Rush Limbaugh has died

Today: 2/17/2021: Rush Limbaugh has died: Our Loss of A Great and (rare)- TRUTH-TELLING Man!

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Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:54 AM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original May God have mercy upon his soul, and give us consolation for our great loss. An American patriot has been taken from us, when we need him the most.   Sent from Mail for Windows 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNGZoLVAw_0

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Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party, died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced.

Arthritis drug saves CCP virus patients

Info Sharing: BBC: Existing Arthritis Drug is saving MANY! lives of Covid-19 patients    Inbox  Daniel Everiss

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 5:43 PM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk8UgUkVGcA

Should we get vaccinated?

GENERAL INFORMATIONAL SHARING: Bishop Sofronie of Suceava: Should we get vaccinated? Inbox  Daniel Everiss

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 6:06 PM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL ROMANIAN: Should we get vaccinated? Bishop Sofronie of Suceava This question is asked by millions and millions of Christians, frightened by this invented pandemic.  “Fearful people do not inherit the Kingdom of God,” says St. Paul the Apostle. After our church took note of the danger of vaccination through the mouth of His Eminence, our Metropolitan Vlasie Mogârzan, we have communicated our position both from a spiritual point of view, but also from a medical and moral point of view. However, after countless requests, questions raised by Christians, many unanswered, we owe some clarification. Beloved Christians, Even now, after they permanently put your muzzle on, don’t you realize that this is not regarding a virus? Screening has started! The separation of the wheat from the weeds has begun! Those who will accept Mammon’s number in the flesh will choose the bread, and those who will not accept Mammon’s number will choose the CROSS, they will die for the world, but they will live forever in Christ! “When one does not resist in a timely fashion, he gradually becomes incapable of ever resisting again.” You need to understand that they will not stop here, they will not give up their evil plan to ensnare us, to divide and enslave us, but all these must happen because that is how it is written. “They will find a disease for which they will make a vaccine, which will be mandatory, and which will be the beginning of the sealing” – Paisios of Mt. Athos (Spiritual Awakening). This plan of sealing began at least 10 years ago, but it was not possible to be done from the beginning because they did not have their own people in all the governments across the world. In the meantime, they placed their people. Almost all the politicians in the world are theirs, with their souls sold, small servants without personality, who make their dirty games, as they are and just in time. However, there are many voices that criticize them, not necessarily Christians, but normal people in their head, who understand the conspiracy, but even though the plan still goes further. We would like that part of the Clergy who was not sold out, to fight more for the awareness of the Christians, the Priest who does not speak in his sermons about the danger of ecumenism and sealing, wastes his time in vain, and those in Monasteries who do not confess the truth lose everything. “The silence of the Clergy is Atheism,” said St. Gregory of Palamas. I was telling you that this is just the beginning, they will soon impose the vaccine mandatorily through all kinds of ways, such as you can’t walk free, you can’t buy, you can’t get hired, you can’t send children to the school, and other treacherous ways. We must be strong, many and united, and especially with hope in our Christ the Savior, who will not forsake us. You need to understand, Brothers, that Christ is much more powerful than the whole crowd of Antichrist’s servants. They will soon invent viruses and diseases, in animals and plants, so that you will no longer be able to raise animals or grow plants freely, therefore you will need to buy them. Where from? From their stores. Whoever controls the food, controls the population. Returning to the vaccine, true specialists around the world clearly tell us that a flu virus can never be vaccinated because a vaccine is made in between five to eight years and these viruses undergo mutations, even twice a year. Then what do they want to introduce in our body? If this vaccine is so good why don’t we find it in pharmacies, why is there need for the army and the police? Why is the vaccine for free and these useless masks cost money? We must resist by continuously praying, fasting, confessing, and receiving Holy Communion: the Body and Blood of our Savior. Only in this way will we escape unsealed. Never can a Christian who receives Holy Communion be subdued or defiled by their satanic plans. That is why the Orthodox Church is their mortal enemy, it is the only stronghold in the way of the establishment of the kingdom of antichrist. In fact, their plan has begun, as per the prophecies, with the union of religions into one, and they are desperate because they have not succeeded in their entirety, as this conservative and stubborn Orthodox enclave does not renounce so easily from the salvific religion in Christ the Savior. They will come with other plans and