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Putin knew. “Over centuries, they got used to stuffing their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But they must understand, the vampires’ ball is coming to an end.” -from a 2024 interview

Putin knew. “Over centuries, they got used to stuffing their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But they must understand, the vampires’ ball is coming to an end.” -from a 2024 interview

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Just as you realize there’s not enough Siberian throat singing in your life, Russia’s OTYKEN releases a new song. Ahhhh, that’s better!

Just as you realize there’s not enough Siberian throat singing in your life, Russia’s OTYKEN releases a new song. Ahhhh, that’s better!

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This Russian pilot casually walks over and lights a cigarette as if to relax. He looks so unfazed that you wouldn’t know he JUST survived a would-be DEADLY CRASH.

This Russian pilot casually walks over and lights a cigarette as if to relax. He looks so unfazed that you wouldn’t know he JUST survived a would-be DEADLY CRASH.

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*I* would drop by this Serbian village for a day and end up staying for two months 😜

*I* would drop by this Serbian village for a day and end up staying for two months 😜

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“The British 🇬🇧 have the worst imperial mentality of any country in the world. They were at it the longest. They still think they run the world.”

“The British 🇬🇧 have the worst imperial mentality of any country in the world. They were at it the longest. They still think they run the world.”

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Russian firefighter brought a cat back to life having rescued it from a fire in an apartment building in Tyumen. The cat’s shocked expression is priceless! 😺 This emergency worker, Sergey Belous, actually rescued *three* cats along with their cat mom, and two other people. Two of the cats required resuscitation, one of which you’re seeing here. Everyone is fine! Throughout his 10+ years of work for the emergency services, this firefighter rescued cats, dogs, and even turtles about a dozen times.

Russian firefighter brought a cat back to life having rescued it from a fire in an apartment building in Tyumen. The cat’s shocked expression is priceless! 😺 This emergency worker, Sergey Belous, actually rescued *three* cats along with their cat mom, and two other people. Two of the cats required resuscitation, one of which you’re seeing here. Everyone is fine! Throughout his 10+ years of work for the emergency services, this firefighter rescued cats, dogs, and even turtles about a dozen times.

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Russian soldier rescues the most important person in the war zone…wait, there are two of them!
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Russian soldier rescues the most important person in the war zone…wait, there are two of them!

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The speed and shocking agility with which this East Siberian brown bear 🐻 in Khakassia, Russia 🇷🇺 swims and climbs a steep hill demonstrates that you always need to remember you’re in its home (not the other way around) and remain alert. (The bear looks black out of the water, but it has a characteristic brown bear hump and a pointed nose.)
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The speed and shocking agility with which this East Siberian brown bear 🐻 in Khakassia, Russia 🇷🇺 swims and climbs a steep hill demonstrates that you always need to remember you’re in its home (not the other way around) and remain alert. (The bear looks black out of the water, but it has a characteristic brown bear hump and a pointed nose.)

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1,087,944 views • 3 months ago

Putin brought an icon of Saint Herman of Alaska, an important Orthodox Christian saint for North Americans, as a gift for a priest in Anchorage. He also gave him an icon of the Theotokos to mark the feast of Dormition.
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Putin brought an icon of Saint Herman of Alaska, an important Orthodox Christian saint for North Americans, as a gift for a priest in Anchorage. He also gave him an icon of the Theotokos to mark the feast of Dormition.

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919,380 views • 1 year ago

A Russian guy in India 🇮🇳 after four months. He is chilling by the Ganges and calling himself Shiva. 🤯 I think he might need to continue being reincarnated until he cleans up that potty mouth of his!
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A Russian guy in India 🇮🇳 after four months. He is chilling by the Ganges and calling himself Shiva. 🤯 I think he might need to continue being reincarnated until he cleans up that potty mouth of his!

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385,482 views • 5 months ago

This Russian 🇷🇺 gymnastics coach, Ivan Gaponenko from Volgograd, is UNREAL, and his students are amazing. No wonder the “rules-based order” has been trying to get Russia out of international sporting events by any means necessary. 🎥 i.v.a.n._23.11
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This Russian 🇷🇺 gymnastics coach, Ivan Gaponenko from Volgograd, is UNREAL, and his students are amazing. No wonder the “rules-based order” has been trying to get Russia out of international sporting events by any means necessary. 🎥 i.v.a.n._23.11

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922,332 views • 2 years ago

Asking young Russian 🇷🇺 women whether they want to have kids:
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Asking young Russian 🇷🇺 women whether they want to have kids:

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427,952 views • 1 year ago

Milla Jovovich reciting a 100-year-old Russian children’s poetry is one of the best things on the Internet and always brings a smile to my face. 😌
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Milla Jovovich reciting a 100-year-old Russian children’s poetry is one of the best things on the Internet and always brings a smile to my face. 😌

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451,206 views • 1 year ago

Japan’s Kishida talking about the danger of Russia repeating a nuclear weapons catastrophe while standing in the US Congress, the only country to use nukes—ON JAPAN—has got to be the highest level of gaslighting, self-deceit, and lackeyism all at once.
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Japan’s Kishida talking about the danger of Russia repeating a nuclear weapons catastrophe while standing in the US Congress, the only country to use nukes—ON JAPAN—has got to be the highest level of gaslighting, self-deceit, and lackeyism all at once.

