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Crew Dragon ship with Russian cosmonaut Peskov on board on its way to ISS
NEW YORK, March 15. /TASS/. The US Crew Dragon spacecraft belonging to SpaceX with Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov as a member of the Crew-10 mission has taken off to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, with NASA's website broadcasting the launch.

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The Falcon 9 vehicle carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft took off from the launch pad of the US Space Force base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 7:04 p.m. local time (11:04 p.m. GMT). Accompanying Peskov into orbit are NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

The spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the ISS on Saturday evening. Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov and US astronauts Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams are expected to leave the ISS aboard the Crew Dragon in mid-March.

Roscosmos and NASA have a seat-swap agreement for flights to the ISS. Under the deal, some US astronauts fly to the ISS aboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft, while some Russian cosmonauts fly on board America’s Crew Dragon capsules. Maxim Kharlamov, head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, a subsidiary of Roscosmos, told TASS in January that the agreement was extended until the end of 2026.

Opinion from Bloomberg of half-truths and lies

How Russia’s Economy Has Survived Putin’s War
March 13th, 2025, 2:02 PM PDT
Despite years of sanctions for annexing Crimea and a later full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s economy endured. Now, with Donald Trump shifting global alliances, it’s Europe that’s at a crossroads. (Source: Bloomberg)

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"Employee of one of the supervisory authorities of the Russian Federation was detained for treason"
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According to the FSB, the detainee proactively gave the Ukrainian side information about the ongoing work to protect industrial and energy facilities of border areas
MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. The FSB detained for treason an employee of one of the control and supervisory authorities of the Russian Federation. This was reported by TASS in the Center for Public Relations (TSOS) of the FSB of Russia.

"An employee of the central office of one of the supervisory authorities of the Russian Federation on suspicion of treason was detained," the DEC reported.

According to the investigation, he established cooperation on a confidential basis with representatives of Ukraine to assist in activities against the security of the Russian Federation. "In 2024, the detainee proactively gave the Ukrainian side information about the ongoing work to protect industrial and energy facilities of the border territories of the Russian Federation, as well as the locations of the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation," the FSB said.

The Investigative Department of the FSB of Russia opened a criminal case under article. 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (high treason). The detainee was taken into custody.

Ex-Deputy head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Timur Ivanov did not plead guilty to embezzlement
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MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. Former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov pleaded not guilty about 216 million rubles when buying two ferries for the Kerch ferry and withdrawing more than 3.9 billion rubles from Interkommerts, TASS correspondent reports from the courtroom.

"I can't admit guilt," the defendant said.

His former subordinate Anton Filatov also denied all charges. They are charged with the theft of about 216 million rubles on two episodes of embezzlement and the legalization of more than 3.92 billion rubles from the Intercommerz Bank. The organizer of all criminal acts, the state prosecution considers Timur Ivanov.

Ivanov withdrew more than 3.92 billion rubles from the Interkommerts bank with other defendants, the prosecutor said. Thus, the amount of theft imputed to the defendants in all episodes is 4.1 billion rubles.



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MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. The fire from the burning shopping center in Rostov-on-Don spread to the roof of a residential building. This was reported by TASS in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.

“The fire spread to the roof of a standing five-story house, residents are being evacuated,” the ministry said.

The department added that the specialists of the laboratory were sent to the site of the fire for testing for the excess of harmful substances in the air. The area of fire is 800 sq. m. 15 people were evacuated from the house.

Later, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the open burning was eliminated.

A building under construction in the center of Moscow, TASS was reported in operational services.

The area of the fire was 100 square meters. m, said the Agency interlocutor.

Later, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported on the elimination of open combustion on an area of 150 square meters.

The press service said that the fire occurred on the roof of a six-story building under construction. “There was no information about the victims. Fire and rescue units are on site. The information is being clarified," the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

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The consultations between Russia and the United States in Riyadh, as well as the attacks of the APU on energy facilities, were the main topics of Peskov’s briefing on March 24.

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In the collision of a regular bus and a truck on the highway Simferopol - Evpatoria 6 people were killed. Another 37 people were taken to medical institutions, 22 of them were hospitalized.

TASS gathered the main thing about the incident.

Circumstances of the accident

A regular bus and a truck collided on the Simferopol-Yevpatoriya highway.

There were 32 people on the bus.According to preliminary information, the bus, driven by a man born in 1963, traveling along the Arkadyevka-Simferopol route, hit a truck with grain parked on the side of the road.

The bus belongs to the regional state enterprise "Krymtrolleybus", according to information on the organization's website.

Victims and injured

According to the latest data, 6 people died as a result of the accident.As reported by the Crimean Ministry of Health, 37 people, including 8 minors, were taken to medical institutions.

As a result of the examination, 22 of them were hospitalized, including a minor.

The condition of four patients is assessed as serious, 18 people are in a moderate condition.

Investigation

The regional prosecutor's office is supervising the investigation into the accident.

Two criminal cases have been opened - for violating traffic rules and for providing services that do not meet safety requirements.

The driver of the bus that collided with a truck in Crimea is sober and claims that he was blinded by the sun at the time of the accident, according to data from the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. He has been detained.

Investigators are seizing travel and accompanying documentation.Automotive and other necessary examinations have been ordered.

Eyewitnesses of the incident and passengers of the bus have been questioned.

Trump said that the United States and Ukraine agreed on a deal on rare earth metals, will soon be signed:

The infrastructure of the provider Lovit was attacked from the United States, Germany, Sweden
MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. DDoS attack on the infrastructure of the provider Lovit comes mainly from abroad, in particular from the USA, Germany, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, France and other countries. This was reported by TASS in the press service of Roskomnadzor (RKN).

“On March 21, the infrastructure of the provider Lovit was subjected to a massive DDoS attack mainly from abroad. The geography of attacking servers and botnets: the United States, Germany, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, France, Croatia, the United Kingdom, Russia.

