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A Victory Day military parade is being held at Moscow's Red Square to mark 78 years since the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. Amid Russia’s war with neighboring Ukraine, Kyiv marked the anniversary a day earlier reflecting a new break with Moscow. Source: AP
 


Russian border guards are canceling visas for Finnish citizens who travel to Russia to fill up their cars and buy groceries, Helsingin Sanomat reported: https://bit.ly/3nUWfB3



Washington is trying to pressure Egypt into closing its airspace for all Russian military flights, but the regional US ally isn't having it, which also awkwardly comes following a recent Pentagon leak showing Cairo planned to supply Moscow with rockets.

"Egypt has ignored U.S. requests to close its airspace to Russian military flights, American and Egyptian officials said, testing the limits of Washington’s ability to choke off Moscow’s supplies ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive," The Wall Street Journal reports Friday.


"The U.S. and Ukraine persuaded countries including Turkey, Jordan and Iraq to cut access for at least some Russian military planes last year after the invasion of Ukraine, forcing Moscow’s aircraft to fly 2,000 extra miles and up to five hours further to reach strategic bases in Syria," the report continues.

Washington's concern is that Russia has likely been using Egyptian airspace to transport weapons from its arms depots elsewhere in the Middle East - for example in Syria where since 2015 it's had a significant military build-up, particularly focused along the coast.

Flight records cited in the WSJ report showed that at least seven such military flights which utilized this Syria route, before heading to Russia's Black Sea region.

Egypt over the past multiple decades has been just behind Israel as a top recipient of US foreign aid, to the tune of about $1.3 billion annually. In recent years Congress has made moves to withhold some of this if it doesn't better servce US interests. Washington has long propped up Egypt's military largely in order to keep the peace with Israel.

For example a State Department fact sheet has reviewed that "Since 1978, the United States has provided Egypt with over $50 billion in military and $30 billion in economic assistance."

Last month the Washington Post reported on a leaked slide which was part of the "Discord leaks" of Pentagon documents. The slide said that Sisi recently ordered production of up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly shipped to Russia.

he top secret document, dated to Feb. 17 of this year, included a summary of conversations between the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and his senior military officials. "In the document, Sisi instructs the officials to keep the production and shipment of the rockets secret 'to avoid problems with the West,'" the Washington Post wrote. Artillery rounds and gunpowder were also mentioned.

Countries like Egypt (viewed as close American allies) caught shipping weapons into Russia would not only prove highly embarrassing for the Biden administration, but could possibly trigger US sanctions, or at least the freezing of defense aid to the country.
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Vladimir Putin congratulated officers and veterans of the FSB border service on their professional holiday:“A separate and very important task is to reliably cover the lines in the immediate vicinity of the combat zone.I have confidence in you, your professionalism and your courage, and I know that you will do everything in your power to ensure that the borders of our homeland are protected from any threat.”
 
At the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, the Minister of Defense, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, presented the country's highest state awards - the Gold Star medals and the insignia of the Order of St. George - the St. George Cross of the 2nd degree - to Russian servicemen who have shown heroism in carrying out tasks of a special military operation.




The Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Albert Karimov, announced that all Russian assets, including the factory in Kaluga, have been sold to the "Avilon" company, definitively and irrevocably.

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MOSCOW, May 31. /TASS/. One person was killed, and another 37 people were injured, including 24 children, when the bleachers at a sports center in the southern Russia city of Rostov-on-Don collapsed on Tuesday, the Russian Health Ministry told reporters on Wednesday.

"The latest reports say one was killed, and 37 more people were injured in an incident at the rowing canal in Rostov-on-Don," the public health officials said in a statement, adding that four of those injured were in serious condition and one was in critical condition.

According to the Health Ministry, the hospitalized victims have undergone surgery, while six injured children were treated remotely by the Moscow-based Russian Children’s Clinical Hospital, with the Federal Center for Disaster Medicine overseeing the provision of medical assistance.

The bleachers came crashing down during a youth football match. An investigation is underway. A criminal case has been initiated on charges of providing services that fail to meet safety requirements, leading to loss of life.
 

