Shukshin, and draw a kapalukha. We will follow the example of those who build museums, work with children, give their lives for the future, and not for profit. After all, profit has no homeland, knows no past, and knows no future. It has no audacity of selflessness. And it believes in nothing.

And we believe.

And the creators of folk museums in Yeniseysk (the plane museum and the horse culture museum) and Turukhansk (the museum of spiritual culture of the Yenisey north). And Yuri Mikhailov, who created a birch bark culture museum and a beauty museum in Mariinsk (Kuzbass). And Nikolay Aleksandrov, a writer and publisher from Novosibirsk, who created a whole set of programs on spiritual, moral and patriotic education - and achieved the implementation of these programs in educational institutions of the region.

We believe that it is impossible to recode Russian music, Russian painting, Russian literature. The great Russian culture: deep, integral and highly spiritual. Which, like a high wind, saturated with mountain air, carries layers of oxygen from the past to the future.

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Transgender Terror: Why Police Failed to Stop Child Murders
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by Malek Dudakov
Transgender madness continues to divide American society. Sometimes it leads to serious tragedies. This is what happened in Minnesota.

There was a so-called "shooting" (mass shooting) at a local Catholic school.

It was arranged by a transgender person who was obviously mentally unstable. He did not hide his liberal beliefs, coupled with his hatred of the current government, represented by Donald Trump.

A Minnesota criminal carried out a "gender change" from male to female back in 2020. He targeted the school where his mother worked.

In his manifesto, the shooter criticized Trump, Elon Musk and Israel.

In Minneapolis, where the tragedy occurred, the crime situation remains very problematic. It was there that the BLM pogroms began in the summer of 2020, after which the decision was made to sharply reduce the police force.

The night before the shooting was very tense due to rampant crime, so there were few available police units. They arrived late to the scene of the shooting and were unable to stop the murder of children.

The shooter eventually committed suicide - he apparently had long had suicidal tendencies and had already mentally said goodbye to life. The criminal was "inspired" by other school attackers - both in the US and in Russia.

The Democrats in charge of the state immediately placed responsibility for the tragedy on Trump and the Republicans, who, they say, are creating an “atmosphere of hatred” in the United States towards sexual minorities.

Minnesota declared itself a “transgender sanctuary” back in 2023 and passed laws that could lead to prison terms for discrimination against them.

Moreover, the current tragedy is far from the first case of terror by “special people”.

In 2023, a similar crime occurred in Tennessee, which was one of the first states to begin restricting the corresponding “subpoena.” In response, one of the transgender people attacked a Catholic school and killed several children. In this way, he allegedly protested against the “infringement of rights.”

And in Colorado, they managed to arrest another transgender person who wanted to start shootings in several religious schools and churches at once.

The detainee tried to assemble a bomb and print a weapon on a 3D printer. In his stash they found a lot of anti-Trump propaganda and even the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels.

But at least it's all coming to light: During Joe Biden's presidency, the US government has tried to ignore any cases of violence against transgender people.

Although even then, law enforcement agencies recognized them as one of the main radicalized groups of the population in America. They have mental problems en masse, which are then exacerbated by the use of hormonal drugs. Therefore, these citizens can suddenly break down and organize something like an attack on schools.

However, until very recently, transgender people have not received as much attention from law enforcement as, for example, radical Islamists or far-right neo-Nazis. Now the situation is clearly starting to change.

The White House is already characterizing what is happening as a campaign of terror against Catholics. For many in Trump’s team, it has personal significance, too, as they include many conservative Catholics, including current Vice President J.D. Vance.

And in the six months since Trump's inauguration, the American government has begun to gradually tighten the screws on the transgender lobby.

The first thing trans people did was ban them from serving in the US Armed Forces. Although they had previously been lured there by the opportunity to undergo free gender reassignment surgeries at the Pentagon's expense. Then the Trump administration also canceled federal subsidies for hormone therapy.