As reminded in the RCN, the DDoS-attack began at 09:58 Moscow time on March 21. Its power at the peak was up to 219.06 Gbit / s, the speed - up to 22.39 million packets per second. “As of 13:44 Moscow time, it is still ongoing on March 24. However, its capacity has decreased to 36.59 Gbit / s, and the speed - to 4.01 million packages per second, "the press service added.

Specialists of the Center for Monitoring and Maintenance of the Public Communication Network (CMU SSOP), subordinated to Roskomnadzor, continue to help the provider to repel a cyber attack using the National DDoS Attacks.

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MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. The fire occurred in a building under construction in the center of Moscow, TASS was reported in operational services.

The area of the fire was 100 square meters. m, said the Agency interlocutor.

Later, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported on the elimination of open combustion on an area of 150 square meters.

The press service said that the fire occurred on the roof of a six-story building under construction. “There was no information about the victims. Fire and rescue units are on site. The information is being clarified," the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

"RUSSIA CELEBRATES AIR FORCE NAVIGATOR DAYOn March 24, Russia honors the specialists whose precision and expertise are vital to military aviation — the navigators of the Aerospace Force"
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MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Despite statements by Vladimir Zelensky about the purported cessation of attacks on Russian energy facilities, over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian army continued strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"Over the past 24 hours, the Kiev regime has continued attacks on Russian energy infrastructure facilities," it said in a statement.

According to the ministry, the Kiev regime has just increased the number of attacks on energy infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions, despite Zelensky’s claims.

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Rospotrebnadzor monitors information on cases of illness with an allegedly unknown virus, the necessary information has been requested:
MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Specialists of Rospotrebnadzor took control of information about cases of the disease with an allegedly unknown virus, the necessary information was requested. This was reported to journalists in the press service of Rospotrebnadzor.

Earlier in the Telegram channel Shot there was information that in Russia a virus that causes high fever and blood during expectoration, while tests for covid and influenza in patients are negative.

“Specialists of Rospotrebnadzor took control of reports of cases of the alleged unknown virus, which were distributed in the Telegram channel. The administration of the Telegram channel requests all available information related to the publication”, – stated in the message.

The situation is under the control of Rospotrebnadzo

False information is circulating on X of an attempted assassination of Putin.

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FSB cracks down on Scientology cell in Russia's Kaliningrad Distribution of Scientology literature and materials was outlawed in Russia in 2016, when it was legally classified a ‘cult’

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In Taganrog due to the attack of the UAV injured two people
Acting Governor of the region Yuri Slyusar said that damaged two apartment buildings
ROSTOV-ON-DON, April 1. /TASS/. Two people were slightly injured due to an UAV attack in the city of Taganrog, Rostov region. There were fires, they were quickly extinguished, said the acting governor of the region Yuri Slyusar.

“According to operational information, because of the attack of the UAV in Taganrog, there was a fire in a 9-storey building on Lisa Chaikana Street, 57 and near a 7-storey building on Lenin Street, 147. <... > Fires are extinguished. At the moment, two people have applied to doctors with mild injuries: burns and cuts. They are being helped. Fortunately, there are no victims,” he wrote on Telegram-каналеthe Telegram channel.

Slyusar added that the houses have a cordon.

The acting governor of the region reported that "at the moment from a multi-storey house on the street Lisa Chaykina, 57, evacuated 85 residents. The house from communications is not disconnected, according to experts, the bearing structures of the house were not affected. After the survey by sappers, the tenants will be allowed to return to the apartments.

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Zakharova called vaudeville accusations of Moldova and a video at the Russian Embassy in Chisinau
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Maria Zakharova called the vaudeville scandal in the media with a video recording at the Russian Embassy in Chisinau and accusations from the authorities of Moldova of interfering in the internal affairs of the republic: https://vk.cc/cKpTWz
MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. The official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called vaudeville scandal in the media with a video at the Russian Embassy in Chisinau and accusations from the authorities of Moldova of interference in the internal Affairs of the Republic.

Chisinau tried to unleash a topic with some video around the Russian embassy, to be attached to the Russian ambassador for allegedly interfering in the internal affairs of Moldova (or with the help of [Moldavian President Maya] Sandu Romania?). The vaudeville is simple. Comment on the exhausted footage and video clipping Sandu is an empty matter,” the diplomat wrote on the Telegram channel.

But I would like to remind everyone: assistance to Russian citizens is a direct responsibility of Russian diplomats. So it was, is and will be,” added Zakharova.

The head of the Information and Security Service of Moldova, Alexander Mustyatse, said at a briefing on Monday that the Russian Embassy allegedly helped the deputy of the parliament from the Victory bloc, Alexander Nesterovsky, to hide from justice. According to him, Nesterovsky the day before the verdict was allowed to get to the territory of the diplomatic mission, and the next day by car with diplomatic numbers was taken to Transnistria. As evidence, the head of the service cited video.

Violation of the moratorium by Ukraine and the Black Sea initiative. What Lavrov said
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Russia has handed over to the United States, as well as to the UN and the OSCE, information on how Ukraine violates the moratorium on strikes on power facilities, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters.

He also noted that Moscow made specific proposals for the practical implementation of the Black Sea initiative.

TASS collected key statements of the foreign Minister.

On the violation of Ukraine moratorium on strikes on the energy infrastructure

Lavrov and Defense Minister Andrei Belousov reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin about Ukraine’s non-compliance with a moratorium on strikes on the energy infrastructure:

“Belousov said that the moratorium is not observed, the energy facilities of the Russian Federation are being attacked all this time, maybe with a break for one or two days, and listed all the objects that were the targets of Ukrainian drones, over the past time. And I continued in the same direction.”

