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Just some hours before Russia started their invasion, you thought that Russia recognised Lugansk and Donetsk in order to have leverage in negotiations but as we saw it was Russian way to get casus belli their invasion

Finland's and Sweden's NATO membership isn't yet certain. Turkey only dropped its opposition to start membership negotiations. There is still lot of opportunities for milking more stuff and delay the process

I would point out that Zora claimed until last day that Russia will not invade Ukraine and there is no reason for them doing so. So I would not sigh for relief

Big sunk of immigrants in Russia are ethnic Russians that have moved to Russia after fall of USSR from countries that gained their independence

Nato promised not to support YPG after that Turkey dropped their extradition demands Finland and Sweden also will sell weapons and other military equipment to Turkey

Price caps are easy to enforce, they just say companies that they can sell oil or gas under certain price. Companies will then either make loss or not buy oil and gas from market which may lead supply problems (which is why Germany for example is against it). (In many cases countries them selves are largest owners of their energy companies) Price cap will eventually cap market price in world, as demand for oil and gas has not increased, so producers either need to cut their production or lower their prices to that cap in order to sell or not sell their products to world second largest market @Sarex It is just to show that only things that fit people own political motivations interest them and same thing has no meaning when it does not benefit persons own agenda

Palestine question gets lot of press, but it is far from only area / people who want independence. It is also far from worst treated area/people Serbia still has not recognized Kosovo, so there is closer to home target for your concern how people who want independence are seen as causing provocation towards other people who see it as their right to own the land. 80% of Russia seeks independence from Russia main, which sees such actions as provocation and punish and imprison any advocates fast and harshly 50% of China seeks independence of main China and which see such as provocation that justifies putting entire population groups to prison camps. And so on. But people's struggle for independence is almost always just used as tool to attack people with different world view by pointing how those people support some people who are seen oppressing some other people. Very rarely such comes from genuine interest of people's right for independence or not being oppressed.

They do enforce rules they have put them, that is whole point of those zones. They make aircrafts to identify themselves, tell what is their destination etc. Each zone has their own rules. Although if you mean with enforcement that will they shoot aircrafts that break the rules, then answer is usually no, but they will send fighters to do the identification and escort rule breaking aircrafts out of the zone. Other countries' jets fly through actual airspaces constantly and ignore their demands until their fighters come to identify the plane. Russia and China do such constantly to their neighbors, as they know that their planes will not be shot down. Number of incidents where country has shot down airplane that violate their airspaces is very low. Only one which I remember is when Turkey shot down Russian SU-24 fly in their airspace in 2016. Which cause quite lot tension between Russia and Turkey. Russia even put economic sanctions against Turkey. Russia allies claimed that attack was strike against efforts to fight terrorism, and they accused Turkey of hypocrisy as Turkey constantly violates its neighbors airspaces. Turkey's allies (Nato) backed Turkey and said that Turkey has right to protect its airspace. Although many of them asked parties keep their heads calm so that situation does not escalate

Yup ADIZ are unilateral declarations where country/entity will enforce rules for air traffic. Considering that Finland didn't have Grand Duke even when it was "Grand Duchy". As Grand Duchy is translation from Finnish to English, officially Finland was Autonomic Grand Principality of Russia, in official list of Russia's Emperors tittles was added Grand Prince of Finland (which was one of titles of Sweden's King) when Russia 'conquered' Finland from Sweden, because Alexander I was lazy and wanted easy move of power and didn't overwrote constitution from time of Swedish rule as it make governance easier than Russian legislation, but that left Finland with more autonomy than what Alexander I meant to give it. In Finnish tittle was Suurherttua which translates directly to Grand Duke in English, but Finnish was not official language of Grand Principality of Finland until 1883, so Grand Duchy and Grand Duke are modern twists of the original tittle. As autonomic area Finland was governed by Diet of Porvoo (which changed to democratically elected parliament in 1906 ). Emperor appointed General Governor as his deputy and leader of Russian army in Finland, but he didn't had direct position in Finland's governance which lead problems during Alexander II's rule when Russia decrease amount of autonomy Finland had. Above is just to say that claiming to be Grand Duke of Finland has much less recognition in international law than Taiwan's sovereignty and claim to its own airspace. Especially considering that there is still living members of Romanov family. Here pretty decent article about what is Taiwan's position from in eyes of international law. https://international.thenewslens.com/feature/taiwan-for-sale-2020/128242

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Claimed Air defense identification zones in East China Sea China imposes requirements for all civilian and military aircraft regardless of destination that fly over areas they claim Japan does not make any demands for aircrafts flying over their zone except if they are planning to land in Japan. China and Russia don't recognize Japan's ADIZ. South Korea had plans to extend their zone south after China's extended its zone go over Socotra Rock, which South Korea and China have dispute over, but at least for now have dropped those plans after USA persuaded them not to make such extension Taiwan's ADIZ was established in 1950s, which it extends over continent China and why China these days constantly flies it military planes there . But anyway China's territorial rights over Taiwan's airspace aren't currently recolonized by anyone including China itself EDIT: It seems that Russia hit shopping mall with one of their missiles. According to Ukraine official there lots of civilians in it and they currently aren't able to estimate how many died EDIT2: Reuters updated their article there are at least 2 dead and 20 wounded. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missiles-hit-crowded-shopping-mall-central-ukraine-zelenskiy-2022-06-27/

