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[l] at 3/28/24 1:10pm
Pravda.Ru special correspondent Daria Aslamova spoke in India with famous editor and journalist, former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of India Mobasher Jawed Akbar. He explained what India can offer Russia in exchange for oil, why New Delhi’s position towards Moscow is not neutral, and how India will soon become a superpower. Very nice to have this interview with you, Mr. Akbar. We would like to talk to you about the current state of affairs in the relations between India and Russia, as well as about BRICS, which is celebrating 20 years of its history soon. What has India achieved as a BRICS member? The purpose of BRICS is very important. The secret of success in the 21st century is to create groups that can promote the welfare of the people. We are living in the times of nation-states, not of empires. It does not mean, of course, that there are no empires. Some people want to have quasi-empires. The whole purpose of the nation state is the economic development. BRICS is an exercise in expanding economic development with the implicit reality that economic development and conflict do not go together. Conflict eats away prosperity.

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[l] at 3/28/24 11:12am
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have deployed a large amount of Western equipment near Kharkiv, the head of the Kharkiv region Vitaly Ganchev said. Russian intelligence services identify locations where military equipment is either stored and deployed before striking such places. The Ukrainian military are actively building fortifications in the Kharkiv region too. The build-up is associated with Kyiv's preparation for a possible offensive that the Russian forces plan to carry out in this direction, Vitaly Ganchev said.

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[l] at 3/28/24 10:59am
A military plane crashed into the sea off the coast of Sevastopol, Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said. According to him, no civilian objects were damaged. "The pilot ejected. He was picked up by rescuers from the Sevastopol Rescue Service at a distance of 200 meters from the shore,” the governor said.

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[l] at 3/28/24 7:52am
Moscow Domodedovo Airport may be required to pay up to a billion rubles in fines for damaging the world's largest passenger aircraft. The incident took place on March 27, when a water carrier rammed into Emirates Airbus A380 and damaged its fuselage. It became known later that the driver of the vehicle had a stroke at the moment when the incident occurred. Experts of the Federal Air Transport Agency are still evaluating the nature of the damage that was caused to the airplane. The UAE also intends to set up a special committee because of the incident.

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[l] at 3/28/24 7:23am
US intelligence agencies did not share with Russia all the information they had about the impending terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall, The New York Times reports with reference to officials at European and American security services. According to journalists, American officials did not convey the information against the background of the hostile relationship between Moscow and Washington. They also feared that the Russian authorities would learn about their intelligence sources and methods. The day before the US Embassy in Moscow issued a public warning about possible extremist attacks in Russia, the local CIA office conveyed a private warning to Russian officials. The CIA mentioned that the Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K, recognised as a terrorist group, banned in Russia) would be involved in the attacks.

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[l] at 3/28/24 5:11am
Well-known editor and journalist, former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of India Mobasher Jawed Akbar is confident that India is a bridge for conflicting countries. "The ability to be someone's friend, to help both parties understand each other, is a unique position that we can't give up," he says. Mobasher Jawed Akbar also spoke about the economic prospects for cooperation between India and Russia.

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[l] at 3/26/24 9:22am
Vadim Gorshenin, the founder of Pravda.Ru media holding commented on the terrorist attack that took place at Crocus City Hall near Moscow. "A large-scale bloody terrorist attack took place in Russia. Russia started investigating it, but other countries persistently try to convince Russia who perpetrator of the attack was. How do they know? Russian special services captured the terrorists and made them talk. It just so happens that Russian investigators have obtained first-hand facts, but someone from across the ocean is telling them not to listen to them," Vadim Gorshenin said. NATO claimed that ISIS* terrorist group was behind the attack, and Russian liberals follow them in this version.

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[l] at 3/26/24 8:26am
In the southeast of Moscow, a 30-year-old man dropped dead after getting an electric shock from a dishwasher, the Izvestia newspaper reports. The incident occurred in an apartment on Krasnodonskaya Street. The man touched the dishwasher with one hand while reaching out to the sink with the other. The sink was filled with water, the man got electrocuted and did not survive. A similar incident occurred in early January in Voronezh. The teenager received an electric shock from an electric guitar. He was rehearsing and at some point decided to help a friend of his tune the instrument. When he touched the strings, he got suffered an electric shock that passed through his body. Luckily, the young man survived.