persecutions, much more evil and darker, as the devil does not accept the Orthodox Christians, he does not accept Holy Communion, because Christ is within them (Orthodox) and they are in Christ. “Get thee behind me, Satan,” says the Lord. The more they will persecute us who believe in Christ, the sooner our Lord will come to judge this world of Satan, the apocalypse does not mean the end, but a new beginning for those who believe in Christ and pray to Him. How long do you think that you will trample underfoot our Church, our family and the freedom that God has given us as humans created by Him in His image and likeness? We do not hate you as you hate us, we pray for your souls, as the Lord teaches us “Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you and pray for those who harm and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in Heaven. ” “Everyone is under the influence of a power that masters the mind, the will, and all the powers of the soul. And this power is cunning, because its source is the devil, and his tools are cunning people. Through them work the Antichrist and his forerunners. The Apostle said, 'Because of that, God delivered them into the spirit of delusion, of deception, because they did not accept the love of the truth.' Something dark and frightening is coming over the world. The human will stay more or less under his mastery, and the more the power of that cunning one has on the human under his mastery, the less the human will be aware of what he is doing." – St. Barsanuphius. “The time will come for true confession of the Faith! All those who will confess, will be alone and persecuted!” St. John Maximovich. Beloved Christians, Christ says, “Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, for the soul cannot be killed.” We must fight, we must not lose our patristic spirit, because spiritual happiness is not outside of us, it cannot be influenced by their threats, Christ is with us, for which reason no disease, no trouble will come without His consent. Even the acceptance to wear this useless mask is proof of ignorance of God, proof of fear and obedience to something non-existent, something imposed, without name, without identity, something dangerous, which, they tell us, exists somewhere and lurks after us…. Have you seen on any television or media, true specialists, call to discern the origin and action of this “deadly virus”? Have you seen a committee of specialists appointed to research everything that concerns virus, symptoms, treatment, vaccine, etc.? No, because they know that it’s a big bluff, and their program to be followed is toward indoctrination, fear, world order, embedded microchip, and, finally, modern slavery, much more dangerous than the one in the past. This slavery will be, unlike the other, a slavery not only of the flesh but also of the soul, a slavery to the Antichrist and implicitly to Satan, for whom work these unhappy future masters of slaves. Do you realize that the mortality from this seasonal flu is less than 1%, and the serious side effects of this vaccine far exceed this figure? These are the predictions of some specialist doctors I have consulted with. This vaccine, not only does not cure us or save us from any disease, but it surrounds us, it takes our freedom received at the time of creation. Not the rights, but the freedom received from our God, which only He can take it from us, or only us who can offer it, either to our Lord or to Mammon, who leaves us to seal ourselves voluntarily for the temporary good of this world, failing to remember the eternity promised by Christ for a spiritual life lived here in faith, prayer, love, humility, mercy and acceptance. Beloved Christians, Go to Church, to the Divine Liturgy, make confession and take Holy Communion as often as possible, those who do not have a Clergyman, look for one in the right faith as soon as possible, and when they will not allow us in the Church to pray, pray wherever you can and call the Clergyman at your place for your spiritual needs, as God is everywhere. For nothing in the world should you be vaccinated, refuse to wear a mask, and beware of everything that will be imposed on you from now on, because everything will be for the loss of the soul and enslavement. Give up everything they would offer in exchange for the seal -- work, schools, mobility, food, etc. -- and do not let your children be educated and manipulated by them. They all work for the establishment of the medical and financial dictatorship, they are all elected by their masters, they are all sold, lost, and they are all capable of anything to fulfill their program.  The wave of persecution is coming fast, but believe me, it will pass just as quickly. God has not lost nor He will lose any battle as they hope. Not long after, the Kingdom of God will master over this world, which Mammon and his servants are temporarily mastering. God will not leave you hungry or homeless, nor will He let them carry out their cursed plan by the end, we must believe in His power and not to deviate from the Holy Canons, falling into the nets of their promises. Wait with confidence for the end of these dark times, let the written things come to pass because the Kingdom of Heaven is near and the heads of Mammon’s servants will fall. The times prophesied dozens of times, beginning with John the Evangelist, during these 2,000 years since the Nativity of our Lord are HERE and NOW. Your intercessor to the Lord, Bishop Sofronie of Suceava Translated from the original Romanian by Elena Calugaru   https://manastireasfantulglicherie.ro/ne-vaccinam/