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674,552 views • 2 years ago

Wearing simple clothes, Lukashenko 🇧🇾 and Putin 🇷🇺 visited the Smolensky Skete of the medieval Valaam Monastery located on Valaam Island in Ladoga Lake, Russia, today.
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Wearing simple clothes, Lukashenko 🇧🇾 and Putin 🇷🇺 visited the Smolensky Skete of the medieval Valaam Monastery located on Valaam Island in Ladoga Lake, Russia, today.

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332,772 views • 1 year ago

I didn’t realize that food in Balto-Slavic languages is so similar (the Balt ones surprised me)…except for Macedonian. I cracked up too like the Polish girl! 😂
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I didn’t realize that food in Balto-Slavic languages is so similar (the Balt ones surprised me)…except for Macedonian. I cracked up too like the Polish girl! 😂

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24,271 views • 22 days ago

Hear me out. MASHA AND THE BEAR, but little Masha is *also* a bear, like this Masha:
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Hear me out. MASHA AND THE BEAR, but little Masha is *also* a bear, like this Masha:

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62,218 views • 2 months ago

Russia’s 🇷🇺 rising figure skating stars ⛸️ 14-year-old Kira Domozhirova and 16-year-old Ilya Vegera skate to the soundtrack of one of the best Soviet songs ever!!! This is why the official West fears Russian competition.
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Russia’s 🇷🇺 rising figure skating stars ⛸️ 14-year-old Kira Domozhirova and 16-year-old Ilya Vegera skate to the soundtrack of one of the best Soviet songs ever!!! This is why the official West fears Russian competition.

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337,834 views • 2 years ago

Putin brought flowers to the grave of the Soviet pilots who were buried in Alaska. This is the type of Russian and Soviet heritage preservation that he thanked the U.S. authorities for.
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Putin brought flowers to the grave of the Soviet pilots who were buried in Alaska. This is the type of Russian and Soviet heritage preservation that he thanked the U.S. authorities for.

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159,296 views • 1 year ago

Disney this, Disney that. 🥱 Soviet animation produced many superb films, like the 1957 SNOW QUEEN by Soyuzmultfilm. ❄️ Did you know that it was THIS film that inspired Hayao Miyazaki? “Had I not one day seen The Snow Queen during a film screening hosted by the company labor union, I honestly doubt that I would have continued working as an animator,” Miyazaki later revealed. He called The Snow Queen “my destiny and my favorite film.” The film, directed by Lev Atamanov, is over an hour long and stylistically contains both realistic and fantastical features. It is based on the 1844 fable "The Snow Queen" penned by Hans Christian Andersen and is one of the earliest film adaptations of this Danish story. This classic masterpiece was released in several languages. In the U.S., it was first made available by Universal. Ghibli Museum Library later released it in Japan.
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Disney this, Disney that. 🥱 Soviet animation produced many superb films, like the 1957 SNOW QUEEN by Soyuzmultfilm. ❄️ Did you know that it was THIS film that inspired Hayao Miyazaki? “Had I not one day seen The Snow Queen during a film screening hosted by the company labor union, I honestly doubt that I would have continued working as an animator,” Miyazaki later revealed. He called The Snow Queen “my destiny and my favorite film.” The film, directed by Lev Atamanov, is over an hour long and stylistically contains both realistic and fantastical features. It is based on the 1844 fable "The Snow Queen" penned by Hans Christian Andersen and is one of the earliest film adaptations of this Danish story. This classic masterpiece was released in several languages. In the U.S., it was first made available by Universal. Ghibli Museum Library later released it in Japan.

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95,535 views • 9 months ago

Why do some in the West obsess over “returning” Russia's Kaliningrad to Germany, or the Baltics, while ignoring who actually flattened it in 1944? British RAF raids destroyed the historic center of Königsberg months before Soviet forces took the city. Yet the narrative is always “evil Russia stole it.” The real story is more complicated and worth investigating.
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Why do some in the West obsess over “returning” Russia's Kaliningrad to Germany, or the Baltics, while ignoring who actually flattened it in 1944? British RAF raids destroyed the historic center of Königsberg months before Soviet forces took the city. Yet the narrative is always “evil Russia stole it.” The real story is more complicated and worth investigating.

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21,970 views • 1 month ago

Russian 🇷🇺 virtuoso Daniil Trifonov performs Liszt at age 20 (2011). The piano might need a cigarette after that! 😜
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Russian 🇷🇺 virtuoso Daniil Trifonov performs Liszt at age 20 (2011). The piano might need a cigarette after that! 😜

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163,048 views • 1 year ago