Russia gave the United States, as well as to its representatives in the UN and the OSCE, information on how Ukraine violates the moratorium on attacks on energy facilities, “so that they show in the work on specific facts, what is the word of the Ukrainian authorities of the current one, if you can call it power.”

Moscow “100%” observes a moratorium on strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

Contacts with the United States

Russia and the United States are preparing a new meeting on the elimination of irritants in bilateral relations and the normalization of contacts, “there are telephone contacts, via video conference”:

“We see the emerging progress and the desire of American partners to remove these completely unacceptable obstacles to the normal work of diplomats in the capitals.”

It was not Russia that began to quarrel the work of diplomats: “Other Obama administration was actively noted in this field.”

The Black Sea Initiative

Russia needs “not empty promises, but concrete deeds” within the framework of the Black Sea initiative, the American side promised to “respond to respond soon.”

Putin at a meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council asked to talk about a meeting with the United States on the idea of resuming the Black Sea initiative.

“Moscow made concrete proposals for the practical implementation of the Black Sea initiative: “We supported, as I said, the readiness of the United States, which was fixed on paper after the meeting on March 24, but added concrete proposals on how this can be done in practice.”

Such proposals are absolutely necessary to not repeat the sad experience of the original Berne-Morean initiative approved in July 2022, which was made by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “The Ukrainian part worked all this time, we have complied with our obligations. With regard to the Russian interests, which were enshrined as the obligations of our partners within the framework of that initiative, nothing was done.

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Putin held a Security Council meeting on the terrorist threat and the implementation of agreements with Ukraine to end attacks on energy infrastructure: Today we will discuss additional measures to combat the terrorist threat. This is a very important issue, and no further comments are necessary. But before we begin the discussion, I would like to ask Belousov a question. How are we implementing the agreements between Russia and Ukraine aimed at stopping attacks on energy systems?
 
Annual Moscow Economic Forum took place on April 1 and April 2. Watched 2 sessions recordings so far, both quite interesting:

Session №3 - "Is it time to nationalize the Central Bank of Russia?", available in Russian only; summary text here, in Russian, you can use a machine translator of your choice.

Topics:
— Why doesn’t the Central Bank, having enormous resources, use them to actively stimulate the economy and support citizens?
— How does the autonomy of the Central Bank affect the financial sovereignty of Russia, and isn’t it time for the state to take full control over its activities?
— What specific mechanisms for nationalization of the Central Bank can be implemented? What legal and economic mechanisms are needed to implement such a solution?
— How will the possible nationalization of the Central Bank affect Russia’s position in the international banking system and what consequences could this have for interaction in international payments?

Session №10 - "Misconceptions in Economics: How to Overcome Them and Avoid Irreversible Consequences for the Country's Development", available in Russian and in English

Topics:
— Inflation misconceptions. Should inflation targeting really be the core of economic policy?
— Misconceptions about the Bank of Russia. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is independent and this cannot be changed?
— Tax Misconceptions. Does raising taxes lead to an increase in regional budgets? Are taxes the lowest in Russia?
— Misconceptions about natural monopolies. Natural monopolies can be private, and their tariffs will be regulated by the market?
— Export misconceptions. Is exporting unprocessed raw materials beneficial for the country?

Also available in English:

Session №1: The New Global Bloc Division: Russia’s Strategy
Session № 6: Food Security: Russia’s Role in the World
III Plenary discussion - A Changing World: Russia’s Strategy
Session № 9: The Near and Middle East in a Changing World
Session № 14: Engineering in 2025: Challenges or Solutions?
plus a few more, closing with
Final plenary discussion: Summing up the results of the Forum

Full program with topics and speakers listed here (in Ru).
 
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Session №3 - "Is it time to nationalize the Central Bank of Russia?", available in Russian only; summary text here, in Russian, you can use a machine translator of your choice
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Here is a summary (close to a transcript) of the session about the nationalization of the Russian central bank:

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It starts with a Rothschild quote, no less:

Session #3 " Is it time to nationalize the Central Bank of Russia?"

On April 1, the Moscow Economic Forum (MEF) hosted a thematic session "Is it time to nationalize the Central Bank of Russia?". It was moderated by Vladimir Boglaev, General Director of JSC Cherepovets Foundry and Mechanical Plant.

The session was attended by Anatoly Wasserman, member of the State Duma Committee on Education, Sergey Glazyev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nikita Komarov, Head of External Communications at the Tsargrad Institute, Yuri Pronko, economic commentator, journalist, TV host of the Tsargrad TV channel, Oleg Sukharev, Russian economist, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Opening the session, Vladimir Boglaev recalled the words of Mayer Amschel Bauer (Rothschild): "Let me control the issue of money in the state and I don't care who writes its laws." The sovereignty of the state depends on the instrument of issuing money.

The businessman stressed that if today the country is facing the task of import substitution, then the actions of the Central Bank contradict logic. If against the background of logistics problems after the start of a Special Military Operation, enterprises are faced with an increase in the volume of asset turnover, then even to simply maintain the level of production at the same level, more working capital is needed than it was before the SVO. And affordable credit is the main way to compensate for the lack of working capital.

The Central Bank has reached the point that current assets have remained at the old level, which means that we have started to kill the remnants of our own production. According to Vladimir Boglaev, the high rate is a cover for purposeful destruction of industrial potential. Back in autumn, the Bank of Russia introduced such requirements for collateral that now production workers will not be able to take out loans even at a low rate. It turns out that enterprises are not only unable to attract new working capital, but will also return the old ones in the form of loan debts. This will lead to a decrease in production volumes, which, in turn, will lead to an increase in production costs, prices and inflation, which means a further increase in the Central Bank rate.

"The issue of the ruble is not provided by the huge resources of our country, but by the amount of currency that we receive through resource trading," Vladimir Boglaev said. The moderator is sure that this indicates that the Bank of Russia is not independent.