Published Jun 8, 2023, 7:19 PM by The Maritime Executive
Russian plans to build a unique multifunctional nuclear service vessel to support its ambitions to continue the growth of the Northern Sea Route through the Arctic. The order for the vessel was recently awarded to the JSC Baltiysky Zavod shipyard, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation. Rosatomflot, which oversees shipping in the Arctic, plans to have the ship operational by 2029.

As part of its efforts to expand Arctic shipping, Russia is continuing to build a fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers and ships. During a recent meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian leaders, they pointed out that the government is supporting the efforts highlighting that they have placed the nuclear-powered containership Sevmorput, a 34,600 dwt vessel carrying up to 1,324 TEU, in service on the NSR as well as commissioning a new nuclear-powered icebreaker Ural (7,154 dwt). They also thanked the government for the decision to proceed with the fifth and sixth icebreakers.

Rosatomflot’s vision for the new multipurpose vessel is to perform a range of support activities for the nuclear fleet. The vessel would provide for the recharging of the nuclear power plants on the existing icebreakers. It would also support Russia’s vision for the Akademik Lomonosov FNPP floating nuclear power plants.

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“When building nuclear-powered icebreakers today, we must simultaneously think about how to efficiently and economically carry out their maintenance in 10, 20, 30 years,” said Alexei Rakhmanov, General Director of USC. “Starting to build a multifunctional nuclear-technological service vessel, we want to ensure the long and safe operation of nuclear-powered icebreakers, floating nuclear power units, and, in general, the entire Atomflot.”

The design concept calls for a vessel that would be used to recharge the reactors as well as to store both fresh and spent nuclear fuel. It would be able to accept, store, and distribute liquid radioactive waste generated during the operation of the ships and provide new nuclear fuel. The spent fuel would be assembled into shipping containers for transfer to reprocessing. The vessel would also handle the decontamination of removable equipment from the ships’ reactor plants and refueling equipment.

The plans developed by the Central Design Bureau call for a 22,661 dwt vessel. It will have an overall length of approximately 520 feet. It will operate at a speed of 12 knots and its hull will be ice reinforced.

The government will finance 50 percent of the construction cost. Rosatom will be responsible for the other half of the cost of construction. The construction contract was signed on May 25 by the Acting General Director of FSUE Atomflot and the JSC Baltiysky Zavod shipyard general director.


Moral to the story don't do the crime if you can't do the time!

US citizen detained on drug charges in Moscow identified as rock band manager Travis Leake

Vladimir Putin made statements about the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Main statements: - It can be said for sure that the Ukrainian offensive has begun, this is evidenced by the use of strategic reserves;

- Intense fighting has been going on for 5 days, especially the previous two days;

- In no one sector did the Ukrainian troops achieve their goals due to the courage and heroism of our soldiers, the correct organization of the troops and the high efficiency of Russian weapons;

- We still lack modern weapons, but the defense industry is developing rapidly, and all the tasks set for the defense industry will be solved; - There is an intensive increase in the production of modern types of modern types of weapons;

— In recent days, we have seen significant losses of the troops of the Ukrainian regime, these figures are impressive; “Responsibility for this tragedy lies with the current Kiev regime; - It can be stated that all counteroffensive attempts made by Kiev failed,

but the offensive potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine still remains;

- The President is counting on the fact that the Russian military leadership realistically assess the situation and will proceed from this.


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'Goodbye to US hegemony and hello to multipolar world': The neo-colonial system which exploits the resources of the whole world will be history, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

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'Putin: The destruction of US hegemony is inevitable.'

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Update:
General Surovikin has urgently flown in from the front and has recorded the address to Prigozhin to stop all his actions and lay down the arms. Given that you won't find a more reliable source of information this means that Prigozhin is in fact trying to do something completely insane.

“We are of the same blood, we are warriors, the enemy is waiting for the internal political situation in the country to worsen, you can’t play into the hands of the enemy”

It is necessary to lay down arms and return to the places of deployment, to solve all problems only peacefully under the leadership of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.”

I'm not going to speculate on the reasons for Prigozhin's actions, but the FSB has opened a case against Prigozhin on the fact of a call for an armed rebellion. He overstepped his boundaries by discrediting the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and there's no coming back from this. He must be punished accordingly.


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