Nina 🐙 Byzantina
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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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Hear me out. MASHA AND THE BEAR, but little Masha is *also* a bear, like this Masha:
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Asking young Russian 🇷🇺 women whether they want to have kids:
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A Ukrainian 🇺🇦 singer performing for a small audience invited a child on stage to “sing a song” (presumably in Ukrainian). The girl SHOCKED the audience when she began to sing the Russian 🇷🇺 hit Sigma Boy in the Russian language. Now certain “patriotic Ukrainians” are calling for harming the girl, the audience members who were clapping, and the not-so-well-known singer himself (even though he was speaking Ukrainian, and this was unplanned). I suppose this is why some called for banning this song in the EU a while back. Small incidents like this are very revealing of everything from the thin layer of civilization that separates humans from beasts to the power of culture and language.
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Woman encounters a polar bear 🐻❄️ swimming past her boat in Chukotka, Russia. Lucky for her, it must’ve dined on a tourist boat encountered earlier and wasn’t that hungry. 😉 Amazing footage, but stupid decision-making of coming so close to this glorious beast!
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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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Did Zelensky share a special gift with Macron, Starmer, and Merz? Why are they like this?
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Vladimir Putin's 🇷🇺 very first visit to China 🇨🇳 took place on July 18–19, 2000. As Russia's President in the post-Yeltsin era, he met Jiang Zemin in Beijing. This visit is considered to be an early step in strengthening bilateral ties between Russia and China in the post-Soviet period. A year later, Putin and Jiang Zemin signed a key agreement between the two countries, the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation, which is the foundation of the current Sino-Russian relationship. This is what Putin had to say about Jiang Zemin during that visit: "The Chairman of the People's Republic of China is fluent in Russian and even sings Russian songs. You know, without any exaggeration, he truly AMAZED me today. He not only recited poetry, but also demonstrated a thorough knowledge of Russian classics and the history of Russia."
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The Saint Petersburg Economic Forum in Russia just delivered a stark reality check: with 20,000 guests from 130 countries and territories, including China’s Vice President, a rare U.S. government delegation, American influencers like Candace Owens, and German opposition figures begging to restart Nord Stream to get cheap energy, Russia’s isolation has collapsed in a spectacular way!
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