Ryanair will not fly to Ukraine’s airports after any peace deal unless they offer the airline “big discounts” to land, chief executive Michael O’Leary has warned.
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Ryanair demands ‘big discounts’ from Ukraine to resume flights
Chief Michael O’Leary says airline could restart services within four to six weeks of any peace dealPeter Campbell (Financial Times)
Meanwhile in Russia: this morning, state TV host Evgeny Popov lied that Alex Pretti was shot by ICE because he "whipped out a loaded pistol." Despite extensive evidence to the contrary, Moscow's mouthpieces are trying to defend the Trump administration.
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State TV host Evgeny Popov lies about Alex Pretti
Russian state TV show “60 Minutes,” featuring host Evgeny Popov.My book: https://www.amazon.com/Their-Own-Words-Propagandists-Intentions/dp/3838219090My colu...YouTube
Russia is withdrawing forces from an airport in northeastern Syria, moving to end its military presence in a corner of the country where the Damascus government is trying to seize control from Kurdish forces, five Syrian sources said.
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Finland's Border Guard hopes to prevent damage to critical undersea infrastructure in the Gulf of Finland with a maritime surveillance centre it plans to set up in cooperation with other Baltic Sea states and the EU Commission, it said on Monday.
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Russian drones and missile strikes on Monday hit Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, knocking out power to 80% of the city and surrounding region and striking apartment buildings, a school and a kindergarten, local officials said.
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DHS has ordered immigration officers to gather identifying information about anyone filming them and to “send that information to Intel, who will do a ‘work-up’ on them.”
The directive is part of a sweeping, nationwide effort by U.S. immigration to identify anyone ( Ed : any future threats ) trying to film their conduct.
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ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them
“We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”Ken Klippenstein
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NATO Defense Spending Tracker - Atlantic Council
The Transatlantic Security Initiative's NATO defense spending tracker delves into data to analyze current defense spending trends.mcurrie (Atlantic Council)
@warinfuture
“The divide between Zhang and Xi no longer centered on debate or planning and instead shifted to execution and direct noncompliance. This problem was clearly visible across the PLA, and it posed a serious threat to Xi’s authority.”
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Zhang Youxia’s Differences with Xi Jinping Led to His Purge - Jamestown
Executive Summary: At 3:00 p.m. Beijing time on Saturday, January 24, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced that Central Military Commission (CMC) Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia (张又侠) and Chief of Staff of the CMC Joint Staff Department Liu Zh…Jonah Reisboard (Jamestown)
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#ukrainewar
#russiaiscollapsing
#RUSSIAN AIRLINES COMPLETELY DOWN: SHOCK PANIC AT AIRPORTS Vlog 1301: War in #Ukraine
RUSSIAN AIRLINES COMPLETELY DOWN: SHOCK PANIC AT AIRPORTS Vlog 1301: War in Ukraine
Massive failure hits Russian airlines. The booking system is completely down. Passengers cannot buy, change, or refund tickets, nor add any extra services. A...YouTube
@democracydocket.com
WARNING: Trump’s Fascist Takeover Has Accelerated |
/w Ruth Ben-Ghiat & @marcelias.bsky.social
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#trump
#democracy
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WARNING: Trump’s Fascist Takeover Has Accelerated | Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Donald Trump’s second term is accelerating an authoritarian playbook at a speed the U.S. has never seen. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins Marc Elias to explain...YouTube
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The #Kremlin Finally Found a National Idea: Forever War 🪖 ⚔️ 🇷🇺
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The Kremlin Finally Found a National Idea: Forever War
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Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams found a way to turn his childhood trauma into… a crypto coin
What a WSJ Reporter Observed on the Ground After the Minneapolis Shooting.
@jpl.NASA.gov
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: New Details Revealed About Dark Matter’s Influence on Universe jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-reveals…
NASA Reveals New Details About Dark Matter’s Influence on Universe
With the Webb telescope’s unprecedented sensitivity, scientists are learning more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and even planets like Earth.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
As we head towards the WDR for SLS, there are still launches to look forward to.
By Justin Davenport.
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Launch Roundup: GPS, Starlink, Electron launches scheduled for last week of January
The last week of January has a busy slate of orbital launches, with flights from…Justin Davenport (NASASpaceFlight.com)
RECORD HEAT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
After a 46C day,a record hot night from South Africa all the way to Tanzania
RECORD HOTTEST JANUARY NIGHTS Minimums:
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23.8 Uitenhage
23.6 max. 33.7 Coffee Bay both records
23.2 Grahamstown
22.7 Somerset
TANZANIA
Min 22.0 Dodoma
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GOP Implodes OVER FEAR of Trump IMPEACHMENT!!
Video by MeidasTouch
🚨Bizarre! - EB
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🚨GOP Implodes OVER FEAR of Trump IMPEACHMENT!!
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🔥 @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “This will go down in history as a turning point for this. Greg Bovino wouldn’t be leaving tomorrow if an innocent person wasn’t killed.”
