She sold over 200 million recordings worldwide.

For an artist begining performing in 1965, which puts her in a rather exclusive tier of musicians.

Vladimir: Donald, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls...

(good luck getting that image out of your head! 😜)

I love how they drew in both Nessie and the waves around the beast with black ink.

Now, where have I seen that before...

It's not as far off as one would think...

Lol!

Russia is a huge country. There will always be some way to wring a few more million USD worth of currency out of SOMETHING.

It is a matter of how low they want to go. I'm sure Xi would pay for Russia to formally cede Outer Manchuria, including Vladivostok, back to China.

("You shall not pass!" is reserved for select students 😉.)

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"YOU. SHALL. NOT. EXPORT!"

Alla Pugacheva - Million Roses YouTube video by RussiaUniversalMusic

I'm sure it contributed.

Here is one of her later international hits (early 1980s):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGl...

She was a huge star in the former Soviet Bloc, and a success internationally as well.

She performed in Carnegie Hall...

Her global record sales are similar to Elvis, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.

She started singing in '65, so perhaps Your Majesty may be excused on account of youth?

Russia is not at war with the US, NATO, or the Illuminati.

The Russo-Ukrainian war is a regional war, not a world war.

Russia is losing a war to Ukraine.

My bad, I neglected to include Mike Waltz. He may have been national security advisor for only a few weeks, but he was there.

I removed Veep Vance (who cannot be fired) and inserted Waltz (who was fired).

Tuapse, Mordor. (20/04/2026)

Courtesy of Darth Putin

Even more damning for Russia is the fact that Ukraine gave up its efforts to join NATO in 2009 and declared itself non-aligned on 1 July 2010, a status which it maintained until after the second Russian invasion of 2014.

Two Russian invasions in 2014 changed peoples minds ...

Labor Sec. is out....

... so it is time for Trump Cabinet Bingo!

The Helsinki Final Act is also called the Helsinki Accords, the OSCE Charter, and "the Helsinki Process".

Placing the HFA in the center of European-Russian security is the promise Bush and Gorbachev agreed to in 1990, as detailed in the Paris Charter: www.csce.gov/wp-content/u...

The HFA has been affirmed by 57 nations, including Russia and Ukraine.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine blatantly violates the bulk of the HFA, especially the first 4 "pillars" (articles), leading the majority of the other 56 nations to sanction Russia and support the victim of Russia's aggression.

The Helsinki Final Act would be an excellent starting point for your reading. It is the central security agreement between Russia, the US and Canada, Europe, and the former Soviet Republics.

It has also served as the OSCE Charter since 1995.

You may find it at:
www.osce.org/helsinki-fin...

Spewing BS does not get you out of defending your original position.

Answer the question:
bsky.app/profile/cali...

Russia started this war in February of 2014 by invading Ukraine when it was a non-aligned nation not seeking to join NATO.

Please tell us how NATO is responsible for Russia's invasion of a non-aligned country not seeking to join NATO.

This war began when Russia invaded Ukraine in February of 2014, when Ukraine was a non-aligned nation not seeking to join NATO.

Please explain how Poland's exercise of its recognized sovereign right to join an alliance in 1999 justifies Russia invading a non-aligned country 15 years later.

Not that a half a point cut would be significant compared to the economic depression they are in, but it is probably the best they can do.

Yep, short-term zero-coupon government bonds are trading in a range of 12.5% to 13.0% on the Moscow Exchange.

Real inflation must be higher than that range, due to there being no free lunch, so inflation is at least 13.5%.

This means the RCB could be justified in cutting the rate half a point?

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That shill howl one may hear, coming from far over the horizon, is the ghost of Stalin wailing:

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONT TO MY RUSSIA?!?!?"

Especially when export volumes are down due to "debris".

😉

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The Duma's attitude toward the common people of Russia:

See how the flowers in the foreground soften up the image? Wouldn't you love to live there?

So, which of Putin's relatives is heavily invested in the bookmaking business?

🤔

Well, the censors forbid the papers from describing the recession-depression the country is mired in, so the papers fill up their collumn inches with drivel.

Magnetic storms, St. WhoCares Day, gaslighting about how life is worse (e.g. cukes are more expensive) elsewhere... ANYTHING to fill space.

Yeah, it is ~54 km/hr, or ~33 miles/hr.

It is breezy, but unless one is washing windows on a skyscrapper, not a safety concern.

Headline:

"Parasite Laments Host's Terminal Decline!"

There are 84 regions in the Russian Federation. Most of them would benefit from independence from the parasites in Moscow and St. Petersburg.