Crimea and ex-Ukrainian/Black Sea regions integration into RF

Sounds like Russian museums and organisations with anything on loan to the EU should start trying to repatriate those items before they are stolen or seized...

This destroys all trust regarding loaning collections of museum pieces and art...

Great view. What an achievement!

Russia's MFA in CrimeaFlag of Russia
@PMSimferopol
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How about photo of a #CrimeanBridge from outer space? #Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov took a really beautiful picture from #InternationalSpaceStation!

Like I said on the afghan thread... the Taliban are actually being more reasonable than the Americans... if it was the Americans that had the Taliban trapped in the Kabul airport like that they would have called in the Spooky Gunships and levelled the place... just like they did with the Iraqi soldiers retreating from Kuwait in Desert Storm.

Since Russia is not interested in imperial conquest like America and its minions, it just needs the Taliban to do two
things:

1) Stop the narcotics racket that the Americans re-established after they invaded in 2001. The Taliban eradicated
this activity in the 1990s.

2) Do not submit their country to being a whore for America like Japan.

If the Taliban do this, then Russia has no business and no interest minding Afghanistan's affairs. By contrast,
the criminal clowns in Washington cannot sleep at night if they are not succeeding in controlling every
crack on the planet.

Russia benefits from having good relations with its neighbours... everyone does, it is only a country like the US that benefits from everyone fighting everyone else...

GarryB wrote:Russia benefits from having good relations with its neighbours... everyone does, it is only a country like the US that benefits from everyone fighting everyone else...

This is what the words about which are so actively suppressed in the Western media: it is beneficial for Russia to be surrounded by rich, developed and independent FRIENDLY states with which it is possible to trade and develop mutually beneficial cooperation. The US sees benefits only when they are surrounded by a bunch of helpful small dogs, each of which the US will use for its own enrichment.
What amazes me, while simultaneously killing faith in the reasonableness of humanity, is that there are so many more people in the world who dream of serving a rich master than those who want to live freely.

Beautiful sight


Russia's MFA in CrimeaFlag of Russia
@PMSimferopol
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Russia government organization
Good morning, #CrimeaFlag of Russia!
Ballot box with check2.6 million carsOncoming automobiledrove across #CrimeanBridgeBridge at night in 2021!
Ballot box with checkDuring the #NewYear2022 holidaysChristmas tree - almost 109 thousand cars!
photoCamera with flash: instadron_crimea/ instagram
Rightwards arrowhttps://crimea24.tv/content/v-2021-godu-po-krimskomu-mostu-proekhali-26-m/

That is a figment of the imagination. Those Moskals could never build such a bridge since they do not have the culture for it.
According to Ukrs.

kvs wrote:That is a figment of the imagination.   Those Moskals could never build such a bridge since they do not have the culture for it.
According to Ukrs.

It does look a bit mystical in that light.

Not civil but wasn't sure where to put this. Clearly shows the strategic importance of Crimea to Russia. Then centre the Tu-22M3 and Kalibre onto Hmeimen.

Mind you the centre of those circles looks to be well out to sea

Spriter
@spriter99880
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The radius of possible combat use of Caliber cruise missiles, Tu-22M3 long-range missile carriers and Murmansk-BN electronic warfare systems.
#Crimea

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Crimea restored the railway line with the Kherson region, in the future it will be possible to raise the issue of resuming full-fledged passenger traffic, said State Duma deputy Sheremet

Together with the restoration of water flow to the Crimean canal this suggest to me that Russia is going to impose a loyal regime for a long time in
what is now Ukraine. I do not see how leaving and letting Banderites restore their power is consistent with these developments.

A truth commission that shows what these thieves and murderers got up to while in power and a hint of the money they stole will likely make their re election chances pretty bad... as bad as Navalny.

JohninMK wrote:301@301_AD·45m

Units of the Russian Armed Forces take full control of the North Crimean Canal.

The head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov ordered to prepare for the reception of the "Dnieper water".


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The water blockade of Crimea has been stopped: Aksenov gave the command to prepare the North Crimean Canal to receive Dnieper water

Telegram RIA Novosti

Looks like the canal has filled up now.

Spriter
@spriter99880
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For the first time in eight years, water through the North Crimean Canal reached Dzhankoy,And all this thanks to the Russian military, who liberated the hydrotechnical unit.

JohninMK wrote:Victor Z@vicktop55·
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Crimea restored the railway line with the Kherson region, in the future it will be possible to raise the issue of resuming full-fledged passenger traffic, said State Duma deputy Sheremet

I remember just after annexation I travelled from Kiev to Crimea and the border was at near Dzhankoi railway station (not sure if spelling) the Ukrainian border guards were pissed off when they saw I had a Russian federation visa with the words Crimea on it, they emptied my rucksack upside down and let there dog trample all over it and threw my passport at me. Shortly afterwards and I just finished packing my rucksack we ended up at the Russian side they were very professional and used a hand held PDA scanned passport and typed a few things and shakes my hand and said welcome to Russia welcome to Crimea, he then held asked me where exactly I was from I replied Scotland he shouted along the carriage something in Russian only word I knew was shohtlandyets (not sure of spelling) which ment Scotland everyone cheered. When he handed over my passport he said it was the first russian visa he had seen with Crimea on it and he was happy to see it. I think at first he was surprised to see it when it was on their database. When I get back to Scotland (currently in Uganda) I will take a picture of it (it's in my old passport). I remember the Ukrainian border point had a BRDM-2 in a dug out facing Crimea

Water that has escaped tyranny

Parking this somewhere safe:-


IN 1991, CRIMEA HELD A REFERENDUM (this was before Ukraine became Independent).

It was KIEV in 1995, that annexed Crimea.

Here are some more Objective Facts vis a vis recent history of Crimea, courtesy of The Postil


On 20 January 1991, before the independence of Ukraine, the Crimeans were invited to choose by referendum between two options: to remain with Kiev or to return to the pre-1954 situation and be administered by Moscow. The question asked on the ballot was:

Are you in favor of the restoration of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea as a subject of the Soviet Union and a member of the Union Treaty?
This was the first referendum on autonomy in the USSR, and 93.6% of Crimeans agreed to be attached to Moscow. The Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea (ASSR Crimea), abolished in 1945, was thus re-established on 12 February 1991 by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.


Ukraine became independentsix months after Crimea , and after the latter had proclaimed its sovereignty on September 4. On February 26, 1992, the Crimean parliament proclaimed the “Republic of Crimea” with the agreement of the Ukrainian government, which granted it the status of a self-governing republic. On 5 May 1992, Crimea declared its independence and adopted a Constitution.


In 1994, by signing the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine surrendered the nuclear weapons of the former USSR that remained on its territory, in exchange for “its security, independence and territorial integrity.” At this stage, Crimea considered that it was—de-jure—no longer part of Ukraine and therefore not concerned by this treaty. On its side, the government in Kiev felt strengthened by the memorandum. This is why, on 17 March 1995, it forcibly abolished the Crimean Constitution. It sent its special forces to overthrow Yuri Mechkov, President of Crimea, and de facto annexed the Republic of Crimea, thus triggering popular demonstrations for the attachment of Crimea to Russia. An event hardly reported by the Western media.

Repair of the Crimean Bridge: Status of Work as of 19 November 2022

Work is actively continuing on the Kerch Strait Bridge to repair the aftermath of the 8 October terrorist attack which destroyed four spans of the road bridge crossing and damaged the structures of two spans of the railway section.

Rehabilitation is ahead of schedule. The third and fourth spans of the road bridge have been overhung and the structures are being assembled to their designed position.

The first and second spans have already been installed. Final works are underway to install the expansion joints between the bridge structures. Once this is complete, the pavement will be repaired: two layers of asphalt concrete will be laid over the already prepared waterproofing.

Full restoration of the storm drainage system, cable structures, lighting and other engineering systems of the damaged section will be carried out after the opening of traffic.

As we wrote earlier, the preservation of production links and the availability of a prepared industrial base made it possible to more than halve the originally planned timeframe for rebuilding the structure.

It is planned to open the traffic on the repaired road part of the bridge by 20 December.


https://t.me/Slavyangrad/21218

Land bridge to Crimea: results of a month of work

Since October 27, part of the trucks delivering goods to and from Crimea were allowed to bypass the Kerch bridge and the ferry across the territory of new regions.

And by the 20th of November, from 300 to 700 trucks pass through the territory of the Northern Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov every day. From 400 to 500 trucks pass through the ferry a day.

So the land bridge to the Crimea has started working and its capacity, despite the risks and novelty of the route, is already higher than that of the crossing. At the same time, fortunately, I did not see any news about shelling / blowing up trucks in the new territories, so the route can be called quite safe.


https://t.me/Slavyangrad/22238