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#Minnesota together strong 💪🏽 #Minneapolis #ICE first of many victories to come for democracy & decency
27 January 1914 | Austrian Jewish woman, Greta Gross, was born in Wien. She emigrated to France.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 29 July 1942. She did not survive.
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Video history | Auschwitz-Birkenau
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26 January 1906 | Czech Jewish woman, Helena Vašová, was born in Přelouč.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 October 1944. She did not survive.
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"On Auschwitz" (4): Transformation of Auschwitz concentration camp into an extermination center
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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces on Monday launched a drone and missile attack on Kharkiv, #Ukraine's second-largest city, hitting apartment buildings, a school and a kindergarten and injuring at least two people, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
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Kristi Noem’s Reckless Lies
After the killing of Alex Pretti, the Trump administration is taking the American people for fools.The Editors (The Free Press)
#Bovino being run out of town is the biggest L for #Nazis since the Battle of Berlin
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#Trump LOSES IT and BACKS DOWN in #MINNESOTA
by @MeidasTouch
Ben reports on Donald Trump, appearing to back down in Minnesota, looking for an exit strategy to remove Border Patrol & ICE the pressure from the public and peaceful protesters has overwhelmed his regime.
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Trump LOSES IT and BACKS DOWN in MINNESOTA
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump, appearing to back down in Minnesota and looking for an exit strategy to remove his Border Patrol and I...YouTube
Рост просрочки россиян по ипотеке установил рекорд с 2000-х годов
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Intel has been signaling for a while now that it was selling essentially all of the chips it could get its hands on.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A new Russian law requires Ukrainian children in Russian-occupied parts of #Ukraine to obtain Russian international passports to travel abroad; experts say the move complicates efforts to flee the occupation.
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Russia tightens passport rules for children in occupied Ukraine, complicating escape, activists say
A new Russian law requires Ukrainian children in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine to obtain Russian international passports to travel abroad; experts say the move complicates efforts to flee the occupation. A law that took effect Jan.Yuliia Taradiuk (The Kyiv Independent)
🇷🇺 In the weeks after launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Putin claimed that the West was trying to “cancel” Russia.
Nearly four years later, a small but growing number of Western musicians including Tyga, Gucci Mane and Jason Derulo are returning to the stage in #Russia despite continued sanctions and widespread cultural boycotts.
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Despite Sanctions and Boycotts, Some Western Musicians Return to the Stage in Russia
In the weeks after launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, President Vladimir Putin claimed that the West was trying to “cancel” Russia.Ned Garvey (The Moscow Times)
🇷🇺📉 #Russia has cut the number of RSD59-class river-sea cargo ships to be built under its subsidized civilian ship leasing program, the Vedomosti business daily reported, citing a government order.
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Russia Halves Civilian Cargo Ship Orders Amid Rising Costs
Russia has cut the number of RSD59-class river-sea cargo ships to be built under its subsidized civilian ship leasing program, the Vedomosti business daily reported, citing a government order.The Moscow Times
26 January 1915 | A Polish woman, Maria Sajkówna, was born in Cracow.
In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943.
No. 29935
She perished in the camp on 1 March 1943.
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🎧 Podcast: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
"On Auschwitz" (44): Women at Auschwitz
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Russia is once more targeting Kharkiv’s energy infrastructure with missiles, leaving most of the city without power. Where electricity remains, voltage spikes up to 300 volts.
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A genocide against Ukrainians is unfolding right now.
It already has a name: "Kholodomor" (exhaustion through cold)
This crime is being deliberately committed by Russia.
In legal terms, it has a clear definition - genocide
🇷🇺 🇪🇺 Moscow's propaganda machine has been hard at work depicting #Europe as a "digital gulag," hellbent on suppressing free speech online.
The latest campaign has targeted efforts by the U.K. and the EU to regulate X (formerly Twitter), even as the platform remains blocked in #Russia, alongside Facebook, Instagram, and others.
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Fact-check: Russia's 'most successful disinformation campaign' targets free speech in Europe
Moscow's propaganda machine has been hard at work depicting Europe as a "digital gulag," hellbent on suppressing free speech online. The latest campaign has targeted efforts by the U.K.Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
‘I didn’t know how to shoot’: how African men have been tricked into fighting for russia
✍️ Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi
Lured by false job adverts, they are unknowingly enlisted on arrival and put in mortal danger
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‘I didn’t know how to shoot’: how African men have been tricked into fighting for Russia
Exclusive: Lured by false job adverts, they are unknowingly enlisted on arrival and put in mortal dangerCarlos Mureithi (The Guardian)
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Rare "penguins" were spotted in the fields of Donetsk region.
Fighters from the 2nd Battalion of the 101st Operational Brigade of the General Staff showed footage of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, filmed by a drone.
@wartranslated
Nothing unusual. This is how the Russian army punishes those who refuse to go on a meat-grinder assault.
