Grandpa Toms
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I am a Vietnam veteran living in Russia.  My community is about the daily life in the town of Kimovsk, Russia and the local peoples perspective of current affairs.
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Monthly fees for maintaining the apartment.
I just received the bill for maintenance for my apartment. This pays for maintaining the building, common areas, and steam heat in winter. The largest fee, 1644.71r is for liability insurance. I guess that covers if you set fire to the building. 😳 The total bill for the month is 2599.15. That’s $42 for May. I will find out if it’s higher in winter when the steam is on.

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Italiano Vero

There a real Italian restaurant in Old Town Batumi.

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Vlad The Impaler was a Christian Hero
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PAN FLUTE ON THE BOULEVARD

Here we have what appears to be a Native American playing the pan flute on Batumi’ Boulevard that runs along the sea.
All the while the sun is falling in the West and now sinking into the Black Sea.

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FROM RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA:

(Not my words)

The story behind a photograph that breaks the heart. Many are familiar with this image; it is frequently published around June 22nd—the date the war began—and sometimes around Victory Day. It captures Tatyana Onishchenko and her young daughter, who was mortally wounded during a Nazi bombing raid.

The scene is the Moscow region, autumn 1941. The photograph was taken by Ivan Nartsissov, a war correspondent from Lipetsk—a brave, talented, and modest man who left behind an extensive archive of wartime photographs and reports.

For a long time, this was all that was known about the image. Recently, however, further details have come to light. In the summer of 1941, Tatyana received devastating news: her husband had gone missing in action. A period of agonizing uncertainty followed. Every morning, she would go out to meet the postman—and every morning, he would walk right past her. Reports from the front grew increasingly grim, yet Tatyana held onto her faith. And, eventually, ...

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The Polish army yesterday protected the president against the government's attempt to isolate him! Incredible information from Poland about the plan of the Polish pro-German and pro-Brussels government of Tusk, which was planning to isolate the Polish president to prevent him from arriving in Warsaw!

Stanisław Janecki did not present this information as a speaker at a protest in front of the Constitutional Court, but expressed it in a television broadcast (on the wPolsce24 station) and in articles on affiliated portals (wPolityce.pl).

Janecki stated that when the presidential special with President Karol Nawrocki was returning from the canceled trip to Senegal back to Poland, according to his information, there existed a plan or consideration on the part of government structures to deny the aircraft landing at the military airport in the Warsaw-Okęcie district and divert it to another airport (to Wrocław or Kraków). The goal was to cut the president off from events in Warsaw at the ...

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FROM RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA:

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Netanyahu loses. But he's not leaving yet

Elections in Israel are not only a matter of who will lead the 10-million state on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. This is a matter of war and peace throughout the Middle East - from Palestine to Iran. This means that the world economy also depends on them: the cost of oil, air traffic, freedom of merchant shipping and much more. The campaign ended without a clear winner. But some conclusions can already be drawn.

Campaign results

The election ended with a clear failure of 77-year-old Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been leading the country since 1999. Netanyahu had a simple political line: Israel is surrounded by enemies longing for its destruction, so it must exterminate everyone itself. Wild terror with medieval atrocities, arranged by Hamas on October 7, 2023, successful operations against Hamas and Hezbollah, suppression of Iran's nuclear program, powerful support of the United States, seemed to guarantee it confident support in society.

But there was no support. It ...

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