This immediately hit the finances of many hospitals specializing in gender reassignment surgeries. They began to close - in the spring and summer of 2025 alone, several dozen children's institutions oriented towards transgender people went bankrupt.

There have been many scandals surrounding such medical institutions, where hormonal therapy was actively imposed on minors, often without taking into account the opinions of parents. In some states, such as California, doctors were even prohibited from telling parents that their child wanted to change their gender.

Doctors who perform surgeries to change it admitted that it is a very profitable business for them. After all, the procedure itself costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and then the person becomes addicted to very expensive hormonal drugs for life.

Many are later disappointed in their choice, faced with acute health problems. Children are the first to be hit, as they are stuffed with special puberty blockers that prevent them from growing normally.

But in “democratic” states, the transgender agenda begins to be introduced from a very early age – sometimes even to first-graders as young as six or seven years old.

In the "republican" states, a major campaign has been launched to ban sex change operations on minors. Just this year, the US Supreme Court made a landmark decision that allowed individual states to restrict transgenderism among children. About two dozen American states are already striving for this.

The attitude of society, tired of the promotion of racial and gender ideology, has also changed quite significantly.

Currently, most Americans perceive transgender people in a negative light, and their lifestyle is considered immoral.

Two-thirds of the US population opposes gender reassignment surgeries for minors and transgender participation in women's sports. Trump's team has already promised not to issue visas to America to "trans" athletes.

In the States, there have been numerous scandals over how they won women's competitions, such as running or swimming. They may have lower testosterone, but their muscle structure still distinguishes former men from female athletes and gives them a significant advantage.

At the upcoming 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, we will certainly see real battles around the possibility of transgender people participating in competitions.

American big business also sensed which way the wind was blowing and became less active in sponsoring the radical “agenda.” This year’s gay prides (the international LGBT public movement is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) faced a shortage of funds due to the outflow of corporate sponsors.

On the contrary, many big brands like Nike have started to release more family-oriented ads. Disney is ditching transgender characters in its upcoming films.

The pendulum of public sentiment has swung in the other direction, and now the opportunity to use gender reassignment as a kind of social lift is closing.

This should quite predictably lead to a reduction in the proportion of transgender people in the US population. Although it will be quite difficult to reverse the processes that have been running for 10-15 years. Over the past decade, the number of those who have undergone gender reassignment has increased by 1000% among boys and by 4400% among girls. A multi-billion dollar industry has already formed around them.

Big Pharma corporations make a lot of money by getting Americans hooked on hormonal drugs.

In the past, the same process was used to push painkillers and antidepressants, which led to the current drug crisis in the United States. It kills 100,000 Americans every year. The consequences of the transgender crisis will probably be no less dire.

However, Trump's team is determined to go all the way in this matter, realizing that public opinion is on their side. It is not for nothing that the White House recently announced a campaign to improve the health of Americans.

And the current wave of transgender violence only adds to the arguments of those who want to curb the racial and gender rampage in the United States.

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Russian Ministry of Defense showed footage of the destruction of the Ukrainian ship 'Simferopol'
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Moscow, August 28, 2025, 18:09 — IA Regnum. On August 28, the Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of objective control of the destruction of the Ukrainian ship Simferopol by a Russian unmanned boat at the mouth of the Danube.



The footage released shows a boat approaching the ship, followed by an explosion and smoke rising over the river.

“As a result of the attack, the Ukrainian Navy ship sank,” the statement said.

Earlier, the military department reported that a fast unmanned boat of the Russian forces sank a medium-sized reconnaissance ship of the Ukrainian Navy. The vessel was found in the mouth of the Danube and was attacked.

Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk admitted that Russian forces had destroyed a Ukrainian warship. He said the aftermath of the attack was still being dealt with, and that there were one dead and wounded among the ship's crew.

Unmanned aircraft expert Denis Fedutinov said that the Simferopol was the first Ukrainian naval ship that Russian troops were able to sink using an unmanned boat. Earlier, the expert recalled, the only high-profile episode of Russia using such boats was the explosion near one of the bridges across the Dnieper.

