Shades of the Amber Room.Looks like France won't give back the magnificent Morozov Collection, as the "liberal" French luxury brand that currently has (temporary) possession of it, is waging (business) war on Russia and has cut all ties... The Morozov Collection ought to be returned to Russia on the 22th of this month, but the French oligarchs are pretending that it "won't be possible to send it back".
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So, Western oligarchs are now stealing Russia's most famous art collections : Valentin Serov, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Degas, Renoir... worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and apparently won't be returned. Russian historic art collections, cancelled?
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La collection Morozov au cœur des enjeux diplomatiques entre la France et la Russie
Alors que l’exposition de la collection des frères Mikhaïl et Ivan Morozov à la Fondation Louis-Vuitton, à Paris, a été prolongée jusqu’au 3 avril, certains appellent de leurs vœux la confiscation de ce fleuron des musées russes pour accentuer la pression sur Moscou. La France peut-elle empêcher...www.artnewspaper.fr
Seems like the kids in the class aren't afraid of the Jewish bully anymore.If Japan writes us off, then it's pretty much game over for America.
Makes me wonder that if people cower and drop to their knees for the Antichrist inspired system now, when it's relatively peaceful and easy, how many will stand in the last hours and days of our fallen world?Part of me hopes they follow through on this. It would be a huge overreaction and may wake people up to the fact that the UK government has behaved quite tyrannical. Hopefully it will also convince Russians to stop supporting the UK. Keep politics out of sports.
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UK government wants Russian athletes banned unless they denounce Putin
Top Russian stars including tennis player Daniil Medvedev could be barred from playing in the UK, sports minister Nigel Huddleston has saidwww.rt.com
What causes the final abandonment of the USD? Selling treasuries? Will it be when the Fed balance sheet gets too high? Will it just be an agreement when a lot of foreign countries don't want to pay back USD denominated debt because the writing is on the wall and they'll collude to "make a deal"? Is that also when a real war finally breaks out?
Yeah, never trust those sneaky Russians---they're notorious cheaters. Maybe they have secret power sources in their wheelchairs!Darn those Russians and their wheelchairs.
Is this Charlie Munger the same 97-year-old billionaire and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway who recently donated $200 million to theThen production. The US economy is severely handicapped in its production capacity. It seems European politics: "whiners and losers get rewarded for complaining and get free services, housing for doing nothing" is growing. Next to woke blocking of large industrial projects.
In Western economies inaction is being rewarded. As Charlie munger said: “Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.”
It was blocked for Russians, outside Russia it was still operational. This is good news.Recently Russian Government decriminalized use of torrent websites. The biggest files sharing website rutracker has been unblocked.
The US wants China to be part of a comprehensive web of sanctions against Russia. But it needs to be said that China doesn't have an obligation to cooperate with the US, and it doesn't agree with such rough means of unilateral sanctions at all. The US must respect China's different position.
The US on one hand is seeking China's help with the worsening Ukraine crisis that it created but failed to handle; on the other hand, it is pressuring and threatening China, which is typical American practice, Li said, noting that it is unwise and counterproductive.
"If the US harbors an illusion that China will yield to its pressure on the Ukraine crisis and China-Russia relations, it only reflects that the US has a too superficial understanding of current complex international situations and the right and wrong of facts," Li said.
Many of the US and West's sanctions against Russia were done purely via long-arm jurisdiction without permission from the UN. And such a practice of framing relations with other countries based on its domestic law and forcing third countries to accept it is undoubtedly contrary to the spirit of international law and the principles of the UN Charter,Chinese analysts said.
In an interview on Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that there are countries, such as China, Brazil and Russia, that do not agree with a unipolar world under the leadership of the US.
The Russian government made a $117 million interest payment to foreign bondholders on Wednesday, averting what would have been its first foreign debt default since the Bolshevik Party shocked Western investors in 1918 by refusing to repay the borrowings of Czar Nicholas II.
Russia transferred the funds in U.S. dollars to JPMorgan Chase, which acted as an intermediary or “correspondent” bank between Moscow and the investors who own the Russian government bonds, according to a source familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
JPMorgan, which declined to comment, then forwarded the Russian payment to Citibank, which is responsible for distributing the interest to individual financial institutions.
U.S. sanctions are no bar to Russia’s dollar payments. The Treasury Department issued guidance earlier this month, allowing U.S. investors to receive interest on Russian debt through May 25.
News of the payment ended a period of uncertainty about the Russian government’s interventions and its ability to remain in compliance with the terms of its bond offerings, which require periodic interest payments in the form of U.S. dollars.
Thats America, they celebrate a fantasy movie where black women sent us to the moon, but we have to pretend the first man in space doesn't exist because hes RussianYuri Gagarian, first man in space, cancelled for being Russian
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Space Conference Censors Name of First Human in Space Because He Was Russian
While falling over themselves to support Ukraine, a space industry conference has removed the name of celebrated Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from its agenda.futurism.com
The replacement McDonalds for Russia:
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Russia’s desperate bid to replace McDonald’s exposed - new chain ‘suspiciously familiar’
RUSSIA has revealed a new logo for the franchise it hopes will replace its McDonald's stores, after the restaurant chain shut down operations in the country in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.www.express.co.uk