Some issues for us all to seriously consider: English-Typo-Corrected Text-    Inbox  Daniel Everiss

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 10:19 AM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original   Metropolitan Agafangel: On Soviet Globalism Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Date of publication:02 February 2021... Category: Author's column . Globalists are those who strive to unite the whole world under their rule. One of the principles of the old Freemasonry was the struggle with personal power. Such a task faced the free masons because one can come to power only after the removal of the one who possesses this power, and in those days it was mainly kings and monarchs. Masons declared the secret "collective" power of the "chosen" lodge (these "chosen ones", as a rule, were not far from the current "personal" power) and, in their documents, wrote that by all (i.e., by any) ways get rid of dictators in power, even if such a dictator appears inside the lodge itself. Examples and models of the struggle against the dictatorship for them were various "antiheroes" (that is, antiheroes for the ignorant crowd). By the beginning of the 20th century, such a collective Masonic form of government was established in almost all leading states (especially in the former European monarchies). But, since there are many Masonic lodges, and they compete with each other, the cause of globalization was not progressing as rapidly as they might have liked. USSR - the world's first globalist state The first who really made progress in the implementation of the plans of  globalization- longed for by the Freemasons, moreover, in its most terrible and inhuman form, was the USSR, which, having abandoned  Masonic anti-dictatorial principles, globally united entire countries under its own strict control. It is known that at the beginning of the Bolshevik regime there were Free Masons, though of a low "degree" and subordinate to the higher-ranking organizers of their activities outside, but they, nevertheless, under the guidance and with the material help of their older brothers, managed to seize and retain power and, as a result, to completely subjugate  huge territories and spread their "values" into it - a common atheistic "state-forming" ideology, a regime of repression, surveillance and denunciations, a system of suppressing dissent. Feeling their successes, the "little" Freemasons from the USSR at the beginning of the last century completely got out of the control of their older brothers, and, having changed the basic principles of Free Masons, even deploying a struggle with them, turned into a kind of anti-Freemasonry - combining anti-Orthodox Christian,  unrestricted dictatorial power with methods of control and subjugation of ordinary people by the methods of classical Freemasonry, while keeping silent about their true origins, and they pitted Masonic "equality" (i.e. universal poverty) against wealth (bourgeoisie and capitalism) in all varieties as their main slogan. The leadership of the USSR has never concealed that it seeks to seize power in the whole world - the world victory of communism. Even Soviet schoolchildren were told that if as a result of the First World War a socialist state was formed, then, as a result of the Second World War- a socialist camp, then as a result of the Third World War the whole world would finally become socialist-communist. Hence the open and purposeful preparation of the USSR for a (new)  offensive world war. The entire Soviet state worked for the victory of communist globalism all over the world, from top to bottom - within the country - starting from the preschool education system and further: via science, culture, industry - in general, the entire Soviet state system without a single exception in it. Outside the borders of the USSR, in the subject-satellite states, various leftist movements, corrupt politicians and simply terrorists financed and directed from the Kremlin worked for a world victory. The USSR constantly planned, provoked, and supplied money and weapons to many various armed conflicts around the world. The main principles of communist globalism were developed and implemented in the USSR 1. Ideological slavery... For successful control over the very thoughts of people, the only admissible doctrine allowed in the USSR was atheistic Marxist-Leninist ideology, which  was promoted to the masses of the people, and a one-party system was introduced, in which the Communist Party was the only party in the entire space of the USSR (all other "ideologies" were declared