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[l] at 3/26/24 7:58am
The USA, the UK and Ukraine are involved in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, Federal Security Bureau Director Alexander Bortnikov said, TASS reports. According to the official, intelligence services of the United States and Britain, as well as the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of Ukraine, were involved in organising the crime. The FSB director stated that the purpose of their participation in organising the terrorist attack was to destabilise the situation in the Russian society.

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[l] at 3/26/24 6:14am
The monstrous terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Russia triggered discussions about the need to reinstate death penalty in the country. It is the legal side of the issue that is being discussed, since the moratorium was established by the Constitutional Court. Russian officials believe that the moratorium on the death penalty that was introduced in Russia in 1996 in connection with the entry into the Council of Europe should be suspended. State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin believes that there is no need for any referendum here — it would only be enough for the Constitutional Court to lift it. Lawyers believe executions will return to Russia Experts maintain that according to the Constitutional Court's clarification from 2009, the binding nature of this or that political decision shall remain unchanged. However, the head of the State Duma Committee on Legislation, Pavel Krasheninnikov, said that there are grounds for lifting the moratorium.

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[l] at 3/25/24 10:59am
(Tagline — Interesting Quotation) "I will tolerate one gang because that is the nature of things. A certain amount of corruption is inevitable. But if I find two gangs here when I get back, then in a couple of hours there will be no gangs here.” That's from the best — and most underrated — film in the career of actor Bruce Willis.

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[l] at 3/25/24 10:34am
Residents of the Far East of Russia could observe the movement of a space object in the sky. It is believed that the phenomenon that eyewitnesses filmed on video was Comet Pons-Brooks. This comet nears the Earth once in every 71 years. Huge luminous stripes appeared in the evening sky above the Khabarovsk and other neighbouring regions of Russia. The luminous object split into parts and slowly moved in the sky. Some observers thought they saw a rocket take off, or the passage of a comet or meteorite.

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[l] at 3/25/24 5:56am
Pravda.Ru special correspondent Daria Aslamova, during her trip to India, had a meeting with Saeed Naqvi, a patriarch and living legend of Indian journalism. During the interview, Mr. Naqvi explained why the entire Indian elite still has colonial consciousness, how this affects relations between Russia and India, how the West controls Indian newspapers and why BRICS needs to create its own unified media. Good evening, Mr. Naqvi. You are a legend of Indian journalism, one of the most famous journalists in India. Today we are going to speak about the relations between Russia and India, as well as about BRICS. The relations between India and Russia are actually very solid, but the public perception of these relations is conditioned by the media. The entire foreign policy elite in India has not been able to get out of the old colonial baggage. It has actually grown after the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the times of the Soviet Union, there was a balance of forces between Moscow and Washington. India was non-aligned, but it was still inclined towards Moscow. Moscow used to pay a very big role in creating Bangladesh, so the relations were very good. However, the Indian elite, the owners of Indian newspapers have always been pro-Western from the very beginning. They became big in India because they were getting finance from the British oil industry. Some years ago, a foreign editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a friend of mine, a correspondent in Delhi, went to Moscow once and then came back to Delhi. He said that he was very surprised because the Indian ambassador can pick up the telephone and speak to anybody in the Kremlin. That was back during those days in the past. However, your foreign correspondents are not there, he said. Instead, they go to London and Washington. Why is that so? The proprietors were very pro-Western individuals from the very start. They prospered under the British. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the entire Indian elite was West-oriented. No Indian newspaper has correspondents in Moscow. They don't have correspondents in Kabul, Katmandu, not even in Colombo, Sri Lanka, not in Maldives. When the British left, they agreed that the Indian media would cover internal affairs, but the foreign affairs would be covered by imperial powers, namely Washington and London. Therefore, if something big happens, like Ukraine, India does not have correspondents there. Indian covered of world affairs is very lopsided. We echo Western propaganda even on the Gaza crisis. This is a very sad state of affairs. You are also to blame here to a certain extent. The Americans and the West created the so-called liberal independent media. Such media outlets become means of propaganda at times of conflict. Everybody were saying here that Putin's nose will be trampled in the dust, that Russia would fall apart, that the West will force Ukraine to win. That was the Western media buildup here in India. I was the only one who said the things that are happening now. I interviewed people in the Kremlin. Russian ambassadors asked me to interview Lavrov. However, you do not have a regular system to sustain these promises. I was the only voice who said that the war in Ukraine was going against ht West, because the US did not want to lose its hegemony. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq — the Americans have lost everywhere.