Anatoly Wasserman, a member of the State Duma Committee on Education, contradicted Vladimir Boglaev's speech, noting that production requires not only working capital, but also a variety of resources paid for by these funds, including production equipment and personnel, which are not completely interchangeable.

"No matter how we catch up with the crowd according to the formula "two soldiers from the construction battalion replace the excavator". But in fact, the equipment will replace the entire construction site. Similarly, if we buy a dozen excavators, but we have only one excavator operator, then nine of them will be idle, " the deputy noted.

According to Wasserman, after Russia actually destroyed applied science and what they did with production in the 90s, we, unfortunately, cannot restore it at the pace that is really necessary. In this sense, it is necessary to limit the flow of working capital to some extent, since without equipment they can simply overwhelm the economy.

Fearing that inflationary processes will lead to an exponential increase in prices, the Central Bank conducts its policy, Wasserman suggested. And if this is the case, then the Central Bank, of course, is pretty "overdoing it", but the extreme from which they are fleeing is also unlikely to be liked by anyone.

The expert called optimal emission at the same rate as the volume of products produced in the country is growing. In this situation, prices should not change at all.

"From my point of view, the nationalization of the Central Bank should be considered not as a replacement of the management system, but as an agreement between the Central Bank's issue and real production statistics," Anatoly Wasserman said.

Continuing the topic of production development, the speaker noted that access to equipment is important for this. Today, for obvious reasons, the number of import channels has decreased. The possibility of obtaining the necessary technological solutions is now connected not only with financial opportunities, but also with the political situation.

In response to the moderator's comments, Anatoly Wasserman said that his conclusions are correct if we forecast for a short period of time. However, many production processes take longer — it's all about the planning horizon. At the same time, the speaker confirmed that the system for determining the Central Bank's exchange rate does not have any planning horizon at all, which leads to harmful "side effects". The emission rate should be commensurate with the speed of production, with the capacity of channels of production equipment. In this case, we are talking about the production of means of production or their import.

Sergey Glazyev reminded that key documents on the Central Bank's monetary policy are reviewed and approved by the National Financial Council, which includes two representatives from all branches of government, including four representatives from the Federal Assembly.

"Nothing prevents our State Duma and the Federation Council from actively influencing the policy of the Central Bank through their representatives in the National Fiscal Service, who play the role of statisticians, unfortunately, instead of seriously working on shaping the policy of the Central Bank," the academician noted.

All Central Bank regulations are also approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. Therefore, we should talk about a single monetary policy. Moreover, the entire management of the Central Bank is proposed by the President and approved by the State Duma.

The approach to the organization of the Central Bank's work and policy is based on archaic dogmas: starting with the Fischer identity and ending with the Phillips curve. These are very archaic understandings. The Central Bank considers the economy as an equilibrium system in which there is no development and nothing changes, the speed of money remains unchanged, the supply volume does not change.

"They believe, based on the Phillips curve, according to which the lower the unemployment rate, the higher the inflation, that the economy is overheated. But all this has nothing to do with modern reality, where the main factor of economic growth is scientific and technological progress, " said Sergey Glazyev.

According to the speaker, the Central Bank's understanding of money circulation is at the level of the 19th century. The elementary axioms of the market equilibrium doctrine do not take into account scientific and technological progress and the uncertainty of economic development.

Sergey Glazyev said that the Russian economy is currently underutilized. In this case, a reduction in the amount of money causes an increase in inflation. The speaker also suggested looking at the policy of inflation targeting, in which the Central Bank declares that the main goal of its policy is to reduce inflation. It has not been implemented in 10 years (to reach 4% inflation).

The entire policy of the Central Bank is contained in several postulates:

1. Freedom of cross-border export of capital (this reflects the interests of the Comprador oligarchy).

2. The ruble exchange rate is thrown into free float.

3. All the tools of monetary policy are reduced to manipulating the key rate.

According to Glazyev, this is a very primitive approach, which is derived from the IMF's analytical report of the Great Depression. In fact, the Central Bank had every opportunity to fix the ruble exchange rate, which is very important for fighting inflation. Leaving for free swimming had disastrous consequences. The Central Bank, by letting the ruble exchange rate float freely, killed the stability of our currency — today it is one of the worst in the world in terms of volatility and instability.

And this ambiguous policy had its own beneficiary-a currency speculator. As soon as he saw that the ruble exchange rate was allowed to float freely, the volume of speculation in the foreign exchange market tripled. At the same time, real demand for foreign currency has not changed, neither GDP has changed much, nor the structure of foreign trade.

All countries that can accumulate reserves from, for example, the oil-producing sector observe either a stable or fixed exchange rate regime, like Saudi Arabia.

As Sergey Glazyev noted, the Central Bank has gone from being a mechanism for creating money to a mechanism for withdrawing money from the economy. Trying to fight inflation by raising interest rates, the Central Bank drains money from the economy, effectively depriving it of credit. Today, the Central Bank owes our economy about 30 trillion rubles-this is a direct result of its activities. Both in the East and in the West, normal monetary policy is quite different.
"In this mechanism, it doesn't matter what our key rate is. We allowed ourselves to be tricked and reduced the whole discussion to what the key bid should be. This is generally a tool for balancing the liquidity of commercial banks. This has nothing to do with investments at all, " Glazyev said.

At the end of his speech, the speaker named a number of measures. One of them is to stop the export of capital. The currency speculator is not the only beneficiary of such a Central Bank policy. Together with it, those who annually export huge amounts of money abroad received their benefits.

The next speaker was Nikita Komarov, Head of External Communications at the Tsargrad Institute. He drew attention to the fact that the issue of nationalization of the Central Bank is acute today not because it de jure does not obey anyone, but because its leadership is in captivity of its own illusions and does not work in the interests of the state. The contradictions between the Central Bank and the government, according to the speaker, have become obvious. And only about six months ago, the Central Bank won this hardware battle, and the head of the Ministry of Economic Development said that they had come to an agreement and would slow down investment in order to prevent overheating of the economy.