false and were prosecuted as anti-scientific and dangerous for the USSR - their main crime, which was: "dissent"). Any persons making statement that called into question the course of the Communist Party (including sharing historical anecdotes) were supposed to be arrested and imprisoned. For the youths’ upbringing in  Soviet thinking, from  from early childhood, ideological organizations for children and youth were created - the Octobrists, Pioneers and Komsomol members (there were no other children's organizations which could exist). Throughout the country, on all streets and in Soviet institutions, the same slogans and portraits of leaders were hung. Even in kindergartens, every room had an image of the main leader. In the USSR, it was strictly forbidden to criticize the current government and speak critically about Soviet ideology. The only version that was allowed of the interpretation of world history, was  (exclusively from the angle of its materialistic understanding), and everywhere in the USSR, was the official  Soviet propaganda dominated monopoly: - one newspaper, one radio and one television (in its communist essence) - the differences were only in insignificant details. 2. Suppression of dissent. In the USSR, denunciation of unreliable people (even children of their parents) was encouraged. Universal military conscription and the cult of an early military victory over the whole world, a huge number of prisons and concentration camps, zones of residence for the unreliable (in Siberia), total control over all of entire human life - all this together guaranteed the  100% suppression of the individual and, with full control over the electoral system, almost absolute dependence of each person on the state. Those who disagreed were often declared mentally ill and placed in closed psychiatric hospitals for life (Soviet punitive psychiatry). The concept of the "socialist International" also served to suppress the individual’s personality , that is, the systematic leveling of the characteristics of the peoples (national, traditional, religious and others) that were part of the territory of the  USSR - the obligatory dissemination of the official state language, a common curriculum of Marxist-Leninist content and a common atheistic Soviet culture for all. People were suppressed by the creation of special laws, according to which it is possible to label any person a criminal (without exception), this also includes the control tool of allowing mass alcohol drinking of people, with low-quality cheap state alcohol - every citizen of the USSR had to feel, consciously or unconsciously, as if they were  a criminal before the state, and every person could go to jail at any moment. Everywhere the KGB, police and party members monitored the political correctness of every Soviet citizen. 3. Cut off all outside information of non-Soviet content . So that the citizens of the USSR did not doubt the correctness of the communist ideology, they were forbidden, under the threat of criminal punishment (up to imprisonment), to use any sources of information that did not pass the Soviet censorship, to listen to foreign radio stations or to read, as secretly published by anti-soviet, "samizdat" (typed)  materials produced from abroad-(and the number of prohibited literature also included the Bible and the Gospel). For the same purpose, it was also forbidden for Soviet people to travel abroad (with a few exceptions, after a thorough check for of their ‘reliability’). Any information that did not pass the Soviet censorship was considered criminal, and its authors and distributors were subject to criminal prosecution. 4. Social slavery... The USSR was a slave state. On the basis of the complete elimination of private property in the USSR, "social equality" was achieved - universal poverty and complete dependence on the state in absolutely all spheres of life - in the use of preschool institutions, education, housing, food and medical care. There was no entrepreneurial activity – but work only in state institutions. To maintain the slave system in the USSR, there was an institution of registration, each person was attached to one specific place of residence and, accordingly, to a local clinic, school, place of work, etc., and he or she  was under constant control and could not freely move around the country. Universalization of household items - all clothes and shoes must be the same, typical houses must be the same, and in 1-2-3-room apartments - the same furniture, sockets, dishes and toilets, standard schools and kindergartens, cars and agricultural machinery - from the Far East to the Far West of the USSR,- everything! had to be  the same. One plant throughout the country produces linoleum, another - light bulbs, etc. - one gigantic plant for the entire USSR for producing one or another type of product (with attached villages of "workers" at each of them) - without competition and with very a low quality/quantity  of production. A single currency and payment system (with a complete ban on the circulation of any other money.   