[Interfax] Former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine Viktor Hvozd has died, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (MFA) press service said.
"According to available information, on May 28, while diving in the Dahab Egyptian resort, former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine Viktor Hvozd felt bad," the MFA press service told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.
According to the MFA, rescuers lifted the body of the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service to the surface of the water without any signs of life. On the shore, before the arrival of the ambulance, he underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
"At the same time, despite the intensive resuscitation measures carried out during the emergency hospitalization, the doctors stated his death. The Ukrainian Embassy in Egypt interacts with the Egyptian side to find out the exact cause of death, keeps in touch with his family," the ministry said.
As previously reported by a number of Ukrainian media outlets, the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine was killed on May 28 near the Egyptian city of Dahab. According to journalists, the man was engaged in scuba diving at a depth of several tens of meters, after which he emerged too quickly.
Rescuers got Hvozd out of the water, after which he was taken to the hospital, but the doctors were unable to save him. From Russian reserve FSB Colonel Irog Girkin's VKontackte page, via Elena Nichuk: Hvozd accidentally drowned.
Viktor Gvozd is a Soviet and Ukrainian leader of power and intelligence structures, a serviceman, diplomat and scientist. PhD in Military Sciences.
Former head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine (2008-2010).
President of Borysfen Intel, an independent analytical center for geopolitical research (2010-2014).
Former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (2014-2016). An active participant in the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014.
[Korrespondent] Pyrotechnists in the Cherkasy region have found more than 223 shells from the Second World War, according to the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations.
A dangerous find was revealed in the Zvenigorod region near the village of Erki. In particular, 192 artillery shells with a caliber of 76 mm, 21 artillery shells with a caliber of 85 mm, one mortar mine with a caliber of 81 mm and 6 grenades were seized. The survey of the territory continues.
We will remind, earlier it was reported that in the Donbass the girl escaped through a minefield from the occupied areas of Donetsk region. According to the Ukrainian police, a 16-year-old resident of the occupied Gorlovka expressed a desire to live in a free territory.
It was also reported that during the day in the area of operation of the Joint Forces, pyrotechnics cleared 1.5 hectares of territory and transferred 30 explosives for destruction.
Take a look at the number of BOMBS still being from in London and in key Germany targets from WW2.
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The remains of the Prüm Germany Ammo Dump on the mountain overlooking the area that exploded 1949. It spewed explosives everywhere and we were told they were still finding EOD stuff in area fields up to a 1.5+ Miles away.
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[REGNUM] The volume of oil and petroleum products supplied in March this year from Russia to the United States became a record in 12 years, according to the materials of the Energy Information Administration of the US Department of Energy (EIA).
According to this department, the volume of imports of Russian oil and petroleum products in March amounted to 22.938 million barrels - 1.8 times more than in February. Canada retained the first place with 139.869 million barrels, the third - Mexico with 17.616 million barrels.
The EIA stressed that the indicators relate to oil and oil products in aggregate. Separately, in terms of oil, Russia took only fourth place with a volume of delivery of 6.1 million barrels.
We will remind, the abnormal cold, which faced the state of Texas and a number of other regions of the United States in early 2021, brought down oil production in the country by almost 40%. For this reason, as well as because of the embargo against Venezuela and the OPEC agreement, the United States was forced to increase oil purchases from other countries, including Russia.
Read earlier in this story: Oil shipments from Russia to the United States hit a record amount
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Photos at the link By Vladimir Stanulevich
[Regnum] Lavia is not only a beautiful place on the slopes of a wide ravine where the river flows, but also a significant historical place in the Russian North. Here in the 14th century the Novgorod posadnitsa Anastasia founded the Assumption Monastery on the burial site of her brother Stephen . It is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, in the Arkhangelsk region. In 1340, the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan I Kalita granted the monastery the Gospel, which was later named after the monastery in whose library it was kept, Siiskiy. Or the Siysk of 1340, since there is a second, magnificent Siysk Gospel of 1693.
The Aprakos Gospel of 1340 is the oldest Moscow manuscript, sheet-sized, written on parchment in direct charter and decorated with one headpiece and two miniatures. One miniature depicts the adoration of the Magi to the Theotokos, the second - Christ with the apostles.
The Gospel has retained the names of scribes, clerks Melentiy and Prokosha, and the artist who left his name in the inscription on the ornament: "Lord, help the sinful John write the sik gate . " The manuscript contains mesyatseslov where months but today is now the Roman names are and the name of the Slavic -.. Ryuin, falling leaves, jelly, etc. On the last page the author states that the manuscript was written in 6847 year "in the city of Moscow" , "poveleniem rabom Bozhiim Ananiyu Chernets ” - by the Moscow Grand Duke Ivan Kalita, who took monastic vows in the last year of his life and went “ to the Dvina to the Holy Mother of God ” .
When the Lyavlensky monastery in 1633 was attributed to the Anthony-Siya monastery, the Gospel was taken to Sia. The transfer of the monastery under the authority of Sia was accompanied by a scandal. In 1632, a priest from Nyonoksa, Pavel Kochurov, asked Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich for a letter of permission to serve him in Lyavl in a church that was supposedly empty.
And he hid the fact that there was a monastery here, and drove out the brethren. The abbot of the monastery Job and the brethren appealed to the tsar that “priest Paul falsely took the letter to serve,” and now the elders “walk between the courtyard, starving to death, there is no one to come to repentance and bury”. The elders asked to send them a monk from the Siysk monastery to help them, and "priest Paul should not be ordered to stay with them . " So Lyavia became the fiefdom of the Siysk monastery.