Nikita Komarov stressed that from the ideological side, the issue of nationalization of the Central Bank is relevant, but first you need to understand who it should obey. If the Central Bank becomes subordinate to the Ministry of Finance, this does not mean that its policy will change.

In turn, Yuri Pronko highlighted several points that indicate that the problem of non-control of the Central Bank exists in reality. According to him, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is not just a mega — regulator, but a whole "state within a state" that is immune not only to expert points of view, but in general to other opinions.

When this institution was created, the economic observer recalled, the powers of many structures were merged into it, that is, it is responsible not only for monetary policy. The Central Bank has gained enormous power over entire sectors of the economy. There is no such thing in any country in the world.

Yuri Pronko also reminded that it was Elvira Nabiullina, the current head of the Central Bank, who led the purge of the Russian banking sector a few years ago. This has led to the fact that we have a classic oligopoly in the Russian financial market. Yes, the state acts as a shareholder, but at the same time acts as a regulator. This is a fundamental moment for what is happening today — raider seizures against the background of a raised key rate. The expert is sure that the bankers are the beneficiaries of all this. At the same time, large banks are linked to the state.

"Bankers and officials now determine the overall situation in the economy. And when I hear remarks that only the Central Bank bears full responsibility for the situation in which we find ourselves… That's not so. Government officials also have the same responsibility. Some are hiding behind the president's back, while others are hiding behind Nabiullina, " Yuriy Pronko said.

None of the Central Bank's forecasts came true. The same applies to the Ministry of Economic Development. According to Pronko, the situation with the pension reform is also interrelated, and in Russia they have ditched pension money. The Central Bank is also responsible for this reform, as is the government. And it has led to the fact that the state will guarantee only the physiological survival of a person.

Pronko's main thesis is that the mega-regulator in the form in which it exists today must be destroyed. Practice has shown that it needs to be divided or the situation will get worse.

Oleg Sukharev said that according to the results of research, it can be accurately stated that there is no connection between a high rate and suppressing inflation. At the same time, there is a link between the monetization of the economy, its growth and the suppression of inflation.

An increase in the rate reduces both investment and gross consumption, and suppresses demand. As a result, supply is blocked, both in the line of investment and in the line of demand.
The government, while pursuing its sectoral policy, also created preconditions for prolongation of inflation.
"Have you ever seen a scientifically based calculation of inflation expectations?<...> Nothing like this has ever been published!", - said Oleg Sukharev.

The vicious circle of credit policy, according to the economist, looks like this —
- A surge in inflation;
— An increase in the interest rate
— - Rising costs;
- Reduced lending.

Russia is not allowed to create a link between credit resources and industrial capital. As a result, investment decreases, capital efficiency ages and decreases, and the technological level decreases. Thus, we will prolong low competitiveness, and low competitiveness is a precondition for future devaluations.

"Why do we need speculators? Why a mercantile economy on such a scale, when there is a task of technological sovereignty and real production? We need to create credit for these areas, " Oleg Sukharev said.
The economist also presented data showing that the gap between investments in non-financial assets and purely financial investments has been growing since 2000. We have a financial economy. This flywheel is self-sustaining, and it is closed to a high interest rate. A high percentage is essentially an indexation of financial income.

Summing up, Oleg Sukharev noted that it is pointless to nationalize the structure that is inscribed in the Constitution. Since the terms of power were easily extended, it will be easy to change the functionality, content and subordination of the Central Bank.

In the final part, the speakers came to the conclusion that not only the organization of the Central Bank's work, but also economic policy in general, needs to be reworked. Today, Russia faces the challenge of achieving technological sovereignty and development. And it is impossible to solve them without changing the approaches to monetary policy and related industries.
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Recently there was a video from BesogonTV with Nikita Mikhalkov
One can find the TG post, here БЕСОГОН where the video can be watched in Russian:
From the TG channel, there was a titles for the subjects discussed. Machine
We bring to your attention the issue of BesogonTV
"How can a coachman understand Chekhov?".
01:09 Letter to Besogon from the commander of the North group.
04:19 British writers who collaborated with the secret services.
07:16 England is working on the continuation of the conflict in Ukraine.
10:33 Where do the recipients of British scholarships work in Russia?
13:13 Reports of the recruited agents to their supervisors.
16:27 Information war to stifle sympathy for Russia.
23:00 The use of migration by British intelligence agencies.
28:36 Annalena Burbok's plans to become President of the UN General Assembly.
31:59 Germans will expel Russians from the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Victory.
33:12 Europe pretended to fight against Nazism during the war.
36:16 Is Germany preparing for war again?
37:34 Our fear of offending Europe, which does not hesitate to lie.
41:54 Our consolidation is the key to victory.
45:00 The unifying power of faith as a single concept of good and evil.
48:51 Is the epidemic of the crucifixion accidental in society?
52:53 The Russian faith arouses hatred and fear in the enemy.

The Russian channel used to have a YouTube, but it might have been closed. However one of his team or followers uploaded it to YouTube. To this video there was an auto-generated transcript which I inserted into a Word document and uploaded to OneDrive. Next I translated the whole document to English and moved the Russian original over in the same document. To help people with different programs, I exported to PDF, which has the TG post translated into English followed by the auto-translation, and next the original in Russian. I have not checked the transliteration, and mistakes can be expected, but it should still be better than nothing.

The video has several examples of how British Intelligence works and has worked in Russia, since before the Russian Revolution, which is what I find particularly interesting, since it demonstrates how current patterns are a continuation of previous efforts on their part.
 

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thorbiorn said:
52:53 The Russian faith arouses hatred and fear in the enemy.
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In this last part, Nikita Mikhalkov, begins with comments on the different attitudes to the loss of husbands during the SMO. He does not sympathise with the most cynical, arrogant and calculating and argues for a more Christian and patriotic view, undoubtedly shared by many. As part of this section, he also comments on song lyrics written by the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, performed by Irina Ponarovskaya with musical arrangement by Maxim Fadeev.