As a result, in the USSR, in the era of developed socialism, even all people were, according to Soviet times , “the same”. * * * This was created, of course, not for the benefit of the people, but for the welfare of the ruling class in the USSR - the "elite stratum" of the party nomenklatura with its own hierarchy, which, like a superstructure over Soviet society, did not obey the national laws and had all sorts of special privileges. Therefore, the main person in the USSR was the General Secretary of this ruling party nomenclature. The Russian Federation is trying to repeat the USSR For many years the USSR was the leader of world globalism and the main contender for world domination. Now the modern Russian Federation is the remnant of the USSR, which has lost its former strength, but, nevertheless, is striving to restore the lost power. The Russian Federation today is trying with all its might to influence world processes, using the political and espionage skills gained in the past. But, the successes are small. Even in Ukraine, the globalism of the Russian Federation is successfully supplanted by another global system - the "Soros" system, by introducing rulers dependent on the "West" into the government of the country and pushing back those dependent on the "East", gradual and consistent isolation of the Russian Federation in all spheres of culture and economy, distorting history, eliminating the ruble and its replacement by the dollar, the displacement of the Russian language, the destruction of transport and information links, the gradual replacement of markets and laws, etc. The maximum that the Russian Federation is currently managing is the creation of controlled territories by its military force (South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, Donetsk and Lugansk, Crimea) and states that are "under its influence" (Belarus, Chile, Cuba and others), instead of the former creation of completely controlled socialist states. * * * Unfortunately, we, Orthodox Christians, no longer have hopes for the creation of an Orthodox state - it is clear that the Russian Federation (and even more so Ukraine) will never return to or become an Orthodox monarchy, because if the mentality of the people as a whole allowed the overthrow of the tsar at a time when Orthodoxy was strong, the more so that Orthodox power is impossible now (not only in the Russian Federation, but in general), when the thoughts and deeds of the bulk of people are infinitely far from the Kingdom of Heaven. The only correct way would be to revive true Orthodoxy among the people, which is completely excluded under the leadership of the soviet controlled ‘Moscow Patriarchy’  (or, moreover, also by the OCU/’Orthodox Church of Ukraine’, in Ukraine) which is controlled by the secular authorities. The Moscow church, unfortunately, only outwardly resembles a religious structure - as it was a faithful and obsequious executor of the will of the God-fighters, and to this day they are guided by this evil will. The next king which the Moscow Church will accept and recognize, can only be the Antichrist. It remains for us to trust in God and take care of our personal salvation in the bosom of the True Church. * * * From all the Soviet past we experienced, we can conclude that the USSR was the most disgusting example of a globalist project ever invented. And those who sympathize with such folly and who want the revival of this terrible totalitarian system in any form (even presented, falsely, to the world as: "Orthodox") are, at best, unfortunate people, too susceptible to the effects of communist propaganda. Modern world globalism Unfortunately, modern world globalists are inherently no better than the communist ones, and today they hope to adopt the "good sides of the Soviet experience." This can be seen, for example, from the deliberate and systematic collapse of the strong institutions of the Western world and even the collapse of a country like the United States (which is being successfully carried out with the help of the removal of patriotic rulers from power, as well as by uncontro0lled