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Warships Viktor Velikiy, Typhoon and Stavropol join the Russian Navy
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Moscow, August 28, 2025, 14:02 — IA Regnum. The Russian fleet has been replenished with three new warships at once. This was reported on August 28 by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Warships Viktor Velikiy, Typhoon and Stavropol join the Russian Navy
The patrol ship Viktor Velikiy and the small missile ships Stavropol and Typhoon joined the Navy. The ceremony was held under the leadership of the Navy Commander-in-Chief Alexander Moiseyev. He gave the command to raise the St. Andrew's flags from the Main Admiralty in St. Petersburg.

"I congratulate the crews on the entry of the ships into the combat composition of the Navy! I wish them good service, successful and prompt preparation for the fulfillment of the assigned tasks," Moiseyev said.

The flags on the patrol ship Viktor Velikiy, built for the Black Sea Fleet, and the small missile ship Stavropol, which joined the Baltic Fleet, were raised in Baltiysk. The ceremony to accept the small missile ship Typhoon into the Black Sea Fleet was held in Makhachkala.

At the end of the ceremony, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy received reports on the raising of flags on the ships accepted into the Navy from the Commander of the Baltic Fleet Sergei Lipilin, the Commander of the Baltic Naval Base Aleksei Zhovtonozhko and the Commander of the Caspian Flotilla Oleg Zverev.

On August 14, the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center in Severodvinsk launched a Project 20 181 reinforced ice-class weapons transport ship. The ship, named Akademik Makeyev, is designed for loading, unloading and transporting weapons. At the same time, the Admiral Amelko frigate was launched in St. Petersburg.

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Russia and Ukraine did not agree on air ceasefire - Peskov
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Moscow, August 28, 2025, 13:52 — IA Regnum. Moscow and Kiev have not reached any agreements on establishing an air truce, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on August 28.

"No agreements have been reached on this matter. I repeat once again: everything that can be discussed in the context of searching for ways to reach a settlement trajectory must be discussed in a discrete manner," said the official Kremlin spokesman.

On August 22, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko called on Russia and Ukraine to establish an air truce. This format of truce implies a complete renunciation of air strikes, including those using drones.

In early August, the agency reported on the possibility of an air truceBloomberg. Journalists claimed that Moscow was considering this option, but there was no talk of a complete halt to military action.

On August 16, an Economist journalist reported that a preliminary agreement had been reached on an aerial ceasefire in the Ukrainian conflict zone. The author of the article claimed that the agreement would remain in effect until a trilateral meeting between Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump with the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky.

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General Valery Kanakin, who freed hostages in Beslan, has died
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Moscow, August 28, 2025, 11:00 — Regnum News Agency. Hero of Russia, Major General and veteran of the FSB anti-terrorist unit "Alpha" Valery Kanakin passed away at the age of 65. This was reported on August 28 by the international association of veterans of "Alpha" on its Telegram channel.
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Kanakin was born on May 5, 1960. From 1978 to 1980, he served in the Strategic Missile Forces. Then he entered the 401st KGB special school in Leningrad. In January 1984, he was enrolled in Group "A" (Alpha unit) of the Seventh Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. There he rose from a private soldier to the head of Directorate "A" of the Special Operations Center of the FSB of Russia.

In the 1980s, he took part in military operations in Afghanistan. He went through military campaigns in the North Caucasus. He took part in hostage rescue operations in Dubrovka, Budyonnovsk and Beslan. On May 5, 2005, Kanakin received the Hero of Russia star from the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The general was also awarded other state awards many times, including the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th degree (with swords), Courage, medals of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st and 2nd degree, and For Bravery.

“The bright memory of Valery Vladimirovich Kanakin will forever remain in our hearts,” says a message published on the channel of the international veterans association “Alpha”.

