Incredible footage of a polar bear standing by as the Russian icebreaker [?] ship goes by
https://x.com/aleksbrz11/status/1979347076124414271
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Interesting perspective, especially the description of the "Western disease". Would be helpful to hear specific examples thru Russian history - especially from the Tsarist era
"The West cannot be trusted, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview for a documentary project...
"The West has never been trusted. History has taught us this, starting with the Tsarist era, and then during the Soviet era. Especially in the final years of the USSR, the West actively 'lured' us.
In areas on which the state's survival depends (security, technology, food), we must be self-sufficient, or seek partners who are not infected with the Western 'disease'—constantly living at the expense of others and forcing everyone to obey.
Such partners exist within the SCO and BRICS."
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Speaking of "loot" from state showpiece museums in Paris and other European capitals, Maria Zakharova points out what many in foreign countries have long bitterly complained about :
Europeans absconded with their treasures, hauling them in ways above board and NOT, over thousands of miles to adorn Western European museums.
She specifically refers to the Elgin Marbles at the end
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has called on Western nations to reflect on their own colonial past before lecturing others about “human rights” and “civilization.”
Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says that countries obsessed with judging others should “start with themselves” by explaining how artifacts from Greece, Egypt, and other nations ended up in London and Paris.
She singled out the British Museum, noting that “its entire Greek collection was taken by deceit, much of it smuggled out by British diplomats.”
https://x.com/27khv/status/1980956637360722208
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Excellent historical description of the names for Ukraine. We all know some of this, but maybe not all ?
This poster is a good one, by and large.
"Did you know “Ukraine” literally meant borderland? And before the 19th century, this region was officially called Little Russia (Malorossiya) not as an insult, but as honor.
Before the 1900s, the lands around Kiev were known as Malorossiya, “Little Russia.” That didn’t mean “lesser,” it meant the original Rus’, the spiritual and historical cradle of the Russian world.
The name came from Byzantium, rooted in an even older Greek tradition. The ancient Greeks called their original homeland “Little Greece” (Mikrà Hellás) and their colonies in southern Italy “Great Greece” (Megálē Hellás). The Byzantines inherited this naming pattern. By the 14th century, the Patriarchate of Constantinople used the same pattern for the lands of Rus’, calling the Kiev region “Mikrà Rhōssía” (Little Russia) and the northern territories “Megálē Rhōssía” (Great Russia).
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: Patriarch Philotheos I, Letter to Metropolitan Alexis of Moscow, 1354.)
Rus’ later adopted this Byzantine model around the 14th century. For example:
In 1335, Prince Yuri II Boleslav of Galicia–Volhynia titled himself “dux totius Russiæ Minoris” - Prince of all Little Rus’.
The word Malorossiya (Little Russia) was also common among the Cossack elite, especially the Hetmans, who saw themselves as defenders of the Orthodox faith and heirs of ancient Rus.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1654) wrote to Tsar Alexei calling his lands Little Russia, stressing unity with Orthodox Rus.
Cossack chronicles like the Samovydets Chronicle and Hustyn Chronicle use Little Russia when describing wars and treaties.
Hetman letters by Vyhovsky, Doroshenko, and Mazepa mention Malorossiya in diplomacy with Moscow and Poland.
Church records from the Kiev Metropolia used the Greek term Mikra Rossia, later adopted by the Cossacks themselves.
In the 19th century, Western powers began twisting this heritage. They rebranded Ukraine, literally “borderland”, into a new political identity and used it as a project to separate “Ukraine” from “Russia”, an anti-Russia project."
https://x.com/rinalu_/status/1982176096310411455
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"Russian President Visits Military Hospital to Check on Wounded
He arrived with icons (ballistic plates) given to him by the soldiers for his birthday
The icons saved the soldiers' lives, and they bear marks from shrapnel and bullets"
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1983505790934696004
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Japanese volunteer at the Russian front speaks into his cell phone answer to the question of how he converted to Orthodoxy.
Has a sweet smile
https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/1984230054604546138