In this post, there is some information about what led Maria Zakharova to write the poem, what motivated Irina Ponarovskaya on her part to sing, along with a translation of an article that describes the history of her son and how he died. I included the last, not because it is characteristic of Russia but shows an amazing page of Russian history.

Comments about the song by Maria Zakharova
In a TG post Maria Zakharova wrote about the song when machine translated:
t.me

Мария Захарова

Сегодня в Питере состоялась премьера песни «Мой ангел» на музыку Максима Фадеева. Этими эмоциями я жила три года: общалась с матерями погибших ребят, читала их письма, участвовала в их мероприятиях в поддержку тех, кто сражается. Понимала, что чувства переполняют. Но не знала, как...
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The premiere of the song "My Angel" to the music of Maxim Fadeev, (Макс Фадеев), took place in St. Petersburg today.

I lived with these emotions for three years: I communicated with the mothers of the dead guys, read their letters, participated in their events in support of those who are fighting. I understood that I was overwhelmed with feelings. But I did not know how to approach, and who would be able to perform.

There are a lot of magnificent singers in Russia. But to sing about the loss of a son, to sing, having felt every particle of trouble ...

Irina Ponarovskaya was able to do it. (Ирина Понаровская), whose beloved son died a year ago.

Irina found the strength, and the three of us and Maxim Fadeev did it.

Listen to audio:
• Яндекс.Музыка (https://music.yandex.ru/album/36013...dium=Ирина Понаровская&utm_campaign=Мой ангел)
• VK Music / Boom (https://music.vk.com/link/LeShQ)
• МТС.Музыка (Альбом Мой ангел (Ирина Понаровская) слушать онлайн на МТС Музыке – 1 трек, ~ 3 мин.)
• Zvuk (https://zvuk.com/release/38093385)
• Spotify (
)
• Apple Music (
)
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The post continues with the poem, but the translation is a composite of several machine translation and a little additional editing:
I'm a bird shot down on takeoff,
I can't reach you.
You're flying high — you're free,
And all I have left to do is sing

I dare not blame you at all.
It's my fault for not being ahead of you.
I'll bear it with fortitude
I'll only love you more.

Chorus:
*My angel, my sweetest, most gentle angel,
I pray, I pray, and as if suffocating.,
I whisper: I love you immensely
From the edge of the sky to the edge…
I love you…

*Come to me at night.,
Tuck me up in dream and in reality.
Love will quench all sorrows. —
I believe it, I hope, I live!

Chorus:
*My angel, my sweetest, most gentle angel,
I pray, I pray, and as if suffocating.,
I whisper: I love you immensely
From the edge of the sky to the edge…
I love you…
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Notes to the translation of the song lyrics
To translate a poem is often a greater challenge than ordinary prose, because a poet often uses allusions, metaphors, and open expressions.. At least one expression in the above poem, deserves a note:
"From the edge of the sky to the edge…" is in Russian "От края неба и до края…" this expression "От края до края…", can be variously translated according to the context. Examples in the Yandex translation page gives several examples, including:
Он видел из окна плотную массу лиц, заполнивших Бродвей от края до края.
He watched from a window the solid spread of faces filling Broadway from curb to curb.
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Весь горизонт, от края до края, светится смутным красноватым заревом.
An uncertain red glow spreads along the skyline from one end to the other.
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Полутора миллиардная стая от края до края африканских саванн.
0ne and a half billion swarm across the savannahs of Africa.
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Так пустота была заполнена от края до края, с обеих сторон.
So the void was filled from corner to corner on both sides.
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Я сражался с ревущими толпами мутантов, жаждущих моей плоти и я прошел этот мир насквозь от края до края в поисках его, этого "Источника."
I've battled roving packs of mutants who've craved my flesh and I've scaled one end of this desolate world to the other in search of this, this "Source."
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Keeping these options in mind may be a help to explore the possible meanings of this line when translated into English.

The original TG post with the introduction and the poem in Russian:
t.me

Мария Захарова

Сегодня в Питере состоялась премьера песни «Мой ангел» на музыку Максима Фадеева. Этими эмоциями я жила три года: общалась с матерями погибших ребят, читала их письма, участвовала в их мероприятиях в поддержку тех, кто сражается. Понимала, что чувства переполняют. Но не знала, как...
t.me t.me

Сегодня в Питере состоялась премьера песни «Мой ангел» на музыку Максима Фадеева (Макс Фадеев).

Этими эмоциями я жила три года: общалась с матерями погибших ребят, читала их письма, участвовала в их мероприятиях в поддержку тех, кто сражается. Понимала, что чувства переполняют. Но не знала, как подступиться, и кто сможет исполнить.

Певиц великолепных в России немало. Но спеть о потере сына, спеть, прочувствовав каждую частицу беды…

Это смогла Ирина Понаровская (Ирина Понаровская), у которой год назад умер любимый сын.

Ирина нашла в себе силы, и мы втроём с Максимом Фадеевым сделали это.

Слушать аудио:
• Яндекс.Музыка (https://music.yandex.ru/album/36013...dium=Ирина Понаровская&utm_campaign=Мой ангел)
• VK Music / Boom (https://music.vk.com/link/LeShQ)
• МТС.Музыка (Альбом Мой ангел (Ирина Понаровская) слушать онлайн на МТС Музыке – 1 трек, ~ 3 мин.)
• Zvuk (https://zvuk.com/release/38093385)
• Spotify (
)
• Apple Music (
)

Я птица, сбитая на взлёте,
Мне до тебя не долететь.
Ты высоко паришь — ты на свободе,
А мне осталось только петь.

