To be fair this is one fake Brazilian, but there is a bazillion English ones operating here.
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I could be Brazilian and not know?
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If you really want to.
Now, seriously. People aré taking advantage of the Brazilian passport for years.
Like the United States, Brazil received people from all over the world. But unlike the American passport, ours was easier to forge.
So even the leader of North Korea could easily pass for a young man of Korean origin who was born in São Paulo.
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Ukraine mourns ‘our golden generation’ killed on frontlines
Ukrainians face a homeless future in the UK thanks to red tape on renting
Ukraine is fighting a grim war of attrition. Only Nato can help change that
Ukraine hails release of medic who filmed horrors of Mariupol siege
‘It’s a must for us to fight’: Kramatorsk mayor fears the worst as Russians draw near
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Ukraine restricts Russian books and music in latest step of ‘derussification’
‘We’re tired of being scared’: Kyiv residents take steps towards normality
Planning for the long haul: four months on, the Ukrainian refugee crisis is only just beginning
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The restriction on Russian books is a really bad decision in my opinion. It may cause internal divisions in Ukraine.
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It seems to be targeting living authors and copyrighted works, and in particular authors who live in Ukraine but hold Russian citizenship.
One law will forbid the printing of books by Russian citizens, unless they renounce their Russian passport and take Ukrainian citizenship. The ban will only apply to those who held Russian citizenship after the 1991 collapse of Soviet rule.
It will also ban the commercial import of books printed in Russia, Belarus and occupied Ukrainian territory, while also requiring special permission for the import of books in Russian from any other country.
There doesn’t appear to be anything stopping Ukrainian publishers selling classics like Tolstoy or Pushkin, etc.
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He’s got to try everything I suppose. In reality Ukraine is such an opportunity for the EU in so many ways. Aerospace etc. the engineering and industrial tradition in Ukraine is huge.
Also it would keep the Euro down low for exports which is Germany’s chief concern so all good there.
ETA and it should be pointed out that people actually do have a history of doing the right thing when the opportunity is offered them. Germany’s approach to reunification for example (1:1 on marks). As far as most people are concerned *Russia * is causing the world recession, it won’t be caused by Ukraine joining the EU.
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Would the EU have any responsibilities wrt Chernobyl?
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Yeah, Euratom is one of the three original European communities (with ECSC and EEC).
So: gulp!
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I suspect that the change wouldn’t be zero; but my understanding is that the EBRD already oversees funding for the expensive bits of Chernobyl remediation, with a variety of donors kicking in, so the change in who is actually paying would probably be smaller than the change in formal responsibility suggests.
That and, aside from any legal and/or humanitarian considerations, sheer proximity gives EU member states the alternatives of either embracing radionucleotides as part of a rich postmodern terroir; or making sure that the place gets properly encapsulated.
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Sorta - I am seeing a pattern here. Make vague threats about a thing. When thing happens claim that it never mattered anyway.
He is also shifting victory conditions. Hope to carve off a chunk of the east which was “always part of Russia”.
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Russian emails appear to show ‘network’ holding $4.5bn assets linked to Putin
Crimes against civilians: documenting the scale of abuse in Ukraine
Africa is ‘hostage’ of Russia’s war in Ukraine, says Zelenskiy
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Africa was a “hostage” of Russia’s “colonial” war in his country which has led to global food shortages and famine fears across the African continent.
Ukraine was engaged in “complex negotiations” to unblock the grain trapped at its Black Sea ports by Russia’s naval blockade, Zelenskiy said in an address to the African Union, AFP reports.
Zelenskiy said:
This war may seem very distant to you and your countries. But the food prices that are catastrophically rising have already brought (the war) to the homes of millions of African families.
The unjust level of food prices, which has been provoked by the Russian war, is being painfully felt on all continents. Unfortunately, this can be a particular problem for your countries.
Zelenskiy said although Ukraine was trying everything to free up its ports, he admitted there has been “no progress yet because no real tool has yet been found to ensure Russia does not attack them again”.
He added:
That is why the food crisis in the world will continue as long as this colonial war continues.
Russian editor auctions Nobel medal to raise money for Ukraine refugees
Ukrainian missiles hit Black Sea gas platforms, say Russian officials
Russia threatens retaliation as Lithuania bans goods transit to Kaliningrad
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Russian emails appear to show ‘network’ holding $4.5bn assets linked to Putin
Palaces, yachts and vineyards reportedly provided to Vladimir Putin by friends and oligarchs can now be linked to what appears to be an informal network holding assets worth more than $4.5bn (£3.7bn), Daniel Boffey, Olesya Shmagun and Miranda Patrucic report.
A digital paper trail appears to suggest that an array of holiday homes and other assets reportedly used by the Russian president, which according to available records belong to or have been owned by separate individuals, companies and charities, are linked through a common email domain name, LLCInvest.ru.
A snapshot of leaked email exchanges from last September further suggests directors and administrators associated with some of the separate entities that hold and manage these assets have discussed day-to-day business problems as if they were part of a single organisation.
An anti-corruption expert in Russia, who requested anonymity given the political situation in Moscow, said the findings raised questions as to whether there was a level of “common management”.
“LLCInvest looks most of all like a cooperative, or an association, in which its members can exchange benefits and property,” they suggested.
For nearly two decades, Putin has been accused of secretly accumulating vast wealth through proxies, fuelled by a series of disclosures in leaks such as the Pandora papers about the fortunes of those closest to him.
Alexei Navalny has claimed this £1bn palace was built for Putin’s personal use in Gelendzhik on the Black Sea. Photograph: AP
Sergey Kolesnikov, a businessman, claimed 10 years ago that he had been behind a scheme that allowed a group of Russia’s top oligarchs to pool billions of roubles into a type of “investment fund” for the benefit of Putin, who was then serving as prime minister. The claims were denied and Kolesnikov fled from Russia.
Last month the UK government contrasted Putin’s “lavish lifestyle” with official Russian records that listed “modest assets” including a small flat in St Petersburg, two Soviet-era cars from the 1950s, a trailer and a small garage.
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On the contrary, Russia is interested in it, deliberately starving people in Africa and Asia to achieve its political goals.
But these are the people that the white Christian nationalists want to align with. Fucking evil pieces of shit, the lot of them.
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