And yes, Girkin told the truth!
He organized the Donbas uprising.
The troops of the legitimate Ukrainian government arrested and interrogated the invaders, and they confessed everything.
@EthanLevins2 Ethan is the most ungrateful person on earth.
Born in the west (allegedly) but still promoting evil ruZZian lies for money.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
🚨 Republican candidate Ann Manning Martin has been caught forging thousands of signatures to get her name on the ballot.
She was campaigning on "election integrity."
Открытое письмо гражданки России президенту России. "Я БУДУ ПЕРЕЧИСЛЯТЬ МОИ НАЛОГИ АРМИИ УКРАИНЫ!"
от гражданки РФ Кириенко Ольги Валентиновны
гражданину РФ Путину В.В.
Гражданин Путин, я рядовая гражданка РФ, много лет содержащая вас на свои налоги, обращаюсь к вам на правах вашего начальства.
В моем понимании весь смысл должности, которую вы так НЕПРИЛИЧНО долго занимаете, состоит в том, чтоб обеспечивать безопасность и качество жизни для таких как я – молодых людей с образованием, с профессией, позволяющей чувствовать себя неотъемлемой частью мирового сообщества, с желанием развиваться и строить прочное будущее для своих детей.
Я лично никогда не голосовала за вас, так как уровень ваших управленческих компетенций всегда казался мне сомнительным, а предыдущий опыт работы явно недостаточным для столь стратегической позиции как президент страны. Узость и косность мышления никогда бы не позволили вам стать настоящим успешным лидером будущего. И ГЛАВНОЕ, вы не производите впечатление порядочного человека.
С 2012 года вы узурпировали власть в нашей стране, провернув авантюру с так называемой рокировкой. Я была активной участницей почти всех протестов того времени, и видела, КАК МНОГОЯ выходило на улицы нас несогласных и неготовых проглатывать ваш оскорбительный обман.
НО большинство населения тогда безмолвствовало. Пришлось замолчать и таким, как я.
Тем более говорить становилось с каждым годом опаснее. Вы сознательно начали раз///игать в обществе нена%исть. Архаичная не%ависть заменила вам недостающие современные компетенции.
В 2014 году, оккупировав Крым и вторгшись в Восточную Украину, вы повязали ненавистью и кровью ВСЁ население России. В одночасье огромная доля моих соотечественников превратилась для меня в оккупантов, упивающихся грабежом соседа.
В 2018 году я увезла свою дочь из России навсегда, потому что на родине я не смогла найти ни одной школы, где бы её ни учили тому, что грабить соседей — это хорошо и даже почётно.
Это не соответствовало моим моральным стандартам. К тому же мне стало окончательно понятно, что ваше государство – это FAILED STATE. Оно неспособно выполнять элементарные функции, необходимые для создания приличных условий жизни на уровне мировых стандартов. При этом оно маскирует свою импотенцию агрессией.
Мои личные ценности – права человека, свобода слова, уважение любых меньшинств, космополитизм – на четвёртом десятке лет моей жизни вдруг сделали меня в России человеком вне закона.
Я не приняла оккупацию Крыма российскими войсками и бандитскую радость моих соотечественников по её поводу. И единственное, что я – обычная женщина – могла сделать – это увезти свою семью в другую страну. Мне важно, чтоб мои дети не росли в обществе, где нападение на соседей – это норма. И мне важно иметь возможность открыто говорить об этом.
После вероломного вторжения России в Украину 24 февраля 2022 года гражданство Российской Федерации перестало для меня быть просто неудобным, оно превратилось в ПОЗОРНОЕ клеймо. Клеймо убiiйц, наssильников, грабителей и тех, кто молчит об этом.
Моя мама русская. Её род как минимум с XVII века проживал в Переславле-Залесском (что может быть более русским?!). В нашем роду были монастырские крестьяне, квасовары, купцы, держатели трактиров, ремесленники, журналисты и учителя. Нас и сейчас много – потомков этого русского рода, все с высшим образованием, успешные в своих профессиях и ВСЕ ПОКИНУЛИ Россию вместе с детьми‼️
Мой отец украинец. Его родители не знали русского языка до вполне зрелого возраста. Большую часть семьи моего деда уморили голодом по приказу Сталина в 1933 году за то, что они были слишком независимы. Сегодня родное село деда оккупировано российскими войсками.
