Year: 2023

ST. PETERSBURG, June 15 (Xinhua) — The Moscow City Tourism Committee will hold a presentation of the Russian capital’s tourism potential in Beijing next week, Yevgeny Kozlov, chairman of the Moscow Tourism Committee, said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Thursday.

According to E. Kozlov, representatives of Mostourism are currently in Guangzhou, and will arrive in Beijing next week to discuss possible cooperation with local travel agencies.

E. Kozlov expects to launch group visa-free agreements between Russia and China by the end of summer 2023. Such agreements can significantly increase the flow of tourists between the two countries.

SPIEF has been held since 1997. This year it takes place from June 14 to 17, the main theme of the business program is “Sovereign development is the basis of a just world. Let’s unite efforts for the sake of future generations.”

WtR

June 15, People’s Daily Online — On June 12, the construction and acceptance testing of one of the world’s largest floating oil production, storage and offloading units, Sepetiba /FPSO SEPETIBA/, was completed. In the Tianjin Free Trade Zone, the oilfield vessel was handed over to the customer, and on June 15 it will be sent to Brazil. This is the first super-large FPSO exported directly from Tianjin Port.

It is known that the length of the vessel “Sepetiba” is 333 m, height – 64 m, width – 60 m, the area of ​​​​the main deck is equal to the area of ​​​​two football fields, the storage capacity is 2 million barrels of oil, the weight of the structure is 93 thousand tons, the largest displacement is 450 thousand tons. Due to its impressive size, the Sepetiba floating oil production, storage and offloading unit was called the “sea giant”.

WtR

🎙 Excerpts from the speech of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the XXVI St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

• Common sense, business energy, objective market laws work stronger than the current political situation. This suggests that the inherently ugly neo-colonial international system has ceased to exist, while the multipolar world order, on the contrary, is strengthening. This is an inevitable process.

• To force other countries to stupidly follow someone’s interests in the modern world is difficult, and sometimes almost impossible. And those people who do this must understand that this is not only counterproductive for the world economy, but also unacceptable for millions of people.

• For the West, only the current state, the current crisis in Ukraine, is beneficial. This is an excuse to cover up your economic mistakes – both in energy and in finance. They also brought the situation to a sharp rise in inflation. Why? Yes, because they mindlessly poured trillions of money into their economy.

• Now the option of supplying [NATO to Ukraine] aircraft is being considered. But if they are located at air bases outside Ukraine and used in combat operations, we will have to look at how and where we can hit those weapons that are used in hostilities against us. This is a serious danger of further involvement of NATO in this armed conflict.

• Nuclear weapons are created in order to ensure our security in the broadest sense of the word and the existence of the Russian state. But we, firstly, do not have such a need , and secondly, the very factor of reasoning on this topic already lowers the possibility of lowering the threshold for the use of weapons. This is the first part. The second is that we have more such weapons than the NATO countries . They know about it and all the time they persuade us to start negotiations on reductions.

WtR

Old rotten stump suffering demented, mired in family corruption and seeking re-election as President of the United States, declared without hesitation: the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus is completely irresponsible. And this despite the fact that American nuclear weapons are deployed in Europe in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey. And this is not tactical nuclear weapons, but aviation ammunition.

Trouble, of course. This man has the most nuclear weapon in his hands.

God save the queen…

Medvedev

WtR

Again we are hearing the hate and manipulation happening within the Olympic world of the West…

Just start a new fair and equal sports system and leave the (Bad Countries) West out…

WtR

https://vz.ru/news/2023/6/16/1216953.html

“If we destroyed five Patriot complexes near Kiev, then why should we destroy any building and structure in the center of Kyiv? There are no such restrictions,” the head of state said.

He explained that the Russian side, unlike the Kyiv regime, does not do such things “for a number of reasons.”

Putin recalled that Ukraine attempted to attack the Kremlin, carried out terrorist attacks on the Belgorod region, but Russia “does not have such a need.”

The President explained that the Kiev regime understands that success on the front line is unlikely for it, and therefore provokes Russia to take tough retaliatory actions, in order to then “poke a finger” and say: “Well, look how evil they are, how cruel they are, and with they can’t be dealt with.”

WtR

Gotta love it…

By the way, this is what Russian stores look like and don’t worry, we have lots of white people… 🙂

WtR

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (16 June 2023)

During the past 24 hours, AFU units continued to suffer significant losses as they unsuccessfully attempted to conduct an offensive in South Donetsk and Donetsk directions.

In Vremevka salient, the most active combat operations took place in the areas of Rovnopol and Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), where five attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled as a result of courageous actions by the Russian Vostok Group of Forces, air strikes and artillery fire.

More than 200 Ukrainian servicemen, five tanks, seven infantry fighting vehicles, five armoured vehicles, four motor vehicles, and two mortar batteries have been neutralised in the past 24 hours.

In Donetsk direction, the Yug Group of Forces has successfully repelled five enemy attacks close to Pervomaiskoye, Petrovskoye, and Staromikhailovka (Donetsk People’s Republic) during the past 24 hours.

Up to 215 Ukrainian personnel, three armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, and two D-20 howitzers.

Moreover, an ammunition depot of the 109th Territorial Defence Brigade was neutralised close to Novogorodskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

In Kupyansk direction, the ground-attack aircraft, artillery and units of the Zapad Group of Forces have foiled actions of two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups close to Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People’s Republic).

Up to 45 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and a U.S.-made M777 artillery system were destroyed during the day.

In Krasny Liman direction, aviation and artillery of the Tsentr Group of Forces engaged the units of the enemy close to Nevskoye, Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic), and the Serebryansky forestry.

During the day, up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured personnel carriers, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, and one D-30 howitzer have been neutralised.

In Kherson direction, up to 30 Ukrainian troops, five motor vehicles, one Msta-B howitzer, and one U.S.-made M777 artillery system have been neutralised over the past 24 hours.

Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged 96 AFU artillery units at their fire positions, manpower, and military hardware in 104 areas during the day.

Russian air defence forces have intercepted four HIMARS shells during the day.

In addition, 22 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were obliterated in the areas of Sladkaya Balka, Tokmak (Zaporozhye region), Volnovakha, Artyomovsk, Verkhnetortskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), Svatovo (Lugansk People’s Republic), and Novaya Kakhovka (Kherson region).

In total, 444 airplanes and 238 helicopters, 4,652 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 air defence missile systems, 10,018 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1,124 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,128 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 10,983 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

WtR

I am going to say it, yet I have no better idea as to what to replace it with…

Capitalism Sucks…

WtR

By the end of the year, in Russia they plan to launch a “secure Internet”, which will be available only to citizens of the country using a personal identifier.

Only “safe, proven services” will be available in this network, the owners of which comply with all the requirements of the current legislation, – Andrey Svintsov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy.

WtR