Не смею я винить тебя нисколько.
Моя вина, что не смогла опередить.
Я выдержу и это стойко,
Лишь буду больше я тебя любить.

Припев:
*
Мой ангел, милый, самый нежный,
Молюсь, молюсь и, словно задыхаясь,
Шепчу: люблю тебя безмерно
От края неба и до края…
я тебя люблю…
*

Ты приходи ко мне ночами,
Укутывай во сне и наяву.
Любовью утолятся все печали —
Я верю в это, я надеюсь, я живу!

Припев:
*
Мой ангел, милый, самый нежный,
Молюсь, молюсь и, словно задыхаясь,
Шепчу: люблю тебя безмерно
От края неба и до края…
я люблю тебя…
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An additional comment by Maria Zakharova:
t.me

Мария Захарова

Просто хочется сказать всем огромное спасибо за потрясающие слова о нашей песне с Ириной Понаровской и Максимом Фадеевым «Мой ангел». Значит, всё не зря. Благодарю вас за искренность, за то, что в этом сумасшедшем темпе вы нашли время и силы, чтобы написать, позвонить, записать такие...
t.me t.me
I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone for the amazing words about our song with Irina Ponarovskaya
(Ирина Понаровская) and Maxim Fadeev (Макс Фадеев) 'My Angel'. (Мария Захарова)
So, everything is not in vain.
Thank you for your sincerity, for taking the time and energy to write, call, and record such emotional and heartfelt messages at this crazy pace
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And in Russian:
t.me

Мария Захарова

Просто хочется сказать всем огромное спасибо за потрясающие слова о нашей песне с Ириной Понаровской и Максимом Фадеевым «Мой ангел». Значит, всё не зря. Благодарю вас за искренность, за то, что в этом сумасшедшем темпе вы нашли время и силы, чтобы написать, позвонить, записать такие...
t.me t.me
Просто хочется сказать всем огромное спасибо за потрясающие слова о нашей песне с Ириной Понаровской (Telegram – a new era of messaging Максимом Фадеевым (Макс Фадеев) «Мой ангел». (Мария Захарова)
Значит, всё не зря.
Благодарю вас за искренность, за то, что в этом сумасшедшем темпе вы нашли время и силы, чтобы написать, позвонить, записать такие эмоциональные и проникновенные сообщения
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The song as reported in the news
24.03.2025, 18:40 GMT
Famous singer Irina Ponarovskaya performed the song "My Angel" to the lyrics of Foreign Ministry Spokesman Maria Zakharova at a concert in St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti correspondent reports

Maria Zakharova told RIA Novosti that she dedicated the song she wrote for Ponarovskaya to mothers who have lost their sons.

According to her, the song was not born right away; she “lived with this theme” for all three years, meeting with the mothers of the SVO participants, but she could not even begin to write the lyrics, since she did not understand who could perform it in such a way as to give hope.

When Irina had a misfortune, her only beloved son died, I realized that perhaps the moment had come. Six months later, we spoke with her loved ones, and they said that she would return to the stage, since this was the only thing that could save her.

Source: Telegram "llordofwar"
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Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote
26 March 2025 11:18
'It's my fault that I couldn't get ahead of you...': Irina Ponarovskaya sang a touching song in memory of her departed son
Irina Ponarovskaya dedicated the song 'My Angel' to all mothers

In September last year, a tragedy happened in the family of Irina Ponarovskaya.

Irina's only son, artist and designer Anthony Rodd, passed away as a result of a heart attack.

And now, months later, the singer found the strength to come out to fans with a new song, which she dedicated to all mothers. The song 'My Angel' was written by famous authors. Lyrics by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, music by the famous producer Maxim Fadeev.

Irina shares that after the tragedy that happened to her son, her life was divided into 'before and after': 'Only a few people supported me unconditionally, without clarification, just trying to share and empathize with my terrible pain. Maria and Maxim wrote this song without any guarantee that I would ever perform it. It took me six months to make up my mind and be able to sing it. I did not sing this song for myself, I sang upstairs, and as a gratitude to its creators, which will remain in me for the rest of my life.'

'Now there is an Angel in my sky, in the space I can see – this is my son,' says Irina about the song 'My Angel'. - Unfortunately, it so happened that I already have several angels. But the most important Human and Angel is my son Anthony, even if he has now left me for another dimension. It has always been and will always be so!'

The song 'My Angel' sounds like a confession, each line is a revelation of a naked soul: 'I'm a bird shot down on takeoff', 'It's my fault that I couldn't get ahead of you...', 'I'll endure... I will only love you more', 'And all I have to do is sing'.

For the first time, Irina Ponarovskaya performed the song 'My Angel' at her recent solo concert, which took place at the Oktyabrsky Grand Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, declaring from the stage that she dedicates it to all mothers.
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The history of Anthony Rodd
Interestingly, Anthony Rodd, had an African-American grandfather. Argumenty i fakty had this article:
Arguments and facts are aif.ru
Genes, passions and fate. Irina Ponarovskaya's son died like Anatoly Papanov
20 September 2024
Contents
Grandson of an American grandfather
'I dreamed of playing Pushkin'
Passion play in a musical family
Taken to Norway, saving from skinheads
In the bathroom, heart could not stand it
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Skipping the pictures the text reads after a machine translation with no editing
In Moscow, the 39-year-old son of the Honored Artist of Russia Irina Ponarovskaya, Anthony Rodd, died suddenly.

Grandson of an American grandfather
According to the Telegram channel Shot, the man felt bad when he was at home on Trifonovskaya Street in the Meshchansky district. Anthony's wife called an ambulance at about 5 am, but the doctors could not save him. According to preliminary data, the cause of death could be heart problems.

Anthony Rodd did not seek publicity, although he belonged to a unique creative dynasty in his own way. His grandfather, Wayland Rodd, a native of Lincoln in Nebraska, opened a new era in Soviet cinema.
In the United States, Rodd, having received the specialty of an insurance agent, simultaneously played in an amateur theater troupe. The African-American was so expressive that he began to be invited to Broadway productions.