migration, drugs, debauchery, thoughtless anarchist spectacles, etc.), following the example of how, after the unconstitutional coup of 1917 in the USSR, strong independent institutions of the Russian Empire were mercilessly destroyed - the wealthy, middle, educated and bureaucratic classes, the nobility, the peasantry, all political parties, national and public organizations, and most importantly, the Orthodox Church, which has as its  head, not an earthly ruler, but the Heavenly King. The same collapse in Western countries now includes the artificially stimulated development in the modern world of dubious global projects, such as the World Health Organization together with the current global pandemic, the global climate organization, feminist and anti-racial movements, etc. Also nowadays, a course is being taken in "advanced countries" for the prospect of introducing universal free education and medical care, other social benefits and other projects that put people, as it was in the USSR, in complete dependence on the state apparatus.   The USSR was too obviously a slave-owning community, besides with it, an atheistic ideology. Therefore, the new system of globalism should, taking into account the "best" that was in the USSR (that is, what little ‘really worked’),  - and discard the harmful total control over the population and dissent.- what all that made this system unviable. * * * I think that the future of the world (of course, if there is one?), in the eyes of the architects of globalism, looks like a kind of Soviet Union, but with a more "human face" - for example, without intolerance to dissent, which is safe for a dictatorship. In the world of the future, according to my hypothetical global projecting, the number of the world's population (and, possibly, the outer-space “settlements” surrounding the earth) will be “optimized” from above, so that all those living, comfortably  “in cash” will certainly be happy, for this the elite class  will take care of people in no worse a manner than a kind owner takes care of his animal pets. For this great plan to become true and to live, all who will interfere with the general happiness must, unfortunately, be neutralized by the authorities by ‘various humane ways”. The government will be headed not even by the President, but by the Father of Nations,- modeled on the one painted by artists in the USSR, surrounded by children. (i.e. The Father of Our Nation, Joseph Stalin”).  Approximately to such bright perspectives, we are led, as I suppose, by the new builders of our (and everyones) earthly global great future. * * * The commonplace in these "world governments" is the same as in the CPSU - their top leadership consists of not the best, but ordinary mediocre people, moreover, without moral restrictions, who are just lucky to be somewhere near at the right time (for example - George Soros). Hiding behind collective responsibility and not giving their names, it is easier for them to hide themselves from an objective assessment of the thinking part of society. But this, unfortunately, does not exclude the colossal harm they inflict by the very fact of their "collaboration". "When you see all this, know that it is close at the door." Remembering the words of the Savior: "When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?" (Luke 18.8), we understand that for the globalists all this struggle they wage exclusively against Christ, on the side of Satan - may the Scripture come true. Perhaps the time is right to supplement the rite of the Triumph of Orthodoxy with a new anathematization-of the heresy of globalism, which is widespread today, especially since all large and patronized by states (and deep superstates) "churches" are fully involved in this worldwide process of mass-worldwide apostasy, the direct and only ultimate goal of which is the preparation of mankind for the arrival and acceptance of the Antichrist. * * * Everything that I write  about here, should not have any worrisome spiritual significance for a Christian, and those who attach too much importance to this are mistaken - these are just signs of the end of this temporary world and the coming of the eternal Kingdom of God. Signs that we must see and know in order not to be tempted by them. For Orthodox Christians, the main thing is that the Heavenly Kingdom is coming close to us, the Second Coming of Christ is near! The Lord Himself testifies to this: "Look, I will come soon!" Amen, come Lord!  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us all! + Metropolitan Agafangel Tags: rOCZ , Metropolitan Agafangel  Printing  Email