The only building left from the ancient monastery is the Nikolskaya Church built in 1584. This is the oldest wooden church in Russia. Another story is connected with the Nikolskaya Church, under which, according to legend, is the grave of the mayor's brother Anastasia Stefan - by 1844 it fell into disrepair, they were going to demolish it.
The Arkhangelsk military governor Marquis Traversay visited the temple and decided to repair it at his own expense. One can guess about the reasons for this decision, they said that the reason for it was the illness of his son and the vision of the wife of the Marquis that the son would recover if the church in Lyavle was repaired.
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Thank you Badanov, very beautiful. I only wish there was a Russian Orthodox congregation in any remote travel distance. It would be a great relief to belong to a religion that doesn't do a lot of updating and actually holds core beliefs.
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Thank you Badanov, very beautiful. I only wish there was a Russian Orthodox congregation in any remote travel distance. It would be a great relief to belong to a religion that doesn't do a lot of updating and actually holds core beliefs.
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What was originally supposed happened. Turkey managed to soften and even to some extent neutralize the official NATO reaction to the incident with the emergency landing of a Ryanair passenger plane in Minsk and the subsequent detention of opposition activists.
The text of the statement, according to Reuters, did not include the wording present in the early EU statement and providing for punitive measures proposed by Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, as well as threats to suspend NATO's cooperation with Belarus. The reasons for such actions by Ankara have not been officially disclosed; the Turkish Foreign Ministry refers to the confidential nature of the negotiations.
But there are factors that lie on the surface. Ankara is acting pragmatically and exclusively in its own national interests. She does not want to lose profits in the next tourist season, of which Russian and Belarusian tourists are traditionally an integral part. Now, due to the coronavirus pandemic, air traffic between Russia and Turkey has been extremely reduced, and many Russian tourists travel to Turkey via Minsk.
It is significant that Turkish airlines make daily flights to Belarus, despite the demarche of the Baltic and other European airlines that have refused to use the Belarusian airspace. In addition, Russia has stopped issuing entry permits to flights that fly over Belarus, which is perceived as its reaction to the European "air war" declared against Minsk. Ankara does not want to be a member of it and is actively negotiating with Moscow to resume flights in connection with the holiday season. There is also another "gain" here: in the current situation, Russia may turn out to be more compliant in negotiations with Turkey on lifting restrictions on air traffic.
And now about the political issues. The fact is that in the triangle Minsk - Ankara - Baku a kind of trusting style has developed in building relationships. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko supported Azerbaijan in the second Karabakh war and offered Ilham Aliyev assistance in restoring the "liberated territories".
Therefore, Ankara refused to pay Minsk with ingratitude. On the other hand, there is Moscow behind Minsk, and Turkey understands this well, since it itself is in an alliance with Russia in the Syrian direction. Plus, Turkey's problems with France in Libya, US claims on Syria, a crisis in relations with Greece due to the development of minerals in the Mediterranean. Therefore, according to the Turkish government agency Anadolu,"It makes no sense for Turkey to play on the side of the West in relation to Belarus without any proposed positive conditions . "
Moreover, according to Turkish experts, the West, exerting strong pressure on Ankara and Minsk for various reasons, “pushes them towards Moscow, narrowing the opportunities to pursue a multi-vector foreign policy, and the sanctions decisions made by the West against Belarus and Turkey are becoming an important factor in their relationship with the West ” .
This position brings Lukashenko closer to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Let's mark one more point, which highlights the Turkish edition of Evrensel. It is beneficial for Ankara to act as an opportunist in relation to the West. In this context, Turkey's policy towards Minsk is understandable and logical.
Recall that on May 25, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking about Ukrainian affairs, brought up the idea that "at all levels we strongly recommend our Turkish colleagues to carefully analyze the situation and stop feeding Kiev's militaristic sentiments." In Ankara, Lavrov's hint was appreciated and taken in a broader sense, drawing their own conclusions.
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[REGNUM] The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) sent a preventive letter to the Disney Channel reminding them of the inadmissibility of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors. This was reported on the website of the department.
The decision to send a preventive letter came after Disney released the animated short Out. The main character of the short film has a non-traditional sexual orientation, while the film is aimed at a child audience.
Roskomnadzor recalled that the dissemination of information among children that denies family values and promotes non-traditional sexual relations is contrary to the norms of Russian legislation. Representatives of the TV channel were advised to strictly observe the laws of the Russian Federation and not to allow the dissemination of information that could harm the development of children.
Read earlier in this story: Pixar has released a cartoon with a gay character. Homosexual propaganda is illegal in Russia
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Disney is in trouble on several fronts: ESPN is and has been bleeding subscribers for a while--so much so that Disney had to mention it in their SEC filings. The tanking Oscar ratings mean lower ad revenue for ABC, which Disney again had to comment on publicly. The California theme park was closed all last year. And watch this space--I would bet there is more to come.
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Like the 'executives' at Coke, they're trying to attract a small demographic by throwing away a third of their established demographic.
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Can somebody please explain to me how wokeness helps profits? How are companies surviving revenue losses [if indeed they are suffering from them] from people just leaving them? Are people leaving them for other brands, alternatives? I don't understand what's the motive here if not profit.
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^ But how long can that be sustained? Corps are cruel at laying off when the stock dips, no? Do the marketing Em-bee-yaays just find another place to turn to shit?
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Disney is not in trouble. Hate the Woke BS as much as anyone but the stock is a screaming buy. The parks are reopening and will finally contribute to earnings again. Pre-COVID those parks contributed 1/3 of Disney's revenues.
Don't let your politics interfere with savvy investing.
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[Interfax] Former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine Viktor Hvozd has died, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (MFA) press service said.