In 1932, Wayland Rodd, with a group of more than 20 African-American actors, came to the USSR to shoot in a film about racial problems in the United States. The project did not come to fruition, Rodd and another actor, Lloyd Patterson, decided to stay in the Soviet Union.

Lloyd's son, James, was well known in the USSR - it was he who played the role of a black boy in the film 'Circus'.

While Lloyd Patterson began to work as a radio announcer in the Soviet Union, Weiland Rodd received an invitation to join the Meyerhold Theater troupe.

'I dreamed of playing Pushkin'
And in 1933, he made his debut in Soviet cinema in the film 'The Great Comforter'. Its director Lev Kuleshov recalled: 'Rodd was distinguished by exceptional rhythm, excellent acting skills, a beautiful voice and wonderful emotionality. Rodd dreamed of playing Pushkin. He told us that the Negroes consider Pushkin their national poet. At that time, Rodd barely spoke Russian, but his diligence in work and study was amazing, so that by the end of the film it was easy to communicate with him in Russian.'

In the incredibly popular Soviet film 'The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain', Rodd played Hercules, finally falling in love with the Soviet audience. He wrote plays, graduated from directing courses, and during the war years performed as part of front-line art brigades.

Rodd was also famous for the fact that his and his wife's daughter was born on May 9, 1945, and therefore received the name Victoria. A year later, a son, Wayland Rodd Jr., was born in the family.

Passion play in a musical family
The younger Weiland graduated from school in Moscow, also received a musical education and began to perform as a jazz performer. In the early 1980s, he met singer Irina Ponarovskaya. Creative cooperation quickly grew into a romance, which was soon formalized.

In 1984, the couple had a son, who was named Anthony. The boy immediately found himself in the epicenter of passions. According to Irina Ponarovskaya, she could not get pregnant for a long time, so it was decided to adopt a child. An adopted daughter did appear in the family, but the singer still became pregnant and gave birth.

This did not strengthen the relationship between the parents, the marriage was bursting at the seams, and even after many years, Ponarovskaya and Weiland Rodd Jr. accused each other of all mortal sins.

Taken to Norway, saving from skinheads
In particular, the singer stated that her ex-husband took away and hid her son, and she had to look for him. Rodd, in turn, assured that Ponarovskaya left Anthony with strangers, leaving on tour, and he did not like it.

Be that as it may, in the end, Ponarovskaya stopped all communication between her son and his father, and the grown-up Anthony was not eager to restore relations with his parent.

Times were changing, Soviet internationalism was a thing of the past, and one day Anthony, who inherited the features of his grandfather and father, was beaten up in the street by skinheads. After that, Irina Ponarovskaya decided to take her son to Norway. There he graduated from school, and then received the specialty of jewelry designer.

Anthony Rodd married Moscow artist Anna Chaynikova, and in 2014 their son Eric was born, and in 2018 their daughter Charlotte was born.

Anthony Rodd's family lived in Estonia, and then moved to Moscow. Irina Ponarovskaya noted in an interview that due to political events, her son's services as a designer of exclusive jewelry were not so in demand, and recently he has focused on raising children.

In the bathroom, heart could not stand it
The publication 'MK' cites the words of Anthony's wife Anna Chaynikova, according to which her husband loved a contrast shower with a sharp transition from cold to hot water.

'At about five o'clock in the morning, I woke up. I saw that my husband was not there, and I heard that the water was pouring in the bathroom. I ran in, and Anthony was lying in an empty bathtub, hot water was flowing from the tap, he was not moving, 'the publication quotes the words of the woman.

Under similar circumstances, in August 1987, People's Artist of the USSR Anatoly Papanov died. The actor, who arrived from the shooting, who was at home alone, could not stand the heart in his soul.

Anthony Rodd, as already mentioned, did not seek publicity, unlike his relatives. But his tragic death, alas, could not but attract attention.
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Possibility of Being said:
Just a quick note:

Vladimir Putin was elected President of the Russian Federation on March 26, 2000. He took office on May 7, 2000. In one week, it will be 25 years of VVP leading the country.
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It will be 25 years since Vladimir Putin first became President of the the Russian Federation. However from 8 May 2008 – 7 May 2012 Vladimir Putin was the Prime Minister, while Dmitry Medvedev was the President.
Vladimir Putin was also the Prime Minister for a short period, 9 August 1999 – 7 May 2000, during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin.
 
thorbiorn said:
It will be 25 years since Vladimir Putin first became President of the the Russian Federation. However from 8 May 2008 – 7 May 2012 Vladimir Putin was the Prime Minister, while Dmitry Medvedev was the President.
Vladimir Putin was also the Prime Minister for a short period, 9 August 1999 – 7 May 2000, during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin.
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True, but in fact, he became the leader in May 2000 and it's been a continuous lead since. The formal change of positions didn't make Medvedev the ruler, I think.

But let's not split hairs over such details. One way or another, Lukashenko still surpasses Putin in this category! :lol:
 
Possibility of Being said:
But let's not split hairs over such details. One way or another, Lukashenko still surpasses Putin in this category! :lol:
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When I got around to reading that message, I was happy nobody was around, because I would have to explain why I laughed out long and loud. Alexander Lukashenko is really quite a character, at least that is my impression from having watched several of his talks and interviews. Although not quite as old as grandfather frost/ Ded Moroz :lol: he has been the leader of Belarus since 1994.

Regarding Vladimir Putin, on May 4th, a new video will be shown on 1tv.ru. Here is a trailer:
'Russia. Kremlin. Putin. 25 years' - premiere on May 4 on 'Russia 1'
"Россия. Кремль. Путин. 25 лет" - премьера 4 мая на "России 1"
 
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