В отличие от вас, я хорошо знаю историю и не только по учебникам, но и по событиям внутри собственной семьи. Тем страшнее мне наблюдать за попытками вас и ваших подельников оправдать свои корыстные зверssтва якобы историческим правом. Оправдания вам не найти ни в прошлом,
Снайпер ЗСУ Олександр Маціевський потрапив у повне оточення та ворожий полон. На вимогу зняти шеврон безбройний воїн відмовився коритися ворогу. І за секунди до розстрілу Герой вигукнув ,, Слава Україні ". Вічна пам'ять Герою. Вічна шана Герою.
You have to admit that is a pretty cool headline
“Estonia gives Orthodox church 6 months to choose between God and the Kremlin”
https://t.co/JYXSuiOZxP
Greed and immorality have won.
Yesterday, July 7, the IOC provisionally reinstated the membership of the Russian Olympic Committee and rescinded its recommendations to international federations to ban Russian athletes from competitions. Formal restrictions remain in place: Russian officials are not invited, no events will be held in Russia, and the issue of the flag and anthem has been postponed "until the appropriate time." But the main step has already been taken: for the first time since 2022, the Olympic system has opened its doors to a state that is waging war.
IOC officials found a convenient legal basis. The ROC’s membership was suspended in 2023 due to the inclusion of sports structures from the occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions. The Russians amended their statutes, removing references to these structures - and the IOC decided the problem had been resolved.
We are used to associating the Olympics, the international Olympic movement, and elite sports with peace. The mission of sport is to serve a peaceful society. This is enshrined in the Olympic Charter itself.
However, the IOC has chosen a convenient interpretation of the principle of non-discrimination and every athlete’s right to sport. In this case, it is not simply about the right to participate in competitions, but about the right to propaganda and the normalization of violence as a state policy of the Russian regime. Some Russian athletes themselves take part in the war against Ukraine. Many of them support the Russian regime, accept awards from Putin, and whitewash crimes. Therefore, they cannot pretend to be "neutral" representatives of sport. Yet the IOC believes they cannot be discriminated against.
The most cynical part of this story is that the IOC has retained the requirement that athletes must be "role models for a peaceful society." Checking this has been entrusted to the Russian Olympic Committee itself. In other words, a structure tied to the aggressor state will determine its own integrity.
The IOC’s argumentation does not withstand criticism. IOC officials insist that athletes already need "equal access" to qualification for Los Angeles 2028. But qualification for Paris 2024 also took place during the war that argument did not work then. IOC officials insist that "sport is beyond politics." Yet the same IOC quite politically stripped Putin of the Olympic Order in 2022.
The Olympic system did not adopt this decision unanimously. World Athletics confirmed a full ban for Russians and Belarusians just days earlier. FIFA and UEFA are also not lifting restrictions - in particular because teams from other countries simply refuse to play against Russia. Conversely, swimming and gymnastics surrendered back in the spring. This split is a map of institutional resilience: it shows where it still holds and where it no longer does.
Money plays the main role here. Russian financial influence on world sport is well documented. The purest example is fencing. Alisher Usmanov, designated by the EU as an oligarch with particularly close ties to Putin, transferred about 80 million Swiss francs to the International Fencing Federation over three Olympic cycles; in 2020, his money accounted for 93% of its income.
For decades, he financed federations in Africa and South America, for which these contributions were a matter of survival. The result: in 2024, despite sanctions from forty countries, Usmanov was re-elected president - 120 votes to 26.
Russian money has become a structural part of the financing of the Olympic periphery - small federations whose votes elect the leadership of world sport. It is not the decision itself that is being bought. It is the environment in which such a decision looks natural. The IOC has long been vulnerable to this mechanism - it is enough to recall the Salt Lake City 2002 scandal. There is also a personal dimension: Bach exchanged awards with Usmanov, Putin was the first to congratulate both Bach in 2013 and Coventry in 2025.
Coventry, while still a member of the executive board under Bach, advocated for the return of Russians.
