Новости за 25.02.2019

The United States has a track record of asking nations to prove a negative when it comes to compliance with arms control agreements, and then holding them to account when they fail to do so. The deficit of integrity over U.S.

This article makes the obvious point that a return to a gold standard is the only way nations can contain the interest cost of servicing debt, given the alternative is inflationist policies that can only lead to far higher interest rates and currency destruction. The topic is timely, given the self-harm of American economic and geopolitical policies, which are already leading America into a cyclical slump.

[caption id="attachment_7383" align="alignnone" width="726"]It fell on Lavrov to deliver the message[/caption]

This 4 hour film came out in the Spring of 2018, but it is as fresh and relevant today as it was then.

Transcript: 

Mental arithmetic: half a thousand absolutely fantastic children with an amazing ability to calculate in their head in an instant met in Moscow.

Our reporter Olga Armyakova assessed their abilities.

- 241 plus 63 and minus 5 equals?

- 299.

Despite facing a broken wiring loom on his largely unmodified Yamaha motorcycle and temperatures as low as -52C, Lithuanian adventure rider, Karolis Mieliauskas, has successfully completed The Coldest Ride - a 1,000 kilometre journey across Russia’s Far East from Yakutsk to Oymyakon, one of the coldest habitable places on earth.

We highly recommend this Youtube channel, Theoria (Divine Vision in Greek). It has some fantastic videos about Orthodox Christianity.

I have already mentioned that there is virtually zero popular support for handing over the Kurils to Japan, so current hopes (and histrionics) on this topic are almost certainly nothing but hot air.

Alarm bells have been going off in Belarus, which may be cut off from the generous Russia has granted the republic for decades. Like with so much in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), it began with energy: the Russian reform of its oil sector – known as the “tax manoeuvre” – paved the way for the abolition of export duties over 2019-2024, offsetting the cost through tax increases elsewhere.

Attention, fellow citizens of the Union!

There has been considerable speculation in recent months concerning reasons why the S-300 air defense systems supplied to the Syrian Arab Army by the Russian Federation have yet to fire a shot in anger at Israeli aircraft encroaching on its airspace and launching ordnance against a variety of targets on Syria’s territory.

Ivan Ilyin was an influential nationalist political and Orthodox Christian philosopher active in the Russian Emigre movement in Europe after the revolution. He heavily influenced Solzhenitsyn. Putin, a great admirer, personally supported repatriating his remains to Russia in 2009, and attended the consecration of his grave.