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[l] at 3/25/24 5:37am
A court of Moscow arrested four men who were accused of committing the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. 32-year-old Dalerjon Mirzoev, 30-year-old Rachabalizoda Saidakrami Murodali, 25-year-old Shamsidin Fariduni and 19-year-old Muhammadsobir Fayzov were detained until May 22, 2024. The defendants in the criminal case were brought to court late in the evening. They were charged with committing a terrorist attack (Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The defendants face up to life imprisonment. The court meeting was held behind closed doors.

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[l] at 3/23/24 2:16pm
A video of the capture of one of the alleged participants in the terrorist attack was filmed near a turn from M3 Ukraine Highway to the village of Khatsun. The location where the video was made lies approximately 30 kilometres from Bryansk and 140 kilometres from the border with Ukraine. The man whose detention was videoed introduced himself during interrogation as Rajab Alizadeh. Apparently, this is the detainee whose ear was cut off during interrogation.

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[l] at 3/23/24 1:47pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared March 24 a day of national mourning in connection with the terrorist attack in Moscow on March 22, which left 133people killed. Putin appeared in a televised address to the nation in connection with the attack in Crocus City Hall concert and entertainment center in the town of Krasogorsk near Moscow. Putin clarified that additional anti-terrorist and anti-sabotage measures have been introduced in all regions of the country. "Together with those who lost their loved ones and friends, the whole country, our entire nation is mourning,” the president said.

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[l] at 3/23/24 5:31am
The death toll in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall has increased to 150 and counting; search efforts continue. Earlier today, the Investigative Committee announced an increase in the number of victims to 115.  Twenty-eight bodies were found in one of the Crocus City Hall restrooms. Fourteen other bodies were also found on one of the evacuation stairs, Baza Telegram channel said. 

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[l] at 3/23/24 5:00am
Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov informed Russian President Vladimir Putin about the detention of 11 individuals in connection with the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow's suburban town of Krasnogorsk. According to him, four terrorists who were directly involved in the shooting are among the detainees. They were detained several hours apart in the Bryansk region. Terrorists planned to cross the Russian-Ukrainian border According to the FSB, the terrorists had planned the attack at Crocus City Hall in advance. After the attack, the criminals intended to cross the border between Russia and Ukraine as they had contacts on the Ukrainian side. The attackers are being transported to Moscow; the search for accomplices is underway.

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[l] at 3/23/24 1:45am
Investigators, criminologists and experts, together with operational units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, continue investigative actions in Crocus City Hall on March 23 following the terrorist attack that took place the day before. The Investigative Committee of Russia published a video from the scene of the terrorist attack, showing the bodies of the killed, ammunition and weapons with which the terrorists attacked visitors to the concert hall. Click here to see pictures after the fire inside the building

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[l] at 3/22/24 12:37pm
Shooting at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, the latest (information continues to arrive, everything is yet to be confirmed). The shooting began before the concert of Picnic rock band, musicians were not injured; At least three people in camouflage with machine guns broke into the music hall and opened fire at the crowd; A video is being circulated of people being shot at point-blank range; More than ten were killed, more than 50 wee injured; The concert hall is now on fire, people may be trapped inside; No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack; There were at least five attackers. Soldiers of special forces of the Russian Guard arrived at Crocus.

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[l] at 3/22/24 12:12pm
Twelve people were killed as a result of the shooting at Crocus City Hall in Moscow. Another 35 people were injured. Unidentified individuals opened fire before the concert of Picnic band. According to eyewitnesses, there are three shooters dressed in camouflage uniforms. According to most recent reports, there were at least five attackers. 

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