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Woke Colossus 'Blackrock' Has Its Tentacles In Nearly Every US Company
[American Liberty] To blame a company for being partially owned by BlackRock is to mistake how modern capital markets function. BlackRock’s business model is built on exchange-traded funds. An ETF is designed to replicate a stock index by owning small shares of nearly every company in that index. This is not a matter of choice in the ordinary sense. If BlackRock manages a fund tracking the S&P 500, it must purchase and hold shares of every company in that index. That means BlackRock owns stock in roughly 85—90% of all public companies in the US, with average stakes of less than 10%. The companies have no say in the matter. They cannot reject BlackRock as a shareholder, nor can they prevent their shares from being included in index-tracking funds. Ownership in this sense is automatic, structural, and unavoidable.

For this reason, when one learns that BlackRock owns shares of a given company, that fact alone says nothing about the virtue or vice of the company itself. The company is no more complicit in BlackRock’s ideology than a grocery store is responsible for the political beliefs of the shoppers who buy milk from its shelves. The company’s board and management do not invite BlackRock in. They simply exist in a marketplace where the largest asset manager in the world happens to be a nearly universal shareholder. Confusing this structural fact with moral culpability is a category mistake.

The real issue lies elsewhere. BlackRock’s influence does not stem from controlling boards or directly managing companies. BlackRock does not, as a rule, take board seats. Its power comes from how it votes its shares. Even a 9% block can swing outcomes in a shareholder vote, particularly in a climate where many proposals hinge on slim margins. When BlackRock aligns its votes across thousands of companies, it can impose a sweeping ideological agenda across the entire economy. This is precisely how ESG, environmental, social, and governance mandates, have been injected into corporate America.

The harm of ESG begins with the nature of the metrics themselves. ESG is not a neutral set of financial criteria. It reflects subjective judgments about environmental policies, social initiatives, and governance structures. A company might be penalized for producing affordable energy from fossil fuels, or for failing to meet arbitrary diversity quotas, regardless of whether those practices maximize shareholder value. This diverts resources from profitability into politically fashionable projects. Instead of focusing on innovation, efficiency, and customer service, companies are pressed to produce reports, hire consultants, and redesign operations to meet ESG targets.
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Economic News -basically good
[Investors] Summary:

Q2 of 2025 GDP up a bit more than first estimate
Oil price a bit lower
New Jobless Claims a bit lower than expected

Note: the GDP estimate counts Federal spending as a positive so the various cuts depress the estimate in the short term even though it improves the long term prospects
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What did Obama know about the Trump–Russia probe? And when did he know it?
[Fox] President Barack Obama was briefed on Clinton's plan to tie Trump to Russia just days after the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane
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President Trump orders US Marshals to remove Defiant Fed Governor Lisa Cook after she refuses to step down!
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Boris Rozhin: Anti-Semitic Transgender Shoots Children in Minnesota
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:


A mass shooting at a school in Minneapolis.

A ghoul killed two children, aged 8 and 10, wounded 17 more people (14 of them children), and then committed suicide.

The attack was carried out by a transgender anti-Semite. According to American media, the killer's name after a gender change is Robin Westman.

On his weapon, which he photographed before the attack, were the inscriptions "6 million (Jews killed in the Holocaust) are not enough", "Israel must fall", and a call to kill US President Trump.

The famous ghoul killed himself. The plot sounds like another season of the TV series "Fargo".

Of course, this episode will be used in the domestic political struggle in the United States. Trumpists will now be able to point out with even more arguments that Trump is doing the right thing by expelling transgender people from the army and government agencies, and the Democratic Party will be accused of creating the ground for domestic terrorism and anti-Semitism (which is especially valuable, given the accusations of Trump and Co. of close ties with Israel).

They can also, if they wish, draw parallels with those characters who tried to kill Trump on the basis of "ideological hatred." So this story will certainly hit the Democrats. And the transgenders that have spawned under Biden will be suppressed even more actively.

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