Russian Spending on Global Leadership

"Russian Spending on Global Leadership": Why so many of the common Russian people, especially of the vast numbers of the elderly rural population, are so hopeless & poor and neglected

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Russian spending on global leadership

Author: Internet Cathedral. Date of publication:January 29, 2021... Category: Society .

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Greatness tax

How the Kremlin spent 46 trillion rubles in 20 years on geopolitical special operations

Anna titova

The last 20 years have been a period of major geopolitical projects for Russia. There is a simple explanation for this: the more expensive the main export resource - oil, the higher the degree of foreign policy adventurism of the raw material power. This rule was in effect during the Soviet era and, according  to  analysts at Bank of America, continues to operate today. 

But in recent years, the flow of petrodollars to the budget has noticeably dried up.

Experts agree that the peak of oil consumption has passed, and the "fat" times will never return. Perhaps the era of Kremlin geopolitics is also coming to an end? 

Novaya has calculated how much money the authorities have spent on helping friendly regimes and political megaprojects abroad over the past 20 years. The amount turned out to be impressive:  $ 609 billion  (almost 46 trillion rubles). 

This money could be used to build 15,000 new hospitals in the country or to deposit 400,000 rubles into the savings account of every adult citizen of Russia. But instead, the oil rent leaked abroad: about $ 1 trillion was parked  offshore , and the authorities spent another $ 609 billion on foreign policy, which brought international sanctions on the country and practically deprived the real allies. 

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The largest expenditure item from the geopolitical package is support for political regimes loyal to the Kremlin:  $ 271 billion. 

For example, over 20 years of union with Belarus, various  assistance to the  country cost Russian taxpayers more than  $ 109 billion . About $ 100 billion of this amount are fuel discounts provided to Minsk. Another $ 9 billion is government loans. Recently, Alexander Lukashenko touchingly  called  Vladimir Putin "his only friend." Total: more than $ 5 billion for a year of "friendship". 

In second place is Ukraine: more than $ 100 billion was spent on discounts, hidden subsidies and state loans until 2014  ,  according  to  the Russian authorities themselves. Experts could not confirm the adequacy of these figures to Novaya Gazeta, however, it is not possible to make more accurate calculations due to the closed nature of the data. 

In addition, Russia annually spends money to support the unrecognized republics: "DPR", "LPR", Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria. The volume of aid over the past 5 years, according to our estimates, could have name to  $ 32 billion.  This includes pensions to residents, free electricity for businesses and other expenses. “Almost everything is delivered there free of charge - at the expense of Russian taxpayers,” says Mikhail Krutikhin, partner of RusEnergy. 

 

Not all recipients of the Kremlin's aid are located in the post-Soviet space. Thus, the amount of Kremlin support for the Venezuelan authorities has exceeded  $ 20 billion  over the past 10 years. The greatest assistance was provided by Rosneft, which  allocated  $ 17 billion to the Maduro regime for various needs. Venezuela officially owes Russia another $ 3.15 billion. Some of this money was returned, in particular, through  secret  oil supplies, bypassing American sanctions.

Another famous geopolitical investment of Moscow is Syria. Injections into this country could amount to  $ 4.72 billion . The war on the side of Bashar al-Assad from 2015 to 2018,  according to the estimates of the  analytical center of the Yabloko party, cost Russia  $ 3.2 billion . Experts note that in reality the operation could have cost 1.5 times more, because the total amount does not include many unknown quantities, such as the cost of long-range aviation flights, the transfer of troops, training of local military personnel, and so on ... The  $ 1 billion  is estimated Russian assistance aimed at rebuilding the country in pandemiyny 2020 th, and another  $ 500 million  from 2019 to 2023, our country should invest in the modernization of the Syrian port, where the Russian naval base is located. 

HOW THE KREMLIN HELPS THE NEIGHBORS 

The most familiar way for Russia to support loyal regimes is subsidies for oil and gas. “Belarus receives Russian gas at a price of about $ 130 per thousand cubic meters. Apart from 2020, when prices collapsed in Europe, the discount ranged from 35 to 50% to the level of the average price of Russian gas in Europe, ”explains Aleksey Grivach, Deputy Director General of the National Energy Security Fund. Belarus receives oil without export duties, saving $ 1.5–2 billion a year. 

About the same, until 2014, assistance was provided to Ukraine. In just 5 years, the volume of support could have reached $ 39 billion: $ 17 billion in  discounts on gas supplies, $ 18.5 billion in unpaid fines for not collecting the minimum amount of gas and in  debt  on loans of $ 3 billion. 

