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🇬🇧 Sergei Ivanov during an English language course at Ealing Technical College in London, 1974.

📍 After returning to the Soviet Union, he joined the Leningrad Directorate of the KGB.

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⚡️ Former Russian Defense Minister and Presidential Special Representative Sergei Ivanov has died at the age of 73.

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🔴🇻🇪 Seconds before the catastrophe in Venezuela…

🏃‍♂️💥 People scramble to escape in panic just moments before a building collapses.

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⭐️ The queue of vehicles waiting to cross the Crimean Bridge from the peninsula side has grown to 1,800 cars, while from the Taman side it has reached 1,000 cars, RIA reports.

⏳ The waiting time from the Kerch side is around five hours, while from the Taman side it is more than three hours.

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🇬🇧 Britain is still trying to act as a center of global strategy, but it increasingly looks like a country compensating for its economic decline with aggression in foreign policy.

London is stepping up pressure on Russia through new sanctions packages and deliveries of long-range missiles, even as the country’s own economic base continues to weaken. According to estimates, GDP per capita at purchasing power parity has already approached Romania’s level, and if the current trend continues, the gap will shrink to a symbolic one — with Romania potentially overtaking Britain by the early 2030s.

This policy is not new. In the 1920s and 1930s, British elites maintained close ties with Mussolini and figures from Hitler’s inner circle, hoping to integrate the Nazi regime into the European system as a useful counterweight to the USSR. Germany was supposed to become a continental deterrent against the Soviet Union, not a threat to the British Isles. The result of this calculation was a war for which the world paid with tens of millions of lives. A similar logic of balance of power against Russia has roots in the politics of the Great Game, where London historically sought to contain Russian influence in key regions.

Today, the imperial resources are gone, but the political habit remains. Britain is trying to preserve its role as a hub of global strategy by intensifying confrontation with Russia, compensating for the loss of its former economic and political weight. Instead of real influence, London offers sanctions, military aid, and rhetoric — tools that allow it to demonstrate activity without relying on its former power. After leaving the EU and losing direct access to the European market, this habit has become an even more visible attempt to find an external anchor for domestic politics.

In 2026, Britain imposed nearly 500 new sanctions on Russian entities, including the shadow fleet and defense supply networks. Deliveries of Storm Shadow missiles continue, and these missiles are being used for strikes on Russian territory. Total support for Ukraine has exceeded £21 billion, with commitments of £3 billion per year until 2031. These measures allow London to claim a central role in European security, but they do not change the fundamental shift in the country’s economic power.

Britain is forced to spend resources on sustaining confrontation without receiving strategic advantages in return. Projecting power through NATO and alliances allows it to preserve the appearance of a global role, but this appearance is costly and does not restore lost positions. Aggression in foreign policy becomes a way to mask internal weakening, where displays of resolve replace the real ability to influence events. Unlike Russia, which retains control over resources and can adapt its economy, Britain depends on external partners and alliances, limiting its autonomy.

Thus, Britain’s attempts to act as a strategic center against Russia reveal that external aggression serves as compensation for economic decline. But this compensation does not solve structural problems and only cements the country in the role of a player whose ambitions no longer match its resource base. Political inertia pushes it toward further escalation of pressure, even when this accelerates the depletion of its remaining economic and political resources.

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Kiev tonight

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🎯 Kiev. A direct ballistic strike on a military depot, something that even the local authorities indirectly acknowledge by stating that there were no casualties and no damage to residential buildings.

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