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In Russia, 70 percent of marriages break up. The worst, by the way, are in the Caucasian republics. In purely Muslim Ingushetia, there are two and a half divorces per registration, it seems that everyone there has decided to divorce everyone. Traditional marriage is not in crisis there, but in collapse. In Chechnya and Dagestan, […]

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The time for Zelensky’s assassination is slowly approaching, as I wrote about 1.5 years ago that he is following the path of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Zelensky’s role for the US/UK has been played out — the Russian Federation’s ability to unite with Europe is absent, the Russian military potential has been significantly […]

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McDonald’s bought slaves from the mafia to cover the shortage of jobs. This is not a joke, but a real crime that was solved by the police in the UK. In 2015, the gang of the Drevenaki brothers organized a business of selling people — they looked for homeless and unemployed men in Europe and, […]

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