The relatively small volume of the national debt (compared with the Belarusian one) can be explained by the fact that Russia paid off Ukraine's gas debts by leasing several bays in Feodosia and Sevastopol to accommodate the Black Sea fleet. 

It is not known exactly how much the war in eastern Ukraine cost Russia. We do not even have approximate data on the number of servicemen and the amount of their daily salaries, because officially there were no Russian military on the territory of the “LPR” and “DPR”. In addition, to assess military spending, you need to know at least the internal prices of the Ministry of Defense for food, fuels and lubricants, ammunition, and inventory, says military expert Alexander Golts. All these data appear in closed sources.

According to  Stratfor , the cost of the unrecognized republics is about $ 5 billion annually. The country has allocated $ 2.8 billion for regular payments to pensioners alone for the entire period of subsidies: $ 1.6 billion - to South Ossetia and Abkhazia,  $ 1.2 billion   - to Transnistria. Russia gave almost another $ 7 billion for gas supplied by Gazprom to Transnistria free of charge  since 2006.

In a separate category, we identified the costs of large energy projects, which to  $ 224 billion . The construction of the Power of Siberia, Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines by state-owned Gazprom alone could have  cost  $ 133.4 billion. Analysts believe that these projects are unlikely to pay off, since they are politically motivated, and huge funds for their implementation go primarily into the pocket of contractors. 

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 Mikhail Krutikhin adheres to a similar opinion  : “The meaning of the scheme is this: Gazprom starts sometimes politicized, sometimes not very, but absolutely unnecessary non-commercial gas pipeline projects, and then distributes construction contracts between so-called friendly companies. They monstrously overestimate their estimates and budget and get super profits from this. " 

Another area in which Russia is trying to realize its political ambitions is nuclear energy. For the construction of  21 power units  abroad, for which contracts have already been signed, the state allocated $ 92 billion to Rosatom  . 

Nuclear power plants are usually built in countries that cannot afford to build them on their own. And not a single bank will lend them money - they will not be able to pay. A striking example is the construction of the Akkuyu NPP in Turkey, for which the corporation has been unsuccessfully trying to  find an investor for  more than two years. Therefore, most often the project is paid for with Russian export loans at a low interest rate or even with  funds  from the NWF. 

“Russian export loans are fundamentally different from export loans from other countries,” says Vladimir Slivyak, co-chairman of the Russian environmental group Ekozashchita. - In any Western country, a loan never covers the full cost of a project, only a small part, and companies have to look for the rest from individuals, investors, banks. With us, export credits can cover up to 90% of the cost. Where there is a political component, there is no need to wait for profit ”.

Russia not only generously distributes energy subsidies, builds nuclear power plants and pipelines around the world, gives loans to other countries, but also has a habit of writing off past obligations.

The last category in our ranking - forgiven debts to other countries - totals  $ 116 billion . Among them, $ 20 billion -  to African countries  (mainly for the purchase of weapons) and a record $ 31.7 billion - to  Cuba . Most of this money is still Soviet assets. To have claims for these debts, Russia had to join the Paris Club, recognize and regularly pay  off the debts of the former USSR . 

And while this money could hardly be returned in full, the ease with which the Russian authorities finance megaprojects abroad (as well as their excess consumption within the country) is becoming less and less justified in the eyes of most Russians.

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# RE: Russian spending on global leadership - Metropolitan Agafangel 01/29/2021 08:19

Here we are talking only about the expenses of the Russian Federation for international support of the ruling regime in the Kremlin, but nothing is said about the financing of globalist projects, such as, for example, the Russian World. There are no expenses here for the Moscow Patriarchate (and they are considerable) and other confessions (even the Old Believers, as it turned out, have long been fed by the Kremlin). There are no expenses for the maintenance of "fraternal parties" and public organizations (including Masonic lodges). Many other expenditures aimed at the Kremlin's globalist plans are also not indicated . This is all that the poor and hungry people in the Russian Federation receive less.