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❄️ Suzdal in winter is a true fairytale, wrapped in a soft blanket of snow and shimmering with the golden domes of ancient churches and monasteries. Is it worth visiting Suzdal in winter? Absolutely. First and foremost — for pure aesthetic pleasure. You can appreciate the beauty of Suzdal in just two days, but there’s more than enough to fill a полноценный short getaway. Come with children — boredom is definitely not on the agenda. 📷 zodyakuz, everyday_funday, piskalik, eleonora_photo_tainstvo 📍 Coordinates: Yandex Maps 🏙️ Beyond Moscow 🏔️

Four hours that can make you rethink your entire life. Four men in South Africa went out for a ride on a motorboat on a reservoir, but the engine failed and they were carried straight toward the edge of a dam. By sheer luck, the boat caught on the dam just before a 40-meter drop. With nowhere to go, the unlucky quartet could only pray and wait for help. Several hours later, they were rescued — but the existential experience will stay with them for the rest of their lives. 🚤😰🙏 Original Post Join @TranslatedRussianNews

❗️Large-scale GPS jamming has been recorded in Iran’s capital, Tehran, since late yesterday. The interference is likely being conducted by the IRGC and Iran’s armed forces, according to reports. Original Post Join @TranslatedRussianNews

✔️ The son of Iran’s last shah, overthrown more than 40 years ago, Reza Pahlavi, has called on Iranians across the country to begin protests on January 8 and 9 at exactly 8:00 p.m. He also stated that his next announcement will be “based on the response of the Iranian people.” Original Post Join @TranslatedRussianNews

🕯 The CIA’s greatest Soviet “mole” died in a Terre Haute prison cell just before Christmas. Yes — this is about Aldrich Ames. The highest-paid spy in history, who received nearly $5 million from the KGB, died at 84 after simply clutching his chest while getting up from his bunk. Perpetually rumpled, clumsy, an alcoholic with coffee stains on his reports, Ames was long regarded inside the CIA as a harmless loser — which became his perfect camouflage. Langley was steeped in snobbery, and no one believed that “hungover Aldrich” was capable of playing a sophisticated game. While colleagues mocked his appearance, Ames was selling the entire U.S. agent network in the USSR — wholesale. Yes, all of them: every Soviet citizen working for the CIA. The result: 10 death sentences, imprisoned “enemies of the state,” and dozens of channels through which Moscow fed disinformation to Reagan and Bush. Ironically, Ames was pushed into espionage by his wife Maria del Rosario, whom he had recruited in Colombia. Recruited — and then slept with her, violating CIA rules. After a failed first marriage, the curly-haired Colombian with a nymphomaniac temperament became both his happiness and his addiction. To fund her shopping sprees, $5,000 phone bills to Colombia, and a cash-paid mansion, Ames spied nonstop — like on an assembly line. When counterintelligence finally questioned his sudden wealth and red Jaguar, he calmly cited his wife’s “family inheritance.” The CIA accepted this at face value for years, never bothering to verify the empty bank accounts of his mother-in-law in Colombia. Ames passed the polygraph twice, following KGB psychologists’ advice: “Relax and befriend the examiner.” When asked, “Are you recruited by the KGB?” he answered “No” — with a pulse of 68 beats per minute. For years, the KGB funneled disinformation through him — data that Presidents Reagan and Bush took at face value when planning military budgets. Later, investigators found a slip of paper among his belongings with ten drawn bullets — one for each CIA agent executed in the USSR. He was ultimately undone by sheer laziness: tossing torn KGB payment reports into the trash, which the FBI painstakingly reconstructed. A plea deal followed. Full disclosure of KGB networks. Life imprisonment. Daily omelets and burgers. Ames deeply regretted one thing: the absence of whiskey — or at least beer. In his early years behind bars, he filed petitions begging to drink. Eventually, the addiction faded. Until his final days, Ames continued commenting on world politics in letters from Terre Haute. In short: the United States is heading toward war with China — not a trade war, but a real one. And, in his view, the U.S. might lose it. Original Post Join @TranslatedRussianNews

❗️ Legendary KGB superspy and former CIA officer Aldrich Ames has died in a U.S. prison at the age of 85. Ames was serving a life sentence after being convicted of espionage on behalf of Moscow. Original Post Join @TranslatedRussianNews

⚠️ “If you continue killing your own people who are demanding a better life, Trump will destroy you,” — Senator Graham*, addressing Iran’s leadership. “The ayatollahs need to understand this: if you keep killing your own people who are demanding a better life, Trump will destroy you. Change is coming to Iran. These will be the most profound changes in the history of the Middle East — the removal of this Nazi regime. To the people of Iran: help is already on the way.” * Listed in Russia as a terrorist and extremist. Original Post Join @TranslatedRussianNews