History knows cases of excluding aggressors - and knows no such return. Germany was not allowed to participate in the Games after both world wars: readmission came only after peace. South Africa was kept out of the Games for twenty-eight years and was only returned after the dismantling of apartheid. Yugoslavia was excluded in 1992 while the war in the Balkans was still ongoing. Russia is the first case where an aggressor is being brought back in the middle of a war that it itself started.
However, there is one analogy: Berlin 1936, when the IOC similarly chose "neutrality" and gave the Nazi regime an international platform.
The IOC’s decision is a pathetic example of immorality and greed. The tactic is clearly set by the Russians themselves: this is their style of small steps, each of which shifts the boundary of what is normal. Neutral athletes in 2023. Paris in 2024. Milan in winter. Belarus in May. The ROC in July. The next step is the return of the flag and anthem.
Markers to watch: the decision on Russian symbols before the Youth Games in Dakar in October; whether World Athletics holds its position; and whether the IOC proceeds to full rehabilitation of Russia before Los Angeles without any ceasefire. If it does - the IOC will finally confirm that its principles have a price, and that price is not high.
Meet violent J6 insurrectionist MAGAt Daniel Tocci, who was was sentenced to four years in federal prison in March 2026 for a separate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) conviction.
The FBI arrested Tocci at his Amherst, Massachusetts home in November 2023 for destruction of government property and entering a restricted building.
During the search warrants for his Capitol riot case, federal agents searched his electronic devices and uncovered over 110,000 files of child pornography on Tocci's laptop and thumb drives, with victims as young as three years old. The search also revealed graphic images to include images of a female being shot in the head, a cat in a blender and a dog being beaten to death.
Before his January 6 case went to trial, President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons that cleared Tocci of his Capitol riot offenses. Tocci's defense attorney filed a motion to dismiss the CSAM charges, arguing that the evidence was improper because it stemmed directly from the "unjust" January 6 investigation warrant. The motion was later withdrawn.
Tocci pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in September 2025. On March 30, 2026, a federal judge sentenced him to 48 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release.
🚨Reflecting on today.
I just cannot believe that a campaign kickstarted by NAFO in February with a few tweets about ships containing alumina heading to Russia from Ireland could have ended up with the European Parliament emphatically voting to end it in July. Our thanks to
Unique footage of the Auchan Operation—a brilliant asymmetric strike where tech and precision planning halted a Russian mechanized offensive for 6 months.
This deep-rear operation struck 949 targets in just 3 days, forcing Russia to withdraw heavy armor. Recently, we repeated the operation with a newly developed munition specifically targeting enemy artillery, hitting another 231 targets. Across both phases, 1,180 enemy targets were hit.
My sincere thanks to Lasar’s Group of the National Guard of Ukraine, the 412th NEMESIS Unmanned Systems Brigade, and all the other service members who made this operation possible.
Вокалист группы Judas Priest Роб Хэлфорд вышел с украинским флагом на сцену во время празднования 60-летия Scorpions...
Обе группы во всех своих турах публично поддерживают Украину! 🇺🇦
THIS IS BIG!
NGU "Lazar's Group" carried out a major operation against russian artillery.
During the two-night "Art-Ashan" operation, Lasar's Group launched 800 drones, striking 231 russian artillery pieces, including 171 confirmed destroyed.
That's roughly 10–14 artillery battalions, or about three artillery brigades, eliminated in just two nights.
China gives Russia just enough to keep the frontline alive. For now.
It is in Beijing’s interest to keep the Western powers tied down in Ukraine. But it is also in Beijing’s long-term interest for the central government in the Kremlin to weaken - and eventually collapse.
Because when that happens, China can move into the Russian Far East without firing a shot. The locals, impoverished and abandoned by Moscow for generations, may well greet them as liberators from misery.
As I said more than a decade ago: Putin will leave the Kremlin only in a coffin - either by old age or assassination. But for China, who sits in Moscow is irrelevant. The only question is whether he is useful to Chinese interests.
Washington, having failed to force a Ukrainian capitulation, would much rather deal with a more “sane” dictator in Moscow - someone stable enough to negotiate with, but weak enough to manage.
Only the European powers have a truly existential interest in Ukrainian victory.