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[REGNUM] The State Duma decided to re-vote the draft federal budget for 2022-2024, a REGNUM correspondent reports on November 24. During the second voting, the law was supported by 337 deputies, 79 - against, one person abstained, 417 deputies voted.
"The democratic procedure is important for us if colleagues ask to vote," said State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin
For the first time, the law was supported by 306 deputies, against - 70, one abstained.
However, during the voting procedure, not all parliamentarians managed to "press the buttons" and asked the presiding officer Volodin to give him the opportunity to vote again on a law important for the country.
According to the document, budget revenues in 2022 will amount to 25.021 trillion rubles, in 2023 - 25.540 trillion rubles, in 2024 - 25.831 trillion rubles. Expenditures are planned in 2022 at 23.694 trillion rubles, in 2023 - 25.241 trillion rubles, in 2024 - 26.354 trillion rubles. According to the document, the budget will be in surplus in the next two years.
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[RusOnline] It cost Georgia dearly in 2008: Russian intelligence accused Ukraine of preparing for war. Russia again refutes the statements of the West and Kiev about active preparations for an "invasion" of Ukraine. This time, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) made a statement.
In the SVR, reports about the preparation of an "invasion" were called a lie. Moreover, in response to these allegations, intelligence accused Ukraine itself of concentrating its troops on the border with Russia and Belarus.
The SVR bureau report draws a parallel between the current situation in Ukraine and the events in Georgia in August 2008, when Georgian troops launched an offensive against South Ossetia.
"The provocative policy of the United States and the European Union, which deliberately strengthens Kiev's sense of permissiveness and impunity, is of utmost concern. We observed a similar situation in Georgia on the eve of the 2008 events. Then Mikhail Saakashvili "broke off the chain" and tried to destroy the Russian peacekeepers and the civilian population of South Ossetia. It cost him dearly,"the intelligence agency said in a statement.
As previously reported, the US intelligence and media are actively spreading statements about the alleged plans of Russia to attack Ukraine. At the same time, it is reported that the attack is being prepared from three sides at once, and even approximate dates are called. In Russia, they saw this as signs of impending provocations by the Kiev military, saboteurs and neo-Nazi groups. In particular, this was stated on the eve of the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Alexander Grebyonkin, and today the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov.
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[KavkazUzel] A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, suspected of creating a subdivision of an international terrorist organization, has been put on the international wanted list.
According to the investigation, the suspect in the period from 2012 to 2017, while in Syria, organized the activities of a terrorist organization banned in Russia and involved two residents of Kabardino-Balkaria in it. Investigators believe that he also organized the financing of the organization at the expense of funds collected under the guise of charity from various organizations, as well as obtained through extortion, robberies and fraud committed by members of the group.
A criminal case was initiated against the suspect under Part 1 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of Russia (organization of the activities of an organization that, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, is recognized as terrorist). "The suspect has been put on the international wanted list," the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Kabardino-Balkaria said on its website today.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... will host the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan this week, days after some of the worst fighting between the Caucasus foes since last year’s war over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
Putin will hold talks with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday.
The trio will meet on Putin’s initiative, the Kremlin said in a statement.
The Kremlin said the talks are "timed to coincide" with the anniversary of a Russian-mediated ceasefire, signed in November last year, that ended six weeks of fighting over the long-disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The deal saw Armenia cede swathes of territory it had controlled for decades.
The Kremlin said the leaders will discuss "outlining further steps to strengthen stability and establish peace in the region."
Earlier this month, festivities broke out on the shared border between Armenia and Azerbaijan with both sides reporting casualties and blaming each other for the fighting.
Russia stepped in to mediate, with Moscow’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu negotiating a truce.
Later on Tuesday, Pashinyan told an online presser that talks in Sochi should, among other issues, address "Azerbaijan’s behavior."
"Azerbaijan is demonstrating constant aggressive policies towards Armenia. What Azerbaijan is doing is an attack on Armenia," Pashinyan said in a live video on his Facebook page.
Pashinyan, however, confirmed his "readiness" to meet Aliyev on the sidelines of the EU’s Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels on December 15.
"I think that our communication should be more frequent, so we can find ways of solving problems and avoiding crisis situations," Pashinyan said.
He said they will discuss "humanitarian questions," including the exchange of war prisoners, but warned against expecting "fast results."
Pashinyan and Aliyev last met in January in the Russian capital.
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[KP] Right now, the fate of Donbass, which has been living in a state of war for the eighth year, is undergoing a cardinal reversal. How serious everything is, is evidenced by the fact that the Russian Foreign Ministry has put on a public display the official correspondence with the foreign ministries of Germany and France. Continued on Page 47
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The "National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Armed Aggression of Russia against Ukraine" is established - the second Friday of March, annually.
Russia forced the Ukraine into a famine, and kept doing it. The Russians were so horrid the Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis.
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Why on earth would we get involved in such a convoluted clusterphuck in Russia's heartland? What business is it of ours?
Our country is coming apart at the seams. Shouldn't we attend to the fires raging all around us - the collapsing border, the anarchy in our cities, our disintegrating social order, runaway inflation, race warriors on the march?
Why on earth are we picking yet another fight when we have not won a major war in
76 years?
And the Ukraine isn't part of Russia, let alone its "heartland".
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Part of what's called Ukraine today is indeed part of historic Russia. That's why the inhabitants of those regions have no desire to be part of what's called contemporary Ukraine.
The obvious solution is for
A) the US to honor the original promise that Ukraine be demilitarized and neutral -- i.e. forswear ever to pull it into either NATO or the EU,
and
B) Ukraine to grant effective sovereignty to the Russian-speaking Transdniester regions in the east,
and
C) Russia to recognize the above concessions by withdrawing its troops.
Neutral. Demilitarized.
Neither-nor, a true "borderland," as per the original meaning of у-крайна
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...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
