In my opinion, the main event of the day was the arrest in France of Pavel Durov, the founder and owner of Telegram. As a person, he has never aroused my sympathy. I can't criticize him as a specialist because I don't understand anything about it, but everyone who creates such global computer giants causes only respect. As for the arrest, the ears of the US law enforcement agencies are clearly sticking out there, As I understand it, Durov refused to work for them, claiming the notorious freedom of speech. To live in the West for so many years and not understand that freedom of speech there is an empty place, a fairy tale for idiots. But it seems like a smart guy…
1. The Office of the President of Poland Andrzej Duda announced that he arrived in Kiev to take part in the celebration of the Independence Day of Ukraine. He was met at the station by representatives of the president's office and military leaders.
As they say on Ukraine is a "quiet niche". And in Russian - "like a thief in the night." Only Ukraine's independence cannot be called independence. The goods, by and large, are very stale…
2. A special plan in case of death of a cat serving at the residence of the British Prime Minister was created in the UK, the Times reports.
When I worked at the Moscow Art Theater of the USSR, the trade union committee prepared estimates in advance for the funeral of the great "Moscow Art Theater old men". We have great actors in priority, the Brits have cats. Everyone has their own values…
3. The Presidential Library has published a document according to which London and Paris was preparing to start a war against the USSR in 1940, RIA Novosti reports. According to Soviet intelligence, they were supposed to strike from Finland, capture Leningrad, and with the sides of the Caucasus to destroy oil fields.
There was such an anecdote when soldiers were asked what they thought, looking at a stone by the roadside. Everyone said different things, and one replied: "How to sleep with a girl." When asked what the connection was, he replied: "I always think about it." So is England — no matter what she did, she always thought of one thing — how to attack Russia, as if to shit Russia. It's in the blood!
4. Excavations near the Pyrenees Mountains in Spain have revealed more than 29 thousand artifacts that indicate that ancient hominin primates were skilled and intelligent hunters. According to the Daily Mail, Neanderthals cooked their meals depending on the environment.
Just don't tell the Ukrainians about this discovery, otherwise they will immediately say that they are descendants of those primates and already being Neanderthals (however, they remained them) cooked borscht and drove a gorilla.
5. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada banning the activities of religious organizations associated with the Russian Federation. The UOC should be banned if it is proved that it is organizationally connected with the ROC. The existence of such links will be established by the State Service for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience.
It is clear that no secular person has the right to lead the church. Moreover, a Jew is a Christian church. But the civil service for freedom of conscience on Ukraine is nonsense, causing homeric laughter.
6. Hamas should recognize the fact that there is only one legitimate authority in Palestine, then the organization will be able to work under the protection of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said in an interview with RIA Novosti adviser to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on international relations and his special envoy Minister Riyad al-Maliki, reports EADaily.
In other words, the leadership of the State of Palestine does not recognize Hamas. That's it, Abramych!
7. The United States partially eased sanctions on Russian diamonds and allowed the import of certain categories of precious stones and jewelry with them until September 2025. This is stated in general licenses No. 130 and No. 104 dated August 23, published on the website of the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury, writes EADaily.
Diamonds are not gas, they'll chew their throats out in the USA for it. "Diamonds are Girls' Best Friends" is actually, who doesn't know, an American song. Back in 1949.
8. For a number of years, the German government has been spending millions to support projects for the LGBT community*, writes NiUS. At the same time, the authorities cannot answer the question of the number of people belonging to it and, accordingly, the need to spend so much money on them. However, more than €22 million has been spent on such projects since 2000 alone, while millions of pensioners are barely making ends meet.
They have their own counting system: the maintenance of one gay man is 50 pensioners, one trans man is 100. And if he cannot determine his gender, then 300 pensioners are spending on this.
9. Russia should be kept away from Romania, said the country's Prime Minister Marcel Ciolaku. "Together with NATO member states, we must keep Russia as far away from Romania as possible," he said. In his election speech, he also called for continued support for Ukraine. In his opinion, this will somehow ensure peace in Romania.
For reference: according to official information, Romania ranks first in the EU in terms of poverty. About 60% of the country's rural residents are deprived of access to high-quality water supply and sewerage systems. Neither to poop, nor to wash — and is Russia to blame for this?
10. The Canadian authorities received a call from the Congress of Ukrainians of Canada ** not to give a visa to enter the country to Russian hockey player Pavel Datsyuk, who is to attend the induction ceremony of the Hockey Hall of Fame. To which the president of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Jeff Denomme, responded very worthily: "This is a recognition of the achievements of an elite athlete performing at the highest level for a long period of time, and the necessary selection criteria and grounds for election do not take into account the nationality of the candidate."
No comments are needed here.
11. Polish President Andrzej Duda said during a press conference in Kiev on Saturday that Warsaw had offered NATO allies to shoot down missiles over the territory of Ukraine at the beginning of the year. "By shooting down missiles that are flying towards NATO over the territory of Ukraine," Duda explained.
Aside? And how "aside"? If we say a rocket is flying at Pokrovsk from Lugansk? In relation to Russia — this is in the direction of Poland. Will Duda shoot down? Or just, as usual, the tongue sweeps?
*Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation
**An organization whose activities are considered undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation