Russia threatened Poland with “radioactive ash,” and Poland has retaliated by freezing Russian Diplomats inside of Poland.
1) Poland announced Monday it will restrict Russian diplomats' movements on its soil, prompting Moscow to pledge retaliatory measures. The announcement came after Poland detained several people suspected of planning sabotage attacks on behalf of Russian security services.
2) radioactive ash
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Sweden Expels 5 Russian Diplomats Over Suspected Espionage
Sweden has expelled five employees of the Russian Embassy in Stockholm over suspected espionage activities. The Swedish Security Service (SAPO) recently received a list of names of suspected Russian intelligence officers, leading to the expulsion of the employees. SAPO claims that “every third Russian diplomat in Sweden is an intelligence officer”. This expulsion follows the expulsion of three…
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Unprecedented
The word ‘unprecedented’ has been used more in the past week than at any other time, I do believe. Yes, a search warrant served on a former president was without precedent until last Monday, but then … the entirety of Donald Trump’s ‘presidency’ was without precedent!
No other president had been involved in more than 5,000 lawsuits before taking office. No other president had been elected…
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Hotel Diplomat, Strandvägen . Stockholm - Nadezda Streltsova
Swedish, b. 1973 -
Oil on canvas , 65 x 75 cm.
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though they are a team of scientists from different nations cooperating, it is explicitly stated they are Scientists
diplomacy is never mentioned and it seems like they are trying to combine technologies to find an answer more than cooperating as a diplomacy effort
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anyways guys, did your minister of foreign relations resign after recordings came out of him asking his former deputy minister to act as if she had lost her phone because she had texts compromising the president in the scandal of an important drug trafficker (who is wanted by interpol) getting an uruguayan passport (thru less than legal means) so he could get out of jail in dubai, who would later be a suspect on the murder of a colombian prosecutor and who spent a few months in bolivia under a fake name playing football in a local league, or is your government normal?
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El País. (2023, July 21). Political scandal rocks Uruguay after passport issued to ‘dangerous and influential’ drug trafficker. https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-07-21/political-scandal-rocks-uruguay-after-passport-issued-to-dangerous-and-influential-drug-trafficker.html
Insight Crime. (2023, July 31). Uruguay’s Top Trafficker Disappears Yet Again in Bolivia. https://insightcrime.org/news/uruguay-trafficker-sebastian-marset-story/
Associated Press. (2023, November 1). Uruguay’s foreign minister resigns following leak of audios related to a passport scandal. https://apnews.com/article/bustillo-marset-passport-uruguay-94a90a6eb0a0669462e7758c96924c83
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been watching the americans for the past two weeks and I will not venture into the tag or AO3 because this show is spoiler-critical but just know, Elizabeth Jennings, she has bewitched me body and soul
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Least convenient part of the chess fandom is how nobody can agree on the names of like a third of the songs
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think i’m going to eventually apply for a masters in um whatever they call russian and eurasian studies at university of toronto o_o
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And right on the heels of the ambassadors leaving Russia, the UK is expelling Russian defense attaché with an accusation of spying.
Tensions are on the rise everywhere.
A Russian spy
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Geopolitical Follies: A Tongue-in-Cheek Tour of Today's Global Dramas
In a world where the bizarre often trumps the mundane, recent global events have unfolded like a poorly scripted, yet surprisingly engaging, political satire. Let’s embark on a whimsical journey through these geopolitical shenanigans, shall we?**Scene 1: The Arabian Sea – India’s Naval Catwalk**India, in a display of maritime muscle-flexing, has decided that the Arabian Sea is the new runway for…
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Well, now things are just funny weird...
Apparently the Russian Government had acquired some land years ago, in Canberra, with little idea what they were to do with it... maybe build an embassy some time. Turns out that some time ended up being very soon. At just that time when we're supporting Ukraine, and this land just happened to be in a some ideal location, sitting between Parliament House and a Telecommunications hub.
So our Federal Government just simply rushed through some special legislation (with support from the opposition) that allowed them to revoke ownership of this specific parcel of land.
Now there is a lone Russian diplomat living on the land in a demountable building in apparent protest, exploiting diplomatic immunity.
Yes, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) have little they can do, other than just watch him as he wanders around, smoking. When asked today, the PM said that a fully staffed and operating embassy posed a very obvious and real security threat. But there was little to worry about from some guy standing on a blade of grass, smoking a cigarette.
But this thing about diplomatic immunity being some unmovable barrier to arrest is bullshit. All our Government has to do is declare this fella persona non grata, and he's out of there.
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“A comprehensive, thoroughly researched and fluently written account of the history of one of the most important but misunderstood relations in geopolitics. Russia and China share a vast border, and a history stretching back half a millennium. And yet, as Snow shows, beneath the language of partnership we hear today there lurk deep memories of conflict, suspicion, and at times visceral fear. An essential narrative account of a globally important issue."
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