Finland even though it is only 5.5 million country tries to upkeep army that is able to stand against Russia. I think it is more about perceived threat caused by Russia towards Czechia has not merited similar military spending

But Russia is not exporting grain to parts of Africa that suffering from lack of food already. Russia could decide to not import grain to Egypt, but that would be quite risk them as I am pretty sure that Egypt would retaliate and block all ships from Russia and to Russia from using Suez canal

To some extent, as even though fertilizers aren't targeted by sanctions, the amount fertilizers are imported from Russia is dropped 80% and Russian fertilizer production is dropped ~40%, which is caused that many Russian beverage makers are running our of carbon acid as almost all carbon acid in Russia has been side product of fertilizer production.

Russian grain is not exported to west, but mainly in countries that Russia would not like to join western sanctions. Biggest importers of Russian grain are Turkey and Egypt (~50% of total exported grain), which control canals which are very important for Russia's Black Sea operations. Russia is already blocking Ukraine's grain which mainly went western Africa With gas Russia already has stopped most of the flow (either they stopped flow fully or most of it as they claim they need to repair North Stream), which has already forced even Germany to seek fast alternative from coal.

My point is that as it provably can hurt heart and some other non respiratory organs, then narrative which claims that it can't is provably false, if narrative does not use things like most likely will not, usually will not etc.

You can ask from Iran when western sanctions are lifted when you let them stabilize as status quo

As example how fast Russians rebuild area they occupy, Karelia which Soviets took from Finland in second world war has only seen minimal rebuilding and most of that is done by Finnish Karelians who have tried to rebuild it for nostalgic reasons

Virus mainly targets respiratory organs, but it can infect and damage heart’s muscle tissue like other respiratory viruses https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/heart-problems-after-covid19

Mask recommendation is probably because virus can spread through saliva in cause person has infection in their mouth How does monkeypox spread from person to person? People with monkeypox are infectious while they have symptoms (normally for between two and four weeks). You can catch monkeypox through close physical contact with someone who has symptoms. The rash, bodily fluids (such as fluid, pus or blood from skin lesions) and scabs are particularly infectious. Clothing, bedding, towels or objects like eating utensils/dishes that have been contaminated with the virus from contact with an infected person can also infect others. Ulcers, lesions or sores in the mouth can also be infectious, meaning the virus can spread through saliva. People who closely interact with someone who is infectious, including health workers, household members and sexual partners are therefore at greater risk for infection. The virus can also spread from someone who is pregnant to the foetus from the placenta, or from an infected parent to child during or after birth through skin-to-skin contact. It is not clear whether people who do not have symptoms can spread the disease. https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/monkeypox?gclid=CjwKCAjw5NqVBhAjEiwAeCa97UAbJNgK0iOtHPAQjY1tdEYpq7A_Zl6HjoEOe6eIho1TNcrBS_qcCBoCpn4QAvD_BwE

What I have understood, situation with Germany's nuclear power plants is such that it is cheaper and faster build new ones than trying to repair current ones back in use. This is because many of them have old and in efficient reactors meaning that new ones will outperform them and there is need for new ones in decade or two max anyway Many reactors have suffered from cannibalization where parts from already closed reactor has been used to maintain still running reactors. Also in many cases heat from reactor cooling has not been used for district heating or otherwise utilized. Which means that massive amount of energy those plants produced was not utilized. And means that Germany would still need lots of energy from other source in which they currently have two options natural gas and coal. In case of future there are some needs that needs to be addressed at least Adjustment power: Renewable energy sources like wind and solar don't have solid production rates, but produce some days more and some days less energy, so there is needs to be way to adjust how much electricity is put in electric grid. Ways to do that is constant over production where wind and solar plants always produce more than needed and over production is just wasted. Storing over production: in batteries or some other form of energy storage, which can used as energy source in day when there is underproduction Adjustment power plants (current solution where there are power plants which production levels can be easily controlled based on how much fuel is used) Heating and cooling: In big cities there is usually need for district heating solutions and as there is already existing district heating solutions where waste energy from power plants is used to warm houses in the cities there is need to replace them. One solution could be use massive ground-source heat pumps to turn electricity to heat efficiently and feed it in current district heating systems. An other solution could be build small modular nuclear rectors that are only meant to produce heat in district heating systems. And of course there is also transportation that brings its own issues

Eco-sustainability is for first time possibility in EU as natural gas is not anymore considered as 'eco' option

Hopefully that is stock photo and not Ukraine actually using their new weaponry in stupid way

Which is why you found it from every hotel lobby, air plane, train coffee house etc. aimed for tourists for decades so that tourists get anti Russian news when they were in Russia, so that they would not think that things they see are too good.

The Moscow Times is not pro-western media, as its main purpose is to market Russia to foreign people It isn't just enough pro Putin in order to allowed to publish articles in Russia these days.