EU Council votes to phase out Russian gas by 1st January 2027
Today, the heads of the 27 EU Member states voted to adopt a regulation to phase out imports of Russian gas into the EU by 2027, by overwhelming majority.A full ban on Russian LNG will be in effect starting 2027, with Russian pipeline gas following suit third quarter 2027.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 U.S. officials leading the talks are convinced that Russian negotiators have taken a more pragmatic tone behind closed doors than Moscow's public hardline rhetoric suggests, The Kyiv Independent reports.
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Exclusive: Russian negotiators soften hardline stance in private, US officials say. Ukrainians urge caution
U.S. officials leading the talks are convinced that Russian negotiators have taken a more pragmatic tone behind closed doors than Moscow's public hardline rhetoric suggests, according to two people familiar with the matter.Tim Zadorozhnyy (The Kyiv Independent)
🇬🇧🇷🇺 Glasgow-based shipping company Seapeak led Russian liquified natural gas exports from the Arctic Yamal LNG project last year, hauling shipments worth 2.3 billion pounds ($3.2 billion), NGO Urgewald said on Jan. 26.
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UK shipping company helped Russia raise $3.2 billion in LNG trade revenue in 2025, campaigners say
Seapeak's share of Yamal LNG's trade in 2025 amounted to 37.3%, more than any other company, according to Urgewald's analysis based on Kpler data.Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
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🇷🇺 St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in #Moscow, the only of its kind in the Russian capital, has suspended religious services following an earlier dispute over who owns and runs the church.
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Венгерская MOL предложила до 1 млрд евро за сербскую NIS -- Вучич
БЕЛГРАД, 26 янв (Рейтер) - Венгерская нефтегазовая компания MOL договорилась о покупке контрольного пакета акций в сербской нефтяной фирме NIS за сумму до 1 миллиарда евро ($1,19 миллиарда) у ее российских владельцев, сказал в понедельник президент …Reuters (Русская служба The Moscow Times)
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Россия обманом заманила на войну тысячи иностранцев из более чем 100 стран
Российские власти используют фиктивные кадровые агентства и теневые миграционные сети, чтобы заманивать иностранцев на войну против Украины, пишет The Telegraph.Русская служба The Moscow Times
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«Большая серая зона». Четверть миллиона вернувшихся с фронта не смогли найти работу
Один из ближайших соратников первого замглавы администрации президента РФ Сергея Кириенко, начальник управления по общественным проектам Сергей Новиков, стал участником скандальной истории с редактированием новостей на сайте госагентства «РИА Новости…Русская служба The Moscow Times
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Russian troops have left positions on Oleksiivskyi Island in #Ukraine’s southern Kherson region after what Ukraine’s military said were active operations by Ukrainian forces, while Russia has begun regrouping and shifting units toward the Orikhiv sector.
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Ukraine Regains Control of Oleksiivskyi Island Positions as Russian Units Pull Back
Ukraine's military reports the withdrawal of Russian forces from Oleksiivskyi Island, highlighting changes in their deployment toward the Orikhiv sector.Roman Kohanets (UNITED24 Media)
26 January 1898 | Polish Jew, Salomon Katz, was born in Bukowsko.
In #Auschwitz from 12 December 1941
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He perished in the camp on 17 December 1941.
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«У России нет модели, чтобы благосостояние людей росло». В каком состоянии экономика Путина подошла к пятому году войны
Накопленные за четыре года военных действий структурные перекосы в российской экономике ставят под сомнение способность выполнить поставленную президентом Владимиром Путиным задачу возобновления роста в этом году, при том что драйверы исчерпаны, а ре…Русская служба The Moscow Times
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US STOCKS-Фьючерсы на S&P 500, Nasdaq в минусе в ожидании отчетов и ФРС
26 янв (Рейтер) - Фьючерсы на американские фондовые индексы S&P 500 и Nasdaq немного опускаются в понедельник, в то время как инвесторы ждут публикации ряда ключевых отчетов компаний, а также решения Федрезерва в среду.Reuters (Русская служба The Moscow Times)
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Рискнет ли Путин жить дальше без войны?
Путин сейчас находится в состоянии натянутой струны. Он тщательно взвешивает риски для себя: риск продолжения войны и риск ее прекращения.ЭХО
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia has not carried out a single confirmed launch of an Iranian-made ballistic missile against #Ukraine during the full-scale war, Ukraine's military intelligence told the Kyiv Independent on Jan. 26.
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Exclusive: Iran gave Russia over 350 Fath-360 missiles. Ukraine has yet to see one launched
The reasons could be "possible limitations of a technical or political character," Ukraine's military intelligence told the Kyiv Independent.Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
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🇷🇺🛢📉 Russian February Urals crude oil cargoes traded at close to the widest discounts against dated Brent in Indian ports since 2022 amid intensified pressure from Western sanctions, Reuters reports.
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Скидки на нефть Urals достигли в Индии рекорда с 22г на фоне санкций--источники
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kravietz 🦇
in reply to kravietz 🦇 • • •FYI as of January 2026:
EU-wide imports are ~12% of pre-2022 volumes, with phase-out regulations taking effect from March 2026.